Taylor Swift announced a surprise double album at 2 a.m. this morning. This came after she released her new album, The Tortured Poets Department, at midnight.
In total, the beloved singer released 31 new songs today — and she certainly didn’t hold back with her callouts.
“It’s a 2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album,” Swift posted on Instagram at 2 a.m.
“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.”
According to Swift, her album is “an anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time – one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure.”
She added that “this period of the author’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up.”
“There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed,” she continued. “And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted. This writer is of the firm belief that our tears become holy in the form of ink on a page. Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it. And then all that’s left behind is the tortured poetry.”
Taylor Swift Releases Surprise Double Album
The surprise album was titled “THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY.” In total, it consists of 31 songs — that’s 2 hours and 2 minutes worth of new music.
One of the additional songs, “thanK you aIMee,” is allegedly about Kim Kardashian.
“And it wasn’t a fair fight, or a clean kill / Each time that Aimee stomped across my gravе / And then she wrote hеadlines / In the local paper, laughing at each baby step I’d take.”
Countless music journalists and Swifties alike are attempting to decode Taylor’s lyrics to all 31 of her songs.
According to Laura Snape, deputy music editor at The Guardian, “There’s a Taylor Swift industrial complex at this point… there will be thousand of articles published today working out what the songs are about… The intrigue in the lyrics is somewhat predicated on gossip and I found that after three or four listens to this album, or at least the first half, once you’ve drained the fact out of it, I wasn’t quite sure what the replay factor would be.”