Here are 8 celebs who will never ever ever get back together with Tay Tay.
Sorry, the fans of superstars power couples. Taylor Swift and Calvin Harris are no longer an item, so we're probably never ever going to hear that Calvin-featuring-Taylor dance anthem we dreamed about since the two started dating last year. But it doesn’t mean we won’t hear some juicy details about the media-approved romance in the future, as Taylor never shies away from discussing love life in her lyrics. In the meantime, let’s remember 8 celebrity boyfriends who were filling the blank space in Taylor’s heart over the years.
Joe Jonas
Relationship Lifespan: July – October 2008
Songs About Him: "Forever & Always," "Last Kiss," "Better than Revenge," "Holy Ground"
Jonas Brothers are certified heartbreakers. Long before his brother Nick dedicated a whole album to his ex-girlfriend, Joe broke the heart of 19-year-old Taylor by announcing the end of their relationships over the phone (hey, it could’ve been worse—he could’ve texted). Taylor poured all her heartache on paper and wrote countless country bangers about her romance with the Disney star. And somehow that fixed the problem and washed away all the bad blood between two stars as this spring they were cheerfully posing for an Instagram photo from a double date: Taylor was with Calvin Harris while Joe was with Taylor’s bestie Gigi Hadid.
Lucas Till
Relationship Lifespan: April – June 2009
Songs About Him: None (that we know of).
When Taylor says “You Belong With Me,” you obey. That’s what the X-Men: Apocalypse star did as he started dating the country star right after starring in one of her better known music videos. Apparently they didn’t work out because everything was too nice and there was zero drama in the relationship. So it’s safe to assume “Blank Space” was not written about him.
Taylor Lautner
Relationship Lifespan: October – December 2009
Songs About Him: "Back to December"
It’s hard to believe that a movie as cheesy as Valentine’s Day could spark any real life romance, but it did. Taylor met another Taylor, Lautner, on set of the romantic comedy and the couple quickly became a thing, prompting fans and media to come up with a frightening code name, "Taylor Squared." The singer wasn't part of #TeamJacob for long though, because apparently the werewolf loved her a little bit too much. But he still has her number as proven by Lautner’s debut Instagram video.
John Mayer
Relationship Lifespan: December 2009 – February 2010
Songs About Him: "Dear John"
Considering both Swift and Mayer can’t survive a day without starting new relationships with some celebrity, it was only a matter of time before they’d find a way into each other’s limos. The romance didn’t last that long, but the aftertaste (or should we say aftershock) is still very much there. Taylor’s epic war with Katy Perry may have started over the backup dancers, but it surely didn’t help that after Mayer’s break-up with Taylor he started dating Katy. Last year it was even rumored that Katy and John would team-up to write an answer to Taylor’s “Bad Blood.” Now that’s a great reason to get excited about the next Katy Perry record!
Jake Gyllenhaal
Relationship Lifespan: October – December 2010
Songs About Him: "All Too Well", "Shake It Off", "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"
What is it about Taylor and all her autumn romances?! She spent the fall of 2010 in the company of mister Donnie Darko aka Jake Gyllenhaal. Rumors have it that Jake had to prove his Prince of Persia status to whisking Taylor away on a private jet from US to London, where he was promoting a movie at the time… Only to dump her by a text message the following month. Six years later the media still sees them as a power couple that had much more potential: Good Morning America played “Bad Blood” in the background during a recent Gyllenhaal interview, while Howard Stern bluntly told Jake he thinks Taylor’s the one and that he should’ve married her. Jake’s response? “She’s a beautiful girl.”
Conor Kennedy
Relationship Lifespan: July – October 2012
Songs About Him: “Come Back (Be Here),” “Begin Again”
The first lady of pop country was destined to date her way up to the White House, which she did in 2012 when she started going out with Conor Kennedy from the Kennedy family. Taylor’s pop star duties and Conor’s boarding school schedule prevented the couple from taking their romance past the trial period, but did inspire several long-distance-relationship anthems.
Harry Styles
Relationship Lifespan: December 2012 – January 2013
Songs About Him: “Out of the Woods,” “I Knew You Were Trouble”
Taylor’s romance with Harry Styles had only one direction: total chaos. The pair was scrutinized by fans and the media and inspired one of the darkest yet beautiful love songs in Taylor’s resume—“Out of the Woods.” “The whole time we were having happy memories or crazy memories or ridiculously anxious times, in my head it was just like, ‘Are we OK yet? Are we there yet? Are we out of this yet?’" she explained in the Grammy Pro documentary. Now that hardly sounds like a healthy relationship.
Calvin Harris
Relationship Lifespan: March 2015 – May 2016
Songs About Him: Wait ‘til her next album
When you have a dating resume as wide as Taylor’s, you gotta have a DJ up there somewhere. And Taylor being Taylor, she scored the best one in the game, Scottish super-producer Calvin Harris. They found love in the hopeless place of pop elite, and their romance lasted for a very long time (in Swift measurement), but the couple finally separated this May. Perhaps Swift was mad that Calvin kept on booking studio sessions with Rihanna instead of producing her very own country-flavored EDM banger? We’ll probably never know… Not until Taylor releases a new album, that is.