Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner Has a Question for Taylor Swift

Can I ask you a question (about Hemingway)?

Can I ask you a question (about Hemingway)? , Zauner shared a drunken moment where she met Swift at a bar during a Grammys after-party. Obviously, Swift was ordering a Vodka Diet Coke, and Zauner felt compelled to ask her an important question that has been plaguing both BookTok and SwiftTok.

An author and Hemingway fan herself, Zauner asked Swift about a possible literary reference in her song “

,” but Swift’s response left her with more questions than answers. “I’ve been reading a lot of Hemmingway,” Zauner said to moderator Kiley Reid as she reenacted the moment. “In that song ‘invisible string,’ you say,

Isn’t it just so pretty to think, is that a Hemingway reference? And she just goes, Okay, English major!