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It appears to be like like Taylor Swift’s penchant for phrases is in her blood.
Family tree firm Ancestry has discovered that the “Merciless Summer time” singer, whose upcoming album is titled “The Tortured Poets Department,” is expounded to legendary American poet Emily Dickinson, TODAY completely revealed March 4. They’re sixth cousins, thrice eliminated.
“Swift and Dickinson each descend from a seventeenth century English immigrant (Swift’s ninth great-grandfather and Dickinson’s sixth great-grandfather who was an early settler of Windsor, Connecticut),” Ancestry shared with TODAY.
“Taylor Swift’s ancestors remained in Connecticut for six generations till her a part of the household finally settled in northwestern Pennsylvania, the place they married into the Swift household line.”
Apparently, Swift herself has publicly referenced the nineteenth century poet whereas speaking concerning the several types of lyrics she writes for her songs.
“If my lyrics sound like a letter written by Emily Dickinson’s great-grandmother whereas stitching a lace curtain, that’s me writing within the Quill style,” she mentioned in 2022 while receiving the Songwriter-Artist of the Decade Award from the Nashville Songwriters Affiliation Worldwide.
Followers have additionally speculated that Swift’s ninth studio album, “Evermore,” was inspired by the 19th century poet.
Swift announced the album’s release on Dec. 10, 2020, which is Dickinson’s birthday. Dickinson additionally wrote a poem known as “One Sister Have I in Our Home,” which options the phrase “forevermore,” just like the title of Swift’s album.
A couple of days earlier than she introduced the discharge of “Evermore,” Swift additionally mentioned the quilt of her album “Folklore,” telling Entertainment Weekly she had an thought for “this lady sleepwalking by the forest in a nightgown in 1830,” which occurs to be the 12 months Dickinson was born.
This isn’t the primary time Ancestry has realized two American icons are associated. In 2019, it discovered Tom Hanks, who performed Mister Rogers in “A Stunning Day within the Neighborhood,” was related to the late youngsters’s TV host.
