Taylor Swift and her declaration of love to Joe Alwyn at the Grammy Awards
Accustomed to keeping their relationship away from the spotlight, the singer thanked her award to her partner for four years: "Joe is the first person to listen to every song I write"
Taylor Swift has broken her usual discretion when it comes to her love life at the Grammy Awards. On Sunday night, the 31-year-old singer won the award for best album for Folklore, becoming the first female artist to win the award three times, having previously been awarded for her albums Fearless and 1989. In her speech, the star had words of gratitude for all her collaborators, specifically for a very special one with whom she has shared her life for four years: British actor Joe Alwyn. “Joe is the first person to hear every song I write. And I had a great time writing songs with you in quarantine, "Swift said into the microphone and surprising everyone with a message with a double intention.
In addition to declaring her love in public as she had never done before, Swift reconfirmed that Alwyn, 30, helped compose two songs for Folklore, the album that the American artist recorded during confinement. Under the pseudonym William Bowery, Joe Alwyn co-wrote the songs Exile and Betty with his partner. He also contributed to the tunes for Evermore and Champagne Problems, two tracks from the Evermore album that the former country diva released just five months after Folklore was released.
It was last November when Taylor Swift revealed the identity of her mysterious collaborator of hers during an interview with Disney +, where she recognized that among all her collaborators there was also her current partner. "Joe plays the piano wonderfully and he's always playing, inventing and composing things," she said. The fans of the Shake it off interpreter were the ones who discovered that Alwyn could be William Bowery, because one of the couple's first public outings was at the Bowery Hotel and, in addition, the actor's great-grandfather was the composer William Alwyn, from who received his first name.
However, Swift's mention at the Grammys to Alwyn has also served to confirm that their courtship continues. Partly thanks to the couple's discretion, she has managed to keep her love out of public scrutiny. Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn met at the 2016 New York Metropolitan Museum gala, she was one of the stars of the night's red carpet and he was a complete stranger who was with Garrett Hendlund, his co-star in Billy Lynn, the typical American war hero film that passed without pain or glory on the cinema screens. There, the first spark of a friendship relationship emerged that has turned into a full-blown sentimental relationship.
Although the singer has dedicated several songs from her latest albums, Alwyn has been to more than one Swift concert. She has accompanied him at the Golden Globes, at the BAFTA Awards and at the Oscars, when the actor attended for her work in La Favorita (2018). But they have never posed together on any red carpet and there are hardly any photos of the two beyond the one obtained by the paparazzi who chase them on each of their outings.
The obsession to keep their relationship out of the spotlight comes in part because Taylor Swift knows well what it means to live a relationship in front of the public being famous. His longest romances have been with the actor Jake Gyllenhaal and with the dj Calvin Haris, but many other temporary relationships have passed through his life with other well-known characters such as John Mayer, Taylor Lautner, Joe Jonas or even Harry Styles, with whom he dated during a year in 2012 and with whom he met again in public at the Grammys gala. Both were happy about each other's successes and were very happy when the cameras caught them laughing during a common conversation.
At the end of last year, Swift spoke to Paul McCartney in Rolling Stone magazine about her interest in keeping their relationship out of everyone's reach. “Often with my anxieties, I can control how I am as a person and how I act and rationalize things, but I cannot control if there are 20 photographers hiding in the bushes and if they follow our car or interrupt our lives,” he said. "I can't control whether there will be a weird, fake headline about us in the news tomorrow." A feeling that both share, as confirmed by the singer herself: “I think that by meeting him and being in the relationship I'm in now, I have definitely made decisions that have made my life feel more like a real life and less like an imposition. , a story to comment on in the tabloid press ”.
Quelques mots que l'acteur britannique lui-même a confirmé il y a quelques années dans une autre interview, où il était du côté de son partenaire lorsqu'il s'agissait de garder leur idylle privée. « Je comprends la curiosité que suscite la vie privée dans le monde dans lequel nous vivons. Eh bien, je ne le comprends pas, mais je sais que cela existe. Mais je n'ai tout simplement pas l'impression que c'est quelque chose que je veux exposer », a déclaré en 2019 l'interprète, qui a participé à des films majeurs tels que Final Operation, Deleted Identity et Mary, Queen of Scotland, en plus d'avoir posé comme l'image des entreprises de mode telles que Prada.
Aujourd'hui, près de quatre ans plus tard, le couple continue de chercher à s'éloigner des projecteurs médiatiques, mais il semble qu'ils aient assoupli leur secret et, en plus d'être vus marchant main dans la main à travers Londres ou New York et partageant les mêmes scénarios sur leurs réseaux sociaux, ils ne cachent pas non plus ses sentiments en public, comme Taylor Swift l'a montré aux Grammys.
