Taylor Swift wasn’t the only thing in Calvin Harris’ way.
The Scottish DJ is claiming his new song “My Way” where he repeatedly sings “you were the one thing in my way” isn’t a dig at his ex-girlfriend Swift, but rather all about himself.
Harris, 32, told Elvis Duran during the Z100 morning show on Friday that he’s not hinting at the bad blood between him and Swift on the track, he’s actually referencing his former job bagging groceries at a Safeway.
“It’s breaking out of a situation,” he said. “I thought of the concept years ago, when I 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,” the “Summer” singer continued.
Harris told the station that he is not like his former flame Swift, 26, when it comes to creating lyrics based on his personal relationships.
“I’m not an autobiographical singer,” he explained. “I’m very vague with my messages.”
While he suggests the lines are “vague,” he also dropped the words “two faced” early on in the track.
“I made my move and it was all about you and now I feel so far removed,” he continues in the song.
Harris and Swift split in early June after 15 months of dating.
Drama ensued following the breakup, when Swift’s team released that she was actually responsible for writing parts of Harris’ hit song “This is What You Came For.”
The DJ took to Twitter to slam the “Mean” singer for trying to “bury” him.
“Hurtful to me at this point that her and her team would go so far out of their way to try and make ME look bad at this stage though,” he wrote to 8.5 million followers.
The latest track from Harris, “My Way,” was available on YouTube and Vevo on Thursday. It was also posted for sale on Apple Music. It will be featured on his still-untitled fifth studio album due out later this year.
