{"id":91928,"date":"2024-04-20T17:19:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T17:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/20\/patti-smith-reacts-to-taylor-swift-name-drop-in-ttpd-title-track\/"},"modified":"2024-04-20T17:19:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T17:19:41","slug":"patti-smith-reacts-to-taylor-swift-name-drop-in-ttpd-title-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/20\/patti-smith-reacts-to-taylor-swift-name-drop-in-ttpd-title-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Patti Smith Reacts to Taylor Swift Name-Drop in TTPD Title Track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3584149\" style=\"width: 900px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:100%;\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Patti Smith and Taylor Swift<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images (2)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Patti Smith<\/strong> was surprised and flattered to get a name-drop on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/taylor-swift\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong> Taylor Swift<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s <i>The Tortured Poets Department.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThis is saying I was moved to be mentioned in the company of the great Welsh poet <strong>Dylan Thomas<\/strong>,\u201d Smith, 77, wrote via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C59kqTfp6lF\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> on Friday, April 19, sharing a photo of herself reading Thomas\u2019 <i>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog<\/i>. \u201cThank you, Taylor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Swift, 34, released her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/taylor-swifts-ttpd-booklet-poem-calls-out-the-worst-men\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">11th studio album<\/a>, <i>The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology, <\/i>on Friday. In the title track, she references both Smith and Thomas, who died in 1953.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cAnd who\u2019s gonna hold you like me? \/ And who\u2019s gonna know you, if not me?\u201d Swift sings in the chorus. \u201cI laughed in your face and said \/ \u2018You\u2019re not Dylan Thomas, I\u2019m not Patti Smith \/ This ain\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/taylor-swifts-new-york-song-references-that-swifties-can-visit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Chelsea Hotel<\/a>, we\u2019r\u0435 modern idiots.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Swift\u2019s \u201cThe Tortured Poets Department\u201d muse is presumably <strong>Matty Healy<\/strong>, with whom she had a brief fling in spring 2023 after initially being linked one decade earlier. Another line in the song mentions a partner who \u201cleft [his] typewriter\u201d at Swift\u2019s apartment. Healy, 35, has previously been candid about using the vintage technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt\u2019s not that there\u2019s any kind of romance to having a notebook, but I really like typewriters, as well,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/matty-healy-loved-typewriters-before-taylor-swift-dropped-ttpd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously told <i>GQ <\/i><\/a>in a 2018 interview about his favorite belongings. \u201cI don\u2019t have one with me [now] because that\u2019s really impractical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Elsewhere in \u201cThe Tortured Poets Department,\u201d Swift recalled one time that she and her love interest declared that \u201c<strong>Charlie Puth<\/strong> should be a bigger artist.\u201d Healy, meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/taylor-swifts-ex-matty-healy-once-praised-charlie-puth-in-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">once tweeted his praise<\/a> for Puth, 32, in 2018.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/taylor-swifts-literary-references-before-tortured-poets-department\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/A-Complete-Guide-to-Taylor-Swift-s-Literary-References-Before-The-Tortured-Poets-Department-880.jpg?crop=0px%2C78px%2C1406px%2C795px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"A Complete Guide to Taylor Swift s Literary References Before The Tortured Poets Department 880\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/A-Complete-Guide-to-Taylor-Swift-s-Literary-References-Before-The-Tortured-Poets-Department-880.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/taylor-swifts-literary-references-before-tortured-poets-department\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">All of Taylor Swift\u2019s Literary References: From Her Debut to &#8216;TTPD&#8217;<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tDia Dipasupil\/Getty Images Before The Tortured Poets Department was ever a glimmer in Taylor Swift\u2019s eye, the singer peppered her music with references to classic literature. As early as 2006, Swift included a nod to Robert Frost\u2019s poem \u201cThe Road Not Taken\u201d in the song \u201cThe Outside\u201d from her self-titled debut album. \u201cI tried to [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Swift and Healy\u2019s rekindled romance fizzled in June 2023, with a source telling <i>Us <\/i>at the time that they \u201cwere never serious\u201d together. Their connection, however, did seemingly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/taylor-swift-songs-about-matty-healy-on-ttpd-down-bad-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inspire other songs<\/a> on Swift\u2019s <i>TTPD, <\/i>including \u201cBut Daddy I Love Him,\u201d \u201cDown Bad,\u201d \u201cI Can Fix Him (No Really I Can),\u201d \u201cThe Smallest Man Who Ever Lived,\u201d \u201cFresh Out the Slammer,\u201d \u201cGuilty as Sin?\u201d and \u201cFortnight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Healy was aware of Swift recounting their relationship on <i>TTPD <\/i>ahead of its release date, a source<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/matty-healys-reaction-to-ex-taylor-swifts-ttpd-source\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> exclusively told <\/a><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/matty-healys-reaction-to-ex-taylor-swifts-ttpd-source\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Us Weekly<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cMatty still thinks very highly of Taylor but we were all nervous about what she might have said on the album,\u201d the insider told <i>Us, <\/i>noting the 1975 frontman \u201ccouldn\u2019t be happier\u201d with the LP result. \u201cMatty\u2019s family knew about the relationship and they were worried that Taylor was going to rip him apart. Matty has struggled with life in the public eye, and he\u2019s been doing really well, but the last thing that he needs is for every Swiftie in the world to think he\u2019s a villain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Swift also wrote songs for <i>TTPD <\/i>about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/songs-taylor-swift-wrote-about-joe-alwyn-on-ttpd-so-long-london\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">navigating her breakup<\/a> with <strong>Joe Alwyn<\/strong>, whom she dated for six years until they split in 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/taylor-swift-takes-dig-at-kim-kardashian-on-ttpds-thank-you-aimee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her feud<\/a> with<strong> Kim Kardashian<\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/taylor-swifts-the-alchemy-jokes-she-put-travis-kelce-on-the-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">falling in love with<\/a> now-boyfriend<strong> Travis Kelce<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The Tortured Poets Department <\/i>is out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.target.com\/p\/taylor-swift-the-tortured-poets-department-bonus-track-8220%5B%E2%80%A6%5D36126&amp;afid=Howl%20Technologies%2C%20Inc.&amp;ref=tgt_adv_xasd0002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/patti-smith-reacts-to-taylor-swift-name-drop-in-ttpd-title-track\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patti Smith and Taylor Swift Getty Images (2) Patti Smith was surprised and flattered to get a name-drop on Taylor Swift\u2019s The Tortured Poets Department. \u201cThis is saying I was moved to be mentioned in the company of the great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas,\u201d Smith, 77, wrote via Instagram on Friday, April 19, sharing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-91928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}