The wait is lastly over — The Tortured Poets Division has formally opened its doorways.
Taylor Swift launched her eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Division, on Friday, April 19. Swift reveals off her lyrical prowess on the 16-track album, which options songs impressed by her love life and embrace collaborations with Put up Malone, Florence and the Machine’s Florence Welch and extra.
“The Tortured Poets Division. An anthology of recent works that mirror occasions, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic second in time — one which was each sensational and sorrowful in equal measure,” Swift wrote by way of Instagram after the album dropped. “This era of the creator’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up. There may be nothing to avenge, no scores to settle, as soon as wounds have healed.”
She continued, “And upon additional reflection, a great variety of them turned out to be self-inflicted. This author is of the agency perception that our tears change into holy within the type of ink on a web page. As soon as we have now spoken our saddest story, we will be freed from it. After which all that’s left behind is the tortured poetry. THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT IS OUT NOW.”
Following TTPD’s launch, Swift, 34, is about to launch the music video for her and Malone’s collab “Fortnight,” which she beforehand revealed is the album’s first single on Thursday, April 18.
Taylor Swift shocked Swifties when she introduced her eleventh studio album in the course of the 2024 Grammys. Whereas accepting the award for Greatest Pop Vocal Album, Swift celebrated her thirteenth profession win by confirming that her new album is coming prior to followers might need thought. “[The way I can celebrate] is by telling you a secret […]
“I’ve been such an enormous fan of Put up due to the author he’s, his musical experimentation and people melodies he creates that simply stick in your head eternally. I acquired to witness that magic come to life firsthand once we labored collectively on Fortnight,” she captioned a pic of the 2 of them by way of Instagram, revealing the video drops at 8 p.m. ET on Friday.
Swift kicked off her newest musical period earlier this 12 months by asserting TTPD on the 2024 Grammys. “[The way I can celebrate] is by telling you a secret that I’ve been holding from you for the previous two years, which is that my model new album comes out April nineteenth,” she introduced whereas accepting the award for Greatest Pop Vocal Album for Midnights in February.
In true Swift trend, she continued to construct hype for TTPD by asserting a number of bonus variations of the album that includes unique singles and dropping dozens of Easter eggs for Swifties.
“I wanted to make it. It was actually a lifeline for me,” Swift stated of writing the album throughout a February Eras Tour live performance in Melbourne, Australia. “It form of jogged my memory of why songwriting is one thing that truly will get me by life and I’ve by no means had an album the place I’ve wanted songwriting greater than it wanted it on Tortured Poets.”
Dia Dipasupil/Getty Pictures Earlier than The Tortured Poets Division was ever a glimmer in Taylor Swift’s eye, the singer peppered her music with references to basic literature. As early as 2006, Swift included a nod to Robert Frost’s poem “The Highway Not Taken” within the tune “The Exterior” from her self-titled debut album. “I attempted to […]
Along with sharing a handful of TTPD lyrics forward of its launch, Swift additionally debuted 5 curated playlists on Apple Music based mostly on the 5 levels of heartbreak: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Despair and Acceptance.
Giving perception into the themes of TTPD, every playlist was named after a monitor on the album: “I Love You, It’s Ruining My Life Songs,” “You Don’t Get to Inform Me About Unhappy Songs,” “Am I Allowed to Cry? Songs,” “Outdated Habits Die Screaming Songs” and “I Can Do It With a Damaged Coronary heart Songs.”
Two days earlier than TTPD got here out, X banned sure search phrases on its platform amid reviews a Google Drive file containing a leak of the album was floating across the web. Swifties rapidly confirmed their assist for Swift, who didn’t publicly deal with the alleged leak on the time.
“Cease f—king saying something about TTPD, idc if you happen to aren’t posting the tune if you happen to heard a leak or a ‘leak,’ don’t say something on the TL, acquired it? It’s that simple,” one fan wrote by way of social media, whereas one other commented, “Fast, everybody begin making pretend ai tracks for TTPD so we don’t know if the leaks are actual or not.”
