UPDATE: Harris confirmed that Swift additionally sings backup on “This Is What You Came For,” as many speculated when the track was once first released. “Amazing lyric author and he or she smashed it as standard,” he tweeted on Wednesday. In a follow-up tweet, he clarified that he “wrote the music, produced the song, organized it and lower the vocals.” He additionally explained why she used a pseudonym.
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The rumors are true! Taylor Swift is the lyrical mastermind behind Calvin Harris and Rihanna‘s hit song “This Is What You Came For,” which dropped only some weeks prior to the “Wildest Dreams” singer, 26, and the deejay, 32, break up after over a 12 months of relationship.
“Taylor Swift wrote ‘This Is What You Came For’ underneath the pseudonym Nils Sjoberg,” her rep advised Us Weekly in a remark on Wednesday, July 13.
The revelation comes after months of hypothesis in regards to the song’s origins. Though the monitor is lately credited to Sjoberg on Wikipedia, eagle-eyed fanatics noticed that the page used to feature Swift because the author. Many speculated — as it should be, it turns out — that she’d used a pen identify.
However, Harris up to now shot down any advice of a collaboration together with his now-ex-girlfriend in April, once they were nonetheless courting. The day of the song’s release, he sat down with Ryan Seacrest for an interview, all the way through which the former American Idol host requested if he deliberate to work with Swift.
“You know, we haven’t really spoken about it,” Harris stated on the time. “I will’t see it taking place.”
The couple cut up just a little over a month later. Two weeks after the breakup, Swift began up a romance with Tom Hiddleston, with whom she’d had a memorable come upon at the 2016 Met Gala in May.
In the weeks since, the pop big name and the Thor actor have paraded their new love all over the globe, from Rhode Island to Nashville to England to Australia. Things have gotten very severe, very quickly — a source says within the new issue of Us Weekly that the Brit is “planning to propose” soon.
Check out Ian Drew and Jamie Blynn dishing on this tale during Us Weekly’s Facebook Live News Update as of late at 1:30pm ET.
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