The first song Taylor Swift worked with her former boyfriend Joe Alwynthe ballad appears in Folklore 2020 as a duet with Bon Iver. At the time of the album’s release, Joe was being credited under the alias William Bowery, although during her Disney+ concert film Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions, Taylor confirmed that William and Joe were one and the same.
Taylor revealed that Joe wrote the entire piano part, along with singing, “I can see you standing honey/With his arms around your body/Laughing but the joke isn’t funny at all.” She went on to say The favorite actor “was always just acting and inventing things and creating things,” but the couple might never have worked together if it wasn’t for the COVID-19 shutdown.
“I was like, ‘Hey, this might be really weird, and we might hate that,'” she explained, “because we’re in quarantine and there’s nothing else going on, we might just try to see what it’s like when we write.” this song together?'”
The result of their professional collaboration? Winner of Album of the Year at the 2021 Grammys.
“We’re so proud of ‘Exile,'” Taylor gushed. “All I have to do is come up with some lyrics and come up with a heartbreaking, heartbreaking story to write with him.”
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