Taylor Swift’s "Bad Blood"—that’s the one about Katy Perry, right? The one Swift sorta directly told Rolling Stone was about her famous ex-friend? The nameless female artist whose M.O. Swift described this way last fall:"She would come up to me at awards shows and say something and walk away and I would think, 'Are we friends, or did she just give me the harshest insult of my life?’” Apparently, not the same person she wrote the song about. In Swift's realest interview ever, a conversation with GQ’s Chuck Klosterman for the November issue, the singer puts forth a slightly more altered backstory for the beef-anthem. "You’re in a Rolling Stone interview, and the writer says, 'Who is that song about? That sounds like a really intense moment from your life.' And you sit there, and you know you’re on good terms with your ex-boyfriend, and you don’t want him—or his family—to think you’re firing shots at him,” she tells Klosterman. "So you say, 'That was about losing a friend.' And that’s basically all you say. But then people cryptically tweet about what you meant. I never said anything that would point a finger in the specific direction of one specific person, and I can sleep at night knowing that. I knew the song would be assigned to a person, and the easiest mark was someone who I didn’t want to be labled with this song. It was not a song about heartbreak. It was about the loss of friendship.”
Ex-friendship with…who, though?! Let us know your theories on Twitter or Facebook. And in the meantime, head over to read more of what Swift told Klosterman, or see photos from her Malibu shoot with photographer Michael Thompson.