On “The Late Show” Tuesday, Taylor Swift insisted that her 2008 song “Hey Stephen” was not about Colbert, even though she seemed to know a lot about the comedian.
And don’t be fooled by its Colbert-oriented vision board for the song; she says the tune was actually all about another Stephen.
‘You don’t have to flatter yourself. My song ‘Hey Stephen’ is no more about you than my album ‘1989’ is about the year you spent waiting tables on the lunch shift at Scoozi, an Italian restaurant in north Chicago that actually has a really incredible slice of pizza, ” said Swift.
But Colbert didn’t have it.
“No matter how much you insist that ‘Hey Stephen’ is not about me, I keep getting this strong feeling that it is,” he said.
Swift noted that this was something he had to work on himself.