Taylor Swift sings revenge against Mayer

John Mayer joins the ranks of men thought to be targeted by country pop singer Taylor Swift in her album Speak Now.

LOS ANGELES: Singer John Mayer on Tuesday joined Twilight actor Taylor Lautner in the ranks of men thought to be targeted by country pop singer Taylor Swift in her upcoming album Speak Now.

Joe Jonas and Kanye West also appear to feature in what is shaping up to be an unusually forthright commentary on men who have broken, or messed with the heart of the 20-year-old singer.

Swift, whose Grammy-winning album Fearless was the biggest selling record of 2009, has said each song on Speak Now is “a different confession to a different person.”

Individual songs are being released weekly on iTunes and Swift has given sneak peeks of others on webcasts in a massive promotional push for the album.

“Dear John” is widely seen as being aimed at Mayer, 33, with whom Swift had a brief relationship about a year ago. The lyrics include lines like, “Don’t you think I was too young to be messed with”, and “Don’t you think nineteen’s too young/To be played/By your dark, twisted games/When I loved you so.”

When asked if the song was about Mayer, who has a reputation as a ladies’ man, Swift told People magazine, “A lot of times when people’s relationships end, they write an e-mail to that person and say everything that they wish they would have said. A lot of times they don’t push send.”

“This was a tough one to write,” she said, “and I guess putting it on the album was pushing send.”

Swift’s track “Back to December” is thought to be an apology to Lautner, who dated Swift in late 2009 during the making of the 2010 film “Valentine’s Day”. The pair broke up amicably in December.

“The person I wrote this song for deserves this. This is about a person who was incredible to me -- just perfect to me in a relationship -- and I was really careless with him,” she told E! News.

Swift’s relationship with Joe Jonas of boy band The Jonas Brothers, is rumored to be the subject of another album track. “Better than Revenge” is thought to be aimed at the young actor Jonas pursued after dumping Swift.

“Mean”, released as a single this week, appears to take aim at critics who slammed Swift’s shaky vocal performance at the 2010 Grammy Awards and at other live shows last year.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 21^st, 2010.