Taylor Swift's new song 'Dear John' about John Mayer?
Taylor Swift performs at the MTV Video Music Awards at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. (Sept. 12, 2010) Credit: AP
With her new, autobiographical song "Dear John," country crooner Taylor Swift proves she can be as cagey as Carly Simon, who still hasn't publicly named the real-life subject of her 1972 hit "You're So Vain."
But pundits are claiming it's a safe bet that Swift, 20, is calling out caddish singer John Mayer, 33, whom she's widely reported to have dated last year.
"Dear John," the lyrics read, "Don't you think nineteen's too young / To be played / By your dark, twisted games?"
"A lot of times when people's relationships end, they write an e-mail to that person and say everything that they wish they would have said," Swift told People magazine Tuesday. "A lot of times they don't push send."
This song, she went on, "was a tough one to write, and I guess putting it on the album was pushing send."
The multiple Grammy Award-winner recently told Yahoo! country-music columnist Chris Willman that "every single song" on her third full-length album, "Speak Now," dropping Tuesday, "is like a road map to what that relationship stood for. . . . Everyone will know, so I don't really have to send out e-mails on this one."
Swift and Mayer had collaborated on the song "Half of My Heart," from his 2009 album "Battle Studies."
