Taylor Swift's 'The Tortured Poets Department' is here!
Taylor Swift released her highly anticipated record, 'The Tortured Poets Department', on Friday, 19 April.
Swifties assemble! The superstar's 11th studio album is here.
'The Tortured Poets Department' was released on Friday, 19 April, following an already blockbuster year for the megastar.
Swift announced 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.
And with the 'Tortured Poets' drop in the United States at midnight Eastern time (5am CAT Friday), the artist could be on track for a fifth.
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Since her bombshell announcement, her loyal legion of Swifties have 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, and an early promo of the record indeed implied she's got tea to spill.
"All's fair in love and poetry..." she wrote on Instagram. "New album THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT."
Before their break-up, Alwyn had multiple songwriting credits on her albums under a pen name, William Bowery.
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Swift already revealed the 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 are 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 been such a huge fan of Post because of the writer he is, his musical experimentation and those melodies he creates 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.
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