Exclusive: A Disgruntled Label Exec Spills the Beans About Taylor Swift's Insane-Sounding New Album

Big news: Young country-pop starlet Taylor Swift took a bit of time out from making the "Who me?" face to record another album. Red, out October 22, is about "relationships and breakups," according to Swift, and its first single is called (no shit) "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together." She's been coy about which one of her famous exes -- Jake Gyllenhaal, Joe Jonas, Taylor Lautner, John Mayer -- the song is about. The speculation is part of the fun!

But you don't have to have dated Swift; if you hurt Swift's feelings in any way, she will write a song about it. It's no surprise, then, that a good deal of Red's 16 tracks are about slights, beefs and squabbles. West Coast Sound recently spoke to a disgruntled rep from Swift's camp, who handed over an early partial tracklisting of the album and explained the genesis of the songs. We cannot vouch for the veracity of any of this.

Track one: "Pain Through the Windowpane"

Swift wrote this one about the final scene of Bridges of Madison County. "She's never seen the movie or read the book," says the rep. "But this is her attempt to rope in an older audience."

Track two: "Jake's Fake"

According to the disgruntled rep, Swift denies this is a song about Jake Gyllenhaal, and instead says she wrote it about a place called Jake's Famous Catfish in Portland, Oregon, after she was told they use imitation crab meat. "No one's buying it," the rep says. "There's a line in there about Donnie Darko, for Christ sake. No, you're right, Taylor. People will totally believe this is a song about time traveling seafood in the Pacific Northwest."

Track three: "Frag-rant"

The notoriously thin-skinned Swift has a fragrance out, Wonderstruck. In early meetings about the scent with its developers, her rep tells us, Swift described what she was going for. When one scientist cracked, "Sounds like we've got another Sex Panther on our hands," Swift cut the meeting short, headed to the studio, and "Frag-rant" was born.

Track four: "Taylor's Failure"

According to the rep, Swift claims this one's about NFL Hall of Fame linebacker and notorious cokehead Lawrence Taylor, and not ex-boyfriend Taylor Lautner. "She doesn't even know what team Lawrence played for or what number he wore," says the rep. "I suggested she throw in a line about Joe Theismann's leg and she looked at me like I'm the world's biggest fucking moron. Yeah, I'm the moron, and you wrote a song about Lawerence Taylor playing linebacker for Team Jacob. Get some more yes men, kid."

Track five: "Didn't Know I Loved You (Until I Realized I Hated You)"

"No idea about this one," the rep says. "It literally makes no sense."

Track six: "Holy Cost"

This, according to the rep, is Swift's attempt to step out of her box and write about the war between Israel and Palestine. "We really tried to get her to change the title, which, when sung in the chorus, sounds an awful lot like ... well, it's just pretty offensive."