“Dear John” isn’t the only Taylor Swift song that fans think she wrote about John Mayer

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“Dear John” boldly deals with Swift’s relationship with Mayer. While Swift (often with a ton of sexism) has a reputation for burning exes in her music, “Dear John” from 2010’s “Speak Now” is the only song that actually mentions an ex-boyfriend in the title. Swift’s anger and deep sorrow is evident from the lyrics. In the chorus, she sings: “Dear John, I see it all now that you’re gone / Don’t you think I was too young to be messed with? / The girl in the dress cried all the way home, I should have it known.” She also accuses him of treating her like a chess piece in a game where he “changed the rules every day.”

Swift wrote about the song on her website at the time: “The song ‘Dear John’ is a bit like the last e-mail you would ever send to someone you were in a relationship with. Usually people write this bleedin’ last e-mail to someone and they say whatever they want to say to that person, and then usually they don’t send it. I think putting this song on the album makes me hit send.”

Unsurprisingly, Mayer didn’t appreciate the song. He told Rolling Stone in 2012, “It made me feel terrible. Because I didn’t deserve it. I’m pretty good at taking responsibility now, and I’ve never done anything to deserve that. Do.” He said that Swift never got in touch about the song, explaining, “I never got an email. I never got a phone call. I was really caught off guard and it really humbled me at a time when I was already dressed. I mean, how would you feel if, at the lowest level you’ve ever been, someone kicked you even lower?’ When Rolling Stone asked about the line “Don’t you think I was too young to mess around with?” he declined to comment, also calling it “cheap songwriting.”

But in a way, Swift predicted this reaction. In the song she sings, “And you add my name to your long list of traitors who don’t understand.” And when Swift was asked about the song — and Mayer’s response to it — in a 2012 interview with Glamor, she called him “overbearing” and said she didn’t want to know the details of his comments. “I know it wasn’t right, so I don’t want to know,” she explained. “I’ve made staying happy a high priority, and I know what I can’t handle.”





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