' THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT ' : TAYLOR SWIFT

 

LOS ANGELES : Taylor drops heartbreak album. Swift released her highly anticipated record '' The Tortured Poets Department.'

Taylor Swift released her highly anticipated record The Tortured Poets Department on Friday - the 11th studio album from the megastar who is already having a blockbuster year.

'' New album THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT. Out now,'' she wrote on her Instagram account, ending the announcement with a heart emoji.

Two hours later she posted, '' It's a 2 am surprise : The Tortured Poets Department is a secret Double album.

'' I'd witten so much tortured poetry in the past 2 years and wanted to share it all with you, so here's the second installment of ITPD : The Anthology, 15 extra songs. And now the story isn't mine anymore .......... it's all yours.

Swift had revealed the album's release at the Grammys in February, a night that saw the 34-year-old billionaire win a record-breaking fourth Album of the Year prize.

With the drop of Tortured Poets in the United States at midnight Eastern time, the artist could be on track for a fifth. Since her bombshell announcement, her loyal legion of Swifties has been working around the clock shelling out fan predictions.

The working theory is that the album centers on her ex, British actor Joe Alwyn, who Swift dated starting in 2016 until they broke up about a year ago.

Alwyn [ The Favourite ] and fellow actor Paul Mescal [ Normal People ] revealed in 2022 that they had a group chat entitled The Tortured Man Club, which also included Andrew Scott [ Fleabag, Ripley ] .

The Swifties think their queen's album title is a likely reference to that text circle. Before their breakup, Alwyn had multiple songwriting credits on her albums under a pen name, William Bowery.

Swift has also revealed that tracklist, with titles including So Long, London, I can Fix Him. [ No Really I Can] and The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived.

Florence + The Machine is among those set to make cameos on the album, as is Post Malone, who Swift said Thursday will feature on her first single Fortnight.

'' I've seen such a huge fan of Post because of the writer he is, hus musical experimentation and those melodies he created that just stick in your head forever,'' she wrote on Instagram.

Swift said a video companion for the track will come out late Friday after the album drops. [AFP]