These songs were once about my life.

They are now about yours.

I was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on December 13, 1989. In the world we live in, much is said about when we are born and when we die. Our birthday is celebrated every year t o commemorate the very instant we came into the world. And a funeral is held to mark the day we leave it. But lately I've been wondering...what can be said of all the moments in between our birth and our death? The moments when we are reborn...

The debate over whether people change is an interesting one for me to observe because it seems like all I ever do is change. All I ever do is learn from my mistakes so I don't make the same ones again. Then I make new ones. I know people can change because it happens to me little by little every day. Every day I wake up as someone slightly new. Isn't it wild and intriguing and beautiful to think that every day we are new?

For the last few years, I've woken up every day not wanting, but needing to write a new style of music. I needed to change the way I told my stories and the way they sounded. I listened to a lot of music from the decade in which I was born and I listened to my intuition that it was a good thing to follow this gut feeling. I was also writing a different storyline than I'd ever told you before.

I wrote about moving to the loudest and brightest city in the world, the city I had always been overwhelmed by... until now. I think you have to know who you are and what you want in order to take on New York and all its blaring truth. I wrote about the thrill I got when I finally learned that love, to some extent, is just a game of cat and mouse. I wrote about looking back on a lost love and understanding that nothing good comes without loss and hardship and constant struggle. There is no "riding off into the sunset," like I used to imagine. We are never out of the woods, because we are always going to be fighting for something. I wrote about love that comes back to you just when you thought it was lost forever, and how some feelings never go out of style. I wrote about an important lesson I learned recently...that people can say whatever they want about me, but they can't make me lose my mind. I've learned how to shake things off.

I've told you my stories for years now. Some have been about coming of age. Some have been about coming undone. This is a story about coming into your own, and as a result... coming alive. I hope you know that you've given me the courage to change. I hope you know that who you are is who you choose to be, and that whispers behind your back don't define you. You are the only person who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

From the girl who said she would never cut her hair or move to New York or find happiness in a world where she is not in love...

love, taylor ("1989 "Foreword)

"Welcome to New York" is the opening track for "1989" and introduced the world to a brand new Taylor Swift. After experimenting with electronic pop elements on "RED", her country starlet persona was all but gone with the release of "1989".

The song was released as a promotional single for the album on October 20, 2014 and was written by Taylor and Ryan Tedder, even before Taylor had moved to New York. Its title is a literal way for Taylor to welcome fans to her new sound. Paralleling her own move from Nashville to New York, "1989" as an album reflects her new lifestyle -- moving from her country roots to the big city with all its glitz and glamour.

"I wanted to start '1989' with this song because New York has been an important landscape and location for the story of my life in the last couple of years. I dreamt and obsessed over moving to New York, and then I did it. The inspiration that I found in that city is hard to describe and to compare to any other force of inspiration I’ve ever experienced in my life. It’s an electric city."

-- Taylor Swift

Lyrically, the song also sees Taylor supporting equality for the LGBT community.

And you can want who you want

Boys and boys and girls and girls

As proof of her love for her adopted hometown, all proceeds from sales of the single went to New York City Public Schools. The city also showed love back when they made Taylor a tourism ambassador.

Taylor has stated that she wrote "Blank Space" from the perspective of a character she created based on claims made about her by the media. The character combines the various portrayals of her dating persona -- being overly attached, dating just for publicity etc.

In “Blank Space,” this new persona has spotted a bad boy and although she knows he is trouble and that the relationship is doomed, she pursues him. This persona the media created seems to equally enjoy the over-the-top fantasy that comes from the first stages of love and the messy crash when her clingy, jealous, abusive side comes out.

"Every few years the media finds something they unanimously agree is annoying about me. 2012-2013 they thought I was dating too much, because I dated two people in a year and a half: ‘Oh, a serial dater. She only writes songs to get emotional revenge on guys. She’s a man-hater, don’t let her near your boyfriend.’ It was kind of excessive and at first it was hurtful, but then I found a little bit of comedy in it. This character is so interesting though. If you read these gossip sites, they describe how I am so opposite my actual life: I’m clingy and I’m awful and I throw fits and there’s drama. An emotionally fragile, unpredictable mess. I painted a whole picture of this character: she lives in a mansion with marble floors, she wears Dolce & Gabbana around the house, and she wears animal print unironically. So I created this whole character and I had fun doing it. Half the people got the joke, half the people thought I was really owning the fact that I’m a psychopath. Either one’s fine. It was #1 for eight or nine weeks, so I have no complaints." -- Taylor Swift

She explained the meaning of the line “boys only want love if it’s torture”:

"I was thinking about this. Boys only want love if it’s torture and a constant chase. Men want love if it’s real, right, healthy and consistent." -- Taylor Swift

"Blank Space" reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 following "Shake It Off". Taylor became the first woman in the Hot 100's 56-year history to succeed herself at the top spot. A critical success, it has also been included in numerous year-end critics' lists.

The song's accompanying music video was directed by Joseph Kahn and was shot over three days at Oheka Castle in Huntington, New York. It won 2 MTV Video Music Awards ("Best Pop Video" and "Best Female Video") on August 30, 2015.

The song received nominations for the 58th Grammy Awards for "Record of the Year", "Song of the Year" and "Best Pop Solo Performance".

"Style" is a song Taylor has described as being about a couple who are never entirely finished with one another, using the metaphor "we never go out of style" to symbolise the cycle they are stuck in.

The song was written by Taylor, Max Martin, Shellback and Ali Payami. She confirmed the song was about Harry Styles in her 2014 interview with Rolling Stone. She explained the meaning and inspiration of the song to Ryan Seacrest during an interview on iHeartRadio in October 2014:

"I loved comparing these timeless visuals with a feeling that never goes out of style...It's basically one of those relationships that's always a bit off...The two people are trying to forget each other. So, it's like, 'All right, I heard you went off with her, and well, I've done that, too'...My previous albums have also been sort of like, 'I was right, you were wrong, you did this, it made me feel like this' -- a righteous sense of right and wrong in a relationship. What happens when you grow up is you realize the rules in a relationship are very blurred and that it gets very complicated very quickly, and there's not a case of who was right or who was wrong." -- Taylor Swift

"Style" heavily incorporates the use of drums and synthesizers, as well as guitar, and features the use of ostinato, the same musical phrase over and over. The chorus has a fuller, more typical pop sound. Taylor has said that after she finished "Style", she knew she was done making "1989".

"There was a huge missing piece and 'Style' filled that for sure." -- Taylor Swift

In late December, 2014, Big Machine Records head Scott Borchetta answered a fan's question on an impromptu Q&A on Twitter. The fan asked, "What's Taylor's next single?," and Borchetta responded promptly that he was leaning towards "Style" -- it was an "obvious single choice", according to Billboard. The song was released to radio on February 9, 2015, as the album's third single, following "Blank Space".

The accompanying music video premiered on February 13, 2015. It is heavily influenced by the "True Detective" opening credits and was directed by Kyle Newman, who is a big fan of the show.

The song reached number 6 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming the third consecutive top-10 single from "1989" in the country, and entered the top-10 on charts of numerous regions, including Australia, Canada, and South Africa. It also made the top 40 in countries like the United Kingdom, Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, New Zealand, and the Netherlands.

“Out of the Woods” captures the anxiety and excitement of a past relationship that Taylor treasures the memories of. It was the second promotional single released from "1989", and later became the sixth official single.

The song was co-written by Jack Antonoff. It is known that Taylor was writing to track for this song, something she was not used to at the time. The track is generally assumed to be about Harry Styles. Taylor has said the following on the song:

"It kind of conjured up all these feelings of anxiety I had in a relationship where everybody was watching, everybody was commenting on it. You’re constantly just feeling like, ‘Are we out of the woods yet? What’s the next thing gonna be? What’s the next hurdle we’re gonna have to jump over? Are we gonna make it to next week?’ It was interesting to write about a relationship where you’re just honestly like, ‘This is probably not gonna last, but how long is it gonna last?’ Those fragile relationships…It doesn’t mean they’re not supposed to happen. The whole time we were having happy memories or crazy memories or ridiculously anxious times, in my head it was just like, ‘Are we okay yet? Are we there yet? Are we out of this yet?’" -- Taylor Swift

Taylor said that "Out of the Woods" is one of her "favorite songs on this album because it best represents '1989'." With NPR she gave a detailed explanation of the lyrics especially the line "hitting the breaks too soon, 20 stitches in a hospital room":

"That line is in there because it's not only the actual, literal narration of what happened in a particular relationship I was in, it's also a metaphor. 'Hit the brakes too soon' could mean the literal sense of, we got in an accident and we had to deal with the aftermath. But also, the relationship ended sooner than it should've because there was a lot of fear involved. And that song touches on a huge sense of anxiety that was, kind of, coursing through that particular relationship, because we really felt the heat of every single person in the media thinking they could draw up the narrative of what we were going through and debate and speculate. I don't think it's ever going to be easy for me to find love and block out all those screaming voices." -- Taylor Swift

"The music video for the song was filmed in New Zealand in November, 2015, and was directed by Joseph Kahn. It premiered on December 31, 2015, during "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" on ABC. The song was released to radio on February 5, 2016.

The song went number one in Israel and has reached the top 10 in Belgium, Canada, and New Zealand as well as the top 20 in Australia and the United States.

The song has received critical acclaim. Lucas Villa of AXS praised Taylors's track with Antonoff, calling it her "most adventurous and breathtaking work yet."

In “All You Had To Do Was Stay”, Taylor points out that no matter what she does, she can’t seem to make anyone “stay.” This particular guy’s indecision (breaking up and then wanting to get back together) put the final nail in their relationship’s coffin.

In an interview with Ryan Adams, Taylor explained that she came up with the high-pitched chorus in a dream.

"I had a dream that my ex showed up at my door, knocked on the door, and I opened it up and I was about ready to launch into, like, the perfect thing to say, and instead, all that would come out of my mouth was that high-pitched chorus of people singing “stay!”

-- Taylor Swift

Interestingly, on her previous album "RED", there was a track called “Stay Stay Stay.” The two songs are thematically similar, but use very different styles of music and songwriting. On "RED", her pop-country roots are still on display, whereas here, keeping in theme with "1989" as a whole, Taylor embraces a full electropop style, although she originally wrote "All You Had To Do Was Stay" as a piano ballad.

Of note, “All You Had To Do Was Stay” was the fifth song to contribute to Taylor’s streak of "Track Five" of the album being “emotional vulnerable” ballads.

Roling Stone Magazine namend "All You Had To Do Was Stay" one of the decade’s best pop songs.

“Shake It Off” is an upbeat track that encourages listeners to let go of small problems. It was the lead single for "1989" and officially marked Taylor's transition from country to pop.

On August 18th 2014, Taylor announced three surprises via a worldwide online stream for "ABC News" and Yahoo. The first surprise was the unveiling of “Shake It Off,” the second was the announcement of the "1989" album, and the third was the premiere of the song’s music video, which was directed by Mark Romanek. It is the most viewed video by a female on YouTube.

The song was written by Taylor, Max Martin & Shellback. The song's lyrics are in response to Taylor's haters. In an interview with "ABC News", she spoke about the song’s meaning:

"The message in the song is a problem I think we all deal with and an issue we deal with on a daily basis. We don’t live just in a celebrity takedown culture, we live in a takedown culture. People will find anything about you and twist it to where it’s weird or wrong or annoying or strange or bad. You have to not only live your life in spite of people who don’t understand you, you have to have more fun than they do." -- Taylor Swift

During a Rolling Stone interview Taylor said "I've had every part of my life dissected -- my choices, my actions, my words, my body, my style, my music. When you live your life under that kind of scrutiny, you can either let it break you, or you can get really good at dodging punches. And when one lands, you know how to deal with it. And I guess the way that I deal with it is to shake it off."

"Shake It Off" debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the week ending September 6, 2014, becoming Taylor's second number-one single in the United States and the 22nd song to debut at number one in the chart's history. It stayed at the top spot for four weeks. According to Billboard, it is Swift's biggest Hot 100 hit to date, staying on the chart for 50 consecutive weeks.

The song won "Favorite Song" at the 2015 People's Choice Awards, and also received nominations for "Record of the Year", "Song of the Year" and "Best Pop Solo Performance" at the 2015 Grammy Awards.

A fan who attended the "1989 Secret Sessions" held Taylor herself posted the following story on Tumblr:

"Taylor said that she wrote [“I Wish You Would”] a couple of months after her and Harry [Styles of One Direction] broke up, and they decided to become friends again and she said this was the first time she had become friends with an ex to the point where they were comfortable enough to talk about why the relationship didn’t work out. She said he told her about how, after they broke up, he bought a house literally one road adjacent to hers. Every day he would drive home, and accidentally turn into her street, and he told her how he just wanted to stop at her house and see her, but he never did. She said this song is about while he was in the car making the decision to get out the car and see her, she was sitting in her bedroom, wishing he would make the move and go back to her and just pitch up at her house. She compared it to a classic John Hughes movie where both parties want the same thing but neither has the guts to say anything. Honestly, she spoke so fondly of that relationship."

Taylor wrote "I Wish You Would" with Jack Antonoff. The very beginnings of the song trace back to around 2012. Jack created the beat to it at his parent's house in New Jersey. Once again, Taylor wrote to track, which she described on the voice memo included on the deluxe edition of the album.

"This is another way I’ve written songs recently. This is a song I did with Jack Antonoff, and Jack is one of my friends and so were hanging out and he pulled out his phone and goes ‘I made this amazing track the other day. It’s so cool, I love these guitar sounds.’ And he played it for me and immediately I could hear this finished song in my head, and I just said ‘Please, please let me have that. Let me play with is, send it to me.’ And so he sent it to me and I was on tour and this was me playing the track on my laptop recording me singing the vocal into my phone and it ended up being a song called “I Wish You Would”, because Jack wrote back and said ‘I love that’. So this is another way of writing, it’s writing to track." -- Taylor Swift

"Bad Blood" is a song about betrayal by a close friend. The remixed version of the song, featuring American rapper Kendrick Lamar, was released on May 17, 2015 as "1989's" fourth single.

The album version was written by Taylor, Max Martin & Shellback, with Lamar writing his verses on the remixed version. The lyrics of "Bad Blood" describe betrayal by a close friend. As Taylor said in her Rolling Stone interview:

"For years, I was never sure if we were friends or not. She would come up to me at awards shows and say something and walk away, and I would think, ‘Are we friends, or did she just give me the harshest insult of my life?’ Then last year, the other star crossed a line. She did something so horrible. I was like, ‘Oh, we’re just straight-up enemies.’ And it wasn’t even about a guy! It had to do with business. She basically tried to sabotage an entire arena tour. She tried to hire a bunch of people out from under me. And I’m surprisingly non-confrontational -- you would not believe how much I hate conflict. So now I have to avoid her. It’s awkward, and I don’t like it." -- Taylor Swift

Much speculation has been made about who this song is about, with one popular theory suggesting Katy Perry. Perry seems to think so herself, tweeting in even more tension over the following years. Taylor only commented on the song's lyrics one more time:

"That was about losing a friend…But then people cryptically tweet about what you meant. I never said anything that would point a finger in the specific direction of one specific person, and I can sleep at night knowing that. I knew the song would be assigned to a person, and the easiest mark was someone who I didn’t want to be labeled with this song. It was not a song about heartbreak. It was about the loss of friendship." --Taylor Swift

In May 2018, Katy sent Taylor a literal olive branch along with a note in which she apologized for her past mistakes. The two have now put their differences aside.

Kendrick Lamar also said that Taylor reached out to him regarding the collaboration. "I’ve always been a fan of hers, and she was a fan of my music and she reached out and we got it done."

The accompanying music video for the "Bad Blood" remix was directed by Joseph Kahn and features an ensemble cast of Taylor and her girl friends. The video previously held the 24-Hour VEVO Record with 20.1 million views. It won "Video of the Year" and "Best Collaboration" at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards.

The song received a nomination for "Best Pop Duo/Group Performance" while its music video won "Best Music Video" at the 58th Grammy Awards.

The song reached number one in Australia, Canada, Israel, New Zealand, Scotland, and the United States, becoming the third song from "1989" to do so. 

A cover version of "Bad Blood" was released as the first promotional single from singer-songwriter Ryan Adams' interpretation of Swift's "1989" album, released in September 2015.

The ninth track and fifth single on "1989" is about Taylor hoping her lover will remember their best moments after they’re over. It expresses mixed feelings: hoping that they last, but knowing that they’ll end.

Taylor co-wrote the song with its producers Max Martin and Shellback. Musically, "Wildest Dreams" is a love ballad with a prominent dream pop influence, with the lyrics describing Taylor's plea for her lover to remember her.

"I think the way I used to approach relationships was very idealistic. I used to go into them thinking, ‘Maybe this is the one --we’ll get married and have a family, this could be forever’. Whereas now I go in thinking, ‘How long do we have on the clock -- before something comes along and puts a wrench in it, or your publicist calls and says this isn’t a good idea?’"

-- Taylor Swift

Taylor's actual heartbeat is played in the beginning of the song, according to the album booklet.

"Wildest Dreams" was released to radio by Big Machine Records on August 31, 2015, as the album's fifth single. In the US, the song reached number five, becoming her fifth consecutive top ten from "1989".

The song's music video, which co-stars actor Scott Eastwood as Taylor's love interest, premiered during the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards on August 30, 2015.

Later, a remix by Dutch DJ R3hab was released digitally in October 11, 2015.

"How You Get the Girl" works as an advice to a guy who wants to get a girl back. She suggests better tactics than the ones her former lovers seemed to have used on her, described in songs like “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”.

The song was featured in an ad for Diet Coke which starred Taylor's cat Olivia. It is an upbeat, catchy pop song written by Taylor, Max Martin & Shellback in early 2013. In 2014, Taylor told radio.com:

"The song ‘How You Get the Girl’ is a song that I wrote about how you get the girl back if you ruined the relationship somehow and she won’t talk to you anymore. Like, if you broke up with her and left her on her own for six months and then you realize you miss her. All the steps you have to do to edge your way back into her life, because she’s probably pretty mad at you. So it’s kind of a tutorial. If you follow the directions in the song, chances are things will work out. Or you may get a restraining order." -- Taylor Swift

The song has also been rumored to be about the on/off relationship between Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez.

"This Love" finds Taylor using cyclical metaphors to ponder on the cycles of her relationship. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad, but regardless, it’s still love. This is also the only song on "1989" to be solely written by her.

Taylor initially began writing the chorus of the song as a part of a poem, which evolved into the song. "This Love" was the very first song written for "1989" and was recorded shortly before the release of "RED". Taylor described the song as "Like saying goodbye to the past and the previous four albums". The song was produced by longtime producer Nathan Chapman. Taylor also said:

"The last time I wrote a poem that ended up being a song, I was writing in my journal and I was writing about something that had happened in my life -- it was about a year ago -- and I just wrote this really really short poem, it said “This love is good / this love is bad / this love is alive back from the dead / these hands had to let it go free / and this love came back to me” and I just wrote it down and closed the book and put it back on my night stand […] All of a sudden in my head I just started hearing this melody happen, and then I realized that it was going to be a song." -- Taylor Swift

When asked by Pop Crush which of her "1989" tracks she listens to the most, Taylor replied:

"I think the one that I kept going back to, over and over and over again, is a song called ‘This Love,’ actually. It’s a song that I wrote by myself. It’s kind of like hypnotic in a way, and it kind of is somewhat romantic and wistful and relaxing." -- Taylor Swift

"This Love" was certified "Platinum" by the RIAA in 2018, despite never receiving any kind of promotion whatsoever.

"I Know Places" is a song about the difficulty of a high-profile couple finding any privacy from paparazzi and gossip magazines. It uses the metaphor of a fox hunt, where the animals' only chance of escaping the dogs, horses and guns lies in their cunning and ability to hide.

The song was written by Taylor and Ryan Tedder. In the deluxe edition of the album, she explains how she first wrote this track on piano. At a private GRAMMY Pro session in October, 2015, Taylor explained her inspiration behind the song:

"I had this idea of like, you know, when you’re in love – along the lines of ‘Out of the Woods’ – it’s very precious, it’s fragile. As soon as the world gets ahold of it, whether it’s your friends or people around town hear about it … it’s kind of like the first thing people want to do when they hear that people are in love is just kind of try to ruin it […] I kind of was in a place where I was like, ‘No one is gonna sign up for this. There are just too many cameras pointed at me. There are too many ridiculous elaborations on my life. It’s just not ever gonna work.‘ But I decided to write a love song, just kind of like, ‘What would I say if I met someone really awesome and they were like, hey, I’m worried about all this attention you get?’ So I wrote this song called ‘I Know Places’ about, like, ‘Hey, I know places we can hide. We could outrun them.’ I’m so happy that it sounds like the urgency that it sings." -- Taylor Swift

She then went on to explain that when she met Ryan a few weeks later in a studio he was already working on the track. Taylor's goal was to make the song sound like it could be in a spy movie -- with a soaring chorus. Ryan also provides background vocals on the song, which he recorded on his tourbus when he was in Switzerland.

"Clean" is the thirteenth and last track on "1989". It is a pop ballad about going through hard times but coming out stronger in the end.

The song was written by Taylor and Imogen Heap at the latter's house outside of London in February, 2014. Taylor expanded on the song’s meaning:

"Clean” I wrote as I was walking out of Liberty in London. Someone I used to date -- it hit me that I’d been in the same city as him for two weeks and I hadn’t thought about it. When it did hit me, it was like, ‘Oh, I hope he’s doing well’. And nothing else. And you know how it is when you’re going through heartbreak. A heartbroken person is unlike any other person. Their time moves at a completely different pace than ours. It’s this mental, physical, emotional ache and feeling so conflicted. Nothing distracts you from it. Then time passes, and the more you live your life and create new habits, you get used to not having a text message every morning saying, ‘Hello, beautiful. Good morning.’ You get used to not calling someone at night to tell them how your day was. You replace these old habits with new habits, like texting your friends in a group chat all day and planning fun dinner parties and going out on adventures with your girlfriends, and then all of a sudden one day you’re in London and you realize you’ve been in the same place as your ex for two weeks and you’re fine. And you hope he’s fine. The first thought that came to my mind was -- I’m finally clean." -- Taylor Swift

Imogen opened up about how she and Taylor wrote and finished the song in less than a day. You can read her "journal entry" on her blog, here.

Every night, Taylor gave an inspirational speech before performing “Clean” during her "1989 World Tour". 

“Wonderland” is a bonus track from the Deluxe Edition of "1989". It is a description of a toxic relationship, from beginning to end. It uses the story of Alice In Wonderland as inspiration for the highs and lows of enjoying this state of relationship wanderlust, irrespective of negative consequences.

The song tells the story of a relationship that was too good to be true. Taylor and her boyfriend were in their own little dream world. She knew it would end badly, she was warned, but she jumped right in anyways. Their relationship seemed amazing but eventually everything started to go wrong. Everytime she tried to leave he reasured her that everything was fine because they were in Wonderland. Slowly though, they fell out of love, and she realizied that she had to go back to reality, that it was never going to work. And after that, she was never the same.

The song is a fan favourite, with many covers on YouTube and Instagram. "Wonderland" was released as the third promotional single on February 17, 2015, from the deluxe version of "1989".

Even though it is a bonus track, Taylor performed "Wonderland" a few times acoustically on the "1989 World Tour".

Asked by Elle Magazine about the song’s lyric “You’re my best friend,” Taylor replied:

"I’ve never had that, so I wrote that song about things that Lena Dunham has told me about her and Jack Antonoff. That’s just basically stuff she’s told me. And I think that that kind of relationship -- God, it sounds like it would just be so beautiful -- would also be hard. It would also be mundane at times." -- Taylor Swift

“New Romantics” is a satirical song discussing how “new romantics” view love and life. It addresses the nonchalant and whimsical nature of the way young adults approach love. Originally a bonus track, it was released as the seventh and last single from "1989".

The song was written by Taylor, Max Martin, & Shellback. Its name references the New Romanticism movement.

Taylor adopted a more mature mindset and approach towards love as she moved from the fairy tale romanticism of her first four albums to a more carefree outlook on matters of the heart, such as this song. Taylor explained her attitude towards dating and relationships during an interview with Cosmopolitan:

"People will say, let me set you up with someone, and I’m just sitting there saying, ‘That’s not what I’m doing. I’m not lonely; I’m not looking.’ They just don’t get it. I’ve learned that just because someone is cute and wants to date you, that’s not a reason to sacrifice your independence and allow everyone to say whatever they want about you. I’m not doing that anymore. It’d take someone really special for me to undergo the circumstances I have to go through to experience a date. I don’t know how I would ever have another person in my world trying to have a relationship with me, or a family." -- Taylor Swift

On February 23, 2016, "New Romantics" was serviced to contemporary hit radio in the United States through Big Machine Records and Republic Records as the seventh and final single from "1989" and eventually peaked at number 46 on the Billboard Hot 100.