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After several high-profile relationships, Taylor Swift seems to be settling down this time with her current boyfriend, Joe Alwyn. Unlike her past relationships, this one has been elusive. But in a recent interview with Elle UK, Alwyn in any case addressed why they have been keeping it low-key. He also set the file straight on those engagement rumors.
When Did Taylor Swift And Joe Alwyn Start Dating?
Swift and Alwyn started relationship in October 2016. Many consider that their relationship started when they both attended the identical Kings of Leon concert. But at the time, no one suspected the rest — even when the 11-time Grammy winner went to the premiere of Alwyn's film, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. In May 2017, the press after all learned that they may well be relationship. A month later, the paparazzi caught them together for the first time, which in the end showed their relationship.
Others also imagine that the two first met at the Met Gala in May 2016. Fans even concept that the singer's observe, Dress from her 2017 album, Reputation was once about that encounter. The said lyric goes, "flashback to when you met me, your buzzed cut and my hair bleached." The Love Story hitmaker particularly had bleached hair all the way through that tournament. Alwyn also went to the Met Gala that yr, but no one has ever showed if he crossed paths with Swift. Another factor — Swift was in fact dating Calvin Harris back then. They broke up soon after the gala. Then she in brief moved on to Tom Hiddleston that summer season.
In October 2017, Swift had a secret listening consultation for her album, Reputation. She reportedly admitted to lovers that the track Gorgeous is set Alwyn. "Basically Taylor made us all promise that if anyone made any accusations of who this song is about, we tell them it is 100 percent about her angel boyfriend of one year," a fan wrote on Tumblr. "This isn't a secret. She wanted us to tell people." Two months later, the couple engaged in some PDA right through Ed Sheeran's performance at iHeartworkRadio's Jingle Bell Ball in New York City.
Why Do Taylor Swift And Joe Alwyn Keep Their Relationship Private?
In Swift's 2020 documentary, Miss Americana, the singer mentioned keeping her relationship amid her drama with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. "We decided together we wanted our relationship to be private," she explained. "Even though it [Swift's public image in 2016] was really horrible, I was happy. But I wasn't happy in the way I was trained to be happy. It was happiness without anyone else's input. We were just…happy." In Alwyn's fresh Elle UK interview, he additionally confessed that his non-public struggle with repute was a consider keeping their relationship underneath wraps.
"It's not really [because I] want to be guarded and private, it's more a response to something else," he said. "We live in a culture that is so increasingly intrusive… The more you give – and frankly, even if you don't give it – something will be taken." In November 2020, Swift printed that her song Peace was once inspired via the loss of privacy in her relationship with Alwyn.
In a canopy tale for Rolling Stone, she instructed Paul McCartney about the struggles of giving her boyfriend a sense of "normalcy" at the time. "Peace is actually more rooted in my personal life," Swift shared sooner than telling McCartney: "I know you have done a really excellent job of this in your personal life: carving out a human life within a public life, and how scary that can be when you do fall in love and you meet someone, especially if you've met someone who has a very grounded, normal way of living."
Are Taylor Swift And Joe Alwyn Engaged?
Swift and Alwyn have been dating for 5 years, so it is simple to think that he may have proposed to her at this level. The rumors began in 2019 when other folks discovered that they've been getting severe. Others also declare that the huge diamond ring Swift was once dressed in on her left hand all the way through a scene in Miss Americana was once an engagement ring. Finally, the Favorite actor addressed the rumors in a contemporary interview with Wall Street Journal. "If I had a pound for every time I think I've been told I've been engaged, then I'd have a lot of pound coins," he said.
"I mean, the truth is, if the answer was yes, I wouldn't say, and if the answer was no, I wouldn't say," he persisted. Alwyn went on to give an explanation for why they do not want to proportion details about their relationship. "We live in a culture that people expect so much to be given," he mentioned. "So that if you're not posting all the time about what you’re doing, how you’re spending a day or how you made a breakfast, does that make you a recluse? [...] If you give it to them, it just opens the door."
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