TAYLOR, HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU

We live in a world which passively encourages girls to misread queues from guys and to become homewreckers. These messages are often conveyed in pop songs. Don’t get me wrong – I love Taylor Swift’s new track You Belong With Me. Perhaps even more than I adored Love Story (Pop Edit) and that was my guiltiest pleasure of 2008. But if I were to give the teen pop icon a bit of relationship advice, with a nod to He’s Just Not That Into You and The Rules Book, I’d have to tell her “Girlfriend, he’s just not that into you.”

On You Belong With Me, Swift obsesses over a male friend who she hangs out with. Well firstly, if a guy hangs out with you and doesn’t take initiative in making advances, he definitely isn’t interested. Swift goes on to sing how she is “Dreaming about the day when he’ll wake up and find/That what he’s looking for has been here the whole time”. I’m sorry, but in the real world men just don’t function this way. Nobody with an ounce of dignity should have to dream about someone realizing they have feelings for them. Men are simple. Either they have feelings or don’t have feelings for you. It shouldn’t be a guessing game and on the same token, feelings don’t just suddenly come out of nowhere. But who am I to tell someone what they can and can’t dream about? X

Swift goes on to commit even more flagrant violations against the rules of dating! This male friend is in a relationship with somebody else already we soon learn. It seems that he comes to her as a confidante with his relationship problems as she mentions that his girlfriend is “mad at him over something he said”. I'm by no means a relationship expert, but I know enough to say that two of the most fundamental rules in dating are: 1) staying away from men in relationships 2) not letting a guy go on about his ex. Even if you do manage successfully to conquer a guy’s heart, he is a strong candidate to stray from you if doesn’t have enough decency to end a bad relationship before pursuing a new one. Triple X

So there you have it, Taylor Swift. Great song, but whomever you wrote it to just wasn’t worth your while. But at least one good thing came out of it all. And I'm quite certain there are about a few million other guys who'd love to show you they can do better than this dud of a guy. What would the world be without delusion?

Taylor Swift’s 2010 North American Tour tickets are now on sale at Ticketmaster and she is slated to appear on the November 7, 2009 episode of Saturday Night Live.

Click here to view some great shots I got of Swift from her visit to Toronto this past January.