and Valentine’s Day co-star, for ending their relationship. In a Facebook Live interview promoting his show Scream Queens, Taylor Lautner confirmed this song was about him.

The song was Swift’s first to feature orchestral arrangements, the second being fellow Speak Now track- ‘Haunted’. The song was successful, receiving critical acclaim and peaking at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It went on to win two BMI Awards- ‘Publisher of the Year’ & ‘Award Winning Songs’, as well as a Teen Choice Award for ‘Choice Break-Up Song’. It was also notably written on a napkin in an airplane bathroom.

In the prologue to Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), Swift stated that some of the emotions felt on the record “were surprising to people.” When giving examples to that statement Swift said for this track: "Some expected a kiss of breakup song but instead got a hand-on-heart apology…"

Taylor told Comcast in a since-deleted video: ‘Back To December’ is a song that addresses a first for me, in that I’ve never apologized to someone in a song before. This is about a person who was incredible to me- just perfect in a relationship, and I was really careless with him. So, this is a song full of words that I would say to him that he deserves to hear.