Taylor Swift’s TTPD_ DECODING Which Songs Are About Joe Alwyn, Matty Healy & Tra

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00:00 Swifties assemble! Taylor Swift's 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, is officially

00:07 here and as fans expected, the release is a double dose of heartbreak, Taylor revealing

00:12 two albums worth of breakup songs and of course, Easter eggs. From insight into Taylor's split

00:18 with actor Joe Alwyn to her rumored fling with 1975 singer Maddie Healy and yes, even

00:25 her romance with Travis Kelce. We're decoding Taylor's most devastating lyrics about love

00:30 and loss with a boy by boy breakdown. Starting with Joe, fans are already speculating that

00:37 songs I Could Do It With A Broken Heart and L.O.M.L., which some say stands for Love of

00:42 My Life, could be about Joe. But there's no doubt that So Long, London is definitely about

00:48 the notoriously private star. The Grammy winner had a six year relationship with a London-based

00:54 actor and many are specifically looking to this line about her quiet resentment about

00:59 the length of their relationship.

01:14 Taylor also adds,

01:25 Of course, Taylor has referenced the color blue in relation to Joe many times throughout

01:30 her music. She's also touched on wanting to build a life with him and get married in songs

01:35 like Paper Rings, Lover, Peace and You're Losing Me. On to Maddie Healy, whom Taylor

01:41 dated briefly when she split from Joe in 2023. Even though this relationship seems to be

01:47 one of her shortest, there appears to be a lot of songs dedicated to the 1975 frontman.

01:54 Fans are pointing to as many as seven songs, including But Daddy I Love Him, Fresh Out

01:58 the Slammer, Guilty as Sin, and The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived. The album kicks off with

02:04 a song called Fortnite, aka the term for two weeks' time. That's about how long fans

02:10 speculate Taylor and Maddie were together last year, though the dating rumors really

02:14 started way back in 2014. On the album's title track, Taylor sings,

02:29 Fans think that's a clear reference to the singer who has made his love of the vintage

02:34 technology clear in previous interviews. Taylor also seems to reference some trolls of her

02:43 and Maddie's rumored fling on I Can Fix Him, No Really I Can. Singing,

02:57 And if you thought Tortured Poets was just gut-wrenching anthems about Tay's past, think

03:03 again. The singer seems to hint at her current love, Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, in So

03:08 High School. She also drops several football references on The Alchemy.

03:25 There's also mentions of warming benches and winning streaks. And as we know, Taylor was

03:29 present at all of Travis' NFL games last season, including their Super Bowl championship.

03:36 While Swifties have been untangling the lyrics' potential references to past breakups, Taylor

03:41 has made one thing clear, she's leaving the past behind her. Writing on Instagram,

03:46 This period of the author's life is now over. The chapter closed and boarded up. There's

03:51 nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed. And upon further reflection,

03:56 a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted.

04:00 "I'm not going to be able to get back together with Taylor."

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