I’ve talked about Taylor Swift’s semantic overloading, how her lyrics are usu. at least three things at once so that they mean something to a broad swath and mean something really particular to a narrow beam so it becomes their song

I just listened back to Dear John, which at the time I “knew” was about John Mayer, but it was on 2012′s Red, the last album she pitched country at all

now imagine you didn’t know that but instead you “knew” it was about a stepdad

just saying