The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift eagerly awaited eleventh studio album, was released on Friday. The megastar is already enjoying a phenomenal year.
THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT, a new album. Available now,” she said on Instagram, concluding with a heart symbol. She shared the following two hours later: “The Tortured Poets Department is a hidden DOUBLE album, which is a 2am surprise. This is the second episode of TTPD because I wanted to share all the painful poetry I’d produced over the last two years with you. The Collection. fifteen more tracks. Moreover, the narrative is now entirely yours and no longer mine.”
At the Grammy Awards in February, when the 34-year-old millionaire won a record-breaking fourth Album of the Year, Swift had announced the album’s release.
It is possible that the artist may release a fifth album after the release of Tortured Poets on Friday, April 6, at midnight Eastern time, or 0400 GMT.
Her devoted following of Swifties has been contributing fan guesses nonstop since her shocking announcement.
According to the working assumption, Swift’s former, British actor Joe Alwyn, whom she dated from 2016 until their breakup almost a year ago, is the focus of the album.
In 2022, Alwyn from The Favourite and Paul Mescal from Normal People disclosed that they were part of a group chat called “The Tortured Man Club,” which also featured Andrew Scott from Fleabag and Ripley.
The Swifties believe that the album title, “Their Queen,” alludes to that literary circle.
Alwyn wrote many songs for her CDs under the pen name William Bowery prior to their split.
The track list, which Swift has previously disclosed, included songs like “So Long, London,” “I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can), and “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived.”
Post Malone, who Swift revealed on Thursday will appear on her first song Fortnight, is another celebrity who is scheduled to make brief appearances on the album: Florence + The Machine.
“I’ve been such a huge fan of Post because of the writer he is, his musical experimentation and those melodies he creates that just stick in your head forever,” she said in an Instagram post.
Swift announced that the song’s accompanying video would be released late this Friday following the album’s release.
‘Shake up the world’
Swift has demolished her ex-boyfriends in song on several occasions, taking aim at Jake Gyllenhaal and John Mayer in particular with biting lyrics. Super Bowl-winning NFL player Travis Kelce, who is currently dating her, has already given her new work high marks.
Indeed, I have heard a bit of it, and it’s amazing,” he said reporters in February. “I can’t wait for her to shake up the world when it finally drops.”
Swift has already had an incredible year, smashing several chart records, creating Grammy history, and organizing the first billion-dollar tour with her ongoing series of Eras performances.
Topping the charts with Beyonce
Swift, who was born in Pennsylvania on December 13, 1989, started penning songs professionally when she was a teenager and signed as a country singer with Big Machine Records in Nashville. Following a well reported legal battle with executives of Big Machine Records over ownership of her first six albums, she took the shrewd and dangerous choice to rerecord those albums in order to secure her rights. It paid brilliantly, bringing new Swifties into the fold, gratifying die-hard followers, and gaining her fresh respect in the business. She is poised to make waves again with The Tortured Poets Department, but the upcoming awards season will bring fierce competition from the likes of Beyoncé and Billie Eilish.
On March 29, Beyonce released her most recent single, the electrifying, statement-making Cowboy Carter. Whether deliberate or not, that provided a chart buffer that would let her and Swift both get points. Despite their repeated actions over the years to refute the idea, the two current stars are frequently paired up as competitors. They and Eilish, whose third album Hit Me Hard and Soft is scheduled for release on May 17, will most likely be vying for the major Grammy awards of the following year.
However, these opulently affluent, extraordinarily gifted, and captivating performers have all emphasized that ultimately, the music is what matters. At a recent event, Swift informed her audience that creating the album she was about to release “kind of reminded me of why songwriting is something that actually gets me through my life.
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