Folkevermore
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I think she expected a different public reaction to Matty. I also can’t work out if she went public because she wasn’t expecting it to be a quick rebound/fling (and called it off when she saw the reactions to it weren’t dying down), or if she just wanted to piss off Joe.Taylor was "winning" the breakup before Matty. Everyone was on her side. People were being mean to Joe. She literally didn't need to take control of the narrative for any reason other than a wounded ego, because she was coming off as the dumpee.
Because if it was just a rebound and she didn’t care what Joe thought, wouldn’t she have kept it on the down low?
She really shot herself in the foot with that one, and Joe was probably breathing a sigh of relief that he was no longer Public Enemy no1 in the eyes of swifties