April 19, 2024: Taylor Swift delighted her fans by unveiling her latest cut, “The Tortured Poets Department,” which she announced on her social media at midnight EDT. But the pop superstar didnt stop there, she popped a huge surprise: It’s actually a double album.
Sharing her excitement she wrote on X The Tortured Poets Department. An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time – one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure. This period of the author’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up. There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed. And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted. This writer is of the firm belief that our tears become holy in the form of ink on a page. Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it.
And then all that’s left behind is the tortured poetry. Here is the link to Taylor Swift story –
Earlier at 2 am she wrote on X – It’s a 2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album. ✌️ I’d written so much tortured poetry in the past 2 years and wanted to share it all with you, so here’s the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology. 15 extra songs. And now the story isn’t mine anymore… it’s all yours
Taylor Swift unveils secret double album – The Tortured Poets Department
When Part One dropped, Swift wrote on Instagram, “All’s fair in love and poetry… New album THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT. Out now 🤍” It has 17 tracks.
Then came the shocker, revealed in an Instagram post saying, “It’s a 2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album. ✌️ I’d written so much tortured poetry in the past 2 years and wanted to share it all with you, so here’s the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology. 15 extra songs. And now the story isn’t mine anymore… it’s all yours. 🤍.”
Hours ahead of the record’s release, Swift said on social media that its first single was “Fortnight,” featuring Post Malone, and its music video was released.
Swift praised the Grammy-nominated artist’s musical experimentation and melodies “that just stick in your head forever.”
“I got to witness that magic come to life firsthand when we worked together on Fortnight,” Swift said in a post on X.