Taylor Swift Asks For Her ‘Girlhood’ Back On New Song & Fans Are Convinced It’s About John Mayer

Taylor Swift’s caller opus “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve” is astir a narration she had astatine 19 years old, and eagle-eyed fans were each excessively speedy to retrieve that she softly dated John Mayer astatine that time. On the 2010 way astir John, aptly titled “Dear John,” Taylor sang, “Don’t you deliberation 19’s excessively young,” and this caller opus calls backmost to that. “I damn definite ne'er would person danced with the devil astatine 19,” Taylor sings connected “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve.”

The opus is afloat astir regretting a narration that erstwhile was, and determination are aggregate clues that it could beryllium astir John. “If I was immoderate paint, did it splatter connected a promising grown man? And if I was a kid did it substance if you got to lavation your hands?” she sings successful the archetypal verse, referencing the pair’s property difference. Throughout the song, Taylor makes it wide that this narration changed her, and not successful a bully way. In the bridge, she continues, “I miss who I utilized to be, the tomb won’t close, stained solid windows successful my mind, I regret you each the time.”

The biggest punch, though, comes close earlier she sings the chorus for a last time. “Give maine backmost my girlhood, it was excavation first,” Taylor sings, which could beryllium a notation to conscionable however acold things got betwixt her and John erstwhile she was conscionable a teenager. Immediately aft the opus dropped, fans began commenting connected Twitter astir however John indispensable beryllium the subject, and they praised Taylor for yet penning different scathing opus astir him.

“Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve” was portion of the 3 A.M. variation of Midnights, which Taylor released 3 hours aft the archetypal medium connected Oct. 21. The archetypal mentation included 13 songs, lone to beryllium followed up with 7 much astatine 3:00 successful the morning. “I deliberation of Midnights arsenic a implicit conception album, with those 13 songs forming a afloat representation of the intensities of that mystifying, huffy hour,” she wrote connected Instagram. “However! There were different songs we wrote connected our travel to find that magic 13. I’m calling them 3am tracks. Lately I’ve been loving the feeling of sharing much of our originative process with you, similar we bash with From The Vault tracks. So it’s 3am and I’m giving them to you now.”