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        <title><![CDATA[Did Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn break up? Here’s what her lyrics suggest]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Taylor Swift <strong>released her new album &#8220;Folklore&#8221;</strong> at midnight on Friday, and it&#8217;s packed with intimate, wistful lyrics and several breakup songs — leading some fans to worry about the status of the musician&#8217;s own relationship with Joe Alwyn, her boyfriend of more than three years.</p><p>In opening track &#8220;The 1,&#8221; the 30-year-old pop phenom sings of lost love and &#8220;waking up alone,&#8221; asking, &#8220;If one thing had been different, would everything be different today?&#8221;</p><p>Meanwhile, &#8220;Exile,&#8221; her collaboration with Bon Iver, tells the tale of two ex-lovers mourning the end of their union, and &#8220;Hoax&#8221; details the push and pull of a toxic relationship.</p><p>But while diaristic songwriting may be Swift&#8217;s signature, fans likely needn&#8217;t fret. In <strong>a statement about &#8220;Folklore&#8221;</strong> shared across social media, she explained, &#8220;I found myself not only writing my own stories, but also writing about or from the perspective of people I&#8217;ve never met, people I&#8217;ve known, or those I wish I hadn&#8217;t.&#8221;</p><figure id="attachment_5330857"  class="wp-caption alignright"><strong><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/07/taylor-swift-folklore-note.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/07/taylor-swift-folklore-note.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/07/taylor-swift-folklore-note.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>Taylor Swift shared this note with fans upon the release of her new album, &#8220;Folklore.&#8221;</span><span class="credit">Instagram</span></figcaption></figure><p>Continued the singer, &#8220;In isolation my imagination has run wild and this album is the result, a collection of songs and stories that flowed like a stream of consciousness. Picking up a pen was my way of escaping into fantasy, history, and memory.&#8221;</p><p>It&#8217;s not the first time Swift has penned a breakup song from a fictional character&#8217;s point of view: &#8220;Death By a Thousand Cuts,&#8221; from 2019&#8217;s &#8220;Lover,&#8221; <strong>was inspired by the Netflix film &#8220;Someone Great.&#8221;</strong></p><p>And while it may be tough to tell which among certain &#8220;Folklore&#8221; tracks are based on fact versus fiction, Swift dropped a few details her diehard fans are sure to recognize in the the album&#8217;s sweeter love songs.</p><p>In &#8220;Invisible String,&#8221; for instance, she references &#8220;our three-year trip,&#8221; a teen who worked in a frozen yogurt shop (<strong>Alwyn did</strong>) and &#8220;a string that pulled me out of all the wrong arms, right into that dive bar&#8221; — seemingly a continuation of the &#8220;dive bar on the east side&#8221; storyline she started on her 2017 &#8220;Reputation&#8221; standout &#8220;Delicate.&#8221;</p><p>Alwyn, 29, also <strong>shared Instagram photos of one of Swift&#8217;s beloved cats</strong> back in April, suggesting the famously private couple have been quarantining together. There&#8217;s even a theory floating around that <strong>the actor may have helped write two &#8220;Folklore&#8221; tracks</strong>, under the pseudonym William Bowery.</p><p>Just don&#8217;t expect Alwyn to publicly weigh in. &#8220;I’m aware people want to know about [our relationship,&#8221; he <strong>told British Vogue</strong> in 2018. “I think we have been successfully very private and that has now sunk in for people.&#8221;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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