Taylor Swift did not hesitate to draw everyone's attention to her new album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” and the reactions are coming.
The surprise double album was released in two parts on April 19, giving exuberant Swifties plenty of material to sift through, including multiple celebrity mentions.
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Swift and Kardashian have a long-running feud, which began with Swift and Ye in the past and dates back to Kimye's infamous doctored phone call, which appeared to prove that Taylor had consented to a nude wax figure of her appearing. at Kanye's. Famous music video. TLDR: The call was edited, but Swift was trashed online anyway, an experience that inspired her now-legendary album “Reputation.”
Swift isn't letting Kardashian off the hook, and the “thanK you aIMee” from “TTPD” deliberately had the letters of Kardashian's name capitalized in the title.
“And then I changed your name and whatever track defines me / And one day, your son comes home singing / A song that only the two of us will know is about you,” Taylor wrote, apparently referencing her daughter North West's TikToks that have appeared. her songs in the past.
Kardashian didn't directly respond to the jibe, but she did post a photo with Swift's former best friend, Karlie Kloss, at their mutual friend Derek Blasberg's birthday. Whether it was a coincidence is anyone's guess.
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The 1975 leader was the surprise guest star of “TTPD.” He and the “Bejeweled” singer appeared to have had a brief fling following her split from Joe Alwyn, but the lyrics of “TTPD” have led to speculation that the two were involved for much longer.
The title track is particularly damning: “You left your typewriter in my apartment,” Swift sings, referencing Healy's apparent penchant for the old-school device. (“Who uses typewriters anyway?” she asks later.)
Swift goes on to call him a “tattooed golden retriever” before describing his smoking habits.
“But you tell Lucy that you'd kill yourself if I ever leave / And I told Jack that about you, so I felt seen,” she continues, referencing Boygenius member Lucy Dacus, who performed with Swift on the tour Eras, and his producer and best friend Jack Antonoff. Sounds super healthy and normal!
And all of that is from one song. “But Dad, I Love Him,” “Just Out of Jail,” “Guilty as Sin?”, “I Can Fix It (No, I Really Can),” and “The Littlest Man Who Ever Lived” all pile on the blame. .
Healy responded coldly on Wednesday. “I haven't really listened to him much,” the singer told the paparazzi, “but I'm sure he's good.”
His tone marks a stark difference from when he called dating Swift “emasculating.”
Her mother, Denise Welch, was also unfazed, saying on the British talk show “Loose Women” that she was “not aware.” [Swift] “I had already released an album.”
It's unlikely, considering “TTPD” just became Spotify's most streamed album in a single day, but whatever.
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Just as fans predicted, Taylor's ex-boyfriend of six years was spared little sympathy. Even the album's title is supposedly a reference to the name of a group chat between actor Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott, called “Tortured Man Club.”
“So Long, London” is Taylor’s most obvious hit on Alwyn, considering he inspired the song “London Boy” from her 2019 album “Lover.”
“I didn't choose to be the odd man out,” he sings about the end of their relationship. “I founded the club she's heard great things about / I left everything she knew, you left me in the house next to Heath.”
It's clear that Alwyn promised Swift much more than he gave her. In “LOML” she laments how “You talked to me under the table / Talking rings and talking cradles / I wish I could forget / How we almost had it all.”
The references to marriage do not stop. In “Imgonnagetyouback,” Swift tries to decide “whether I'll be your wife or wreck your bike.”
Fans have also latched onto a line in “Fortnight,” which features Post Malone, as proof that Alwyn wasn't always loyal to Swift. “My husband is cheating on me, I want to kill him,” Swift sings.
According to a source, Alwyn “has heard the album and is a little disappointed, but not surprised at all.” Maybe he's upset that Healy stole his thunder?
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Of course, Swift couldn't leave her current boyfriend Kelce behind. The Kansas City Chiefs tight end is the apparent subject of “The Alchemy” and “So High School,” both rife with football metaphors.
“The biggest in the league / Where is the trophy? / He just comes running towards me,” she sings on “The Alchemy,” referencing the couple's viral kiss after Kelce's team won the Super Bowl in February.
“You know how to play ball, I know Aristotle,” he added in “So High School.” “You knew what you wanted and, boy, you got it,” she concludes in the song, alluding to how Kelce pursued her after seeing her perform on the Eras tour.
“I've heard some of that, yeah, and it's amazing,” Kelce said at a sporting event in February, before the album's release. “I can't wait for her to revolutionize the world when she finally falls.”
He is “very proud of her,” a source told E! News after the record broke earlier this month.
“Travis is very supportive of the entire album,” the source continued, “and loves being a part of Taylor's story.”
Kelce's mother, Donna, even weighed in on the conversation with her own praise. “I listened to the whole album and I listened to it all morning when it was released,” she told People. this week.
“I was very impressed,” she said. “She is a very talented woman and I think she is probably her best work.”
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Finally, in a seemingly random shout-out on the title track, Swift sings, “You smoked and then you ate seven bars of chocolate / We declare that Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist.”
Fans went into an online frenzy, flooding the “We Don't Talk Anymore” singer's social media with notifications about his name appearing.
“It's literally an honor lol,” he responded in the comments of a now-deleted Instagram post of the song.
