Joe Alwyn Talks About His Relationship With Taylor Swift - Specifically, Why He WON'T Talk About It.
Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn have been very private about their five-year relationship, and Alwyn has finally discussed why.
The award winng musician and the Conversations with Friends actor have been in a quiet and committed relationship for five years, and the two have been incredibly dilligent about keeping the media out of their affairs.
In an interview with The Guardian, Alwyn explained the privacy surrounding the relationship; he explained that it does not stem from a desire to be withholding, but rather from an understanding of what sharing the information means.
"I don't know how best to talk about it. I mean, I'm aware of people's ... of that size of interest, and that world existing. It's just not something I particularly care about, or have much interest in feeding, I guess, because the more it's fed, the more you are opening a gate for intrusion.
"I think that's just my response to a culture that has this increasing expectation that everything is going to be given. If you don't post about the way you make your coffee in the morning, or if you don't let someone take a picture when you walk out of your front door, is that being private? I don't know if it is. So I just don't really feed that."
Alwyn and Swift are very much on the same page when it comes to the privacy of their relationship. In this most recent interview, Alywn even paraprahsed a 2019 quote from Swift.
"If you and I were having a conversation, and having a shandy in my house, and it wasn't being recorded, then, of course, other things would be said."
However, the actor did speak more openly about his involvement in Swift's Grammy award winning album. Two of her songs, "Betty" and "Exile" were co-written by Alwyn, though they were published under a psydonym. He said working with his girlfriend was a wonderful experience.
"It wasn't like, 'It's five o'clock, it's time to try and write a song together'...It came about from messing around on a piano, and singing badly, then being overheard, and being, like, 'Let's see what happens if we get to the end of it together'...I mean fun is such a stupid word, but it was a lot of fun. And it was never a work thing, or a 'Let's try and do this because we're going to put this out' thing.
"It was just like baking sourdough in lockdown...The Grammy was obviously this ridiculous bonus."
We are so thrilled that their relationship remains special and strong.
