The Tortured Poets Department: Which songs are rumoured to be ...

Well if there's one person (ok two people) we wouldn't like to be today it's Joe Alwyn and Matty Healy. Last night Taylor Swift dropped her 11th studio album The Tortured Poets Department, which was in fact a surprise double album featuring an iconic 31 songs for us to deeply analyse the meaning of every single lyric. We're Swifties, it's what we do.

And since the announcement of the album back in February this year, fans have been doing a lot of theorising as to which songs on the albums would be about Joe Alwyn. Taylor dated the British actor from 2017 to 2023, and so it was only expected by fans that her new music would touch on the end of their relationship.

However, it seems that much of the album is in fact rumoured to be about 1975 frontman Matty Healy, whom Taylor dated for a few months following her breakup from Alwyn last year. This is not to say Swifties haven't found a number of references alluding to Taylor's breakup with Joe.

And these are the alleged songs and references Taylor Swift makes to Joe Alywn in The Tortured Poets Department.

Which songs in The Tortured Poets Department are rumoured to be about Joe Alwyn?

So Long, London

As all Swifties will know back in 2019 Taylor Swift released Lover, which included the song 'London Boy' which has generally been accepted by fans to be about Joe Alwyn, given that he's from London and Taylor spent a lot of time with him there.

So following their breakup it would make sense she said goodbye to London and Joe. Many fans have theorised her new song on The Tortured Poets Department 'So Long, London' is about Joe, given the London connection.

Taylor also references a house by the Heath in the song, which many fans have interpreted as the house the couple lived in near Hampstead Heath.

loml

'Loml' is also theorised by fans to be about Joe. While the acronym usually stands for 'love of my life' in Taylor's version it stands for 'loss of my life'.

Fans believe this song could be about Joe as in previous songs Taylor has suggested Joe is the 'one' and 'loml' definitely sounds like it could be about someone losing the 'one'.

The album name

The album name and track number two 'The Tortured Poets Department' has been heavily rumoured by fans to be a reference to Alwyn.

While previously speaking to GQ, Alwyn revealed he was in a group chat with fellow actors Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott. Then Scott and Mescal were asked about the group chat name in a recent interview with Variety, where they revealed it was called the 'The Tortured Man Club'.

And you don't need to be a rocket scientist to see the connection between 'The Tortured Man Club' and The Tortured Poets Department ????.

The Tortured Poets Department is out now