It’s either an immense pleasure or a bad omen to be mentioned by Taylor Swift in one of her songs. In Charlie Puth’s case, being named in the title track of her densest album yet, 2024’s The Tortured Poets Department, was the former. And it even influenced his latest record.
In the song “The Tortured Poets Department," Swift sings, “We declared Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist” while illustrating a budding relationship. (It’s widely believed to be about Swift’s fling with The 1975’s Matt Healy). Puth just opened up about what the lyric meant to him with these words:
