Argentine professional footballer Lionel Messi unfollowed Taylor Swift’s ex Joe Alwyn on Instagram after her newly released album The Tortured Poets Department
Lionel Messi made his loyalties known as he unfollowed Taylor Swift’s ex Joe Alwyn on Instagram after her newly released album The Tortured Poets Department.
Eagle-eyed Swifties noticed that the Argentine professional footballer’s following count went down by one this week as Taylor revealed the details of her relationship with Joe within her new tracks. In Taylor’s new album, a number of songs are dedicated to her London-based ex-lover whom she seemingly accuses of cheating on her during their six-year-long romance.
On Friday night, one day after the release of the Tortured Poets Department, one Taylor fan wrote on X, formerly Twitter: “After the release of THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT, Lionel Messi has unfollowed Joe Alwyn on Instagram.” In the replies of the post, which was met with 1.5k reposts and 14k likes, one fan wrote: “two goats coming together.” And another added: “The GOAT btw, always on the right side.”
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Lionel is one of the many famous faces that have shown their loyalty to Taylor after her breakup with Joe as a number of celebrities stopped following the actor on social media. After the news of their split was revealed, famous couple Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds were two of the first to hit the unfollow button.
This comes as Taylor released a few songs that fans read as a call-out to her ex-boyfriend including the song Down Bad in which the pop singer seemingly references the infidelity as she accuses someone of leaving her stranded in their shared home in north London. In the song, she sings: “Did you take all my old clothes just to leave me here naked and alone / In a field in my same old town that somehow seems so hollow now / How dare you think it’s romantic / Leaving me safe and stranded.”
In another song titled The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived, fans guessed that it was infidelity on Joe’s end that led to the breakdown of their love as she sang: “And you’ll confess why you did it / And I’ll say good riddance / Cos it wasn’t sexy once it wasn’t forbidden / You didn’t measure up in any measure of a man / I would have died for your sins but instead I just died inside / You deserve prison, but you won’t get time / You will slide into inboxes and slip through the bars.“
These lyrics left many fans outraged knowing that one of their favorite singers went through such a devastating betrayal from someone she believed she was going to marry and start a family with. After the song came out, fans took to X sharing their harsh criticism of the actor. One fan wrote: “The smallest man who ever lived: so did he cheat on her? did he abuse her?” one asked, as another added: “who’s The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived for?! did joe cheat?!… I’ll never understand how the hell that pink faced victorian looking man dared to cheat on THE Taylor Swift. The smallest man who ever lived for real.”
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