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Hey “Dorothea,” you’re not the only song that Taylor Swift has written about her friendship with Selena Gomez. On the Friends Keep Secrets podcast by Benny Blanco, Lil Dicky, and Kristin Batalucco, Gomez explains that Swift wrote another song, “Family,” about their hopes and dreams as young women in the spotlight. The song “was over easily a decade ago,” she remembered. “Insinuating in the lyrics without quoting it, it was basically saying you have these amazing dreams, you want to be in movies. Like, ‘In every crowd I still see you.’ Then her part was like, ‘You believe in my stupid dreams like playing stadiums.’” Gomez then got emotional thinking about how their dreams came true. “Now, when I listen to that song, both of those things have happened for us,” she added, without realizing that she just shared there’s an unreleased Swift song in her music library. “And that’s really sweet because back then, she was just like, ‘I just wrote this song about us, and it was just like our story.’”
Swift and Gomez met as teenagers when they were each dating a Jonas brother, and now as adults, they’re both in relationships with men who are friends with Lil Dicky. But despite their successes, Gomez still remembers their time as kids in Hollywood. “When we talk about it we’re not like, ‘Look at this prosperity,’” she said. “It’s more so like, ‘This is so cool that you get it.’ It’s absolutely unbelievable to come from 17 years of friendship from multiple heartbreaks and love stories and fun stories in life.” Swift did give us some musical insight into their friendship with Evermore’s “Dorothea,” Gomez confirmed, to not much surprise, as it’s a song about a lifelong friendship with a starlet who’s from Texas and sells makeup. But let’s hear more about this “Family” song that has a recorded copy. If only Swift were still doing her Taylor’s Versions.
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