Taylor Swift opens up about Harry Styles, turns 'Out of the Woods' into piano ballad

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Tricia Gilbride
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To celebrate the first anniversary of 1989, Taylor Swift gave her fans a birthday present -- since albums can't appreciate gifts.

T-Swift unveiled a video of her performing "Out of the Woods" with just a piano and her emotions, which was recorded at the Grammy Museum earlier this year. And if that's not enough to make you feel things, she introduced the song by describing its inspiration: her ill-fated relationship with One Direction's Harry Styles.

"The number one feeling I felt in the relationship was anxiety, because it felt very fragile. It felt very tentative," said Swift. "It always felt like, okay, what's the next road block? What's the next thing that's gonna deter this? How long do we have before this turns into an awful mess and we break up? Is it a month? Is it three days?"

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