Taylor Swift is unquestionably one of our generation’s most prolific songwriters. The youngest member of Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time,” the Tennessee-raised crooner has created a reputation for herself with her emotionally charged songs that can be related to by practically any demographic. Swift is a fixture at the top of the charts, and it’s unlikely that anyone hasn’t heard at least one of her songs.
While Swift is known for composing songs about a variety of subjects, her fans adore the fact that she also writes about her famous ex-boyfriends. She never says whose ex-lover a song is dedicated to, but fans enjoy performing their own detective work and piecing things together based on context clues.
They deduced that “All Too Well” was devoted to actor Jake Gyllenhaal, “Back to December” was an apology to “Twilight” actress Taylor Lautner, and “Out of the Woods” was dedicated to fellow singer-songwriter Harry Styles.
Swift may not have a song for each and every one of her ex-boyfriends and girlfriends — especially flings and short-term relationships — but fans can’t help but wonder if she has a song about her brief affair with Tom Hiddleston.
Swift probably didn’t think it was important enough to write a song about because the two notoriously dated for barely three months in the summer of 2016, thus she probably didn’t think it was noteworthy enough to write a song about. Fans, on the other hand, appear to disagree.
This song from Reputation is rumored to be about Tom Hiddleston, according to fans.
If you need a refresher, here’s a good place to start. In 2016, Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston had a brief relationship, garnering them the moniker “Hiddleswift.” Starting when they first met at the Met Gala, the two were frequently caught getting intimate, making it one of Swift’s more recognized romances.
However, it appears that this is the reason behind the singer’s breakup. At the time, a source told Us Weekly, “Tom wanted the relationship to be more public than she was comfortable with.” “Taylor was aware of the negative consequences of public demonstrations of affection, but Tom ignored her worries when she raised them.”
“The ties were black, the lies were white / The shades of grey in candlelight / I wanted to leave him / I needed a reason,” the lyrics ostensibly alluded to their first meeting, while “You were drivin’ the getaway car / We were flyin’, but we’d never get far” likely alluded to how they traveled to various locations during their brief relationship.
Meanwhile, the line “Shoulda knew I’d be the first to leave / Think about the area where you first met me” was widely assumed to confirm that Swift was the one who broke up with him.
After hearing this Taylor Swift song, many felt sad for Tom Hiddleston.
GlamourThere’s a phrase in Taylor Swift’s song “Getaway Car” that admirers believe she created to imply that her romance with Tom Hiddleston was never meant to survive. This may not mean anything to the average listener, but Swifties feel it was a direct shot at the “Loki” actor.
“[G]etaway vehicle is such a snooze and so brutally honest (poor Tom lol) can’t stop listening,” one admirer wrote on Twitter. “[L]istening to getaway car… hm I’m devastated BCS Tom Hiddleston didn’t deserve it… terrible tom,” one person commented.
But, despite the fact that their summer romance was allegedly memorialized in song, Hiddleston has nothing but praise for Swift. After all, there doesn’t appear to be any bad blood between the two. In 2017, he told GQ, “Of course, it was true,” indicating that their relationship was not a marketing act. “Taylor is a very remarkable woman. We had a great time since she is generous, polite, and attractive. I’m solely familiar with the woman I met. She’s fantastic.”
