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The Tortured Poets Department

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The Tortured Poets Department
Black-and-white image of Swift lying on a bed. The album title is displayed on the image. The image is surrounded by a thick white border.
Standard cover
Studio album by
Taylor Swift
ReleasedApril 19, 2024 (2024-04-19)
Recorded2022–2023
Length65:08
LabelRepublic
Taylor Swift chronology
1989 (Taylor's Version)
(2023) 		The Tortured Poets Department
(2024)

The Tortured Poets Department (colloquially shortened to Tortured Poets) is the upcoming eleventh studio album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It is set for release on April 19, 2024, via Republic Records. Swift wrote the album with producers Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner.

Swift announced the album at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards on February 4, 2024, after winning Best Pop Vocal Album for her tenth studio album, Midnights (2022). She conceived The Tortured Poets Department shortly after finishing work on Midnights and continued developing the former during the Eras Tour (2023–2024), her ongoing sixth concert tour.

With a concept fashioned after the five stages of grief, The Tortured Poets Department is Swift's self-proclaimed "lifeline" album—a product of imperative songwriting. It consists of sixteen songs, featuring collaborations with the American rapper Post Malone and the English indie rock band Florence and the Machine. The physical editions of the album include bonus tracks.

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Background

Swift released her tenth studio album, Midnights, on October 21, 2022, to widespread commercial and critical success.[1] In 2023, she released two re-recorded albums, Speak Now (Taylor's Version) and 1989 (Taylor's Version), as part of her re-recording project.[2] On February 4, 2024, the day of the 66th Annual Grammy Awards where Midnights had been nominated, Swift teased the release of a new album by changing the profile pictures across her social media accounts to black-and-white. Fans speculated online that she was preparing to release Reputation (Taylor's Version), a forthcoming re-recording of her sixth studio album, Reputation (2017).[3] Swift's website also appeared as if it had malfunctioned, reporting an unusual non-standard HTTP status code 321, as well as error code "hneriergrd", which fans deciphered to be an anagram spelling "red herring."[4] The source code of the website contained non-English words.[5]

On February 4, 2024, Swift won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album and Album of the Year for Midnights; in her acceptance speech for the former, she announced a new studio album that she had worked on since 2022,[6] titled The Tortured Poets Department, set for release on April 19, 2024.[7][8] The album cover artwork was posted to her social media accounts, along with a photograph of a handwritten note, which incorporated English translations of the words from the source code:[5][9]

And so I enter into evidence / My tarnished coat of arms / My muses, acquired like bruises / My talismans and charms / The tick, tick, tick of love bombs / My veins of pitch black ink / All's fair in love and poetry...

Sincerely, The Chairman of the Tortured Poets Department.[10]

Conception

Swift characterized The Tortured Poets Department as a "lifeline" album—one that she "really needed" to make.[11] She began conceiving the album immediately after submitting Midnights to her record label, Republic Records, and continued working on it in secret throughout the U.S. leg of the Eras Tour in 2023.[12] According to Swift, creating the album proved to her the integral role of songwriting in her life. She stated, "I have never had an album where I needed songwriting more than I needed it on Tortured Poets."[13]

Music and lyrics

The Tortured Poets Department consists of sixteen standard songs and features two guest acts—the American rapper Post Malone on the opening track "Fortnight" and the English indie rock band Florence and the Machine, led by singer-songwriter Florence Welch, on the song "Florida!!!".[14] The album was primarily written by Swift with longtime collaborators Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner; Welch and Malone also co-wrote their respective collaborations with Swift.[15] Billboard opined that The Tortured Poets Department is modeled after the five stages of grief, a psychological theory proposed by Swiss-American psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in 1969, as speculated by a number of fans.[16]

Title and artwork

The album's official logo features its abbreviated title.

The album is also referred to as Tortured Poets[13] or abbreviated to TTPD as depicted in the official logo.[11][17] The lack of an apostrophe in the official title, as in The Tortured Poets' Department, was the subject of a debate over grammatical correctness. Scholars stated that Swift employed Tortured Poets as an attributive noun, as in the case with the 1989 drama film Dead Poets Society, and not as a possessive noun that warrants an apostrophe.[18]

The cover artwork, photographed by American photographer Beth Garrabrant, is a black-and-white glamour photo shot of Swift lying on a bed wearing black lingerie: a see-through top and high waist shorts,[19][20][21] from the fashion labels The Row and Yves Saint Laurent.[20][22] Both the artwork and title were parodied by numerous brands, organizations, sports teams, and franchises, and inspired numerous memes.[23][24][25]

Promotion and release

The Tortured Poets Department is set for release on April 19, 2024.[8] Swift revealed the track list and guest features on her social media on February 6, 2024.[14] Four physical editions of the album, each titled after and containing a bonus track, namely "The Manuscript", "The Bolter", "The Albatross", and "The Black Dog", will also be made available for purchase; Swift announced the latter three editions during the Asia-Pacific leg of the Eras Tour, her sixth headlining concert tour.[26] One of the collector's edition deluxe CDs of the album sold out on her website in its first two hours of availability.[27][28]

The album was promoted by digital applications such as Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, Instagram, and Threads. It included five Swift-curated Apple Music playlists inspired by the stages of grief and an Easter egg hunt for new lyrics within the playlists' songs;[29][30][31] a pop-up library of curated articles at The Grove, Los Angeles, hosted by Spotify;[32] QR code murals in various cities worldwide that lead to unlisted YouTube shorts on Swift's channel;[33][34] a countdown to the album's release revealed upon refreshing Swift's Instagram profile; and special shimmer effects on Threads posts tagged with hashtags related to Swift and the album.[35] Radio platforms iHeartRadio and Sirius XM also announced special programs in tribute of the album, featuring exclusive content from Swift.[36][37]

Track listing

The Tortured Poets Department track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Fortnight" (featuring Post Malone)
3:48
2."The Tortured Poets Department"
  • Swift
  • Antonoff
4:53
3."My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys"Swift3:23
4."Down Bad"
  • Swift
  • Antonoff
4:21
5."So Long, London"
4:22
6."But Daddy I Love Him"
  • Swift
  • Dessner
5:40
7."Fresh Out the Slammer"
  • Swift
  • Antonoff
3:30
8."Florida!!!" (featuring Florence and the Machine)
3:35
9."Guilty as Sin?"
  • Swift
  • Antonoff
4:14
10."Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?"Swift5:34
11."I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)"
  • Swift
  • Antonoff
2:36
12."Loml"
  • Swift
  • Dessner
4:37
13."I Can Do It With a Broken Heart"
  • Swift
  • Antonoff
3:38
14."The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived"
  • Swift
  • Dessner
4:05
15."The Alchemy"
  • Swift
  • Antonoff
3:16
16."Clara Bow"
  • Swift
  • Dessner
3:36
Total length:65:08
The Manuscript Edition
No.TitleLength
17."The Manuscript" 
The Bolter Edition
No.TitleLength
17."The Bolter" 
The Albatross Edition
No.TitleLength
17."The Albatross" 
The Black Dog Edition
No.TitleLength
17."The Black Dog" 

Release history

The Tortured Poets Department release history
Region Date Format(s) Edition(s) Label Ref.
Various April 19, 2024
  • Standard
 Republic [38]
CD
  • Collector's deluxe
United States
  • CD
  • vinyl LP
[39][40]
Japan April 20, 2024 CD
  • Standard
  • Japan deluxe
 Universal Japan [41]

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  38. ^ The Tortured Poets Department release formats:
  39. ^ Tingley, Anna (March 12, 2024). "Taylor Swift's 'Tortured Poets Department' Gets Target-Exclusive Phantom Clear Vinyl, Including 24-Page Jacket and Rare Photos". Variety. Archived from the original on March 16, 2024. Retrieved March 16, 2024.
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