TayText app lets Taylor Swift answer all your messages

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Because the texters gonna text, text, text, text. Photo: David Shankbone/Wikipedia CC

In her songs, Taylor Swift always seems to have the perfect sassy, finger-snapping comeback — and now you can too, courtesy of the new TayText custom keyboard for iOS. Yes, really!

We guess SwiftKey was already taken as a name.

Created by five female Harvard Business School students, the 99-cent app packs more than 300 lyrics from more than 60 different songs, split into 11 categories such as “Into You,” “Missing You” and the all-important “Over You.”

The app presents the perfect lyric for any scenario and works with text messages as well as other social platforms like Tinder (where we’re guessing would-be romancers aren’t aware that failed courtships may end up as song fodder for new albums).

“Whether you love her or hate her, you can’t ignore her,” TayText CFO Kate Aitken says of Swift. “And there’s a zeitgeist quality to her music –- she’s really captured what it feels like to be young and living in this decade, so there’s pretty much a Taylor Swift lyric for everything.”

You can download the TayText keyboard from iTunes. It works with all iOS devices running iOS 8.

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