Susan Lang, the mom of Jeffrey Lang, is talking out after Taylor Swift’s new track “Spoil the Friendship” sparked hypothesis that it’s about her late son.
“Anytime Swift would write a track, Jeffrey Lang was the primary to listen to it,” Susan advised The Tennessean in October 2025. So when she first listened to “Spoil the Friendship” from Swift’s twelfth studio album The Lifetime of a Showgirl, she instantly acknowledged the story being advised. “That in any case this time, she hasn’t forgotten about him,” Susan shared. “She’s conserving his identify alive.”
The track, a standout monitor on the brand new album, finds Swift revisiting her teenage years in Center Tennessee. She displays on a friendship she needs had turned romantic, singing about “glistening grass from September rain” and driving “85 / Gallatin Street and the lakeside seashore / Watching the sport out of your brother’s jeep / Your smile miles vast.” Within the refrain, she confesses that she ought to have kissed her good friend, regardless that there “was not an invite.”
Though Jeffrey isn’t talked about by identify, followers rapidly started to attach the dots — and Susan agrees it’s about him. Taylor and Jeffrey grew up collectively in Hendersonville, and their bond was particular.
“They had been actually good pals. That’s uncommon as of late. They frolicked at her home lots. They had been at all times joking round with one another,” Susan recalled to the outlet. She even added that she wasn’t positive if Jeffrey ever felt the identical means romantically towards the now-global famous person, however the friendship was simple.
Tragically, Jeffrey died out of the blue in November 2010 at age 21, simply days after Swift launched her album Converse Now. On the 2010 BMI Awards in Nashville, the place Swift was honored as Nation Songwriter of the 12 months, she publicly thanked Jeffrey and spoke about his demise. In “Spoil the Friendship,” Swift recounts listening to the information from her shut good friend Abigail Anderson Berard: “Goodbye / And we’ll by no means know why,” she sings, adopted by the heartbreaking line, “However I whispered on the grave, Ought to’ve kissed you anyway.”
Listening to the track for the primary time introduced again a wave of feelings for Susan Lang. Her quick intuition was to achieve out to Taylor to precise her gratitude. “Her first thought was that she wished she may contact Swift to thank her for the track,” the article famous.
