The primary music Taylor Swift collaborated on with her former boyfriend Joe Alwyn, the ballad seems on 2020’s Folklore as a duet with Bon Iver. On the time of the album’s launch, Joe was credited beneath the pseudonym William Bowery, although Taylor confirmed William and Joe had been one and the identical throughout her Disney+ live performance movie, Folklore: The Lengthy Pond Studio Periods.
Taylor revealed Joe had written your complete piano half, together with singing, “I can see you standin’ honey/With his arms around your body/Laughin’ but the joke’s not funny at all.” She went on to say The Favorite actor was “always just playing and making things up and kind of creating things,” however the couple could have by no means labored collectively if it wasn’t for the COVID-19 shutdown.
“I was like, ‘Hey, this could be really weird, and we could hate this,'” she defined, “‘because we’re in quarantine and there’s nothing else going on, could we just try to see what it’s like if we write this song together?'”
The results of their skilled collaboration? Profitable Album of the Yr on the 2021 Grammys.
“We’re so proud of ‘Exile,'” Taylor gushed. “All I have to do is dream up some lyrics and come up with some gut-wrenching, heart-shattering story to write with him.”
