Before you call me a cynic for dismissing a sweet would-be love story between two popular young musicians, please consider that both of these kids are under the same record label, Universal Republic, that this story just happened to come out on Valentine’s Day, and that it involves songs they recorded for each other. It’s a tale so sickly sweet and so obviously planted that it deserves its own category on Snopes – “celebrity glurge.”

Anyway Taylor Swift has a song about some guy she met that she was hoping to date. It’s said to be about a guy named Adam Young, who is the lead singer of a band called “Owl City.” You probably know them from that cute “Fireflies” song that gets annoying when you’ve heard it for the twentieth time. Kind of like Taylor herself, who is facing overexposure with this latest stunt. Adam somehow figured out that Taylor’s song “Enchanted” is about him and he did his own version of the song and released it on his website on Valentine’s day.

Adam Young, an electro-pop musician from the band Owl City with the ubiquitous hit “Fireflies,” posted a gushing online message and song about the country star after figuring out that her song, “Enchanted,” is about likely about him.

Young writes that he decoded Swift’s song by stringing together the upper-case letters in the printed lyrics on her album and realizing they spell out “A-D-A-M.”

“I’m so tremendously honored that Taylor would write such an elegant song and thereby offer a gracious nod in my direction,” he writes on his band’s blog. “Needless to say, I was lost for words and utterly smitten. I couldn’t stop smiling.”

He reciprocates the gesture with his recorded interpretation of Swift’s “Enchanted,” writing:

“Everything about you is beautiful. You’re an immensely charming girl with a wonderful heart and more grace and elegance than I know how to describe. … I’m terribly sorry it’s taken me such a long time to reply but I figured Valentine’s Day was the perfect time to write this note to you and simply say. … I was enchanted to meet you too.”

Swift and Young have a friendship that dates back at least to September 2009 when Swift sent him a Tweet before one of his shows in New York. “If I was in town, I’d be there! Front row, super-fan style,” she wrote at the time.

A week later, Swift was spotted in the VIP balcony of Young’s sold-out Bowery Ballroom show, dancing and singing along to his 90-minute set. Backstage afterwards, they snapped a photo together and Young Tweeted, “Wow. Tonight was magical.”

According to M magazine, the feeling was mutual, but Swift put it in the song “Enchanted.”

“It was about this guy that I met in New York City, and I had talked to him on email before, but I had never met him,” Swift told the magazine in November 2010. “Meeting him, it was just this overwhelming feeling of, ‘I really hope that you’re not in love with somebody.’ And the whole entire way home, I just remember … sitting there thinking, am I ever gonna talk to this person again? It was that feeling of pining away for a romance that may never even happen.”

Neither rep offered comment. Swift is in Asia on the first leg of her sold-out “Speak Now” tour. Young’s sophomore album, All Things Bright and Beautiful, will be released on May 24.

[From People]

All you need to know about that story is in the last two lines plugging their latest ventures.

What’s next for them – a whirlwind romance and breakup followed by songs on each side chronicling their relationship? It’s a better idea for Taylor than dating Jake Gyllenhaal. In that relationship only Taylor was (presumably) capable of belting out an angst-ridden poem about the heartbreak that comes with seeing the end of your fake romance in the pages of US Weekly.

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