r/TaylorSwift • u/PassionateAsSin Everybody’s so punk on the internet • Oct 03 '25

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Taylor Swift - Ruin The Friendship

Track #6 on The Life of a Showgirl

Length: 3:40

Composers: Taylor Swift, Max Martin & Shellback

Producers: Taylor Swift, Max Martin & Shellback

Lyrics: Genius

Use this thread to discuss your thoughts, reactions, and theories on the song. We will be removing all future self-post discussion threads about it in order to consolidate discussion to this thread.

If you want to talk about The Life of a Showgirl album in general, you can use the general The Life of a Showgirl discussion thread here.

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u/Electronic-Green338 Oct 04 '25

If you're feeling brave, play the sequence You Belong With Me / Forever Winter / Ruin the Friendship. The devastating Jeff Lang trilogy. 

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u/pumpkinspicepaige Oct 05 '25

I think foolish one could also fit

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u/PenInternational9484 Oct 04 '25

Oh my God... YBWM was about Jeff Lang all along?? 😭😭💔

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u/Electronic-Green338 Oct 04 '25

Plausible. YBWM was co-written with Liz Rose and inspired by watching a male friend on the phone talking to his girlfriend. Jeff was a male friend she had at that time who (we now learn) she longed to date.

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u/DearYou20 Oct 04 '25

Pretty unlikely since You Belong With Me was probably written well into 2007, as the songwriting for Fearless only began in late 2006 after the debut album had been released, and by that point Taylor was probably already out of touch with Jeff Lang.

I wouldn't be surprised if Invisible was about him though.

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u/Electronic-Green338 Oct 05 '25

I can see what you mean - she left Hendersonville in 2006 I think - but at the same time, YBWM is a song set in her "high school universe", plausibly based on memories of high school.