opening up about the lyrics to some of the more esoteric lyrics in her song My Boy Breaks All His Favorite Toys.
The song – which is track three on The Tortured Poet’s Department – has fans wondering whether it is about Joe Alwyn, Matty Healy or some other person who has wronged the Shake It Off singer, 34, in the past.
The chorus states: ‘My boy only breaks his favorite toys, toys, oh / I’m queen of sand castles he destroys, oh, oh / ‘Cause it fit too right, puzzle pieces in the dead of night / I should’ve known it was a matter of time, oh, oh.’
In an interview with Amazon Music, the Eras Tour mastermind explained that the theme is a metaphor from the perspective of a child’s favorite toy.
‘Being somebody’s favorite toy until they break you and then don’t want to play with you anymore,’ she began.
Taylor Swift is opening up about the lyrics to some of the more esoteric lyrics in her song My Boy Breaks All His Favorite Toys
The song – which is track three on The Tortured Poet’s Department – has fans wondering whether it is about Joe Alwyn, Matty Healy or some other person who has wronged the Shake It Off singer, 34, in the past
In an interview with Amazon Music , the Eras Tour mastermind explained that the theme is a metaphor from the perspective of a child’s favorite toy. ‘Being somebody’s favorite toy until they break you and then don’t want to play with you anymore,’ she began
‘Which is how a lot of us are in relationships where we are so valued by a person in the beginning, and then all of the sudden, they break us or they devalue us in their mind,’ she added.
‘We’re still clinging on to “No no, no. You should’ve seen them the first time they saw me. They’ll come back to that. They’ll get back to that,'” she said.
It is widely thought that the Cruel Summer songstress’ songs on The Tortured Poets Department are about her ex-boyfriends Alwyn and Healy, Kim Kardashian (ThanK you aIMee), John Mayer or Jake Gyllenhaal (The Manuscript), and current boyfriend Travis Kelce (The Alchemy).
Both Alwyn and Healy have responded to Taylor’s new album and the lyrics believed to be about them.
Down Bad, I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can), Fortnight, and The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived are rumored to be about the 1975 front man.
The English musician and Lavender Haze singer had a short fling after her breakup with Alwyn.
But while the romance was short, the history between the two musicians goes back more than a decade and is much deeper than fans originally realized.
Entertainment Tonight caught up with Healy walking down the street in LA and asked him to rate his ‘Taylor diss track compared to the 30 others.’
‘Diss track?” Healy said. ‘I haven’t really listened to that much of it, but I’m sure it’s good.’
The English musician and Lavender Haze singer had a short fling after her breakup with Alwyn
But while the romance was short, the history between the two musicians goes back more than a decade and is much deeper than fans originally realized, pictured here in 2015
As for Joe, an insider told DailyMail.com exclusively : ‘Joe has listened to the album, and he is slightly disappointed, but not surprised at all,’ adding: ‘She didn’t really trash him or defame him. Joe is not going to react to this’
The insider explained that Joe was more than aware of Taylor’s song-writing process thanks to the tracks they had created together
‘Which is how a lot of us are in relationships where we are so valued by a person in the beginning, and then all of the sudden, they break us or they devalue us in their mind,’ she added
As for Joe, an insider told DailyMail.com exclusively: ‘Joe has listened to the album, and he is slightly disappointed, but not surprised at all,’ adding: ‘She didn’t really trash him or defame him. Joe is not going to react to this.’
The insider explained that Joe was more than aware of Taylor’s song-writing process thanks to the tracks they had created together.
‘Taylor draws on her relationships for almost all her songs and he admires her artistry,’ the insider added.
‘He has made a ton of money off the six songs that he wrote for Taylor in the past and he is grateful that their relationship also helped to make him a household name.’