Plus, why it’s more of an ode to female friendship than love.
Drop everything now, and get out your best detective gear.
Would the song be about the Jane Austen classic,Emma?
Taylor Swift and Emma Stone at the ‘Easy A’ premiere in Los Angeles on Sept. 13, 2010.Kevin Winter/Getty Images
Would it be about Swift’s longtime friendEmma Stone?
PerhapsEmma Watson, ofHarry Potterfame?
Or maybe a random or fictional person named Emma?
Taylor Swift at the 2022 MTV VMAs red carpet; Emma Stone at the May 2021 Los Angeles premiere of ‘Cruella’.Jeff Kravitz/Getty; Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty
Let’s unpack it.
This could point to Stone in a number of ways.
Then there’s the “little miss sunshine” lyric.
(See the photo below for evidence.)
Then there’s the timing of it all.
In the original album’s liner notes, Swift wrote ofSpeak Now, “Say it to them.
Or say it to yourself in the mirror.
Say it in a letter you’ll never send or in a book millions might read someday.
She continued, “There is a time for silence.
There is a time waiting your turn.
I don’t think you should wait.
I think you should speak now.”
I’m learning,” she sings.
If something that pointed doesn’t exemplify the very idea behindSpeak Now, we don’t know what does.
