When Taylor Swift launched “When Emma Falls in Love” previous this yr, lovers surmised that the monitor used to be about her good friend Emma Stone — and the actress continues to refuse to verify or deny this principle.
“You have to ask her,” Stone, 35, responded right through an look on The Graham Norton Display, which aired within the U.Okay. on Sunday, December 31, when host Graham Norton puzzled whether or not the theory held any weight.
This isn’t the primary time the Curse actress, who’s an established buddy of Swift, 34, have been requested to weigh in at the principle. On the Deficient Issues film premiere previous this month, Stone performed coy with the similar reaction to the query posed through Leisure Weekly. (Swift used to be later noticed supporting Stone on the tournament.)
The monitor, an advantage “From the Vault” track off of Swift’s Discuss Now (Taylor’s Model) album, has had lovers questioning since its July free up whether or not it’s about Stone as a number of lyrics appear to reference the actress.
Within the first verse, Swift sings, “When Emma falls in love, she calls up her mom / Jokes about the ways that this one could go wrong. She waits and takes her time / ‘Cause Little Miss Sunshine always thinks it’s gonna rain.”
Listeners speculated that the “little miss sunshine” lyric used to be a nod to Stone’s iconic Simple A scene the place she sang Natasha Bedingfield’s “Pocketful of Sunshine.”
Within the refrain, Swift sings, “To tell you the truth, sometimes I wish I was her,” which led listeners to indicate to a 2011 interview the place Swift admitted she would wish to be Stone “for a day.”
“She’s one of my really, really good friends and she’s so funny,” Swift gushed on the time, including, “If I could be that funny for a day that would be amazing, so I would be Emma.”
Lovers additionally puzzled whether or not the lyrics have been in connection with Stone’s ex Andrew Garfield or Kieran Culkin — or if the track isn’t about romance in any respect however a tribute to friendship. Whether or not or now not the monitor is encouraged through Stone, it’s transparent that she and Swift have maintained an in depth bond after first of all assembly in 2008 on the Younger Hollywood Awards.
“We just kept in touch ever since and became great friends,” Stone stated on Sunday.
Somewhere else within the interview, Stone admitted she’s been to a few of Swift’s Eras Excursion stops “so far,” and recalled looking at the live performance in Phoenix, Arizona.
“What was very special about the first night of her tour was I had no idea what to expect, obviously, because it was night one,” Stone stated, including that Swift labored along choreographer Mandy Moore for her excursion, whom Stone had up to now labored with right through Los angeles Los angeles Land. “It was a bunch of lovely things all come together, and it was incredible to see.”