On February 4th, Taylor Swift announced a new album named “The Tortured Poets Department.” This new album, dated to come out on April 19th, is confirmed to have seventeen tracks and features Post Malone and Florence + The Machine. Taylor Swift also revealed the names of each song on her social media.
The tracks, respectively, are named: “Fortnight” (featuring Post Malone), “The Tortured Poets Department,” “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys,” “Down Bad,” “So Long, London,” “But Daddy I Love Him,” “Fresh Out The Slammer,” “Florida!!!” (featuring Florence + The Machine), “Guilty as Sin?” “ Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” “ I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)” “loml,” “I Can Do It With A Broken Heart,” “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived,” “The Alchemy,” “Clara Bow” and “The Manuscript” (Bonus Track).
The Swiftie community is hypothesizing that this album is about Joe Alwyn, an English actor who is also one of her ex-boyfriends. This is due to a reference to London on track five, and the title being a reference to one of Alwyn’s interviews where he states that he had a group chat named “The Tortured Man Club.”
Taylor Swift is known to have an aesthetic, or colored theme, associated with each album. Based on the album cover art and the reference to Clara Bow, “The It Girl” actress of silent films during the twenties, “The Tortured Poets Department” aesthetic seems to be black and white.
Fans are very excited for what is in store with Taylor Swift’s new music – throughout all of her albums, she has managed to keep her audience satisfied. Look out for April 19th, when “The Tortured Poets Department” is scheduled to be released.