If anyone wants to know about singer Taylor Swift’s life, all they have to do is listen to her songs. Most of her songs are said to be inspired by former boyfriends including John Mayer, Joe Jonas and Taylor Lautner, and these chartbusters provide an uncanny insight into each of these relationships.
Red, Swift’s latest album, is no different. The country pop singer, who is currently dating Conor Kennedy, son of Robert F Kennedy Jr., seems to have incorporated a lot of Kennedy-related passages in the lyrics of her latest songs.
For instance, "Starlight," has been inspired by Robert and Ethel Kennedy. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Swift explains: “I get a lot of style inspiration from the 1960s, so I'll go and look at black and white pictures, and look at [photos from the] '50s and '60s, and I came across this picture of these two kids dancing at a dance.
“It immediately made me think of like how much fun they must have had that night. It was back in the late '40s. I ended up reading underneath that it was Ethel Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy. And they were like 17 [Robert was born Nov. 20, 1925, Ethel on April 11, 1928].
“So I just kind of wrote that song from that place, not really knowing how they met or anything like that. And then her daughter Rory ended up coming to a show a couple weeks later and I told her about the song and she was like, you have to meet my mom. She would love to meet you. So that was kind of what that song was about.”
Similarly, “Treacherous” too is said to have references to the Kennedys. The lyrics “And I will follow you follow you home, follow you follow you home” seems to be an allusion either to Conor Kennedy or Ethel Kennedy, who stays just a stone’s throw away from the mansion that Swift is said to have bought recently in Cape Code, according to Vanity Fair.
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