After months of hypothesis, Taylor Swift followers lastly have affirmation on which “Lucy” Swift is singing about on the title monitor of “The Tortured Poets Department:” singer-songwriter and Boygenius member Lucy Dacus.
On “The Tortured Poets Department,” Swift sings: “Sometimes, I wonder if you’re gonna screw this up with me / But you told Lucy you’d kill yourself if I ever leave / And I had said that to Jack about you, so I felt seen”
It didn’t take lengthy for followers to infer that “Jack” was Swift’s frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff, however the identification of the “Lucy” talked about within the verse remained unspecified till Dacus set the report straight in an interview with People.
“I think it’s fair game to say ‘yes,’ she actually texted me and asked for my approval,” Dacus stated. “I pushed play on the album just like, ‘Oh, this is so crazy,’” she continued. “This is the first Taylor record to come out since meeting her, and listening to a friend’s record feels so much different than a stranger’s record.”
As for the love curiosity within the track who instructed Dacus they’d “kill themselves” if Swift left, followers speculate that Swift and Dacus’ mutual good friend Matty Healy is the primary inspiration for a lot of “The Tortured Poets Department.”
Swift and Healy (who fronts the British pop band The 1975) met in November 2014 however didn’t formally get collectively till May 2023. The pair’s transient however extremely publicized relationship included frequent live performance appearances at one another’s reveals, however Swift and Healy known as it quits only one month after they received collectively.