Taylor Swift blasts speculation she is bisexual in 1989 album prologue
Taylor Swift has finally shut down the long-running fan theory that she secretly dated some of her female friends.
In the written prologue for her re-released 1989 album, the Shake It Off singer addressed the long-standing "Gaylor" fan theory, which speculates that she secretly dated her close pals Karlie Kloss and Dianna Agron.
Taylor reflected on the time she wrote the original 2014 album and explained that she wanted to "silence" the jokes about her dating life after becoming "the target of s**t shaming".
"It became clear to me that for me there was no such thing as casual dating, or even having a male friend who you platonically hang out with," she continued. "If I was seen with him, it was assumed I was sleeping with him. And so I swore off hanging out with guys, dating, flirting, or anything that could be weaponized against me by a culture that claimed to believe in liberating women but consistently treated me with the harsh moral codes of the Victorian era."
Addressing the "Gaylor" speculation, she wrote, "Being a consummate optimist, I assumed I could fix this if I simply changed my behavior. I swore off dating and decided to focus only on myself, my music, my growth, and my female friendships. If I only hung out with my female friends, people couldn't sensationalize or sexualize that - right? I would learn later on that people could and people would."
Later in the prologue, the 33-year-old thanked the fans who didn't believe the theory and "knew that maybe a girl who surrounds herself with female friends in adulthood is making up for a lack of them in childhood".
1989 (Taylor's Version) is the singer's latest album re-release following Fearless, Red and Speak Now. Released on Friday, it features re-recorded versions of the original 16 tracks plus five "from the vault" additions titled S**t!, Say Don't Go, Now That We Don't Talk, Is It Over Now? and Suburban Legends.
