The to get started with tune 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 below the pseudonym William Bowery, even although Taylor confirmed William and Joe had been a single specific and the comparable in the course of her Disney+ concert film, Folklore: The Extended Pond Studio Sessions.

Taylor revealed Joe had penned the entire piano section, collectively with singing, “I can see you standin’ honey/With his arms all-around your physique/Laughin’ but the joke’s not humorous at all.” She went on to say The Favourite actor was “usually just actively playing and making points up and sort of developing factors,” but the handful of could possibly have never ever ever worked collectively if it wasn’t for the COVID-19 shutdown. 

“I was like, ‘Hey, this could be really bizarre, and we could hate this,'” she explained, “‘because we are in quarantine and you can find almost nothing else going on, could we just test to see what it is like if we create this song together?'” 

The finish outcome of their seasoned collaboration? Winning Album of the Yr at the 2021 Grammys.

“We’re so happy of ‘Exile,'” Taylor gushed. “All I have to do is desire up some lyrics and appear up with some intestine-wrenching, heart-shattering story to write with him.”