A Bucks County pop-punk band simply acquired a shout-out on this Berks County native’s latest album.
Taylor Swift’s freshly launched The Tortured Poets Department encompasses a music that mentions The Starting Line — the emo band from Churchville that rose to recognition in the course of the early aughts and is now primarily based in Philly.
Now, the band is thanking her.
In the pop singer’s music, “The Black Dog,” considered one of 4 bonus tracks that dropped together with the remainder of the album (and bonus album) on Friday, Swift sings on the primary refrain: I simply don’t perceive the way you don’t miss me / In The Black Dog, when somebody performs The Starting Line / And you soar up, however she’s too young to know this music / That was intertwined within the magic material of our dreaming / Old habits die screaming.
In an album that seems to be riddled with references to Swift’s situationship with the 1975 singer, Matty Healy, earnest Swifties are connecting the dots. Healy is evidently a fan of The Starting Line, a lot in order that he covered the band’s song“The Best of Me,” at a present final 12 months — days earlier than changing into more and more extra linked to Swift.
Lyrics in “The Best of Me” heart on two young lovers who grew aside however finally discovered their approach again to one another, which followers have speculated mirrors Swift and Healy’s private historical past — first connecting within the 2010s and getting collectively once more final 12 months recent off her breakup with Joe Alwyn.
Following the music’s launch, followers of The Starting Line started commenting on the group’s Instagram web page, mentioning the identify drop.
“Looks like Taylor’s an elder emo just like the rest of us,” one commenter stated. “How does it feel to be in a Taylor Swift song?” stated yet another. “I feel like this page is about to blow up with Swifties,” stated one other.
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Management for The Starting Line didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
On Instagram Friday night, the band launched an announcement thanking Swift for the eye.
“We heard the song, thank you for name checking our band,” the group wrote. “We feel flattered and humbled by the reverberations of love that have come back to us as a result.”
The band added that it was an “honor” to have its identify memorialized on “such a lovely song.”
The group additionally snuck in some excellent news for followers. Under its signature, the assertion stated #4OTW, a touch that the group’s fourth studio album — its first in 17 years — is “on the way.”
The Starting Line isn’t the one Philly connection name-dropped or referenced on The Tortured Poets Departmenthowever it’s maybe probably the most direct. There’s additionally a nod to “Lucy” — presumably Dacus, a former West Philly resident who had a really public spat with Healy final 12 months. And, in fact, some songs are rumored to reference Swift’s present boyfriend, Travis Kelce, finest identified to locals as Jason Kelce’s brother.
