Current:Home > News'Tortured Poets: Anthology': Taylor Swift adds 15 songs in surprise 2 a.m. announcement -Triumph Financial Guides
'Tortured Poets: Anthology': Taylor Swift adds 15 songs in surprise 2 a.m. announcement
View
Date:2025-04-18 11:22:03
Taylor Swift, chairman of the “Tortured Poets Department” extended the meeting until past 2 a.m. with 15 new songs in project called, "The Anthology."
The secret double album's new tracks include:
- "The Black Dog"
- "imgonnagetyouback"
- "The Albatross"
- "Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus"
- "How Did It End?"
- "So High School"
- "I Hate It Here"
- "thanK you aiMee"
- "I Look in People's Windows"
- "The Prophecy"
- "Cassandra"
- "Peter"
- "The Bolter"
- "Robin"
- "The Manuscript"
The Eras Tour singer joined Threads at midnight, which shares parent company Meta with Facebook and Instagram.
As part of the week leading up to the announcement, Swift worked behind the scenes with Threads to create a countdown when users pulled down on her Instagram page. The interface connected them to pre-follow the singer. At the stroke of 12 a.m., a new pull down countdown revealed two hours.
Her next post explained the double album project:
"It’s a 2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album. ✌️ I’d written so much tortured poetry in the past 2 years and wanted to share it all with you, so here’s the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology. 15 extra songs. And now the story isn’t mine anymore… it’s all yours. 🤍"
Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) on Threads
According to the social media site, users who share her first Threads post will receive a custom badge, inspired by "The Tortured Poets Department," for their profile and be able to change the background in their Instagram DMs to one inspired by the album.
Who’s afraid of a couple less hours of sleep?
'Tortured Poets' release live updates:What to know as Taylor Swift's new album debuts
'The Tortured Poets Department'
If you didn't get the memo from the department's Chairman, "Tortured Poets" is Swift's 11th era album with 16 tracks and four bonus songs (four versions of the album each have a different bonus track).
Swift announced the project at the Grammys, when she won her 13th career Grammy for pop album of the year. Post Malone and Florence and The Machine are two contributors on the pop album.
Its track titles are brutal. Fans speculated the album was about Swift’s six-year relationship with English actor Joe Alwyn and their breakup. Both stars kept the relationship out of the public eye. The back of the first version of the album reads, “I love you, it’s ruining me,” serving as a dagger-to-the-chest harbinger.
The album was released during Swift's two-month break from her massively popular and economically fruitful Eras Tour. "Tortured Poets" serves as an exclamation point to the behemoth success the billionaire has seen over the past year since the three-plus-hour show launched in Glendale, Arizona. Swift will return to the stage in Paris, France, on May 9. Fans anticipate that her newest era will be added to the show.
Don't miss any Taylor Swift news; sign up for the free, weekly newsletter "This Swift Beat."
Follow Taylor Swift reporter Bryan West on Instagram, TikTok and X as @BryanWestTV.
veryGood! (57)
Related
- Appeals court scraps Nasdaq boardroom diversity rules in latest DEI setback
- Coco Gauff navigates delay created by environmental protestors, reaches US Open final
- A record numbers of children are on the move through Latin America and the Caribbean, UNICEF says
- Panama to increase deportations in face of record migration through the Darien Gap
- Average rate on 30
- Grammy Museum to launch 50 years of hip-hop exhibit featuring artifacts from Tupac, Biggie
- The Surprising Ways the Royal Family Has Changed Since Queen Elizabeth II's Death
- Trump back on the campaign trail after long absence, Hurricane Lee grows: 5 Things podcast
- Sam Taylor
- Evacuation orders are in place in central Greece as a river bursts its banks and floodwaters rise
Ranking
- B.A. Parker is learning the banjo
- A North Dakota man was sentenced to 5 years in prison for running over and killing a teen last year
- Many people want thicker hair. Here's how experts say you can get it.
- Investigators pinpoint house as source of explosion that killed 6 near Pittsburgh last month
- John Galliano out at Maison Margiela, capping year of fashion designer musical chairs
- Country music star Zach Bryan says he was arrested and jailed briefly in northeastern Oklahoma
- Massachusetts investigates teen’s death as company pulls spicy One Chip Challenge from store shelves
- Lawsuit blames Peloton for death of NYC man whose bike fell on his neck during workout
Recommendation
A White House order claims to end 'censorship.' What does that mean?
Voters in North Carolina tribe back adult use of marijuana in referendum
Court order allows Texas’ floating barrier on US-Mexico border to remain in place for now
Country music star Zach Bryan says he was arrested and jailed briefly in northeastern Oklahoma
US appeals court rejects Nasdaq’s diversity rules for company boards
Joe Burrow shatters mark for NFL's highest-paid player with record contract from Bengals
Eagles pay tribute to Jimmy Buffett at final tour kickoff: 'Sailing on that cosmic ocean'
Removal of Rio Grande floating barriers paused by appeals court