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By: Ella Johnson and Onaleigh Terrell
February 22nd 2024
Go back in time to February 4th, 2024: The Grammys. You are sitting in the audience waiting to hear who the winner of best pop vocals is when Taylor Swift is announced. Cheers spark as Taylor walks onto the stage. Wondering what she is about to say, you sit on the edge of your seat. "I want to say thank you to the fans by telling you a secret that I have been keeping from you for the last two years, which is that my brand-new album comes out April 19th, It's called 'The Tortured Poets Department'.''
The original album cover for The Tortured Poets Department
Taylor Swift's new album is set to drop on April 19th this year. She and many friends changed their social media profiles to black and white leading Swifties to believe she was going to announce Reputation Taylor's Version, her only album that she doesn't fully own. It came as a shock to many people such as Lynlee Crouch, a 6th grader at EJHS. "I was surprised because I didn't think she was going to release a new album so soon after Midnights."Ā
Only after around two years of Midnight's release did Taylor announce the new album. While this is the usual timing between the newly released albums and the latest one, it came as a shock because she still hasn't announced Reputation Taylor's Version. Reuputation is most commonly known as the black and white revenge album, that is why many people believed she would announce it at the Grammys based on her dress and social media profile.
Taylor Swift's social media profile picture
Taylor's dress at the Grammys
The songs in the new album so far are as follows. Fortnight, The Tortured Poets Department, My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys, Down Bad, So Long, London, But Daddy I Love Him, Fresh Out the Slammer, Florida!!!, Guilty as Sin, Who's Afraid of Little Old Me, I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can), Loml, I Can Do It with a Broken Heart, The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived, The Alchemy, Clara Bow, and The Manuscript. Just recently in Australia for the Eras Tour, she showed a picture on the screen of the new album cover along with a song titled The Bolter, which is revealed to be a bonus track.
You probably already know this, but as of now Taylor Swift is dating Travis Kelce, number 87 on the Kansas City Chiefs football team. If you have heard her new lyrics for her song Karma, you will be able to tell that she is in love. Just around a year ago was when Taylor and Joe Alwyn had ended a six year relationship. This new album is assumed to be a breakup album and this theory can be backed up by the song: So Long, London. While there are many different opinions about the album to be, we can all agree that it will be exciting to hear some new music by her.
"I think more than any of my albums that I've ever made, I needed to make it. It was really a lifeline for me. Just the things I was going through, the things I was writing about. It kind of reminded me of why songwriting was something that actually gets me through my life."
-Taylor Swift, The Eras Tour.
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