Taylor Swift has a message for her followers: Do not cyber-bully the individuals I write songs about.

The star gave a speech on stage to her followers whereas on stage for The Eras Tour within the US, earlier than launching right into a efficiency of her 2010 observe, Pricey John. The tune was on the Communicate Now album, which Swift is re-releasing on July seventh.

“I hoped to ask you that as we lead as much as this album popping out, I’d love for that kindness and that gentleness to increase onto our web actions,” Swift mentioned.

“I am 33 years outdated, I do not care about something that occurred to me once I was 19 besides the songs I wrote,” she continued, including her listeners shouldn’t “really feel the necessity to defend me on the web towards somebody you assume I may need written a tune about 14 billion years in the past.”

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She then launched into the seven-minute breakup tune Pricey John, that Swifties have lengthy believed is about her ex-boyfriend John Mayer.

This plea from Swift comes on the again of the 2021 releases of Pink (Taylor’s Model) and Fearless (Taylor’s Model), which contained songs about her breakups with exes Jake Gyllenhaal and Joe Jonas.

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Each of them had been the topic of social media scrutiny as every album was launched, as savage Swifties despatched them hate messages on-line for weeks on finish.

Evidently Swift is making an attempt to nip this behaviour within the bud, encouraging her followers to maintain their cool this time round.

Although she by no means talked about him by title, Swift followers have assumed that this on-stage request is in reference to John Mayer. So what occurred between the pair and why do individuals assume Pricey John is about him?

What occurred between Taylor Swift and John Mayer?

Taylor Swift and John Mayer dated briefly in 2009, when she was 19 and he was 32. He first reached out to her on Twitter, after Swift mentioned that her two favorite musical artists had been him and Kanye West.

He tweeted that he had a tune titled Half of My Coronary heart that he needed Swift to collaborate on. “She would make a killer Stevie Nicks in distinction to my Tom Petty of a tune,” he wrote.

Having simply launched her second album, Swift jumped on the alternative “I freaked out once I heard, as a result of I have been such an enormous fan of John for such a very long time,” she informed Elle in an interview. “I am actually enthusiastic about simply the concept he would even point out me in his Twitter!”

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A number of months later, Mayer joined her on stage on the Fearless tour in Los Angeles to sing two songs collectively. In June 2009, their duet Half of my Coronary heart was launched as a single.

Although there have been by no means any official experiences that the couple had been romantically concerned, this is the place followers have dissected lyrics to determine the timeline.

Is Pricey John about John Mayer?

When Swift launched her album Communicate Now in 2010, followers had been fast to imagine that the observe Pricey John was about Mayer. His title is correct there, after all of it.

Sometimes, a ‘expensive John’ letter is a be aware from a girl to a person, ending their relationship.

Lyrics of Pricey John embrace:

“Pricey John, I see all of it now it was incorrect / Do not you assume nineteen is just too younger / To be performed by your darkish twisted video games, once I liked you so? / I ought to’ve identified“

The pop star has by no means confirmed nor denied who the tune is about, however it looks like Mayer assumed he was the topic. Two years after the tune was launched, he mentioned that he “did not deserve” to be referred to as out.

“It made me really feel horrible. It was a very awful factor to do,” Mayer informed Rolling Stone “I by no means bought an electronic mail. I by no means bought a cellphone name. I used to be actually caught off guard.”

“[‘Dear John’ is] low-cost tune writing,” he added. “It is abusing your expertise to rub your fingers collectively and go, ‘Wait til he will get a load of this!’ That is bulls–t.”

It additionally looks like one other of Swift’s ex-boyfriends thinks that Pricey John is about Mayer. Taylor Lautner, who dated Swift in 2008, joked that he was “praying for John” when Communicate Now (Taylor’s Model) was introduced in Might.

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How lengthy did Taylor Swift and John Mayer date?

They first carried out their tune Half Of My Coronary heart on stage collectively throughout Mayer’s set on the Jingle Bell Ball in 2009. The pair had been “confirmed” to be an merchandise at the moment by shut sources.

Neither Mayer nor Swift ever spoke publicly about their relationship, however it’s extensively assumed they dated for just a few months, and had break up by June 2010.

They had been each on the CMT Awards in June however did not work together, a second which doubtlessly impressed one other tune, Story of Us. She revealed in an interview that it was impressed by her encounter with an ex-boyfriend at an awards present.

“We’re sitting six seats away from one another and simply preventing this silent struggle of ‘I do not care that you just’re right here.’ I do not care that you just’re right here.’ It is so terribly, heartbreakingly awkward.”

Swift additionally reveals this was the final observe she wrote for the Communicate Now album, which is sensible – it was launched only a few months after the CMT awards.

What songs did John Mayer write about Taylor Swift?

In 2013, Mayer launched a observe titled Paper Doll, a few lady who was too fragile to deal with a relationship. One specific lyric Swift followers fixated on was “somebody’s gonna paint you one other sky”, which parallels the Pricey John lyric “paint me a blue sky, and return and switch it to rain”.

The refrain additionally incorporates the road, “you are like twenty-two ladies in a single,” which could possibly be in reference to Swift’s tune 22.

One other puzzle piece (perhaps) fell into place in April 2023. On the identical day that information broke of Swift’s break up from her ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn, Mayer selected to carry out Paper Doll at his live performance, though it wasn’t on his common set listing.

Maybe it was a coincidence, maybe not.

What has Taylor mentioned about John Mayer?

Since 2010, Swift hasn’t spoken in any respect about John Mayer.

The star has by no means confirmed who her songs are about, both. Followers imagine there are three songs written in regards to the particulars of her relationship with Mayer: Pricey John and Story of Us on Communicate Now and Would’ve May’ve Ought to’ve on the Midnights (3AM version).

The latter particulars a relationship the singer was in on the age of 19 with an older man. Lyrics embrace:

“I rattling positive by no means would’ve danced with the satan… At nineteen,” and: “Residing for the joys of hitting you the place it hurts. Give me again my girlhood, it was mine first.”

Who did John Mayer date after Taylor Swift?

Following his alleged relationship with 19-year-old Swift, Mayer then dated singer Katy Perry from 2012 to 2014.

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In 2022, he was noticed leaving a restaurant with 23-year-old Sabrina actress Kiernan Shipka, although no relationship was confirmed.

Throughout an interview on the Name Her Daddy podcast in December 2022, Mayer mentioned he was finished with relationship.

“Courting is not a codified exercise for me, it does not exist in a type of… It is not patterned anymore,” the Ready On the World to Change singer mentioned, explaining that sobriety performed an enormous half in his choice.

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