Taylor Swift Talks Love, Album

Taylor Swift says her new album will be about an “absolute crash-and-burn heartbreak,” prompting speculation the latest subject of her songwriting skills may be her short-lived 2010 crush on Jake Gyllenhaal. Swift, 22, whose “Dear John” song was seen as a bitter ode to ex-boyfriend John Mayer, told Vogue magazine that she was working on her fourth album, and is currently single. The singer, who famously wears her heart on her songwriter’s sleeve, said that writing about past loves is a way to ease the pain. “There’s just been this earth-shattering, not recent, but absolute crash-and-burn heartbreak and that will turn out to be what the next album is about,” she told Vogue in a cover story for its February issue. “The only way that I can feel better about myself – pull myself out of that awful pain of losing someone – is writing songs about it to get some sort of clarity,” she said. Swift dated Gyllenhaal for about three months in late 2010 before their relationship ended suddenly around the Christmas holidays that year. Tabloids claimed that Gyllenhaal ended the relationship because he was unhappy at the attention the couple was generating.