It’s a big week for Swifties. Not only did Taylor Swift unexpectedly show up at Coachella with her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, but her new album, The Tortured Poets Department, debuts Friday.
The upcoming release marks Swift’s 11th studio album (not including her four re-recorded albums), and fans have been guessing what the new songs will be about ever since she first announced Tortured Poets in February during the 2024 Grammys. Well, we don’t have to wait too much longer — the countdown is on.
How to listen to Taylor Swift’s new album
Swift’s new album is expected to hit all major streaming platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music, at midnight on Friday. You can pre-order or pre-add the album right now. Spotify even has a live countdown clock ticking away the seconds until the drop.
Taylor Swift new album lyrics that have leaked
Swift is a mastermind at avoiding leaks before release dates, but she has shared a few suspected lyrics on social media ahead of the album’s debut.
In the same Instagram post that originally announced The Tortured Poets Department, the singer included an image of papers in a file folder that read: “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.”
Swift also included several phrases in other Instagram posts that she later used to title five curated Apple Music playlists. These playlists are broken into the five stages of heartbreak (denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance) and contain previous songs that Swift says correlate with each stage. The respective playlist names (and suspected lyrics from songs on Tortured Poets) are “I Love You, It’s Ruining My Life,” “You Don’t Get to Tell Me About Sad,” “Am I Allowed to Cry?” “Old Habits Die Screaming” and “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart.”
How to pre-order ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ on vinyl
If you prefer to listen to music on your trusty turntable, you can pre-order a vinyl of Tortured Poets exclusively at Target for $44. Exclusive CDs are available for $14.
Target
Head to Target ASAP to pre-order the exclusive “Phantom Clear” vinyl discs. This vinyl includes a bonus track, “The Manuscript.”
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This Target-exclusive CD includes another bonus track, “The Bolter.”
You can also shop two other Target-exclusive CDs to bring home bonus tracks “The Albatross” and “The Black Dog.”
You can also pre-order the “Ghosted White” vinyl and CD now on Amazon.
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This “Ghosted White” vinyl features bonus track “The Manuscript.”
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Why did Taylor Swift name her new album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’?
While Swift hasn’t confirmed what the name of her new album means, fans were quick to speculate that the title is a reference to a WhatsApp group named “The Tortured Man Club” that her ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn admitted to being a part of during a Variety interview. The group chat reportedly also included actors Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott.
How many songs will be on ‘The Tortured Poets Department’?
Swift shared via Instagram that her new album will feature 16 songs, plus a bonus song called “The Manuscript.” The tracklist is:
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“Fortnight” featuring Post Malone
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“The Tortured Poets Department”
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“My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys”
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“Down Bad”
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“So Long, London”
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“But Daddy I Love Him”
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“Fresh Out the Slammer”
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“Florida!!!!” featuring Florence + The Machine
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“Guilty as Sin?”
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“Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?”
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“I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)”
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“loml”
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“I Can Do It With a Broken Heart”
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“The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived”
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“The Alchemy”
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“Clara Bow”
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