Taylor Swift Reveals Joe Alwyn is the Real William Bowery in "Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions"
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Looks like Joe Alwyn can officially put down "songwriter" in his resume.
Taylor Swift is peeling back the curtain a bit in her brand new documentary film, Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions, and revealed that Joe is her mysterious co-writer, William Bowery and she discovered his songwriting skills kind of by chance.
"There’s been a lot of discussion about William Bowery and his identity because it’s not a real person. So, William Bowery is Joe [Alwyn], as we know," she said in the documentary. "Joe plays piano beautifully and he's always just playing and making things up and kind of creating things. And "Exile" was crazy 'cause Joe had written that entire piano part and it was singing the Bon Iver part. He was just signing it the way that the whole first verse is. And so, I was entranced and asked if we could keep writing that one."
She also talked about how Bon Iver got involved in the song.
"It was pretty obvious that it should be a duet, 'cause he has such a low voice and it sounded really good sung down there in that register. And then, we're really, really big Bon Iver fans. And, you know, we know that Aaron Dessner knows him. I was too afraid to suggest it."
After asking her producer Aaron "who would be great on this?" He had also suggested Bon Iver and got the whole process going.
She also talked about him working on "Betty," which seemed to kickstart their partnership together.
"I just heard Joe singing the entire full formed chorus of "Betty" from another room. And I was just like, 'Hello,'" she said. "It was a step that I would never have taken because why would we have ever written a song together?"
Producer Jack Antonoff revealed that he initially thought she was joking when she brought it up at first. But Taylor said that she wanted to work with him to see if it would work out.
"This was the first time where we had a conversation where I came in and was like 'Hey, this could be really weird and we could hate this, so could we just, because we're in quarantine and there's nothing else going on, could we just try to see what it's like if we write this song together?'"
Looks like it worked out in the end, especially since "Exile" just got nominated for a Grammy while Folklore is nominated for Album of the Year. So get ready Joe, because there's a chance you might be able to call yourself "Grammy winner" pretty soon.
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