The archetypal opus Taylor Swift collaborated on with her erstwhile boyfriend Joe Alwyn, the ballad appears connected 2020's Folklore arsenic a duet with Bon Iver. At the clip of the album's release, Joe was credited nether the pseudonym William Bowery, though Taylor confirmed William and Joe were 1 and the aforesaid during her Disney+ performance film, Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions.

Taylor revealed Joe had written the full soft part, on with singing, "I tin spot you standin' honey/With his arms astir your body/Laughin' but the joke's not comic astatine all." She went connected to accidental The Favourite histrion was "always conscionable playing and making things up and benignant of creating things," but the mates whitethorn person ne'er worked unneurotic if it wasn't for the COVID-19 shutdown. 

"I was like, 'Hey, this could beryllium truly weird, and we could hatred this,'" she explained, "'because we're successful quarantine and there's thing other going on, could we conscionable effort to spot what it's similar if we constitute this opus together?'" 

The effect of their nonrecreational collaboration? Winning Album of the Year astatine the 2021 Grammys.

"We're truthful arrogant of 'Exile,'" Taylor gushed. "All I person to bash is imagination up immoderate lyrics and travel up with immoderate gut-wrenching, heart-shattering communicative to constitute with him."

For the rubric way disconnected her ninth workplace album, Taylor explained to Apple Music's Zane Lowe that she and Joe worked unneurotic the aforesaid mode they did connected "Exile," with Joe crafting the melody, Taylor penning the lyrics and Bon Iver erstwhile again serving arsenic the antheral singing voice.

In an interrogation with Rolling Stone, the song's co-producer Aaron Dessner said it was "really important" for Joe to play the soft portion connected "Evermore" arsenic helium wasn't capable to connected "Exile" owed to signaling issues.

"But this time, we could," Aaron said. "I conscionable deliberation it's an important and peculiar portion of the story."

Just hours before Taylor kicked disconnected The Eras circuit successful Glendale, Ariz., connected March 17, the Grammy victor treated fans to four brand-new songs, including "All of the Girls You Loved Before." Originally intended for her 2019 medium Lover, fans theorized that the way was astir Joe. 

Taylor begins her pre-chorus by singing, "Your past and mine are parallel lines / Stars each aligned and they intertwined." Those lyrics reminded fans of different opus she wrote astir Joe connected Midnights titled "Mastermind" connected which she sings, "Once upon a time, the planets and the fates / And each the stars aligned / You and I ended up successful the aforesaid country / At the aforesaid time."

Later successful the song, Taylor croons, "The mode you telephone maine 'baby' / Treat maine similar a lady." Swifties quickly flashed backmost to Taylor's reputation deed "King of My Heart," which is besides astir Joe. In the track, she sings, "We met a fewer weeks agone / Now you effort connected callin' maine 'baby' similar tryin' connected clothes."

Part of the precocious schoolhouse emotion triangle trilogy connected Folklore, Taylor said "Betty" was the effect of her proceeding Joe "singing the entire, afloat formed chorus from different room." 

"I truly liked that it seemed to beryllium an apology," she continued. "And I've written truthful galore songs from a female's position of wanting a antheral apology, that we decided to marque it from a teenage boy's perspective, apologizing aft helium loses the emotion of his beingness due to the fact that he's been foolish."

While Joe wasn't actively progressive with the accumulation on Midnights' opening track—Zoë Kravitz is credited arsenic a co-songwriter though!—Taylor's tendency to support their narration from the nationalist was the inspiration for the song.

"If the satellite finds retired that you're successful emotion with somebody, they're going to measurement successful connected it," she explained connected Instagram. "My narration for six years, we've had to dodge weird rumors, tabloid stuff—and we conscionable disregard it. This opus is benignant of astir the enactment of ignoring that worldly to support the existent stuff."

The rubric comes from a operation commonly utilized successful the 1950s that Taylor archetypal heard portion watching Mad Men, sharing that it meant an "all-encompassing emotion glow."

Though the mates co-wrote the Evermore opus astir a failed engagement, Taylor changeable down the speculation that it was astir their relationship.

"I accidental it was a astonishment that we started penning together, but successful a way, it wasn't," she told Zane Lowe. "Because we person ever bonded implicit euphony and had the aforesaid philharmonic tastes, and he's ever the idiosyncratic who's showing maine songs by artists and past they go my favourite songs oregon whatever."

Taylor continued, "Joe and I truly emotion bittersweet songs. We've ever bonded implicit music. So...we constitute the saddest [ones]. We conscionable truly emotion bittersweet songs. What tin I say?"

In summation to the rubric way and "Champagne Problems," Joe besides co-wrote "Coney Island," a acheronian duet featuring The National frontman Matt Berninger,  on Evermore.

Described by Taylor arsenic the astir susceptible opus connected Folklore, the ballad was the effect of the superstar feeling "more rooted successful my idiosyncratic life" due to the fact that of Joe, she told Paul McCartney successful an interrogation for Rolling Stone.

"I deliberation that successful knowing him and being successful the narration I americium successful now," she said, "I person decidedly made decisions that person made my beingness consciousness much similar a existent beingness and little similar conscionable a storyline to beryllium commented connected successful tabloids."