Except for some strategic photos of Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn in Nashville back in June, we really haven’t had a full-on Taylor Swift Boyfriend Experience Rollout. For most of her boyfriends, the first few photo-ops are very important, and the photo-ops often inform the narrative around the relationship. For Harry Styles, it was Central Park in autumn. For Jake Gyllenhaal, it was… what? Like, Brooklyn in autumn, I think. Conor Kennedy got Hyannis Port in summer. Tom Hiddleston obviously got the rocks of Rhode Island. And on and on. Do those Nashville photos “count” as JoeTay’s first coupled-up pap stroll? Not to me. And not to Taylor either. According to Us Weekly’s sources, The Taylor Swift Boyfriend Experience Rollout will be picking up steam soon enough, just in time for her to promote Reputation.
After Taylor Swift dropped her new single, “Look What You Made Me Do” — which seemingly takes swipes at foes Kim Kardashian, Kanye West and Katy Perry — fans eagerly anticipated the video that would drop two days later at the MTV Video Music Awards on August 27. But when it finally debuted (it’d go on to rack up a record-shattering 43 -million–plus views in 24 hours) Swift was nowhere to be found. One reason, explains an insider, was her months-long romance with actor Joe Alwyn. Says the Swift insider, who’s attended the popular awards show eight out of the last nine years, “She didn’t want the media to ask about him. She’s enjoying her private time.”
Meet Taylor 2.0. A source says Swift’s new strategy is to “keep her personal life separate from her work life” and leave the PDA behind. Though the 10-time Grammy winner flaunted her brief romance with Tom Hiddleston (see: his “I [heart] T.S.” tank), she’s taken pains to keep her romance with the 26-year-old Brit under wraps. In June, after he visited her in Nashville, Swift sent Alwyn back to London in her private jet. And the couple, who a source says have been holing up in Swift’s $20 million penthouse loft in NYC’s Tribeca neighborhood, relied on hoodies to stay hidden while out in July.
A Swift source explains that with some of her past releases, “It’s been Taylor’s M.O. to be seen with a new guy first, have her new single drop and then announce her new album. But this time, she’s kept the guy private. And that’s pretty interesting. She really likes Joe.” Still, notes the source, Swift knows she’ll have to officially re-emerge ahead of Reputation’s November release: “Expect to see them step out together really soon.”
She’s ready to pivot to her romance. “Taylor knows the buzz around her just began, and she’ll want to continue that before her album drops,” says the source. “One way is showing off her new love.” He’s a good prize, says the insider, noting the Mary Queen of Scots actor is “supportive of her career choices. She’s very happy.” That may be the best revenge of all.
A source says Swift’s new strategy is to “keep her personal life separate from her work life” and leave the PDA behind…and yet she’s also making plans for the first pap stroll, because guess what, you guys? The Old Taylor isn’t really dead. The Old Taylor is the New Taylor and the New Taylor sticks with what worked for the Old Taylor. In any case, I do hope that the pap stroll happens soon enough. I want to see their body language together. Will it be chaste hand-holding? Will they be in New York or LA or… maybe even London? I would enjoy it if she switched it up and did a big London pap stroll. The London paps would love her forever if she did it there.
Also: “after he visited her in Nashville, Swift sent Alwyn back to London in her private jet.” Ah, the perks of dating a snake emoji.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I highly appreciate that you keep using the most unflattering bits from the video as pics. Man that’s some ill-advised styling.
I think I’ve run out of things to say about her because we all know who she is. But I have to laugh at “That may be the best revenge of all.” WHAT revenge? Who’s this revenge directed at? Also, she really likes the milquetoast guys, doesn’t she?
” Also, she really likes the milquetoast guys, doesn’t she?”
She is in a hard position. She wants to be the popular cheerleader dating the handsome quarterback but also is threatened by men who might outshine her. Just like in her squad everything must be focused on her.
I totally agree. I hate that slicked back hair and red lip look. She looks good in the chain outfit though…
And they say romance is dead. Add him to the list of people she uses to her benefit . One of many reasons I cannot stand this entitled , whiny mediocre human being . She’s the worst .
Snakes shed their skin, but are still snakes.
She is not reinventing herself. 🙂
So the new Taylor does her pap strolls with new boyfriends AFTER the single drops instead of before. What an evolution.
Ooh I can’t wait !! 🙄
The old Taylor is dead didn’t you hear? Now the guy comes AFTER the single! Wild
LoL @ Taylor thinking anyone on this planet outside of her army of Swifties has even the most remote desire to see/learn more about her “super private” ~romance~ with this curdled milk no-name actor that looks like her twin. No one has been more entertained by Taylor’s contrived boyfriend pap strolls than I have but at least the previous guys had even the faintest but of interest surrounding them, not to mention most of them were actually attractive. Connor Kennedy was just a kid who wasn’t a celeb but he was a Kennedy so he didn’t need to be famous (or a high school graduate) for people to pay to attention.
Clearly you care
Bless your heart, getting offended by an honest opinion about Taylor Swift in the comments section of a gossip website. Let us pray I don’t contribute to you being triggered further. D-:
Call me naive but I think if we haven’t got anything apart from the grainy balcony shot, and the hoodie hiding ones from NY , and it’s been what a year next month, I doubt we will be getting anything more. And, from her likes on tumblr I think promo for the album will be cut to a minimum too.
Yh right like that white bread alt right queen snake will ever not sell herself and whichever idiot she’s roped in for her next bout of promo. Either way I’d suggest you go worship your trump voting queen someplace else where baby fist supporters like yourself are wanted … I’m so tired of seeing this basic b!t<h everywhere
Holy cow?
Fan of Taylor’s music , yeah I’m guilty. But, Trump supporter? Go bloody do one Lulu , my proud Muslim Iraqi born British self isn’t even welcome in your country, and certainly not able to vote.
Lulu, don’t forget to take your meds!
@jaii so you say… I mean that’s pretty convenient right? I don’t know how any WOC could be a fan of Swift, talk about hating yourself.
@ETI – no meds needed thanks just speaking the truth.
Who put Lulu in charge?
Her major marketing push with AT&T just dropped – she’s coming back full force.
I just saw on tumblr , but again I’m not seeing this to any different to her UPS ads or the deal with ABC. This is promoting the music /her without her having to do any real promo. If I’m remembering right she liked a post on tumblr saying “what’s the point in giving new interviews she’s said all she has to say over the last 10years ” or it was something similar.
The album is being promoted on the sides of UPS vans. Far cry from minimal
Light purple I don’t think I made what I was saying clear , sorry my bad. I meant minimal in the sense of her doing actual physical promo , like countless TV shows/interviews/magazine covers as she did for 1989.
Jaii, I agree with you that she will cut her personal involvement in the promo to a minimum. I guess that’s her new shtick.
LWYMMD is still number 1 and Ready for it number 2 in the global itunes charts; the only new entry – and possible competition at the moment – is U2 at nr 6.
I’m aware that commenters here don’t want to hear it but LWYMMD is a huge hit worldwide.
Unlike most I love LWYMMD, and Ready is a brilliant choice for a promo single as it has appeal outside her fan base, I think Zayns song might give it some competition, and of course Sam Smith is due soon isn’t he? . Anyway but really she doesn’t need to do her own promo anymore, the media and gossip sites do it all for her . Taylor has a lot of haters, she’s polarising but even the people who hate the loudest still check out the vids, listen to the songs, and that all counts.
Yeah, I’m one of those. Hate is too strong a word, but she does irk me something fierce. I did listen to both songs (once) and watch the video (once), but all that did was reinforce my puzzlement about why her music is so popular. I just don’t get it. After confirming for myself that this new “era” was just going to be more of the same, I can easily pay her no mind her going forward. Just like I’ve done for most of her career, barring a brief interlude last summer (thanks a lot Tom).
Ha, you were right: the new Zayn song is already at nr. 2 and I really like it. I guess he will be nr. 1 soon. A collaboration with SIA is always a smart move, I love her voice. The video made me giggle, though. 🙂
I don’t like the new Sam Smith at all, it’s way too sad for my taste.
WARNING! Her giant face is plastered on the sides of UPS trucks.
London pap stroll to see Hamlet would be her goal but no tickets available
Not wrong, QueenB. Now she’s found one who has no fan base at all. Obviously in the wrong place. Agreeing with Queen B. My apologies.
Right you are LP. Joe needs a role model for Shakespeare if he is going to be “Burton to her Taylor.”
She’s literally dating a guy Rollingstone dubbed, “the next Tom Hiddleston” lol! That was before they even dated. That can go either way. Either flattering in terms of career or unflattering in terms of boy toy status.
Poor Tom, as if he hasn’t been insulted enough.
Joe wishes he will have a career like Tom’s.
HOLY TAYLOR MOTHER OF SNAKES . NOT ON THE UPS TRUCKS!!! LOL
My husband works for UPS. He and most of his coworkers think this promotion is super obnoxious.
Yes! And it takes up the whole side of the truck. I was terrified
Is it Swiftmas already!!!!!
What does one wear for such an event!
Snake rings are so in.
Careful, you’re about to get a C&D for using that Trademarked term!
Did anyone else see the article on Buzzfeed where a reality star knocked her off the #1 spot? That gave me a good chuckle this morning.
I listened to her songs just now. She has a pretty nice voice.
Oh yeah, she was only on top for a week. That is hilarious! https://www.buzzfeed.com/elliewoodward/a-british-reality-tv-star-has-knocked-taylor-swift-off-the?utm_term=.rcR7kzdq7#.ov6w4a5Gw
They look alike.
I just hope her fans like her new album
I love how US Weekly says that Taylor’s being happy in a relationship may “be the best revenge of all.” Somehow I doubt that Katy Perry and/or the Kardashian-West family care at all about Taylor Swift’s love life.
Come to think of it, does *anyone* care?
Her stans
Aka, poor Joe is still under contract.
Lol, he’s not under contract. The guy is a nobody. I can’t believe you people believe in “Kaylor.”
Regardless, I hope she kicks Joe to the curb at some point. He is unattractive, looks like her.. And only landing roles because of her.
I think a certain ex, that she branded as using her for fame who has kept more quiet than her and (unlike her) is getting rave reviews right now, is actually tasting sweet revenge.
Read an article about her and there were more guys than those famous eight. She can date whoever she wants to but here are my two questions: is it true that it was jake who was her first? And why are moms still saying that she is virgin like if she has pap walks with every guy? Don’t get that. So Rihanna is a **** according to a lot of moms but i honestly have no clue who she dated apart of Brown and Drake.
I doubt that. She dated Mayer before Jake. So gross.
The thing with Taylor is that all of those relationships seem super fake. Who dates pretty much all teeny idols and only for a short period of time and then writes about it like it was a decade long relationship with ups and downs?
Does anyone remember when she dated Connor Kennedy? That wasn’t a super long relationship, but I’d say at least six months, and he was still in High School! She’s bonkers. So strange.
Kennedy and her were a fling, I think she personally went for him as a reminder of Harry. At the time her and Harry were on and off again, and Harry kept ditching her to hookup with other girls. So… She called it off with Harry, that’s when she started dating Kennedy, and then she ditched Kennedy for Harry again.
She had a VF article (you can find on Oh No They Didn’t!) Where Taylor’s publicist who was horrible at time (didn’t do her job.) Let Taylor talk about Harry… Basically Taylor spilled the beans herself and got a “friend” to speak for her… IT was either Taylor or someone SHE is very close to… (Which IS why her publicist at the time got fired.) Because she let Taylor do something that stupid.
So, basically, Connor was only a fling, and she was waiting for Harry, when he came back, it was; “Bye Connor!” That’s why there isn’t songs about Connor, she couldn’t give a F about him, lmao.
Jake her first, probably. Regardless though she always had songs with subtle hints of sex.
I think she was best matched with Calvin Harris, both are over ambitious petty drama queens.
I don’t think Joe is successful enough for her, she’ll just use him for publicly. “shhhhh, don’t talk about us!” Righhhhht.
I.. just don’t have it in me to care about this. I want to be distracted from the hellscape that is america at this point with trite news, but I just can’t. I read the article, dug down deep, and couldn’t drag to the surface a single @*$#. Like i hope shes happy with her wonder bread boyfriend, that’s all I got.
Lulu is racist
Lulu racist? Maybe….. Bitter? Most definitely….. 😉