The Swifties were right!
During Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions special, which debuted on Disney+ on Wednesday (November 25), Taylor Swift confirmed a long-standing rumor, revealing that her boyfriend Joe Alwyn is actually the โWilliam Boweryโ credited on her latest studio album, Folklore.
โThereโs been a lot of discussion about William Bowery and his identity โcause itโs not a real person,โ she said while alongside co-executive producers Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner. โSo, William Bowery is Joe, as we know. And Joe plays piano beautifully, and heโs just always playing and making things up and kind of creating things."
The 30-year-old singer-songwriter went on to discuss Joe's contributions to her album, sharing that he worked on โExileโ with Bon Iver and โBetty.โ
"'Exile' was crazy because Joe had written that entire piano part and was singing the Bon Iver part," Taylor explained. "He was just singing it, the way that the whole first verse is. So I was entranced and asked if we could keep writing that one. It was pretty obvious that it should be a duet because heโs got such a low voice and it sounded really good sung down there in that register.โ
She then spoke about the 29-year-old actor's contribution to โBetty,โ saying, โI just heard Joe singing the entire fully formed chorus of โBettyโ from another room and it was just like, โHelloโ. It was a step that we would have never taken because why would we have ever written a song together?โ Taylor continued, "So this was the first time we had a conversation where I came in and was like โHey, this could be really weird and we could hate this, so because weโre in quarantine and thereโs nothing else going on, could we just try and see what itโs like if we write this song together?โโ
Taylor, Jack, and Aaron filmed the Disney+ special in upstate New York back in September.
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