Joe Alwyn’s Grammy Win With Girlfriend Taylor Swift Was ‘Ridiculous’: Her Fame ‘Is Not Something I Think About’

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An unexpected surprise. Joe Alwyn explained that he doesn’t often think about girlfriend Taylor Swift‘s fame, so he certainly didn’t expect their fun musical collaboration to win a Grammy Award.“That was a surreal bonus of lockdown.

That’s an understatement,” the British actor, 31, told The Guardian in an interview published Saturday, April 30. “It wasn’t like, ’It’s five o’clock, it’s time to try and write a song together.’ It came about from messing around on a piano, and singing badly, then being overheard, and being, like, ‘Let’s see what happens if we get to the end of it together.’”Alwyn, credited as William Bowery, cowrote “Exile” and “Betty” for Swift’s Folklore, released in July 2020, which won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in March 2021.

He also cowrote “Champagne Problems,” “Coney Island” and the title track of Evermore, which she released in December 2020.“I mean fun is such a stupid word, but it was a lot of fun,” he continued. “And it was never a work thing, or a ‘Let’s try and do this because we’re going to put this out’ thing.

It was just like baking sourdough in lockdown. The Grammy was obviously this ridiculous bonus.”The Grammy winner, who said he doesn’t plan to pen any more hits, is focused on acting.