Taylor Swift has become famous for turning heartache into melodies. But the exes and past flings who inspired her chart-topping songs should get some credit too.
Over the years, the country music singer-turned-pop star has been able to turn her heartbreak into chart-topping hits and classic breakup anthems we can all relate to.
From Jake Gyllenhaal to Harry Styles, INSIDER takes a look at the 13 guys that inspired some of your favorite T-Swift songs.
Harry Styles
You could say that the former One Direction singer has definitely been Swift's muse, considering he's been the topic of many songs from her last two albums. "I Knew You Were Trouble","Out of the Woods" and "Style" were a few of the breakout hits that were most likely sprinkled with details from their on-again-off-again relationship.
Swift even admitted to the Sunday Times that "I Knew You Were Trouble" was about him after performing in front of Styles at the British Music Awards in 2013.
"Well, it's not hard to access that emotion when the person the song is directed at is standing by the side of the stage watching," she said.
John Mayer
After Swift's song "Dear John"was released in 2010, it didn't take long for people to suspect that the title was about her freak breakup from John Mayer. Outside of her music, Swift stayed mum on the topic of Mayer. But he told Rolling Stone that he felt humiliated by the song.
"I will say as a songwriter that I think it's kind of cheap songwriting," he says. "I know she's the biggest thing in the world, and I'm not trying to sink anybody's ship, but I think it's abusing your talent to rub your hands together and go, 'Wait till he gets a load of this!'"
Jake Gyllenhaal
Unlike John Mayer, Jake Gyllenhaal played clueless to the fact that the song "All Too Well" by Swift was even written about him. When Howard Stern told him Swift wrote a track about him, he responded saying, “Do I? I don’t know.'
Swift sang, "Left my scarf there at your sister's house/And you still got it in your drawer even now." It didn't take long for Us Weekly to decode the mystery that Gyllenhaal and Taylor spent Thanksgiving together a few months before their breakup. In the photos from their getaway, you can see Swift was wearing what people think is the same scarf.
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