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Relationships

Infidelity

Appears in 7 songs

Guilty as Sin?
The Tortured Poets Department · 2024

Explores infidelity of the mind — lustful, sinful thoughts about someone who is not her partner, framed in heavy religious imagery.

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Is It Over Now? (TV)
1989 (Taylor's Version) · 2023

A vault track exploring the aftermath of a relationship clouded by suspected infidelity — the narrator interrogates whether the relationship was ever faithful.

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High Infidelity
Midnights · 2022

The title announces the theme directly — a song about confronting a partner's infidelity and the impossible question of whether to stay.

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illicit affairs
Folklore · 2020

A quiet, devastating portrait of a secret affair — shame, secrecy, and the particular damage of a relationship that cannot be acknowledged.

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Getaway Car
Reputation · 2017

Taylor positions herself as complicit in infidelity — she was the affair partner, and the relationship born in betrayal was always doomed.

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Better than Revenge
Speak Now · 2010

A retaliatory response to infidelity — another woman has stolen her partner, and Taylor's narrator turns the anger outward rather than inward.

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Should've Said No
Taylor Swift · 2006

Taylor confronts a partner who cheated and asks why they didn't resist the temptation — one of her earliest direct treatments of betrayal through infidelity.

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