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Fans Think Taylor Swift’s ‘Is It Over Now?’ Is a Harry Styles Diss Track

Swift appears to be bringing up the past in a new track from 1989 (Taylor’s Version).
NEW YORK NY  OCTOBER 26 Taylor Swift is seen on October 26 2023 in New York New York.
NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 26: Taylor Swift is seen on October 26, 2023 in New York, New York. (Photo by MEGA/GC Images)MEGA

Taylor Swift appears to be revisiting her previous relationship with Harry Styles in one of the new from-the-vault tracks from 1989 (Taylor’s Version). Titled “Is It Over Now?” the track recounts the all-too-relatable feeling of not knowing whether you and a lover are truly broken up or not. And because of a few key details, fans are hypothesizing that the song is about the former One Direction boy bander.

Swift and Styles were first linked in March 2012 but parted ways in January 2013. 1989—the original version—already includes one track that is rumored to be about Styles, fittingly titled “Style.” But “Is It Over Now?” would mark Swift’s first time writing negatively about Styles, if the song is indeed about him. And the lyrical evidence is certainly compelling!

Taylor Swift and Harry Styles in Central Park in 2012.David Krieger/Bauer-Griffin

The song’s second verse, which includes the lyrics “When you lost control / Red blood, white snow,” appears to reference the same snowmobile accident Swift chronicles in “Out of the Woods,” which reportedly occurred while Blondie was on a fateful ski trip with Styles.

That’s not the only connection fans have managed to make, though. Another line, “Blue dress on a boat,” seemingly references a 2013 Daily Mail paparazzi picture of Taylor Swift sadly sitting alone on a boat. At the time, it was heavily speculated that the photo was taken after Swift and Styles had broken up during a joint vacation in the British Virgin Islands.

But don’t take it from me! Let the Swifties make their case by perusing some of their viral tweets about “Is It Over Now?” below.

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