Taylor Swift Sheds Light on “My Boy Breaks All His Favorite Toys” After Ex’s Comments

Taylor Swift has revealed the meaning behind her “The Tortured Poets Department” track “My Boy Breaks All His Favorite Toys” as fans speculate about whom it was written.

The global superstar, 34, said in a breakdown of the song for Amazon Music that it’s a metaphor for a rusted relationship someone is yearning to bring back to its days of being shiny and new.

The song takes place from the “perspective of a child’s toy, being somebody’s favorite toy until they break you and then don’t want to play with you anymore,” she explained.

Taylor Swift performing
Taylor Swift revealed the meaning behind her “The Tortured Poets Department” track “My Boy Breaks All His Favorite Toys” during a track-by-track session with Amazon Music.Getty Images for TAS Rights Management

Taylor Swift performing
She said it’s a metaphor that is from the “perspective of a child’s toy, being somebody’s favorite toy until they break you and then don’t want to play with you anymore.”Getty Images for TAS Rights Management

Taylor Swift performing
She said the metaphor aligns with how many relationships work.Getty Images for TAS Rights Management

Taylor Swift performing
It’s not known which relationship of Swift’s the song describes.Getty Images for TAS Rights Management

“Which is how a lot of us are in relationships where we are so valued by a person in the beginning, and then all of the sudden, they break us or they devalue us in their mind,” Swift noted.

“We’re still clinging on to ‘No no, no. You should’ve seen them the first time they saw me. They’ll come back to that. They’ll get back to that.’”

She concluded, “So it’s kind of like a song about denial really so that you could live in this world where there’s still hope for a toxic, broken relationship.”

Matty Healy performing
Fans, however, are convinced that Swift wrote several songs about Matty Healy for “TTPD.”Getty Images

Matty Healy performing
He claimed earlier this week that he hasn’t listened “to that much” of the album.Getty Images

Taylor Swift and Matty Healy walking
The pair dated between May and June 2023.TheImageDirect.com

In the song’s chorus, the “Midnights” singer croons, “My boy only breaks his favorite toys /
I’m queen of sand castles he destroys / Cause it fit too right / Puzzle pieces in the dead of night / Should’ve known it was a matter of time.”

Unlike some of her other “TTPD” poetry, the track doesn’t necessarily point to a specific relationship, so fans can’t quite tell if it’s about her most recent exes Joe Alwyn and Matty Healy, or someone else.

Healy, whom Swift dated between May and June 2023 and was rumored to have had a fling with a decade prior, claimed on Wednesday that he hasn’t heard the record-breaking album.

“I haven’t really listened to that much of it but I’m sure it’s good,” the 1975 frontman told cameras as he walked through Los Angeles.

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