The internet reacts to Taylor Swift name-checking Charlie Puth on ‘The Tortured Poets Department’

Charlie Puth has issued his first reaction to Taylor Swift‘s The Tortured Poets Department.

Taylor Swift has celebrated the ongoing success of ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ by sharing a series of photographs of her with collaborators Post Malone and Florence Welch. Check them out below.The polaroids were shared by the pop icon on Instagram last night (April 28), as she celebrated the new album debuting at Number One on the Billboard 200 chart, and selling over 2.6million units in America.“My mind is blown.

Joe Alwyn wants to move on with his life.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s relationship — and one milestone bettors can put money on is when the power couple will announce they’re tying the knot.There is a 75% chance that the pop princess and the football star will make their engagement public before the NFL season kicks off Sept. 5, according to a report this week by the online sports betting community OLBG.“People will bet on them, especially with the rise of Swift being on television a lot with the NFL,” Jake Ashton, OLBG senior news editor, told The Post.“The markets now for each of Kelce’s games, they all have Taylor Swift specials in there because there has been an increase in men watching it with their partners who have shown interest in Swift.

Taylor Swift fans were thrown for a loop by The Tortured Poets Department being way more about Matty Healy than Joe Alwyn.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, a pairing that intrigues fans and media alike, recently enjoyed a getaway in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. But they weren’t alone in their beachside escapade; Hollywood heartthrob Bradley Cooper and supermodel Gigi Hadid joined them.

What an interesting week to be Matty Healy!

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic There’s no golden ticket quite like the golden ticket of finding your name in the lyrics of a Taylor Swift song. It’s one thing if you’re Charlie Puth, and already on a list of Spotify’s 150 top monthly artists. But for another musical artist name-checked in Swift’s album “The Tortured Poets Department,” the impact stands to be much more impactful.

The Tortured Poets Department” — which has seven explicit songs that all come with warning labels.The controversy over whether or not “Taylor Tots,” a nickname given to young fans of the 34-year-old superstar, should be listening to it sparked a debate on the Facebook group Taylor Swift’s Vault, which has over 480,000 members.“I feel bad for all the Taylor Tots because most parents are not going to deem this album appropriate,” member Crystal Barkley wrote in a post on Friday, the day the album was released.Barkley’s post garnered 1,500 likes and over 1,000 comments — and a bunch of moms said they are shielding their little ones from its curse words and mature themes, such as sex, harm, violence and death.“This album is definitely NOT suitable for kids,” agreed Tana Hancock.“It’s called ‘tortured poets’ who thought this would be a kid-oriented album?” added Stephanie DeVaughn.Some parents said they are not concerned as much about the swearing in her new music, but its dark content.“I’m OK with the curse words, but there’s a lot of self-harm, violence, and death talk I’m not feeling comfy with at this second,” Casey McDonald Smith wrote.“I’m going to sleep on it and give it a few more listens before I decide how I’m going to approach it with my 9 year old.”Kilee Herlin agreed, saying she is unsure if it’s suitable for youngsters’ ears.“I have been debating this myself. Not because of swears, but just because of the deep, mature feelings.

Patti Smith has responded to Taylor Swift inserting her name into the title track of her new album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’.In the song, Swift makes reference to Smith and the poet Dylan Thomas in the lyric: “I laughed in your face and said, ‘You’re not Dylan Thomas, I’m not Patti Smith / This ain’t the Chelsea Hotel / We’re modern idiots.’”It is thought that the title track refers to her short-lived relationship with The 1975‘s Matty Healy and her comment about Smith and Dylan refers to the 1975 frontman and herself in the sense that the pair should not take themselves so seriously and they are just “modern idiots”, according to Today.Now, Smith has had her say on her name being dropped in the song in a social media post featuring a photo of her reading Thomas. “This is saying I was moved to be mentioned in the company of the great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.

Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ has been swamped by Swifties.Swift dropped the album yesterday (April 19), before later revealing that it is in fact a double album, sharing 15 additional tracks. She has also released the official video for the single ’Fortnight’, which features Post Malone.One unexpected side effect of the album’s release has seen hundreds of Swift fans flock to The Black Dog in Vauxhall, South London, after Swift sang about it on the song of the same name.“And your location, you forgot to turn it off / And so I watch as you walk / Into some bar called The Black Dog / And pierce new holes in my heart,” she sings.The song is thought to address her ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn, who lives in the same area as the pub.The staff at The Black Dog are now frantically searching through their CCTV archives to try to find any evidence of either Swift or Alwyn visiting the premises in the past.A post shared by The Black Dog Vauxhall (@theblackdogvauxhall)“This is the Taylor Swift Effect – anything she touches goes viral,” said Amy Cowley, who works at the pub (via the Standard).

Taylor Swift fans are known to give their fur babies monikers inspired by the pop star — and there was a recent spike in this Swiftie tradition ahead of the release of her double album “The Tortured Poets Department” on Friday.Besides the name Taylor itself, her song and album titles like Karma, Red and Midnight made the Top 10 list, as well as Travis and Kelce, in honor of her Super Bowl-winning boyfriend, according to user data compiled by pet insurance marketplace Pawlicy Advisor.“I had searched Taylor-themed girl names and wasn’t getting anything I just loved, then it hit me — ‘Poet’ would be perfect,” said Bridget Colbert, who picked up her Mini Australian Labradoodle on April 10.The mom of four daughters said their family’s new addition will help them get over not being able to attend the songstress’ current concert tour.“Being able to afford that many attending the Eras Tour isn’t an option, the next best thing was a sweet pup,” Colbert, 40, who lives in Elizabeth City, NC, told The Post.Heather Argrave got a new kitten on April 14 and named her “Willow,” after the lead single from Swift’s 2020 album “Evermore.”The Prairieville, LA resident works as a nurse in the emergency department of a veterinary teaching hospital, and the short hair Calico was brought in because of the kindness of a stranger.“We receive what’s called ‘Good Samaritan’ animals. These are strays that people take the time to stop and pick up and bring to us for medical care,” said Argrave, 39.“Willow came in covered in fleas and she was tied in a grocery bag and dumped.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Taylor Swift has made Spotify history with her new release “The Tortured Poets Department,” becoming the first album to exceed 200 million streams in a single day, Variety can exclusively reveal. The feat comes less than 24 hours after its release, signaling that the numbers could stretch even higher once the final figures are tallied.

Taylor Swift has namechecked the cult Scottish indie band The Blue Nile on a track on her huge new album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’.On the album’s ninth track ‘Guilty As Sin?’, Swift sings: “Drowning in The Blue Nile / He sent me Downtown Lights / I hadn’t heard it in a while / My boredom’s bone deep / This cage was once just fine / Am I allowed to cry?”‘The Downtown Lights’ was the band’s biggest song, reaching the Top Ten on the American Modern Rock Tracks chart in 1989, famously also the year that Swift was born.Listen to the two tracks in question below:Aside from having similar themes to Swift’s new album – navigating difficult relationships, the aftermath of heartbreak – the reference to the song also appears to be another nod to The 1975’s Matty Healy, with whom Taylor was romantically linked for a short period of time in 2023.Healy once told Vulture that The Blue Nile were his “favourite band of all time”, and he has named ‘Hats’, from which ‘The Downtown Lights’ is taken, as his favourite album of the ‘80s. He has also stated that his song ‘Love It If We Made It’ is like “The Blue Nile on steroids”.Led by singer Paul Buchanan, Glasgow’s The Blue Nile have a devoted underground following, and are praised for their elegant, melancholic melodies and restrained, patient synth and guitar arrangements.

Everyone is talking about The Tortured Poets Department. When we say everyone, we mean everyone!

her highly anticipated eleventh studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” which appears to feature nods to her current boyfriend, Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.It’s been speculated the three-time Super Bowl champ — who started dating the pop superstar last summer — is the focal point of the song “The Alchemy,” while others suggested the track “So High School” has a special Kelce meaning.“So High School is so Travis Kelce coded and I’m just like

The Tortured Poets Department is here — and the internet is already down bad for it!

on Friday — but just as Swifties got their fix of her melancholic tracks, the singer revealed even more songs as part of the project in the middle of the night.Titled “The Anthology,” Swift’s late-night surprise, announced at 2 a.m., includes 15 bonus tracks, bringing the total song count to a whopping 31.“It’s a 2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album. ✌️ I’d written so much tortured poetry in the past 2 years and wanted to share it all with you, so here’s the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology.

Taylor Swift has seemingly hinted at failed wedding plans with Joe Alwyn in her new album, where she also opens up about their emotional split. Rumours started swirling in April last year that Taylor and Joe had called it quits after six years together.

Taylor Swift is embodying first the Everygirl, then the Everywoman — the Miss Americana in them all, from era to era.Beyoncé is a goddess, Taylor is a real life human — just like us.But there’s a moment on “The Tortured Poets Department” — the insanely anticipated 11th studio album by the Queen of the Swifties — when she embraces her power as the most famous, the most influential woman in America, if not on the planet.It occurs on “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” — one of two tunes that Swift wrote by herself with that wicked pen of hers.“I was tame, I was gentle/’Til the circus life made me mean/Don’t you worry folks, we took out all her teeth/Who’s afraid of little old me?/Well you should be,” she sings in the rumbling revenge song that brings some menace to the melody.And you can bet that Swift’s most recent exes — the 1975 frontman Matty Healy and, especially, British actor Joe Alwyn — have been quaking in their boots ever since the pop superstar announced “The Tortured Poets Department” after winning Best Pop Vocal Album for 2022’s “Midnights” at the Grammys in February.Sure enough — there is plenty of “Bad Blood” spilled on Swift’s latest.