[caption id="attachment_3583031" align="alignnone" width="900"] Taylor Swift and Matty Healy[/caption] While Taylor Swift often gets cryptic in her lyrics, she sometimes is more direct than listeners may think. Swift, 34, put her love life under a microscope on her 11th album, The Tortured Poets Department, making references to exes Joe Alwyn and Matty Healy (and even giving subtle nods to current boyfriend Travis Kelce). On "Fresh Out the Slammer," Swift seemingly details how she...
[caption id="attachment_3582880" align="alignnone" width="900"] Taylor Swift, Kanye West, and Scooter Braun.[/caption] Taylor Swift is known to hide a secret message in her songs — and “Cassandra” from The Tortured Poets Department seems to be no different. When Swift, 34, dropped an extended version of her 11th album on Friday, April 19, listeners came away with a big question: Who is Cassandra? Many fans have deduced that the title could be a reference to Greek mythology. Cassandra, the...
Taylor Swift release day always arrives with a thicket of real-life allusions to ancient myths, literary heroes and local bars alike. The 31-track (!) "Tortured Poets Department" is packed with new poets to read, bands to discover and weird vacation towns to visit, and here's a brief field guide to the best of them. As you're crushing "Florida!!" calling in your wellness checks on the 1975's Matty Healy today, be sure to send Patti Smith's "Just Kids" back up the book charts too. Charlie Puth...
Taylor Swift’s “Florida!!!” duet with Florence Welch already has Us spinning. Swift, 34, collaborated with the Florence + The Machine singer, 37, for a song on The Tortured Poets Department, which dropped on Friday, April 19. “You can beat the heat if you beat the charges too / They said I was a cheat, I guess it must be true,” Swift begins in the song. “And my friends all smell like weed or little babies / And this city reeks of driving myself crazy / Little did you know your home's really...
The song has football references galore.
Taylor Swift didn't hold back on calling everyone out on her newest album, "The Tortured Poets Department," and the reactions are rolling in. The surprise double album was released in two parts on April 19, giving exuberant Swifties plenty of material to analyze — including multiple celebrity call-outs. Swift and Kardashian have a long-standing feud, which started with Swift and Ye back in the day and goes back to Kimye's infamous doctored phone call, which appeared to prove Taylor had given...
Taylor Swift fans have been ecstatic for the release of her new album, The Tortured Poets Department. While many fans have been praising Swift’s new music, others have been critical. In fact, Taylor Swift has been facing backlash from some fans that believe a few specific song lyrics “can’t be real.” It’s been one of []
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Taylor Swift's Charlie Puth lyrics from The Tortured Poets Department was
"You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me," a lyric from Taylor Swift's "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me," is now a meme. Here's what you need to know.
Since Friday's release of Taylor Swift's latest album "The Tortured Poet's Department" and her surprise double album "The Tortured Poet's Department: The Anthology," Swifties have been quick to point out subtle nods to past relationships and traumas - including an ongoing feud with Kim Kardashian. In Swift's track titled "thanK you aIMee," Swift sings about a "bronze, spray-tanned" mean girl at school that her mom wishes were "dead." "All that time you were throwin’ punches, I was buildin’...
In the love song "The Alchemy" on The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift uses multiple football references as she sings about a romantic prospect.