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Which songs are about Joe Alwyn?

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8 months ago

April 20, 2024

Nicely if there’s one particular person (OK, two individuals) we would not wish to be right now, it is Joe Alwyn and Matty Healy. Final night time, Taylor Swift dropped her eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Division, which was a shock double album that includes an iconic 31 songs for us to deeply analyse the that means of each single lyric. We’re Swifties, it is what we do!

Because the announcement of the album in February this yr, followers have been doing a lot of theorising as to which songs on the albums could be about Joe Alwyn. Taylor dated the British actor for six years, and so it was solely anticipated by followers that her new music would contact on the top of their relationship.

Nonetheless, plainly a lot of the album is in truth rumoured to be about The 1975 frontman, Matty Healy, who Taylor dated for a number of months following her breakup from Alwyn final yr.

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However, this isn’t to say Swifties have not discovered a lot of references alluding to Taylor’s breakup with Joe. So, these are the alleged songs and references Taylor Swift makes to Joe Alywn in The Tortured Poets Division.

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Which songs are rumoured to be about Joe Alwyn on TTPD?

Which songs on The Tortured Poets Division are rumoured to be about Joe Alwyn?

So Lengthy, London

As all Swifties will know, Taylor Swift launched Lover in 2019, which included the tune ‘London Boy’ and has usually been accepted by followers to be about Joe Alwyn, provided that he is from London and Taylor spent lots of time with him there.

So, following their breakup, it could make sense she stated goodbye to London and Joe. Many followers have theorised her new tune on The Tortured Poets Division, ‘So Lengthy, London’, is about Joe, given the London connection.

Taylor additionally references a home by the Heath within the tune, which many followers have interpreted as the home the couple lived in close to Hampstead Heath in West London.

loml

Subsequent, ‘loml’ can be theorised by followers to be about Joe. Whereas the acronym often stands for ‘love of my life’, in Taylor’s model, it stands for ‘lack of my life’.

Followers consider this tune might be about Joe as in earlier songs Taylor has instructed Joe is the ‘one’ and ‘loml’ positively sounds prefer it might be about somebody shedding the ‘one’.

The Tortured Poets Division

The album identify and observe quantity two, ‘The Tortured Poets Division,’ has been closely rumoured by followers to be a reference to Alwyn.

Whereas beforehand chatting with GQ, Alwyn revealed he was in a gaggle chat with fellow actors Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott. Then Scott and Mescal had been requested concerning the group chat identify in a current interview with Selection, the place they revealed it was referred to as the ‘The Tortured Man Membership’.

And you do not should be a rocket scientist to see the connection between ‘The Tortured Man Membership’ and The Tortured Poets Division 👀.

The Tortured Poets Division is out now.