Smith is name checked in the album's title track, along with esteemed poet Dylan ThomasThe post Patti Smith responds to Taylor Swift name-check on ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ appeared first on NME.

The song is the first single from Swift's huge new album 'The Tortured Poets Department'The post Taylor Swift drops video for Post Malone collaboration ‘Fortnight’ appeared first on NME.

The deluxe version of Taylor Swift’s new album The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology comprises 31(!) brand new tracks, and she has personally chosen “Fortnight” to be the one that debuts at #1 next week. It makes sense. The song is first on the tracklist, so it’ll be getting a lot of streams anyway,...

The song appears to reference the fact that the band are one of Matty Healy's all-time favouritesThe post Taylor Swift namedrops The Blue Nile on ‘Tortured Poets Department’ track ‘Guilty As Sin?’ appeared first on NME.

Historically, Taylor Swift has not been big on proper nouns. She’ll throw the names of cities into her lyrics, and sometimes she’ll specify neighborhoods or parks or streets. Every once in a while, she’ll toss in a namecheck, like James Taylor on “Begin Again.” But most of her songs are about the...