In August 2013, Styles and Swift attended the VMAs, where Swift had a viral moment when viewers thought she dissed Styles during his acceptance speech.
Trying to remember how it feels to have a heartbeat We're just two ghosts standing in the place of you and me In 'Style,' Swift herself sang 'when we go crashing down, we come back every time/Cause we never go out of style, we never go out of style.' Perhaps a reference to the on-off nature of their relationship. Sounds like something that I used to feel He had been adding to his tattoo collection over the year. Styles says he wrote the song three and a half years ago, at the end of 2013 and almost a year after they allegedly ended things. They echo the lyrics in Swift's own 'Style' ('You got that James Dean daydream look in your eye/And I got that red lip, classic thing that you like' and 'You got that long hair slicked back, white t-shirt'). These two verses are the most overt Swift references fans picked on when the song was teased earlier this week.
But given the Swift references in 'Two Ghosts' are 'self-explanatory,' according to Styles, here's all of the likely ones broken down in the lyrics:
