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Lucy Dacus Confirms Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets Department’ Lyric Is About Her: ‘She Texted Me and Asked for My Approval’


Lucy Dacus confirmed a lyric on Taylor Swift's "The Tortured Poets Department" mentioning "Lucy" is referencing her.

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” Swift and Healy (who fronts the British pop band The 1975) met in November 2014 but didn’t officially get together until May 2023. The pair’s brief but highly publicized relationship included frequent concert appearances at each other’s shows, but Swift and Healy called it quits just one month after they got together.

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