Taylor Swift has put a native pub in England on the map.
On the anthology edition of her 11th studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” launched April 19, the pop star has a song known as “The Black Dog,” and Swifties imagine the monitor is about a London bar of the identical identify.
In the song, Swift sings about a place known as The Black Dog and the way she used to go there with somebody she loves.
She says, “I just don’t understand/ How you don’t miss me/ In The Black Dog/ When someone plays The Starting Line and you jump up/ But she’s too young to know this song/ That was intertwined in the magic fabric of our dreaming/ Old habits die screaming.”
Since the song dropped, a whole bunch of followers have been wandering into the bar — positioned within the Vauxhall space in south London — to search out clues about Swift’s love life.
“Why did you guys come here?” NBC News London correspondent Kelly Cobiella requested a couple of Swifties on the bar.
“For Taylor Swift,” they each replied with a smile.
Lily Bottomley, occasions and social supervisor at The Black Dog, instructed Cobiella that Swift has made the bar a hotspot.
“I got reports that a few leaked songs had come from her album. And suddenly saw The Black Dog being mentioned,” she stated. “Then obviously, it just went from 1 to 100.”
The Black Dog has since gone viral on social media, with many speculating who Swift could have written the song about. She had previous romances with two males from England — actor Joe Alwyn, a boyfriend of six years, and musician Matty Healy, who she had reportedly dated briefly in 2023.
“We think it’s Joe,” one bargoer instructed Cobiella. “Because Matty didn’t even come to London. Gotta be about Joe.”
The Black Dog bar even shared a video poking enjoyable that their employees was additionally attempting to determine it out.
Bottomley shared that the pub has “had reports of a certain blond regular” however “wouldn’t want to give too much away.”
The pub has even renamed one among their signature beers because the Swift pint and one among their sandwiches because the Swift burger.
The Black Dog staffers shared with Cobiella that many pint glasses have been taken as souvenirs by bargoers. But with extra merch coming quickly, these headed to the bar will hopefully be capable of go away with official memorabilia (if you may get a reservation).