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In case Taylor Swift didn’t already ship followers flying when she received Album of the Year for the fourth time at this 12 months’s Grammy Awards, she generated much more buzz by saying her new album: The Tortured Poets Department. 

“So, I want to say thank you to the fans by telling you a secret that I have been keeping from you for the last two years,” Taylor mentioned whereas accepting her award for Best Pop Vocal Album. She added, “It’s called The Tortured Poets Department. I’m going to go and post the cover right now backstage. Thank you, I love you!” 

Eagle-eyed followers, in fact, are actually attempting to select aside the which means behind the upcoming album. In truth, some have even instructed that Taylor’s ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn might have impressed the title. 

Taylor Swift’s New Album Release Date

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

Taylor additionally introduced a brand new version of the album, which incorporates the bonus monitor “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 remaining new version of the album was introduced because the “Black Dog” particular version. Taylor introduced the information throughout a “secret songs” portion of her tour in Singapore.

‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Meaning

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

“The Tortured Poets Department in question,” the fan quipped. Others additionally pointed to the well-known TV present Bridgerton and the movie Little Women, 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 evidence / My tarnished coat of arms,” the obvious lyrics learn. “My muses, acquired like bruises / My talismans and charms / The tick, tick, tick of love bombs / My veins of pitch black ink.” Taylor wrote on the backside of the web page, “All’s fair in love and poetry – sincerely, The Chairman of The Tortured Poets Department.”

The lyric “love bombs” is probably going a reference to a major different giving the opposite individual an overabundant quantity of items or exhibiting extra affection than they often would. 

Did Joe Alwyn Inspire ‘The Tortured Poets Department? 

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 a number of tracks. Some even identified that the title sounded rather a lot like one thing that Joe beforehand talked about. 

During Joe’s 2022 Variety dialog with Paul Mescal, the Favourite actor revealed that he was a part of a WhatsApp group chat referred to as “The Tortured Man Club.” 

Joe Alwyn and Paul Mescal have a WhatsApp group with Andrew Scott referred to as “The Tortured Man Club.”

“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

— Variety (@Variety) December 15, 2022

“It’s the Tortured Man Club, I think. It’s me, you — and Andrew Scott started the group,” Joe mentioned on the time. “[Andrew is] just messaging himself good mornings. We were both in the Sally Rooney universe and crossed over with Lenny Abrahamson. We were so lucky to have that experience.”

What Songs Are on ‘The Tortured Poets Department’? 

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

The monitor record, which is labeled with Sides A-D, contains the next:

Side A
“Fortnight” (that includes Post Malone)
“The Tortured Poets Department”
“My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys”
“Down Bad”

Side B
“So Long, London”
“But Daddy I Love Him”
“Fresh Out the Slammer”
“Florida!!!” ( that includes Florence + the Machine)

Side C
“Guilty as Sin?”
“Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?”
“I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)”
“loml”

Side D
“I Can Do It With a Broken Heart”
“The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived”
“The Alchemy”
“Clara Bow”
Bonus Track: “The Manuscript”