Taylor Swift’s new song “Ruin The Friendship” is not about Blake Lively, as some fans first assumed.
Instead, many believe it pays tribute to her late high school friend, Jeff Lang, which she honored at his funeral in 2010.
The track, from her latest album The Life of a Showgirl, released October 3, reflects on unanswered love and loss.
“When I left school, I lost an overview of you / Abigail called me with the bad news,” Swift, 35, sings. “It wasn’t an invitation / but I flew home anyway … I whispered at the grave,” should have kissed you anyway. ”” ”
Swift and long went to Hendersonville High School in Tennessee, where he was among the first to hear her early songs.
After his passing at the age of 21, Swift appeared at his funeral and later told the audience at the BMI Country Awards 2010, “I used to play my songs for him first.”
Along Mother, Susan, Tennessean told the two shared a rare friendship.
“They hung a lot on her house, joking always around,” she said, adding that she still holds a photo of them together.
Swift’s inner tracks seem to immortalize the friend who inspired her long before fame arrived.
