Who is "Fortnight" about?
Subject: Joe Alwyn and Matty Healy
“Fortnight (featuring) Post Malone, the first song from The Tortured Poets Department, is speculated to be about Taylor Swift’s exes, Joe Alwyn, who she dated from 2016 to 2023, and Matty Healy, who she dated from May to June 2023. The song is believed to be about Swift moving on from Alwyn by dating Healy.
All my mornings are Mondays stuck in an endless February
I took the miracle move on drug, the effects were temporary
And I love you, it’s ruining my life (I love you, it’s ruining my life)
I touched you for only a fortnight (I touched you)
But I touched you
- “Fortnight” is a British English term defined as “a period of two weeks,” which many believe represents Swift’s short-lived romance with Healy. (Both Alwyn and Healy are also British.)
- Though news broke of Swift’s ex-boyfriend, Joe Alwyn in April 2023, a source told The Sun at the time that Swift and Alwyn split in February 2023, three months before she was first seen with Healy in May 2023. “She and Matty are madly in love. It’s super-early days, but it feels right. They first dated, very briefly, almost ten years ago but timings just didn’t work out,” the source said. “Taylor and Joe actually split up back in February, so there was absolutely no crossover.”
- The “miracle move on drug” lyric is also believed to be a reference to how Swift dated Healy after Alwyn.
I’m calling you, but you won’t be called?
Another fortnight lost in America
Going to Florida by the car you won
But it won’t start up till you touch, touch, touch
- Swift’s first Eras Tour concert after her breakup with Alwyn was in Tampa, Florida, on April 13, 2023. Healy was seen at Swift’s Eras Tour stop in Nashville, Tennessee, two weeks later.