The singer’s eleventh studio album includes new collaborations with Post Malone and Florence + the Machine
This Friday (19/4) Taylor Swift released her eleventh studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department”, announced in February this year during the Grammy Awards ceremony, during the acceptance speech for the award for best vocals pop (for “Midnights”). The new release debuted on digital platforms with two versions, one of which features 15 additional tracks (practically an entire extra disc).
He explained the album’s vibe with a text posted on his Instagram, in the best “tortured poet” style.
“An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and feelings of a fleeting and fatalistic moment, sensational and sad at the same time. This period of the author’s life is over, the chapter has been closed and barred. No There’s nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once the wounds are healed,” Taylor wrote upon release.
“And upon further reflection, a good number of them [feridas] Ultimately it was self-inflicted. The writer firmly believes that our tears become sacred in the form of ink on a page. Once our saddest story is told, we can be free from it,” he added, before concluding: “And all that remains is tortured poetry.”
Disc details
The new album mixes elements of pop rock, synthpop and indie, as well as the traditional country feeling present in previous works. The project was released on Apple Music in five playlists that give new meaning to the five stages of love pain created by psychiatrist Kübler-Ross: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.
The solo songs were written and produced by Taylor Swift and two partners, Jack Antonoff (“Reputation”) and Aaron Dessner (“Folklore”). The two versions of the album also include two important collaborations: with Florence + the Machine, for the song “Florida!!!”, and with Post Malone, for the single “Fortnight”, which will receive a music video this Friday (4/ 19) at 9pm.
Since the announcement, the title of the project has attracted the curiosity of “Swifties” who have begun to theorize that the songs refer to the artist’s ex-boyfriend, actor Joe Alwyn, with whom Taylor had a serious relationship for six years. It is worth mentioning that the extinct relationship served as inspiration for previous projects, such as “Folklore” and “Evermore”.
The situation took shape on social media after fans dug up a statement from Alwyn in an interview with Variety’s “Actors on Actors” section in mid-2022. There, he appeared alongside Paul Mescal and revealed that they were part of a group created by Andrew Scott entitled “Tortured Man Club”.
Key tracks from the album
Fortnight (with Post Malone)
The Department of Tortured Poets
My boy only breaks his favorite toys
Down bad
Goodbye, London
But dad, I love him
Fresh from prison
Florida!!!! (with Florence and the car)
Guilty like sin?
Who’s afraid of the old me?
I can fix it (No, really I can)
lol
I can do it with a broken heart
The smallest man who ever lived
Alchemy
Chiara Arco
Additional tracks
The black dog
I’ll take you back
The albatross
Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus
How did it end?
So high school
I hate going here
thanks AIMee
I look in people’s windows
The prophecy
Cassandra
Peter
The Bolter
robin
The manuscript
Source: Terra
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