Patti Smith has reacted to Taylor Swift name-dropping her and poet Dylan Thomas on her new song 'The Tortured Poets Department': 'I was moved.'
"I was moved to be mentioned in the company of the great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas," said the influential rocker.with over five years of experience covering the latest in entertainment. A proud Kingston University alum, Emlyn has written about music, fandom, film, television, and awards for multiple outlets including MTV News,Swift invoked the influential rock poet and artist, as well as fellow poet Dylan Thomas, on the record’s emotional title track.
“I laughed in your face and said / ‘You’re not Dylan Thomas, I’m not Patti Smith,’” she sings. “‘This ain’t the Chelsea Hotel / We’re modern idiots.’” In 2019, Smith defended Swift when discussing her fame."She's a pop star who's under tremendous scrutiny all the time, and one can't imagine what that's like," ."It's unbelievable to not be able to go anywhere, do anything, have messy hair. And I'm sure that she's trying to do something good. She's not trying to do something bad.
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