52 songs you didn't know were about other celebrities
Sex On Fire
Lily Aldridge, the Victoria’s Secret Angel who is married to Kings of Leon lead singer, Caleb Followill, is said to have inspired the band’s track Sex On Fire.
Cry Me a River
The 2002 Justin Timberlake track is allegedly about the artist’s split from fellow singer Britney Spears – neither has ever confirmed or denied the assumptions. The song’s film clip also did nothing to quell rumours the song was about the breakdown of the relationship. Remember the Britney-esque model Timberlake pines after the in the clip?
In 2004 Spears released the single Everytime; it’s said to be a response to Timberlake’s track and was reportedly recorded in 2002, the same year Timberlake’s broken hearted ballad was released.
Lyrical evidence that the song is a response to Timberlake’s include:
“I may have made it rain/ Please forgive me/ My weakness caused you pain and this song’s my sorry."
Don’t
Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran is said to have penned the song about Ellie Goulding and One Direction’s Niall Horan.
Lyrics include: "And I never saw him as a threat/ Until you disappeared with him to have sex of course."
On My Mind
The single from singer Ellie Goulding, released in September 2015, is said to be in response to Ed Sheeran’s Don’t.
Goulding’s specific reference to hotel rooms has fans thinking the song is about the singer’s fleeting relationship with Sheeran who mentions hotel rooms twice in his tune.
"Next thing that I know, I’m in a hotel with you/ You were talking deep like it was mad love to you/ You wanted my heart, but I just liked your tattoos."
Glory and Blue
Beyoncé Knowles and Jay Z have both released tracks about their first child together, Blue Ivy Carter. The songs credit B.I.C. (Blue Ivy Carter) as a featured artist.
All Of Me
It’s common knowledge that singer John Legend wrote and dedicated the track to wife Chrissy Teigen.
Perfect
Theories about the One Direction track indicate that the boy band’s single is Harry Styles’s response to his relationship with Taylor Swift. The biggest give-away?
“If you like cameras flashing every time you go out/ And if you’re looking for someone to write your break-up songs about…If you like midnight driving with the windows down/ And if you like going places can can’t even pronounce.”
Swift’s track Style (the track’s name can’t be overlooked either) also makes reference to midnight drives:
"Midnight, you come and pick me up/ No headlights/ Long drive, could end in burning flames or paradise."
Wildest Dreams, another of Swift’s songs also makes reference to romantic expeditions – maybe to places you can’t even pronounce?
"He said let’s get out of this town/ Drive out of the city/ Away from the crowds/ I thought heaven can’t help me now."
Kiwi
While the relationship between Styles and New Zealand-born model Georgia Fowler was short-lived, it seems that was all the former One Directioner needed to inspire him.
For Styles fans it seems fairly obvious that Kiwi, being the slang word used to describe a person from New Zealand, is about the pair’s relationship but the lyrics are what is most interesting:
“She’s driving me crazy, but I’m into it, but I’m into it/ I’m kind of into it/ It’s getting crazy, I think I’m losing it, I think I’m losing it/ I think she said ‘I’m having your baby, it’s none of your business’”.
Paper Doll
The track is supposedly John Mayer’s response to Taylor Swift’s Dear John track:
“Dear John, I see it all now that you’re gone/ Don’t you think I was too young.”
Mayer’s response reads:
“You’re like 22 girls in one/ And none of them know what they’re running from/ Was it just too far to fall/ For a little paper doll?”
There’s also speculation that Mayer’s tracks Shadow Days and Your Body Is A Wonderland are about Jennifer Aniston and Jennifer Love Hewitt respectively.
Bound 2
Rapper Kanye West’s song is allegedly about his wife Kim Kardashian, though this conclusion isn’t hard to come to considering Mrs Kardashian West appears in the song’s film clip.
7 Things
The Miley Cyrus track is purportedly about Nick Jonas and the pair’s frustrating relationship. Cyrus’s album Bangerz is also said to be inspired by her break-up with fiancé Liam Hemsworth. Liner notes included with the album read: "I couldn’t have made this album without one person . . . FE, thank you for inspiring me. (PS I love you)."
It’s assumed FE stands for ex-fiancé.
Wedding Bells
After Miley Cyrus announced her engagement to Liam Hemsworth, the Jonas Brothers debuted a new song titled Wedding Bells, written by Cyrus’s ex Nick Jonas.
“She says, ‘Can you keep a secret/ A ceremony set for June/ I know it’s a rush but I just love him so much/ I hope that you can meet him soon…’”
Fix You
The Coldplay song was allegedly written for Gwyneth Paltrow after her father’s death. Paltrow was married to the band’s lead singer Chris Martin at the time.
Give It To Me
The Timbaland track which also features Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado is said to be about the artist’s feuds with various other singers. Timbaland’s dispute is said to have been with fellow producer Scott Storch. While other reports indicate Timberlake’s verse is about either Janet Jackson or Prince, while Furtado’s is about Fergie.
Obsessed
Mariah Carey has made it no secret the 2009 song is about rapper Eminem. Carey even went as far to dress up like the rapper in the film clip. Eminem also called out Carey in his song Bagpipes From Baghdad. The feud is said to have begun after reports emerged that the pair dated in 2001, a rumour Carey has always denied.
Cold Case Love
Though the writing credits don’t feature Rihanna (Justin Timberlake did however earn a credit) the song is featured on Rihanna’s album, Rated R. It’s reported Rihanna began working on the album after her split from Chris Brown and has indicated that the song is about the pair’s complicated relationship.
The Heart Wants What It Wants
It’s reported that the song released in 2014 is about Selena Gomez’s relationship with fellow singer Justin Bieber. It’s also rumoured that Bieber’s Nothing Like Us and Sorry are ballads about the pair’s breakup.
While it’s no secret Taylor Swift, like many artists, takes inspiration from past relationships when writing music, it’s the subjects that make guessing who the tunes may be about interesting. Full of cryptic clues, Taylor Swift’s music video for Delicate, off the album Reputation, all but confirms suspicious that the track is about her secret romance with Joe Alwyn. Gorgeous and Ready For It are also rumoured to be about the British actor. Other celebrities to score mentions in Swift’s songs (whether heartbreak induced or not) may include:
Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Calvin Harris, Katy Perry and Tom Hiddleston
Tom Hiddleston
Getaway Car
Harry Styles
I Knew You Were Trouble, Style and Out of the Woods
Joe Jonas
Last Kiss, Forever And Always and Holy Ground
Camilla Belle
Better Than Revenge
John Mayer
Dear John
Kanye West
Innocent
Taylor Lautner
Back To December
Jake Gyllenhaal
Red, State of Grace and All Too Well
Katy Perry
Bad Blood
Swish Swish
Rumours have surfaced that Katy Perry’s track Swish Swish was released in response to Taylor Swift’s Bad Blood. With the singer revealing to James Corden during The Late Late Show’s Carpool karaoke segment that her response to Swift’s song had her like, "OK, cool, cool, cool, that’s how you want to deal with it? Karma!”
So keep calm, honey, I’ma stick around/ For more than a minute, get used to it/ Funny my name keeps comin’ out your mouth
Malibu
Miley Cyrus’s track Malibu, off the album Younger Now, was released in 2017 after it was revealed that she and ex-fiancé Liam Hemsworth had rekindled their relationship and were living together in Malibu. Wrecking Ball was also said to be about Hemsworth following their split in 2013.
The lyrics read:
If three years ago you told me/ I’d be here writing this song/ But here I am/ Next to you/ The sky is so blue/ In Malibu”
Call Out My Name
The Weekend released a six track EP titled My Dear Melancholy which can be understood to reference his relationship with both Bella Hadid and Selena Gomez throughout the course of a number of songs. Call Out My Name touches on his connection with Gomez, their time together and her return to Justin Bieber. The lyrics read: "We found each other/ I helped you out of a broken place/ You gave me comfort/ But falling for you was my mistake." He continues, "Guess I was just another pit stop/ Until you made up your mind/ You wasted my time."
The track Wasted Times then refers to an equestrian, drawing conclusions he’s singing about Hadid, before comparing his relationship with her to his with Gomez: "Wasted times I spent with someone else/ She wasn’t even half of you."
Thank U, Next
While you may have known that was about Pete Davidson, along with three of Ariana Grande’s previous partners Ricky Alvarez, Big Sean and Mac Miller, what you may not have known was that the singer actually wrote three iterations of the song, each with a different ending depending on how her relationship with Davidson turned out.
“In my relationship at the time, things were like up and down and on and off, and so I didn’t know what was going to happen and then we got back together,” said Grande during an interview on the , before adding that she was also rather nervous about naming her ex-boyfriends in the hit single.
“So I had to make a different version of it, and then we broke up again, so we ended up going with that verse,” she continued. “There’s a version where I was getting married, there’s a version where I’m not getting married, there’s a version with nothing.”
Lovebug
While the song Lovebug by the Jonas Brothers was originally released in 2008, it was only following the preview of their documentary Chasing Happiness in June 2019, that the band finally confirmed the track was in fact written about Miley Cyrus. The brothers first met the Disney star during a cameo appearance on an episode of Hannah Montana, before going on to open the Hannah Montana: Best of Both Worlds Tour shortly after.
In the new documentary, Kevin Jonas describes how Cyrus “changed girls” for his younger brother Nick, saying, “When we met Miley, I think that kid’s head exploded.” The lyrics, which talk of a blossoming crush, can now be read in a fresh new light: “Now I’m speechless/ Over the edge, I’m just breathless/ I never thought that I’d catch this lovebug again/ Hopeless, head over heels in the moment.”
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