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2 mentionsThe Tortured Poets Department · 2024
“We were just kids, babe”
"Just kids" echoes the title of Patti Smith's memoir. Taylor also names Patti Smith in "The Tortured Poets Department", suggesting a deliberate thread across the album. Smith publicly thanked Taylor for the reference.
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“We were just kids, babe”
Just Kids shares an unusually dense cluster of thematic and imagistic parallels with Taylor's catalogue: Peter Pan imagery, Coney Island, the 1989 aesthetic, Polaroids, New York City, Alice in Wonderland, The Chelsea Hotel, and alien imagery. The density of overlap has led community members to speculate Taylor may have read and drawn inspiration from the memoir. The memory and youth themes are directly relevant to loml's core concerns.
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