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Taylor Swift has revealed an emotional connection to a Scottish band’s song that makes her want to cry.
Scottish Swifties not only awoke to a surprise double album but one that gives a nod to Glasgow group, The Blue Nile.
Guilty as Sin, the ninth track on the pop susperstars new record, references one of the band’s best known tracks The Downtown Lights.
In Swift’s song, reported to be about one of her ex-boyfriends Matty Healy or Joe Alwyn, she suggests that the song makes her cry.
Drowning in the Blue Nile,
He sent me Downtown Lights,
I hadn’t heard it in a while,
My boredom’s bone deep,
This cage was once just fine,
Am I allowed to cry?”
Guilty as Sin – Taylor Swift
In true Swift fashion, her mentioning of the song comes with many Easter eggs that eager fans have already discovered.
The song she mentions by The Blue Nile was released in 1989, the year in which she was born.
The lyrics of The Downtown Lights also allude to similar themes she explores in her new album such as uncertainty in relationships and heartbreak.
The song featured on The Blue Nile’s hit album Hats, and the was their only chart entry in the US, peaking at No. 10 on Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart.
The group, made up of Paul Buchanan, Robert Bell and Paul Joseph Moore, was active from 1981 to 2004.
The Scottish nod comes ahead of the 34-year-old kicking off her highly-anticipated UK leg of The Era’s Tour in Edinburgh this June.
The singer is set to play three sold-out shows at Edinburgh Murrayfield before heading to Liverpool, Cardiff and London.
Fans of Guilty as Sin heading to the Edinburgh show will no doubt be brushing up on the lyrics as the singer might play it as a nod to Scotland during the surprise song set in her three and a half hour show.
Swift has spoken fondly about Scotland on multiple occasions and even opened up about her Scottish ancestry during a show at Glasgow’s Hydro in 2015.
Explaining that her father had emailed her ahead of her performance to inform her of the family’s Scottish roots, she told fans that she was “proud” to be one of them.
She said: “In the subject line it said ‘tell Scotland this’, and in the email he said our whole family is from Scotland and you have to tell them that.
“So I am one of you, and I’m proud because this crowd is amazing.”
The singer then performed hit single Blank Space while swinging a golf club, and declared afterwards: “I happen to love Scottish people, personally.”
A website which outlines the ancestry of famous people, famouskin.com, also directly connects Swift’s family line to William the Lion, King of Scotland.
Both claims, though unproven, connect the royal lines to Swift through her father, stock broker Scott Kingsley Swift.
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