The primary song Taylor Swift collaborated on with her former boyfriend Joe Alwyn, the ballad appears on 2020’s Folklore as a duet with Bon Iver. On 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 identical during her Disney+ concert film, Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions.
Taylor revealed Joe had written your entire piano part, together with singing, “I can see you standin’ honey/Together with his arms around your body/Laughin’ however the joke’s not funny in any respect.” She went on to say The Favourite actor was “at all times just playing and making things up and form of creating things,” however the couple could have never worked together if it wasn’t for the COVID-19 shutdown.
“I used to be like, ‘Hey, this may very well be really weird, and we could hate this,'” she explained, “‘because we’re in quarantine and there is nothing else occurring, could we just try to see what it’s like if we write this song together?'”
The results of their skilled collaboration? Winning Album of the 12 months on the 2021 Grammys.
“We’re so happy with ‘Exile,'” Taylor gushed. “All I even have to do is dream up some lyrics and provide you with some gut-wrenching, heart-shattering story to write with him.”