LONDON – Taylor Swift followers are flocking to The Black Canine, a pub in south-west London, after it was name-checked on the American singer’s new album The Tortured Poets Division.
Lily Bottomley, the pub’s occasions and social media supervisor, stated the thrill began on-line final week earlier than the double album was launched on April 19, with The Black Canine confirmed because the 17th monitor.
She needed to name in employees to deal with demand, and the pub within the metropolis’s Vauxhall district has capitalised on its newfound fame with a “Swift” burger and “(Taylor’s Model)” cocktails.
Bottomley couldn’t be completely sure her Black Canine was the identical one talked about, however she stated there had beforehand been a “sure blonde common” on the pub.
Swift describes her 11th studio album on Instagram as “an anthology of recent works that replicate occasions, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic second in time”.
Followers largely consider it’s about her former British boyfriend, actor Joe Alwyn. Swift has referenced different London areas in her songs which have sparked curiosity in the place the couple had hung out within the British capital.
They break up in April 2023 after six years of courting.
“We’re a really cosy small neighbourhood pub, so one thing like this taking place is a dream,” Bottomley stated. “We’re simply so grateful to the followers as a result of they’ve simply been superb.”
A Swiftie who gave her title solely as Katie, an internet developer visiting from Northern Eire for her birthday, stated she favored going to locations talked about in songs.
“I used to be in New York final yr, and I additionally did a bit of Taylor Swift strolling tour on my own of the locations that she’s talked about there.”
Masters scholar Emilia from Vienna, who additionally gave no surname, stated she might image Swift going to the pub. “I admire her as a result of she’s lyrically a genius,” she stated.
Spotify stated on April 19 that Poets broke the file for the platform’s most-streamed album in a single day this yr, reaching the feat in lower than 12 hours.
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