Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn.
Getty Images (2)Taylor Swift‘S The Tortured Poets Department We are already asking everyone about their previous relationships Joe Alwynand now fans have a theory that a new song is tied to an old favorite.
One of hers TTPD song is called “Fresh Out the Slammer,” and eagle-eyed Swifties have suspected that it could be a rebuttal or sequel to her Call Love songs about Alwyn, 33.
“From ‘He can be my jailer’ to ‘Getting the banger out’ is crazy,” one fan wrote via X on Friday, April 12, referencing the lyrics to “Ready for It?”, which appeared on Swift’s 2017 LP, Call.
“I am ready?” Particularly noteworthy are the lyrics: “And he can be my jailer / Burton to this Taylor / Every love I’ve known in comparison is a failure. I’ve forgotten their names now, I’m so very tame now.”
John Shearer/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management Taylor Swift has been notorious for writing lyrics about the ups – and downs – of her own high-profile romances over the years. While reviewing her discography, eagle-eyed Swifties have noticed that some of her lyrics seem to address bad blood – aka cheating – in her relationships […]
The lines also compare her romance with Elizabeth Taylor‘s famous relationship with Richard Burton, suggests that she’s fine with being locked away when it’s with her then-partner. While Swift, 34, famously doesn’t name her lyrical inspiration, Call It is strongly believed that she is inspired by her relationship with Alwyn.
Swift and the Conversations with friends Alum dated between 2016 and early 2023 in which she dropped albums Call, Lover, Folklore, Evermore, Midnight and a few new releases. During this time, they kept their relationship private and were rarely seen in public.
Taylor Swift
Terry Wyatt/Getty Images“Life is short. Go on adventures. “I locked myself in my house for many years – I’ll never get that time back,” Swift said TIME in her 2023 Person of the Year profile published in December. “I’m more confident now than I was six years ago.”
With the announcement of TTPDSwifties around the world have theorized that many of the songs – including “Fresh Out the Slammer” – address the pop star’s heartbreak.
“If the first word is this, could that mean that ‘fresh out of jail’ is like an act involving a prison sentence that ends with her getting released???” Another social media user wrote about Xwhich refers to Swift breaking up with Alwyn in April 2023 before moving on with a new boyfriend Travis Kelce several months later.
Not only was Taylor Swift inspired by Joe Alwyn during their relationship, they also collaborated on several of her songs. Alwyn was credited as a songwriter on several of Swift’s tracks over the course of their relationship. He wrote under the pseudonym William Bowery, which Swift herself confirmed in her November 2020 documentary Folklore: The Long Pond […]
Other fans used the song title to describe photos of Swift out and about in New York City days afterward in April Us weekly confirmed the breakup, compared to her frequently hiding out at home with Alwyn and her pet cats.
Another fan speculated“What if she’s not the one fresh out of jail, it’s him?” What if she felt like he was a prisoner of her fame, and when they broke up, he felt relieved instead of injured?”
After Swift and Alwyn broke up, a source confirmed it Us that the shy actress “never liked all the attention” that came with Swift’s enormous notoriety, but didn’t blame her for dominating any room. (Swift wrote 2020’s “Peace” about her insecurities about the same concept.)
Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn.
Jackson Lee/GC Images“Fresh Out the Slammer” and “Ready for It?” aren’t Swift’s only musical masterpieces that deal with prison themes. In “Getaway Car,” she sings, “It was the great escape, the prison break, the light of freedom on my face.”
“Afterglow,” a 2019 song LoverHe also mentions prison. “I took things too far, now you’re blue, put you in jail for something you didn’t do,” she sings. Additionally, in her 2023 music video for “I Can See You,” Swift spends most of the scene getting out of a prison cell in a locked vault.
However, the “I Can See You” video concept is about Swift reclaiming her music – she re-released her previous LPs after Big Machine Records sold her masters to third parties without her knowledge – rather than a breakup. Perhaps “Fresh Out the Slammer” follows the same theme.
Until then, it’s impossible to fully explain what Fresh Out the Slammer is about The Tortured Poets Department will be released on Friday, April 19th.