Calvin Harris Says ‘My Way’ Is About A Grocery Store
After releasing his brand new song “My Way,” everyone is wondering whether or not Calvin Harris’ new song is about Taylor Swift or not.
The lyrics read “I made my move and it was all about you. Now I feel so far removed.”
While some of his fans think Calvin Harris is trying to settle the feud, others believe this is his official revenge song.
During an interview, Calvin Harris said that the “song’s kind of about breaking out of a situation that you thought was a good thing.” He then proceeded to tell fans that the concept for the song began years ago when he left Safeway. “I was trying to move to London and I was working in the store in Scotland, I was trying to go on and make music for a living but I couldn’t because I didn’t have any money. I was like, damn this grocery store! If I could break out of this I could have enough time to work on music and get good.”
So while it seems that the song was in the making for the past few years, the timing couldn’t have been better.
Keep throwing that shade Calvin.
The Safeway explanation checks out, too. Harris has talked before about grinding away in Scotland long before he was a global superstar, working retail jobs to pay the bills while trying to get his production career off the ground. That grocery store gig became a shorthand for everything he needed to escape in order to chase music full time, which lines up exactly with the “situation that you thought was a good thing” he referenced when explaining the track.
Of course, none of that stopped the internet from running with the Taylor Swift theory anyway. The lyrics were vague enough, and the timing close enough to their public split, that fans kept connecting dots regardless of what Harris said in interviews. It’s a pretty familiar pattern in pop and dance music alike — an artist can explain a song’s origin story as many times as they want, but if the lyrics line up with headlines, listeners are going to read into it.
Either way, “My Way” ended up being one of the more personal records Harris put out that era, blending his signature production polish with lyrics that, according to him at least, had nothing to do with an ex and everything to do with a grocery store paycheck back in Scotland.
