TAYLOR SWIFT says her new album will be about an “absolute crash-and-burn heartbreak,” prompting speculation in the media that the latest subject of her songwriting skills may be her short-lived 2010 crush on Jake Gyllenhaal.

    Swift, 22, whose “Dear John” song was seen as a bitter ode to ex-boyfriend John Mayer, told Vogue magazine that she was working on her fourth album, and is currently single.

    The country-pop crossover artist, who famously wears her heart on her songwriter’s sleeve, said writing about past loves is a way to ease the pain.

    “There’s just been this earth-shattering, not recent, but absolute crash-and-burn heartbreak and that will turn out to be what the next album is about,” she told Vogue in a cover story for its February edition.

    “The only way that I can feel better about myself — pull myself out of that awful pain of losing someone — is writing songs about it to get some sort of clarity,” she said.

    Swift dated “Brokeback Mountain” star Gyllenhaal for about three months in late 2010 before their much-photographed relationship ended suddenly around the Christmas holidays that year. U.S. celebrity magazines claimed that Gyllenhaal had ended the relationship because he was unhappy at the attention the couple was generating.

    Swift told Vogue she did not feel like dating at the moment. “I really have this great life right now, and I’m not sad and I’m not crying this Christmas, so I am really stoked about that.”

    (SD-Agencies)