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After writing this duet with British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, Swift recalled to MTV News:

We, for real, were sitting on my trampoline in my backyard cause we had been writing a song and I was like, ‘Hey, I just got a trampoline. You want to see it?’ And so, he brought the guitar for some reason. We ended up writing an entire song out there. For portions of the song, we were bouncing around, ‘cause it’s a trampoline and it’s fun, and the combined maturity level of both of us is 8 years.

Sheeran told MTV News their partnership worked since they have a lot in common.

Well, I don’t really write so much with other artists. Like the Taylor session, when we got together and wrote was the second time I’ve ever gotten with another singer/songwriter and written a song with them. So it wasn’t actually too hard of an adjustment. We’re very much alike musically and it worked out well, I think. 


Ed Sheeran is one of several songwriters that Swift reached out to write with her on Red, her fourth studio album. She told Billboard magazine that the people she chose to collaborate with were ones who inspired her.

You look at someone like Ed Sheeran. He comes from such a sincere place as a writer, and his songs move you in every direction emotionally. That’s something I was so inspired by I ended up calling him.

Regarding the song’s meaning, Taylor told Digital Spy:

It’s about falling in love. It’s about meeting someone and all of a sudden your entire perspective on the world changes – you’re thinking for two, instead of one.



Asked by The Sun how Sheeran and her originally met up, Swift replied:

We had both reached out to each other’s camps at the same time. I showed up at his hotel in Arizona and we just wrote songs all day. Then he came and hung out at my house in LA and we spent all night sitting on the kitchen floor laughing, writing songs and harmonizing.

According to Sheeran, it was Swift who did most of the work when they penned this tune.

She pretty much came with the song and was like, ‘Which bits would you change?’“ I was like, ‘Oh, I don’t know.'



Sheeran and Swift had a friendly battle over a chord while working on the song. Sheeran said:

She pretty much had the verse, bridge and chorus done but we argued about that one chord. She didn’t like that but I forced it upon her!

Taylor said during an August 2012 livestream:

When I was touring in Australia I saw his [“Lego House”] music video on TV, and I was just blown away. […] I got back to the states and I heard from someone that he wanted to work with me and we ended up getting together and writing together, and we wrote a song while sitting on a trampoline that was so much fun and we loved it so much that we actually ended up recording it as a duet. So, it is going to be on the album and I’m so excited because I’m such a huge fan of his.