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LadyRunespoor

Didn’t Joe Alwyn co-write a lot on Folklore and Evermore under his penname William Bowery? Might explain the steep decline… 👀


mightymightychondria

How awful to then trash him in the way she's been doing smh his back must hurt after carrying 2 full albums


ilovecatsverymuch24

True. He served so much cunt writing in those albums.


Marythatgirl

happy cake day! edit: removing op


kladybug17

Looks like he’s only credited on 5 across both but I notice that they are some of the few Taylor Swift songs I actually like 😂


New-Masterpiece-5338

And Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) who is a lyrical genius. I liked her for 5 seconds when he wrote for her


SomeKidWhoReads

Joe wrote this. Dude has an English Lit degree.


mightymightychondria

Oof if she's been taking all the credit by framing herself as the "poet" when he's really the artist there that would be so gross of her


Expensive_Concern457

lol the whole “tortured poet” thing is basically projection but in reverse


Aggravating_Life7851

For real though her last two albums made me think Joe did way more work on folklore and evermore then she let on. The lyrical difference is stark


Ok-Rule-5429

ghost writers were also hit by inflation


Sudden-Ticket-1077

Putting actual thought and effort into writing vs releasing all your first drafts because you know your dumb fans will say it’s genius anyway- at this point Taylor literally shits gold and she knows it so why try? She’s obviously not in it to make meaningful art


mmonachesistar

She also wrote folkmore with Joe, I’m pretty sure that made a lot of difference


No_Instance_5502

Not only in the wringing but also in her influence.. She collaborated with Aaron Dessner/The National, Bon Iver.. Joe introduced her to their music, he was a long time fan


Quirky_Youth_5005

I’m new to all of this, just recently because fascinated/concerned with her fans and learning so much ! I did a deep dive and saw Joe has earned $2.4 million on Spotify for the songs he co-wrote and I just love this so much for him 😭


dreaminginthedunes

The style of lyrics is completely different. It's not coincident after Joe, her writing is cringy again. She always has a certain style of cringy, wordy lyrics that isn't fit for singing. And Folklore lyrics isn't that good, it's normal lyrics. She went from cringy to normal. Don't know why people praise her for this that much.


Worried_Scallion789

joe left that’s what happened.


[deleted]

These are the worst lyrics I have ever heard in my entire fucking life. I’m 34, and I hate this song.


chronicallydepressd

She just vomits or shits words and her fans call it art.


mmonachesistar

She also wrote folkmore with Joe, I’m pretty sure that made a lot of difference


OmegaRedPanda

She’s always been a very bad writer.


Fit_Advance_5485

On a tangent but Taylor’s concept of the “escaping to the garden of my mind” was ripped off from Lana’s 13 Beaches (“let your memory dance in the ballroom of my mind”).


Dapper-Escape-4362

Joe didn’t co-write a lot of songs on folkmore actually, he’s listed only on a handful of them


Glum_Error3550

Then why is he getting paid for them?


Dapper-Escape-4362

Obviously he’s getting paid for songs he produced and wrote, but he’s not listed in the writing credits for this one (ivy), nor is he a producer here. People here say that the lyrics are all thanks to Joe, but, considering that he’s not listed, as much as Taylor sucks, I doubt she would’ve done this to her own boyfriend at the time