Charlie Puth responds to Taylor Swift namecheck on ‘The Tortured Poets Department’

nme.com:

Charlie Puth has finally responded to Taylor Swift namechecking him on the title track of her new album ‘The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology’.On the album’s title track, the singer declares: “You smoked then ate seven bars of chocolate / We declared Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist.”Now, Puth appears to have acknowledged it, albeit indirectly, when he teased a new song called ‘Hero’ on TikTok.“These last couple weeks have been really crazy for obvious reasons, but I wanted to share something with you,” he wrote. “This is a song I wrote about my friend called ‘Hero’.

Sometimes I get a little nervous being overly honest in my music which is why this was sitting on my hard drive for awhile.“But I think someone out there was giving me a sign that I needed to release it.

So… I declare ‘Hero’ will be out everywhere on May 24th as the first single of my new album. Thank you for your support… you know who you are.”Numerous artists are namechecked throughout ‘The Tortured Poets Department’.

The title track refers to a “Lucy”, which fans seem convinced is a reference to Lucy Dacus, one third of the Grammy-winning group boygenius.