A London pub namechecked on Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ has been swamped by Swifties.
Swift dropped the album yesterday (April 19), earlier than later revealing that it is in fact a double album, sharing 15 additional tracks. She has also released the official video for the single ’Fortnight’, which options Post Malone.
One surprising facet impact of the album’s launch has seen a whole bunch of Swift followers flock to The Black Dog in Vauxhall, South London, after Swift sang about it on the track of the identical identify.
“And your location, you forgot to turn it off / And so I watch as you walk / Into some bar called The Black Dog / And pierce new holes in my heart,” she sings.
The track is assumed to handle her ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn, who lives in the identical space because the pub.
The workers at The Black Dog at the moment are frantically looking by way of their CCTV archives to attempt to discover any proof of both Swift or Alwyn visiting the premises previously.
“This is the Taylor Swift Effect – anything she touches goes viral,” mentioned Amy Cowley, who works on the pub (through the Standard). “We’re super excited. It was a great atmosphere last night with the fans.”
“We’re not sure if she visited. She might have done – we wouldn’t even know. It’s a possibility but it’s great to keep her fans in suspense.”
To have fun their newfound fame, the pub are working a suggestion of a free ‘Swift Half’ of their home lager for anybody who is available in and quotes a lyric from a Taylor track.
“We have members of the team who are big Swifties,” Cowley continued. “On Friday, everybody obtained a swift half of our Black Dog lager and we’re working that for the following week with meals purchases.
“People had to be turned away, we didn’t have capacity. It was really rammed. Obviously, we’re in planning mode now because of her upcoming Wembley shows.”
Artists together with Charlie Puth, The Blue Nile, Lucy Dacus, Patti Smith, Dylan Thomas and possibly Kim Kardashian all acquired shout-outs on the album, with fans speculating that many of the songs address her brief romantic relationship with The 1975’s Matty Healy.
In a three-star review of the album, NME wrote: “‘The Tortured Poets Department’ ends up chasing its own tail with frenzied attempts to respond to critics despite Swift’s current stature.”
It continued: “Swift appears to be in tireless pursuit for superstardom, but the unfavorable public opinion it will possibly include irks her, and it’s a drained theme now plaguing her discography and leaving little room for the poignant lyrical observations she excels at. It’s why the pitfalls that mire her eleventh studio album are all of the extra disappointing – she’s confirmed time and time once more she will do higher.
“To a Melbourne audience of her ‘Eras Tour’, Swift said that ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ came from a “need” to jot down. It’s simply that perhaps we didn’t want to listen to it.”
