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Taylor Swift dropped her 12th album The Life of a Showgirl on Friday, Oct. 3<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
When she announced the track list in August, fans speculated that one song, “Ruin the Friendship,” is about Blake Lively<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
Instead, the song is about a high school crush<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s new album sets the record straight on one fan theory.<\/p>\n The pop superstar dropped her 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl<\/a>, on Friday, Oct. 3. After she teased the track list in August, fans theorized <\/a>on social media \u2014\u00a0based solely on the song title \u2014 that \u201cRuin the Friendship\u201d would be about her strained bond with Blake Lively<\/a>. (At the time in August, a source told PEOPLE that the longtime friends \u201caren\u2019t speaking\u201d<\/a> amid the actress\u2019s ongoing lawsuit<\/a> with It Ends with Us costar Justin Baldoni.)<\/p>\n Instead, the song explores the subjects of unrequited love and regret while telling the story of a high school crush with a tragic ending.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I left school I lost track of you \/ Abigail<\/a> called me with the bad news \/ Goodbye \/ And we\u2019ll never know why,\u201d Swift, 35, sings on the heart-wrenching song. \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 \u2026 My advice is always ruin the friendship \/ Better that than regret it \/ For all time.\u201d<\/p>\n Swift hasn\u2019t commented on the inspiration for the song, but there are parallels that point to her childhood friend Jeffrey Lang, who died at age 21 on Nov. 2, 2010. The pair attended Hendersonville High School together in Hendersonville, Tenn., before she left school to pursue her music career. Swift honored Lang days later at the BMI County Awards in Nashville on Nov. 10 of that year.<\/p>\n \u201cYesterday I sang at the funeral of one of my best friends, and he was 21, and I used to play my songs for him first,\u201d Swift said onstage at the time. \u201cSo I would like to thank Jeff Lang.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cRuin the Friendship\u201d is one of the more emotional tracks on The Life of a Showgirl, which Swift has said was inspired by her life behind the scenes of her record-smashing Eras Tour.<\/p>\n The album also alludes to her relationship with<\/a> Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, also 35, who proposed in August<\/a> after nearly two years of dating.<\/p>\n