Almost a yr after their breakup, we all know now that Taylor Swift was “lonely” with Joe Alwyn—or, at the very least, that’s what she appeared to counsel throughout a current cease on her Eras live performance tour.

On February 17, 2024, the “Anti-Hero” singer carried out on the Melbourne Cricket Floor in Melbourne, Australia, the place she took a second throughout her present to mirror on her 2020 album, Folklore. The 34-year-old pop star wrote the album throughout lockdown—a interval which she described as “lonely” regardless of being in a relationship and spending time at dwelling along with her then-boyfriend, Joe Alwyn. She additionally hinted at “consuming” extra throughout this era of her life.

“[I was] imagining that, as an alternative of being a lonely millennial lady coated in cat hair consuming my weight in white wine, I used to be a ghostly Victorian woman wandering by the woods with a candle in a candlestick holder,” she stated in the course of the live performance. “And I wrote solely on parchment with a feathered quill. That was in my thoughts, what I assumed I appeared like, writing Folklore…In order that’s all that issues: the delusion.” And with that, Swift went on to sing her music, “Betty,” from the album.

This isn’t the primary time that Swift has opened up about her expertise in the course of the pandemic. In a December 2020 interview with Leisure Weekly, Swift defined how she and Alwyn handed the time collectively. “I wasn’t anticipating to make an album. Early on in quarantine, I began watching numerous movies. We’d watch a distinct film each night time,” the pop star shared with the publication. “I’m ashamed to say I hadn’t seen Pan’s Labyrinth earlier than. One night time I’d watch that, then I’d watch L.A. Confidential, then we’d watch Rear Window, then we’d watch Jane Eyre.”

She continued, “I really feel like consuming different folks’s artwork and storytelling kind of opened this portal in my creativeness and made me really feel like, ‘Effectively, why have I by no means finished this earlier than? Why have I by no means created characters and intersecting storylines? And why haven’t I ever kind of freed myself up to do this from a story standpoint?’”

After six years collectively, nonetheless, Swift and Alwyn known as it quits in April 2023. Sources informed Folks on the time that the Midnights songwriter and Conversations With Buddies actor outgrew one another. “They’ve had tough patches earlier than and all the time labored issues out, so associates thought they’d take a while aside however ultimately come again collectively,” one supply stated, earlier than noting that they in the end “weren’t the proper match for each other.”

“They’d lots in frequent and fell in love in a protected bubble whereas she was retreating from the world throughout Repute,” the supply added. “Then the pandemic hit, and so they have been locked down collectively and in a position to proceed rising their relationship on this insulated method. However he didn’t actually ‘know’ her but outdoors of that bubble.” The supply continued, “Joe has struggled with Taylor’s stage of fame and the eye from the general public. The variations of their personalities have additionally grow to be more durable to disregard after years collectively. They’ve grown aside.”

As everyone knows, Swift has since moved on with Kansas Metropolis Chiefs soccer participant Travis Kelce—and it appears the NFL star doesn’t have the identical downside with Swift’s stage of stardom. The pair have been final seen packing on the PDA after Kelce’s win at Tremendous Bowl LVIII on February 11, 2024, and the star tight-end is rumored to affix Swift quickly as she continues her Eras Tour around the globe.

“Soccer is every little thing to him. He lives and breathes it. However he’s prepared for some downtime now and to indicate up for Taylor the way in which she has for him,” an insider just lately informed Folks. “The eye on them is certainly quite a bit, however Travis has finished a terrific job deflecting and specializing in what’s essential.”

Following her present in Melbourne, Swift is scheduled for back-to-back live shows at Sydney’s Accor Stadium and can hit different worldwide spots like France, Singapore, Sweden, Portugal, the UK and Canada, amongst others, within the coming weeks. Chances are high, we’ll see Kelce supporting his girlfriend similar to she did at his NFL video games earlier within the season.