Patti Smith Reacts To Taylor Swift Name-Dropping Her On 'Tortured Poets Department'

Dylan Thomas was not available for comment.

Taylor Swift’s new record just got a nod from punk’s poet laureate, Patti Smith.

Pop star Swift drops Smith’s name in the album’s title track, “The Tortured Poets Department,” where she sings, “I laughed in your face and said, ‘You’re not Dylan Thomas / I’m not Patti Smith / This ain’t the Chelsea Hotel / We’re modern idiots.’”

In response, the New York counterculture icon posted a black and white Instagram photo of herself smiling behind a copy of Thomas’ “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.”

“This is saying I was moved to be mentioned in the company of the great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas,” she captioned the post. “Thank you, Taylor.”

While Smith and Swift seem worlds apart, the “Horses” artist talked about sympathizing with the “Reputation” singer in a 2019 profile for the New York Times.