Taylor Swift expresses, “Meeting the handsome and lovely guy has been a blessing for me. Since I met him, he has always put a smile on my face and made me feel like a precious woman

Like a new generation’s Carly Simon, Taylor Swift has played fun games with her fans in leaving clues and hints — both ambiguous and blunt — about the many male muses for her break-up songs.

From high school crushes to Academy Award-nominated beaus, she’s apparently experienced the full spectrum of relationship joys and woes and has used her songs as a public diary to share her lessons and aches with her millions of fans. In an attempt to decode the lyrics and references, here are some of her best-known songs with clear inspirations for the subject matter.What Happened: Swift’s first taste of expressing bitter heartbreak on a song came on the very first album.

Before Joe or Harry, Swift’s high school beau Jordan Alford hurt the young songwriter so deeply that she penned this searing, painful country track about how she’d tell all her friends that he was gay, date all of his friends and, of course, burn any photographic evidence of his existence. Swift’s clapbacks have become more nuanced and progressive since then, but the track, released when she was a mere 16-years-old, offered an early glimpse at her pop power.