The Tortured Poets Department: What You Need To Know about Taylor Swift’s New Album
Spotify released the time stamps of the songs from Taylor Swift’s upcoming album, The Tortured Poets Department, causing excitement among fans.
Swifties are just around the corner from receiving new music from Taylor Swift. On April 19, Swift will release her highly anticipated eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Department. The 14-time Grammy winner announced the album to fans during her acceptance speech for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 66 Grammy Awards on February 4.
While accepting the award for her album Midnights, Swift thanked the Academy and her fans for supporting her music. “I want to say thank you to the fans by telling you a secret that I’ve been keeping from you for the last two years, which is that my brand new album comes out April 19. It’s called ‘The Tortured Poets Department.'” Once backstage, Swift shared the album’s black-and-white cover art on her socials, sending fans into a frenzy.
The post also shared a handwritten note, teasing lyrics from the album: “And so I enter into evidence / My tarnished coat of arms / My muses, acquired like bruises / My talismans and charms / The tick, tick, tick of love bombs / My veins of pitch black ink / All’s fair in love and poetry… Sincerely, The Chairman of the Tortured Poets Department.” On February 6, the “Karma” singer revealed the tracklist for the album. The standard edition of The Tortured Poet’s Department features 16 songs, and the four special, physical editions of the album, “The Manuscript,'” “The Bolter,” “The Albatross,” and “The Black Dog” each come with a unique bonus track of the same name.
Swift described The Tortured Poets Department as a “lifeline” album, as reported in Cosmopolitan. According to Rolling Stone, the “Anti-Hero” singer began conceptualizing the album shortly after submitting Midnights to her record label Republic Records and secretly completed it during the U.S. leg of The Eras Tour. During the surprise section of her Melbourne, Australia live performance, she revealed that crafting The Turtored Poets Department reminded her of “why songwriting is something that actually gets her through life.” “I’ve never had an album where I needed songwriting more than I needed it on Tortured Poets,” she added.
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On April 11, Spotify released the time stamps for all tracks on the album. The longest song is “But Daddy I Love Him” at almost six minutes, and the shortest is “I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)” at just under three minutes. The standard version of the album is 65 minutes. View the entire tracklist below and visit Swift’s website to pre-save and pre-order The Tortured Poets Department.
- “Fortnight” (featuring Post Malone) 3:48
- “The Tortured Poets Department” 4:53
- “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys” 3:23
- “Down Bad” 4:21
- “So Long, London” 4:22
- “But Daddy I Love Him” 5:40
- “Fresh Out the Slammer” 3:30
- “Florida!!!” (featuring Florence and the Machine) 3:35
- “Guilty as Sin?” 4:14
- “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” 5:34
- “I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)” 2:36
- “Loml” 4:37
- “I Can Do It with a Broken Heart” 3:38
- “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” 4:05
- “The Alchemy” 3:16
- “Clara Bow” 3:36
- “The Manuscript” / “The Bolter” / “The Albatross” / “The Black Dog”
Isaiah is an entertainment writer for Glitter Magazine with a focus on music and film stories. He enjoys the aforementioned topics as well as performing, yoga, and fashion.
