If you’re lucky enough to have a physical copy of Taylor Swift’s new album on release day, you can hear it kick off with a Stevie Nicks poem. Dated August 13, 2023 in Austin, Texas, and featuring the charming note “For T — and me,” the poem reads like a …
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Surprise! The Tortured Poets Department is actually a double album. Taylor Swift revealed that she recorded an extra 15 tracks, which are now available in the form of The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology. “It’s a 2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album,” Swift wrote on …
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The last time Taylor Swift released an album, Midnights, she surprised everyone by dropping a 3 A.M. Edition later that night, loaded with new songs. But it turns out that this time, 3 hours was too damn long for her to wait. At 2 A.M. last night, with no warning …
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It must be the season of the diss, and not even Taylor Swift is immune — and we’re not even talking about ex-boyfriends. The expanded Anthology edition of The Tortured Poets Department features a track, “thanK you aIMee,” that many fans are interpreting as a diss track aimed at Kim …
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We were already prepared for the devastation Taylor Swift’s eleventh albumThe Tortured Poets Departmentmight yield but no one could have imagined that she had two albums’ worth of material for everyone to sift through. Her latest is mix ofMidnightssynths andFolklore/Evermoreindie-folk, giving insight into the romantic chaos behind one of her …
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The few weeks of 2023 during which Taylor Swift was presumably dating Matty Healy can only be accurately categorized as diabolically insufferable across the board. When the singer’s never-confirmed fling with the 1975 frontman reportedly ended after just a few months, it quickly became a distant memory — the kind …
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Two prominent faculty members of the Tortured Poets Department are toasting their chair. On Friday, Taylor Swift‘s close collaborators Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner shared their excitement about the release of Swift’s new album, saying they were “forever grateful” and “overwhelmed” to work with Swift. “Love this album more than …
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Welcome to our weekly rundown ofthe best new music — featuring big new singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week, two exceedingly intense highlights from Taylor Swift‘s The Tortured Poets Department, a new beef-sizzling new track from Drake, and a mystical Hozier B-side. Plus, new music from …
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Throughout her career, Taylor Swift has landed 232 songs on the Billboard Hot 100. Included in that are the 49 songs that broke into the Top 10. Within that, 11 topped the chart. Despite having an inescapable presence in pop for over a decade, there’s one artist’s record in particular …
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Taylor Swift knows a thing or two about swerving when people least expect it. Still, nothing could have prepared listeners for the way she totally abandoned country music on her 2014 album, 1989. Sure, she had teased some Max Martin-assisted pop hits on her previous album, Red, but 1989 was …
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