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Taylor Swift will launch her much-anticipated eleventh album The Tortured Poets Division very quickly! Whereas she’s largely saved mum on the brand new document, she has dropped just a few teasers to offer followers some glimpses into her work. Whereas followers are desirous to dive into the brand new document, there are many particulars to dive into forward of time.

Taylor had introduced the brand new album on the 2024 Grammy Awards, the place she additionally gained Album of the Yr. She introduced the album after her first win of the night time although. “So, I need to say thanks to the followers by telling you a secret that I’ve been holding from you for the final two years,” Taylor mentioned whereas accepting her award for Finest Pop Vocal Album. She added, “It’s known as The Tortured Poets Division. I’m going to go and submit the quilt proper now backstage. Thanks, I really like you!” 

Eagle-eyed followers, in fact, at the moment are attempting to choose aside the that means behind the upcoming album. The truth is, some have even recommended that Taylor’s ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn might have impressed the title. 

Taylor Swift’s Album Teaser & Music Video Announcement

Days earlier than the document is meant to drop, Taylor posted “The TTPD Timetable” on her social media. It’s a brief animated video that’s from the point-of-view of somebody leaving a lounge-looking space with a guitar, Taylor’s information, and a few crumpled up papers, to go to a corridor and enter a door that claims “The Tortured Poets Division.” Within the room, there are some desks with typewriters on them. The digicam then pans to a corkboard with a calendar on it that claims, “The Tortured Poets Division Launch Day.” It additionally publicizes {that a} new music video can be launched at 8pm ET.

Taylor Swift’s New Album Launch Date

The Tortured Poets Division is about to return out on April 19, 2024, Taylor confirmed. The album cowl includes a black and white shot of Taylor mendacity on a mattress, sporting black lingerie, which was reportedly from Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s style line. 

Taylor additionally introduced a brand new version of the album, which incorporates the bonus observe “The Bolter.” She shared the information by way of Instagram alongside a photograph of the up to date cowl artwork for the brand new version.

Her final and last new version of the album was introduced because the “Black Canine” particular version. Taylor introduced the information throughout a “secret songs” portion of her tour in Singapore.

‘The Tortured Poets Division’ That means

The title of Taylor’s eleventh studio album sounds prefer it’s loaded with that means. In any case, songwriting is poetry. Many social media customers joked that the title reminded them of some motion pictures and references in common tradition, one in every of which was the coming-of-age movie Useless Poets Society. One X consumer (beforehand Twitter) tweeted a nonetheless from the film, that includes the male college students of their classroom. 

“The Tortured Poets Division in query,” the fan quipped. Others additionally pointed to the well-known TV present Bridgerton and the movie Little Girls, which starred Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh and Timothée Chalamet. 

It’s nonetheless unclear what precisely impressed Taylor to offer her 2024 album its title, however she posted an Instagram image of what gave the impression to be lyrics from one in every of its songs. 

“And so I enter into proof / My tarnished coat of arms,” the obvious lyrics learn. “My muses, acquired like bruises / My talismans and charms / The tick, tick, tick of affection bombs / My veins of pitch black ink.” Taylor wrote on the backside of the web page, “All’s honest in love and poetry – sincerely, The Chairman of The Tortured Poets Division.”

The lyric “love bombs” is probably going a reference to a big different giving the opposite particular person an overabundant quantity of presents or exhibiting extra affection than they normally would. 

Taylor additionally appeared to offer followers some concepts of what the songs may comprise, when she launched a collection of 5 playlists on Apple Music that element the phases of heartbreak. Every playlist was made up of songs from her catalog and started with a private message from the singer, explaining what the emotion was. The playlists have been “I Love You, It’s Ruining My Life”, “You Don’t Get to Inform Me About Unhappy”, “Am I Allowed to Cry?”, “Outdated Habits Die Screaming”, and “I Can Do It With a Damaged Coronary heart.”

Did Joe Alwyn Encourage ‘The Tortured Poets Division? 

Since that is Taylor’s first studio album launched since her breakup with Joe, followers assume their cut up might have served as inspiration behind just a few tracks. Some even identified that the title sounded loads like one thing that Joe beforehand talked about. 

Throughout Joe’s 2022 Selection dialog with Paul Mescal, the Favorite actor revealed that he was a part of a WhatsApp group chat known as “The Tortured Man Membership.” 

Joe Alwyn and Paul Mescal have a WhatsApp group with Andrew Scott known as “The Tortured Man Membership.”

“It hasn’t had a lot use lately,” Alwyn says.
“I really feel like we’re much less tortured now,” Mescal quips. https://t.co/CSai4ScQpz pic.twitter.com/veCp1ZdFsD

— Selection (@Selection) December 15, 2022

“It’s the Tortured Man Membership, I feel. It’s me, you — and Andrew Scott began the group,” Joe mentioned on the time. “[Andrew is] simply messaging himself good mornings. We have been each within the Sally Rooney universe and crossed over with Lenny Abrahamson. We have been so fortunate to have that have.”

Throughout a Tortured Poets Division occasion in Los Angeles, some followers have theorized some hints about Joe within the materials that was included. There was a library card file unit with 72 slots, which some followers speculated represented the 72 months that Joe and Taylor have been collectively, in line with E! Information. Among the drawers have been additionally opened, and a few folks consider these could signify main dates.

What Songs Are on ‘The Tortured Poets Division’? 

Taylor launched the observe checklist, which incorporates visitor artists, for The Tortured Poets Division on February 5. She additionally posted a brand new black and white close-up picture from the album photoshoot together with a aspect view of the 16 track titles in addition to a bonus observe title. A quote or lyric was added as nicely and reads,  “I really like you, it’s ruining my life.”

The observe checklist, which is labeled with Sides A-D, consists of the next:

Facet A
“Fortnight” (that includes Put up Malone)
“The Tortured Poets Division”
“My Boy Solely Breaks His Favourite Toys”
“Down Dangerous”

Facet B
“So Lengthy, London”
“However Daddy I Love Him”
“Recent Out the Slammer”
“Florida!!!” ( that includes Florence + the Machine)

Facet C
“Responsible as Sin?”
“Who’s Afraid of Little Outdated Me?”
“I Can Repair Him (No Actually I Can)”
“loml”

Facet D
“I Can Do It With a Damaged Coronary heart”
“The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived”
“The Alchemy”
“Clara Bow”
Bonus Monitor: “The Manuscript”