Taylor Swift admitted that there are “corners” of her fanbase that take things to an “extreme place” by over-speculating about the subjects of her songs.
“There’s nothing I can do about that. There’s people who are gonna try to, like, do detective work, figure out the details — ‘Who is that about? What is this?’” she said in a video interview with The New York Times published Tuesday, in which she was named one of the 30 greatest living American songwriters.
The “Cruel Summer” singer said that it “gets a little bit weird” when her fans treat her lyrics like a “paternity test.”
“Like, ‘This song’s about that person,’” she said, parroting curiosity from her overzealous fans. “[And] I’m like, ‘That dude didn’t write the song, I did.’”
But that’s part of being a celebrity, Swift acknowledged.
