Taylor Swift has made an unusual remark on her six-year relationship with Joe Alwyn, claiming that they’ve had to “dodge weird rumours.”
In a video posted to her Instagram on Friday, the 32-year-old singer opened up about her British actor lover and revealed the first track, “Lavender Haze,” from her new album, Midnights.
She admitted that she got the song title after watching Mad Men and researching up the term online, and she explained how the phrase related to “love.”
“And it turns out that it’s a common phrase used in the ’50s where they would just describe being in love,” Swift explained. “If you were in the ‘lavender haze,’ then that meant you were in that all-encompassing love glow. And I thought that was really beautiful.”
The “All Too Well” singer explained that “theoretically,” when someone is in that “lavender haze,” they will “do anything to stay there” and won’t let “people” ruin that feeling.
With that in mind, she described how the internet can negatively affect someone when they’re “in love”.
“I think that a lot of people have to deal with this now, not just like ‘public figures,’ because we live in the era of social media, and if the world finds out if you’re in love with somebody they’re going to weigh in on it,” she explained.
“Like my relationship for six years, we’ve had to dodge weird rumours, tabloid stuff, and we just ignore it,” she said of her own dating experience. So this song is about disregarding that junk in order to safeguard the true stuff.”
One of the most popular rumors about the couple throughout the years is that they secretly got engaged. However, in an April interview with the WSJ Magazine, Alwyn not only accepted the speculation, but also stated that if he was engaged, he would not publicly announce it.
“If I had a pound for every time I think I’ve been told I’ve been engaged, then I’d have a lot of pound coins,” he said. “I mean, the truth is, if the answer was yes, I wouldn’t say, and if the answer was no, I wouldn’t say.”
This wasn’t the first time that Alwyn, who’s been dating the “Bad Blood” singer since 2017, has addressed that he doesn’t like to publicly talk about his relationship.
“It’s just not for other people. And I don’t say that with aggression. I don’t know how best to talk about it,” he told The Guardian in April. “I mean, I’m aware of people’s… of that size of interest, and that world existing. It’s just not something I particularly care about, or have much interest in feeding, I guess, because the more it’s fed, the more you are opening a gate for intrusion.”
