Taylor Swift's dating history: A look at her nine relationships over the years

Time of India

10-05-2025

It's
's world, and we just live in it!
Even after creating music for twenty years,
Taylor
Swift just never goes out of style. From writing verses about the inspirations of her own life to thousands of fans chanting her lines without missing a beat, Taylor Swift has created an indelible mark in the music industry.
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Aside from making headlines for breaking records through music, Taylor has been in the spotlight for her romance.
In the recent turn of events, when Taylor Swift started dating an NFL player, the viewership hiked, and the fans wanted to see her celebrate in the VIP box. Since the debut, Swift hasn't shied away from making the individuals stand in the corner and think about what they did. With her versatile discography, Swift has expressed her views about the situation or the person from her life, and the fans are obsessed with it.
So, hey, let's take a look at the inspirations behind a couple of songs, because she is the 'Taylor Swift,' and they are just her romances!
Travis Kelce
Started with the friendship bracelets, now they run towards each other, leaving the trophies behind.
In July 2023, Kelce, the aforementioned NFL star, revealed his disappointment with not being able to give his phone number through a friendship bracelet during Taylor's Eras Tour concert in Kansas City.
In December, Taylor confirmed her relationship with the NFL player by stating, 'This all started when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I thought was metal as hell.'
Later, when Taylor released her 11th studio album, 'The Tortured Poets Department,' the fans accurately guessed a couple of songs, such as 'So High School' and 'The Alchemy,' that hinted towards the relationship.
Furthermore, Swifties have heard 'Karma is the guy on the Chiefs' at the concert and 'My Boyfriend, Travis' at the VMAS, which attested to the romantic trope-like relationship between Kelce and Swift.
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Joe Alwyn
From the 'London Boy' to the 'So Long, London,' Joe Alwyn's romance turned grey.
The ex-boyfriend who was in a relationship with Swift for six years, and has been referenced in four of the singer's albums, in addition to creating two other albums with her under the name of
William Bowery
.
If you were to ask a
Swiftie
about the timeline, they would probably give you the exact time and place of the meet-cute. However, the relationship wasn't official until May 2017, and they broke up in April 2023 during the Eras Tour.
In a June 2024 magazine interview with The Sunday Times' Style magazine, Alwyn revealed that it had been a hard split. 'As everyone knows, we together—both of us, mutually—decided to keep the more private details of our relationship private. It was never something to commodify, and I see no reason to change that now,' Joe said.
'And, look, this is also a little over a year ago now, and I feel fortunate to be in a great place in my life, professionally and personally,' he stated, and thus the king of Swift's heart became the loss of her life.
While the exact reason has never been mentioned by any of them, some crumbs were disclosed in Swift's albums.
Tom Hiddleston
During the MET Gala 2016, the 'Avengers' alum met the 'Endgame' singer, where one of the attendees shot video of them dancing together at the party. They were spotted with each other during various occasions and dinner dates; however, the couple called it quits.
Additionally, the theorists suggest that Hiddleston helped her escape the relationship with Calvin Harris in the song 'Getaway Car' in her album 'Reputation.'
'The ties were black / the lies were white / I wanted to leave him, I needed a reason,' the lyrics state.
In a 2017 interview with GQ, Hiddleston stated, 'Taylor is an amazing woman. She's generous and kind and lovely, and we had the best time. Of course it was real,' brushing off the rumours of the relationship being a PR stunt.
Calvin Harris
Talk about Calvin Harris, this is what you came for!
Calvin Harris and Taylor Swift met in 2015 and were introduced by Ellie Goulding.
Eventually, they started dating a month afterwards, which was confirmed by Harris posting a pic of a one-year anniversary cake on his Instagram. However, the duo split up in May 2016.
Harry Styles
Harry and Taylor might not have gone out of the woods in 2010, but fast forward to 300 take-out coffees later, they have maintained an amicable relationship.
Harry Styles and Taylor Swift, the pop icons, had a short-lived relationship; however, it is considered to be one of the most iconic relationships.
In 2012, the whispers and speculations began when the Swift was spotted wearing the 'Two Ghosts' singer's iconic paper airplane necklace. After being spotted at multiple occasions, the couple called it quits and were rumored to have broken up in February 2013, when she sang 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' in an English accent during the Grammy Awards.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Loving him was 'Red,' but it was 'All Too Well.'
If anyone might've forgotten about the relationship between Jake Gyllenhaal and Taylor Swift, she made us remember back with a pure legendary 10-minute version in 'Taylor's Version' of it a decade later, that topped the charts and has been a fan favourite.
They met via Gwyneth Paltrow at the dinner party at her home, and were spotted at multiple occasions. In fact, they made headlines for having an age gap, when Taylor was 20 and Jake was 29, which have been infamously referenced in many of her songs.
They were spotted together in October 2010 at the backstage of Saturday Night Live shoot, and in December 2010, when they were quite cuddly during a stroll in winter. However, the source confirmed in January 2011 that they had separated a month ago, according to People.
John Mayer
John Mayer wrote a tweet in March 2009 that Taylor 'Would've, Could've, Should've' collaborated with him - and they did. When Swift was 18 and John was 31, they collaborated on 'Half of My Heart.'
Swift and 'Dear John' performed together at the Fearless Tour in Los Angeles in May 2009. In the following months, they made a couple of public appearances, which escalated the rumours. In January 2010, John and Taylor were spotted at a public date, until the rumours of them breaking up started surfacing.
'Dear John, I see it all now, it was wrong/ Don't you think nineteen's too young/ To be played by your dark, twisted games when I loved you so?/ I should've known,' she said in the lyrics. However, the dear John did not take it well. 'I never got an email. I never got a phone call. I was really caught off guard, and it really humiliated me at a time when I'd already been dressed down. I will say as a songwriter that I think it's kind of cheap songwriting,' he said to Rolling Stone.
Taylor Lautner
When Swift goes back to December, she can see Lautner all the time!
The Taylors started dating each other after they starred in the film 'Valentine's Day', which was released in 2010. In October 2009, they kind of made it public with their appearances at the hockey game. However, in December 2009, the insider pointed out that it was never official to begin with. 'The media made way more out of it than it is. They went out on a few dates and realised this was just not going anywhere,' according to People.
In 2023, Taylor Lautner and Joey King made an appearance at the Eras Tour concert and even starred in the music video during the release of 'Speak Now (Taylor's Version).'
Joe Jonas
Taylor Swift's first high-profile relationship was with none other than Mr. Perfectly Fine, Joe Jonas. Since the debut, Taylor Swift has always maintained an 'easter eggs' relationship with the fans, and he was one of the first whose songs caused a dramatic shift in the Swiftverse.
While it is better than any other revenge, Swift pulled a chaotic move and chose to put Jonas on blast at the Ellen DeGeneres show in 2009, which is still getting commended.
'Someday, I'm gonna find somebody really, really, really great, who's right for me … When I find that person that is right for me, he'll be wonderful, and when I look at that person, I'm not even gonna be able to remember the boy who broke up with me over the phone in 25 seconds when I was 18,' she said, and made everyone to drop their jaws.
Jonas and Swift's relationship was brief in 2008, and it has been theorised that she has mentioned it in many of her albums.