Is Taylor Swift's 'Closure' Secretly About Harry Styles?
Daniel Cobb
It has been "a long time" since Taylor Swift and Harry Styles dated. When the pair separated in early 2013, Mirror wrote about Swift "lonely and down," flying back early from what was supposed to be an idyllic vacation on The British Virgin Islands, while Styles "stayed on" and "partied" with billionaires. But could "Closure" really be about Harry Styles?
Neither Swift nor Styles have admitted to bad blood, although endless tabloid speculation suggests it's there. And, as several Reddit and Youtube comments point out, Swift seems to sing "Closure's" chorus in a distinctly British accent. There's one stanza, in particular, that gives credence to such speculation. "Guilty, guilty, reaching out across the sea, that you put between you and me, but it's fake and it's oh so unnecessary," Swift admonishes in Evermore's 14th track. It wouldn't be the first time that the songstress has sung about her relationship with the British star. Swift's music video for "Cardigan," for example, might be a salute to Styles' "Falling" music video.
If "Closure" is about Styles, we already know how he'll probably react. Styles told Howard Stern in March 2020 that "I think about what it means to me to write a song about somebody else and for somebody else to do that, it's like flattering, even if the song isn't that flattering, you still spent time on it and ultimately, using Taylor as an example, she's a great songwriter, so..."