London pub The Black Dog at “max capacity” after mention on Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’

nme.com:

Taylor Swift on her new album.The boozer, which is based in Vauxhall, south London, is mentioned by the pop star in the song ‘The Black Dog’ from the extended ‘Anthology’ edition of ‘The Tortured Poets Department’.“And your location, you forgot to turn it off/ And so I watch as you walk/ Into some bar called The Black Dog/ And pierce new holes in my heart/ You forgot to turn it off,” Swift sings. “And it hits me/ I just don’t understand/ How you don’t miss me/ In The Black Dog….”The track is thought to address Swift’s ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn, who lives in the same area as the pub (and inspired 2019’s ‘London Boy’).

Some Swifties think that ‘The Black Dog’ could be about her brief relationship with The 1975 frontman Matty Healy last year.Following the release of ‘Tortured Poets’, hundreds of fans flocked to The Black Dog in London.

Staff at the pub said they were “trying desperately to figure out if it was Matty or Joe” who had visited the premises by searching through CCTV footage.