{"id":117761,"date":"2024-05-22T18:01:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T18:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/05\/22\/andrew-scott-talks-group-chat-that-may-have-inspired-taylor-swifts-album\/"},"modified":"2024-05-22T18:01:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T18:01:32","slug":"andrew-scott-talks-group-chat-that-may-have-inspired-taylor-swifts-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/05\/22\/andrew-scott-talks-group-chat-that-may-have-inspired-taylor-swifts-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Scott talks group chat that may have inspired Taylor Swift’s album"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Beth Garrabrant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After Taylor Swift<\/strong> announced that her new album would be called The Tortured Poets Department<\/em>, a 2022 edition of Variety’<\/em>s Actors on Actors featuring Taylor’s ex Joe Alwyn <\/strong>and\u00a0Paul Mescal<\/strong> saying<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0they had a\u00a0WhatsApp group\u00a0with\u00a0Andrew Scott<\/strong>\u00a0called the “Tortured Man Club” resurfaced online.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a recent Variety\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>interview<\/strong><\/a>, Scott explains that Alwyn and Mescal were “about to play these tortured characters” \u2014 Alwyn in Conversations with Friends<\/em> and Mescal in Normal People<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 while, Scott says, “I had played a tortured character in Fleabag<\/em>. It wasn\u2019t about our own characteristics!\u201d But Scott says the chat collapsed after three texts.<\/p>\n

While Scott didn’t confirm that the group chat inspired the album’s title, he and Taylor are friends. “Taylor\u2019s new album is sensational! I texted her yesterday to say how amazing it is,\u201d Scott tells Variety.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI think she is just a force of nature, just an extraordinary human, and this album is really, really amazing,\u201d he adds. He says his favorite song is \u201cThe Smallest Man Who Ever Lived,\u201d who many fans believe is about\u00a0The 1975<\/strong> singer Matty Healy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Scott doesn’t\u00a0describe how he and Taylor became friends, but it could have been through Joe, or perhaps through Fleabag<\/em> star Phoebe Waller-Bridge<\/strong>, who’s another one of Taylor’s pals.<\/p>\n

In other Taylor news, she’s just released the BLOND:ISH remix<\/strong><\/a> of “Fortnight,” which turns the moody, midtempo song into a dance tune.<\/p>\n