“So I’m reading the lyrics and I happen upon, a line, and this line says: ‘and if you’re looking for someone to write your breakup songs about, baby I’m perfect,'” says Corden. “Now listen, listen I don’t want to have any Bad Blood about this, and if this is a problem and we don’t want to talk about it, we can just Shake It Off! Who’s the song about?”
Harry took the joke in stride and had a pretty perfect comeback: “I think the thing with songwriting is everyone writes from personal experience,” he explained. “It’s not always necessarily what it sounds like it’s about. Sometimes it is! And it’s open to interpretation.”