
The three songs "betty," "cardigan," and "august" tell that story, each sung from different perspectives (the boy James, his girlfriend Betty, and the girl he cheated with) at different times. (The couple has not revealed their new baby's name publicly.)Īnd others pointed out that there's a teenage love triangle vignette in the album, something Swift confirmed in a YouTube comment. Some fans think the music may be hinting Swift could be bisexual others think Betty may be the name of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds' third daughter, since Swift uses the names of Lively and Reynolds' other daughters, Inez and James, in the lyrics.

The song is told from a male perspective about a teenage boy attempting to apologize to Betty, whom he cheated on with someone else.

Of all the songs, fans have the most theories about "betty," which Swift wrote with William Bowery-which fans believe may be a pseudonym for Swift's boyfriend Joe Alwyn. Taylor Swift's folklore album contains 16 songs' worth of lyrics to analyze and speculate about, especially because Swift informed fans that the music is a blend of her own life experience and stories she's telling about other people and characters (some fictional).
