Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn have been as soon as a beloved couple till they referred to as it quits in April 2023. Swifties, after all, have been shocked over information of the cut up — leaving many questioning why they ended issues.
Since then, Taylor has turned the web page with a brand new engagement to NFL star Travis Kelce. She additionally launched The Tortured Poets Division in April 2024, an album many imagine consists of reflections on her previous. With Swifties revisiting her historical past with Joe, right here’s what we learn about why the pair in the end went their separate methods.
Why Did Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn Break Up?
Taylor’s followers are satisfied that she hinted on the motive for her and Joe’s breakup in her track “You’re Shedding Me.” The monitor is a few romance that was tapering off for a very long time. So as to add gas to this hearth, music collaborator Jack Antonoff later revealed that “You’re Shedding Me” was truly written in 2021 when Taylor and Joe have been nonetheless collectively.
“My coronary heart gained’t begin anymore for you / ‘Trigger you’re dropping me,” she sings in a single portion of the track. The refrain options Taylor considering whether or not or not she ought to keep within the relationship, as she sings, “Do I throw out every little thing we constructed or hold it?”
Towards the top of the monitor, the “Merciless Summer time” artist reveals she wished marriage, however the particular person she is singing about didn’t. “And I wouldn’t marry me both / A pathological individuals pleaser / Who solely wished you to see her,” she provides in one other verse.
“How lengthy might we be a tragic track / ‘Til we have been too far gone to deliver again to life?” Taylor continues within the final verse. “I gave you all my greatest me’s, my countless empathy / And all I did was bleed as I attempted to be the bravest soldier / Combating in solely your military / Frontlines, don’t you ignore me, I’m the very best factor at this get together.”
Leisure Tonight reported that the cut up “was extra of Taylor’s choice to interrupt up, however each of them realized that they weren’t fully proper for each other.”
“Taylor and Joe are in completely totally different locations of their lives proper now,” a supply instructed the outlet in April, shortly after the pair referred to as it quits. “That they had been collectively for such a very long time and have been spending a lot time collectively, however their personalities have been simply too totally different. Joe is extra introverted, shy and quiet.”
Have been Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn Engaged?
All through their six-year relationship, a number of shops reported that the then-couple have been engaged at one level. In 2022, sources instructed Life & Fashion that Taylor and Joe have been engaged, however neither the pop singer nor the Mary Queens of Scots actor publicly confirmed whether or not they have been engaged or not.
Nonetheless, Joe performed it coy throughout an interview with WSJ Journal that 12 months.
If I had a pound for each time I believe I’ve been instructed I’ve been engaged, then I’d have a variety of pound cash,” he joked earlier than including, “I imply, the reality is, if the reply was ‘sure,’ I wouldn’t say, and if the reply was ‘no,’ I wouldn’t say.”
Who Is Taylor Swift Relationship Now?
Following her cut up with Joe, Taylor was briefly linked to The 1975’s Matty Healy within the spring of 2023, although their fling ended only a month later. By the autumn, the “Dangerous Blood” singer sparked romance rumors with the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish as she was noticed cheering him on at a number of video games in September and October. The pair shortly turned the speak of each the music and sports activities worlds, even making cameos on Saturday Evening Reside collectively earlier than being photographed holding arms in New York Metropolis.
Throughout that very same SNL episode, the forged poked enjoyable at her breakup from Joe, with comic Mikey Day joking, “‘Karma’ isn’t about Joe! Are you insane? Not every little thing must be about Joe.”
Travis on the time spoke out about his newfound relationship with Taylor however made it a degree that he would chorus from commenting about it an excessive amount of in an effort to “respect” her privateness. Taylor and Travis’s relationship has solely grown stronger since then, and in August 2025 the couple introduced their engagement.