“An anthology of recent works that mirror occasions, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic second in time.”
In her personal phrases, Taylor Swift’s newest album The Tortured Poets Division is a product of her private life – which is usually performed out in essentially the most public approach.
Followers have already spent hours poring over her raft of recent lyrics within the 31 new songs.
Two hours after its launch, the singer introduced The Tortured Poets Division: The Anthology, which incorporates 15 further new songs.
From Kim Kardashian to Travis Kelce, right here we check out who the lyrics is perhaps about.
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Marriage, infants, break-ups – breaking down the album
Break-up with Joe Alywn
Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn. Pic: Blitz Footage/Shutterstock
Followers had been anticipating a breakdown of the singer’s six-year relationship with actor Joe Alwyn – they usually weren’t disenchanted.
Even within the album title, there seems to be a reference – Alwyn and Regular Folks actor Paul Mescal revealed in 2022 that they had a WhatsApp group chat with Fleabag actor Andrew Scott referred to as The Tortured Man Membership. 4 months later information of Swift and Alwyn’s cut up emerged.
The tune showing at quantity 5 within the new tracklist – typically the slot reserved for essentially the most significant tune on every of her albums – is So Lengthy, London, and is assumed to supply new insights into her cut up with the British actor.
Within the lyrics, Swift hints at wedding ceremony plans, singing: “You swore that you just beloved me however the place had been the clues, I died on the altar ready for the proof”, in addition to being upset at having to depart London which she stated she “beloved”.
She additionally makes a reference to “the home within the Heath” she left behind. The singer was typically seen in Hampstead Heath with Alwyn after they dated, as he lived in north London.
“And I am pissed off you let me offer you all that youth totally free,” she sings. “Me locking myself away in my home for lots of years – I will by no means get that point again.”
Swift was performing her Eras tour when it was reported that she and Alwyn had cut up – and the primary present she performed was in Florida, which is the title of certainly one of her new songs, that includes Florence Welch from Florence and the Machine.
“The hurricane with my identify when it got here, I obtained drunk and I dare it to scrub me away,” she sings.
In one other tune, Recent Out The Slammer, Swift discusses feeling remoted in a relationship. “One other summer time taking cowl, rolling thunder, he do not perceive me.
“Splintered again in winter, silent dinners, bitter he was together with her in goals.”
Romance with Matty Healy
Matt Healy. Pic: PA
In the meantime, followers have interpreted the lyrics to the primary tune on the album titled Fortnight, that includes US star Publish Malone, to be about British singer Matty Healy, whom she was rumoured to be courting briefly final yr after her cut up from Alwyn.
Swift sings: “Typically I ponder should you’re gonna screw this up with me, however you advised Lucy you’d kill your self if I ever depart and I had stated that to Jack about you so I felt seen, everybody we all know understands why it is meant to be.”
However who’re Lucy and Jack – the buddies the lovers are confiding in?
Followers have recommended Lucy could possibly be Lucy Dacus, a singer within the band Boygenius, who’s pals with Healy.
In the meantime, Swift’s shut good friend Jack Antonoff was a producer on the tune.
Whereas Swift does not namecheck Healy, various different songs seem to reference him, together with Responsible As Sin the place she sings about having “deadly fantasies” for somebody from her previous whereas in a relationship.
Followers are additionally suggesting the tune The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived seems to allude to Healy “ghosting” her.
“You tried to purchase some drugs, from a good friend of mine, they simply ghosted you, now what it looks like.”
New relationship with Travis Kelce
Travis Kelce kisses Taylor Swift after the Tremendous Bowl last. Pic: John Locher / AP
“I am making a comeback to the place I belong”, she sings in her fifteenth observe, The Alchemy.
This tune actually appears to be a nod to her blossoming romance with Kansas Metropolis Chiefs star Travis Kelce.
The tune references American soccer phrases together with “contact down”, “the crew”, “heat the benches” and “profitable streak”.
Swift started courting the athlete final yr and her attendance on the Tremendous Bowl made headlines all over the world, together with that kiss with Kelce after the Chiefs’ victory. The couple lately attended the Coachella music competition collectively.
Pic: Jennifer Johnson/Shutterstock for Neon Carnival
“Shirts off, and your folks elevate you up over their heads,” she sings.
“Beer sticking to the ground, cheers chanted, trigger they stated there was no probability, attempting to be the best within the league, the place’s the trophy, he simply comes working over to me.”
Kelce, who has lately landed a task as host of the sport present Are You Smarter Than A Movie star?, stated he listened to components of the album and stated it is “unbelievable”.
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Feud with Kim Kardashian
Kim Kardashian, with former husband Kanye West, in 2015. Pic: Rex/Startraks/Shutterstock
In one of many further new songs, thanK you aIMee, followers have been decoding what they consider is a reference to Kim Kardashian. The letters capitalised within the title spell Kim.
Kardashian’s ex-husband Kanye West infamously stormed the stage on the 2009 VMAs as Swift accepted her award for greatest video by a feminine artist, a stunt he later claimed in a lyric “made that b**** well-known“.
Amid the row, Kardashian posted a video on-line of what gave the impression to be West on the cellphone with the singer, the place Swift appeared to consent to the vulgar strains.
The MTV VMAs second in 2009 when Kanye West sparked his feud with Swift. Pic. Reuters
“I wrote a thousand songs that you just discover uncool, I constructed a legacy which you’ll be able to’t undo,” Swift sings.
“However once I depend the scars, there is a second of fact, that there would not be this, if there hadn’t been you.
“And possibly you have reframed it and in your thoughts, you by no means beat my spirit black and blue.”
She then seems to reference West and Kardashian’s 10-year-old daughter North West.
“And in the future, your child comes residence singing a tune that solely us two is gonna know is about you.”
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After the album was launched, Swift wrote on social media: “An anthology of recent works that mirror occasions, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic second in time – one which was each sensational and sorrowful in equal measure.
“This era of the writer’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up. There may be nothing to avenge, no scores to settle as soon as wounds have healed.
“And upon additional reflection, a very good variety of them turned out to be self-inflicted. This author is of the agency perception that our tears turn into holy within the type of ink on a web page. As soon as now we have spoken our saddest story, we could be freed from it.
“After which all that is left behind is the tortured poetry.”
Swift will deliver her Eras tour to the UK from 7 June, which she’s going to begin with three reveals in Edinburgh.
The run of London reveals begins on 21 June.
