Taylor Swift’s Ex Joe Alwyn Makes First Late Night Appearance

The first song Taylor Swift worked on with her former boyfriend You Alwynthe ballad appears on 2020’s Folklore as a duet with Bon Iver. At the time of the album’s release, Joe was credited under the pseudonym William Bowery, although Taylor confirmed that William and Joe were one and the same during their Disney+ concert film, Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions.

Taylor revealed that Joe had written the entire piano part, along with singing, “I can see you standing honey / With his arms around your body / Laughin’ but the joke ain’t funny at all.” She went on to say that the favorite actor was “always just playing and making things up and making things up,” but the couple may never have worked together if it weren’t for the COVID-19 shutdown.

“I was like, ‘Hey, this could be really weird, and we could hate this,'” she said, “since we’re in quarantine and there’s nothing else going on, we can ​​just try to see how t’s like we’re writing this song together?'”

The result of their professional collaboration? The winning album of the year at the 2021 Grammys.

“We are so proud of ‘Exile,'” Taylor said. “All I have to do is dream up some lyrics and come up with some gut-wrenching, heart-wrenching story to write with him.”