Patti Smith has acknowledged being named alongside Dylan Thomas on Taylor Swift's 'The Tortured Poets Department,' the title track from the prolific pop poet's 31-song anthology out Friday (April 19).
“You're not Dylan Thomas/ I'm not Patti Smith/ This ain't the Chelsea Hotel/ We're modern idiots,” Swift wonders aloud on the track's chorus, in which she asks her lover who else will be there to hold him and to know him in the way only she knows, then she simply answers the question herself: “No one. No-f-ing-body.”
On Friday night, Smith sent a note to Swift via her Instagram page, where she shared images of herself reading Dylan Thomas Portrait of the artist as a young doga collection of his short stories first published in 1940. In appropriate poetic form, he published:
“This is
saying I was
moved to be
referred to
the company
of grown-ups
Welsh poet
Dylan Thomas.
Thank you Taylor.”
by Swift Department of Tormented Poets mentions various artists in the lyrics heard throughout the double set. Smith and Thomas' names appear first on “The Tortured Poets Department” (song), which also features a personal discussion of Charlie Puth — plus references to Jack Antonoff and Lucy Dacus, associates from Swift's social circle.
As the album continues, listeners will see the obvious names of Clara Bow and Stevie Nicks on the song “Clara Bow. “Guilty as sin?” opens with a sequence to The Blue Nile's 'The Downtown Lights' and the anthology track 'The Black Dog' sets the mood to a reference to a song by The Starting Line.
Nick leaves a genuine mark Department of Tormented Poetshaving written a poem “For T — and Me…” which was printed inside the album sleeve.
Watch Patti Smith's message to Taylor Swift below.
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