Taylor Swift, 25, doesn’t believe in “happily ever after” love stories.
The star said most of her early songwriting was based on a contrived understanding of love, rather than personal experience.
She explained: “They were based on movies, books, songs and literature that tell us a relationship is the most magical thing that can happen to you. And then once I fell in love, or thought I was in love, and then experienced disappointment… a few times, I realised there is this idea of happily ever after which, in real life, doesn’t happen. It’s magical if you ask anyone who’s ever fallen in love. Now I have more of a grasp on the fact that when you’re in a state of infatuation and think everything that person does is perfect, it then – if you’re lucky – morphs into a real relationship when you see that that person is not, in fact, perfect, but you still want to see them every day.”