The 31-track (!) "Tortured Poets Department" is packed with new poets to read, bands to discover and weird vacation towns to visit, and here's a brief field guide to the best of them.
Fans weren't sure if Taylor Swift would feature a song about Travis Kelce on her new album, The Tortured Poets Department, which the pop star has been working on since well before their romance began mid-2023.
A report says Swifties in the U.K. were duped out of over $1.2 million in fake concert tickets ahead of the Eras Tour landing there this summer. It’s a great day to be a Taylor Swift fan: The singer’s 11th studio album,
Although Tortured Poets is Swift's first album of new music since Midnights, she has steadily pumped out her re-recorded Taylor's Version albums in the interim. In between the two
When Taylor Swift released “The Tortured Poets Department,” on Friday at midnight, her fan base quickly got to work decoding the album, looking for layers of meaning and insight into Ms. Swift’s life.
Take your seat because Taylor Swift’s “Tortured Poets Department” meeting has officially been called into session and, surprise, it’s a 31-song mega double album.
One of the constants of Taylor Swift's storied career has been the chances she's taken at the precise moment when taking a chance wasn't necessary. She was a country superstar who didn't need to go pop;
Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department has set yet another Spotify record, becoming the most-streamed album in a single day, reportedly exceeding 200 million streams. Swift now has the top three most-streamed albums in a single day,
The music video for “Fortnight,” the lead single off Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album “ Tortured Poets Department ,” debuted on Friday night. The duet features the two artists in various states of melancholy reflection and despair,
The Tortured Poets Department has quite the staff! Taylor Swift released her highly anticipated new double album on Friday (April 19), and across the LP’s 31 tracks lies a slew of references to celebrities inside and outside the worlds of music and poetry.
Taylor Swift just can’t stop. Two hours after she dropped her 11th studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” late Thursday night, the pop superstar revealed that the LP’s 16 tracks represent just half of what she described as “a secret DOUBLE album.
Here's how I think all the Dessner songs stack up against each other. speculation that this song is about Swift's current boyfriend, Travis Kelce Cincinnati Kelce played college football at the University of Cincinnati post mortem for a past relationship Britannica "When the truth comes out final two lines whom many believe to be Matty Healy This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: 'Tortured Poets' Taylor Swift/Aaron Dessner collabs,
Taylor Swift’s Tortured Poets Department is on pace for a massive opening, and in under 24 hours, the album already beat the record for most streams in a single day on Spotify, the service confirmed on Friday.
Everybody has an opinion about Taylor Swift, but when it comes to one publication's formal review of the singer-songwriter's new album "The Tortured Poets Department," the author of the scathing piece of criticism will remain anonymous.
Breaking records is nothing new to Taylor Swift, and she’s done it again with her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department. Spotify revealed on Friday, mere hours after the Grammy-winning singer dropped the album that Tortured Poets became the audio giant’s most-streamed album in a single day.
Taylor Swift has released her first Tortured Poets Department music video. The visual is for the album’s opener, “Fortnight,” featuring Post Malone. Watch the new video below. Just two hours after Swift released The Tortured Poets Department,
Fans spotted the actress wearing a Khaite design in the Spotify visuals for “But Daddy I Love Him” and “Clara Bow" among other songs. Here’s what it may mean.
TODAY.com listened to all 31 songs of Swift's new album, "The Tortured Poets Department," which dropped on April 19, and compiled a list of all the names she mentions. In the album, Swift name-drops several celebrities and even herself at one point.
Claire Dodson explores Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department album. A monstrous Taylor Swift lurches toward your favorite city — that tortured poet, that sly mastermind. She has “leapt from the gallows” just to “levitate down your street,
Fans who picked up physical album for Taylor Swift's Tortured Poets Department were surprised with a contribution from another prolific songwriter: Stevie Nicks. Swift tapped the Fleetwood Mac singer to write an original poem for the surprise double album,
And while this 31-song double album appears to spend a lot more time unpacking the transition from Swift's six-year relationship with actor Joe Alwyn to her turbulent summer fling with Matty Healy, her current boyfriend Travis Kelce also has his moments.
Taylor Swift’s “Tortured Poets Department” album is filled with songs titled after proper names, including “Robin,” “Cassandra,” “Peter” and “thanK you aIMee.” There’s one curious song also called “Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus” that has listeners looking closely.
"I feel so grateful to be a part of creating this vast, magically detailed and symbolic world of songs Taylor has crafted that we all get to inhabit and enjoy," Dessner wrote
Mere hours into The Tortured Poets Department release, Swifties swarmed social media to dissect and decode all 31 tracks on Taylor Swift’s surprise double album. Across the many songs, dedicated listeners have highlighted Swift’s parallel lyrics and references to past and present flames.
In a prologue summary poem, Swift writes of the album, “At this hearing/I stand before my fellow members of the Tortured Poets Department/With a summary of my findings/A debrief
NEW YORK — Swifties got a double dose of sweet torture at 2 a.m. when Taylor Swift dropped another 15 tracks and announced that “The Tortured Poets Department” is a double album. She announced the second half on social media with new album art and a message about her folie à deux: “It’s a 2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album.
Taylor Swift and The 1975 frontman Matty Healy dated in the spring of 2023 Taylor Swift doesn’t kiss and tell — but the lyrics of her new album The Tortured Poets Department may offer fans some insight into her relationship with Matty Healy.
A hot debate has ensued over poetry after Taylor Swift released "The Tortured Poets Department," which is her 11th studio album. Questions about how poetic the album and if the lyrics can be read like poems were posed to experts by the Associated Press,