"I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern"
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The line also functions as brand maintenance. Swift’s songwriting is famously specific, full of names-you’re-not-supposed-to-say and details that invite forensic listening. That specificity creates the illusion that she’s telling you everything. This quote pushes back: even she can’t fully rationalize the engine behind the stories. It’s a way of reclaiming privacy without sounding guarded. She doesn’t say, “Stop asking.” She says, “You can’t solve it.”
Culturally, it lands in the post-oversharing era where celebrities are expected to be radically transparent and then punished for what they reveal. Swift is arguing for the legitimacy of contradiction: she can build a career on diaristic intimacy and still insist that attraction isn’t a thesis statement. “I don’t think I have a pattern” isn’t naïveté; it’s a refusal to let romantic choice be reduced to content strategy or pathology. In a world obsessed with red flags, she’s defending the messy, non-algorithmic part of being human.
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| Topic | Love |
|---|---|
| Source | Help us find the source |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Swift, Taylor. (n.d.). I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-believe-when-it-comes-to-love-theres-something-1939/
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Swift, Taylor. "I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern." FixQuotes. Accessed February 3, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-believe-when-it-comes-to-love-theres-something-1939/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-believe-when-it-comes-to-love-theres-something-1939/. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.







