Taylor Swift’s Boyfriend: Everything To Know About Joe Alwyn

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Taylor Swift and Joe AlwynBritish Vogue Fashion and Film BAFTA party, Annabel's, London, UK - 10 Feb 2019

Taylor Swift truly seems to person met her lucifer with Joe Alwyn. After years of dating successful the spotlight, the Grammy victor yet recovered bid with Joe. The 2 person been unneurotic since they secretly started dating successful the autumn of 2016, and person made a constituent to support their narration retired of the nationalist eye.

While the mates has been shy astir about details, fans cognize immoderate intimate bits astir Taylor and Joe’s relationships from the (many) songs that she’s written astir him. Lately, he’s adjacent opened up astir their romance successful an interrogation oregon two. Find retired much astir the pair’s narration below!

Taylor Before Joe

As 1 of the world’s biggest superstars, Taylor Swift’s emotion beingness has agelong been successful the spotlight. Her repertoire was adjacent filled with agelong songs during the opening of her vocation arsenic a state prima erstwhile she was conscionable 15 years old. Since then, she’s crooned astir heartbreak crossed genres. But the prima truly had to face her demons when she started feuding with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West successful 2016, and was flooded with nationalist hate.

Amid the feud, she was branded arsenic a “snake” by Kim, which led to thousands of Kimye fans coming aft her on-the-regular. Around this time, Taylor besides broke up with her longtime boyfriend, Calvin Harris, and started dating Tom Hiddleston conscionable weeks later. She had formed a ‘squad’ person group, filled with supermodels and different A-list stars. It didn’t instrumentality agelong for the nationalist to statement her arsenic “overexposed,” and it caused her to fundamentally spell into hiding and “disappear” from the nationalist eye.

Who Is Joe Alwyn?

Things were chaotic successful Taylor satellite earlier Joe Alwyn came into her world. The dapper histrion from England lived a overmuch much low-key beingness than Taylor, truthful helium was a enactment of caller aerial to the star. Though an actor, Hollywood was adjacent caller to Joe. He didn’t commencement studying acting until his precocious teens, and didn’t adjacent marque his acting debut until 2016.

Unlike Taylor, Joe was capable to spell to assemblage (he studied English lit and play astatine the University of Bristol), and unrecorded a comparatively mean life. Around the aforesaid clip helium started dating Taylor, helium began making a sanction for himself with roles successful movies similar The Favourite and Mary Queen of Scots. Of course, his narration with an planetary popular prima helped with his notoriety, arsenic well.

How Did Taylor Swift & Joe Alwyn Meet?

Taylor and Joe met astatine the Met Gala successful May 2016. Taylor was the co-chair of the lawsuit that year, and she was dating Calvin astatine the time. Fans didn’t cognize it, but Taylor and Calvin’s narration was astatine the extremity of its rope.

In the 2017 Swift song, “Dress,” Taylor sang astir gathering Joe astatine this precise event. “Flashback erstwhile you met me, your buzz chopped and my hairsbreadth bleached,” she croons connected the track. Indeed, Taylor did person bleached hair, and Joe a buzz cut, astatine that year’s Met Gala.

In 2017, Taylor released the opus “Gorgeous,” wherever she admits that she was infatuated with Joe from the start. “You should deliberation astir the consequence, of your magnetic tract being a small excessively strong, and I got a boyfriend, he’s older than us, he’s successful the nine doing I don’t cognize what,” she sings. In the chorus, she adds, “You’re truthful gorgeous, I can’t accidental thing to your face.”

Taylor’s Tryst With Tom Hiddleston

However, it wasn’t Joe who Taylor spent the nighttime dancing with astatine the Met Gala. Rather, she was caught spending rather a spot of prime clip with Tom connected the creation floor. Videos surfaced of the 2 dancing up a storm. By the opening of June, quality broke that Taylor and Calvin had split, and she was photographed kissing Tom successful Rhode Island conscionable 2 weeks later.

In Swift’s opus “Getaway Car,” she sings astir the situation. “The ties were black, the lies were white, successful shades of grey and candlelight, I wanted to permission him, I needed a reason,” she says successful the song’s archetypal verse. In the chorus, she besides makes it wide that she was conscionable utilizing Tom arsenic her “getaway car,” and notes that helium shouldn’t beryllium amazed that she coiled up leaving him conscionable months later.

Getting To Know Joe

Throughout her summertime fling with Tom, Taylor appears to person stayed friends with Joe. “I hatred accidents, but erstwhile we went from friends to this,” she sings astir the histrion successful her 2019 track, “Paper Rings.”

However, the opus “Cruel Summer” makes it wide that determination were deeper feelings beyond relationship being harbored. The song’s span hints that she was keeping her feelings for Joe a concealed each summertime long. “Said I’m fine, but it wasn’t true, I don’t wanna support secrets conscionable to support you, and I snuck successful done the plot gate, each nighttime that summertime conscionable to seal my fate,” she sings, hinting that she whitethorn person adjacent been sneaking disconnected to spot Joe without Tom knowing.

“Paper Rings” besides features the lyrics, “The vino is cold, similar the enarthrosis that I gave you successful the street, feline and rodent for a period oregon 2 oregon three,” which seems to uncover that Taylor felt she had to disregard and evade Joe portion secretly being successful emotion with him.

Joe & Taylor Go Public In 2016

It wasn’t until October 2016 that Taylor and Joe were publically connected. The 2 some attended a backstage Kings of Leon performance successful New York City, arsenic good arsenic an after-party astatine the Bowery Hotel. Taylor was photographed astatine the lawsuit with immoderate friends, and it was aboriginal uncovered that Joe was besides successful attendance. At the time, though, determination was nary transportation betwixt the pair. It wasn’t until May 2017 that quality outlets began reporting that Taylor and Joe were an item. They had been capable to support their narration a concealed for 8 months.

The nonstop timing of erstwhile Taylor and Joe’s narration began is unclear, but successful April 2018, Taylor hinted that their day is Sept. 28. She released a screen of Earth, Wind & Fire’s opus “September” and changed 1 lyric from “Do you remember, the 21st nighttime of September” to “Do you remember, the 28th nighttime of September?”

It’s wide from Taylor’s euphony that she credits Joe with getting her done the hardest clip of her beingness aft the play with Kim and Kanye. In her 2017 opus “Call It What You Want,” she sings, “All the liars are calling maine one, nobody’s heard from maine for months, I’m doing amended than I ever was” and “Bridges burn, I ne'er learn, astatine slightest I did 1 happening right, I’m laughing with my lover, making forts nether covers, spot him similar a brother, yea you cognize I did 1 happening right.”

Taylor Sings About Tom On ‘Midnights’

Taylor’s 2022 medium Midnights opens with “Lavender Haze,” a tribute to her romance with Joe. In the song, she talks astir however he’s supported her during her 2017 Reputation drama, siging “I’ve been nether scrutiny, you grip it beautifully, each this s*** is caller to me.” She touches connected a imaginable engagement successful the adjacent lines, saying, “All they support asking maine is if I’m gonna beryllium your bride. The lone benignant of miss they spot is 1 nighttime oregon a wife.”

Taylor explained the song’s rubric up of the release, telling Instagram followers however she archetypal heard the operation connected the show Mad Men. “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.”

The album’s opus “Mastermind” is besides astir Joe. Though she’d antecedently called their relationship “accidental,” Taylor appeared to driblet the ruse successful the sassy track. “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 halt astatine thing 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.

How They Stay Private

Taylor has been a spot much unfastened astir however she handles the stress of dating successful the spotlight successful caller years. Talking astir her emotion with Joe up of Midnights’ merchandise successful Oct. 2022, she said, “My narration for six years, we’ve had to dodge weird rumors, tabloid stuff, and we conscionable disregard it. So [“Lavender Haze”] is benignant of astir the enactment of ignoring that worldly to support the existent stuff.”

Tom said a akin happening backmost successful Apr. 2022 with Elle. Explaining wherefore helium keeps his cards close to his chest, helium said, “It’s not truly [because I] privation to beryllium guarded and private, it’s much a effect to thing else. We unrecorded successful a civilization that is truthful progressively intrusive. The much you springiness and frankly, adjacent if you don’t springiness it, thing volition beryllium taken.”

Are Taylor & Joe Engaged?

Despite speculation, Taylor and Joe are not engaged. A somewhat exhausted Joe touched connected the subject aft helium was asked by WSJ Magazine successful Apr. 2022. “If I had a lb for each clip I deliberation I’ve been told I’ve been engaged, past I’d person a batch of lb coins,” the British histrion said. Still, helium remained coy, saying, “I mean, the information is, if the reply was yes, I wouldn’t say, and if the reply was no, I wouldn’t say.”

Taylor Swift & Joe Alwyns’ Top Moments

Even though Taylor is not shy erstwhile it comes to singing astir Joe connected her songs, the 2 person made a constituent to beryllium photographed unneurotic arsenic small arsenic possible. They’ve ne'er erstwhile shared a representation unneurotic connected societal media, and person not walked a reddish carpet unneurotic yet, either. However, contempt their attempts to enactment private, the lovebirds person been caught retired successful nationalist a fewer times during their relationship.

At the extremity of 2018, Taylor supported Joe astatine the premiere of his movie The Favourite. She didn’t locomotion the reddish carpet, but she got glammed up and was photographed leaving a post-premiere enactment with her man. The Favourite was a large grant show-nominee successful 2019. Joe attended that year’s Golden Globes solo for the film, but Taylor made a astonishment quality arsenic a presenter, and the 2 were spotted leaving an after-party together. She was besides by his broadside astatine an after-party for the BAFTAs successful Feb. 2019.

Of course, Joe has gone retired of his mode to enactment Taylor rather a bit, arsenic well. He was determination to ticker her show on Saturday Night Live successful Oct. 2019, and they were photographed heading to the after-party together. Joe besides supported Taylor astatine the premiere of Cats successful 2019, though helium did not locomotion the reddish carpet. In 2020, the 2 were astatine the Golden Globes erstwhile again, and this time, they sat adjacent to each different astatine the aforesaid table. Photographers caught Taylor looking lovingly astatine Joe wrong the grant ceremony, and determination were adjacent immoderate cute PDA moments! That February, Joe was by Taylor’s broadside astatine the NME Awards, and a instrumentality wrong the lawsuit caught them kissing connected video!

Joe Appears In ‘Miss Americana’

In Taylor’s 2020 documentary Miss Americana, she opened up a spot much about her relationship with Joe. Footage revealed that Joe was determination for the opening nighttime of Taylor’s Reputation tour, and erstwhile she got disconnected stage, the archetypal happening she did was find him truthful she could run into his arms. In the doc, Taylor discusses her play with Kim and Kanye, but adds, “I besides was falling successful emotion with idiosyncratic who had a wonderfully normal, balanced life.” She besides says, “Even though it was [a] truly horrible [time], I was happy. But I wasn’t blessed successful the mode I was trained to beryllium happy. It was happiness without anyone else’s input. We were just…happy.”

During the coronavirus successful 2020, Taylor and Joe’s narration crossed implicit from idiosyncratic to nonrecreational erstwhile they started collaborating connected songs unneurotic portion quarantining. When Taylor amazed fans with her album, Folklore, successful July 2020, determination was a mysterious co-writer named William Bowery connected 2 of the tracks. Fans began theorizing that William Bowery was Joe owed to 1 of the pair’s archetypal nationalist hangouts taking spot astatine the Bowery Hotel successful 2016. Plus, Joe’s grandfather, William Alwyn, was a composer, conductor and euphony teacher. When Taylor released unrecorded recordings of Folklore for her Disney+ movie, Folkore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions, she confirmed that William Bowery is, indeed, Joe. William Bowery returned to co-write 3 much tracks connected Taylor’s adjacent album, Evermore, which was released successful Dec. 2020.

When Folklore won the grant for Album of the Year astatine the Grammys successful March 2021, Taylor made definite to shout Joe out successful her speech. “I wanna convey Joe,” she said. “The archetypal idiosyncratic I play each azygous opus that I write. I had the champion clip penning songs with you successful quarantine.” It was the archetypal clip she publically mentioned him successful this manner. She shared a akin sentiment portion being honored with the Global Icon Award astatine the BRIT Awards successful May.

Taylor Swift’s Past Relationships

Before Joe, Taylor was successful a fig of high-profile relationships. Her archetypal nationalist romance was with Joe Jonas during the summertime and autumn of 2008. Taylor made a astonishment quality astatine the Jonas Brothers’ circuit that summertime to sing her deed “Should’ve Said No,” and she and Joe began being spotted retired and astir unneurotic aft that. Unfortunately, the narration was short-lived, arsenic Taylor revealed that Joe “broke up with her implicit the phone” that October. She penned songs similar “Forever & Always,” “Better Than Revenge,” “Last Kiss” and “Mr. Perfectly Fine” astir the relationship, and now, the 2 are friends!

Following Joe, Taylor was successful a narration with Taylor Lautner, who she met connected the acceptable of the movie Valentine’s Day. They were unneurotic for the 2nd fractional of 2009 earlier splitting that December. Swift wrote her archetypal apology song, “Back to December,” astir the breakup. Next came a fling with John Mayer, though fans didn’t adjacent cognize that narration existed until months aboriginal erstwhile Tay released the heartbreaking opus “Dear John” successful Oct. 2010.

From the extremity of 2010 until the opening of 2011, Taylor was with Jake Gyllenhaal. It’s nary concealed that helium broke her heart, which fans cognize from the fan-favorite way “All Too Well.” Several of the songs connected Taylor’s 2012 album, Red, were astir her narration with Jake, including “We Are Never Getting Back Together”, “State of Grace,” and “The Moment I Knew.” After Jake, Taylor was with Conor Kennedy during the summertime of 2012. They were seen hanging retired successful Rhode Island unneurotic rather a bit, and Taylor adjacent got to cognize Conor’s celebrated family. She penned the opus “Starlight” for his grandmother, Ethel Kennedy, who was Robert F. Kennedy’s widow.

Of course, Taylor besides dated Harry Styles. Although the 2 had been linked a fewer times prior, their narration strengthened astatine the extremity of 2012. They were unneurotic for conscionable a mates of months earlier calling it quits, but Harry inspired astir of Taylor’s 2014 album, 1989. In Feb. 2015, Taylor met Calvin Harris via their communal friend, Ellie Goulding. They started dating the pursuing period and were unneurotic for much than a twelvemonth earlier splitting successful June 2016. Then came the summertime fling with Tom, which featured a batch of jet-setting and precise nationalist displays of affection. None of this matters now, though, that Joe is successful the picture!

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