The primary track Taylor Swift she collaborated together with her ex-boyfriend Joe Alwynthe ballad seems in 2020's Folklore as a duet with Good Iver. On the time of the album's launch, Joe was credited underneath the pseudonym William Bowery, though Taylor confirmed that William and Joe have been one and the identical throughout his Disney+ live performance movie. Folklore: The Lengthy Pond Studio Classes.
Taylor revealed that Joe had written your entire piano half, together with the track: “I can see you stand honey / With their arms round your physique / Laughing, however the joke ain't humorous.” She went on to say that the favourite actor was “all the time simply enjoying and making issues up and creating issues,” however the couple would possibly by no means have labored collectively if it wasn't for the COVID-19 shutdown.
“I used to be like, 'Hey, this could possibly be actually bizarre, and we would hate this,'” he defined, “'trigger we're in quarantine and there's nothing else, can we attempt to see what it's like if we write this track collectively?” '”
The results of their skilled collaboration? Album of the Yr winner on the 2021 Grammys.
“We're so pleased with 'Exile,'” Taylor mentioned. “All I’ve to do is dream up some lyrics and provide you with a heartbreaking, heartbreaking story to jot down with it.”