Taylor Swift announced this morning that, surprise! She’s releasing her eighth album, folklore, tonight at midnight. She thanked several collaborators in her initial announcement message, but one name has caught the attention of dedicated Swifties: William Bowery. Many are convinced it’s a pseudonym for her boyfriend of over three years, Joe Alwyn.
They noted that Bowery does not appear to be a registered songwriter or producer name, and that he was the only writer Swift did not tag in her post.
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Swift made the album while quarantining; Joe Alwyn revealed earlier this year that the two were quarantining together, making a musical collaboration between the two very plausible.
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Other fans noted that Swift and Alwyn first met at the Bowery Hotel, a fact to which they may be paying homage with the “Bowery” last name.
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Another fan went deep into Alwyn’s history, noting he had a great-grandfather named William who was a composer and music teacher—and thus, William Bowery comes together.
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This wouldn’t be the first time Swift used a fake songwriter name. When she and ex-boyfriend Calvin Harris co-wrote “This Is What You Came For,” she used the pseudonym Nils Sjöberg to credit herself. After their breakup, Harris confirmed reports that Swift in fact worked on the track and used a fake name when it initially came out. “Amazing lyric writer and she smashed it as usual,” Harris tweeted. “Hurtful to me at this point that her and her team would go so far out of their way to try and make ME look bad at this stage though.”
Alwyn and Swift have made a point of keeping their relationship as private as possible. In January 2019, Alwyn objected to the idea of the two being labeled as “strangely private” during an interview.
“I don’t think [we’re] more than anyone else,” he said. “I don’t think anyone you meet on the streets would just spill their guts out to you, therefore why should I? And then that is defined as being ‘strangely private.’ Fine. But I don’t think it is. I think it’s normal.”
Alwyn and Swift have never shared photos of each other on their social media pages. In January, pre-pandemic, the two had their first truly public date at the Golden Globes.
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