The Shady Side Of Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift's songwriting process involves penning down emotions as they come. As such, Swift's love life has inspired some of her hits, a fact she didn't exactly shy away from while promoting her "Speak Now" album during a 2010 appearance on "The Late Show with David Letterman." Asked whether her partners had a say, in the event that they didn't want to be her muse, the 12-time Grammy Award winner quipped, "Yeah, but you know, this is the third album that I've been doing this. So they had fair warning at this point."

At the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, Swift went up against Rihanna, Miley Cyrus, Pink, and Demi Lovato for best female video, and eventually won. In her acceptance speech, she showed gratitude to those that made "I Knew You Were Trouble" a massive song, and on top of that, took a jab at a former lover. "I also wanna thank the person who inspired this song, who knows exactly who he is, because now I got one of these," she expressed joyfully. The camera then cut to Swift's ex-boyfriend, Harry Styles, who — it's worth noting — happened to join in the crowd's applause.

As one whose admitted grudges toward certain exes are well-documented, it's somewhat surprising that Swift has remained on good terms with some exes and their own partners. For example, having struck a friendship with former flame Joe Jonas' estranged wife, Sophie Turner, Swift was spotted on a girls' night out with the model in September 2023 amid divorce reports in the Jonas-Turner camp.

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