Fans Are Connecting These Song Titles In Taylor Swift's New Album To Joe Alwyn

Publish date: 2024-03-12

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Fans believe Joe Alwyn will be heavily mentioned in Taylor Swift's new album, based on clues from the album cover and tracklist.
Theories suggest that certain song titles reference Joe Alwyn and Taylor's past relationship, as well as famous poets and plays.
Regardless of fan predictions, Taylor Swift always surprises with something unexpected, and fans can expect a similar aesthetic to her previous albums, Folklore and Evermore .

It's only been a few days since Taylor Swift announced her upcoming new album during her acceptance speech at the Grammy Awards, and fan theories are already flying back and forth. In a very Taylor-like manner, she celebrated her Grammy win by announcing new music, and only she could make breaking the record about the most Album of the Year Awards won in history the second most important moment of the night.

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Since the announcement, Taylor has shared the cover art of the album, the name, and the track list, and swifties have gone crazy trying to make the wait more bearable by analyzing the information to try and find what to expect.

One conclusion they came to was that Joe Alwyn would be heavily mentioned in the album, and they have even identified which songs could potentially be about him.

Fans Are Finding Links To Joe Alwyn In Taylor Swift's New Song Titles

The idea that Taylor Swift's new album was about her breakup with Joe Alwyn came up during the announcement itself, when she said that she had been keeping the album a secret for two years. The timing coincided with the end of the relationship, and the name of the album, The Tortured Poets Department, can be interpreted as a dig at him.

Joe Alwyn shared a few years ago that Paul Mescal, Andrew Scott, and him had a group chat which was called "The Tortured Men Club", and fans instantly made the connection.

Now that the track list has been revealed, the fandom has come up with even more theories about the meaning of the songs. Starting with the song "So Long, London". As it is public knowledge, Joe Alwyn is English, but even more relevant is that, on the album Lover, Taylor wrote a song called "London Boy" about him. There is also the theory that the track "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?" could be a reference to the play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Given the title of the record, it would make sense to have references to poets there. The play is about a marriage that's falling apart, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, whose own relationship was incredibly complicated. But here's where it gets interesting: the song "...Ready For It?", which she wrote when she was with Joe, has a specific line that talks about him being the "Burton to this Taylor".

What Else Can We Expect From The New Album?

As much as fan theories try to predict what Taylor Swift will do next (and sometimes they are eerily accurate), the singer always has some unexpected trick up her sleeve that manages to leave everyone stunned. Even when everyone had guessed that she was going to announce something at the 2024 Grammy Awards, she still surprised the world by announcing there was new material coming.

Fans were expecting a re-recording of one of her old albums, specifically reputation.

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It's safe to say, then, that no matter how many predictions and connections fans come up with (and whether they are about Joe Alwyn or any of her other exes), she will still blow people away when the album comes out on April 19th. So far, going by the aesthetic of the album, fans can probably expect something resembling Folklore and Evermore. There are also two (so far) collaborations to look forward to. One with Post Malone, and one with Florence + The Machine. As the release date gets closer, surely we'll get more hints about what the next masterpiece will be like.