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From\u00a0Taylor Swift<\/strong><\/a> and Jake Gyllenhaal<\/strong> <\/a>to Britney Spears<\/strong> <\/a>and Justin Timberlake<\/strong><\/a>, Us Weekly<\/em> is revisiting the most famous song lyrics inspired by celebrity breakups.<\/p>\n Swift, for her part, has always been open about her writing about her ex-boyfriends. \u201cIf guys don\u2019t want me to write bad songs about them, they shouldn\u2019t do bad things,\u201d the Grammy winner infamously quipped in 2009.<\/p>\n Following high-profile romances with Gyllenhaal, Joe Jonas, Harry Styles, Calvin Harris, <\/strong><\/a>John Mayer<\/strong><\/a> and Tom Hiddleston,<\/strong><\/a> Swift settled down with boyfriend Joe Alwyn<\/strong><\/a>. As a result, she started finding inspiration from other people\u2019s relationships.<\/p>\n \u201cI found myself not only writing my own stories, but also writing about or from the perspective of people I\u2019ve never met, people I\u2019ve known, or those I wish I hadn\u2019t,\u201d Swift explained in the album notes of her eighth studio album, Folklore<\/em>, in 2020.<\/a> \u201cPicking up a pen was my way of escaping into fantasy, history and memory. I\u2019d told these stories to the best of my ability with all the love, wonder and whimsey they deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n However, in 2021, after rereleasing her 2012 album,\u00a0Red<\/i><\/a>, which was said to be inspired by her brief romance with Gyllenhaal, Swift made it clear that her albums are about her \u2014 not her exes. It\u2019s why the\u00a0Valentine\u2019s Day<\/i>\u00a0actress admitted in an interview with\u00a0Seth Meyers<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0at the time, \u201cI haven\u2019t thought about [my ex\u2019s] experience<\/a>, to be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n The \u201cWe Are Never Ever Getting Back Together\u201d songstress\u2019 bestie Selena Gomez,<\/strong><\/a> meanwhile, took a page from Swift\u2019s playbook in 2019, scoring her first No. 1 hit<\/a> with a song inspired by her on-again, off-again romance with Justin Bieber.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI gave my all and they all know it \/ Then you tore me down and now it\u2019s showing \/ In two months, you replaced us \/ Like it was easy,\u201d Gomez sings in \u201cLose You to Love Me,\u201d referring to Bieber\u2019s marriage to Hailey Bieber<\/strong><\/a> (n\u00e9e Baldwin).<\/p>\n