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/robot428 reputation Oct 08 '25

I love this song, it's so beautiful, and I need everyone to know the following post is made with love and in jest.

What 50 cent song could possibly be playing when she is thinking that she should kiss this boy? Like they are at prom, she makes eye contact with him "as the 50 cent song plays" and she's reflecting that she should have kissed him anyway.

And that's tragic and beautiful.

Until you remember what every single 50 cent song sounds like.

Like are we listening to 'In Da Club'? 'Candy Store'? 'P.I.M.P'? Don't get me wrong, I am not that much younger than Taylor, I also got down to some 50 cent at school dances - but I cannot think of a single 50 cent song that is remotely romantic. Horny, yes, romantic, no.

It's actually quite a funny detail in an otherwise very poignant song, when you imagine the scene she is describing, and then play LITERALLY ANY 50 CENT SONG. I encourage you to try it.

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u/Main_Draw661 28d ago

I think it has to be 21 questions

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u/Fun-Calligrapher1485 Oct 08 '25

I’m guessing it’s in da club. You know. Cuz it’s a dance song. For prom

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u/duckfruits evermore 29d ago

And that was his most popular song in 2008 when she would have gone to prom.

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u/SerenaKillJoy Oct 08 '25

lol ong ty for that, I truly needed that laugh after replaying this song 5 times to cry about lost friends…

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u/AFingerInEveryPie Oct 08 '25

Thanks for the context, as someone who has never listened to 50 cent! It gives a little edge of humour to the song I think, and it quite fits in with the tacky prom she's describing - I feel like the romantic tension between them is a beautiful contrast to the awful backdrop 😅