it’s the way we’re actually watching the red era begin again…
RED (Taylor’s Version) complete tracklist + CDs
Taylor Swift nominations for the GRAMMYs 2021
“‘betty’ was… I just heard Joe singing the entire fully formed chorus of ‘betty’ from another room. And I was just like 'Hello.’ It was a step that we would never have taken because why would we have ever written a song together? So this was the first time we had a conversation where I came in and I was like, 'Hey, this could be really weird, and we could hate this, so because we’re in quarantine and there’s nothing else going on, could we just try to see what it’s like if we write this song together?’ So he was singing the chorus of it, and I thought it sounded really good from a man’s voice, from a masculine perspective. And I really liked that it seemed to be an apology. And I’ve written so many songs from a female’s perspective of wanting a male apology, that we decided to make it from a teenage boy’s perspective apologizing after he loses the love of his life because he’s been foolish.”
— Taylor on how ‘betty’ came about and her and Joe deciding to write the song together (folklore: the long pond studio sessions)
‘’But we’re- I- I was too afraid to suggest it.’’
“We’re seeing all over the nation, cities across the country, indeed across the world outpouring of joy and hope and renewed faith.” — Joe Biden in his Deleware victory speech on November 7th, 2020
Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn in Miss Americana (2020) dir. Lana Wilson
one single thread of gold tied me to you
You were my town, now I’m in exile, seein’ you out
The 1 | Taylor Swift
August sipped away like a bottle of wine ‘cause you were never mine.
and you know damn well, for you, I would ruin myself a million little times
“But we were something, don’t you think so? Roaring twenties, tossing pennies in the pool and if my wishes came true, it would’ve been you”
“I also was falling in love with someone who had a really wonderfully normal, balanced, grounded life. And we decided together that we wanted our relationship to be private… I wasn’t happy in the way that I’d been trained to be happy. It was happiness without anyone else’s input. It was just, we were happy.”
“…I also was falling in love with someone who had a really wonderfully normal, balanced, grounded life. And we decided together that we wanted our relationship to be private …I wasn’t happy in the way that I’d been trained to be happy. It was happiness without anyone else’s input. It was just, we were happy.”
— Taylor talking about her relationship with Joe in Miss Americana