Some have theorized that “the last great american dynasty,” and its mention of a woman from St. Louis, is about Swift’s former BFF and rumored ex-girlfriend, Karlie Kloss, who was raised in St. Louis. There’s also this lyric, “Rebekah gave up on the Rhode Island set forever / flew in all her B*tch Pack friends from the city / filled the pool with champagne and swam with the big names,” inspired by St. Louis-born debutante Rebekah Harkness, who married the heir to Standard Oil.
The distance that had grown between them was clear when Karlie captioned a picture of herself on Instagram: ‘Swish Swish,’ the title of Katy Perry’s diss track aimed at Taylor.