During an appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in 2008, Swift confirmed that the “Fearless” track “Forever & Always” was about her short-lived romance with Jonas. She wrote the song as their relationship was on the decline and got a last-minute recording session so she could add it to the album. They eventually broke up a month before the album was released. During that interview, Swift told the TV host, “You know what? It’s like when I find that person that is right for me and he’ll be wonderful, and when I look at that person, I’m not even going to be able to remember the boy who broke up with me over the phone in 25 seconds when I was 18.”
In 2019, Swift returned to “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and said she regretted putting Jonas on blast during that episode 11 years earlier. “That was too much. Yeah, that was too much,” she said. “I was 18. We laugh about it now. That was mouthy, yeah, teenage stuff there.”
