The
first
song
Taylor
Swift
collaborated on
with her
former
boyfriend
Joe
Alwyn,
the
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,
though
Taylor
confirmed
William
and
Joe
were
one
and
the
same
during
her
Disney+
concert
film, Folklore:
The
Long
Pond
Studio
Sessions.
Taylor
revealed
Joe
had
written
the
entire
piano
part,
along
with
singing, “I
can
see
you
standin’
honey/With
his
arms
around
your
body/Laughin’
but
the
joke’s
not
funny
at
all.”
She
went
on
to
say
The
Favourite
actor
was “always
just
playing
and
making
things
up
and
kind
of
creating
things,”
but
the
couple
may
have
never
worked
together
if
it
wasn’t
for
the
COVID-19
shutdown.
“I
was
like, ‘Hey,
this
could
be
really
weird,
and
we
could
hate
this,'”
she
explained, “‘because
we’re
in
quarantine
and
there’s
nothing
else
going
on,
could
we
just
try
to
see
what
it’s
like
if
we
write
this
song
together?'”
The
result
of
their
professional
collaboration?
Winning
Album
of
the
Year
at
the
2021
Grammys.
“We’re
so
proud
of ‘Exile,'”
Taylor
gushed. “All
I
have
to
do
is
dream
up
some
lyrics
and
come
up
with
some
gut-wrenching,
heart-shattering
story
to
write
with
him.”
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