Singer Taylor Swift and actor Joe Alwyn have broken up after six years of dating.
This was confirmed this Saturday, April 8 exclusively by
Entertainment Tonight
,
and later also by
People magazine
,
where they revealed that the separation has been friendly and "not at all dramatic."
From
ET
they also confirm that their separation was the reason why Joe Alwyn (32 years old, Royal Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom) has not attended any of Taylor Swift's tour concerts (33 years old, West Reading, Pennsylvania, USA USA),
The Eras Tour
, which kicked off on March 17 at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale (USA), and which has grabbed headlines for its spectacular production and, above all, for the 44 songs from all the albums of his career that he performs on just over three hours long.
Swift and Alwyn have so far not commented on their breakup.
Something that is not surprising, since both have been very discreet regarding their courtship, which began in 2016. And the little that has been known about their relationship in this time has been through the songs that the artist gave him. has dedicated to the actor during the time they have been together.
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The exact moment they met was not clear until Taylor released the song
Dress
, included on her album
Reputation
(2017), and which is about two people who have to have a secret relationship, hidden from everyone's eyes. (“
Our secret moments in a room full of people / They don't have a clue about you and me”
).
In the song, Taylor recounts the moment they first saw each other ("
You with the shaved head / Me as a platinum blonde"
).
This track served Swift's fans, who always analyze her lyrics on the internet and often her theories are confirmed by the artist herself who gives
Likes
to the posts, to find out that the couple should have met at the 2016 Met Gala, one of the few moments Swift has swapped her golden blonde for a platinum blonde, and a gala that Alwyn also attended.
The mystery as to why the couple did not reveal the exact date has to do with the fact that, at that time, she was still dating DJ Calvin Harris.
In an interview for the British edition of Vogue
magazine
In 2018, when they had been dating for two years, it was Alwyn himself who opened up about the search for privacy in their relationship.
In the case of the actor, his relationship with the singer catapulted him to fame over his work, being baptized at first as
"Taylor's bae"
or "Taylor's sweetheart", something that the actor, who was also beginning to carve out a name in the interpreting industry, he did not want to allow.
In the case of Swift, all her relationships have always been in the spotlight of the media, where every romantic adventure (or misadventure) of the artist has been overanalyzed: “I think we have been very private successfully, and now people have taken it in,” Alwyn said.
Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn in New York in October 2019. Jackson Lee (GC Images)
“I understand people's curiosity about the world we live in, about people's private lives.
Well, I don't get it, but I know it exists," Alwyn revealed in another interview with
Total Film
.
"For me, I just don't feel like it's something I want to offer."
The change in the way of relating to the media by Swift took place in 2016, when the singer ended up disappearing from social networks after her bitter controversy with the Kardashian-Wests.
To get away from both traditional and digital media, the singer went to London for a while, and there she began dating Joe Alwyn.
A year later, she would release her album
De ella Reputation
de ella, the artist's darkest album and, at the same time, the one she considers the most cathartic.
It deals with her relationship with fame, rumors and the image that is projected of her is her.
It's definitely about her reputation, and the dark side of being a pop star.
The only bright side of
Reputation
is the one dedicated to Joe Alwyn and love.
Taylor Swift acknowledged that all of the positive songs on the record were about her relationship with Alwyn.
Song number five on the album (that is, the vulnerable ballad) is titled
Delicate
and it deals with Taylor's doubts before confessing her feelings to Joe, as she herself clarified on iHeartRadio: “The idea of reputation is something I touch on throughout the album, but when the album starts it is much more bombastic.
It's more like, 'Oh, I don't care what you say about me, I don't care what you say about my reputation, it doesn't matter.'
But then it gets to this point, on track five, where it's like what happens when you meet someone you really want in your life and then you start to worry about what they may have heard about you before they met you.
And you start to wonder, 'Could something fake, like your reputation, affect something real, like this?'
And this is the first point of vulnerability on the drive.”
In the lyrics, she sings: “
My reputation has never been worse / So I hope you like me for who I am / We can't make a promise now, right?
/ But we can make ourselves a drink
. ”
Since then there are numerous songs that Swift has dedicated to Alwyn in the six years they were together.
From
Lover
, the title track to his next album, to the two albums he released during the pandemic,
Folklore
and
Evermore
, where the pair even collaborated on some of the tracks, with Alwyn using the pseudonym William Bowery.
Folklore
managed to win the Grammy for album of the year in 2021, where she also competed with
Evermore
.
In her acceptance speech, Swift dedicated a few words to her then-partner: "Joe is the first person I play every song I write to, and I had a great time writing songs with you in quarantine," she said upon receiving the Grammy.
In the documentary
Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions
, which showed both the artistic process and the production of the album, the singer revealed how their collaboration came to be: “I thought, 'Hey, this could be something weird and we might hate it but , since we're in quarantine and nothing else is happening, shall we try to do a song together?'”
Alwyn is credited as a lyricist on
Betty
and
folklore
's
Exile
and on
Champagne Problems
,
Coney Island
and
Evermore
in
Evermore
.
In their search for their privacy and to keep their relationship out of the eyes of the people, as curiously the singer already anticipated in her first song dedicated to the actor,
Dress
, the couple has hardly been seen on red carpets or other types of appearances. public.
In the documentary
Miss Americana
, released in 2020, Joe Alwyn appears only after she finishes performing at a concert.
A relationship so discreet that it has even been difficult for her to find out that it has ended.
