Taylor Swift’s hotly anticipated new album, “The Tortured Poets Section,” dropped on April 19 with extra than a few surprises. In addition to the 16 original tracks Swift dropped at midnight, adopted by a surprise launch of a second volume a several several hours later, “Tortured Poets Department” arrives with an introductory poem by rock legend Stevie Nicks.
If you’ve been streaming the new album these days, while, you have skipped Nicks’ prologue. The handwritten poem, which she writes is “for T and me,” only seems inside of the album’s CD casing. Nicks’ notes indicate the poem was started out on Aug. 13, 2023, in Austin there is a 2nd time stamp for Sept. 13.
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“He was in enjoy with her / Or at the very least she assumed so,” the poem starts. “She was brokenhearted / It’s possible he was much too.”
“Neither of them realized / She was way as well scorching to cope with,” it proceeds.
While these singer/songwriters are divided by 40 decades — Swift is 34, Nicks is 75 — they have substantially in frequent, and enthusiasts of equally women are probable to location references to their enjoy life in the poem. (“She tells the truth of the matter / She writes about it /She’s an informer / He’s an X-lover / There is very little there for her / She’s currently absent.”) As well as, there is currently speculation about whether or not Swift is referring to Joe Alwyn or Matty Healy in the essay she penned for the album’s epilogue — for the reason that of course, there’s even far more to browse for those who preordered the “Tortured Poets” CD.
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Swift also mentions Nicks in the lyrics to a keep track of on the new album. In “Clara Bow,” Swift sings, “You look like Stevie Nicks in ’75, the hair and lips / The crowd goes wild at her fingertips / 50 % moonshinе, a complete eclipse.”
If you haven’t bought the CD (however), you can study Nicks’ comprehensive poem at United states Today in the meantime.
The two artists have formerly expressed admiration for one a different, and their partnership goes way back again.
When Nicks and Swift performed “Rhiannon” and “You Belong with Me” collectively on the Grammys phase in 2010, Swift identified as the prospect to share the phase with her idol “a fairy tale and an honor.”
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“Taylor is producing for the universal woman and for the gentleman who needs to know her,” Nicks wrote in a 2010 piece for Time. “The woman rock-‘n’-roll-region-pop songwriter is again, and her identify is Taylor Swift. And it is women like her who are likely to help you save the new music company.”
