How Taylor Swift fell out of love with the 'London Boy': All the ways Taylor 激突するs exes Matt Healy and Joe Alwyn on her new album

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Some of the world's most famous songwriters have used their real-life love 外傷／ショックs as inspiration for their biggest 攻撃する，衝突するs - and Taylor Swift?証明するd she's no exception with her 11th studio album, which dropped Thursday.??

The 拷問d Poets Department has made her 最近の romances with British men - 含むing 'London boy' ex Joe Alywn and 1975 星／主役にする Matty Healy - her 最新の muses, 奮起させるing some of the new 解放（する）'s more barbed lyrics.?

現在／一般に happily stepping out with?Kansas City 長，指導者s 星／主役にする?Travis Kelce, it's （疑いを）晴らす the 34-year-old singer had plenty to get off her chest, with 跡をつけるs 含むing 'So long, London' and 'Fortnight' 明らかに about painful memories of her UK-based lovers.?

The heartbreaking ly rics 含む her 苦痛 at the end of he six-year 関係 with Joe, and her two-week 回復する 'situtionship' with Healy.??

Her penchant for dating Brits saw her 簡潔に romance?Harry Styles?in 2012 and Tom Hiddleston in 2016, followed by a 15-month 事件／事情／状勢 with Scot Calvin Harris, six years dating actor Joe Alywn - and a doomed dalliance with Matty Healy this time last year.?

令状 about what you know, 権利? The 肩書を与える of Taylor Swift's 最新の work,?The 拷問d Poets Department, had 原因（となる）d fans to 推測する that the 指名する was 目的（とする）d at her ex, Joe Alwyn. Her British love 事件／事情／状勢s over the last １０年間 - with five high profile 星／主役にするs - have 誘発するd some of her biggest heartbreaks

Cathartic: The new 解放（する） is peppered with 言及／関連s to her failed romances, with Joe Alwyn and Matty Healy both 明らかな muses?

The Bad 血 songstress, who recently?teased a '時刻表／予定表' to her fans ahead of the LP's 解放（する）, 最初 発表するd the album while …に出席するing the 2024 Grammys earlier this year in February.

Fans 急ぐd to stream the 16-跡をつける album when it was 解放（する）d to 壇・綱領・公約s on Thursday night, keen to find not-so-hidden 詳細（に述べる）s of Swift's lost loves weaved amongst the lyrics.?And they didn't have to listen for very long to find them.

Here, FEMAIL looks at how British boys have served up some of the biggest heartbreaks for the 全世界の 星／主役にする...

JOE ALWYN: IS TTPD THEIR BREAKUP ALBUM?

Many fans have 予報するd that The 拷問d Poets Department album would be the ultimate Joe/Taylor '崩壊／分裂 album', it's long been 推測するd the 指名する was a direct dig at the British actor, whom she?時代遅れの from 2016 to 早期に 2023.?

Joe, born in 王室の Tunbridge 井戸／弁護士席s in Kent, and Taylor were 最初 romantically linked in 2016, but famously kept 詳細（に述べる）s of their 関係 out of the スポットライト. They broke up in April 2023, after six years of dating.?

And sure enough, there seems to be plenty of hints at their painful 分裂（する） on TTPD, with fans 推測するing that at least five of the songs are about Alwyn.?

The 指名する of the album has long been 推測するd to be a jab at Joe, who 以前 明らかにする／漏らすd that he is part of a WhatsApp group 雑談（する） with の近くに pals Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott called The 拷問d Man Club.?

Taylor Swift is 手がかり（を与える）ing fans in on the end of her six-year 関係 with Joe Alwyn 同様に as her short-lived fling with The 1975 rocker Matty Healy in songs on her new album The 拷問d Poets Department; seen with Joe in 2019

The 跡をつける So long, London features on Swift's 最新の 解放（する） and appears to 文書 how her long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 関係 with the British actor could not be saved; the couple pictured in 2020

The album's third 跡をつける?'My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys'?含むs a lyric that could be about Joe, as Swifties have long （刑事）被告 him of shying away from the スポットライト and 軍隊ing the 星／主役にする to be '隠しだてする.'

'Put me 支援する on my shelf/ But first, pull the string and I'll tell you that he runs because he loves me,' the Pennsylvania native sings.

In the fourth 跡をつける, '負かす／撃墜する Bad', Swift 収容する／認めるs to breaking 負かす／撃墜する 'crying at the gym' and how the end of hers and Joe's six-year 関係 left her feeling 'hollow.'

She sings: 'Did you take all my old 着せる／賦与するs just to leave me here naked and alone/ In a field in my same old town that somehow seems so hollow now'.

The album's third 跡をつける 含むs a lyric that could be about Joe as fans have long （刑事）被告 him of shying away from Swift's スポットライト and 軍隊ing her to be '隠しだてする'; Joe seen in 2022

Perhaps the most transparent riposte to her time with Alywn comes 経由で 'So long, London'. The raw 跡をつける 詳細（に述べる）s Swift's heartache as she realises that her 関係 with the British?actor is over.

The song is 9 minutes and 28 seconds in length and Joe and Taylor were first 確認するd to be dating on September 28, 2016.?

Swift 令状: 'I stopped trying to make him laugh/ Stopped trying to 演習 the 安全な,' she sings.?She then 会談 of bidding 別れの（言葉，会） to 'the house in the ヒース／荒れ地.'

The couple famously hunkered 負かす／撃墜する together in a 田舎の 場所 in the UK 支援する in 2017 まっただ中に the fallout of her 反目，不和 with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian.

MATT HEALY:? THE REBOUND ROMANCE TURNED BARBED MUSE

Swift 設立する herself in a whirlwind romance with Healy ― though neither ever 直接／まっすぐに 確認するd it ― just two months later after they were seen kissing in NYC; seen in May 2023

In April 2023, 堅固に on the 回復する from Alywn, Swift 設立する herself in a whirlwind romance with 1975's frontman Healy ― though neither ever 直接／まっすぐに 確認するd ― after they were seen kissing in NYC.?

But the fling ended as 急速な／放蕩な as it began after Healy's 'bad boy' image and '人種差別主義者' 発言／述べるs?原因（となる）d squeaky clean Swift to 直面する （激しい）反発.

The first T TPD 跡をつける, 'Fortnight', is the album's lead 選び出す／独身 and features rapper/singer 地位，任命する Malone. In it, Swift appears to to take 目的（とする） at Healy ― who she 言及するs to as her '奇蹟 move-on-麻薬' ― and how their 有毒な love was '廃虚ing my life.'

And fans have spotted lyrics that could be about Healy in three more TTPD songs.?

Fans quickly 圧力（をかける）d play on the 16-跡をつける album when it was 解放（する）d to streaming 壇・綱領・公約s at midnight Friday so they could find 言及／関連s to Alwyn and Healy ― both the good and the 残虐な

'Fortnight' is the album's lead 選び出す／独身 featuring rapper/singer 地位，任命する Malone. In it, Swift appears to to take 目的（とする） at Healy ― who she 言及するs to as her '奇蹟 move-on-麻薬' ― and how their 有毒な love was '廃虚ing my life'; seen in 2015 before their fling

Swift 暗示するs that Healy would be 荒廃させるd if she left him and even appears to 言及／関連 his の近くに friend Lucy Dacus of the 禁止（する）d boygenius? (Matt pictured in May 2023)

She sings: 'And no one here's to 非難する/ But what about your 静かな 背信? /I took the 奇蹟 move-on-麻薬/ The 影響s were 一時的な/ And I love you, it's 廃虚ing my life.'

The 跡をつける's 肩書を与える Fortnight, a British English word defined as 'a period of two weeks,' could be perceived as a direct nod to the British rocker 同様に as the brevity of their 関係.

And the 跡をつける with the same 指名する as the album, also seems to have a 隠すd attack at Healy's love of old fashioned type writers.?The song features the lyric:?'Like, 'Who uses typewriters anyway?'?

支援する in 2019, Healy was clowned online when he 自白するd to GQ that he 'really likes' using a typewriter.?

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CALVIN HARRIS: SCOTTISH DJ SNIPED OVER SONG CREDIT AFTER SPLIT?

Calvin Harris 時代遅れの Swift for 15 months but their love 事件／事情／状勢 was （名声などを）汚すd by his public 爆発 on X about the 星／主役にする after their 分裂（する）

They 時代遅れの for 16 months but Taylor Swift is ありそうもない to remember their love 事件／事情／状勢 情愛深く, after いっそう少なく-than-friendly 交流s に引き続いて their 分裂（する）.?

When the couple parted in June 2016,?Harris 原因（となる）d a 動かす after ranting about his ex-love on X.

Calvin had 開始する，打ち上げるd into a tirade about his ex-girlfriend, after she 確認するd she wrote his 攻撃する，衝突する 跡をつける This Is What You （機の）カム For, which saw him 共同製作する with Rihanna.

The Scottish DJ 認める he had 'snapped' at Taylor because he felt she had been 'belittling' his talent and?（人命などを）奪う，主張するd he had been '保護するing' himself.

He told GQ in 2017: 'I was 保護するing what I see as my one talent in the world 存在 belittled. It felt like things were piling on to p of me and that was when I snapped.'?

TOM HIDDLESTON:? 'TAYLOR IS AN AMAZING WOMAN'???

Former 炎上: Taylor and Tom had 時代遅れの for three months from June to September 2016, as they are pictured in Suffolk 支援する in June

Dashing Tom Hiddleston 時代遅れの Taylor for three months in 2016, when the British actor was at the 高さ of his fame thanks to 攻撃する，衝突する show The Night 経営者／支配人.??

And it seemed this was one 関係 that didn't 原因（となる） too much heartbreak when they parted ways.?

'Taylor is an amazing woman,' Tom said afterwards. 'She's generous and 肉親，親類d and lovely, and we had the best time.'

He also 拒む，否認するd 憶測 the 関係 was a stunt 純粋に designed for publicity, 主張するing: 'Of course it was real.'

He （人命などを）奪う，主張するs they were both 捜し出すing a normal 関係, 追加するing: 'So we decided to go out for dinner, we decided to travel… She's incredible. [But] a 関係 in the limelight… A 関係 always takes work. And it's not just the limelight. It's everything else.'

HARRY STYLES: DID BRITISH IDOL INSPIRE A QUARTET OF SONGS?

Styles was spotted out and about with singer Taylor Swift in late 2012 and 早期に 2013 before the pair called time on their romance just days after （犯罪の）一味ing in the new year (pictured December 2022 in New York). It's thought their time together 奮起させるd four Taylor Swift 跡をつけるs?

Between 2012 and 2013, Styles and singer Taylor Swift had a three-month fling before the pair were 報告（する）／憶測d to have 分裂（する） すぐに after the new year に引き続いて an 'almighty 列／漕ぐ／騒動'.

Little more than a week after a very public 陳列する，発揮する of affection on New Year's Eve as the clock struck midnight to kick off 2013, a source 確認するd to MailOnline that Styles and Swift had parted ways.

Swift, who is known to 令状 songs about past 関係s, is thought to have penned at least three songs about Styles - I Knew You Were Trouble, Style and Out Of The 支持を得ようと努めるd.

In 2015, the singer 明らかにする／漏らすd her whirlwind romance with Styles had been an experience filled with 苦悩.

During a 業績／成果 at the Grammy Museum, she introduced Out Of The 支持を得ようと努めるd by telling the audience about an 苦悩-inducing 関係 - although she didn't について言及する Styles by 指名する.

'I'm going to play you a song that I wrote about a 関係 that I was in that the number one feeling I felt in the whole 関係 was 苦悩,' she explained as she sat at her piano.

'Because it felt very 壊れやすい, it felt very 試験的な. And it always felt like, "Okay, what's the next road 封鎖する? What's the next thing that's gonna 阻止する this? How long do we have before this turns into just an awful mess and we break up? Is it a month? Is it three days?"'

Last year, Swift got fans talking again about her romance with Harry after she branded an 無名の ex-boyfriend a 'lying 反逆者' in a new song.

On the new 見解／翻訳／版 of her fifth album 1989, which took her career to new 高さs when it （機の）カム out in 2014, a 跡をつける called?Is It Over Now, sees the 星／主役にする 攻撃する，衝突する out at a former partner for 存在 a 'lying 反逆者' and sleeping with a 一連の models after they broke up.

TRACK BY TRACK: 世界保健機構 EACH SONG ON?THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT COULD BE ABOUT?

跡をつける 1 - 'Fortnight'

SUBJECT: Matt Healy?

'Fortnight' is the album's lead 選び出す／独身 featuring rapper/singer 地位，任命する Malone.

In it, Swift appears to to take 目的（とする） at Healy ― who she 言及するs to as her '奇蹟 move-on-麻薬' ― and how their 有毒な love was '廃虚ing my life.'

She sings: 'And no one here's to 非難する/ But what about your 静かな 背信? /I took the 奇蹟 move-on-麻薬/ The 影響s were 一時的な/ And I love you, it's 廃虚ing my life.'

The 跡をつける's 肩書を与える Fortnight, a British English word defined as 'a period of two weeks,' could be perceived as a direct nod to the British rocker 同様に as the brevity of their 関係.

On the 解放（する）, she seems to give fans a taste of her and Healy's whirlwind love as she 解任するs her fascination with thinking she can '直す／買収する，八百長をする' him

跡をつける 2 - 'The 拷問d Poets Department'

SUBJECT: Matt Healy?

The 指名する of the album has long been 推測するd to be a jab at Joe, who 以前 明らかにする／漏らすd that he is?part of a WhatsApp group 雑談（する） with の近くに pals Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott called The 拷問d Man Club.

But the titular 跡をつける featured plenty of lyrics that allude to her time with Healy.

Swift 暗示するs that Healy would be 荒廃させるd if she left him and even appears to?言及／関連 his の近くに friend Lucy Dacus of the 禁止（する）d boygenius.

She sings: 'いつかs I wonder if you're gonna screw this up with me/ But you told Lucy you'd kill yourself if I ever leave'

'And I had said that to Jack about you so I felt seen/ Everyone we know understands why it's meant to be'

The song also features the lyric:?'Like, 'Who uses typewriters anyway?'?

支援する in 2019, Healy was clowned online when he 自白するd to GQ that he 'really likes' using a typewriter.?

Taylor Swift pictured in one of the 発射s 解放（する）d to 促進する The 拷問d Poets Department?

跡をつける 3 - 'My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys'

SUBJECT: Joe Alwyn?

The album's third 跡をつける 含むs a lyric that could be about Joe as fans have long （刑事）被告 him of shying away from Swift's スポットライト and 軍隊ing her to be '隠しだてする.'

'Put me 支援する on my shelf/ But first, pull the string and I'll tell you that he runs because he loves me,' the Pennsylvania native sings.

Later in the song, she 会談 of 'playing pretend' with a past lover and 存在 left as 'broken parts.'

The lyrics go: 'I felt more when we played pretend than with all the Kens/ '原因（となる） he took me out of my box/ Stole my 拷問d heart/ Left all these broken parts/ Told me I'm better off/ But I'm not'.

跡をつける 4 - '負かす／撃墜する Bad'

SUBJECT: Joe Alwyn?

In the fourth 跡をつける, Swift 収容する／認めるs to breaking 負かす／撃墜する 'crying at the gym' and how the end of hers and Joe's six-year 関係 left her feeling 'hollow.'

She sings: 'Did you take all my old 着せる／賦与するs just to leave me here naked and alone/ In a field in my same old town that somehow seems so hollow now'

Swift later 告発する／非難するs the past lover of abandoning her. 'How dare you think it's romantic/ Leaving me 安全な and 立ち往生させるd.'

A final 別れの（言葉，会） to her London boy? Much of the album appears to 言及／関連 her six-year romance with Joe Alwyn

跡をつける 5 - 'So Long, London'?

SUBJECT: Joe Alwyn?

This heartbreaking 跡をつける 詳細（に述べる）s Swift's raw heartache as she realizes that her long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 関係 with the British?actor could not be saved.

'I stopped trying to make him laugh/ Stopped trying to 演習 the 安全な,' she sings.

She then 会談 of bidding 別れの（言葉，会） to 'the house in the ヒース／荒れ地.'

The couple famously hunkered 負かす／撃墜する together in a 田舎の 場所 in the UK 支援する in 2017 まっただ中に the fallout of her 反目，不和 with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian.

Having spent six years together, Swift, now 34, 会談 about 存在 'pissed off' that her ex-boyfriend 'let me give you all that 青年 for 解放する／自由な.'

She also sings of feeling 孤立するd in the 関係 and that she felt as though she would 'implode.'

'Me locking myself away in my house for a lot of years ― I'll never get that time 支援する'?

The song is?9 minutes and 28 seconds in length and Joe and Taylor were first 確認するd to be dating on September 28, 2016.

跡をつける 7 - 'Fresh Out the Slammer'

SUBJECT: Joe Alwyn?

Swift (a)手の込んだ／(v)詳述するs on the 孤立／分離 she felt while 天候ing hers and Joe's 崩壊するing romance.

She also communicates that her ex no longer understood her and that that only より悪くするd the divide.?

'Another summer taking cover/ Rolling 雷鳴, he don't understand me/ 後援d 支援する in winter/ Silent dinner, bitter he was with her in dreams'

She then 転換s 焦点（を合わせる） to Matty as she 解任するs 'running' to another lover after the 分裂（する）.

'Now we're at the starting line / I did my time'.

跡をつける 9 - '有罪の As Sin'?

SUBJECT: Matt Healy?

She continues to allude to Healy in the album's ninth 跡をつける.

She sings how a new lover 急襲するd in and sent her 'downtown lights' as she was '溺死するing in the blue nile.'

Fans think that the 'blue nile' is a 言及／関連 to Healy's 'favorite 禁止（する）d'?The Blue Nile.

跡をつける 11 -?I Can 直す／買収する，八百長をする Him' (No Really I Can)

SUBJECT: Matt Healy

She seems to give fans a taste of her and Healy's whirlwind love as she 解任するs her fascination with thinking she can '直す／買収する，八百長をする' him

She sings: 'The smoke cloud 大波s out his mouth/Like a freight train through a small town/The jokes that he told across the 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 were 反乱ing/And far too loud/

'They shake their 長，率いるs 説 'God help her' when I tell 'em he's my man/But your good Lord doesn't need to/I can 直す／買収する，八百長をする him/No, really I can'??

跡をつける 14 - The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived

SUBJECT: Joe Alwyn

Many believe that Taylor is （人命などを）奪う，主張するing Joe cheated with her acerbic song The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived - with fans 激怒（する）ing at the actor.?

She belts out: 'And you'll 自白する why you did it . . . And I'll say good riddance. 'Cos it wasn't sexy once it wasn't forbidden.

'You didn't 手段 up in any 手段 of a man. I would have died for your sins but instead I just died inside. You deserve 刑務所，拘置所, but you won't get time. You will slide into inboxes and slip through the 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業s.'

THE TORTURE D POETS DEPARTMENT: TRACK-BY-TRACK?

Fortnight?

A tuneful duet with 地位，任命する Malone and a song seemingly about a two-week fling. The slow, electronic rhythms 始める，決める the 早期に トン.

The 拷問d Poets Department

Another shimmering melody, and lyrics which 示唆する that Taylor, modestly, doesn't see herself at the 最高の，を越す （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する of 拷問d poets: 'You're not Dylan Thomas, and I'm not Patti Smith.'

My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys

Written 単独で by Swift, this song's dense electronic hum 追加するs 強烈な 公式文書，認めるs. 'Once I 直す／買収する，八百長をする me, he's gonna 行方不明になる me,' she 公約するs.

負かす／撃墜する Bad

'Everything comes out teenage petulance,' sings Taylor as she 激しく 調査するs the fallout from an old 関係.

So Long, London

The first 跡をつける to be written with The 国家の's Aaron Dessner brings a change of pace, with a lovely, choral intro. 'So long, London, you'll find someone,' sings Taylor.

This is her first new album since the end of her six-year 関係 with British actor Joe Alwyn and, while she doesn't について言及する Alwyn by 指名する, 憶測 will be rife that 跡をつけるs such as So Long, London are about him. Pictured together in 2019

But Daddy I Love Him

'I know he's crazy, but he's the one I want,' sings Swift, showing wry humour as she 収容する／認めるs to 落ちるing for the bad boys. Produced, with real brightness, by Dessner.

Fresh Out The Slammer

Finger-選ぶd acoustic guitar 追加するs folky 公式文書，認めるs reminiscent of lockdown albums Folklore and Evermore.

Florida!!!

An album 最高潮の場面, this theatrical duet with London singer Florence Welch is an uplifting song of escape ? from small-town life and a bad romance.

有罪の As Sin?

A tale of unrequited love, and a superb slice of 1980s-style soft 激しく揺する. It even について言及するs The Downtown Lights, a 1989 選び出す／独身 by Scottish 禁止（する）d The Blue Nile.

Who's Afraid Of Little Old Me?

Big 派手に宣伝するs, a 劇の 協定, and more 乾燥した，日照りの humour in another song penned 単独で by Swift. 'You wouldn't last an hour in the 亡命 where they raised me,' she snarls.

I Can 直す／買収する，八百長をする Him (No Really I Can)

A moody, stripped-負かす／撃墜する number worthy of Lana Del Rey, who has also worked extensively with the song's 生産者, Jack Antonoff.

The Alchemy:?冒険的な metaphors aplenty 示唆する a 跡をつける 奮起させるd by the singer's 現在の boyfriend, American football 星／主役にする Travis Kelce. Pictured at Coachella this week

Loml

'You said I'm the love of your life,' sings Taylor on this warm, resonant piano ballad. In a smart 新たな展開, the 'loml' 最終的に becomes 'the loss of my life'.

I Can Do It With A Broken Heart

More 1980s 影響（力）s on an electronic pop 跡をつける that sees Taylor 公約するing to remain a trouper, にもかかわらず any romantic 争い.

The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived

'You didn't 手段 up in any 手段 of a man,' sings a disdainful Swift on a melodramatic ballad.

The Alche my

冒険的な metaphors aplenty 示唆する a 跡をつける 奮起させるd by the singer's 現在の boyfriend, American football 星／主役にする Travis Kelce. 'When I touch 負かす／撃墜する, call the amateurs and 削減（する） them from the team,' she sings.

Clara 屈服する

It's tempting to think Taylor sees something of herself in a の近くにing 跡をつける 奮起させるd by an American actress of the 1920s who lived her life in the Hollywood goldfish bowl.

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