Taylor Swift Reacts to Zoë Kravitz’s Snake-Gate Incident at Her House

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Snakes and stones could never break Taylor Swift and Zoë Kravitz’s friendship. 

The singer, known as “Caught Stealing,” recently shared a funny story about when she and her mother, Lisa Bonet, accidentally trapped her mother’s pet Burmese python, Orpheus, inside a wall at her house. This happened while they were staying with her during the Los Angeles wildfires in January, and she explained how she discovered the unusual situation.

Taylor Swift started a story by saying everyone has that one friend who experiences something unbelievable. She recalled getting a call from her head of security who was trying to explain a bizarre situation. Her immediate reaction was to ask, ‘What snake?’ because she hadn’t known a snake was involved at all. She shared this anecdote during an appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers on October 8th.

As Seth Meyers observed, “If someone warned you a snake was loose, but you didn’t even realize there *was* a snake…”

And Taylor agreed, emphasizing, “Did not know there was a snake.”

The woman, 35, said she wasn’t particularly shocked by the strange story, explaining, “I just listened and thought, ‘Okay, that’s… interesting.’”

When Taylor learned that Zoë and her mom had accidentally damaged a unique, old-fashioned cupboard and left splinters all over the bathroom floor while trying to secure their Burmese python—which had disappeared inside the wall—she playfully remarked that the scene looked like a dramatic photoshoot by renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz.

Honestly, I was completely blown away! Taylor said it was the most stylish thing she’d ever witnessed – Zoë was rocking a full The Row outfit. Taylor joked it looked like a YSL campaign, it sounded *so* good! She was gutted she missed seeing it in person, and honestly, same!

Taylor, however, couldn’t help but playfully tease her close friend, someone she’s known since 2016.

Taylor explained, ‘I’m used to her—she wouldn’t tell me about a problem until it was already solved.’ She continued, ‘I know her so well that I started counting down the days on my phone, predicting when it would be fixed. It turned out to be about three weeks, which is exactly how long the cupboard repair took.’

Oh my gosh, when Zoë *finally* told Taylor the whole story, she said it was so frustrating dealing with Taylor’s team! Apparently, Zoë kept saying, ‘I specifically told them *not* to tell you!’ It’s just… the drama! I can’t even imagine how Zoë felt, trying to get the message across and being ignored. It’s all so wild!

To which Taylor lovingly told her pal, “‘Dude I’ve been laughing about this for three weeks.’”

Fans following the “Snakegate” drama know there’s no lingering animosity between the celebrities involved. Zoë told *TopMob News* in August that she hasn’t visited Taylor’s Los Angeles home since the incident, but playfully clarified it wasn’t due to a lack of invitation—she simply hasn’t been in Los Angeles.

Taylor’s recent work with Zoë resulted in a fantastic photoshoot, but she’s often turned to songwriting based on her life experiences. Here’s a look at some of the celebrities who’ve inspired the ‘Opalite’ singer’s songwriting…

Before her song *The Life of a Showgirl*, Taylor Swift had only definitively written one song about her future husband, the Kansas City Chiefs player—aside from the updated version of “Karma” she performed on The Eras Tour. That song, “So High School,” was actually the tune the couple used for their engagement announcement on Instagram in August 2025.

Fans have been speculating that the song “The Alchemy,” from Taylor Swift’s *The Tortured Poets Department*, is about Travis Kelce, pointing to the football and high school references within it. However, the song “So High School” contains a much clearer hint with the lines: “Are you going to marry, kiss or kill me? / It’s just a game but really / I’m betting on all three, for us two.”

In a 2016 game of “Marry, Kiss, Kill” with AfterBuzzTV, Travis said he would choose to kiss Taylor Swift over Ariana Grande and Katy Perry.

Travis loves the song, and even though he’s a big Taylor Swift fan and knows the competition is fierce, he says it’s his absolute favorite.

Honestly, when I heard he was talking to *Access Hollywood* in 2024, I wasn’t surprised at all! He admitted he might be a little biased, and as a longtime fan, I totally get it – he always keeps it real!

Though brief, Taylor Swift seems to have written several songs on her album, *The Tortured Poets Department*, about her short-term relationship with The 1975’s lead singer in 2023. This includes the album’s title track, which also mentions their friend and frequent collaborator, Jack Antonoff.

Fans speculate that songs like “Fortnight,” “Down Bad,” and “But Daddy I Love Him” are also about Matty Healy, with the last one seemingly addressing the criticism Taylor faced due to their relationship.

Matty Healy told paparazzi, according to Entertainment Tonight in 2024, that he hadn’t heard the album, but thought it was likely good. However, his mother, Denise Welch, publicly criticized the idea that the songs were about his breakup.

The *Loose Woman* cohost explained on *Watch What Happens Live* that someone was told not to talk about something, but then went on to write an entire album inspired by it.

For more on Matty’s place in Taylor’s catalogue, read here. 

Throughout their six-year relationship, Taylor Swift wrote multiple songs inspired by and even created with Joe Alwyn. Soon after they officially started dating in 2016, she released the album *Reputation*, featuring songs clearly about him, including “Call It What You Want,” “Dress,” and “King of My Heart.”

Taylor Swift’s album *Lover* features the song “Cornelia Street,” named after the New York City apartment she shared during the beginning of her relationship. Fans also think other songs are about her romance with Joe Alwyn, including “invisible string” from *folklore*, and *Midnights’* “Sweet Nothing” and its bonus track “You’re Losing Me.” Producer Jack Antonoff confirmed that “You’re Losing Me” was actually written two years before Taylor and Joe broke up in 2023.

Joe is among the collaborators who write songs with Taylor, and he’s credited on tracks from her albums *folklore* and *evermore*. He uses the pen name William Bowery on songs like “betty,” “champagne problems,” and “exile.”

“It was really the most accidental thing to happen in lockdown,” the Brutalist alum told GQ of the cowriting credits in 2022. “It was just messing around on a piano and singing badly and being overheard and then thinking, you know, what if we tried to get to the end of it together?”

For more songs inspired by Joe, see here.

After a controversial phone call leaked in 2016—which was later found to be altered—between Kanye West and Taylor Swift regarding a lyric about her on his album *The Life of Pablo*, Taylor has responded to the couple with pointed remarks on several occasions.

In 2024, Taylor Swift released the song “thanK you aIMee,” which many believe is about Kim Kardashian, as the capitalized letters in the title spell out her name. She also hinted at Kanye West on another version of the same album, changing the capitalization to spell out “YE”.

Before *TTPD*, Taylor Swift also subtly referenced the conflict between Kim Kardashian and Kanye West over his song “Famous.” In her song “Mad Woman” on the album *folklore*, she sings lyrics that seem to allude to the situation, including, “Women like hunting witches too / Doing your dirtiest work for you / It’s obvious that wanting me dead has really brought you two together.”

Taylor Swift’s first single from her *Reputation* album, “Look What You Made Me Do,” referenced the very public drama she was experiencing. Her song “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” also touched on this theme, describing a friendship that had fallen apart after an attempt to fix it.

Taylor Swift’s connection to Kanye West musically stems from the infamous 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, when he interrupted her acceptance speech. She addressed the incident in her song “Innocent” from the album *Speak Now*, offering forgiveness. West received significant criticism for his actions, even from then-President Barack Obama.

You know, I’ve always believed in self-compassion, and Taylor really nails that in his new song. He’s essentially saying it’s okay to still be figuring things out, even when you’re a grown adult! He reflects on being 32 at the VMAs and acknowledges that we’re all constantly evolving. It’s a powerful message – your past doesn’t define you, and you’re allowed to still be ‘innocent,’ to still be learning and growing, no matter your age. It’s a beautiful reminder to be kind to yourself.

For a thorough dive into Taylor’s beef with Kanye, see here.

Though their romance was brief, lasting only a summer in 2016, Taylor Swift’s relationship with actor Tom Hiddleston seemingly inspired several songs. Fans widely believe tracks like “Getaway Car” and “High Infidelity” detail the overlap between her relationship with Hiddleston and her previous relationship with Calvin Harris, which ended in June 2016 after a year together – the same month rumors began about her and Tom.

 

Both songs explore the idea that a relationship built on even a small betrayal is destined to fail.

Everyone assumes Taylor Swift wrote “Getaway Car” about her relationships with Calvin Harris and Tom Hiddleston, but none of them have confirmed what inspired the song.

Despite Taylor Swift denying she wrote songs about her relationship with the former One Direction member, many fans believe there are hidden references to the “Watermelon Sugar” singer throughout her album *1989*.

Fans widely believe the songs “Style” and “Out of the Woods,” along with the bonus track “Wonderland,” are about Harry Styles. The reference to a “Cheshire cat smile” in “Wonderland” particularly led many to connect the song to his hometown of Holmes Chapel in Cheshire, England.

 

The 1989 song “Is It Over Now?,” originally released as a vault track, clearly captures the moment Taylor realized her relationship with Harry was finished.

She references the well-known January 2013 photo taken after her and her partner reportedly split while singing, ‘Blue dress on a boat.’ She then adds, ‘Your new girl is my clone,’ implying a striking resemblance between herself and her partner’s new girlfriend.

In the song “Now That We Don’t Talk,” she revisits their failed vacation and playfully criticizes Harry’s musical preferences with the lines, “I don’t have to pretend I like acid rock / Or that I’d enjoy being on a huge yacht.”

Taylor dated several other celebrities from Britain after Harry, but he was her first British boyfriend. Because London is mentioned in some of her earlier songs, like “Come Back, Be Here” and “Message in a Bottle” from the album *Red*, many people believe those songs are also about Harry.

Taylor Swift didn’t come up with the ideas behind her 1989 album all on her own. Many fans think the song “Bad Blood” is about Katy Perry, as Taylor hinted to Rolling Stone in 2014 that it was inspired by another female singer who attempted to ruin her concert tour.

Okay, so looking back, it was *so* clear to me. I remember thinking, ‘Wow, she’s officially the enemy!’ It wasn’t even about a boyfriend or some silly love triangle, honestly. It was way bigger than that – it was all about the business side of things. Some of my dancers actually left to work on *her* tour, and that’s when I realized it wasn’t just a misunderstanding. It was a real rivalry!

However, Taylor maintained she penned the song simply to get some feelings off her chest. 

She told *Rolling Stone* she didn’t want to start rumors. Her goal was for people to relate the story to times they’d felt betrayed personally.

However, the song eventually sparked a public conflict. The day after an article in *Rolling Stone* came out, Katy posted on X, warning people to be careful of someone pretending to be innocent, comparing them to Regina George from the movie *Mean Girls*.

The singers resolved their differences in 2019, and Katy Perry later made a brief appearance in Taylor Swift’s music video for “You Need to Calm Down.”

Taylor Swift also enjoys writing fanfiction. Before her album Red came out, she met Ethel Kennedy while dating her grandson, Conor Kennedy. Inspired by their relationship, Taylor wrote the song “Starlight,” imagining a romantic date night between Ethel and her late husband.

 

Taylor Swift explained that she wrote the song ‘Starlight’ after seeing a photo of Ethel and Bobby Kennedy as teenagers. She didn’t know the story behind the picture, but it gave her the impression they were having a wonderful time, so she created a song imagining what that night might have been like.

In response to the nod, Ethel told the Cape Cod Times, “She is just sensational, inside and out.”

As a huge Taylor Swift fan, I’ve always believed ‘All Too Well’ – especially the 10-minute version – is about Jake Gyllenhaal. It just *fits*! The song is full of details that line up with their brief 2010 romance, like all the autumn imagery and references to his sister’s house. And who could forget the scarf? It’s well known that he and Maggie Gyllenhaal exchanged a striped Gucci scarf during their time together, and that detail is right there in the song. It all adds up!

Taylor Swift also seemed to reference her relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal in songs like “The Last Time,” “We Are Never Getting Back Together,” and “I Bet You Think About Me” (a song from her *Red* vault). These songs mention details about his preferences in music and his privileged upbringing.

Although many people think the album *Red* was largely based on Jake, he later denied any connection to it after the 2021 re-release.

“It’s about her relationship with her fans,” he told Esquire in 2022. “It is her expression.”

As a huge Taylor fan, I remember when she talked about how ‘All Too Well’ really evolved beyond just being about a breakup. She agreed with Jake’s point that it took on a much bigger meaning over time, and I totally get that – it’s become so much more than just a song about what happened between them.

She explained on *Good Morning America* in 2021 that what surprised her most was how quickly fans embraced the song. They spontaneously decided it was their favorite and, within the first six months of the *Red* album’s release, declared it the most important song on the record.

Many fans believe Taylor Swift’s song “The Manuscript” from *The Tortured Poets Department* references the effect her song “All Too Well” had on her relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal.

When Taylor was nineteen, a significant part of her heart belonged to the musician behind the song “Gravity.” It’s believed this relationship fueled some of her songs on the *Speak Now* album, including “Dear John” and “The Story of Us,” which she has said were both about the same person.

In 2010, she told *USA Today* that ‘The Story of Us’ was inspired by a chance encounter with an ex-boyfriend at an awards show. They were seated nearby, and she felt an intense connection. She wanted to ask him if the situation was as painful for him as it was for her, but she couldn’t bring herself to speak, as they both seemed to be protecting themselves emotionally.

Although Taylor Swift now claims she no longer hides clues about her personal life in her music, fans discovered a secret message in the original album notes for her song “Story of Us.” The notes, which Taylor used to write for her fans, spelled out “CMT Awards” – an event both she and John Mayer attended in 2010.

As for where “Dear John” is concerned? John himself had to respond to the brazen shots fired. 

“I didn’t think I’d done anything to warrant that treatment,” the musician said in a 2012 interview with *Rolling Stone*. “I’ve learned to take responsibility for my actions, but this felt unfair and was a really hurtful thing for her to do.”

Taylor Swift has moved past the conflicts of her youth. While she acknowledges past drama, she’s now focused on the positive aspects of her experiences. Before performing her song “Dear John” during The Eras Tour in 2023, she told her fans she’s no longer concerned with what happened when she was 19, except for the inspiration it gave her for her music and the good memories created along the way.

As she put it, “I do not care. We’ve all grown up. We’re good.”

Taylor Swift wrote the song “Back to December” about her brief romance with actor Taylor Lautner in 2009. The lyrics hint at a specific moment – a “September night” when he saw her crying, an event that occurred at the 2009 VMAs. She also included a subtle tribute to him in the song’s album notes, simply writing “Tay.”

Before Taylor Swift rereleased her album *Speak Now* in 2023, actor Taylor Lautner, known for his role in *Sharkboy and Lava Girl*, playfully mentioned his involvement with the songs. He told *Today* that he felt secure about it all.

Some fans believe Taylor Swift’s songs “Today Was a Fairytale” and “I Can See You” (in which she appeared in the music video) were also inspired by her *Valentine’s Day* co-star. They point to the lyrics in “I Can See You” where she sings about maintaining a professional relationship, which then gave way to a romance.

 

Surprisingly, Taylor Swift used to be nervous around Owl City’s lead singer! Her song “Enchanted” is actually about the night they met, and she secretly included the word “wonderstruck” in the lyrics as a nod to him – he’d used the same word in an email he sent her.

In a 2010 interview with Yahoo, Taylor described meeting him as feeling incredibly anxious, specifically hoping he wasn’t already in love with someone else.

A year after Taylor’s song came out, Adam replied by recording his own version. He added new lyrics, singing, “Oh Taylor, I was just as enchanted to meet you.”

He explained in a note on his band’s website that he’s naturally shy and finds it easier to express himself through music. He recorded a song as a response to a track on their latest record, adding, “You’re like a princess straight out of a fairytale.”

 

Taylor Swift used to be very open about the real-life inspiration behind her songs, particularly those written after her breakup with Joe Jonas. Shortly after their split in 2008, she quickly wrote “Forever & Always” and added it to her album *Fearless*. This timing coincided with a memorable appearance on *Ellen*, where she publicly criticized Jonas for ending their relationship with a very short phone call lasting only 25 to 27 seconds.

Taylor Swift’s 2010 album, *Speak Now*, featured two songs seemingly inspired by Joe Jonas. One was the emotional ballad “Last Kiss,” which specifically mentions July 9th – the date she saw the Jonas Brothers perform while they were still dating.

Taylor Swift also included the song “Better Than Revenge” on the album, which was a response to the Jonas Brothers’ song “Much Better.” That song contained a clear dig at Swift with the line, “I’m done with superstars and all the tears on her guitar.”

As Taylor Swift’s music evolved, she began referencing her relationship with Joe Alwyn more positively. Songs like “Holy Ground” on her *Red* album and “Invisible String” from *folklore* hinted at their connection, with the latter reflecting on how they later became friends. In “Invisible String,” she sings about overcoming past heartbreak, famously noting, “Cold was the steel of my axe to grind for the boys who broke my heart,” and how she’s now moved on, even sending gifts to their children.

Okay, so when Taylor dropped *Fearless (Taylor’s Version)*, she totally threw a little shade at Joe Jonas *again* with “Mr. Perfectly Fine.” Can you believe she wrote that song practically right after they broke up in 2008?! And the best part? Joe’s *exwife, Sophie Turner, basically confirmed it was about him! She shared the song on social media and was all like, “It’s NOT a bop,” which, honestly, was hilarious and just *proved* it was about him. I swear, Taylor is a lyrical genius and I live for these Easter eggs!

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