As Swifties devour her latest work, Taylor Swift is unleashing some baggage via The Tortured Poets Department.
After the Grammy Award winner, 34, released her 11th studio album on Thursday night, she got to work Instagram with an explanation of how the release signals the turning of a personal page.
‘The Tortured Poets Department. An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and feelings from a fleeting and fatalistic moment – a moment that was both sensational and sad,” she began in the caption.
‘This period in the author’s life is now over, the chapter is closed and boarded up. There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once the wounds are healed.
“And upon closer inspection it turned out that a large number of them were self-inflicted,” Swift added.
After Taylor Swift dropped her eleventh studio album on Thursday night, she posted a statement on Instagram about how The Tortured Poets Department signals a personal page turn
She wrote that the album marks a “chapter closed and boarded up,” as Swifties speculate about the meaning of some of the lyrics.
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‘This writer is convinced that our tears become sacred in the form of ink on a page. Once we tell our saddest story, we can be free from it.”
Swift wrote, “And all that remains is the tortured poetry. THE DEPARTMENT OF TORTURED POETS is here now.’
She shared the statement with some beautiful black and white portraits from the album’s promo shoot.
In anticipation of the album, Swifties have already sniffed clear nods to her boyfriend Travis Kelce in the lyrics, as well as exes Joe Alwyn and Matty Healy.
Swift briefly dated Healy, 35, in 2023 after the end of her six-year relationship with Alwyn, 33.
Fans have speculated that the song’s title, “So Long, London,” is a reference to the British actor, as are the lyrics, “I wish I could remember how we almost all had it.”
The ‘Fortnight’ artist announced her latest album in February, while collecting her lucky 13th Grammy Award and taking home best pop album for Midnights.
After telling fans she would be posting the album cover backstage, the image quickly racked up more than 2 million likes within five minutes.
She shared the statement with some beautiful black and white portraits from the album’s promo shoot
In anticipation of the album, Swifties have already sniffed out obvious nods to her boyfriend Travis Kelce in the lyrics, as well as exes Joe Alwyn and Matty Healy.
The ‘Fortnight’ artist announced her latest album in February, while collecting her lucky 13th Grammy Award and taking home Best Pop Album for Midnights
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In March, Swift teased that it would be her most explicit album yet, with several songs featuring “swear words or language deemed sexual, violent or offensive in nature.”
Although the album was reportedly leaked on social media earlier this week, TPD has broken Spotify’s record as the most pre-saved countdown page in the streaming platform’s history.
The TPD release comes amid a two-month break from Swift’s record-breaking Eras Tour, which resumes May 9 in France.
The Tortured Poets section is now available to stream and download.