Taylor Swift releases highly-anticipated album 'The Tortured Poets Department'

Taylor Swift has released her highly anticipated record The Tortured Poets Department today the 11th studio album from the megastar who is already having a blockbuster yearAlls fair in love and poetry New album THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT Out now she wrote on her Instagram account ending the announcement with a heart emojiSwift had revealed the albums release at the Grammys in February a night that saw the 34yearold billionaire win a recordbreaking fourth Album of the Year prizeWith the drop of Tortured Poets in the United States at midnight Eastern time the artist could be on track for a fifthSince her bombshell announcement her loyal legion of Swifties have been working around the clock shelling out fan predictionsThe working theory is that the album centers on her ex British actor Joe Alwyn who Swift dated starting in 2016 until they broke up about a year agoAlwyn The Favourite and fellow actor Paul Mescal Normal People revealed in 2022 that they had a group chat entitled The Tortured Man Club which also included Andrew Scott Fleabag RipleyThe Swifties think their queens album title is a likely reference to that text circleBefore their breakup Alwyn had multiple songwriting credits on her albums under a pen name William BowerySwift already revealed the tracklist with titles including So Long London I Can Fix Him No Really I Can and The Smallest Man Who Ever LivedFlorence The Machine is among those set to make cameos on the album as is Post Malone who Swift said Thursday will feature on her first single FortnightIve been such a huge fan of Post because of the writer he is his musical experimentation and those melodies he creates that just stick in your head forever she wrote on InstagramSwift said a video companion for the track will come out late Friday after the album dropsSEE PHOTOS Indian Swifties on why they love Taylor Swifts music and auraShake up the worldSwift has repeatedly eviscerated her former lovers in song including dropping lyrical takedowns of John Mayer and Jake GyllenhaalHer current beau Super Bowlwinning NFL player Travis Kelce has already praised her new workI have heard some of it yes and its unbelievable he told reporters in FebruaryI cant wait for her to shake up the world when it finally dropsSwift has already had an earthshattering past year or so staging the first billiondollar tour with her ongoing series of Eras concerts breaking myriad chart records and making Grammys historyTopping the charts with BeyonceSwift who was born in Pennsylvania on December 13 1989 began writing songs professionally as a teenager signing with Nashvilles Big Machine Records as a country artistAfter a highly publicised dispute with Big Machine executives regarding ownership of her first six albums she made the cunning risky decision to rerecord those albums to own their rightsIt paid off delighting ardent fans bringing new Swifties into the fold and earning her renewed respect within the industryWith The Tortured Poets Department she stands to make waves once more although shell face stiff competition from the likes of Beyonce and Billie Eilish next awards seasonBeyonce dropped her latest the electric statementmaking Cowboy Carter on March 29That offered a charts cushion whether intentional or not that would allow both her and Swift to notch winsThe two reigning stars are often pitted against each other as rivals although theyve repeatedly taken steps over the years to dismiss the notionThey will almost certainly be competing for next years top Grammys as will Eilish whose third album Hit Me Hard and Soft is due out on May 17But these wildly wealthy supremely talented and conversationcommanding artists have all emphasized that at the end of the day its about the musicWriting her forthcoming album kind of reminded me of why songwriting is something that actually gets me through my life Swift told fans at a recent show