Taylor Swift Asks Fans Not to Cyberbully Her Exes As She Performs “Dear John”
Taylor Swift is asking her fans to stand down when it comes to her ex-boyfriends.
The singer addressed her loyal fanbase Saturday night about their tendency to troll the men who have been romantically linked to Swift. During her Eras Tour show in Minneapolis, Swift performed her song “Dear John” for the first time in nearly a decade — which comes from her 2010 album, Speak Now. The song is widely believed to be about John Mayer, who Swift was reportedly dating sometime between 2009 and 2010.
Swift appeared to have enough of the online harassment and told fans to lay off ahead of the Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) release on July 7.
“I was hoping to ask you, that as we lead up to this album, I would love for that kindness and that gentleness to extend onto our internet activities,” Swift said on stage while talking about friendships made at the Eras Tour.
Many Swifties have often left comments related to Swift under Mayer’s — and other exes’ social media posts — including writing “Dear John” lyrics.
“I’m 33 years old. I don’t care about anything that happened to me when I was 19 except for songs I wrote and the memories that we made together,” Swift said at her concert.
She continued: “What I’m trying to tell you, is that I am not putting this album out so that you can go and should feel the need to defend me on the internet against someone you think I might have written a song about 14 million years ago. I do not care. We have all grown up. We’re good.”
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Swift is in the process of re-recording the albums she made while signed with Big Machine Records in order to own the masters. The last “Taylor’s Version” album to come out was her 2012 album Red. Fans speculated that songs from Red including “All Too Well” are about Jake Gyllenhaal — who has also caught the heat from Swifites over the years.
