Patti Smith Thanks Taylor Swift for Name-Check on Her New Album

Patti
Smith
has
responded
to
Taylor
Swift’s
mention
of
her
on
her
new
album,

The
Tortured
Poets
Department.

The
pop
star
name-checks
the
punk
icon
on
the
title
track
to
her 11th
studio
LP,
which
arrived
on
Friday.
In
the
chorus,
Swift
sings: “I
laughed
in
your
face
and
said, ‘You’re
not
Dylan
Thomas,
I’m
not
Patti
Smith’
/ This
ain’t
the
Chelsea
Hotel,
we’rе
modern
idiots.”

Smith,
in
turn,
responded
to
the
nod
on
Instagram
on
Friday
night,
posting
a
photo
of
her
reading
Thomas’
short
story
collection Portrait
of
the
Artist
as
a
Young
Dog. “This
is
saying
I
was
moved
to
be
mentioned
in
the
company
of
the
great
Welsh
poet
Dylan
Thomas,”
Smith
captioned
her
post. “Thank
you
Taylor.”

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What
Has
Patti
Smith
Previously
Said
About
Taylor
Swift?

Smith
has
spoken
positively
about
Swift
in
the
past,
expressing
sympathy
for
the pressure
she
faces
on
a
daily
basis.
In
a
2019


New
York
Times
interview,
Smith mused
on
Swift’s
comments
at
that
year’s
MTV
Video
Music
Awards,
where
Swift
called
out
the
Trump
administration
for
not
promptly
responding
to
a
petition
urging
lawmakers
to
pass
the
Equality
Act,
which
would
protect
LGBTQ
rights.

“She’s
a
pop
star who’s
under
tremendous
scrutiny
all
the
time,
and
one
can’t
imagine
what
that’s
like,”
Smith said. “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.
And
if
it
influences
some
of
her
avid
fans
to
open
up
their
thoughts,
what
does
it
matter?
Are
we
going
to
start
measuring
who’s
more
authentic
than
who?”