22 April 2024, 15:18
The workers at The Black Dog are taking a look at their archived CCTV.
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The Black Dog pub in Vauxhall has gained notoriety since Taylor Swift launched ‘The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology’ so that they’re checking their CCTV archives to offer Swifties the reply to the all vital query.
Taylor Swift mentioned it herself, she will make the ‘entire place shimmer’ and that is precisely what she’s achieved for the Vauxhall based mostly London pub ‘The Black Dog’.
Before the track was launched on Taylor’s shock double album drop it was anticipated to be a heavy track with references to despair. But ‘The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology’ monitor is definitely a couple of bar considered one of her ex-boyfriends visited.
And now everybody needs to know: Who is ‘The Black Dog’ about?
There’s a whole lot of discourse between Taylor’s followers about whether or not the track was penned about Matty Healy or Joe Alwyn who’ve each dated Taylor and are each based mostly in London.
Since the album’s launch (April nineteenth) it has been reported that a whole bunch of Swifties have flocked to the pub to find the bar that impressed Taylor’s lyrics.
The Black Dog pub workers are absolutely embracing the TTPD lore as they’ve new Taylor-centric provides on and they’re even going that step additional to search out out precisely who Taylor wrote the track about.
The Black Dog Public House in Vauxhall.
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On their Instagram reels and TikTookay The Black Dog shared a video that mentioned: “POV You work at The Black Dog (sure the precise pub Taylor name-dropped) and try desperately to determine if it was Matty or Joe.”
In the primary verse, the lyrics of the track learn: I’m somebody who, till recent occasions / You shared your secrets and techniques with / And Your location / You forgot to show you location off / And so I watch as you walk / Into some bar known as The Black Dog
Fans hopped straight to the feedback to offer their take, one mentioned: “Yall it is not even a query….it is Matty. The beginning line?! Helloooo”
Others pointed to references about smoking that means it needed to be about The 1975 lead however others weighed in saying Joe “was recognized for accumulating British lighters”.
Most followers have settled at the concept that the track is about a couple of ex, which appears doubtless.
One commenter mentioned they’re ready for the algorithm to convey them again after they crack the case, and The Black Dog replied “I’ll tag you bestie” – so it appears we shall be getting a solution to all of the all vital query.
While The Black Dog workers rake by means of their archives to see which British man occurred to go to their pub they’ve placed on particular offers to maintain the Swifties at bay.
“CALLING ALL SWIFTIES,” they mentioned: “The Black Dog love your power! We are actually working a deal for anybody who is available in and quotes a lyric from Taylor’s track
“The first 100 folks by means of the door get a free ‘Swift Half’ of Black Dog lager and after that, it’s free with any buy of meals for per week
“See you there, ensure to show your location off.”
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