

"And I sat there and listened, never meaning it any of the times I said, 'Oh, I'm so happy for you.'" " would sit there every day talking to me about…another girl: how beautiful she was, how nice and smart and perfect she was," Swift revealed on her official site. For "Teardrops," Swift reflects on being in love with a friend who loves someone else. Swift technically dated neither of them, but her admiration from afar inspired two tender singles that helped her break onto the country charts. What Happened: Two important men in Taylor Swift's life get cited by name on her self-titled debut: Tim McGraw and Drew Hardwick.

Lyrics: "Drew looks at me, I fake a smile so he won't see/That I want and I'm needing everything that we should be/I'll bet she's beautiful, that girl he talks about/And she's got everything that I have to live without" " was like, 'I'm not a redneck! She makes me look like some redneck!' But other than that, we just thought it was kind of funny." "We just thought it was funny," she recalled. Chelsea Alford dished the dirt to The Daily Mailand wondered if any other songs were about her and her husband. In 2014, the source of Swift's bitterness was revealed: Alford cheated on her with his now-wife and a former friend of Swift's. Swift's clapbacks have become more nuanced and progressive since then, but the track, released when she was a mere 16-years-old, offered an early glimpse at her pop power. Before Joe or Harry, Swift's high school beau Jordan Alford hurt the young songwriter so deeply that she penned this searing, painful country track about how she'd tell all her friends that he was gay, date all of his friends and, of course, burn any photographic evidence of his existence. What Happened: Swift's first taste of expressing bitter heartbreak on a song came on the very first album. Lyric: "I hate that stupid old pick-up truck you never let me drive/You're a redneck heartbreak who's really bad at lying"
