Taylor Swift's latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, was released on Friday, and the moody imagery and morose snippets of lyrics scattered across the internet ("I love you, it's ruining my life," for example) made it pretty clear that Joe Alwyn,
Swift's longest public relationship, would not escape the departmental summit unscathed.
Many were surprised to discover how much ink Swift spilled on the double LP, possibly in allusion to her brief engagement with The 1975 frontman Matty Healy.
On the album's title track, Swift sings about a lover leaving a typewriter at her apartment: "I think some things I never say, / Like, 'Who uses typewriters anyway?'"
Anyone can obtain a typewriter, but it's only the first indication that the song is about Healy.
In a 2018 interview with GQ, Healy discussed his fondness for typewriters, saying, "The thing about typewriters and writing, putting pen to paper, there's kind of an element of commitment that goes with the ceremony of it."
He stated he preferred analog writing tools, which he described as "dreams of being in love with other pop stars."
Swift sings in the chorus of the same song, "You're not Dylan Thomas, I'm not Patti Smith, this ain't the Chelsea Hotel, / We're modern idiots.