This is the only song on Harry Styles' debut solo album that he didn't pen during his 2016 songwriting stay in Jamaica. Instead, he told the attendees at the record's listening party, it was written a couple of years before.
As soon as this song was made available listeners began to suggest the lyrics are about the breakdown of Harry Styles' brief relationship with Taylor Swift in early 2013. Same lips red, same eyes blue Same white shirt, couple more tattoos Taylor Swift has a famous penchant for red lipstick and the "white shirt" may reference lyrics in her song "Style" about their fling, where she sings about a "white T-shirt."
When asked by Nick Grimshaw on his BBC Radio 1 show on May 12, 2017 whether the song is about Taylor Swift, Harry Styles replied: "I mean I think it's pretty like self-explanatory. I think, y'know it's about sometimes things change and you can do all the same things… and sometimes it's just different, y'know." The DJ then played the track, introducing it with: "So here we go, the one about Taylor Swift." Listeners then heard Styles scream "Ahhh, oh no!" in response.
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