Taylor Swift released “The Tortured Poets Department” this Friday, her eleventh studio album with which she promises to shake the pop universe again.
«Everything is fair in love and poetry… New album THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT. Now available », Swift noted on her Instagram account.
The release was announced in February, during the Grammy ceremony in which Swift won the Album of the Year award for the fourth time.
And with this new album, the 34-year-old singer who began her career in country, is betting on winning a fifth award for record of the year.
Since he revealed that the album would be released on April 19, his legion of fans have been working tirelessly trying to guess the content of the songs, the guest artists and other clues.
On Instagram, Swift describes it as “an anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and feelings of a fleeting and fatalistic moment, sensational and painful in equal parts” of a closed and closed chapter of her life.
«Once we have told our saddest story, we can free ourselves from it. And then the only thing left is tortured poetry,” he says.
Fans had linked the title of the album (in Spanish “Department of Tortured Poets”) with her ex, the British actor Joe Alwyn, with whom she was from 2016 until last year.
Alwyn (“The Favorite”) and his colleague Paul Mescal (“Normal People”) revealed in 2022 that they had a group chat titled “The Tortured Man Club,” in which actor Andrew Scott also participated. (“Fleabag, Ripley”).
Among the song titles – which have already been revealed – are Down Bad, “So Long, London”, “I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)” and “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived.” »
Post Malone and Florence + The Machine are already confirmed among the participations.
Lyrics about your exes Swift has already used the winning formula of writing songs inspired by her ex-boyfriends, including John Mayer and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Her current partner, American football player Travis Kelce, has praised the new album.
“I’ve heard part of it, yes, and it’s incredible,” Kelce told reporters in February. “I can’t wait for it to finally come out,” she added.
And it’s not like Swift hasn’t shaken up the pop industry already in the last year.
According to various estimates, his world tour “The Eras Tour” is on track to become the highest-grossing concert series in music history, with revenues of more than $1 billion.
And by winning the Grammy for the fourth time, she established herself as the artist with the most awards for record of the year, surpassing Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder and Paul Simon.
With an estimated net worth of $1.1 billion, Swift also became the first artist – male or female – to break the ten-figure threshold solely based on income from her music.
