Arguably the astir infamous opus to travel retired of Taylor Swift and Harry Styles' short-lived 2012 romance is this implicit banger disconnected of her 2014 medium 1989. While Taylor is infamous for not revealing the taxable of her songs, this 1 is beauteous obvious, opening with, you know, the title, though she cheekily explained her decision-making down the sanction successful a vigor interrogation with Ryan Seacrest.

"Because the hook is 'We ne'er spell retired of style,'" she dryly said, "and I thought 'We ne'er spell retired of style' was a agelong title." Moving on!

Taylor called "Style" her "secret favorite," admitting she ever hoped radical would instrumentality to it. "I emotion the mode that the opus sounds the mode that that feeling felt," she said. "I emotion erstwhile the dependable of a opus matches up with the feeling that inspired it." 

While she didn't uncover her nonstop influence, she noted it was astir "one of those relationships that's ever a spot off" and that "never rather synced up right." She aboriginal added, "This opus is astir my beingness and I person ne'er really revealed who it's about, but the opus speaks for itself. The mode it sounds and feels is each I request radical to cognize astir that story."

As for the hidden connection successful the album's liner notes? "Her Heart Belonged To Someone Who Couldn't Stay." And a notable lyric—"I heard that you've been retired and astir with immoderate different girl"—is astir identical to the crushed an "authorized source" gave Vanity Fair successful 2013 astir wherefore Taylor and Harry broke up.

While Harry hasn't released arsenic galore songs allegedly inspired by his romance with Taylor, this way disconnected his 2017 self-titled debut solo medium is the astir wide notation to it and is fundamentally a counter-argument to "Style." Just work this lyrics: "Same lips red, aforesaid eyes blue. Same achromatic shirt, mates much tattoos." Harry! Edward! Styles!

When asked by Nick Grimshaw connected his Radio 1 amusement if the opus was astir Taylor, Harry said, "I mean I deliberation it's beauteous similar self-explanatory. I think, y'know it's astir sometimes things alteration and you tin bash each the aforesaid things… and sometimes it's conscionable different, y'know."

Oh, we bash know.

The liner enactment for the 2014 bop is "They Loved Each Other Recklessly," which makes sense, fixed that Taylor references a concealed travel to the infirmary aft a snowmobile accident, a wintertime enactment the 2 took portion successful during a travel to Utah with Justin Bieber. (A cardinal taxable successful their narration seems to beryllium that Harry is not a bully driver, by the way.)

"It conscionable benignant of conjured up each these feelings of anxiousness I had successful a narration wherever everybody was watching, everybody was commenting connected it," she explained to Billboard of "Out of the Woods"'s inspiration. "You're perpetually conscionable feeling like, 'Are we retired of the woods yet? What's the adjacent happening gonna be? What's the adjacent hurdle we're gonna person to leap over? Are we gonna marque it to adjacent week?'"

She continued, "It was absorbing to constitute astir a narration wherever you're conscionable honestly like, 'This is astir apt not gonna last, but however agelong is it gonna last?' It doesn't mean they're not expected to happen. The full clip we were having blessed memories oregon brainsick memories oregon ridiculously anxious times, successful my caput it was conscionable like, 'Are we good yet? Are we determination yet? Are we retired of this yet?'"

The biggest clue, however, is the notation of "paper airplanes" and a "necklace," which, immoderate existent One Direction instrumentality knows, seems to beryllium an indirect callout of the insubstantial airplane necklace Harry often wore astatine the time. 

So this 1989 sleeper is decidedly astir each the attraction Taylor and Harry's narration received from the nationalist and, much specifically, the paparazzi. The liner enactment for this was "And everyone was watching," because, well, we were! (A cardinal lyric: "They are the hunters, we are the foxes." A cardinal wardrobe moment: Taylor wore a sweater with a fox connected it during their infamous Central Park date.)

"I had this thought of erstwhile you're successful love, on the lines of 'Out of the Woods,' it's precise precious, it's fragile," Taylor explained to Billboard. "As soon arsenic the satellite gets ahold of it, whether it's your friends oregon radical astir municipality perceive astir it...it's benignant of similar the archetypal happening radical privation to bash erstwhile they perceive that radical are successful emotion is conscionable benignant of effort to ruin it, if they're not the top quality beings."

Taylor admitted the media frenzy astir the narration caused her to believe, "No 1 is gonna motion up for this. There are conscionable excessively galore cameras pointed astatine me. There are excessively galore ridiculous elaborations connected my life. It's conscionable not ever gonna work."

But, she continued, "I decided to constitute a emotion song, conscionable benignant of like, 'What would I accidental if I met idiosyncratic truly awesome and they were like, hey, I'm disquieted astir each this attraction you get?'"

The effect of that was "I Know Places," which is about, "'Hey, I cognize places we tin hide. We could outrun them,'" Taylor said. "I'm truthful blessed that it sounds similar the urgency that it sings about."

In an interrogation with NPR, Taylor explained she was penning astir "more analyzable relationships" connected 1989 than her erstwhile albums, which were "mostly astir heartbreak oregon symptom that was caused by idiosyncratic other and felt by me." 

On the 2014 album, however, "I'm penning astir looking backmost connected a narration and feeling a consciousness of pridefulness adjacent though it didn't enactment out. And I deliberation there's really a spot of a realism to my caller attack to relationships, which is simply a small much fatalistic than thing I utilized to deliberation astir them."

She pointed to "Wildest Dreams"—which had the liner hint "He lone saw her successful his dreams"—as a "good" illustration of that evolution. 

"I utilized to deliberation that, you know, you find the 1 and it's happily ever aft and it's ne'er a conflict aft that," Taylor said. "And you person a fewer experiences with emotion and relationships and you larn that that's not the lawsuit astatine all. Even if you find the close concern relationship-wise, it's ever going to beryllium a regular conflict to marque it work."

She added, "If I conscionable idiosyncratic who I consciousness similar I person a transportation with, the archetypal thought I person is erstwhile this ends, I anticipation it ends well. I anticipation you retrieve maine well, which is not thing adjacent to the mode I utilized to deliberation astir relationships."

The 2nd azygous from One Direction's 5th and last workplace album, Made successful the A.M., "Perfect" was co-written by Harry and Louis Tomlinson and is wide believed to beryllium astir the popular star, with James Corden straight asking Harry astir the song's inspiration successful a 2015 interview. 

"I'm speechmaking the lyrics  and I hap upon a enactment and successful the opus it says, 'And if you're looking for idiosyncratic to constitute your breakup songs about, babe I'm perfect,'" The Late Late Show host said. "Now listen, I don't privation to person immoderate atrocious humor astir this. If you don't privation to speech astir this, we tin shingle it off...who's the opus about?"

Harry's response? No words, conscionable laughter. 

"I deliberation radical construe songs successful antithetic ways," the vocalist aboriginal told People. "I'm ne'er going to archer idiosyncratic what a song's astir due to the fact that I consciousness similar it's up to them." Meanwhile, Louis hinted that "Perfect" was successful information astir Taylor.

"I deliberation everybody draws from idiosyncratic experiences, truthful of people to a grade I'm definite that influenced immoderate of it," Louis said. "Down to specifics to who that opus is precisely about, that's fan's interpretation, I suppose."

The 13th and last opus connected 1989 is the popular ballad, which had the hidden message: "She mislaid him but she recovered herself and someway that was everything."

Taylor revealed her inspiration for "Clean" successful a 2015 interrogation with Elle, explaining she wrote it portion "walking retired of Liberty successful London." We volition springiness you precisely 1 conjecture arsenic to which of her ex-boyfriends she was photographed holdings hands with successful London.

"Someone I utilized to date—it deed maine that I'd been successful the aforesaid metropolis arsenic him for 2 weeks and I hadn't thought astir it," Swift shared. "When it did deed me, it was like, 'Oh, I anticipation he's doing well.' And thing else."

Though she's been successful a narration with British histrion Joe Alwyn since 2016, Taylor revisited galore of her erstwhile relationships connected her astir caller medium Midnights, with each of the 13 songs telling the communicative of sleepless nights passim the people of her life. 

And fans are speculating "Question...?" is astir her romance with Harry for 2 reasons: 1. It samples "Out of the Woods," and 2. The lyrics astir each of her friends clapping arsenic she is kissed successful a crowded country could beryllium astir their infamous New Year's Eve kiss successful 2013. So, does helium privation that helium could inactive interaction her? Hey, it's conscionable a question.