Speak Now (Taylor’s Version): Who are the songs on Taylor Swift’s latest rerecord about?

Swifties rejoice as Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) is finally here, with new takes on our favourite 2010 songs as well as exclusive vault tracks. The third re-release from Taylor Swift was written exclusively by herself.

Swift has famously been rerecording her first six albums, after her original record label Big Machine Records sold the master recordings of every one of her songs to Justin Bieber manager Scooter Braun. This meant that Braun would get profits from CDs, and tracks played on platforms such as Apple Music and Spotify.

The original Speak Now album was released in 2010, and was Taylor’s first third album. Since then Taylor’s fanbase has skyrocketed in numbers to new levels that shocks even the biggest of fans. So many fans may not have been there for the first time Dear John was released, or screaming Better Than Revenge in their hairbrush, or crying over Taylor Squared not working out.

The album became somewhat of a cult classic among fans, and became one of the singer’s most highly-anticipated re-releases with fans desperate for the vault tracks. There are six previously unreleased songs included on Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) including “Electric Touch” with Fall Out Boy and “Castles Crumbling” with Paramore’s Hayley Williams. The others “From the Vault” tracks are titled “When Emma Falls in Love,” “I Can See You,” “Foolish One,” and “Timeless.”

So, who are the songs on Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) about? Here’s everything you need to know.

Dear John (Taylor’s Version)

Much like Taylor Lautner, we’re praying for John Mayer today, as this rerelease includes what Swift herself called her most ‘scathing’ song Dear John. The song is about Swift’s highly publicised relationship with John Mayer when she was 19 and he was 32 years old. Mayer had famously just broken up with Jessica Simpson, before moving on with Swift. However, the time-line of Mayer trying to get back at Simpson muddied the waters and seemingly left a young Swift out of the loop, enter the lyric: “Dear John, don’t you think 19’s too young to be messed with.”