Taylor Swift in advert for a special 'The Tortured Poets Department' vinyl at Target. Taylor embraces her emo chic side, pairing a pencil skirt with black tights.
Taylor Swift 's newly-released, double album, The Tortured Poets Department, has been breaking records ever since she announced it at the 2024 Grammy Awards .
This means she topped her sales for 1989 , which sold 1.359 million copies in the US following its release on October 27, 2023. All of Swift’s full-length studio albums and re-recorded projects from 2008’s Fearless through The Tortured Poets Department have debuted at number one.Keith Caulfield, managing director of charts & data operations at Billboard, predicted she will 'catch up to The Beatles in a few years.'
From conquering several Spotify records to securing the fastest-selling album of 2024 , so far, the 34-year-old pop star's latest labor of love has her outperforming, even, herself Around the same time, the Anti-Hero hitmaker's newly-released album hit number one in over 60 countries on iTunes. TTPD has continued to break records by becoming the most-streamed album on Spotify in a single day with over a whopping, 200 million streams, reported Deadline on Friday.Reviews of Swift's latest work have been overwhelmingly positive, and it received a perfect score 100 from Rolling Stone.
On Friday, she surpassed Spotify's record for the most pre-saved countdown page album in the streaming services' history. 'It’s not just a music event, it’s a pop culture event that I think that everybody in America will be talking about and celebrating together,' he raved to CNN in a recent interview.
Sharing the double album was called The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology, she wrote: 'It's a 2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album. ✌️ The first verse appears to hint at the end of her romance with Joe as she sings: I was supposed to be sent away but they forgot to come and get me.
2. The Tortured Poets DepartmentThe titular track is a shimmering melody which suggest that Taylor, modestly, doesn't see herself at the top table of tortured poets: 'You're not Dylan Thomas, and I'm not Patti Smith.' 3. My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite ToysWritten solely by Taylor, this song's dense electronic hum adds forceful notes.
4. Down BadTaylor references mental health again as she details how 'down' she feels without an ex and the infatuation she felt with him. She references their different approaches to the end of their romance, singing in the first verse: 'I kept calm and carried the weight of the rift / Pulled him in tighter each time he was drifting away / My spine split from carrying us up the hill.'
She goes on to revel in the fact she dismisses warning from critics, singing: 'They slammed the door on my whole world / The one thing I wanted On the decay of her past relationship, she sings: 'Splintered back in winter, silent dinners, bitter he was with her in dreams / Gray and blue and fights and tunnels, handcuffed to the spell I was under.
'They said I was a cheat, I guess it must be true / And my friends all smell like weed or little babies / And this city reeks of driving myself crazy.' She sings: 'I was tame, I was gentle till the circus life made me mean /Don’t you worry folks, we took out all her teethThis is her first new album since the end of her six-year relationship with British actor Joe Alwyn and, while she doesn't mention Alwyn by name, speculation will be rife that tracks such as So Long, London are about him. Pictured together in 201911.
12. loml'You said I'm the love of your life,' sings Taylor on this warm, resonant piano ballad. In a smart twist, the 'loml' ultimately becomes 'the loss of my life'. 'You and I go from one kiss to getting married / Still alive, killing time at the cemetery / Never quite buried.' Taylor has previously admitted she struggled with her love live playing out so publicly and the narrative that she'd had more boyfriends than other women.
She sings: 'And I don’t miss what we had / But could someone give a message / To the smallest man who ever lived?' The Alchemy: Sporting metaphors aplenty suggest a track inspired by the singer's current boyfriend, American football star Travis Kelce. Pictured at Coachella this week 'I just don't understand how you don't miss me in The Black Dog when someone plays The Starting Line and you jump up, but she's too young to know this song that was intertwined in the magic fabric of our dreaming.'
'See you got somebody else / Say I got someone else too / Even if it’s him, I'm leaving here with you.' Additionally, an albatross is a large white ocean bird that has very long and often black wings - which many likened to her outfit from the Grammys. She hints at infidelity on their part by singing: 'Your hologram stumbled into my apartment / Hands in the hair of somebody in darkness.
Taylor also seems to reference Kim's 10-year-old daughter North West dancing to Shake It Off on TikTok back in January, she writes:# your kid comes home singin' a song that only us two is gonna know is about you' She later admits that while everyone is questioning, 'How did it end?' she doesn't know herself: 'But I still don't know, how did it end?'
She sings: 'Are you gonna marry, kiss or kill me? Kill me. It's just a game, but really, really, I'm betting on all three for us two. Taylor sings in one line: 'There's a bronze spray-tanned statue of you and a plaque underneath it/That threatens to push me down the stairs, at our school.' She also seems to reference Kim's 10-year-old daughter North West dancing to her 2014 single Shake It Off on TikTok, finding it ironic as the 'song is about you'.
'I look in people's windows / In case you're at their table / What if your eyes looked up and met mine / One more time.' Taylor has previously revealed how fame changed her life for the worst, explaining: 'It's a social situation every time I go out. This could be in reference to Kim sparking a social media firestorm when she shared a Snapchat video of then-husband Kanye West during a phone call with Taylor, where she seemingly gave the rapper to include lyrics about her in his new song.
Some Twitter users claimed the location is where the former couple enjoyed their first date - yet the claims were quickly disputed by devoted followers. 'All her f**kin' lives / Flashed before her eyes / And she realized / It feels like the time / She fell through the ice / Then came out alive'.
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