Is Taylor Swift’s ‘Is It Over Now?’ About Harry Styles?

Taylor Swift and Harry Styles by no means exit of favor.

Swift, 33, dropped her a lot anticipated 1989 (Taylor’s Version) on Friday, October 27 — the fourth of her six deliberate re-recordings. In addition to all 19 authentic tracks, the album options 5 additional never-before-heard songs “from the vault” — together with a couple of that followers assume might trace at her cut up from Styles, 29, whom she dated prior 1989’s preliminary 2014 launch.

In “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Verison),” a synthy pop ballad, Swift seems to be singing in regards to the problem of transferring on from a previous relationship when each persons are dwelling within the public eye.

“And did you think I didn’t see you? / There were flashin’ lights,” Swift sings, seemingly about her ex being photographed with a brand new accomplice. “At least I had the decency / To keep my nights out of sight / Only rumors ’bout my hips and thighs /And my whispered sighs,” she provides.

Swift goes on to name the previous flame a “lying traitor” earlier than accusing them of looking in “every model’s bed for something greater.” (Styles was linked to Kendall Jenner from 2013 to 2014.) Elsewhere within the tune, Swift calls the ex’s “new girl” her “clone” and makes quips about their mutual incapacity to let the romance go.

“Let’s fast forward to three hundred awkward blind dates later,” she croons. “If she’s got blue eyes, I surmise that you’ll probably date her.”

Swift’s greatest tease that the tune may very well be about Styles, nevertheless, comes within the second verse, the place she paints an image of previous reminiscences. “When you lost control / Red blood, white snow,” she recollects. The photos appear to parallel “Out of the Woods” off of 1989’s authentic tracklist, during which Swift recounts the ordeal, singing, “Remember when you hit the brakes too soon/Twenty stitches in a hospital room/When you started crying, Baby, I did too.”

Swift revealed in a 2014 Rolling Stone interview that she and an ex had been as soon as concerned in a snowmobile accident. “You know what I’ve found works even better than an NDA?” she instructed the outlet. “Looking someone in the eye and saying, ‘Please don’t tell anyone about this.” Styles, in the meantime, was photographed with a bandage on his chin simply days after the incident befell.

Also within the second verse, Swift remembers a “blue dress on a boat.” In 2013, Swift and Styles reportedly known as it quits throughout a getaway to the Virgin Islands. “They had a fight,” a supply solely instructed Us Weekly on the time, including that Styles “said something he shouldn’t have.” At the time, Swift was photographed leaving the holiday on a ship whereas trying forlorn and donning a now-famous royal blue gown.

Swift and Styles had been first linked in late 2012 earlier than their cut up in January 2013. While their whirlwind romance appeared transient, 1989 — which was launched in October 2014 and marked Swift’s official transition into the pop world — is believed by followers to be largely impressed by her relationship with Styles, with tracks like “Out of the Woods,” “Style” and extra.

Swift has by no means formally confirmed any of her music is in regards to the former One Direction singer — as she famously doesn’t “name names” with regards to her songwriting — however she has closely teased the concept. After 1989 hit cabinets, she instructed Rolling Stone that “Style” ought to have been titled, “I’m Not Even Sorry.’” In December 2014, she opened up about her inspiration behind the observe throughout an look on The Morning Show.

“‘Style’ is actually bout those relationships that are never really done,” she quipped of the tongue-in-cheek observe. “You always kind of have that one person who you feel like might interrupt your wedding and be like, ‘Don’t do it, we’re not over yet.’ I think everybody has that one person who kind of floats in and out of their life and the narrative is never truly over.”

Styles, for his half, shared his ideas on probably being the topic of Swift’s songs throughout a 2014 interview with Google Hangout. “We always say that we write from personal experience, and I think everyone does. So, it would be hypocritical to say ‘Oh, you can’t write songs.’ And she’s really good, so, they’re good songs,” he mentioned of the 12-time Grammy winner. “I’m really lucky in that sense.”

While talking to Rolling Stone in 2017, he expanded on his ideas additional, telling the outlet, “I’m lucky if everything [we went through] helped create those songs. That’s what hits your heart. That’s the stuff that’s hardest to say, and it’s the stuff I talk least about. That’s the part that’s about the two people.”

Swift and Styles have seemingly remained on good phrases since their cut up — usually seen chatting it up at awards reveals through the years — and have each gone on to this point different A-list stars. Swift was linked to Tom Hiddleston, Calvin Harris and Joe Alwyn earlier than transferring on with Travis Kelce earlier this yr. Styles, in the meantime, cut up from Olivia Wilde in November 2022 after practically two years of courting. In June, he sparked romance rumors with Taylor Russell after the twosome had been noticed collectively in London.