Watch Patti Smith reference her Taylor Swift shoutout from ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ on stage in Dublin
nme.comPatti Smith recently referenced her namecheck from Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ on stage in Dublin – check out footage below.The New York punk legend was playing in the city’s Vicar Street venue on June 28 when she alluded to her connection to the title track of one of the year’s most successful records.On the song in question, released in April, Swift makes a specific reference to Smith, as well as Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, and the iconic bohemian hotspot, Manhattan’s Chelsea Hotel.“I laughed in your face and said, ‘You’re not Dylan Thomas, I’m not Patti Smith / This ain’t the Chelsea Hotel / We’re modern idiots’,” she sings, in what is widely thought to be an allusion to her short-lived relationship with The 1975‘s Matty Healy.Now, Smith has brought the reference full circle.
Read more on nme.com
