Some pleasures are guiltier than others. And for Vick Hope, spouse of Calvin Harris, hers embrace songs by a sure well-known ex-flame of her partner.
“As soon as my husband goes away, I listen to Taylor Swift,” Hope revealed Monday on the BBC radio present she co-hosts, Going Home with Vick, Katie, and Jamie.
“That’s just when I get my little fill—just a little fill,” she mentioned. “Just a couple of songs, get it out of my system and then it’s done.”
Swift and Harris dated in 2015 and 2016, even collaborating on the eventual Rihanna-Harris observe, “This Is What You Came For.” Swift has a writing credit score on the track beneath a pseudonym, Nils Sjoberg, and, in a now-deleted 2016 tweet after their breakup, Harris mentioned she “sings on a little bit of it too” and added that Swift “smashed it as usual.” Sounds good! Reader, it didn’t keep good.
As the saying goes, all is honest in love, struggle, and deleted social media missives about your also-very-famous ex-girlfriend. Harris’s thread, which linked to an article about Swift’s contributions to the observe, continued.
“Hurtful to me at this point that her and her team would go so far out of their way to try and make ME look bad at this stage though,” he wrote. “I determine for those who’re joyful in your new relationship it is best to give attention to that as an alternative of making an attempt to tear your ex bf down for one thing to do…I do know you are off tour and also you want somebody new to try to bury like Katy ETC however I’m not that man, sorry. I will not enable it.”
He’s referencing, after all, the prior dangerous blood between Swift and fellow popster Katy Perry, allegedly the premise for Swift’s track—you guessed it!—”Bad Blood.” For what it’s value, Swift and Perry appear to have buried the hatchet, with Perry enthusiastically sharing selfies of her and Swift at an Eras Tour date in Australia earlier this yr.
Meanwhile, Swift walked proper previous Harris within the viewers at this yr’s Grammy Awards, the place later within the night he watched her scoop up a file fourth Album of the Year award.
Of course, Harris isn’t the one of Swift’s ex-flames to marry a fan. Taylor Lautner, who was linked to Swift for a number of months in late 2009, is married to Taylor Dome, who has made no secret of her love for Swift. Lautner and Swift are additionally pleasant, with Lautner even making a shock look and doing backflips onstage at her July 7, 2023 Eras Tour cease at Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium to introduce the “I Can See You” music video, which he additionally appeared in. Taylors gotta stick collectively, ? (The very subsequent evening, Swift’s newest beau, Travis Kelce, attended the present as a fan and legendarily shot his shot with the singer. It seems to have labored out to this point.)
The three Taylors are actually buddies, with Dome saying final summer time of the musician, “She’s hysterical. It’s been so fun to get to know her.”