![]() ![]() The hypothetical speaker is usually, by convention, called "Tom" (or "he" or "she"). The standard syntax is for the quoted sentence to be first, followed by the description of the act of speaking. Tom Swifties may be considered a type of wellerism. JSTOR ( February 2011) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ī Tom Swifty (or Tom Swiftie) is a phrase in which a quoted sentence is linked by a pun to the manner in which it is attributed.Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. And when I heard the song came out, I just thought to myself, Wow, that is the most incredible sort of thank-you and nod that anyone could ever get.This article needs additional citations for verification. “I put my heart and soul into building, designing, and decorating this house, and for somebody like Taylor to come along and see what I saw and love what I loved, love what I created, it was a total compliment and I will always be grateful to her for that. “In the end, I think her brother had been there and just didn’t close the door properly or something like that,” Aldea says.Įven after Swift moved out of the townhouse in 2017, Aldea says fans left bouquets of flowers and invitations on the doorstep for months.Īnd since Swift released Lover, Aldea says friends have been texting and calling him about “Cornelia Street.” He takes the song as a compliment. He didn’t, so he left the premises, turned off the alarm, and then security did a sweep of the house. ![]() Aldea called Swift’s security team, and they told him to stick his head in the door to see if he could hear anything. His mailman told him the home’s alarms were going off and the door was wide open. There was even a security scare once, Aldea says. “It was a zoo on the street for probably the first two months,” he says. All the windows are facing up or facing behind.”Įven with its security, Aldea says it took only about four days for TMZ and the paparazzi to figure out Swift lived there. “You never really see anything from the street. “It was ideal from a security perspective for her because her SUV could pull into the garage, the garage doors would be closed, and from the outside, it kind of looks like a fortress,” Aldea says. What started out as a two-story house was transformed into a four-story home with four bedrooms, five and a half bathrooms, a swimming pool in the living room, and a white marble staircase. He left the 5,500-square-foot townhouse about two weeks later and moved down the street into another penthouse.Īldea, who works as a consultant to start-up companies, is the visionary behind 23 Cornelia Street. She was an absolute delight to deal with.” So towels and dishes and glassware and furniture and just kind of ‘Take your clothes and go.’ So I did. “And in Taylor-speak, that means ‘I like everything.’ She asked if she could rent not just the house but my style as well. “She walked in, and I’ll never forget this - she said, ‘Oooh, it’s so crafty,’” Aldea recalls. Once Swift saw the place in person, Aldea says, she instantly fell in love with it. (“As I understand, she was undergoing some renovations ,” Aldea says.) But it wasn’t - and Swift’s management team told him she needed the place right away. I know, it’s silly.”Īfter he realized who the pop star was, he figured it was some kind of joke. I just didn’t match the name to the song. ![]() “I’m just not a pop-culture guy, and I even said to someone, ‘I’m meeting a person named Taylor Swift who wants to rent my home.’ Now, mind you, I knew her songs because I had them on my running playlist. “I’m afraid to tell you this, but I will tell you this: I really didn’t know her,” he says. In the first verse of “Cornelia Street,” a song from her new album, Lover, Taylor Swift sings, “‘I rent a place on Cornelia Street,’ I say casually in the car.” They’re quite literal lyrics, inspired by the Greenwich Village apartment she briefly rented a few years ago, and Swift continues to sing about how hard it would be to walk down that street again if her lover ever left her after all the memories they shared there.įormer Soho House executive David Aldea owned the home that serves as the muse for the song for 15 years and rented the townhouse to Swift in 2016.Īldea admits he wasn’t even sure who she was at first. Taylor Swift writing “King of My Heart” in her Cornelia Street rental.
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