One ultimate treat! When the physical version of Taylor Swift’s new album, Folklore, got here out on Friday, August 7, enthusiasts were given one further track that used to be now not included on the virtual release.

Naturally, Swifties instantly started interpreting the lyrics to the bonus track, “The Lakes,” with many surmising that it's about the Grammy winner’s boyfriend, Joe Alwyn. The refrain, particularly, makes a number of references to England, where the Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk superstar, 29, was born and raised.

When Swift, 30, introduced on social media on July 23 that she secretly recorded Folklore in quarantine amid the COVID-19 pandemic, she advised her followers that the standard version would “have Sixteen songs … but the bodily deluxe editions will come with a bonus track.”

While fanatics patiently waited to hear “The Lakes,” The National member Aaron Dessner, who produced much of the album, teased what lovers may expect from it.

“That’s a Jack [Antonoff] music,” he informed Vulture on July 27. “It’s a lovely more or less lawn, or such as you’re misplaced in a gorgeous lawn. There’s a kind of Greek poetry to it. Tragic poetry, I assume.”

Several songs on Folklore are rumored to be about Alwyn, whose dating with Swift first made headlines in May 2017. (She previously dated stars together with Joe Jonas, Jake Gyllenhaal, John Mayer, Harry Styles, Calvin Harris and Tom Hiddleston.)

“Invisible String” references the “yogurt shop” the place the actor worked as a teenager ahead of turning into well-known. The lead unmarried, “Cardigan,” in the meantime, alludes to Alwyn’s 2018 film The Favourite with the line, “And once I felt like an old cardigan / Under any individual’s bed / You put me on and mentioned I used to be your favorite.”

Some enthusiasts even speculated that Alwyn cowrote the Bon Iver-featured “Exile” below the pen name William Bowery as Bowery isn't a registered songwriter.

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Swift extensively utilized the album to announce the name of Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively’s third daughter, who was born in 2019. She later confirmed in a radio interview that “the entire characters” within the tune “Betty” are named “after my friends’ kids.” (“Betty” additionally references the couple’s daughters James, 5, and Inez, 3.)

Scroll down to see three clues that “The Lakes” is set Alwyn!

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