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ARTICLE VIEW:
What we know about ‘The Tortured Poets Department,’ according to
Taylor Swift
By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN
Updated:
9:00 AM EDT, Thu April 18, 2024
Source: CNN
Taylor Swift, the “Chairman of the ,” will soon call into session a
meeting where she’ll release her latest album.
For the most part, Swift has kept a lot of details about the album
close to the chest, but as cryptic as she’s been while rolling out
her 11th studio album, there are still some things we can glean about
“The Tortured Poets Department” from Swift herself.
Let’s start with what we know for sure: “The Tortured Poets
Department” will be out on Friday at midnight Eastern, or on Thursday
at 9 p.m. if you’re on the West Coast, and the first – the song for
which is still a mystery – will be released Friday at 8 p.m. EDT
after the album is released.
The songs
The album includes 16 tracks and one bonus track titled “The
Manuscript,” and features collaborations with Post Malone on a track
titled “Fortnight” and with Florence + The Machine on a track
titled “Florida!!!”
Three vinyl variants will also be available for purchase, each
featuring a different bonus track: “The Bolter,” “The
Albatross,” “The Black Dog.”
The timetable
When Swift first the album in February while accepting a Grammy award
for best pop vocal album for 2022’s “Midnights,” she revealed
that she’s been keeping this album a “secret” for the last two
years.
A few days later during an “Eras Tour” concert in Tokyo, Swift told
her audience that she began working on “Tortured Poets” immediately
after she finished “Midnights.”
“I kept working on it throughout the US tour and when it was perfect,
in my opinion, when it was good enough for you, I finished it,” she
said at the time, according to from the show posted to social media.
The theme
Swift also spoke about how much this album means to her during an
“Eras Tour” concert in Melbourne in February, saying “Tortured
Poets” is an album that “more than any of my albums that I ever
made, I needed to make it.”
“It was really a lifeline for me. Just the things I was going
through, the things I was writing about it was like, it kind of
reminded me why songwriting is something that actually gets me through
my life,” video posted to social media from the concert showed.
“I’ve never had an album where I needed songwriting more than I
needed it on ‘Tortured Poets.’”
She stopped short of revealing anything about what the music will
actually sound like, but all signs point to the album being about
heartbreak, which can take on many forms.
The mood
To connect the dots: Earlier this month, Swift a series of playlists
for Apple Music about the five stages of heartbreak. Each playlist
includes songs from her catalog of music that fit each stage: denial,
anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.
The titles of each playlist are lyrics that Swift had previously teased
in various Instagram posts.
With the exception of 2020’s “Folklore,” Swift’s albums are
typically autobiographical in nature and her romantic relationships
tend to be a recurring topic.
Swift does not appear to be experiencing any heartbreak in her current
with three-time Super Bowl champ Travis Kelce. Before Kelce, Swift was
dating actor Joe Alwyn and in April 2023, CNN that their six-year
relationship had ended.
Knowing what Swift had shared about when she actually wrote this album,
we can all take from that what we will.
With that said, the feeling of heartbreak isn’t only limited to
romance. It could really mean anything, so we’ll just leave a blank
space for that.
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