--- title: Taylor Swift Wrote Calvin Harris 'This Is What You Came For' description: Taylor Swift has been revealed as the writer behind ex-boyfriend Calvin Harris and Rihanna's hit song "This Is What You Came For." canonical: https://time.com/4404620/taylor-swift-wrote-this-is-what-you-came-for-calvin-harris-rihanna/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-13T16:22:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T23:13:42.472Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Taylor Swift Wrote Calvin Harris and Rihanna's 'This Is What You Came For' og:description: She used the pseudonym Nils Sjoberg og:url: https://time.com/4404620/taylor-swift-wrote-this-is-what-you-came-for-calvin-harris-rihanna/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b7c12bda3f18a75/69889bc9ab6d770fbd6aa714/taylor-swift-this-is-what-you-came-for.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: "Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology" Costume Institute Gala og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Taylor Swift Wrote Calvin Harris and Rihanna's 'This Is What You Came For' twitter:description: She used the pseudonym Nils Sjoberg twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b7c12bda3f18a75/69889bc9ab6d770fbd6aa714/taylor-swift-this-is-what-you-came-for.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Taylor Swift Wrote Calvin Harris and Rihanna's 'This Is What You Came For' Under a Fake Name  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jul 13, 2016 4:22 PM UTC  Taylor Swift attends the 'Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology' Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2016 in New York City. Taylor Swift attends the 'Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology' Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2016 in New York City.Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for The Huffington Post  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jul 13, 2016 4:22 PM UTC [Taylor Swift](http://time.com/4401252/taylor-swift-highest-paid-celebrity/) has been revealed as the writer behind ex-boyfriend Calvin Harris and Rihanna’s hit song “This Is What You Came For.” The _1989_ artist — whose new relationship with [Tom Hiddleston](http://time.com/4400929/taylor-swift-tom-hiddleton-australia/) has created a media storm over the past few weeks — wrote the summer single under the pseudonym Nils Sjoberg, her representative confirmed to TIME. The track was released around a month prior to Swift and Harris’s [public announcement](http://time.com/4354546/taylor-swift-calvin-harris-break-up/) of their breakup. However, some are [now speculating](http://www.people.com/article/taylor-swift-wrote-calvin-harris-this-is-what-you-came-for) that it is partly to blame for their split, citing an interview in which [Harris told Ryan Seacrest](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQLPhOZXLiQ) that he could not foresee himself collaborating with Swift as a source of tension in their relationship. “You know, we haven’t even spoken about it,” he told Seacrest while promoting the song. “I can’t see it happening though.” Harris responded to the news on Twitter Wednesday, saying he was upset by the reports. “Hurtful to me at this point that her and her team would go so far out of their way to try and make ME look bad at this stage though,” he wrote. > [](https://twitter.com/CalvinHarris/status/753258935432294400) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4404620/taylor-swift-wrote-this-is-what-you-came-for-calvin-harris-rihanna/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4404620/taylor-swift-wrote-this-is-what-you-came-for-calvin-harris-rihanna/"},"headline":"Taylor Swift Wrote Calvin Harris and Rihanna's 'This Is What You Came For' Under a Fake Name","datePublished":"2016-07-13T16:22:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T23:13:42.472Z","description":"She used the pseudonym Nils Sjoberg","url":"https://time.com/4404620/taylor-swift-wrote-this-is-what-you-came-for-calvin-harris-rihanna/","keywords":["Music","Taylor Swift","Rihanna","Calvin Harris"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b7c12bda3f18a75/69889bc9ab6d770fbd6aa714/taylor-swift-this-is-what-you-came-for.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b7c12bda3f18a75/69889bc9ab6d770fbd6aa714/taylor-swift-this-is-what-you-came-for.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"\"Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology\" Costume Institute Gala","caption":"Taylor Swift attends the 'Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology' Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2016 in New York City.","creditText":"Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for The Huffington Post","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/4404620/taylor-swift-wrote-this-is-what-you-came-for-calvin-harris-rihanna/","name":"Taylor Swift Wrote Calvin Harris and Rihanna's 'This Is What You Came For' Under a Fake Name"}}]}] ```