As well as being one of the music industry's most successful young stars, Taylor Swift is also known as a serial dater after having brief romances with high-profile stars such as John Mayer and Jake Gyllenhaal, so it is no surprise a lot of her songs are about past relationships.

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Swift brands critics as "sexist" who try to find out about her personal life

The 24 year-old songstress regularly receives negative criticism because she bases her lyrics around failed romances, and there are several media reports that claim songs on her new album '1989,' are aimed at the singer's brief relationship with One Direction's Harry Styles in 2013.

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But Swift doesn't understand why there such an effort from the public to attach one of her ex-boyfriends with a song, and brands this purely speculative and "sexist".

In a recent interview with Australia's 2DayFM, the Grammy Award winner took aim at critics complaining about her song writing style, and their determination to find out who she is talking about.

"My first album came out when I was 16, so I would write about my life as I saw it, as I felt it, and then what happens is as you get more successful, which you're lucky if that happens, you have more and more people paying attention to what you're doing and you've been doing it the same way your entire career as a songwriter, but all of a sudden the perspective has changed," she explained.

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Swift is rather puzzled why people try and "play detective" about her personal life, and reiterates that she has a "really strict personal policy that I never name names," so nobody will find out too much anyway.

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Swift will never name anyone's name

"You're going to have people who are gonna say, 'Oh you know, like she just writes songs about her ex-boyfriends,' and I think, frankly, that's just a very sexist angle to take," she said. "No one says that about Ed Sheeran. No one says it about Bruno Mars. They're all writing about their exes, their current girlfriends, their love life and no one raises a red flag there."