Did Taylor Swift Just Admit to Denying ‘Red Flags’ During Her Relationship With Joe Alwyn?

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that her upcoming album will document her breakup with —and her latest promotional tool will only add fuel to that particular fire.Ahead of the release of on April 19, the curated , categorizing her own catalog into “the five stages of heartbreak,” namely denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

While Swifties are no doubt searching the lists for Alwyn-related Easter eggs, they won’t have to dig very far. The very first list is called and it contains a big one.“This is a list of songs about getting so caught up in the idea of something that you have a hard time seeing the red flags, possibly resulting in moments of denial and maybe a little bit of delusion,” Swift tells fans in a personal message right before the top track, “Lavender Haze.”This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Swifties have already that a bunch of the songs on this playlist were written while she was Joe Alwyn, but choosing “Lavender Haze” for song number one feels like a particularly pointed choice.

In fact, Swift already by deleting an explanation of the song from her Instagram following their breakup in April 2023.Prior to the release of Midnights in October 2022, Swift all but confirmed “Lavender Haze” was inspired by her six-year relationship with Alwyn. “If you were in the lavender haze, then that meant that you were in that all-encompassing love glow, and I thought that was really beautiful,” she said in a Instagram Reel.Swift went on to explain how the world often tries to “weigh in” on other people’s relationships, especially in the era of social media. "Like my relationship for six years, we’ve had to dodge weird rumors, tabloid stuff, and we just ignore it,” Swift said.