Taylor Swift Begs Her Fans To Stop Bullying This Ex-Boyfriend A Decade After They Broke Up
Taylor Swift has been romantically connected to many men over the years, with her most recent romance with Matty Healy coming to an end shortly after her split from long-time boyfriend Joe Alwyn.
But there’s one lover from her past that her fans can’t seem to forget – John Mayer. Taylor recently asked her fans to leave her ex-boyfriend alone amid a wave of renewed controversy.
Taylor Said John Took Advantage Of Her, But Now Wants Fans To Let It Go
Taylor is fearing up to release Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), which was originally released in October 2020, in the wake of Taylor’s break-up from John Mayer.
It included the song “Dear John,” which seemed to be a clear jab at her then-recent ex-boyfriend. The lyrics appear to take issue with their age gap – Taylor was 19, while John was 32 when they began dating. They dated briefly from December 2009 to February 2010.
Some fans have even interpreted the lyrics to be Taylor suggesting John took advantage of her, considering she was only a teenager. “Dear John, I see it all, now it was wrong / Don’t you think 19 is too young / To be played by your dark twisted games, when I loved you so? / I should’ve known,” the lyrics read.
Now that an updated version of the T-Swift song is set to debut on streaming services, it’s re-awakened Taylor’s fanbase’s disdain for John.
It appears Taylor has been anticipating the backlash, as she addressed it at a recent tour stop in Minnesota. Before giving an acoustic version of “Dear John,” she seemed to ask her fans not to go after John once the new album drops.
“I was hoping to ask you, as we lead up to this album coming out, I would love for that kindness and that gentleness to extend onto our Internet activities,” she said on stage.
Taylor then explained she’s not re-releasing the album to dwell on the past, but rather to celebrate her musical accomplishments.
“I’m putting this out now because I want to own my music and I believe that any artist who has the desire to own their music should be able to. That’s why I’m putting out this album,” the musician continued.
“I’m 33 years old. I don’t care about anything that happened to me when I was 19, except the songs I wrote,” Taylor went on. “So, what I’m trying to tell you is that I’m not putting this album out so that you should go and feel the need to defend me on the Internet against someone you think I might have written the song about 14 million years ago.”
John Admitted Taylor’s Break-Up Song “Dear John” Humiliated Him
Taylor has become notorious for writing about her ex-boyfriends, and it’s likely now an expectation for people who date her. But John Mayer has admitted he was “humiliated” after Taylor released “Dear John” and he became the target of intense backlash.
“It made me feel terrible,” he told Rolling Stone in 2012. “Because I didn’t deserve it. I’m pretty good at taking accountability now, and I never did anything to deserve that. It was a really lousy thing for her to do.”
Hopefully, for John’s sake, Taylor’s fans listen to her and leave him alone once Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) drops.
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