Taylor Swift dropped a handful of never-before-heard songs with the release of her latest rerecorded album — and one track has fans wondering if it’s about Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield.
Swift, 33, debuted Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) on Friday, July 7. Along with updated versions of the original 16 songs, the songstress added six new bonus tracks including “When Emma Falls In Love,” a song that seemingly hints at Stone — who is a longtime friend of Swift.
“When Emma falls in love, she calls up her mom / Jokes about the ways that this one could go wrong,” Swift sings in the first verse. “She waits and takes her time / ‘Cause Little Miss Sunshine always thinks it’s gonna rain.”
As they began dissecting the lyrics, some listeners grew convinced that “little miss sunshine” referred to Stone’s memorable Easy A scene in which she sings along to Natasha Bedingfield‘s “Pocketful of Sunshine.”
Elsewhere in the new track, Swift sings: “Emma met a boy with eyes like a man / Turns out her heart fits right in the palm of his hand / Now he’ll be her shelter when it rains / Little does he know, his whole world’s about to change.”
While some fans have theorized that the boy in question might be Stone’s ex Kieran Culkin — the pair dated after working together on the 2009 movie Paper Man — others wondered whether the song is more focused on friendship than on romantic love.
“Well, she’s so New York when she’s in L.A. / She won’t lose herself in love the way that I did,” Swift sings in the bridge. “‘Cause she’ll call you out, she’ll put you in your place / When Emma falls in love, I’m learning.”
Stone’s most high-profile relationship, however, was with Garfield — which began after Swift wrote the track. The twosome met when they played Gwen Stacy and Peter Parker, respectively, in 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man. Sparks immediately flew, and their onscreen chemistry quickly turned…
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