Pop icon Taylor Swift speaks through her music. However, she recently sat down and talked about her last two breakups for the first time. In episode four of her Disney+ docuseries The End of an Era, the pop star reflected on how breaking up with both Joe Alwyn and Matty Healy in 2023 impacted the tour via In Short.
“I went through two breakups in the first half of this tour and that’s a lot of breakups, actually,” Swift said in the episode.
It was, she went on, a “rough time” but doing the show gave her a sense of “purpose.” Having the Eras tour made her “get out of bed” in spite of the “s*** that was going on,” as she put it.
“Men will let you down. The Eras Tour never will,” Swift went on.
Swift and Alwyn parted ways after six years of dating in April 2023. She then had a brief relationship with Healy, which came to an end in June 2023. The singer has been tight-lipped about either breakup in an interview setting, but fans believe that a few of her songs in her album The Tortured Poets Department are about both Alwyn and Healy.
In “But Daddy I Love Him,” for instance, Swift seemingly sings about critics of her relationship with Healy. In “Florida!!!,” Swift apparently references the rumors that her relationship with Alwyn overlapped with her relationship with Healy. Fans also believe that “So Long, London,” is about her breakup with Alwyn.
As Swift explained in her new docuseries, she did put “everything bad I felt for two years” into the album. Both Alwyn and Healy have commented on their breakups with Swift in the past.
