Taylor Swift Once Admitted She Felt Like She Was Wearing ‘Guy Repellent’ Because of Her Romantic History
Taylor Swift has been writing love songs since the earliest days of her career. This was the type of song she felt drawn to, and she has long felt inspired by the ways people love each other. Early in her career, though, she admitted that she didn’t have much experience with romantic love. Swift joked that she felt she was wearing “guy repellent.”
Taylor Swift once described her love life as non-existent
Swift was a teenager when she signed a record contract. Her early music had roots in the romantic country ballads she had always loved.
“After I sang the national anthem at the US Open last year, a top music manager signed me as his client,” she told Vanity Fair. “Now I have a record contract with RCA and I’m moving to Nashville with my family. I write all of my own songs, and my roots are in country. I love the sound of fiddles and mandolins ringing in my ears, and I love the stories you hear in country ballads.”
While she could write about love and relationships, she didn’t have much experience with them. This didn’t bother her all that much, though.
“I sometimes write about teenage love, but I am presently a fourteen-year-old girl without a boyfriend,” she said. “Sometimes I worry that I must be wearing some kind of guy repellent, but then I realize that I’m just discovering who I am as a person. Right now, music is the most important thing in my life, and I want to touch people with my songs.”
Taylor Swift still said she loved the idea of love
As a teenager, Swift wasn’t sure she’d ever been in love. She found the feeling endlessly fascinating, though.
“I’m fascinated by love rather than the principle of ‘Oh, does this guy like me?’” she told Rolling Stone, adding, “I love love. I love studying it and watching it. I love thinking about how we treat each other, and the crazy way that one person can feel one thing and another can feel totally different.”
She worked through her feelings about her relationships through song.
“It just doesn’t take much for me to be inspired to write a song about a person, but I’m much more likely to write that song than do anything about it,” she said. “You know, self-preservation.”
She involved herself in her friend’s love life
Swift tried to bring romance into the lives of her friends as well. She recalled helping a boy woo her friend Abigail.
“This summer, the guy from the ‘Fifteen’ song came back into Abigail’s life,” she says. “He got me to bring her here, and while we were on the way he texted her, ‘We need to talk.’”
When they arrived, he was waiting with a bouquet of roses. Swift made a mixtape for him to help him win over her friend.
“I love that kind of stuff,” she said. “You know, I totally burned a CD for him to play that night, because he wouldn’t have known Abigail’s favorite songs otherwise. And as usual, I had to clean up the mess the next day. But that’s OK. I didn’t mind.”
