As you may have heard, one of the many referential lyrics on Taylor Swift‘s new two-hour double album The Tortured Poets Department is a reference to emo-pop vets The Staring Line on the song “The Black Dog.” (Apparently it’s a reference to Taylor’s ex Matty Healy of The 1975 covering “The Best of Me.”) The Starting Line themselves have also heard this, and they have publicly thanked Taylor. “Dear Taylor,” the band writes, “We heard the song, thank you for name checking our band. We feel flattered and humbled by the reverberations of love that have come back to us as a result. It’s an honor to have TSL memorialized on such a lovely song. You didn’t have to do that, but you did, and we appreciate it wholeheartedly. Resp...
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