Taylor Swift shared a rare look into her relationship with Joe Alwyn during the 2021 Grammys.
During her acceptance speech for Album of the Year for “Folklore,” Swift thanked her boyfriend of a little over three years.
“Joe, who is the first person that I play every single song that I write,” Swift, 31, said. “And I had the best time writing songs with you in quarantine.”
Swifties will recall that Alwyn, 30, helped co-write two tracks on “Folklore” — “exile” and “Betty” under the pseudonym William Bowery. He also contributed to the tunes “evermore” and “champagne problems” on “Folklore’s” sister album, “evermore.”
Swift and Alwyn have mostly kept their relationship out of the public eye and rarely attend events together.
But late last year, Swift told Paul McCartney for a Rolling Stone piece about why she’s kept her relationship out of the public eye.
“I, oftentimes, in my anxieties, can control how I am as a person and how normal I act and rationalize things, but I cannot control if there are 20 photographers outside in the bushes and what they do and if they follow our car and if they interrupt our lives,” she said. “I can’t control if there’s going to be a fake weird headline about us in the news tomorrow.”
She added that Alwyn “sympathizes” with her sentiment, saying: “I think that in knowing him and being in the relationship I am in now, I have definitely made decisions that have made my life feel more like a real life and less like just a storyline to be commented on in tabloids.”
Still, Alwyn gave fans a glimpse into their private life during quarantine when he shared a snap of Swift’s cat.
Swift also thanked close pals Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds and their three daughters in her Grammys speech, saying, “I want to thank James, Inez and Betty and their parents who are the second and third people who I play every new song that I write.”
James, Inez and Betty are all characters in songs for “Folklore.”