Taylor Swift Wrote 'You're Losing Me' 1 Year Before Joe Alwyn Split

May 2024 · 4 minute read

Jack Antonoff is providing some perception into Taylor Swift’s Midnights breakup ballad “You’re Losing Me.”

“‘You’re Losing Me’ is out nowadays, an excessively special monitor from the Midnights sessions that’s finally streaming!” Antonoff, 39, wrote by means of his Instagram Story on Wednesday, November 28, alongside a photo of Swift, 33, digging into some snacks. “Written and recorded at home on 12/5/21 after Taylor ate these raisins.”

Swift to begin with dropped the vault observe — which was once coproduced by Antonoff — in May as a digital release track by way of her internet store after it appeared on an unique CD version bought to fanatics at her Eras Tour stop at MetLife Stadium. Upon the tune’s liberate, eagle-eyed fans right away began to invest if Swift used to be referencing the tip of her dating with ex Joe Alwyn.

“Do I throw out the whole thing we built or keep it? / I’m getting drained even for a phoenix,” Swift sings in the pre-chorus. “Always rising from the ashes / Mending all her gashes / You would possibly just have dealt the overall blow.”

The 2nd verse apparently features Swift begging for her partner to peer her ache. “I glared at you with storms in my eyes / How are you able to say that you simply love anyone you'll’t tell is loss of life?” she asks. “I despatched you signals and bit my nails down to the short / My face used to be gray, however you wouldn’t admit that we were unwell.”

It’s the bridge, alternatively, the place Swift belts out the song’s most devastating lyrics. “I wouldn’t marry me either / A pathological other people pleaser / Who handiest wanted you to look her,” Swift croons. “And I’m fading thinking / Do something, babe, say one thing / Lose one thing, babe, risk something / Choose something, babe, I got nothing to consider, except you’re choosing me.”

Fans were stunned via Antonoff’s claims about the timeline of the song, which would mean Swift penned the track more than one year before calling it quits with Alwyn, 32. (The pair had been in combination for nearly six years before going their separate techniques in April.)

“So she felt this way for years,” one individual commented by means of X (previously Twitter). Another wrote, “Insane how she nonetheless tried to make it with him for an entire year after scripting this devastating tune.”

At the time in their split, a supply solely informed Us Weekly that the Grammy winner’s A-list celebrity status contributed to the pair’s breakup.

“Joe may be very shy and never preferred the entire consideration that came with courting one of the vital fashionable singers on the earth,” the insider explained, noting that the Conversations With Friends superstar “didn’t like having to be on all the time.”

Since calling it quits with Alwyn, Swift has sparked a romance with Kansas City tight finish Travis Kelce. The twosome were first connected in September after Kelce, 34, invited the singer to observe him play at Arrowhead Stadium in his game towards the Chicago Bears.

They have since been noticed world wide in combination. Earlier this month, an insider informed Us solely that the couple “can’t wait” to celebrate the holidays with each other. According to the supply, the pair will most likely spend time at Swift’s Tenn essee home before Swift heads off on the subsequent leg of her Eras Tour in the new year. “Travis hasn’t been to Taylor’s Nashville position but, so he’s actually taking a look forward to it,” the insider added.

Swift is transferring on in more ways than one. Earlier on Wednesday, she announced that she would be releasing “You’re Losing Me” on streaming products and services in birthday celebration of being named Spotify’s Global Top Artist for 2023.

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“Um adequate this is unreal??” she wrote by way of social media along new Spotify artwork. “I simply sought after to mention to somebody who listened to my music this year, any place in the world, thanks. Getting named Spotify’s Global Top Artist in 2023 is really the most productive birthday/holiday present it's worthwhile to’ve given me.”

She endured, “So I used to be trying to consider a method to thanks, and numerous you could have been asking me to place “You’re Losing Me (From The Vault)” on streaming… so here you move! You can after all listen EVERYWHERE now 💋.”

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