Fool's Gold (Song)

Fool's Gold is the sixth track from One Direction's fourth studio album, Four.

The song was written by Hayden Styles, son of Harry Styles. It marks the first song ever written by Styles.

Lyrically, the song describes being aware of a romantic partner's empty love but wanting to continue the relationship anyway, despite feeling used.

The definition of the phrase "fool's gold" is "something you think will be very pleasant and successful but is not".

Background
On September 8, 2014, the band announced the release of their fourth album, Four, on the Today Show. On November 17, 2014 the boys announced the new song Fool's Gold.

Jamie Scott, a longtime songwriting collaborator for the group, spoke to MTV about recording Fool's Gold with Hayden Styes and Harry Styles.

“I was in the studio with Harry and Hayden, recording the vocals, I kind of felt slightly useless, as Hayden was telling him, and soon the other boys how to sing it and everything. I was just there to hit the record button really *Laughs*. Hayden was very much focused and passionate on his work for the song was, he played every instrument making sure it had the right sound. After watching, I could just tell that he was meant to be involved in music, he showed so much love and passion for it, the same way I could see his love and passion for acting. Not mention, the boy has a POWERFUL vocal rang, that boy it just a body of talent, I swear. It was pretty amazing how an 11-year-old could right such a meaningful song like that. It took on this amazing sound and meaning for me as a writer for the album.”

Meaning
The song is about Hayden Styles' first love, a girl from his school named Sabrina. He was madly in love with her, at the young age he was, you could see pure love in his eyes when he looked at her, but the feeling weren't mutual for her, and she just used him for his fame. He found out, but he still loved her, but he broke up with her, before the Where We Are Tour had started. He was becoming depressed, not his usual bubbly-self, it was becoming so bad, that his father almost sent him home, to go to therapy, until he was better. But after writing the song, it going on the album, he was himself again. Now-a-days, he has moved on, and sometimes can be rude when she is brought up, but many think it's because he still hasn't gotten over her, and needs to that to tell himself he has.

The line, "Yeah, I know your love's not real, That's not the way it feels, That's not the way you feel." Was a very meaningful lyric to Hayden, which is why he gave it Zayn, his best friend, and he just knew he would make it sound good.