Taylor Swift can stick to a narrative, even when that narrative she has created blows up in her face. Taylor has already decided that the narrative of her relationship with Joe Alwyn is going to be “private, low-key.” The narrative is that Big Bad Tom Hiddleston was a terrible famewhore and she learned so much about what she does not want from her relationships. The narrative is that Taylor is just a simple girl who wants low-key love, and she will not parade around with her secret and private boyfriend. The problem with this narrative is that narratives need to be sold for them to work, which is why we have been inundated with stories from People Magazine, Us Weekly, E! News and The Sun about how Taylor Swift is so private now. If you have to tell every media outlet that you’re Super-Private and Low-Key with Your Secret Boyfriend, guess what? You’re not. But at least this time around, we don’t have to hear about swan pastries and fudge. Small mercies.
Taylor Swift is sharing a piece of her heart with Joe Alwyn. After secretly dating for several months, the pop star recently took her relationship with the budding British actor to a slightly more public platform by way of her cherished Nashville hometown. As photographers caught the lovebirds enjoying coffee and chatting on a balcony in Tennessee on Saturday, E! News has learned it was one of the many activities Taylor and Joe partook in during their “low-key” weekend getaway.
The duo spent time at Taylor’s mom, Andrea Swift’s, home, gathering close friends and family members for a small dinner party on Sunday evening. One source tells E! News, “Food was served and everyone hung out together for several hours.”
“Taylor and Joe headed back to her place later in the evening,” the source reveals. Additionally, we’re told Taylor and Joe ordered delivery and invited a few pals over to hang out. “Taylor wants to keep this relationship private and has been taking measures to keep things low-key and under-the-radar,” a separate source explains.
Would it be an invasion of the privacy narrative to wonder what kind of takeout they ordered?? Inquiring minds want to know! Was it Chinese? Does Nashville have any good Chinese places? It was probably pizza. It would excellent if it was like Swan Pastries To Go though. Also: how is that Taylor and Joe managed to date so quietly for months and months and now suddenly they’re doing coffee-on-the-balcony and takeout-at-home and E! News knows all about it?
Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn enjoy their morning coffee as she takes him home to Nashville https://t.co/URcGJeGf0S pic.twitter.com/8fJvIBFsfO
— Daily Mail Celebrity (@DailyMailCeleb) June 4, 2017
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I always wonder what happened between her and Calvin. They were so low key! And then they ended in spectacular manner, with the tweets, Tiddlegate, the song with Rihanna!
PS: I refuse that it was because he did not publicly acknowledge her in that “Lightening” song, she uses a fake name for it.
She’s never going to learn…is she? *eyes roll into oblivion*
Yes, that mean famewhore Tom dragged her to the swan pastry with fudge place. Because only those mean famewhore British guys would know where the swan pastries are kept in the Watch Hill area of Westerly, RI.
For 4th of July, Joe will be spotted wearing only an I ❤️ Taylor t-shirt and a smile, nothing more, while paddling about on a giant inflatable swan in the waters off Westerly.
No, Joe and Taylor will be on a paddleboard together and Joe will only be wearing a I <3 TS g-string. So not only a diss to Tom, but also Katy Perry as well!
If she’s dissing Katy, he has to be bare from the waist down, “Taylor” must be spelled out in the shirt so RDJ can’t claim TS is for Tony Stark, and it must be a giant inflatable swan to diss Adam Eppie Calvin Nuke LaLoush Harris.
Hiddleston needs to never ever ever talk about her (even vaguely) in an interview ever again. He was stupid about the whole thing while they were together yes, but even afterwards he’s being included in the narrative and none of it is flattering.
As for Joe? His first two movies made zero impact with his big breakout film being a massive bomb. He needs to be very careful or risk being famous as Swifty’s piece of the moment before he’s ever had a chance to be even a modest success as an actor. No tank tops!!
Well, he is such a notorious famewhore that is complete disappearance, save for being spotted running or getting coffee or running with coffee, since mid-March can only be viewed as an attempt to upstage her at keeping his life private and low-key. Why, he’s not even leaking articles to the Sun about how he’s just keeping everything quiet right now. Such a blatant attempt to upstage her!
@Lightpurple – yes Tom is so thirsty! (Well for coffee anyway! He was seen with two coffees and some takeout one morning. Maybe somebody new? He is deliberately NOT telling the Sun – what a famewhore he is! Poor Taylor – how he took advantage of her. Luckily she’ll probably let us all know what a victim she is)
Not my point. I don’t think he’s interested in upstaging her but he is still potentially caught up in the drama. He was asked about it during Kong promotion and talked in admittedly vague terms about regrets. Fine, no crime in that. But now the narrative is while he was “regretting”, she had already moved on to a hot, younger man. Gossip is viscous so yes that is the perception. I’m saying that if he’s still being asked about this in his next round of promotion his people need to shut. it. down. Talk about the work, get a new girlfriend (real or not), but do NOT be perceived as Swifty’s lovelorn regretful ex. Not a flattering narrative for a mature actor. He needs to get faaaaaar away from this.
But he has shut it down. He has done so on a few times. And sometimes he was testy about it. He only opened up for the GQ interview which was obviously damage control. He is trying to get far from this with as little damage to himself as he can.
@Mia4s and – he actually said when asked about regrets – “What in your opinion should I regret?”. I agree with @madly , he spoke about her in GQ and that is all he is going to say. During Kong promotion he shut down all questions by saying that he was not going to talk about his private life. He said his life is not up for grabs. He also said that he was going to continue to go out into the street to run and if someone takes his picture there is nothing he can do about it. He also said on the air that he was absolutely single and available. If Taylor writes a song about him and it comes out before or during Thor promotion, I think he will simply say: “I could not possibly comment”. Did anyone see the balcony pictures from the Daily Mirror – they included some on in the other publications. In one of them Joe is by himself and the poor guy looks very discouraged. Only a moment in time, but he sure looks lost (9th pic down): http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/taylor-swift-new-love-joe-10563271
And you missed my point completely. I was being sarcastic. He did shut it down. Told Savannah Guthrie he wouldn’t talk about it on the Today show in March. Told a reporter for The Telegraph he was not going to talk about it, again, in March. No other mentions of any of it at all except the GQ interview, which was published in February/March. The “narrative” is coming from her & her contrived story about how private she is. He hasn’t been seen in months and his last statements on anything were about TNM at the Empire awards and some tweets about UNICEF, all months ago.
It’s torturous being subjected to Swifty’s tone deaf lie telling. Girl, please move on from selling your alleged personal life for publicity. Grow up! Otherwise your fans are just gonna end up being a bunch of maladjusted creeps…like you.
Right? Meanwhile so many celebs have managed to have babies, get married, break up, and all around exist without details leaking like house shopping and what they order on date nights.
She thinks that if she shares this story often enough then the public will believe that it is true. She is apparently not aware that the public still remembers snakegate and does not see her the same way anymore
I’m starting to know more about this super secret deeply private hush hush relationship than I do about the famewhores like JLo, Affleck and Garner, and the D list brigade. Seriously does her fan base buy this act?
Maybe all she cares about are the fans who do buy her bs stories? Kind of like trump?
Does anybody care anymore? Her circus game is over. She should switch tactics. Trump and the state of the world have shoved these people aside, not even the Kardashians get the same attention and interest as before.
I swear if the word “low-key” is used one more time about Taylor and Joe, I’m going to scream. Bad wicked Tom Hiddleston/Loki – insisting on wearing an I heart TS t-shirt in RI! Why didn’t he listen when she advised against such shenanigans? Are we going to get some kind of diss song right around the time the real Loki appears on the screen in Thor Ragnarok?
What kind of karma punishment is writing one of these Taylor articles? Any self-respecting writer must hang their head in shame at the language and content.
LOL these stories man.
Too bad there are new blinds floating around about her too
Spill, what new blinds?
So it’s been a longstanding rumor (on Tumblr I think but I saw it on here first) that Taylor is in the closet. New blinds are about that and who her new bed mate is. I take blinds with a grain of salt but I sure raised my eyebrows at it.
Low-key as in a reference to Tom’s character in Thor that will be coming out around the time her album does. She is so obvious. Narrative is not working when the only low-key person in the story is the pretend ex boyfriend you are trying to blame.
I’m so glad this is super private Every. Single. Day.
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Bwahahahahahaha me too
Her relationships completely bore me. SHE bores me. I can’t believe she’s almost 30 – honestly, I feel like she acts like she’s still in her late teens.
LATE teens?
I guess she gets bored and lonely in her closet. Enough already with the fake boyfriends. It was obvious at the Met thing she chaired that they set up a dance moment. You can see where they were like ok that is enough to get the rumors going, “See ya at the next photo op” In 2017 who cares anymore? It might make her more interesting. The grainy pap shot is hilarious. This girl can’t breathe without some attention.