Taylor Swift‘s music served because the unofficial soundtrack to the 2026 Golden Globes — and followers couldn’t assist however marvel what just a few key gamers within the viewers have been pondering.
Swift’s ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn attended the awards present on Sunday, January 11, together with costars from his film Hamnet, which in the end took dwelling the win for Greatest Movement Image – Drama. (Actress Jessie Buckley additionally gained a person award for her efficiency within the movie.)
Whereas it’s been two years since Swift, 36, and Alwyn, 34, their relationship lore nonetheless lives rent-free in followers’ heads — particularly as Swift’s track “The Destiny of Ophelia” performed all through the room.
“Joe Alwyn having to listen to The Destiny of Ophelia 💀,” one social media person tweeted, whereas one other joked that Alwyn “deserved hazard pay for that Golden Globes second.”
A 3rd viewer teased the actor may need been “scared for a sec” that Swift “would seem on stage.”
Earlier within the night time, host (and proud Swiftie) Nikki Glaser made her massive entrance to “Model” earlier than delivering her monologue. “Shake It Off” was additionally heard at one other level through the ceremony.
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“Nikki is terrorizing him with these songs 💀,” an X publish learn, referring to Swift’s ex.
Alwyn and Swift dated for greater than six years earlier than their break up made headlines in 2023. She moved on along with her now-fiancé, Travis Kelce, later that 12 months.
The actor wasn’t the one viewers member on Sunday whose historical past with Swift is considerably rocky. Charli XCX took the stage with Joe Keery to current the awards for Greatest Authentic Track and Greatest Authentic Rating.
“Joe alwyn and charli xcx being compelled to take heed to the whole thing of 1989 on the golden globes,” an X person joked.
A separate viewer gave a extra blunt take, teasing, “Ought to’ve performed so lengthy london and truly romantic as properly.”
Taylor Swift and Charli XCX have lengthy denied there’s any rigidity between them, however their rumored beef made headlines once more with the discharge of Swift’s twelfth studio album, The Lifetime of a Showgirl. After the album dropped in October 2025, followers instantly started speculating that monitor 7, “Truly Romantic,” is about Charli. “What do i […]
Swift make clear her break up from Alwyn on the emotional breakup track “So Lengthy, London,” featured on her 2024 album, The Tortured Poets Division. When she launched The Lifetime of a Showgirl one 12 months later, followers have been fast to suspect that Charli, 33, was the topic of the track “Truly Romantic.”
Years after opening for Swift on her Fame Stadium Tour in 2018, Charli’s friendship with the pop celebrity appeared to bitter when Swift dated Matty Healy in 2023. Charli — who’s married to Healy’s finest good friend and bandmate George Daniel — seemingly referenced their complicated historical past on her track “Sympathy Is a Knife” from 2024’s Brat.
“Don’t wanna see her backstage at my boyfriend’s present / Fingers crossed behind my again, I hope they break up fast,” the lyrics learn.
On her personal diss monitor, Swift jokes that Charli writing a track about her is “really romantic,” teasing, “No man has ever beloved me such as you do.”
Swift gave extra perception into the track’s inspiration on a track-by-track model of The Lifetime of a Showgirl, explaining, “‘Truly Romantic’ is a track about realizing that another person has form of had a one-sided, adversarial relationship with you that you simply didn’t learn about … How flattering that any person has made you such an enormous a part of their actuality if you didn’t even take into consideration this?”
