Taylor Swift has processed her emotions around the world. Within each of Swift’s 31 tracks are intricately detailed stories from past relationships laced with longing and heartache. Here are the places where she has experienced highs and lows.
The Hotel Chelsea
The Tortures Poets Department
“I laughed in your face and said / You’re not Dylan Thomas, I’m not Patti Smith / this ain’t the Chelsea hotel, we’re modern idiots.”
The Chelsea hotel is a famous landmark in New York City, which was built in the late 19th century and famously, housed writers, painters, authors, and socialites.
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BookHampstead Heath
So Long, London
“I stopped trying to make him laugh / stop trying to drill the safe … I left all I knew, you left me at the house by the Heath.”
The Hampstead Heath sprawls over 800 acres and both some of the most spectacular views in the city. This is the Park that inspired CS Lewis to write the chronicles of Narnia.
See MoreThe Black Dog
The Black Dog
“I am someone who until recent events / you shared your secrets with / and your location, you forgot to turn it off… and so I watched as you walk / into some called the black dog / and Pierce new holes in my heart.”
The black dog is a bar in London and has been at Max capacity since Taylor Swift named dropped the watering hole.
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The Bolter
“When it’s all roses, portrait poses / central Park Lake in tiny rowboats / what a charming Saturday.”
Central Park is a world, famous urban park between the upper west side and upper Eastside in Manhattan .
See MoreDestin Beach Shore
Florida!!!
“So you work your life away just to pay / for a timeshare down in Destin.”
Swift uses Destin in the chorus, as an example of a city were known of a recognize her and she can reinvent herself .
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