Taylor Swift announces 11th studio album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’
The record marks the singer’s first record of all brand new material since the Grammy award winner Midnights.
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She’s only cryptic and Machiavellian because she’s working around the clock! Global superstar and now fourteen-time Grammy award winner Taylor Swift has announced her upcoming eleventh studio album.
After speculation the singer would announce the re-recording of Reputation, upon winning her thirteenth Grammy award (her proclaimed lucky number) for ‘Best Pop Album’, Swift announced her upcoming project live on stage. The album cover was posted thereafter, with the caption “All’s fair in love and poetry…”, alongside a cryptic note as a welcome into the era:
“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”
The Tortured Poets Department will be released on April 19th, after two years of being hidden from the world. It succeeds Swift’s previous studio album, Midnights, and the re-recordings of the pop phenomenon 1989 and country-pop record Speak Now. The album will consist of sixteen tracks and a bonus track: The Manuscript. The bonus track will be available via the purchase of the record on the artist’s website.
It is unclear if the songs on the album will be incorporated into The Eras Tour dates following its release. Given the timeframe of when the album got its bearings, it could tie into the sonic styles and or lyricism of previous albums; leaving it as a brand new mystery. Perhaps a return to the sounds of Folklore or a predecessor to Midnights, all will be revealed in due time.
At the time of publication, no lead single has been announced. Stay tuned for further updates.
The Tortured Poets Department will be released April 19th via Republic Records.
