Taylor Swift's new album The Tortured Poets Department seemingly unpacks her relationship with The 1975 frontman Matty Healy.
Rachel DeSantis is a staff writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her work has previously appeared in Entertainment Weekly and the New York Daily News., which came out April 19, Swift chronicles various stages of love, from the excitement of new romance to the devastating end of a relationship that had forever potential.
“‘Love If We Made It’ is based on a song by the Blue Nile called ‘Downtown Lights.’ That's another one where I wanted to reference that song; I didn't want to hide away from referencing it,” Healy toldLater, on "The Black Dog," Swift shouts out another favorite band of Healy's in the pop-punk group The Starting Line.
The title track, “The Tortured Poets Department,” also seems to reference Healy, and its title appears to be a joke aimed at him for bringing a typewriter to her apartment in the vein of famed poets like Dylan Thomas. The song hints that the relationship is not without its drawbacks, but that ultimately, Swift would be thrilled if it ended in marriage .
“It was legendary / It was momentary / It was unnecessary / Should’ve let it stay buried,” she sings of returning to the former flame. “Oh what a valiant roar / What a bland goodbye / The coward claimed he was a lion / I’m combing through the braids of lies / ‘I’ll never leave’ / ‘Nevermind.’” On “The Alchemy,” Swift seemingly makes reference to those past struggles with the lyrics, “He jokes that it’s heroin / But this time with an ‘e.’”
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