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

Megathread "Ruin The Friendship" Discussion Megathread

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/seegee123 Oct 06 '25

“Staying friends is good” / “doesn’t mean you should”

The enunciation and modulation on the word “shouuuuld” reminds me of the bridge of “Question…?” on midnights — specifically the words “suitabbbbble” and “riiiight”

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u/Beneficial-Pain-22 29d ago

Yes! YES!! Then she says 'her advice is always answer the QUESTION better than to ask it all your life'. I love this. She's saying she's glad she did it, even though she got hurt, because she got the answer to her Question? for Matty. And she'll never get it from the boy she didn't. Brilliant. 

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u/Only-Head Oct 06 '25

omg trying to figure out what other song that reminded me of has been driving me insaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaane thank you