Is Taylor Swift hinting at Blake Lively with 'Ruin the Friendship'? Here's what the lyrics say

Taylor Swift has dropped her 12th studio album, ‘The Life of a Showgirl,’ and the poetic tracks are making everyone groove and drawing conclusions at the same time. When the 35-year-old singer announced the track list on her fiancé’s podcast, fans were quick enough to predict the links and the underlying meaning behind the titles. After deliberate thinking, the sixth song, ‘Ruin the Friendship,’ made the eagle-eyed fans think that the song was connected to someone who allegedly ruined their friendship with the singer, Blake Lively. However, after learning the lyrics – it’s safe to assume that the song is not about the ‘It Ends with Us’ star.In the album released on October 3, 2025, Swift introduced a new track, ‘Ruin the Friendship,’ leaning towards a missed opportunity with a boy that should’ve been worth ruining the friendship for. The renewed version of her hit ‘You Belong With Me’ talks about her high school self, when she had a crush on a boy with a girlfriend. “My advice is always ruin the friendship / Better that than regret it for all time / Should've kissed you anyway / And my advice is always answer the question / Better that than to ask it all your life,” Swift sings in her track.Contract to the belief, another track, ‘Cancelled!’ has been on the layers of Swift talking about her friendships with the people who are ‘cancelled’ by the masses, like herself. As the songs were written way before the singer was dragged into the whole legal web of Justin Baldoni vs Blake Lively lawsuit, the songs differed from the popular assumption of the singer signalling any hints in her public statement about the mess, according to Page Six. While the involved artists have not addressed the songs or their roots, fans continue to connect the dots and figure out the life of Taylor Swift.