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Patti Smith reacts to Taylor Swift name-dropping her on The Tortured Poets Department track: 'I was moved'
Rock legend Patti Smith shared her reaction to being named-dropped on Taylor Swift 's latest record, The Tortured Poets Department, which came out on April 19.
After learning her name was included on the the title track of the pop star's 11th studio album, in the same verse as Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, the singer, 77, shared a gracious message directly to Swift. She was nodding to Swift's lyrics on The Tortured Poets Department, in which she sings; '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.' After learning her name was included on the the title track of the pop star's 11th studio album, in the same verse as Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, the singer, 77, shared a gracious message directly to Swift (seen in February)
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