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Joe Alwyn Shares the Amazing Story Behind Co-Writing “exile” and “betty” with His Girlfriend, Taylor Swift · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest after Joe Alwyn has
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  Speaker 1: no dreams of pursuing a songwriting career, which is a
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  Speaker 1: pretty rare thing to hear from somebody who has Grammy
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  Speaker 1: to their name. Thanks to his girlfriend Taylor Softs album
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  Speaker 1: of the Year winner, Folklore, Joe shares co writing credits
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  Speaker 1: on Exile and Betty under the pseudonym William Bowery. Joe
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  Speaker 1: was genuinely responsible for the melody and first verse of Exile,
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  Speaker 1: which is pretty impressive considering him tried writing a song
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  Speaker 1: since high school. That he tells g Q it was
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  Speaker 1: really the most accidental thing to happen in Lockdown. It
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  Speaker 1: was just me messing around on a piano and singing
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  Speaker 1: badly and being overheard by Taylor, then us thinking, you
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  Speaker 1: know what would happen if we actually tried to get
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  Speaker 1: to the end of the song together, then sending it
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  Speaker 1: to Bony there with the idea of doing a duet
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  Speaker 1: and getting voice notes back of him singing over the
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  Speaker 1: top and stuff was surreal. Joe also explained they decided
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  Speaker 1: to originally give him a pseudonym so people would focus
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  Speaker 1: on the music rather than the fact that they wrote
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  Speaker 1: together and Despite the success, Joe is focusing now on
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  Speaker 1: his acting career. His new Hulu show Conversations with Friends,
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  Speaker 1: bowls on Hulu this Sunday. That's direct from Hollywood.