In the lead-up to Taylor Swift’s most current album, The Tortured Poets Departmentlaunched on Friday, the moody images and mournful bits of lyrics sprayed throughout the web (“I enjoy you, it’s destroying my life,” for one) made it quite clear that Joe Alwyn, Swift’s longest public relationship, would not get away the department top unharmed. It was a surprise to lots of, then, simply just how much ink Swift spilled apparently in referral to her quick relationship with The 1975 straw man, Matty Healy, on the double album.
On the album’s title track, Swift sings about an enthusiast who leaves a typewriter at her apartment or condo: “I believe some things I never ever state,/ Like, ‘Who utilizes typewriters anyhow?'” Anybody can get a typewriter, however that’s simply the very first tip that the tune has to do with Healy. In a 2018 interview with GQ Healy discussed his fondness for typewriters, stating, “The thing with typewriters and composing, putting pen to paper, there’s type of an aspect of dedication that chooses the event of it.” He stated he chose the analog carries out for his writing, which he referred to as “imagine loving other pop stars.”
In the chorus of the exact same tune, Swift sings, “You’re not Dylan Thomas,/ I’m not Patti Smith,/ This ain’t the Chelsea Hotel,/ We’re modern-day morons.” Dylan Thomas, significantly, was a Welsh poet– Healy is British. Smith, like Swift, is American. There’s her remembering: “You smoked then consumed 7 bars of chocolate,” and then there’s the “tattooed golden retriever” falling asleep. Healy is, obviously, considerably tatted up, and atrioventricular bundle’s tune “Chocolate” has to do with smoking cigarettes. Understand?
While “The Tortured Poets Department” scans as eye-rolling directed at a pompous ex, other referrals on the album that appear to indicate Healy are less mild, which is why it’s a bit unexpected to see an unnamed source apparently informing United States Weekly that Healy and his household are alleviated at his representation on the album.
“Matty still believes really extremely of Taylor, however we were all anxious about what she may have stated on the album,” the source stated, including that individuals near to Healy “could not be better” with the record.
“Matty’s household understood about the relationship,” the source supposedly shared. “And they were fretted that Taylor was going to rip him apart. Matty has actually battled with life in the public eye, and he’s been doing truly well, however the last thing that he requires is for each Swiftie on the planet to believe he’s a bad guy.”
Then there’s “I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can),” which appears to point to Healy with referrals to jokes that are “revolting and far too loud,” and the public’s viewpoint about Swift’s love life. “They shook their heads, stating, ‘God assist her’/ When I informed ’em he’s my male.” She goes back to that style on “But Daddy I Love Him,” singing,