Fans Speculate Taylor Swift's New Album Is A Dig At Ex Joe Alwyn

Publish date: 2024-04-28

Highlights

Taylor Swift's new album, The Tortured Poets Department, was announced at the Grammys, surprising fans who were expecting a re-release of her album Reputation.
Fans speculate that the album will contain references to her breakup with Joe Alwyn, as she started writing it around the time of their split.
Swifties are known for deciphering Taylor's hints and Easter eggs, but even they were caught off guard by the album announcement.

It's been almost a year since Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn broke up, and while it was obviously a difficult time for the singer, she seems to be over it by now. Her relationship with NFL player Travis Kelce could not be better, with the couple being so clearly loving and supportive of each other, and her career is at an all-time high.

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Like many artists, Taylor appears to find in music an outlet to work through her emotions, and she has poured her feelings of heartbreak and loss into her songs many times. Of course she would do so after one of her longest relationships ended. Now that she has a new album coming, one that she has been working on for a couple of years, fans can't help but wonder if she will be exposing some details about her and Joe Alwyn's breakup. Especially after she chose such a particular title for it.

Swifties Were Expecting A Special Announcement

Taylor Swift is known for leaving Easter eggs to hint to her fans whenever she has a new announcement, and through the years, Swifties have gotten incredibly good at spotting them and guessing what they mean. Because of this, they have become hyper aware, and sometimes they get carried away, seeing hints where there aren't. Despite this, they can usually tell when something new is coming, but Taylor still manages to surprise everyone.

For a couple of years now, she has been re-recording her past albums as a way to reclaim them after her lengthy legal battle with Scooter Braun. The only two albums left for her to re-record are her debut album, Taylor Swift, and her iconic reputation. For a while now, Swifties have been speculating on the re-release of Reputation, so when on the day of the Grammys Taylor changed her profile picture to a black and white photo, matching that album's aesthetic, they got excited about it.

They were half right. The singer did use the Grammys to make an announcement, but it was something different and bigger. She shared with the audience that she was putting out a new album, which would be called The Tortured Poets Department. It will be out on April 19th.

Fans Think Taylor Is Taking A Dig At Joe Alwyn

In 2022, it was revealed that Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn had split up after six years together. After that, every song Taylor released was overanalyzed, and fans looked for clues about when the relationship started going sour. In November 2023, Taylor's producer and good friend Jack Antonoff posted a story about the official release of the song 'You're Losing Me', sharing that she wrote it and recorded it in mid-2021 at his house, so that's when fans speculate they started having trouble in their relationship.

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During her announcement at the Grammys, Taylor said that she had been working on the new album for two years, which only fueled the rumors, and when she published the name, fans became convinced that she was taking a dig at the actor.

Years ago, Joe Alwyn shared that he had a group chat with Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott, which they dubbed the "Tortured Man Club." With Taylor Swift's new album being called The Tortured Poets Department and the fact that she started writing it around the time of the breakup, fans are convinced the record will be filled with Joe Alwyn references. And not in a good way.