Taylor Swift is well-known for taking real-life events -- especially breakups and other affairs of the heart -- and turning them into mega-hit songs. If you do something to Swift, you've got a pretty good chance of ending up on the radio and, often, not in a flattering way.
That's how Swift's smash "Picture To Burn" came about, according to the pop star's childhood ex-BFF Chelsea Alford, Cambio reports. The 24-year-old Alford recently revealed the whole romance-gone-wrong story to the Daily Mail about how her now-husband Jordan broke up with Swift for her.
"They dated in freshman year, but then after that, girl code, once you date an ex-boyfriend you're not friends anymore," Alford explained. "'Picture To Burn' is about him because he's always had big old trucks and stuff."
The girl revealed that when the song came out in 2006, it became a guessing game amongst Swift's Nashville schoolmates as to who else she was writing about on her self-titled album. "There were other songs on there about people that we talked about more [sic] probably, like 'Tears On My Guitar' [is] about the guy she never dated. We were like 'that's a little odd.'"
Alford reveals she and Swift patched up their differences a long ago. They were, after all, 14 years old when the romantic brouhaha went down.
So, back then, did Alford and other friends of Swift realize she was a star on the rise? Not hardly. The childhood friend admitted, "nobody thought she was actually going to go anywhere."
