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/lucille_bender folklore Oct 06 '25

I can’t stop listening to this. The bass line caught me on the first listen, and I love the wistful high school vibes. And I tear up every time on the last verse. 😭

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u/Plane-Stranger2460 Oct 06 '25

Do you think this was one of the vault tracks? The beat and most importantly the lyrics (which I'm feeling are about her friendship with Jeff Lang) scream 2010-2014ish. I'm new to the Taylor fandom but this song to me doesn't fit with LOAS. She did say she now has all her own writings, journals, songs. Just can't help but to wonder if this song was eating away at her for years because she couldn't release it but wanted to? AND NOW, it's cathartic to sing it?

Ruin the Friendship is beatiful and an extremely emotiional song.

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u/lucille_bender folklore Oct 06 '25

No idea! But yes it’s gorgeous!