Taylor Swift Gets Candid About Writing About Real Love On 'Lover'

Taylor Swift is opening up about about real love on her recent album, Lover.

During her interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music’s Beats 1, the 29-year-old musician dished about the meanings behind her songs on the record.

“[Lover was] the first time I’ve written about love that was very real rather than a song like ‘Love Story’ that I wrote when I was 17,” she shared.

“A lot of that was like stuff I saw on a movie, like Shakespeare, like stuff I read mixed in with some like crush stuff that had happened in my life,” Taylor added. “And so as a writer you try to expand moments. You try to take a micro emotion or a feeling you had for two minutes in the day and you take that and you zoom into it and you try to explore it. And I was wondering if I could be in this place where I’m finally in a very healthy place in my life.”

She continues, “I feel like my priorities are in order, done some growing up, feeling good about it. And I was like, you know what’s that going to be like to write from that place? But I didn’t even have long enough to think about that before I was writing this record.”

Take a listen to her whole interview below: