Taylor Swift Praises Joe Alwyn For Handling Scrutiny ‘Beautifully’ As She Sings About Him On ‘Lavender Haze’

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Taylor Swift’s new album, Midnights, opens with an up-beat, pop music bop known as “Lavender Haze.” Even earlier than the album got here out, followers knew this track could be about Joe Alwyn primarily based on Taylor’s description of the monitor. Now that the lyrics are right here, although, it’s much more evident that Joe impressed the love track. “Lavender Haze” has callbacks to references that Taylor made about Joe on her 2017 album, Popularity, as she gushes over how he liked her even when she was within the darkest time of her life.

“I’ve been underneath scrutiny, you deal with it fantastically, all this s*** is new to me,” Taylor sings within the first verse, reflecting on the early days of her relationship with Joe. On the time, Taylor was within the midst of public feuds with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, whereas additionally making headlines for her back-to-back relationships with Calvin Harris and Tom Hiddleston. What the general public didn’t know, although, is that Taylor and Joe have been quietly forming an in depth friendship that ultimately become a romantic relationship, which didn’t go public for greater than 7 months after they really received collectively.

Within the second verse, Taylor makes references to extra present occasions. “All they preserve asking me is that if I’m gonna be your bride,” she sings. “The one form of lady they see is one evening or a spouse.” Taylor and Joe have been courting for greater than six years, and the topic of a potential engagement has been a dialogue within the media and amongst followers for fairly a while now. Nevertheless, that is the primary time that Taylor has really acknowledged the hypothesis about her future with the actor.

The verse continues, “I discover it dizzying, they’re mentioning my historical past, however you weren’t even listening,” which is one other nod to Joe ignoring what different folks have mentioned about Taylor. She made comparable references in songs like “Delicate” and “Name It What You Need.”

Earlier than releasing Midnights, Taylor gave some behind-the-song perception into a few of the tracks, together with “Lavender Haze,” on Instagram. She defined that it was a time period that she heard whereas watching Mad Males, which she seemed up after which made right into a track. “It’s a typical phrase used within the 50s the place they’d simply describe being in love,” Taylor revealed. “For those who have been within the lavender haze, that meant you have been within the all-encompassing love glow, and I believed that was actually stunning. I suppose, theoretically, once you’re within the lavender haze, you’ll do something to remain there and never let folks carry you down off that cloud.”

In the meantime, “Lavender Haze” isn’t the one track impressed by Joe on Midnights. The album’s last monitor, “Mastermind,” can also be concerning the pair’s relationship. On Taylor’s 2019 song “Paper Rings,” she sang, “I hate accidents, besides once we went from pals to this.” Three years later, although, she’s admitting that it wasn’t an “accident” in any respect — as a result of she “masterminded” the entire thing.

“What if I advised you none of it was unintentional,” Taylor sings on “Mastermind.” “And the primary evening that you simply noticed me, nothing was gonna cease me. I laid the bottom work after which similar to clockwork the dominoes cascaded in a line. What if I advised you I’m a mastermind? And now you’re mine. It was all by design.” On the finish of the track, Taylor sings about confessing to Joe that she was going to stop at nothing to ensure they ended up collectively. Whereas she was frightened about how he’d react, it seems that he was conscious the complete time, and his solely response was a smile.

In the meantime, Joe really co-wrote one track on the album, “Candy Nothing,” which is a slower love track. The primary lyric within the refrain says, “All you ever wished from me was candy nothing,” which is one other reference to the truth that Joe at all times liked her for her.