In a series of biting new songs on her album The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift accused her ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn of crushing her hopes for marriage and kids. However, sources say the British actor will remain silent and has no immediate plans to respond.
The singer, 34, and Joe, 33, dated for six years, from 2017 until their breakup in April 2023. Joe has never officially acknowledged their breakup.
However, Taylor appears to have opened up about their breakup on her most recent album, which was released last Friday. According to insiders, Joe is reportedly “disappointed” and has forbidden the singer from bringing up the singer during the next press tour for his upcoming movie, Kinds of Kindness.
“There has been zero communication between them,” an insider revealed to DailyMail.com exclusively. He did not anticipate that she would, but she did not run these tunes by him.
Joe is not at all shocked, although he is a little let down after listening to the record.
She didn’t truly discredit or malign him. Joe won’t respond in kind to this.
When Taylor was dating Joe, she generally avoided the spotlight and was rarely seen in public with the extremely private couple, who are currently dating NFL MVP Travis Kelce.
Joe co-wrote and co-produced several tracks on her album Folklore, using the pseudonym William Bowery. As a result, they were awarded a Grammy for Album of the Year in 2021.
A year later, for Evermore, they were again nominated for the same award.
Because of the songs they had written together, the insider added, Joe was well aware of Taylor’s songwriting process.
“Almost all of Taylor’s songs are inspired by her relationships, and he appreciates her artistic talent,” the insider continued.
“He’s made a great deal of money from the six songs he wrote for Taylor in the past, and he’s appreciative that their friendship has also contributed to his rise to fame.”
Two months before director Yorgos Lanthimos’s next film, Kinds of Kindness, which stars Joe alongside Oscar winner Emma Stone as her love interest, is set to debut, Taylor releases her album.
According to the insider, “he is focused on a movie that is coming out.” He will be speaking with the media, but he won’t answer any questions from Taylor.
Joe is no longer with us. She does what she does, and he has no ill will toward her. He is aware that it was standard procedure.
The Boy Erased star had previously shied away from talking about their romance in public.
Before their breakup last year, he asked, “Why should I tell strangers about my personal life when people on the street wouldn’t?”
He said to Harper’s Bazaar in 2022 that, as a well-known person, he “can understand” people’s curiosity in their relationship, but that he “doesn’t see why these questions should always be answered.”
“If I’m putting work into the world, people are going to ask about that, that’s something I completely expect,” he continued.
However, even though they haven’t been together for a year, rumors about their romance have intensified due to Taylor’s most recent album, which includes the tracks “So Long, London,” “Fresh Out the Slammer,” and “Anger that Joe is cheating on her.”
Releasing TTPD, Taylor talked about letting go of the “sensational and sorrowful” period that served as the album’s inspiration.
The author writes, “This chapter of the author’s life is now closed and boarded up.” After wounds have healed, there is nothing to exact revenge on or scores to settle.
And when I gave them more thought, I realized that many of them were self-inflicted.
This writer firmly believes that our tears turn into holy ink when they are written on a page. We are free of our saddest narrative once we have told it. The pained poetry is all that’s left after that.
The brief liaison she had in the weeks following her breakup with Joe with frontman Matty Healy of 1975 also seems to be mentioned on the record.
The song’s lyrics mention typewriters and a man wearing a “Jehovah’s Witness suit”—Matty is well-known for his unusual black suits—on stage during his live performances.
The use of drugs is also mentioned. The vocalist has previously discussed substance abuse candidly in interviews. He is currently dating model Gabbriette Bechtel.
Both parties have denied any involvement, but their brief romance came to an abrupt stop when Taylor faced criticism from listeners regarding Matty’s stereotypically “bad boy” persona and his perceived racism on a podcast.