How does it feel to date and break up with the most famous woman alive? What happens next? Meet Joe Alwyn, a character in the Taylor Swift multiverse, written into public consciousness by the pop star and immortalized in her lyrics.
According to widely accepted readings of the primary source material, he has been The Boyfriend since 2016 — or, in Taylor-time, five albums. Walking in and out of her songs, he is the London boy she fell in love with in the pubs of his home city and behind the doors of her New York town house, where they promised to marry each other with paper rings.