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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Am I delusional, or does Ruin The Friendship sound just like the opening of When We Are Together by The 1975 and It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over by Lenny Kravitz?! Did she choose that deliberately? [/quote]

That song is so out of place on the album. One theory is she is saying she doesnt regret ruining her friendship with mattt by dating. I dont know if I buy it. Did they have a friendship or a ten year fliration? Maybe  she just needed a 12th song for her 12th album?[/quote]

Oh for God’s sake.  That song is about her good friend from HS who died and how she wished she had “ruined the friendship” by seeing if it could have been more.  The boy’s mother even commented on it.  It has nothing to do with MH and some of you need to move on, already.
https://people.com/mom-of-late-taylor-swift-friend-jeff-lang-breaks-silence-on-ruin-the-friendship-shes-keeping-his-name-alive-11830773[/quote]

Yea duh. Everyone knows that. Why is it on this album with musical  references to 1975 songs? Art has multiple meanings. I dont actually think she is talking anout mh here, but that is one theoey out there - that one layer/meaning of this song is after it all she doesnt regret going for it because she answered the question (remember her song question is about mh).[/quote]

Exactly. Taylor is famous for using double meanings, red herrings and mixing up/making up events in her songs so that it won’t be obvious who she is talking about. Only a handful of her closest people who know the details of certain muses and events can decode the clues she leaves.  “You taught me a secret language I can’t speak with anyone else.”
She has done it her entire career except on TTPD, where she was obvious and didn’t give a damn.

I know Ruin The Friendship is allegedly about a HS crush who died, I just don’t buy that she is reminiscing about him 15+ years after his funeral and 20 years after she didn’t kiss him at a dance. At the end she sings “And my advice is always answer the question, better that than to ask it all your life.” It relates directly to her song Question ? on Midnights, which is supposed to be for Matty. Also repeating “Should’ve kissed you anyway” multiple times sounds just like “She has a boyfriend anyway.”  That, plus the music similarities. [/quote]

+1.  The song is not about a boy in high school, or at least not just about that. Jeff Lang didn’t have a brother, and in the first verse Taylor sings, “Watching the game from your brother’s Jeep.” [/quote]

I don’t understand why people expect Taylor to take absolutely no liberty with her story telling. I don’t think we hold any other artists to this kind of standard. Have you ever seen any movie based on a true story?

It can be loosely based on events. I don’t why we think every word of the song has to be true. She is capturing a feeling of loss and regret about a high school crush. It’s possible that 50 Cent never played at the prom. Gasp. Heck, it’s possible that she and the Jeff were never even at prom together. She is just telling a story and using elements people will recognize. A high school football game, a musician that was popular during her high school years, a dance that most people associate with high school .

It is quite possible we will find out that Jeff and she in fact did not have second period together. And that’s OK. Maybe it was a friend’s jeep, but it doesn’t sound quite as good in the song. It doesn’t all have to be factually correct, it is art. [/quote]

+100
I'm consistently amazed at just how literal some of these twits are.  It's funny but also pretty sad that they have such a weird and narrow view of everything.[/quote]

Taylor Swift didn’t go to prom and was mostly homeschooled throughout high school so she could focus on her music. Jeff Lang doesn’t have a brother. Etc. Yet you and the rest of her gullible fandom believe that Ruin the Friendship is about some random irrelevant boy from 20 years ago, despite Taylor admitting, “I prefer to hide in plain sight” on Dear Reader and “lovelorn, and nobody knows.”

Who is the twit with narrow view of everything?[/quote]

Are you just making stuff up? There is a whole documentary about Taylor in school. Showing her driving to school, showing her solving equations in math class and hanging out with friends walking through the hall with a Starbucks cup. She absolutely had a different high school experience than most of us and did do some homeschooling, but she also did want to have somewhat of a typical high school experience.

Further, Jeff Lang’s mother has come out and said how much she appreciates Taylor keeping Jeff’s memory alive, what good friends they were, and posting a bunch of pictures of them together.

You seem to be sort of implying that she made this all up but the receipts are there.

Like was explained, I’m sure she took a lot of liberty with some of the story because all of us have high school experiences. We all know what prom is, we all know what second period is etc. It probably sounded better to say his brother‘s jeep than his friend‘s jeep in the song. All of this is OK. It’s absolutely probable and possible that she takes feelings and builds a song off and it can be a combination of several things throughout her life. The theme of this song is clearly regret from a high school crush, but sure she could be incorporating other feelings of lost love. Seriously this is not a big deal or a gotcha. [/quote]

Well said.  Honestly, I think some of these weirdos exist solely to seize on something (anything) and become outraged about it.  Incredibly tiresome people.[/quote]

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