If there are two things Taylor Swift loves in the world, it's her friends and leaving Easter eggs for Swifties to investigate upcoming projects, and fans' latest song theory combines the two kind of love. On June 5, the 12-time Grammy Award winner announced the tracklist for "Speak Now" (Tyler's version) , and the title of one of the new tracks, "From the Vault," caught people's attention. Swifties believe When Emma Falls in Love could be about Emma Stone, or even about her past relationship with Andrew Garfield.
Stone told Vanity Fair in June that the two have been friends for more than a decade and that they met when "we were 17 and 18," dating back to 2006. The two were frequently photographed together in 2009 and 2010, when Swift was working on "Speak Now" and she attended the premiere of Stone's film "Easy A." . At the 2011 Teen Choice Awards, the Oscar winner presented Swift with a surfboard and she called Stone her "sister" on the red carpet. "Selena Gomez and Emma Stone are like sisters to me," she said. "They can predict my thoughts."
Fans on Twitter remember that Swift shared playful banter with Stone when Stone was on Twitter in 2009, proving the strength of their friendship during the recording of "Speak Now."
If the song is indeed about Stone, fans have speculated that it could have been inspired by her romance with Garfield due to the timing. In 2009, Stone split from singer Teddy Geiger, and the following year she was linked to Succession star Kieran Culkin. However, Stone also began filming The Amazing Spider-Man with Garfield in 2010, and they dated for nearly four years before splitting in 2015. Theoretically, "When Emma Falls in Love" could be about any of these relationships, or not at all, focusing solely on Swift's close friends.
If she needed more proof, Swift is no stranger to writing about friends' relationships, having penned the bonus song "You Are In Love" in 1989 about her close friend Lena Dunham ) and frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff, which ended in 2018. Title track "Speak Now" was also inspired by an incident at a friend's wedding, rather than her own experience. Of course, it's possible that "When Emma" has nothing to do with Stone, with some fans speculating that she might be paying homage to Jane Austen's novel "Emma."
Although the song became popular in the early 2010s, the pair's friendship has continued throughout the past decade. Stone recently attended the opening night of Swift's Eras tour, which she spoke to Vanity Fair about. "I'm lucky because we've been friends for a long time... so she reached out to me, which was really nice because I knew these tickets were impossible to get," she said. "She's a great friend. She blows my mind. I mean, the amount of stamina it takes to perform 44 songs in three and a half hours and keep the audience super energized - I've never seen anything like it. ”
