There’s no golden ticket quite like the golden ticket of finding your name in the lyrics of a Taylor Swift song. It’s one thing if you’re Charlie Puth, and already on a list of Spotify’s 150 top monthly artists. But for another musical artist name-checked in Swift’s album “The Tortured Poets Department,” the impact stands to be much more impactful. The pop-punk band the Starting Line gets mentioned twice in the song “The Black Dog,” and suddenly nostalgia for (or newfound curiosity about) the Philadelphia-based group is skyrocketing.
The group exploded into the emo scene in 2002 with a song called “The Best of Me,” which presumably is the unnamed Starting Line song Swift keeps referring to in the lyrics. How is the band — which has been active only sporadically in recent years — reacting to getting an unexpected endorsement from the biggest pop star…
