Taylor Swift Reveals to Stephen Colbert Who ‘Hey Stephen’ Is Really About

variety.com:

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorFor more than a decade, Taylor Swift fans have been convinced that her song “Hey Stephen” is about Stephen Colbert… actually that’s not true at all, but it was the conceit for a bit on the late night host’s show Tuesday night that featured the singer.Using last week’s release of Swift’s re-recorded version of her 2009 album “Fearless” (which includes the song) as the peg, Colbert brought the singer onto the show via Zoom to address the question.

Swift played along by insisting the song is not about him, but then revealed a series of exceedingly detailed stan-level facts about his life.“No, Stephen, I first recorded that song in 2008.