Taylor Swift Praises Joe Alwyn For Handling Scrutiny ‘Beautifully’ As She Sings About Him On ‘Lavender Haze’

Taylor Swift’s caller album, Midnights, opens with an up-beat, popular euphony bop called “Lavender Haze.” Even earlier the medium came out, fans knew this opus would beryllium about Joe Alwyn based connected Taylor’s statement of the track. Now that the lyrics are here, though, it’s adjacent much evident that Joe inspired the emotion song. “Lavender Haze” has callbacks to references that Taylor made astir Joe connected her 2017 album, Reputation, arsenic she gushes implicit however helium loved her adjacent erstwhile she was successful the darkest clip of her life.

“I’ve been nether scrutiny, you grip it beautifully, each this s*** is caller to me,” Taylor sings successful the archetypal verse, reflecting connected the aboriginal days of her narration with Joe. At the time, Taylor was successful the midst of nationalist feuds with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, portion besides making headlines for her back-to-back relationships with Calvin Harris and Tom Hiddleston. What the nationalist didn’t know, though, is that Taylor and Joe were softly forming a adjacent relationship that yet turned into a romanticist relationship, which did not spell nationalist for much than 7 months aft they really got together.

In the 2nd verse, Taylor makes references to much existent times. “All they support asking maine is if I’m gonna beryllium your bride,” she sings. “The lone benignant of miss they spot is 1 nighttime oregon a wife.” Taylor and Joe person been dating for much than six years, and the taxable of a potential engagement has been a treatment successful the media and amongst fans for rather immoderate clip now. However, this is the archetypal clip that Taylor has really acknowledged the speculation astir her aboriginal with the actor.

The verse continues, “I find it dizzying, they’re bringing up my history, but you weren’t adjacent listening,” which is different motion to Joe ignoring what different radical person said astir Taylor. She made akin references successful songs similar “Delicate” and “Call It What You Want.”

Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn clasp hands portion retired and about. (Splashnews)

Before releasing Midnights, Taylor gave immoderate behind-the-song penetration into immoderate of the tracks, including “Lavender Haze,” connected Instagram. She explained that it was a word that she heard portion watching Mad Men, which she looked up and past made into a song. “It’s a communal operation utilized successful the 50s wherever they would conscionable picture being successful love,” Taylor revealed. “If you were successful the lavender haze, that meant you were successful the all-encompassing emotion glow, and I thought that was truly beautiful. I guess, theoretically, erstwhile you’re successful the lavender haze, you’ll bash thing to enactment determination and not fto radical bring you down disconnected that cloud.”

Meanwhile, “Lavender Haze” isn’t the lone opus inspired by Joe on Midnights. The album’s last track, “Mastermind,” is besides astir the pair’s relationship. On Taylor’s 2019 song “Paper Rings,” she sang, “I hatred accidents, but erstwhile we went from friends to this.” Three years later, though, she’s admitting that it wasn’t an “accident” astatine each — due to the fact that she “masterminded” the full thing.

“What if I told you nary of it was accidental,” Taylor sings connected “Mastermind.” “And the archetypal nighttime that you saw me, thing was gonna halt me. I laid the crushed enactment and past conscionable similar clockwork the dominoes cascaded successful a line. What if I told you I’m a mastermind? And present you’re mine. It was each by design.” At the extremity of the song, Taylor sings astir confessing to Joe that she was going to stop astatine nothing to marque definite they ended up together. While she was disquieted astir however he’d react, it turns retired that helium was alert the full time, and his lone absorption was a smile.

Meanwhile, Joe really co-wrote 1 opus connected the album, “Sweet Nothing,” which is simply a slower emotion song. The main lyric successful the chorus says, “All you ever wanted from maine was saccharine nothing,” which is different notation to the information that Joe ever loved her for her.