Hailee Steinfeld Relives A Relationship From Hell On 'Wrong Direction'

It's sad bop season! January is about the time you identify that Valentine's Day is going to suck, so the complete month is an ice cream-o-thon; its main event is a competition of who can quickly scroll through their exes' Twitter eats the fastest while looking for evidence of their current love life.


Hailee Steinfeld's new song, "Wrong Direction," is the soundtrack to this sorrowful period. This bed of piano notes and wounded whispers makes it clear that her last relationship was heaven at times, hell at others, and right now, she's ready to open up about what made it so painful: infidelity.


Steinfeld's new song is emotional warfare, and her unnamed ex (it's heavily speculated that "Wrong Direction" is about Niall Horan, whom she dated for each year) is on the other side of the trenches. She sprawls out over a slow and stirring piano and bares all about what she went through, first with a powerful four-line bombshell:  "I don't hate you / No, I couldn't if I wanted to / I just hate all of the hurt that you put me through / And that I blame myself for letting you." With that, she sets the tone; she can forgive, nevertheless she'll never forget.


She builds the scenario to be an identically hellish and utopian partnership with a piece of the song's chorus: "Didn't even stop to question / Every time you burned me down / Don't know how; for a moment it felt like heaven." As she keeps throwing wood into this upset fire, she starts to wonder how exactly she got into the situation.


"How did you sweep me right off my feet?" She croons incredulously. It's a tale of lowering one's guard for love and suffering because of it. Each person can relate to the pain in her voice that she spreads over the mellow atmosphere like warm butter.


Listen to Steinfeld's sad new song up above.