Patti Smith Thanks Taylor Swift for Her ‘Tortured Poets Department’ Lyric
Patti Smith Thanks Taylor Swift for Her ‘Tortured Poets Department’ Lyric – Patti Smith responded to a recent mention of Taylor Swift in her album’s title track on Saturday. Department of Poets.
Swift name-drops Smith, a rock poet and artist, with poet Dylan Thomas in the chorus of her song “The Tortured Poets Department,” released Friday along with her eponymous album. She sings, “I laughed in your face and said / ‘You ain’t Dylan Thomas, I ain’t Patti Smith / This ain’t the Chelsea Hotel / We’re modern idiots.’
On Instagram, Smith Posted a photo Reading Dylan Thomas’ collection himself on Instagram, he writes: “It’s / saying I’m moved to be / mentioned / in the company of the great / Welsh poet / Dylan Thomas. / Thank you, Taylor.”
Thomas, a 20th-century writer, was best known for his poem “Don’t Go Gentle Into That Good Night,” as well as “Under Milkwood” and “And Death Shall Have No Dominion.” Smith is best known for his 1978 song “Because the Night”. His 2010 memoir, Only children, won the National Book Award for Non-Fiction. The Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan has long celebrated its reputation for housing writers, painters and other artists.
Swift was unveiled. Department of Poets On Friday, initially playing 16 songs with two tracks featuring Post Malone and Florence + The Machine. Two hours after the initial drop, the singer-songwriter surprised fans with a “double album” drop, adding 15 more songs to the self-titled release. Anthology.
Physical copies of the album reportedly included a Stevie Nicks poem, written for Swift, that was featured on the LP gatefolds or CD booklets.
“T – and for me…” reads the poem’s header.
“He loved her / Or at least he thought so / She was broken / Maybe he was too / Neither of them knew. She was too hot to handle / He tried. “It was too much – / He couldn’t even see her / He wouldn’t open his eyes / She was going to the stars / She didn’t say goodbye,” the poem, dated September 13, reads.
“He can’t really answer her / He’s afraid of her / He’s hiding from her / And he knows – that he’s hurting her / She tells the truth / She writes about him / She There’s an informant / She’s an ex-lover / There’s nothing there for her / She’s already gone.