Taylor Swift is taking followers on a journey of the levels of grief and heartbreak in her new album The Tortured Poets Division, launched on Friday.
The singer-songwriter unveiled the album which featured 16 songs. Two tracks are collaborations with Submit Malone and Florence + The Machine. There are additionally 4 bonus tracks, “The Manuscript,” “The Bolter,” “The Albatross” and “The Black Canine” which are featured on completely different vinyl variations of the album.
On Instagram, Swift referred to as the album “an anthology of recent works that replicate occasions, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic second in time – one which was each sensational and sorrowful in equal measure.”
“This era of the creator’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up,” she continued. “There’s nothing to avenge, no scores to settle as soon as wounds have healed. And upon additional reflection, a very good variety of them turned out to be self-inflicted. This author is of the agency perception that our tears grow to be holy within the type of ink on a web page. As soon as we’ve got spoken our saddest story, we will be freed from it. After which all that’s left behind is the tortured poetry.”
Forward of the album’s launch, Swift revealed that the album’s first single can be “Fortnight” that includes Submit Malone. “I’ve been such an enormous fan of Submit due to the author he’s, his musical experimentation and people melodies he creates that simply stick in your head without end. I received to witness that magic come to life firsthand after we labored collectively on ‘Fortnight,’” Swift wrote on Instagram alongside a photograph with Submit Malone.
Spotify additionally revealed on Thursday that the album turned the most pre-saved album Countdown Web page within the historical past of the audio streamer.
In April, Swift had stunned followers by asserting the upcoming album whereas accepting the Grammy for greatest pop vocal album.
“That is my thirteenth Grammy,” Swift mentioned when accepting the award. “I wish to say thanks to the members of the Recording Academy for voting this fashion, however I do know that the way in which that the Recording Academy voted is a direct reflection of the eagerness of the followers. So I wish to say ‘thanks’ to the followers by telling you a secret that I’ve been preserving from you for the final two years — which is that my model new album comes out April 19.”
After making the announcement, Swift additional teased the upcoming album on social media by sharing the album cowl which confirmed her laying in mattress in a black-and-white picture. She additionally teased, “And so I enter into proof / My tarnished coat of arms / My muses, acquired like bruises / My talismans and charms / The tick, tick, tick of affection bombs / My veins of pitch black ink / All’s honest in love and poetry.”
Within the weeks forward of the album’s launch, the singer supplied additional perception into the album, which followers have speculated can be about her breakup with ex-boyfriend actor Joe Alwyn. Followers have additionally pointed how related the album’s title is with the “Tortured Man Membership” WhatsApp group chat that Alwyn mentioned he’s a part of with Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal. Tracks on the album additionally appear to trace at a breakup and the British actor with titles together with “So Lengthy, London” and “I Can Do It With a Damaged Coronary heart.”
Swift confirmed that heartbreak can be a significant theme of the album as she launched 5 unique playlists with Apple Music that discover the 5 levels of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, melancholy and acceptance.
Swift additionally teased the primary lyric from the album forward of the entire photo voltaic eclipse on April 8, when she posted video of a typewriter typing, “Crowd goes wild at her fingertips/Half moonshine, Full eclipse.”
Forward of the album launch, Swift‘s music returned to TikTok, months after being pulled as a part of the continuing dispute between the social video platform and Common Music Group, which distributes Swift’s music.
The album follows Swift’s beforehand launched Midnights album in October 2022, which gained the Grammy for greatest pop vocal album and album of the 12 months.