Say what you want about her voice, but Taylor Swift knows how to date. And date. And date. Every few weeks, her curls are gracing another tabloid cover because she’s been spotted having coffee with another guy. The girl knows how to get it.
And how to write songs about it. So will her new boyfriend, Conor Kennedy, be immortalized in a break-up song soon? Can this kid, barely 18 and living with his parents, hold up against her five most famous exes? Let’s see.
**The Boys:**
JOHN MAYER, 34
Songs Written About Him: “Dear John”
JAKE GYLLENHAAL, 31
Songs Written About Him: Has escaped thus far, but will he escape her new album, _Red_?
CORY MONTEITH, 30
Songs Written About Him: “Mine”
JOE JONAS, 23
Songs Written About Him: “Forever & Always,” “Last Kiss” and “Better Than Revenge”
TAYLOR LAUTNER, 20
Songs Written About Him: “Back to December,” “The Story of Us”
CONOR KENNEDY, 18
Songs Written About Him: None so far, but apparently Swift has already written a song about the Kennedys after meeting his family, according to a Kennedy family member in an interview with ABC News.
**The rankings:**
Each boy receives a score between 1 (worst) and 6 (best) per category.
**Attractiveness.**
MAYER 1
You know you don’t really like him, despite his soulful singing. His face should have “douchebag” tattooed on it, and that ruins any bit of attractiveness remaining.
GYLLENHAAL 4
Swift and I both seem to love blue-eyed boys — and Gyllenhaal’s are pretty piercing. Think about looking into those over dinner and dessert. But looks do fade … and Gyllenhaal _is_ already 31.
MONTEITH 3
He’s 6’3″ and barely looks out of college. He also has a dopey grin and great hair. Yet, he’s 30. And that was getting a little old for T. Swift.
JONAS 2
Joe Jonas is the second-cutest Jonas brother, but even that can’t save him when he’s stacked up next to TAYLOR LAUTNER’S ABS.
LAUTNER 5
Have you seen “Abduction”? Really? Or the first five minutes of any Twilight movie (let’s be honest)? Try to tear yourself away from Lautner’s body for just a second to check out that cute face.
KENNEDY 6
He easily has the best hair out of the group. It’s floppy, curly and cute. It’s like he’s Harry Styles with a famous surname.
**Best Facial Hair.**
MAYER 1
One word for that scruff: ew. He likes to rock an “awkward mustache,” which looks both uncomfortable and unseemly.
GYLLENHAAL 6
None of these boys have facial hair quite like Gyllenhaal. He has a whole beard going on here. Maybe it’s because, at 31, he’s had years to grow it out?
MONTEITH 2
Since most of his time is spent playing boyish Finn on Glee, Monteith rarely seems to be anything but clean-shaven. When he does attempt to grow out some facial hair, it just looks like he forgot to shave for a week.
JONAS 5
If you ignore the photos of him wearing fake black glasses, the beard-goatee-mustache combination is working. It makes you forget he was in a boy band once upon a time.
LAUTNER 4
It might be tough, but if you stop looking at Lautner’s abs — lol, you can’t — you can sometimes see him rocking the chinstrap. On him, it’s less lazy and more too-busy-to-shave-today-sorry.
KENNEDY 3
Is he old enough to shave? Kennedy looks perfectly clean-shaven in every photo with Swift. This might be a good thing given that scruff is not a Kennedy family trait.
**Net Worth. (because her own $80 million is never enough)**
MAYER 5 (tie)
The Grammy-winner has an estimated $40 million net worth, according to Celebrity Net Worth.
GYLLENHAAL 6
$65 million. Enough said.
MONTEITH 1
$1 million. TV doesn’t pay the big bucks.
JONAS 3
$18 million thanks to CDs, concert tickets and a short-lived TV show on Disney Channel.
LAUTNER 5 (tie)
$40 million. He was paid a combined $25 million just for both parts of “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn.”
KENNEDY 2 + 50 for his last name
He’s worth $10 million and after his mother’s recent suicide, he has been named executor of the estate. So someone is trusting him with quite a lot.
**Awkwardness in the relationship. (1 for most awkward)**
MAYER 2
He has dated half of Hollywood.
GYLLENHAAL 1
He dumped her via text.
MONTEITH 6
They just didn’t work out.
JONAS 3
He dumped her in a “27-second phone call.”
LAUTNER 4
They’re both named Taylor. How confusing is that?
KENNEDY 5
He’s a senior in high school and has to be back at boarding school the same day as the VMAs, where Swift is performing.
**What’s in the future?**
MAYER 1
No. Just no. If it’s true that “We’re Never Ever Getting Back Together” was written with Mayer in mind (rumor!), Swift makes it pretty clear that there isn’t a future for them.
GYLLENHAAL 3
Who goes back to a guy who breaks up via text? Not Taylor Swift. But the eyes? Hmm.
MONTEITH 2
He’s dating Lea Michele. Not happening.
JONAS 4 (tie)
While Jonas went on the radio to claim that “We’re Never Ever Getting Back Together” is not about him, he wants to be friends with Swift, allegedly.
LAUTNER 4 (tie)
I like T-squared, but there’s already one Taylor Lautner out there. A Taylor Swift Lautner is not something the world needs.
KENNEDY 5
Swift was looking at a Cape Cod house next door to the Kennedy compound (not creepy, right?), and was starstruck by getting to meet the Kennedy clan. He’s already had breakfast with her parents.
GRAND TOTALS:
MAYER 10
GYLLENHAAL 20
MONTEITH 15
JONAS 18
LAUTNER 22
KENNEDY 72
The somewhat scientific analysis of Swift’s boyfriends proves that Kennedy wins by a landslide. Mostly because he received 50 points for having the Kennedy last name. Does this mean they’ll overcome the awkwardness of him still stuck in high school? Maybe.
If not, expect songs about the habit of Kennedy men cheating on their significant others all over _Red_, her new album, out Oct. 22.