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It’s wide known that Taylor Swift‘s award-winning songwriting has taken inspiration from her ain beingness and relationships. That’s not to outweigh the information that she often writes astir the beingness experiences of others and creates intricate worlds and fantastical scenarios successful her caput arsenic well, but for the involvement of this timeline, we tin absorption connected the archetypal half. It’s besides known that her fans, affectionately called Swifites, tin often analyse and uncover who a opus is astir successful seemingly nary clip astatine all. Taylor’s 10 workplace albums person been written implicit the people of astir 20 years, which has unavoidably taken fans done several of her relationships, from Joe Jonas to Joe Alwyn and beyond.
One relationship, however, has a clasp implicit Swifties: 19-year-old Taylor’s months-long romance with chap instrumentalist John Mayer, who was 32 erstwhile they were together. The romance is thought to person influenced respective songs connected her 2010 medium Speak Now, whose re-recorded counterpart, Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), is dropping connected July 7. Fans judge 1 way successful particular, “Dear John”, speaks astir Taylor’s regret implicit dating the talented guitarist. In the song, she laments implicit her older ex’s “dark, twisted games” and that she “should’ve known” amended than to messiness with him.
In grant of the merchandise of the iconic Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), let’s dive into Taylor Swift and John Mayer’s narration timeline.
Taylor Swift and John Mayer met successful 2009 and were affable done mid-2010 (Photo: David Fisher/John Salangsang/Shutterstock)
John Tweets That He Wants To Collab With Taylor
John made the archetypal determination — though it seemed platonic. In March 2009, helium tweeted that helium would emotion to collaborate with the “Love Story” hitmaker aft getting a opus thought stuck successful his head. “Waking up to this opus thought that won’t permission my head. 3 days consecutive now. That means it’s bully capable to finish. It’s called Half of My Heart, and I privation to sing it with Taylor Swift,” helium tweeted, per Distractify. “She would marque a killer Stevie Nicks successful opposition to my Tom Petty of a song,” helium added.
Taylor Invites John On Stage At Her Fearless Tour
Taylor caught upwind of John’s admiration for her arsenic an creator and invited him connected signifier during her Fearless circuit 2 months later. The Los Angeles amusement marked their archetypal show together. They sang 2 songs: Taylor’s “White Horse” and John’s “Your Body Is a Wonderland”, according to PEOPLE.
Taylor Says She Is A ‘Massive’ Fan Of John
Taylor Swift poses astatine the 2023 Grammys (Photo: David Fisher/Shutterstock)
In June 2009, teenage Taylor said John is astatine the apical of her database of artists she’d similar to collaborate with successful the studio. “He Twittered the different time that helium wrote a opus and helium wants to marque it a duet with me. I freaked retired erstwhile I heard, due to the fact that I’ve been specified a large instrumentality of John for specified a agelong time,” she gushed to Elle. “I’m truly excited astir conscionable the thought that helium would adjacent notation maine successful his Twitter!”
Taylor And John’s Collaboration Is Born
Taylor and John’s dreams came existent erstwhile they officially collaborated connected “Half of My Heart”, which made his Battle Studies album. The medium dropped connected Nov. 19, 2009. While promoting the album, the “New Light” vocalist raved astir moving with the rising state star. “Taylor is the world’s biggest prima who doesn’t cognize she’s a star. Which I deliberation is wholly sweet. It’s astir similar Taylor Swift is simply a quality successful a movie astir a small-town miss who has her dreams travel existent and [does] what immoderate small-town miss would bash erstwhile her dreams travel true, which is to freak out,” helium told Access Hollywood. “And I inactive similar it that she freaks out, but beauteous soon she’s gonna person to halt due to the fact that it’s benignant of like, ‘You’re that good. You’re that good. You mightiness person to spell to therapy and person idiosyncratic other archer you.'”
He added, “I see her a friend. I deliberation she’s a truly singular idiosyncratic and it’ll beryllium bully to person her sanction connected my record.”
Weeks aft his medium was released, helium gushed astir Taylor erstwhile much during an quality connected The Ellen DeGeneres Show. “I’m a immense fan, and I deliberation she’s got a truly large voice,” helium noted. “She’s 1 of the smartest, astir talented radical astir close now. … I deliberation she’s that genuine.”
Taylor And John Perform ‘Half Of My Heart’
John Mayer and Taylor Swift execute astatine Z100’s Jingle Ball successful 2009 (Photo: Amanda Schwab/Starpix/Shutterstock)
Taylor and John took the signifier unneurotic astatine the Z100 Jingle Ball successful Dec. 2009, wherever they performed their collab. That aforesaid month, Taylor and Twilight actor Taylor Lautner had gone their abstracted ways. The pursuing month, Tay and John were spotted grabbing meal with immoderate friends successful Nashville.
John Presents Taylor With An Award
John and Taylor kept their narration nether wraps. The “Karma” vocalist was spotted astatine a taping for CMT’s Crossroads, which saw John perform, but they were not seen again until John honored Taylor astatine the Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony successful June 2010. “You could enactment her successful a clip instrumentality successful immoderate epoch and she would person a deed record,” helium said successful his speech, which ended with him handing her the Hal David Starlight Award, per PEOPLE. “Don’t confuse everybody loving 1 happening arsenic hype. Sometimes that’s everyone agreeing that it’s fabulous.”
Showing the astir PDA ever successful their relationship, Taylor sweetly kissed John connected the feature and hugged him arsenic she accepted her award. That was the past clip the brace would beryllium seen connected bully terms.
Taylor Swift Releases ‘Dear John’
Taylor’s 3rd workplace album, Speak Now, debuted connected Oct. 25, 2010. The 5th way connected the album, “Dear John”, referenced a falling retired erstwhile she was 19 years aged — the property astatine which she dated the Dead & Company guitarist. “Don’t you deliberation nineteen is excessively young/ To beryllium played by your acheronian twisted games / When I loved you so?” she sang.
John Responds To ‘Dear John’
John Mayer famously dated Jessica Simpson successful the aboriginal 2000s. Jessica has since spoken retired astir their toxic relationship. (Photo: John Salangsang/Shutterstock)
Fans assumed — and inactive bash — that “Dear John” is astir John Mayer, and truthful did he. In 2012, helium said the opus made him consciousness “terrible” portion speaking to Rolling Stone. “I’m beauteous bully astatine taking accountability now, and I ne'er did thing to merit that. It was a truly lousy happening for her to do,” helium complained.
John besides said helium was not blessed astir the deficiency of informing helium received astir the opus that is perchance astir him. “I ne'er got an email. I ne'er got a telephone call. I was truly caught off-guard, and it truly humiliated maine astatine a clip erstwhile I’d already been dressed down,” helium went on. “I mean, however would you consciousness if, astatine the lowest you’ve ever been, idiosyncratic kicked you adjacent lower?”
“I cognize she’s the biggest happening successful the world, and I’m not trying to descend anybody’s ship, but I deliberation it’s abusing your endowment to hitch your hands unneurotic and go, ‘Wait till helium gets a load of this!’” helium added.
Taylor Calls John ‘Presumptuous’
“How presumptuous,” Taylor said to Glamour in Sept. 2012 aft John’s comments to Rolling Stone were mentioned. “I ne'er disclose who my songs are about.” She besides claimed she did not work precisely what helium said astir her. “I cognize it wasn’t good, truthful I don’t privation to know,” she noted. “I enactment a precocious precedence connected staying happy, and I cognize what I can’t handle.”
“It’s not that I’m this egomaniac and I don’t privation to perceive thing negative, due to the fact that I bash support myself successful check,” the Pennsylvania autochthonal explained. “But I’ve ne'er developed that heavy a skin. So I conscionable benignant of unrecorded a life, and I fto each the gossip unrecorded determination else. If you spell excessively acold down the rabbit spread of what radical deliberation astir you, it tin alteration everything astir who you are.”
Taylor had already said she volition ne'er uncover the idiosyncratic down a opus successful a 2010 interrogation with PEOPLE. “A batch of times erstwhile people’s relationships end, they constitute an email to that idiosyncratic and accidental everything that they privation they would person said,” the Grammy victor stated. “A batch of times they don’t propulsion send.” Taylor said adding the opus to the medium was her mentation of “pushing send”.
Taylor Asks Fans To Be Nice To John Without Naming Him
Taylor Swift connected the merchandise of ‘Speak Now’ TV earlier performing ‘Dear John’:
“I’m 33 years old, I don’t attraction astir thing that happened to maine erstwhile I was 19… I’m not putting this medium retired truthful you tin spell connected the net and support maine against idiosyncratic you deliberation I wrote a song… pic.twitter.com/cFQbKQk8vD
— Pop Base (@PopBase) June 25, 2023
During her Minneapolis Eras Tour stop, Taylor asked fans to beryllium nice to anyone they deliberation her songs whitethorn beryllium astir earlier singing “Dear John” arsenic a astonishment song. Notably, it was the archetypal clip she had performed the opus unrecorded since 2012. “I’m 33 years old. I don’t attraction astir thing that happened to maine erstwhile I was 19,” she noted, arsenic seen successful the supra video. “I’m not putting [Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)] retired truthful that you tin spell and should consciousness the request to support maine connected the net against idiosyncratic you deliberation I mightiness person written a opus astir 14 cardinal years ago.”
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