Do People Not Want Taylor Swift to Be Happy for Some Reason?

Calvin Harris split rumors are getting more aggressive and that's just a damn shame

By Natalie Finn Oct 12, 2015 10:20 PMTags
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Taylor Swift finally seems to have found a suitable partner—successful, witty, worldly, mature (or a good six years older than her at least) and, perhaps best of all, someone who's actually taller than the leggy star in heels.

And now that the 5-foot-10 beauty and Calvin Harris have been together for nearly eight months, surely the next step is...

Suing tabloids?

That's what Harris vowed to do, anyway, in light of the least flattering split rumor yet and Swift favorited his tweet, because that's where these two are at the moment. They've reached the level that almost all celebrity couples have to traverse at some point, the level you either climb past or risk being stuck on forever.

Congratulations, Taylor and Calvin, you've reached the Plagued by Breakup Rumors level of your relationship! (If we remember our Dante correctly, that was the 14th circle of hell..?)

Actually, we're surprised that the anti-shippers let them alone for this long, considering the significance of this would-be breakup would only be compounded by the fact that one half of the couple is Taylor Swift. The proverbial hourglass was flipped from day one.

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But while everyone's a skeptic for the first few weeks of ubiquitous sightings (celebs can have casual dates in settings that look like the travel mag pics you've ripped out and put on your vision board), they did a pretty good job of putting the naysayers in their place. There was public PDA; Calvin has hung out with Taylor's friends, presumably at times that were 99-percent-girl, 1-percent-Harris ; he's totally had her back with regard to big-picture issues such as when Taylor took on Apple Music; and he has said that he's "insanely happy" with her. And he gets along with the cats.

Always a good sign.

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So why the split rumors? Why now? Is it only because they haven't been photographed together in a while?

While a freshly scorned Taylor has resulted in some of the best millennial breakup tunes ever and singing about the cold realities of young love that isn't meant to be won her an Album of the Year Grammy, that doesn't mean people would rather her be single and miserable than coupled and happy... does it?

And Taylor isn't one of those people... is she?

Let's just go ahead and rule out Taylor as a culprit, though self-sabotage can be a real thing. She has talked way too much about how in love she was with her single life and how any guy could possibly fit into her life at the moment to make us believe for a second that she wasn't totally ready to start dating again if the right guy came along. She's in love with love and all of its mysteries, and that's part of why her fans love her.

They also love her, however, because her albums make her sound like one of them, an ordinary girl who's nursing her post-breakup wounds and having a hard time saying no to yet another go-round with a guy who's already proved himself not worthy.

And for someone who maintains as close a relationship as she does with her fans (as close as a mega-celebrity can safely get in this day and age, anyway), it can't be easy for Taylor to balance the part of her that's all about squads and girl power from the one who just wants it to work out for a change.

Not that she should feel pressured to hide her romantic inclinations, of course, but Taylor at least seems to still be doing a super-human job of being everything to everyone. Since there's no way that anyone can sustain that level of perfection for any significant length of time, however, here's hoping that she and Calvin Harris as a couple can get the respect that any two people who are in it for the right reasons duly deserve.

The world is simply going to need to have faith that Happy Taylor will be just as there for them as Heartbroken Taylor has always been.

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