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London bridge was falling down, and Taylor Swift felt each minute.

“The Tortured Poets Division” is right here and, very similar to followers anticipated, a part of the brand new album is devoted to Swift’s break up from Joe Alwyn in spring 2023. In actual fact, the 34-year-old has penned a heartbreaking tribute to the top of their six years collectively in “So Lengthy, London,” a poignant half two to Taylor’s 2019 Lover monitor “London Boy.”

Along with the songs’ titles, Swift has drawn a transparent parallel between the 2 tracks by inserting every because the fifth track on their respective albums. However whereas “London Boy” tells the uplifting story of a burgeoning romance — and the place Midnights’ “You are Shedding Me” covers the start of the top — “So Lengthy, London” brings the journey residence by chronicling the connection’s painful demise.

Within the transferring monitor, not solely does Swift say goodbye to England’s capital — Alwyn’s hometown and the place the 2 spent a lot time throughout their six years collectively — however she additionally describes attempting to maintain the connection collectively whilst she may see it coming aside.

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“I noticed in my thoughts fairy lights via the mist / I saved calm and carried the burden of the rift,” she sings within the first refrain, alluding to nonetheless seeing hope of their relationship regardless of the rising distance. “Pulled him in tighter every time he was drifting away / My backbone break up from carrying us up the hill.”

However as her “weary bones caught the nippiness,” she started to surrender her efforts: “I finished attempting to make him giggle, stopped attempting to drill the secure.”

And whereas “London Boy” describes a joyous jaunt via London, a type of getting-to-know the town, “So Lengthy, London” as a substitute exhibits Swift’s emotions of rising isolation — particularly in a metropolis that’s not her personal.

“I did not choose in to be your odd man out,” she sings. “I based the membership she’s heard nice issues about / I left all I knew, you left me on the home by the Heath.”

The Grammy winner goes on to chronicle the connection’s “demise,” of a form, in an echo of “You are Shedding Me.”

The place she sings “I am unable to discover a pulse / My coronary heart will not begin anymore” on “Midnights,” now she sings, “I stoppеd CPR, in any case, it is no use / The spirit was gonе, we’d by no means come to.”

The singer additionally seems to allude to the time she spent with Alwyn — six years from when she was 27 to 33 — all through the track.

“And I am pissed off you let me provide you with all that youth free of charge,” she sings in verse two, later including within the bridge, “You swore that you simply cherished me however the place had been the clues? / I died on the altar ready for the proof.”

And whereas she sang in “You are Shedding Me” that her face had gone grey, she once more alludes to paint on TTPD with, “You sacrificed us to the gods of your bluest days / And I am simply getting coloration again into my face.”

However regardless of her efforts to “go down with the ship” — or as she places it, “My white-knuckle dying grip holding tight to your quiet resentment”—”So Lengthy, London” involves an in depth with the acknowledgement that the pair weren’t proper for one another.

“So lengthy, London / Had a great run,” she sings, “A second of heat solar / However I am not the one.”

And although she describes the top of the connection with a dramatic, “Two graves, one gun,” Swift — who has since moved on with boyfriend Travis Kelce — additionally guarantees, “You may discover somebody.”

The couple was seen on the music competition in Indio, California, dancing and kissing as they supported Ice Spice in addition to Jack Antonoff’s band, Bleachers.

Nicely if there’s one particular person (OK, two individuals) we would not wish to be right now, it is Joe Alwyn and Matty Healy. Final night time, Taylor Swift dropped her eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Division, which was a shock double album that includes an iconic 31 songs for us to deeply analyse the that means of each single lyric. We’re Swifties, it is what we do!

Because the announcement of the album in February this yr, followers have been doing a lot of theorising as to which songs on the albums could be about Joe Alwyn. Taylor dated the British actor for six years, and so it was solely anticipated by followers that her new music would contact on the top of their relationship.

Nonetheless, plainly a lot of the album is in truth rumoured to be about The 1975 frontman, Matty Healy, who Taylor dated for a number of months following her breakup from Alwyn final yr.

However, this isn’t to say Swifties have not discovered a lot of references alluding to Taylor’s breakup with Joe. So, these are the alleged songs and references Taylor Swift makes to Joe Alywn in The Tortured Poets Division.

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So Lengthy, London

As all Swifties will know, Taylor Swift launched Lover in 2019, which included the tune ‘London Boy’ and has usually been accepted by followers to be about Joe Alwyn, provided that he is from London and Taylor spent lots of time with him there.

So, following their breakup, it could make sense she stated goodbye to London and Joe. Many followers have theorised her new tune on The Tortured Poets Division, ‘So Lengthy, London’, is about Joe, given the London connection.

Taylor additionally references a home by the Heath within the tune, which many followers have interpreted as the home the couple lived in close to Hampstead Heath in West London.

loml

Subsequent, ‘loml’ can be theorised by followers to be about Joe. Whereas the acronym often stands for ‘love of my life’, in Taylor’s model, it stands for ‘lack of my life’.

Followers consider this tune might be about Joe as in earlier songs Taylor has instructed Joe is the ‘one’ and ‘loml’ positively sounds prefer it might be about somebody shedding the ‘one’.

The Tortured Poets Division

The album identify and observe quantity two, ‘The Tortured Poets Division,’ has been closely rumoured by followers to be a reference to Alwyn.

Whereas beforehand chatting with GQ, Alwyn revealed he was in a gaggle chat with fellow actors Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott. Then Scott and Mescal had been requested concerning the group chat identify in a current interview with Selection, the place they revealed it was referred to as the ‘The Tortured Man Membership’.

And you do not should be a rocket scientist to see the connection between ‘The Tortured Man Membership’ and The Tortured Poets Division 👀.

The Tortured Poets Division is out now.

Katie Couric mentioned that her first maternity depart from NBC’s Immediately present in 1991 was met with an “extremely sexist perspective” from co-anchor Bryant Gumbel.

“He obtained mad at me as a result of I used to be doing one thing on maternity depart,” Couric recalled with some laughter on Sunday’s Membership Random podcast with Invoice Maher. “And he was giving me countless shit for taking like a month or two off. I used to be having my first child.”

Couric recalled Gumbel telling her, “Why don’t you simply drop it within the subject and are available again to work instantly or one thing?” She acknowledged “he was goofing on me” however nonetheless mentioned his feedback have been “emblematic of type of an extremely sexist perspective.”

Couric’s recollection of the incidents was prompted earlier within the episode when Maher introduced up Gumbel, referring to him as a “man’s man” and saying the 2 are “pals.”

“He’s a man’s man, you bought that proper,” Couric responded. “He was prickly, however, what a expertise. He’s such a seamless broadcaster, eloquent. When that countdown would occur — 5, 4, three, two, one — he would simply hit it good.” She added: “Sophisticated man, although, I feel — actually proficient man, extremely sensible.”

Representatives for Immediately didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

Gumbel first started work on Immediately in 1982; Couric joined him in 1991, and so they co-anchored collectively till Gumbel’s departure in 1997. Couric stayed till 2006. On Sunday, Maher famous that Matt Lauer was additionally a part of the Immediately staff similtaneously Couric and Gumbel’s overlap.

“Clearly, there was a practice of an outdated boys’ community,” Maher mentioned. Lauer was fired in 2017 amid a number of allegations of sexual misconduct.

“It was a really totally different surroundings, very totally different,” Couric added. “A lot of fraternization, a well mannered method of claiming inner-office schtupping.”

In response, Maher mentioned, “Girls needed to put up with extra. They only did. I imply, you realize, to not get all fuzzy and Lifetime Channel about it, however folks such as you and Barbara Walters — or identical to girls comedians of a sure age — you need to actually tip your hat to them as a result of it was tougher.”

Couric agreed with the podcast host, including, “I don’t need to use the phrase microaggressions, however when you consider the true definition of the phrase, it was replete with microaggressions.”

What’s your favorite metropolis?

Istanbul comes pretty excessive since you’ve acquired two continents mixing there. And it is an outdated metropolis. It hasn’t been ruined within the sense that there are nonetheless a lot of again streets, small companies and interesting locations. And it is by the Bosphorus. Additionally, there’s one thing about New York that is like Machu Picchu – there’s nothing prefer it on the planet, not less than visually.

What recollections do you might have out of your childhood holidays?

The ocean. We referred to as the North Sea “the ocean”. We lived in Sheffield, which appears like proper in the course of industrial England, so to truly see the ocean itself was completely superb. My father was from Norfolk, so for about 10 years we went to Sheringham on the Norfolk coast. That was a fantastic pleasure. The air was salty and also you had meals from the ocean. It was so completely completely different to Sheffield. Norfolk grew to become our unique world.

Sightseeing or sunlounger?

I used to sunbathe once I was youthful as a result of one’s marketability trusted having a little bit of a tan. When the Python group have been in Barbados to work on the Lifetime of Brian script, we might sit by the ocean and it was completely important to get as a lot of your physique within the solar as attainable. Now I am utterly the other. I realised I’d truly moderately stroll round and see issues – and even sit within the shade and skim – than stretching oneself out and being burned.

Describe a vacation catastrophe

We went to Torquay in 1978, and the lodge the place we stayed was referred to as Gleneagles – very, very completely different from the lodge in Scotland. We have been handled so badly by such a impolite man. We needed to begin filming the following day at 7.30am so we requested for breakfast at 7am. The person mentioned, ‘Seven o’clock?… Seven o’clock! Who’s gonna be capable to get you breakfast at seven o’clock?’ That was the place John Cleese based mostly Fawlty Towers on. Myself and Graham Chapman and Terry Jones left the lodge after the primary night time.

American Airways’ pilots union is warning that it’s been monitoring a “vital spike” in security and upkeep points on the airline.

In a memo to its members that USA TODAY reviewed, the Allied Pilots Affiliation’s Security Committee stated it was seeing a development of instruments left in wheel wells after upkeep work was carried out, a rise in plane collisions on the bottom throughout towing operations, poor recordkeeping and abbreviated examine flights after upkeep, amongst different points.

“Whereas United Airways is at the moment underneath public and authorities scrutiny, it might simply as simply be American Airways,” the memo stated. The union additionally stated airline workers look like underneath strain to return plane to service in an effort to keep up flight schedules.

In a separate letter to the union’s members that USA TODAY reviewed, APA President Ed Sicher stated union representatives have met with American’s administration staff to deal with their considerations.

“We secured administration’s dedication to contain the union earlier within the security threat evaluation (SRA) course of, and we’re likewise in search of a dedication that APA can have a seat on the desk for the whole high quality assurance course of,” Sicher’s letter stated. It additionally inspired members to proceed benefiting from inner reporting instruments in the event that they witness security or maintenance-related incidents.

American informed USA TODAY in an announcement that security stays a high precedence for the corporate.

“Security at any airline is a shared mission and it’s very true at American,” the assertion stated. “Our strong security program is guided by our industry-leading security administration system. It features a multitude of collaborative packages – and common touchpoints – with the FAA and all our unions, together with APA, to additional bolster our robust security document and improve our ever-evolving security tradition.”

Zach Wichter is a journey reporter for USA TODAY based mostly in New York. You’ll be able to attain him at zwichter@usatoday.com.

Jude Bellingham praised the selflessness of his Actual Madrid teammates and the work fee the squad put in throughout their Champions League quarter-final win over Manchester Metropolis.

Los Blancos progressed courtesy of a penalty shootout victory, after a hard-fought 1-1 draw on the Etihad Stadium resulted in a 4-4 combination draw.

Man Metropolis had many of the ball, the territory and the probabilities within the second leg, however needed to come from behind to power further time and spot-kicks after Rodrygo’s early strike for the guests. That meant loads of off-the-ball operating for LaLiga’s best, however they caught to the duty all through and obtained their reward by edging the tie from 12 yards after they couldn’t be separated over 210 minutes.

And Bellingham, who scored his personal spot-kick within the shootout, named Actual’s endeavour and focus as the largest elements in making certain they stayed within the sport.

“It’s reduction. You set a lot into the sport, I’ve performed towards Metropolis earlier than while you’re shut and also you assume you’re going to get one thing after which they snatch it away,” he mentioned on TNT Sports activities. “I’m useless on my toes on the finish of the sport so it’s a large reward. It’s so troublesome to maintain focus, they transfer you round and put you in positions you don’t wish to be in. Most groups would disintegrate when Metropolis get on high however we stood up rather well and labored onerous.

“You’ve obtained to see [the Real shirt] as a accountability, not a strain. You must be keen to be beneath the scrutiny and highlight. When you’re right here it means you may deal with it so belief the method.

“It’s unimaginable [to knock out the holders]. Immediately it’s come right down to mentality, to operating, to trace [players]…you get that proper after which the moments just like the lads conserving their heads in penalties, it’s a mixture of that.”

The run to the Champions League latter levels might but cap an unimaginable debut marketing campaign in Spain for the England worldwide, with Actual Madrid closing in on the home title too.

Signing for the membership has greater than lived as much as expectations, he defined – with supervisor Carlo Ancelotti a giant a part of that.

Bellingham praised his boss for locating a approach to match so many nice skills into the lineup and revealed he had a novel approach of calming gamers down.

“I might by no means dream of it, not simply the targets however the feeling of enjoying for the membership each day – the badge in your chest each day is superb and hopefully there are extra nights like this.

“We had some totally different roles tonight within the crew however there are changes and sacrifices to your personal sport you need to make.

“Our largest energy is [Ancelotti] finds a approach to let the boys play with freedom. Different groups are structured with their patterns of play however we’re so off the cuff at occasions.

“I caught him yawning earlier than the sport and he mentioned ‘you want to go and excite me’! That’s the calmness he brings.”

Actual will now face Bayern Munich within the semi-finals however Bellingham says enjoying the Bavarians won’t imply a change of tactic. “We’ve obtained nothing to be frightened about with Bayern however we respect them and we’ll strategy it the identical as as we speak,” he mentioned.

Bestselling novelist Sophie Kinsella has been recognized with an aggressive type of mind most cancers, she revealed on Instagram. The announcement was adopted by a press release of assist from her long-time literary company and writer.

The London-based writer made the announcement to her 93.8 million followers on Instagram on Wednesday (sixteenth April).

“I’ve wished for a very long time to share with you a well being replace and I’ve been ready for the energy to take action,” she wrote. “On the finish of 2022 I used to be recognized with glioblastoma, a type of aggressive mind most cancers. I didn’t share this earlier than as a result of I wished to ensure that my youngsters had been capable of hear and course of the information in privateness and adapt to our ‘new regular.’

“I’ve been below the care of the wonderful crew at College School Hospital in London and have had profitable surgical procedure and subsequent radiotherapy and chemotherapy, which continues to be ongoing.

“In the meanwhile all is secure and I’m feeling typically very nicely, although I get very drained and my reminiscence is even worse than it was earlier than!”

The 53-year-old added: “I’m so grateful to my household and shut buddies who’ve been an unbelievable assist to me, and to the great docs and nurses who’ve handled me. I’m additionally so grateful to my readers in your fixed assist. The great response to The Burnout [published by Transworld last October] has actually buoyed me up, throughout a troublesome time.

“To everybody who’s affected by most cancers in any kind I ship love and finest needs, in addition to to those that assist them. It will probably really feel very lonely and scary to have a troublesome prognosis, and the assist and care of these round you means greater than phrases can say.”

Her long-time literary company, The Soho Company, and writer Transworld circulated a joint assertion in assist: “We at The Soho Company and Transworld have proudly labored with Sophie from the start of her profession in 1995. We proceed to ship all our love and energy to Sophie, her household, buddies, and the hundreds of thousands of readers world wide who, like us, maintain her so dearly of their hearts.”

Kinsella’s debut, The Tennis Occasion (Penguin) was revealed when she was 26 and dealing as a monetary journalist. Her bestselling books have been revealed throughout greater than 40 languages: together with the favored Shopaholic sequence (Transworld) but additionally standalone novels corresponding to The Burnout, novels for youngsters and books for youthful youngsters (all revealed by Penguin Random Home). 

Altogether she has offered 8,280,211 books, grossing £51m, in accordance with Nielsen BookScan. Her bestselling standalone title is The Undomestic Goddess whereas the Shopaholic sequence (all revealed by Transworld) mixed have offered 3,573,851 making £22.8m. 

In a warning to American Airways pilots, their union, the Allied Pilots Affiliation (APA), says it is seen “a major spike in safety- and maintenance-related issues in our operation.”

The union claims that among the many “problematic developments” it has been monitoring are instruments left in wheel wells, an rising variety of collisions between plane whereas they’re being towed, an rising variety of gadgets left within the security space close to jet bridges and “strain to return plane to line service to keep up on-time efficiency as a result of a scarcity of spares.”

CBS Information obtained photos of a hammer the APA says was present in an Airbus A319 wheel properly on March 25 at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport earlier than Flight 1654 departed for Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In line with the APA, the flight’s first officer found it throughout his pre-flight walkaround and notified the captain. The captain known as upkeep, who in flip inspected the plane and located a “Channellock type pliers and a screwdriver additionally situated contained in the wheel properly.” The union says there have been no open upkeep actions when the instrument was discovered.

In a message to union members Monday, APA President Capt. Ed Sicher says, “We met with (American’s) senior administration earlier this month to debate the operational hazards now we have recognized. … We now have administration’s full consideration. We secured administration’s dedication to contain the union earlier within the security danger evaluation (SRA) course of, and we’re likewise in search of a dedication that APA could have a seat on the desk for the whole high quality assurance course of. … Administration’s preliminary response to our issues was encouraging.”

American, which relies in Fort Price, Texas, mentioned, “Security at any airline is a shared mission and it is very true at American. Our sturdy security program is guided by our industry-leading security administration system” that  contains collaborating with regulators and its unions.

Whereas not commenting immediately on the problems raised by the APA, the Federal Aviation Administration mentioned it “requires all U.S. airways to have Security Administration Methods (SMS) by means of which they determine, monitor and handle potential hazards early on earlier than they grow to be critical issues.”

Complaints about mechanics being pressured to rapidly return planes to service aren’t new at American, as CBS Information reported in 2019.

United Airways is presently the topic of an FAA audit after a collection of regarding incidents that included a wheel falling off a Boeing 777 because it was taking off from San Francisco and an aerodynamic panel that flew off a 737 throughout a flight from San Francisco to Medford, Oregon. 

“Whereas United Airways is presently below public and authorities scrutiny, it might simply as simply be American Airways,” the APA memo says. 

The union security committee urged pilots to not rush or be intimidated “and do not be pressured into doing one thing that does not cross the ‘odor take a look at.’ Simply because it is authorized would not make it protected.”

Samantha Davis, the campaigner and spouse of the Harry Potter star Warwick Davis, whom he referred to as his “soul mate”, has died aged 53.

Davis, who based Little Individuals UK – the dwarfism charity generally known as “a necessary useful resource for little folks and their households” – was described by her husband as “the best love of his life”.

The couple met on the set of Willow, the 1988 fantasy film the place they each starred alongside Val Kilmer, though Davis had truly seen Samantha once they have been on the set of one other fantasy movie, David Bowie’s Labryinth. He had “admired her from afar”, in accordance with his autobiography.

They did get collectively, finally marrying and elevating two youngsters, Harrison and Annabelle.

Talking about his spouse, who died on 24 March, Davis stated: “She was a novel character, at all times seeing the sunny aspect of life. She had a depraved sense of humour and at all times laughed at my unhealthy jokes.

“With out Sammy, there would have been no Tenable quizshow, no Willow sequence. No Fool Overseas sequence 3.”

Warwick stated Samantha was his “most trusted confidante and an ardent supporter of every thing I did in my profession” and that having her by his aspect felt “like having a superpower”.

Harrison and Annabelle added: “Mum is our greatest good friend and we’re honoured to have obtained a love like hers. Her love and happiness carried us by means of our entire lives.”

The couple have been described as being chargeable for altering “the best way folks with dwarfism are represented on display” and likewise labored to lift consciousness of sepsis after Samantha had an in depth brush with dying in 2019 after surgical procedure.

Samantha Davis’s dwarfism was brought on by a situation referred to as achondroplasia, whereas Warwick Davis’s is brought on by spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita.

The Davis household misplaced two infants, Lloyd and George. When requested about their loss by the Guardian in 2015, Samantha stated: “You have got a alternative, don’t you? Let’s use it to make our household stronger, nearer. Life is for residing.”

“Being indignant,” added Warwick Davis, “can be a waste of time. A waste of the life that you just do have. Sure, between the 2 of us, I suppose there are moments the place generally, we simply go, aargh – every thing is that little bit tougher. However I solely get indignant about twice a yr.”

Two years later, throughout an interview with the Guardian, Davis was requested who the best love of his life was. He answered: “My spouse, Sam.”