“Blank Space” is one of the only songs I’ve ever written that I started out writing as a complete joke. I think, as a songwriter, you have to be pretty well-aware of who you are as a person, but then I think you also have to have one eye on what people think of you and kind of what the general perception is of you out in the world. And, in the last couple of years, I noticed there has been sort of a pretty sensational fictionalization of my personal life. You know, they’ve kind of drawn on this profile of this girl who is a serial dater, jet-setting around with all her boyfriends and she can get them, but she can’t keep them because she’s too emotional and she’s needy. Then, she gets her heart broken because they leave, so she goes to her evil lair and writes songs about it for revenge. It’s just kind of this very complex profile of a person. I got to thinking about it and I started to think about how interesting that character is. If she were a real person who had all these qualities and attributes, what song would she write? And I’m pretty sure it would sound a little like this.

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During the tracking week ending November 11, 2023, the song debuted at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100. The original version of the song originally peaked at #1.