Surprised that more people haven't mentioned the John Mayer possibility. I absolutely think it was written for him. I thought that when she first performed the song. And finding out more details since then just makes me more sure.
1) The '32' thing. Kanye was 32 during the VMA's. But so was John in 2010, when whatever happened between him and Taylor happened, and when she performed the song at the VMA's.
2) The 'lunchbox' line is also a lyric from John's song '83'.
3) The "bigger bed to crawl into" line. John tweeted something similar last February: 'And that's what adulthood is: you wake from the nightmare and realize there's no bigger bed to climb into'
4) Taylor didn't write the song until spring '10. Which was LONG after the Kanye thing, but right after the thing with John Mayer.
I don't know if she wrote it after DJ, forgiving him for whatever happened with them. Or maybe before that, when he was dealing with all the backlash from the Playboy interview. As an 'I still believe in you' type thing. (Personally, I think it's the latter). I think the song makes a lot more sense in that context. It sounds like a song for someone you know/care about.
Even though it makes sense for Kanye in some ways too, hence why she decided to perform it at the VMA's.
Surprised that more people haven't mentioned the John Mayer possibility. I absolutely think it was written for him. I thought that when she first performed the song. And finding out more details since then just makes me more sure.
1) The '32' thing. Kanye was 32 during the VMA's. But so was John in 2010, when whatever happened between him and Taylor happened, and when she performed the song at the VMA's.
2) The 'lunchbox' line is also a lyric from John's song '83'.
3) The "bigger bed to crawl into" line. John tweeted something similar last February: 'And that's what adulthood is: you wake from the nightmare and realize there's no bigger bed to climb into'
4) Taylor didn't write the song until spring '10. Which was LONG after the Kanye thing, but right after the thing with John Mayer.
I don't know if she wrote it after DJ, forgiving him for whatever happened with them. Or maybe before that, when he was dealing with all the backlash from the Playboy interview. As an 'I still believe in you' type thing. (Personally, I think it's the latter). I think the song makes a lot more sense in that context. It sounds like a song for someone you know/care about.
Even though it makes sense for Kanye in some ways too, hence why she decided to perform it at the VMA's.