"I Don't Wanna Live Forever" (also subtitled "Fifty Shades Darker") is a song by the English singer
Zayn and the American singer-songwriter
Taylor Swift
Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Known for her autobiographical songwriting, artistic versatility, and Cultural impact of Taylor Swift, cultural impact, Swift is one of the Best selling artists, w ...
from the 2017 soundtrack ''
Fifty Shades Darker: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack''. It was written by Swift,
Sam Dew, and its producer
Jack Antonoff
Jack Michael Antonoff (born March 31, 1984) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is the lead vocalist of the rock band Bleachers, and previously the guitarist and drummer for the pop band Fun and the lead vocalist of t ...
. An
R&B,
dance-pop
Dance-pop is a Music genre, genre of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1970s to early 1980s. It is generally uptempo music intended for nightclubs with the intention of being danceable but also suitable for contemporary hit ra ...
, and
electropop
Electropop is a popular music fusion genre combining elements of the electronic and pop styles. It has been described as a variant of synth-pop with emphasis on a hard electronic sound. The genre was developed in the 1980s and saw a rev ...
ballad
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of Great Britain and Ireland from the Late Middle Ages until the 19th century. They were widely used across Eur ...
about romantic yearning between two ex-lovers, "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" features finger snap beats and
falsetto
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It is produced by the vibration of the ...
vocals from Swift and Zayn.
Universal Music Group
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released it as a single on December 9, 2016, and its music video was released on January 27, 2017.
Music critics generally praised the duo's vocals and the sultry production. Several critics have nonetheless regarded "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" as one of Swift's lesser tracks. In the United States, "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" peaked at number two on the
''Billboard'' Hot 100 to become the highest-peaking song from the
''Fifty Shades'' film series, and it was
certified
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four-times platinum by the
Recording Industry Association of America
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for selling over four million units. It reached the top five on charts of many countries across Europe and has been
certified
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diamond in Brazil, France, and Poland, and multi-platinum in many other territories.
Directed by Grant Singer, the
music video
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for "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" features Zayn and Swift smashing objects in a hotel room. At the
60th Annual Grammy Awards
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in 2018, "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" was nominated for
Best Song Written for Visual Media. It won
Best Collaboration at the
2017 MTV Video Music Awards, Best Collaboration of the Year at the
2017 MTV Millennial Awards, and an
iHeartRadio
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Titanium Award for amassing one billion spins. Swift performed "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" live during several concerts in 2017 and on four shows of
the Eras Tour in 2023 and 2024.
Background and release
Taylor Swift
Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Known for her autobiographical songwriting, artistic versatility, and Cultural impact of Taylor Swift, cultural impact, Swift is one of the Best selling artists, w ...
wrote "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" with
Sam Dew and its producer
Jack Antonoff
Jack Michael Antonoff (born March 31, 1984) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is the lead vocalist of the rock band Bleachers, and previously the guitarist and drummer for the pop band Fun and the lead vocalist of t ...
, for
''Fifty Shades Darker: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'' (2017). It was Swift's first original song since her 2014 studio album,
''1989''.
Universal Music Group
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released "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" for
download
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onto the
iTunes Store and
streaming
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onto
Apple Music
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on December 9, 2016, as the soundtrack's lead single.
It was released to US
hot adult contemporary
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radio on December 12
and US
contemporary hit radio
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on December 13, through
Big Machine and
Republic Records
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.
The song was made available for streaming onto
Spotify
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on December 16. In Italy, Universal and
Sony Music Italy released the song for
radio airplay
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on January 13, 2017.
Swift's vocals were recorded by Antonoff at Rough Customer Studio in
Brooklyn
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, New York City, and Zayn's vocals were recorded by Daniel Zaidenstadt at the
Record Plant
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in Los Angeles, California. All instruments were played by Antonoff, and the track was
mixed by
Serban Ghenea
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Early life and education
Ghenea was born in Romania, and in 1976 he moved to Montreal with his family. H ...
at MixStar Studios in
Virginia Beach, Virginia
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. Swift's vocals were recorded by Antonoff at Rough Customer Studio in Brooklyn, while Zayn's by Daniel Zaidenstadt at the
Record Plant
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in Los Angeles.
According to Antonoff, it took him one week to put the track together, combining Swift's vocals that he recorded and Zayn's vocals sent from Los Angeles.
The track was
mastered by
Tom Coyne at
Sterling Sound
George Marino (April 15, 1947June 4, 2012) was an American mastering engineer known for working on albums by rock bands starting in the late 1960s.
Biography
Marino was born on April 15, 1947, in the New York City borough The Bronx. He attended ...
Studio in New York.
Composition
"I Don't Wanna Live Forever" is 4 minutes and 5 seconds long.
It is a
mid-tempo R&B,
electropop
Electropop is a popular music fusion genre combining elements of the electronic and pop styles. It has been described as a variant of synth-pop with emphasis on a hard electronic sound. The genre was developed in the 1980s and saw a rev ...
,
and
dance-pop
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ballad
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driven by finger snap beats. Issy Sampson of
''The Guardian'' categorized it as a
slow jam
A slow jam is music with rhythm and blues and soul influences. Slow jams are commonly R&B ballads or downtempo songs, and are mostly soft-sounding with heavily emotional or romantic lyrical content. The earliest known use of the term is from a ...
.
Many critics regarded the production as sultry.
Swift and Zayn sing the track using breathy vocals and
falsetto
Falsetto ( , ; Italian language, Italian diminutive of , "false") is the vocal register occupying the frequency range just above the modal voice register and overlapping with it by approximately one octave.
It is produced by the vibration of the ...
harmonies
In music, harmony is the concept of combining different sounds in order to create new, distinct musical ideas. Theories of harmony seek to describe or explain the effects created by distinct pitches or tones coinciding with one another; harm ...
.
The lyrics are about romantic yearning between two ex-lovers and include self-interrogation about what the relationship means; Swift's narrator sings at one point: "Wonder if I dodged a bullet?/ or just lost the love of my life?"
Some lyrics were influenced by the dynamics of the ''Fifty Shades'' characters
Christian Grey and
Anastasia Steele ("I've been looking sad in all the nicest places").
Critical reception
Nolan Feeney of ''
Entertainment Weekly
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'' gave "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" a B+ rating. He contended that Swift succeeded in showing her sensual, sultry side and Zayn's falsetto vocals were impressive.
Sampson thought that the single continued the trend of "soundtracks that are better than the actual film", highlighting Swift's vocals for reaching "notes she hardly ever attempts" and the finger snap production as "on-brand" for the ''Fifty Shades'' franchise.
Hannah Mylrea of ''
NME
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'' thought that the track was more enticing than the ''Fifty Shades'' movie and described it as "a bit of a banger".
In June 2022,
''Business Insider'' ranked "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" as Swift's second-best soundtrack song, behind "
Safe & Sound" (2012). ''
Billboard
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'' in April 2024 ranked the single as Swift's second-best collaboration, behind "
Exile
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" (2020) featuring
Bon Iver
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, opining that Swift and Zayn gave the track enough character for it to become more than just a soundtrack single.
In a less enthusiastic review,
Rob Sheffield
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He is a long time contributing editor at ''Rolling Stone'', writing about music, TV, and pop culture. Previously, he was a contributing editor at '' Blen ...
of
''Rolling Stone'' ranked it 251st out of Swift's total 274 songs as of April 2024, deeming the track uninteresting and Swift and Zayn's vocals boring.
''Vulture'''s Nate Jones listed it at number 203 on his ranking of Swift's 245 songs as of April 2024, calling it a "wan duet". Lucy Ford of
''British GQ'' also deemed "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" a lesser entry among Swift's singles, saying that its "harsh falsetto and whimper of a
crescendo
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" made it fall flat.
Commercial performance
In the United States, "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" debuted at number six on the
''Billboard'' Hot 100, becoming Zayn's second top-10 single as a solo artist and Swift's 20th top 10. On the
Digital Song Sales
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chart, it debuted at number one, becoming Zayn's second song as a solo artist and Swift's 11th song to reach number one.
The single peaked at number two on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart dated March 4, 2017, becoming the highest-charting single from the ''Fifty Shades'' franchise, surpassing
Ellie Goulding's "
Love Me like You Do" (2015) and
the Weeknd
Abel Makkonen Tesfaye (; born February 16, 1990), known professionally as the Weeknd, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor. He is best known for adding Pop music, pop, electronic music, electronic and hip-hop stylings ...
's "
Earned It" (2014), which both peaked at number three.
It was Zayn's second top-five single as solo artist and Swift's 11th top-five single on the Hot 100. On ''Billboard''s airplay charts, the single peaked at number two on both
Adult Top 40
The Adult Pop Airplay (formerly known as Adult Pop Songs and Adult Top 40) chart is published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine and ranks "the most popular adult top 40 as based on radio airplay detections measured by Nielsen Broadcast Data Syste ...
and
Mainstream Top 40
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.
It reached over a million in sales by July 2017 and 1.4 million by November 2017,
and was the tenth-best-selling song of 2017 in the United States, selling 1.108 million copies within that year.
The
Recording Industry Association of America
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has
certified
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the single four-times platinum for surpassing four million units.
"I Don't Wanna Live Forever" peaked at number one in Sweden
and reached the top five on many charts across Europe: it peaked at number two in Austria, Belgian
Wallonia
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, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Norway, Portugal, and Switzerland;
number three in Hungary;
number four in Bulgaria, France, and Ireland;
and number five in Italy
and the United Kingdom. In Asia–Pacific, the song peaked at number two in Malaysia,
number three in Australia,
and number four in New Zealand.
The single has been
certified
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diamond in Brazil (double diamond), France, and Poland;
seven-times platinum in Australia and Canada;
four-times platinum in New Zealand and Norway;
triple platinum in Italy;
double platinum in Denmark, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom;
triple gold in Germany;
and platinum+gold in Mexico.
Music video

Directed by Grant Singer, the
music video
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for "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" was released on January 27, 2017, through both Zayn and Swift's official
YouTube
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and
Vevo
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accounts.
A behind-the-scenes video was released the same day. The music video was shot at the
St Pancras Renaissance London Hotel in
London
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, England.
It opens with Zayn walking into the hotel while being surrounded by
paparazzi
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. After getting into his room, he smashes objects like glasses and lamps.
Swift is then seen wearing dark lipstick, black
lingerie
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, an unbuttoned jacket, and walking down a dark hallway. She then angrily smashes the mirror and writhes around on bed as
close-up
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shots focus on her makeup and messy hair.
Towards the closing moments, there are brief scenes of the two together as lights flash around them.
''
Exclaim!
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'' wrote that the video had a
noirish and cinematic quality,
while
''Allure'' highlighted Swift's persona in the video as her powerful and confident embrace of her sexuality.
''Billboard'' summed up the video's narrative as being "fueled by the torture of love". ''Vulture'' wrote that the video features Zayn and Swift "sexily
earingthe weight of their romantic distress" but found Zayn's acting unconvincing and the video overall a little uncomfortable.
The video shooting was reported by
''The Sun'' to have caused damage and "set fire" to the hotel room.
On February 2 and 3, 2017, Swift and Zayn posted video recordings of them singing their acoustic version "I Don't Wanna Live Forever". Swift's video,
tweeted by
AT&T
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, shows her playing the guitar and singing the track for one minute, recorded during a break from her rehearsals for
DirecTV
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's upcoming concert. Zayn's black-and-white video shows him singing the full song in a dimly-lit studio over a backdrop of sparse acoustic guitar.
Live performances
Swift performed "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" live several times in 2017. She first performed an acoustic version of it during DirecTV's pre-
Super Bowl
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"Super Saturday Night" event in
Houston
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, Texas, on February 4. In December, she sang "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" at
KIIS FM's Jingle Ball in
Inglewood, California
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, on December 1, at
B96 Chicago and
Pepsi
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Jingle Bash 2017 in
Chicago
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, Illinois, on December 7, at iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour 2017: Z100 Jingle Ball in New York City on December 8,
and at
Capital FM's
Jingle Bell Ball in London, England, on December 10.
On her
Reputation Stadium Tour, Swift sang "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" as a "surprise song" at the June 9, 2018, concert in
Manchester
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, England. She sang it again at
the Eras Tour as a "surprise song" at four shows: on piano at the June 3, 2023, show in Chicago; as part of a piano
mashup with "
Dress
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Dress shapes, silh ...
" (2017) at the March 2, 2024, show in
Singapore
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, which was
live streamed via Swift's
Instagram
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account; as part of an acoustic guitar mashup with "
Imgonnagetyouback" (2024) at the July 28, 2024, show in
Munich
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, Germany; and as part of an acoustic guitar mashup with "
Mine" (2010) at the November 15, 2024, show in
Toronto
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, Canada.
Accolades
At the
60th Annual Grammy Awards
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in 2018, "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" was nominated for
Best Song Written for Visual Media. Although
Universal Pictures
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ran a campaign to push the song as an
Academy Award
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contender,
it ultimately was not shortlisted, leading ''
Variety'' to describe it as a "snub".
Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from the
liner notes
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Origin
Liner notes are descended from the prog ...
of ''Fifty Shades Darker: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack''
Recording
*
Recorded at Rough Customer Studio (
Brooklyn
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, New York)
*Zayn's vocals recorded at
Record Plant
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(Los Angeles, California)
* Taylor Swift's vocals recorded at Rough Costumer Studios (Brooklyn, New York)
* Additional vocals engineered at NightBird Recording Studios (
West Hollywood
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History
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, California)
*
Mixed at MixStar Studios (
Virginia Beach, Virginia
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)
*
Mastered at
Sterling Sound Studios (New York City, New York)
Management
* Published by Sony/ATV Tree Publishing/Taylor Swift Music (
BMI), Sony/ATV Songs LLC/Ducky Donathan Music (BMI), Sony/ATV Sonata/By the Chi Publishing (
SESAC
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UPG Music Publishing (BMI) and 1320 Music Publishing (SESAC)
* Zayn appears courtesy of
RCA Records
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* Taylor Swift appears courtesy of
Big Machine Records
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Personnel
*
Zayn – lead vocals
*
Taylor Swift
Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Known for her autobiographical songwriting, artistic versatility, and Cultural impact of Taylor Swift, cultural impact, Swift is one of the Best selling artists, w ...
– lead vocals, songwriter
*
Jack Antonoff
Jack Michael Antonoff (born March 31, 1984) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is the lead vocalist of the rock band Bleachers, and previously the guitarist and drummer for the pop band Fun and the lead vocalist of t ...
–
producer, songwriter,
instruments,
vocals recording (Taylor Swift)
*
Sam Dew –
background vocals
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, songwriter
* Daniel Zaidenstadt – vocals recording (Zayn)
* Saltwives – additional vocals engineer
*
Şerban Ghenea –
mixing
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Tom Coyne –
mastering
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Release history
See also
*
List of number-one digital songs of 2017 (U.S.)
*
List of ''Billboard'' Hot 100 top 10 singles in 2017
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''Billboard'' Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2017
*
List of number-one singles of the 2010s (Sweden)
This is a list of number-one singles during the 2010s according to the Sverigetopplistan, a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of Sweden.
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
See als ...
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List of UK top 10 singles in 2017
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List of top 25 singles for 2017 in Australia
*
List of top 10 singles in 2017 (Australia)
References
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2010s ballads
2016 songs
2016 singles
Taylor Swift songs
Zayn Malik songs
Songs written by Taylor Swift
Songs written by Jack Antonoff
Songs written by Sam Dew
Song recordings produced by Jack Antonoff
Male–female vocal duets
Number-one singles in Sweden
Fifty Shades film music
Contemporary R&B ballads
American dance-pop songs
British dance-pop songs
Electropop ballads
Breakup songs
Universal Music Group singles
Songs written for films