Taylor Swift says her new album will be about an “absolute crash-and-burn heartbreak”, prompting speculation in the media that the latest subject of her song-writing skills may be her short-lived 2010 crush on Jake Gyllenhaal. Swift, 22, whose ‘Dear John’ song was seen as a bitter ode to ex-boyfriend John Mayer, told Vogue magazine that she was working on her fourth album, and is currently single.
The country-pop crossover artist, who famously wears her heart on her songwriter’s sleeve, said that writing about past loves is a way to ease the pain. Swift dated ‘Brokeback Mountain’ star Gyllenhaal for about three months in late 2010 before their much-photographed relationship ended suddenly around the Christmas holidays that year.
U.S. celebrity magazines claimed that Gyllenhaal had ended the relationship because he was unhappy at the attention the couple was generating. The Grammy-winning young singer’s previous romances with ‘Twilight’ actor Taylor Lautner and singer Joe Jonas are widely thought to have inspired her songs ‘Back to December’ and ‘Forever and Always’.
“I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid,” she told Vogue. But she said she had learned some of the romantic pitfalls to avoid, including obsessive privacy.
“I can’t deal with someone who’s obsessed with privacy. People kind of care if there are two famous people dating. But no one cares that much,” she said.
