Taylor Swift has become one of the biggest pop stars of recent memory.

Her catalog of hit songs has captured the hearts of her millions of fans around the world.

However, with all that success comes severe criticism.

Much of the criticism Swift has received over the years has dealt with the way she writes about her past relationships.

Swift has often dealt with public jokes being made at her expense regarding her love life. During the 2013 Golden Globes, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler targeted Swift during their opening monologue. In 2021, Swift reacted when the Netflix series Ginny & Georgia included a joke poking fun at her relationship history.

Taylor Swift Took To Twitter To Call Out A Netflix Show’s Joke About Her Love Life

In 2021, the Netflix series Ginny & Georgia cracked a joke at Swift’s expense.

“What do you care?” the character of Ginny said to her mother, Georgia . “You go through men faster than Taylor Swift.”

This didn’t sit well with Swifties, who used the opportunity to chime in on the already existing conversation about the quality of the show’s writing.

Apparently, this conversation was so big, it reached Swift herself as well. The star took to Twitter to share her reaction to the joke.

“Hey Ginny & Georgia, 2010 called and it wants its lazy, deeply sexist joke back,” Swift wrote. “How about we stop degrading hard working women by defining this horse shit as FuNnY. ALso, @netflix after Miss Americana this outfit doesn’t look cute on you.”

Swift was referring to her prior relationship with Netflix, which included her Taylor Swift: Miss Americana documentary and her Reputation Tour New Year’s Eve webcast.

“Happy Women’s History Month I guess,” Swift concluded with a broken heart emoji.

This isn’t the first time Swift’s reputation regarding relationships has been the subject of jokes. When Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 2013 Golden Globes, they poked fun at Swift’s relationship history.

“You know what Taylor Swift? You stay away from Michael J. Fox’s son,” Fey said.

“Or go for it,” Poehler chimed in.

“No, she needs some me-time to learn about herself,” Fey said.

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A couple of months later, Swift told Vanity Fair that “there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.”

“For a female to write about her feelings,” Swift began, “and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend in need of making you marry her and have kids with her, I think that’s taking something that potentially should be celebrated — a woman writing about her feelings in a confessional way — that’s taking it and turning it and twisting it into something that is frankly a little sexist.”

David Letterman Asked Taylor Swift Why She Stopped Writing About Her Ex-Boyfriends

In 2014, Swift appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman to promote her album “1989.” During the interview, Letterman asked Swift if she still writes “snarky” songs about her relationships. He jokingly wondered if she would ever write a “snarky” song about him.

“I would never write a snarky song about our relationship,” Swift said. “You’re my favorite person to talk to.”

Letterman then got more specific, asking Swift about her refusal to write about “lousy” ex-boyfriends.

“Well, I just haven’t had any lousy boyfriends in the past year and a half,” Swift said. “It’s been good.”

Prior to her album “1989,” Swift had already been delving into pop territory. Even though her brand of country music always incorporated pop elements, she was starting to stray away from country with her album “Red” in 2012. She scored big hits with the singles “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” “22,” and “I Knew You Were Trouble.”

Among her collaborators on “Red” was pop songwriting genius Max Martin. Swift enlisted him again for “1989,” as she told Billboard in 2014.

“Max Martin and [Karl Johan] Shellback [Schuster] were the last people I collaborated with on ‘Red,’ and I wished we could have done more and explored more,” Swift said . “So going into this album, I knew that I wanted to start with them again.”

She continued, “Then I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be amazing to work with Ryan Tedder?’ And then I was with Jack Antonoff and Lena Dunham at the beach, and we started talking about our favorite ’80s music. All of this started happening organically, and I found myself gravitating toward pop sensibilities, pop hooks, pop production styles.”

While Swift was happy with the album, not everyone on her team was as enthusiastic.

“When I knew the album had hit its stride, I went to Scott Borchetta and said, ‘I have to be honest with you: I did not make a country album. I did not make any semblance of a country album,'” she said. “And of course he went into a state of semi-panic and went through all the stages of grief — the pleading, the denial.”

Ultimately, Swift stuck to her guns and “1989” became the most successful album of her career.

Ellen DeGeneres Also Questioned Swift About Her Relationships And Who Her Songs Are About

When Swift made one particular appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2010, the former talk show host mentioned Swift’s reputation for writing about her relationships.

DeGeneres assumed the men Swift had dated were afraid to be near her, because of what she might write about.

“That seems to be the pattern, yeah,” Swift said when DeGeneres asked her if she writes about her relationships often.

DeGeneres then mentioned Swift’s song “Dear John” from her album “Speak Now.” DeGeneres mentioned that, although some were speculating it was about John Mayer, it could just be “a Dear John song.”

She added, “That song kind of is what it is.”

“Okay great,” DeGeneres said. “We know the answer now. It’s about him.”

When Swift playfully made a shocked face, DeGeneres said, “Well, you didn’t dispute it, so obviously…”

“I guess people are going to continue to speculate about it, and I’m going to continue to never tell them who the song is about,” Swift said.

“Right, but it’s about him,” DeGeneres concluded to laughter from the audience.

Swift further elaborated on the inspiration behind the song when speaking to People in 2010.

“A lot of times when people’s relationships end, they write an email to that person and say everything that they wish they would have said,” she said, noting, “A lot of times they don’t push send.”

Swift told the outlet that the song was “a tough one to write” and that “putting it on the album was pushing send.”

In 2012, Mayer revealed he wasn’t pleased with the song, assuming it was about him. He told Rolling Stone that it made him “feel terrible.”

“Because I didn’t deserve it,” he said . “I’m pretty good at taking accountability now, and I never did anything to deserve that. It was a really lousy thing for her to do.”

Mayer also said that he wasn’t approached by Swift before the song’s release, saying, “I never got an email. I never got a phone call. I was really caught off-guard, and it really humiliated me at a time when I’d already been dressed down. I mean, how would you feel if, at the lowest you’ve ever been, someone kicked you even lower?”

He also called Swift’s pattern of writing about her ex-boyfriends “cheap songwriting.”

“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!’ That’s bulls***.”

• Later that year, Swift told Glamour that Mayer was “presumptuous” for assuming the song was about him. She also admitted that she didn’t read his response.
• “I know it wasn’t good, so I don’t want to know,” Swift said. “I put a high priority on staying happy, and I know what I can’t handle.”
• She continued, “It’s not that I’m this egomaniac and I don’t want to hear anything negative, because I do keep myself in check. But I’ve never developed that thick a skin. So I just kind of live a life, and I let all the gossip live somewhere else. If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.”
• Mayer would later release a song called “Plastic Doll,” which many assumed was about Swift. However, he would later deny this was the case. In 2021, Mayer spoke about receiving death threats from Swift’s fans. The bad feelings from Swifties continued when Swift’s song “Would’ve Could’ve Should’ve,” from her 2022 album “Midnights,” was released. That song was also rumored to be about Mayer.

Prior to the 2023 release of “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version),” Swift seemed to ask her fans to be kind to those she might have written those songs about.

“So what I’m trying to say is, I’m putting this album out because I want to own my music and I believe that [those] who have the desire to own their music should be able to,” Swift told the audience during the Minneapolis stop of her “Eras Tour.” “That’s why I’m putting out this album.”

“I’m 33 years old, I don’t care about anything that happened to me when I was 19 except the songs I wrote,” she continued. “So what I’m trying to tell you, is that I am not putting this album out so you should feel the need to defend me on the internet against someone you think I wrote a song about 14 million years ago.”