Taylor Swift shared her thoughts on fans attempting to figure out who her songs are about. Swift, 36, opened up to The New York Times on Tuesday, April 28, about fan speculation on her songs as part of the publication's "30 Greatest Living American Songwriters" ranking. As she got candid about the "intimate" aspect of her songwriting, Swift admitted that some of her fans take dissecting her music to an "extreme" level. "I have to know that there's certain things that we have as a tradition between me and my fans," Swift explained. "They love for an emotional song to be Track 5 [on an album].