London pub ‘desperately checking CCTV’ for clue after Taylor Swift album shout out

Taylor Swift shouts out London pub in new song The Black Dog (Picture: Javier Vicencio/ Eyepix Group)

The humble London pub mentioned in Taylor Swift’s devastating new album is frantically searching for clues in it’s CCTV as she savages her exes.

Fans have been gobsmacked by the Fortnight singer’s slew of diss tracks, touching on her relationships with Joe Alwyn, Matty Healy and even Kim Kardashian.

Her new 31-song album The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology has been a vault filled with hints and hidden messages about her love life.

One song in particular documents how Taylor spiralled when she saw an ex head to The Black Dog pub and watched through her phone as she imagined him moving on.

Taylor, 34, sings: ‘And your location, you forgot to turn it off/ And so I watch as you walk/ Into some bar called The Black Dog/ And pierce new holes in my heart.’

Vauxhall’s The Black Dog is a real pub and told Metro.co.uk how they have been desperately attempting to work out which ex the song is about.

The Black Dog has been frantically checking their CCTV (Picture: The Black Dog)

She sings about her ex who visits the pub after their split (Picture: Republic Records via AP)

‘We’re trying! We’re trying to check but we do not know the answer,’ the pub’s spokesperson Amy confirmed with a laugh.

She added: ‘And you know, we couldn’t possibly speculate.’

They had shared a video on social media stating they were trying to figure out if it was ‘Joe or Matty’ by going back over CCTV.

However, with no clear idea of when this could have been there truly is no way of knowing without going through over a year of footage.

More baffling to the pub was the faint possibility Taylor herself had once been in, possibly with that ex assuming it was their local when she lived in London.

They said they’ve already had a slew of Swifties in (Picture: Google maps)

The Black Dog invited Taylor to visit when she’s in London (Picture: Google maps)

‘We don’t know,’ added Amy. ‘We’re trying desperately to look back and see but again I guess it adds to the mystery doesn’t it? Which is the way she likes to keep [things with] her fans.’

Since TTPD dropped on Friday morning, the pub has been inundated with Swifties hoping to feel more connected to the Loml singer.

She continued: ‘It’s created a really fantastic buzz in the pub. We’ve had a lot of Swifties in already and everybody’s just up for fun. It’s been great.

‘We really have seen people coming in wanting to see where she’s singing about, and we’ve had people buying our pint glasses and souvenirs. We can absolutely feel the uptick.’

The Black Dog is even running a Taylor themed promotion where the first 100 people through the door to quote her lyrics each day get a ‘Swift’ half pint of their Black Dog Lager.

Taylor did not give them a heads up about the possibility of a shout out, but the team luckily has some keen-eared Swifties who realised the potential the second TTPD was released.

For anyone who, like Taylor, has spotted their ex on a possible date and needs some comfort, Amy says to just come down to The Black Dog.

In the lyrics, the Clara Bow singer is rather scathing as she sings: ‘I hope it’s s***ty in The Black Dog.’

However, the pub itself has felt nothing but love and is ‘really happy’ to be part of the legacy of Taylor’s music.

On a personal note to the music icon, they added: ‘We’re really excited to be a part of it and we would just say, next time [Taylor’s] in town, come on down. We’d love to see you.’

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