--- title: Harry Styles on Dating Taylor Swift Breakup Songs description: Harry Styles revealed how it feels to be considered the inspiration for not one, but two songs on Taylor Swift's 1989 album. canonical: https://time.com/4744904/harry-styles-on-taylor-swift/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-18T19:10:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:42:55.723Z og:title: Harry Styles on Dating Taylor Swift: 'Things Don’t Work Out.' og:description: "There’s a lot of things that can be right and it’s still wrong" og:url: https://time.com/4744904/harry-styles-on-taylor-swift/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Harry Styles on Dating Taylor Swift: 'Things Don’t Work Out.' twitter:description: "There’s a lot of things that can be right and it’s still wrong" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Harry Styles on Dating Taylor Swift: 'There’s a Lot of Things That Can Be Right and It’s Still Wrong'  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Apr 18, 2017 7:10 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Apr 18, 2017 7:10 PM UTC Although fans have long speculated that at least two songs from [Taylor Swift’s](http://time.com/4712595/taylor-swift-i-dont-wanna-live-forever-acoustic/) _1989_ album — “Style” and “[Out of the Woods](http://time.com/4224939/grammys-2016-taylor-swift/)” — are about her relationship with [Harry Styles](http://time.com/4730898/harry-styles-sign-of-the-times/), the former One Direction member has remained mostly silent on the topic. But in a recent interview with [_Rolling Stone_](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/harry-styles-opens-up-about-famous-flings-honest-new-lp-w476928), he discussed how it feels to be considered one of Swift’s inspirations. --- > “” --- Styles went on to finally give Haylor devotees the closure many of them have probably been waiting for since the 2012 romance ended — although he neglected to directly comment on the couple’s matching necklaces, widely publicized date in Central Park or [alleged snowmobile incident](http://people.com/celebrity/taylor-swift-remembers-writing-out-of-the-woods-harry-styles/). --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4744904/harry-styles-on-taylor-swift/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4744904/harry-styles-on-taylor-swift/"},"headline":"Harry Styles on Dating Taylor Swift: 'There’s a Lot of Things That Can Be Right and It’s Still Wrong'","datePublished":"2017-04-18T19:10:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:42:55.723Z","description":"Prepare yourselves, Haylor fans","url":"https://time.com/4744904/harry-styles-on-taylor-swift/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Taylor Swift","Harry Styles"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4744904/harry-styles-on-taylor-swift/","name":"Harry Styles on Dating Taylor Swift: 'There’s a Lot of Things That Can Be Right and It’s Still Wrong'"}}]}] ```