— 💭 (@thinkeralwyn) June 14, 2024
• Joe Alwyn is on the cover of this weeks Sunday Times Style section to promote the new Yorgos Lanthimos film, Kinds of Kindness, and he offers up some choice quotes on his breakup with Taylor Swift for the first time.
• For the most part he keeps it cute, but kind of pointed at Swifties who seem to believe that Alwyn did not want to let Swift “be bejeweled”: ““As everyone knows, we together – both of us, mutually – decided to keep the more private details of our relationship private. It was never something to commodify and I see no reason to change that now.”
• The interviewer notes that Alwyn is a nice guy, if a bit guarded and rehearsed when it comes to answers about Swift and the fallout of their relationship.
• When asked if he’s listened to the album, Alwyn starts giving a reply and then stops and restarts his answer. He ends up saying, “I would hope that anyone and everyone can empathize and understand the difficulties that come with the end of a long, loving, fully committed relationship of over six and half years. That is a hard thing to navigate. What is unusual and abnormal in this situation is that, one week later, it’s suddenly in the public domain and the outside world is able to weigh in.”
• Alwyn’s reaffirming of the length of their relationship brings into question the timeline that has formed around the breakup.
• The breakup was first confirmed by Entertainment Tonight on April 8, 2023 (Matty Healy’s birthday for those of us keeping score at home), with a source reaffirming that this breakup had happened a “few weeks” beforehand. On May 3, 2023 we received the first reports that Swift and Healy were dating (coming just months after Swift performed her song “Anti-Hero” live at a 1975 show BY THE WAY, FOR THOSE KEEPING SCORE AT HOME). Alwyn’s confirmation that there was just a week between the breakup and the story breaking publicly is…interesting. For those keeping score at home.
• In the next paragraph Alwyn goes on to say, “you have something very real suddenly thrown into a very unreal space: tabloids, social media, press, where it is then dissected, speculated on, pulled out of shape beyond recognition…there is always going to be a gap between what is known and what is said. I have made my peace with that.”
• The writer points out the “extraordinary situation” of Swift on one side with an “online behemoth…ready to attack perceived enemies,” and a “(relatively) regular Joe who, exiled from the machine post-break,up, [who] seems only comfortable with sticking to a script.”
• Alwyn does say that the break-up was, “a little over a year ago now and I feel fortunate to be in a really great place in my life, professionally and personally. I feel really good.” He also would not respond to questions from the interviewer on whether he was still in touch with Swift or if he was dating again. Alwyn says, “I’m sure you can appreciate, given the level of noise and scrutiny about my past relationship, why I wouldn’t want to just open the door to things like that right now.”
• The rest of the interview is perfectly nice. He raves about the creative environment Yorgos Lanthimos creates on his sets, talks about how he likes working with Emily (aka Emma) Stone. He talks about how he loves his friends and family and has, “brilliant, authentic people” in his life.
• He says he stays away from social media. “I try and dial that volume down. I was obviously made aware of it and think that mistreating anyone, whether it’s in person or behind the anonymity of a keyboard, is shameful.”
• The one tidbit Alwyn happily refutes to the author of the piece is that – despite the claims of pub owners who seem intent on wringing out their small claim to fame via a song on Swift’s latest album – Alwyn has never been to Vauxhall or the Black Dog pub.
🏟️| Taylor performing ‘The Great War’ x ‘You’re Losing Me’. #LiverpoolTStheErasTour
pic.twitter.com/ZCsxGyq71g— Taylor Swift Updates 🩶 (@swifferupdates) June 14, 2024
• Never known for being the most chill person, one of Swift’s surprise songs at her concert in Liverpool today was a mash-up of “The Great War” and “You’re Losing Me”, two songs off what has been retroactively been dubbed the Alwyn break-up album.
who would you date ontd?
a. a slightly boring guy who minds his business
b. a dime square edgelord
or c. a football player who has bad hygiene?
someone else reconfigure the official timeline, i sound nuts when i try to do it
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