Practically a 12 months after their breakup, we all know now that Taylor Swift was “lonely” with Joe Alwyn—or, a minimum of, that’s what she appeared to counsel throughout a current cease on her Eras live performance tour.
On February 17, 2024, the “Anti-Hero” singer carried out on the Melbourne Cricket Floor in Melbourne, Australia, the place she took a second throughout her present to mirror on her 2020 album, Folklore. The 34-year-old pop star wrote the album throughout lockdown—a interval which she described as “lonely” regardless of being in a relationship and spending time at dwelling together with her then-boyfriend, Joe Alwyn. She additionally hinted at “consuming” extra throughout this era of her life.
“[I was] imagining that, as an alternative of being a lonely millennial girl lined in cat hair consuming my weight in white wine, I used to be a ghostly Victorian woman wandering by means of the woods with a candle in a candlestick holder,” she mentioned in the course of the live performance. “And I wrote solely on parchment with a feathered quill. That was in my thoughts, what I believed I seemed like, writing Folklore…In order that’s all that issues: the delusion.” And with that, Swift went on to sing her tune, “Betty,” from the album.
This isn’t the primary time that Swift has opened up about her expertise in the course of the pandemic. In a December 2020 interview with Leisure Weekly, Swift defined how she and Alwyn handed the time collectively. “I wasn’t anticipating to make an album. Early on in quarantine, I began watching a number of movies. We might watch a special film each evening,” the pop star shared with the publication. “I’m ashamed to say I hadn’t seen Pan’s Labyrinth earlier than. One evening I’d watch that, then I’d watch L.A. Confidential, then we’d watch Rear Window, then we’d watch Jane Eyre.”
She continued, “I really feel like consuming different individuals’s artwork and storytelling type of opened this portal in my creativeness and made me really feel like, ‘Nicely, why have I by no means completed this earlier than? Why have I by no means created characters and intersecting storylines? And why haven’t I ever type of freed myself up to do this from a story standpoint?’”
After six years collectively, nonetheless, Swift and Alwyn referred to as it quits in April 2023. Sources advised Folks on the time that the Midnights songwriter and Conversations With Mates actor outgrew one another. “They’ve had tough patches earlier than and all the time labored issues out, so mates thought they might take a while aside however ultimately come again collectively,” one supply mentioned, earlier than noting that they finally “weren’t the precise match for each other.”
“That they had a lot in widespread and fell in love in a protected bubble whereas she was retreating from the world throughout Repute,” the supply added. “Then the pandemic hit, and so they have been locked down collectively and in a position to proceed rising their relationship on this insulated approach. However he didn’t actually ‘know’ her but exterior of that bubble.” The supply continued, “Joe has struggled with Taylor’s stage of fame and the eye from the general public. The variations of their personalities have additionally turn into tougher to disregard after years collectively. They’ve grown aside.”
As everyone knows, Swift has since moved on with Kansas Metropolis Chiefs soccer participant Travis Kelce—and it appears the NFL star doesn’t have the identical drawback with Swift’s stage of stardom. The pair have been final seen packing on the PDA after Kelce’s win at Tremendous Bowl LVIII on February 11, 2024, and the star tight-end is rumored to affix Swift quickly as she continues her Eras Tour all over the world.
“Soccer is the whole lot to him. He lives and breathes it. However he’s prepared for some downtime now and to indicate up for Taylor the best way she has for him,” an insider not too long ago advised Folks. “The eye on them is unquestionably quite a bit, however Travis has completed a fantastic job deflecting and specializing in what’s essential.”
Following her present in Melbourne, Swift is scheduled for back-to-back live shows at Sydney’s Accor Stadium and can hit different worldwide spots like France, Singapore, Sweden, Portugal, the UK and Canada, amongst others, within the coming weeks. Chances are high, we’ll see Kelce supporting his girlfriend identical to she did at his NFL video games earlier within the season.
