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Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division already has Us questioning everybody about her previous relationship with Joe Alwyn, and now followers have a idea {that a} new tune is linked to an previous favourite.
One in every of her TTPD songs is named “Recent Out the Slammer,” which eagle-eyed Swifties have theorized could possibly be a rebuttal or sequel to her Popularity love songs about Alwyn, 33.
“From ‘he may be my jailor’ to ‘contemporary out the slammer’ is loopy,” one fan wrote by way of X on Friday, April 12, referring to the lyrics to “Prepared for It?” that appeared on Swift’s 2017 LP, Popularity.
“Prepared for It?” notably options the lyrics, “And he may be my jailer / Burton to this Taylor / Each love I’ve recognized compared is a failure. I neglect their names now, I’m so very tame now.”
John Shearer/TAS23/Getty Pictures for TAS Rights Administration Taylor Swift is infamous for penning lyrics in regards to the highs — and lows — of her personal high-profile romances through the years. Whereas taking in her discography, eagle-eyed Swifties have observed that a few of her lyrics seemingly contact on dangerous blood — a.ok.a dishonest — in her relationships […]
The strains, additionally evaluating her romance to Elizabeth Taylor’s famed relationship with Richard Burton, trace that she’s high quality being locked away if it’s along with her then-partner. Whereas Swift, 34, famously doesn’t title her lyrical inspiration, Popularity is closely regarded as impressed by her relationship with Alwyn.
Swift and the Conversations With Mates alum dated between 2016 and early 2023, throughout which she dropped albums Popularity, Lover, Folklore, Evermore, Midnights and some rereleases. Throughout that interval, they saved their relationship personal and seldom have been seen in public.
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“Life is brief. Have adventures. Me locking myself away in my home for lots of years — I’ll by no means get that point again,” Swift advised TIME in her 2023 Individual of the Yr profile, which was revealed that December. “I’m extra trusting now than I used to be six years in the past.”
With the announcement of TTPD, Swifties throughout the globe have theorized most of the songs — together with “Recent Out the Slammer” — take care of the pop star’s heartbreak.
“If the primary phrase is hereby may that imply that ‘contemporary out of the slammer’ is sort of a storyline of being prosecuted to go to jail and it ends along with her getting out???” one other social media consumer wrote by way of X, referring to Swift breaking apart with Alwyn in April 2023 earlier than shifting on with new boyfriend Travis Kelce a number of months later.
Taylor Swift didn’t simply discover inspiration from Joe Alwyn throughout their relationship, in addition they collaborated on a few of her songs. Alwyn was credited as a songwriter on a number of of Swift’s tracks all through their relationship. He wrote beneath the pen title William Bowery, which Swift confirmed herself in her November 2020 documentary, Folklore: The Lengthy Pond […]
Different followers used the tune title to explain pictures of Swift out-and-about in New York Metropolis that April, days after Us Weekly confirmed the cut up, compared to regularly being hidden away at house with Alwyn and her pet cats.
One other fan speculated, “What if she’s not the one contemporary out the slammer however him??? What if she felt he was a prisoner to her fame and after they broke up he felt relieved as an alternative of harm?”
After Swift and Alwyn referred to as it quits, a supply confirmed to Us that the shy actor “by no means appreciated the entire consideration” that got here with Swift’s huge ranges of fame however didn’t “blame” her for commanding any room. (Swift wrote 2020’s “Peace” about her insecurities over the identical idea.)
Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn. Jackson Lee/GC Pictures
“Recent Out the Slammer” and “Prepared for It?” are usually not Swift’s solely musical masterpieces that characteristic themes of jail. In “Getaway Automobile,” she sings, “It was the good escape, the jail break, the sunshine of freedom on my face.”
“Afterglow,” a tune from 2019’s Lover, additionally mentions jail. “I blew issues out of proportion, now you’re blue, put you in jail for one thing you didn’t do,” she sings. Plus, in her 2023 music video for “I Can See You,” Swift spends many of the scene making an attempt to get out of a jail cell in a locked vault.
The “I Can See You” video idea is, nevertheless, about Swift reclaiming her music — she’s rereleased her previous LPs after Massive Machine Information bought her masters to 3rd events with out her data — as an alternative of a breakup. It’s potential that “Recent Out the Slammer” follows the identical theme.
It can’t be fully defined what “Recent Out the Slammer” is about till The Tortured Poet Division comes out on Friday, April 19.
