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When Taylor Swift<\/a> released the track list for The Life of a Showgirl<\/a><\/em>, there was one song that caught everyone\u2019s attention. Instantly, rumors started circling the internet about who \u201cRuin the Friendship\u201d<\/a> could be about, whether she’d be referencing Blake Lively<\/a>, who had recently pulled Swift into her legal troubles, or calling back to \u201cBad Blood\u201d<\/a> and Katy Perry<\/a>. Or was it a response to Charli XCX<\/a>\u2019s \u201cSympathy Is a Knife\u201d? But while the star did send a message to XCX on the album, it wasn\u2019t on this track.<\/p>\n With nods to the radio hits of her high school prom (50 Cent), the Nashville roads she\u2019d drive, and her lifelong friend Abigail (of Fearless<\/em>\u2019 \u201cFifteen\u201d fame), she recalled all the times she almost kissed a friend\u2014but didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n \u201cGlistening grass from September rain \/ Gray overpass full of neon names \/ You drive, 85 \/ Gallatin Road and the lakeside beach \/ Watching the game from your brother\u2019s Jeep \/ Your smile, miles wide \/ And it was not an invitation \/ Should\u2019ve kissed you anyway \/ Should\u2019ve kissed you anyway \/ And it was not convenient, no \/ But your girlfriend was away \/ Should\u2019ve kissed you anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n In the bridge, what started as a sweet will-they-won\u2019t-they tale took a heartbreaking turn as Swift jumped forward in time: \u201cWhen I left school, I lost track of you \/ Abigail called me with the bad news \/ Goodbye.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt was not an invitation \/ But I flew home anyway \/ With so much left to say \/ It was not convenient, no \/ But I whispered at the grave \/ \u2018Should\u2019ve kissed you anyway.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n At the end, Swift skipped ahead once more, speaking in the present tense. \u201cMy advice is always ruin the friendship \/ Better that than regret it for all time,\u201d she sang. \u201cAlways answer the question \/ Better that than to ask it all your life.\u201d<\/p>\n You Might Also Like<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links.” When Taylor Swift released the track list for The Life of a Showgirl, there was one song that caught everyone\u2019s attention. Instantly, rumors started circling the internet about who \u201cRuin the Friendship\u201d could be about, whether she’d be referencing Blake […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2065951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[25078,315982,23084],"class_list":["post-2065950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-blake-lively","tag-getty-images","tag-taylor-swift"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/No-Ruin-the-Friendship-Is-Not-About-Who-You-Thought.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2065950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2065952,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065950\/revisions\/2065952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2065951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2065950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2065950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2065950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}