--- description: The One Direction star said he was "feeling 22," quoting Taylor Swift's popular song. title: Harry Styles Celebrates Birthday by Quoting Ex-Girlfriend Taylor Swift image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt685e84240ff575b2/69887bb5196cf4f53f03a246/harry-styles-taylor-swift-birthday-tweet.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Harry Styles Celebrates 22nd Birthday by Quoting Ex-Girlfriend Taylor Swift by [Jessica Goodman / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Jessica Goodman / Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 1, 2016 10:47 PM CUT  Singer Harry Styles of One Direction arrives at the 2015 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on November 22, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. Singer Harry Styles of One Direction arrives at the 2015 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on November 22, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.Gregg DeGuire—WireImage/Getty Images by [Jessica Goodman / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Jessica Goodman / Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 1, 2016 10:47 PM CUT One Direction’s Harry Styles turned 22 on Monday, and while fans made tributes online, Styles celebrated his big day by tweeting an apt Taylor Swift lyric from “22,” off her 2012 album _Red_. “I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling 22,” he wrote. Styles and Swift dated in 2012, and since then both have released new music, some of which fans speculate are about the other. When Swift put out_1989_, “Style” and “Out Of The Woods” were rumored to be about the relationship, and when [Ellen DeGeneres asked Styles](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/18/harry-styles-never-have-i-ever "undefined") if he had ever had a song written about him he answered, “I have.” “Perfect,” off One Direction’s [_Made In The A.M._](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/11/justin-bieber-one-direction-review "undefined"), was thought to be about Swift and when [James Corden asked about the meaning behind the song](http://www.mtv.com/news/2509211/harry-styles-responds-taylor-swift-perfect-one-direction/ "undefined") Styles said, “People can interpret a lot of different things in different ways. And I’m not going to tell someone it’s not about what they think it’s about, because I think the whole point is – it’s about whatever it means to you.” > [](https://twitter.com/Harry%5FStyles/status/694229236677120000) _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/02/01/harry-styles-22nd-birthday-taylor-swift "undefined") _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4203399/harry-styles-birthday-tweet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4203399/harry-styles-birthday-tweet/"},"headline":"Harry Styles Celebrates 22nd Birthday by Quoting Ex-Girlfriend Taylor Swift","datePublished":"2016-02-01T22:47:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T14:39:44.198Z","description":"He's definitely feeling 22","url":"https://time.com/4203399/harry-styles-birthday-tweet/","keywords":["celebrities","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt685e84240ff575b2/69887bb5196cf4f53f03a246/harry-styles-taylor-swift-birthday-tweet.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jessica Goodman / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt685e84240ff575b2/69887bb5196cf4f53f03a246/harry-styles-taylor-swift-birthday-tweet.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"harry-styles-taylor-swift-birthday-tweet","caption":"Singer Harry Styles of One Direction arrives at the 2015 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on November 22, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.","creditText":"Gregg DeGuire—WireImage/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"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":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4203399/harry-styles-birthday-tweet/","name":"Harry Styles Celebrates 22nd Birthday by Quoting Ex-Girlfriend Taylor Swift"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Power of Taylor Swift","description":"One day after Taylor Swift publicly blasted Apple Music for not paying artists during the service’s free, three-month trial period, Apple reversed its position","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/mUgZx3qP/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-06-22T20:13:13.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/mUgZx3qP.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4203399/harry-styles-birthday-tweet/","duration":"PT2M4S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4203399/harry-styles-birthday-tweet/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```