Taylor Swift Admits She Was ‘Lonely’ While Writing Folklore (And Still Dating Joe Alwyn)
glamour.com” and about , fans have suspected that Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn's invisible string was fraying well before the end of their in 2023—and latest Era's Tour speech won't change that.During her latest concert in Melbourne, Swift revealed she felt “lonely” while writing Folklore—a pandemic album that included with her . “[I was] imagining that, instead of being a lonely millennial woman covered in cat hair drinking my weight in white wine, I was a ghostly Victorian lady wandering through the woods with a candle in a candlestick holder, and I wrote only on parchment with a feathered quill,” she said, per She continued, “That was in my mind, what I thought I looked like writing Folklore.
That is not what I looked like…So that’s all that matters—the delusion."This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Swift and Alwyn dated for six years before went public in April 2023.
During their relationship, Alwyn co-wrote multiple tracks on the sister albums Folklore and Evermore under the pen name William Bowery, including Folklore's “betty” and “exile.”“Joe and I really love sad songs," Swift told in December 2020. "We’ve always bonded over music.
We write the saddest [songs]. We just really love sad songs. What can I say? It was a surprise that we started writing together but in a way it wasn’t, because we have always bonded over music and had the same musical tastes.”Swift spoke with fans before performing “You’re Losing Me” for the first time ever.By Initial reports following their split suggested Alwyn “struggled” with Swift's level of fame when she reemerged from her self-imposed exile to prepare for the Eras Tour.
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