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Stevie Nicks and Taylor Swift Both Wrote Revealing Poems for ‘Tortured Poets Department’ Album Package
The album package for 'The Tortured Poets Department' includes a poem Stevie Nicks wrote about Taylor Swift's relationships, as well as Swift's own.
Although the two people in the poem are identified only as “he” and “she,” fans are likely to take the other person being referred to as the man Swift was rumored to have most recently broken up with, Matty Healy of the 1975, who is widely believed to be the subject of many if not most of the songs on “Tortured Poets Department.” The poem goes on to say that “he’s afraid of her / He’s hiding from her / And he knows that he’s hurting her.” Nicks extols the confessional qualities that Swift fans hold most dear about the artist — “She tells the truth / She writes about it / She’s an informer” — before concluding the penultimate stanza with, “There’s nothing that can stop her.” Swift’s post-lyrics poem begins with the title: “In Summation.” And it indeed, it does seem to describe the personal journey that the album takes, capturing the end of an unsatisfying relationship — with Joe Alwyn, fans are likely to presume, based on the evidence and songs like “You’re Losing Me” — and the start of a provocative new one, which will be interpreted as about Healy.
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