#william bowery

[joealwyndefenseattorney]

Something like “your integrity makes me seem small” CAUSE SHE IS. Joe Alwyn, the man that you are and who you will be. I hope Joe truly finds peace one day from this circus that is TS.

[throwbackgaylor]

july 27, 2020 | four years ago

aaron dessner spoke about if william bowery was secretly joe alwyn:

“I don't know. We're close, but she won't tell me that. I think it's actually someone else, but it's good to have some mysteries.”

[wolfyystar]

joe alwyn looking stunning and handsome for HERO Magazine’s Cannes Diary of 2024

[jalwyn21]

[totallylost4you]

Who's William Bowery anyway? Ew.

In Berlin Jack read the sign at the concert and laughed at it. When he signed the sign, he again did not reveal who WB is.

I am also still not over Grammygate! 🙃😂

Did you know that Joe won a PRODUCER Grammy?

It was impossible to win a Grammy as WB because he / she only WROTE 2 songs on the album. (Until 2022 you had to be involved in 33% of the album time to win a Grammy.) They added Joe to exactly the minimum amount of songs as PRODUCER. Of course they couldn't change the printed booklets without him, BUT they added him as a PRODUCER on all online platforms back then.

Who's William Bowery anyway? 🤷

[kwyw]

Taylor decided to pull all kinds of shenanigans today 😂

[periwinkle-musings]

Did Taylor Swift write "Sweet Nothing" about Paul McCartney and his wife's summer in Wicklow in 1971?

The song "Sweet Nothing" on Taylor Swift's Midnights has always stood out to me as a bit of an anomaly. Until this intriguing quote by Paul McCartney caught my eye:

In a 2001 ABC interview about his wife Linda, who passed away in 1998, Paul McCartney said:

"I would go out for a run, think of some words, get home from the run, write them down, and make a cup a tea for Linda," said McCartney, who would bring it to her for breakfast. "I'd make a little tray, and go up, and then I'd say, 'Hey, by the way, do you want to hear some poetry?' She'd always … she'd say, 'Yeah.' And so I wrote that poem." 'Blessed.' I would come back from a run. With lines of poetry to tell. And having listened, she would say "What a mind."

This is a direct quote and exact same storyline as in "Sweet Nothing." There is NO WAY that is a coincidence. So I wanted to see if Paul and Linda had any connection to Wicklow - the place mentioned in the song. 

I think the McCartney family vacationed at the Luggala Estate in Co. Wicklow, Ireland in the summer of 1971 as an escape from the aftermath of the Beatles breakup.

A sweet Wicklow love story:

Paul McCartney has connections to Luggala going back to 1965-1966 when he partied at the estate with Guinness Brewing heir Tara Browne who was killed in a car accident a few months after his raucous 21st birthday, and inspired the Beatles song "A Day in the Life." Paul was close to Tara and his death deeply impacted him. This Rolling Stone article details their relationship and mentions that Paul has visited Luggala to visit Tara's gravesite since then on "numerous occasions." Paul had not met his wife Linda yet while Tara was alive, but this proves Paul's deep and personal ties to the family and their 5,000 acre private estate in the Wicklow Mountains, which continued to be a private retreat for celebrity guests until it was sold in 2019.

Paul McCartney has posted multiple family photos taken by his wife in the summer of 1971 that appear to be taken near the Luggala Estate in Co. Wicklow. He tweeted this photo on St. Patricks day in 2017 which a previous Reddit thread links to Wicklow in 1971. And recently on March 2022 he tweeted this photo which appears to be taken the same day judging by his shirt and his dog, and credits the photo as being taken by his wife (she was a professional photographer) in Ireland in 1971. Here you have a better view of the surrounding mountains and rocky streams (full of pebbles I'd imagine...) It's notable that the second photo was posted March 2022 around the time when Taylor would be writing and recording the Midnights album.

If you look at the aerial view of Luggala Estate (Now showing on Google Maps as Luggala Lodge), I believe that these photos were taken in one of the rocky streams that feed into the private lake...which is named Lough Tay. (I like to think it's an extra little wink from Taylor that this investigation literally led me to a lake named Lough Tay.)

This area is completely private and the closest public access is from a hiking overlook. This seems like a great place for one of the most famous musicians in the world to hide out with his two young children, 2 dogs, and Linda, who would have been pregnant with Stella McCartney (born Sept 13, 1971).

We know that the family and their dogs were in Ireland in the summer of 1971 from this newspaper article where they were photographed at an airport in August leaving Ireland, which means it's possible that they were in Wicklow a few weeks earlier in July.

Even though The Beatles broke up in 1969, it continued to be messy between members of the band and the financials involved for the next few years. During the summer of 1971 Paul McCartney and John Lennon were embroiled in a very public fight. There were lawsuits and scathing letters (dated 1971) and it's all very complicated so I won't go into it here, but this article has a good overview.

The lyric, "Industry disruptors and soul deconstructors and smooth-talking hucksters out glad-handing each other" could reference these incidents. I could see Taylor relating to Paul going through this public turmoil surrounding business with former friends, because it is similar to what she's going through with her masters.

The lyric "You're in the kitchen humming" could reference Linda's passion for cooking and vegetarian activism. She literally founded a food company and wrote a cookbook. This darling photo on her website shows her cooking at the family home in Scotland in the 1970s. Linda was also a singer and recorded many songs with Paul, so the idea that she could be "humming" makes sense.

Taylor Swift has been friends with the McCartney family for a while. She first met Paul in 2010. She collaborated with Stella McCartney in 2019 for a clothing line as part of the Lover era, and Stella also dressed her for the Evermore album cover in 2020.

Taylor and Paul McCartney famously interviewed each other for Rolling Stone's "Musicians on Musicians" in 2020. In this article they mention how they both like writing under pseudonyms.

But the most surprising thing I learned is that Paul actually wrote a song dedicated to Taylor and her relationship with her fans called "Who Cares."

Notably, the music video also features Taylor's longtime friend Emma Stone wearing rainbow makeup in an otherwise black-and-white world full of cartoonish bullies. It's notable that the music video was released Dec 2018, right before the Lover era would kick off a few months later. Perhaps Paul was showing a bit of preemptive support for Taylor as she embarked on what many of us believe was intended to be her coming out era?

Now to the William Bowery of it all:

Taylor clearly wants us to think Sweet Nothing is about Joe because of the Wicklow name drop, where Joe was papped in July 2021, which looks staged to me.

Interestingly, I can't find any photos of Taylor being seen anywhere near Wicklow, but for some reason she staged a whole photoshoot in Northern Ireland in July, where locals said she "arrived and left by helicopter in a fleeting visit."

She was also seen in several different locations in Belfast in fan photos. This article also says part of Red TV was recorded in Belfast.

Clearly she wanted to be seen and linked to Northern Ireland, and the lyric easily could have been "Does it ever miss Belfast sometimes?" (same number of syllables) but it's not.

"Sweet Nothing" does have a William Bowery co-writing credit. Would Sir Paul McCartney agree to a secret writing credit? Maybe.

I read an interesting twitter thread from a lawyer (who is a Gaylor) that discusses how William Bowery could be a name under which Taylor commissions writing "for hire." Meaning it could be Joe or multiple other people writing under that pseudonym, as opposed to the "Willam Bowery" (spelled different) which is listed as a U.S. Citizen.

Even if Paul wasn't involved in writing the song, I believe he inspired "Sweet Nothing."

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Note: This theory was originally posted on the R/GaylorSwift subreddit Dec 22, 2022 which is currently set to private. I am the original author of the Reddit post (u/-periwinkle), and am reblogging it on my Tumblr because this theory has been gaining traction and I wanted to create a public version. This version has been slightly expanded and updated with better images. Also, I was not the first person to uncover the "what a mind" quote, and the original person who found it is tagged on Reddit.

[theladwhoisweird]

"Now Joe wants to be photographed."

Dummies, you don't know what's to be taken by swarming paparazzi with stupid someone- I mean with @taylorswift , a VERY BIG PERSON!

He's doing his job and it's formal photographers. He's healing now and he's free and he will be totally if you're not obssessing over him.

He's an actor too, not just someone's former lover.

[foxes-that-run]

I'm still so confused about who William Bowery is. Is it really Joe? If it wasn't him, I don't think his team would've been putting out articles how he makes millions off of royalties so he can try and rub it in Taylor's face...

I don't know if his team put out those articles, or if he even has a team TBH. We also don't know what he was actually paid and if or how that is tied in with any financial settlement from their relationship.

I don't think it is is him, I find it interesting that he didn't comment on it for 6 months after Taylor said it in the Long Pond Session, in that time she wrote You're Losing Me. Then in his third last public act as 'Taylor Swift's BF' he went on Kelly Clarkson to own it. After that interview his last appearances were the Icy Midnights pap walk/VMA car dash and he was photographed with Jack (not Taylor) at the post-Grammy party. His credit is for production, not songwriting. A producer does something which can be ill-defined to assist in making the work happen, to me his contribution and what he gets paid for is to stop discussion about who WB is.

[oh-my-damn]

Rewatching folklore: the long pond studio sessions is honestly just.... beautiful, and wonderful but also infuriating as hell.

I have beef with this movie.

AND HERES WHY.

First of all, you expect me to buy that the guy who literally hid for basically your entire 6 year relationship wrote not just the music but also the chorus to Exile?

AND TO THAT EXTENT; you expect me to believe that THE REST (or basically the entirety) of that album is written about MADE UP CHARACTERS when your long-term boyfriend seemingly wrote these lyrics:

"I can see you standing, honey With his arms around your body Laughin', but the joke's not funny at all

And it took you five whole minutes To pack us up and leave me with it Holdin' all this love out here in the hall

I think I've seen this film before And I didn't like the ending You're not my homeland anymore So what am I defending now? You were my town Now I'm in exile, seein' you out I think I've seen this film before"

And he did those on a whim, not from personal feelings or experience, because you were still super-duper happy?????

AND TO THAT END

YOU EXPECT ME TO BELIEVE THAT MIDNIGHTS (3 AM VERSION) WAS NOT A BREAKUP ALBUM?????

Nuh-uh. It cannot be both. Either your long-term boyfriend WROTE THIS MUSIC AND LYRICS and that's why Midnights is absolutely a breakup album (bc who, in a loving fulfilling long-term relationship would ever come up with those lyrics on a whim) OR Joe DID NOT write Exile (which you want us to believe) and Midnights is NOT a breakup album (which you want us to believe).

IT CANNOT BE BOTH, TAYLOR.

IN NO WAY DO I BELIEVE YOGHURT BOY CAME UP WITH THOSE LYRICS AND THEN YOU WERE HAPPY AND LOVEY DOVEY ALL THROUGHOUT YOU WRITING EVERMORE AND MIDNIGHTS.

EITHER Joe wrote Exile – OR folklore, evermore and midnights is based on personal experiences and midnights especially is a breakup album, or Joe DIDNT write Exile. There is no in between.

And I believe Joe wrote it, because you said he did. This also ties in with me absolutely believing to my core that Midnights is the Joe breakup album. Bc TTPD is NOT a Joe breakup album, it is a Matty breakup album.

Bc we already had the Joe breakup album, we just didn't know it yet.

[we-made-it-this-far-kid]

Now that it’s been 3 years since “Folklore” came out, I have to say it but I never thought yogurt boy was William Bowery. Even Jack was like I have no idea who William Bowery is. I’m sorry I just don’t believe this random British dude who as far as I know doesn’t have any musical background could write part of these songs. And even if he did, I still don’t believe it I’m sorry. It just doesn’t not seem possible to me at all. That’s the hot take of the day and I know some of y’all are going to destroy me over it but.

[joealwyndefenseattorney]

I am simply dead from how gorgeous he looks in these 🥰 he looks mature but still with his boyish looks

[throwbackgaylor]

august 3, 2020 | four years ago today

taylor swift released ‘exile’, co-written by william bowery, as a single

[stylinson-spagghetti]

look... hear me out

the tortured poets department (poets as in plural

suggesting... you guessed it... collabs

and here are a few tortured poets i want tay to collab with louis tomlinson (could i be any more obvious????) conan gray (again, obvious is obviousing) harry styles (duh) sabrina carpenter (blondie duo would slay) niall horan (i cannot stress this enough) selena gomez (cuz why not?) william bowery (provided that the album doesn't diss him)

[jalwyn21]

Joe's recent interview just confirmed my belief that folklore and evermore were the lyrical masterpieces in taylor's musical history only because he was a writer on them - this is coming from an ex swiftie

At this point there is no denying the impact Joe had on those 2 albums. Music, lyrics and aesthetic. Swifters should show Joe more respect for this alone. He helped her career more than we realized.

[joesalw]

We really need those William Bowery x Bon Iver collab for his side of story lol

that's what im saying, like i really hope him following bon iver is work related and even if its not about his pov on the break up i really need him to keep writing songs because he has a talent, i really loved the songs he wrote with her! well and also it really pisses me off that some people simply dont believe he is william bowery and think he doesnt have the ability to write a song/play a piano so would also be cool if he proved them wrong!

We are all rooting for our william bowery 🫂