10 parallels between Taylor Swift’s “So Long, London” and her other love songs

I’m sure you’ve heard by now that Taylor Swift’s new album The “Tortured Poets” sectionis off.

Now that fans have had the weekend to digest the album and listen to all the songs, many people have made their own guesses about who these songs are about. While fans initially assumed TTPD about Taylor’s breakup with Joe Alwyn, many are now realizing that several songs could actually be about Matty Healy, who briefly dated Taylor in 2023.

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People also concluded that the album contains songs about Taylor’s boyfriend Travis Kelce and Kim Kardashian.

Fans also noticed that this album contains SO many parallels and Easter eggs to Taylor’s previous music, especially the song “So Long, London,” which is rumored to be about her breakup with Joe.

And since I’m a master Swiftie detective myself, I decided to dig deep into this song and find all these parallels:

1.One of the biggest parallels is the use of “London” in the song title. On their 2019 album LoverTaylor wrote “London Boy” in which she sings about how in love she is with a guy from London. She also sings about how London is not her home, but she loves it because of her “London Boy”. Now, on TTPDshe sings “So Long, London” and says goodbye to the place she loved so much.

2.Last year she released “You’re Losing Me”, a vault song for her album Midnight, There she sings: “I can’t feel a pulse anymore, my heart isn’t beating anymore.” In the second verse of “So Long, London” she sings: “I stopped CPR. After all, there’s no point. / The soul was gone. We’d never come back to ourselves.”

3.She also sings in “You’re Losing Me”: “My face was grey, but you wouldn’t admit that we were sick.” And then in “So Long, London” she sings: “And I’m just getting the color back in my face.”

4.In “You’re Losing Me” she sings, “How long could we be a sad song? / Until we were too far gone to bring back to life?” And then in “So Long, London” she sings, “And thinking about how much sadness did you think I had, did you think I had inside of me?”

5.In “You’re Losing Me” she also sings: “I gave you my best, my infinite compassion.” And then in “So Long, London” she sings: “And I’m mad that you let me give you all this youth for nothing.”

6.In her Lover In her song “False God” she sings, “We’d worship him anyway. Maybe we’d just get away with it. / The altar is my hips, even if it’s a false god.” In “So Long, London” she then uses similar imagery when she sings, “You swore you loved me, but where were the clues? / I died on the altar waiting for the proof. / You sacrificed us to the gods of your saddest days.”

7.In her folklore In her song “Mirrorball,” Taylor sings, “I still try everything to make you laugh at me / I’m still a believer, but I don’t know why.” Then, in “So Long, London,” she sings, “I stopped trying to make him laugh, stopped trying to break the safe.”

8th.In her midnight In her song “Glitch,” Taylor sings, “Five seconds later, I attach myself to you with a stitch.” And in “So Long, London,” she sings, “So long, London. Stitches dissolved.”

9.In the song “Lover” she sings, “We can keep the Christmas lights up until January.” And in “So Long, London” she sings, “I saw fairy lights through the mist in my mind.”

10.Finally she opens folklore with the song “The 1,” in which she sings, “But it would have been funny if you were the one.” And at the end of “So Long, London,” she sings, “But I’m not the one.”

Have you noticed any other parallels? Let us know in the comments!