As if Taylor Swift fanatics needed more to theorize about, her new album would possibly come with a few callbacks to Matty Healy‘s band, The 1975.
Swift, 34, dropped The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology on Friday, April 19, including an additional 15 songs to the already long 16-track standard album for a whopping overall of 31. Fans briefly noticed that one in all the bonus tracks, “Imgonnagetyouback,” is stylized in a an identical solution to The 1975’s “Fallingforyou” from their 2013 debut album.
“Whether I’m gonna be your wife or / Gonna wreck up your bike, I haven’t decided yet / But I’m gonna get you again,” Swift sings in the chorus. “Whether I’m gonna curse you out or / Take you again to my area, I haven’t decidеd yet / But I’m gonna get you back.”
In some ways, the Venn diagram of Swifties and The 1975 lovers is a circle — and it didn’t take long for listeners to attract some surprising lyrical parallels.
“All we'd like’s my motorbike and your monumental house,” Healy sings on the 2013 ballad. “You mentioned at some point we may / When I’m nearer in your top / ‘Til then, we’ll knock round and notice / If you’re all I want.”
Swift and Healy had been first linked back in 2014 after they were spotted dressed in each and every different’s merch. Swift additionally attended a handful of The 1975 concert events at the time, and following the liberate of TTPD, footage resurfaced online of Healy apparently dedicating “Fallingforyou” to Swift. (She was staring at from the balcony of the live performance venue, and Healy particularly seemed in her course whilst making a song.)
The apparent connections continue on the track “Peter,” which is heavy with Peter Pan imagery.
“And you said you’d come and get me, however you have been twenty-five / And the shelf life of those fantasies has expired / Lost to the ‘Lost Boys’ chapter of your lifestyles,” she sings. “Forgive me, Peter, please know that I tried / To hang on (Hold on) to the days (To the days) / When you have been mine.”
Not simplest have listeners identified that Healy was 25 in 2014, however he’s also frequently referred to himself over the years as being “quite Peter Pan-ish.” (Fans deep in The 1975 trenches will even remember the song “Lost Boys” from the band’s early iteration as Drive Like I Do.)
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This isn’t the first time Swift has referred to the tale of Peter Pan. On the Folklore song “Cardigan,” she sings, “Tried to switch the finishing / Peter losing Wendy.”
Since the release of TTPD, Swifties have returned to footage from May 2023 live shows amid their transient romance that used to be never actually defined. In the clip, Swift is noticed mouthing, “This is about you. You know who you might be. I love you,” to the digicam at one of her Nashville displays (which Healy attended) as she offered “Cardigan.” Healy sent the identical mysterious message at one among his band’s concerts in the Philippines days prior.
Us Weekly showed the pair’s split in June 2023. Healy “couldn’t be happier” with Swift’s latest document, a source solely printed on Friday, adding, “Their dating was fast, however extraordinarily passionate and actual.”
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