Taylor Swift Drops ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ As Surprise Double Album With 15 Extra Tracks; Sparks Speculation Over Which Ex Is Target Of Lyrics

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Swifties could find their queen bee in any crowded room — or in this case, in a big open field!

Taylor Swift isn’t looking forward to parting ways with her boyfriend Travis Kelce once the European leg of The Eras Tour begins next month!

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s relationship — and one milestone bettors can put money on is when the power couple will announce they’re tying the knot.There is a 75% chance that the pop princess and the football star will make their engagement public before the NFL season kicks off Sept. 5, according to a report this week by the online sports betting community OLBG.“People will bet on them, especially with the rise of Swift being on television a lot with the NFL,” Jake Ashton, OLBG senior news editor, told The Post.“The markets now for each of Kelce’s games, they all have Taylor Swift specials in there because there has been an increase in men watching it with their partners who have shown interest in Swift.

Taylor Swift has become the first artist to have a dozen number one albums in the UK in the 21st century.The pop sensation, 34, achieved this feat with her latest album, the Tortured Poets Department, which she dropped last week as a surprise "secret" double album, subtitled the Anthology, featuring fifteen bonus tracks.Taylor's previous chart-toppers include Red, 1989, Reputation, Lover, Folklore, Evermore, Fearless (Taylor's Version), Red (Taylor's Version), Midnights, Speak Now (Taylor's Version) and 1989 (Taylor's Version). And now the Grammy Award winner's newest album has been added to the list, according to the Official Charts Company.The album, rumoured to contain nods to her ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn, reportedly became the first to achieve more than 300 million streams in a single day on Spotify upon its release on April 19, reports the Mirror.

Matty Healy‘s mom Denise Welch was asked about Taylor Swift‘s The Tortured Poets Department.

Matt Healy, frontman of the band The 1975 and son of Loose Women's Denise Welch, has responded to the so-called "diss track" on Taylor Swift's album which is rumoured to be all about the singer.The musician, 35, briefly dated singer-songwriter Taylor back in June 2023, and her album track The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived is believed to be about their romance. The album, The Tortured Poets Department, became the most-streamed album in a single week on streaming service Spotify following its release on Friday, and rumours about who she's been writing about have been swirling on the internet.

What an interesting week to be Matty Healy!

delivered unto us last week and while the reviews have been an extreme mix, the fanfare is without equal. The Post’s Chuck Arnold writes, “There is plenty of “Bad Blood” spilled on Swift’s latest. And with the raw honesty and specificity of her lyrics, she is clearly in her ‘IDGAF’ era.” Her ‘TTPD,’ era sees Swift take aim at exes and enemies Kim Kardashian, Matt Healy and stand-out British sad boy, ladies and gentlemen Joe Alwyn.

HRH Taylor Swift, the Sagittarius queen of confessional songwriting, sick burns, and exhuming the sins of her exes, is back at it with the release of ‘The Tortured Poets Department,’ her 11th studio album. A meditation on her frayed relationship with British sad boy Joe Alwyn, with lyrical forays into her ill-fated affair with Matt Healy, a beef with Kim Kardashian and a few nods to new dude Travis Kelce, the album dropped on an auspicious day, leaving a whimsical, side-eye giving trail of astrological easter eggs. Can you find them all? Read on and see how you did.The hotly anticipated release comes amid the thick heat haze of Mercury retrograde in Aries, a time when the re- prefix is emphasized and we reimagine the past, revise our self-concepts, and revisit the muck and the mire of failed relationships, to discover the kernels of wisdom buried in the burning buildings of romantic ruin.In essence and ashes, this album is the smoking, stillborn delivery of a doomed love story.

The Tortured Poets Department” contains seven explicit songs — “The Tortured Poets Department,” “Down Bad,” “But, Daddy, I Love Him,” “Florida!!!,” “loml,” “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” and “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” — which all come with warning labels.Words like “f–k,” “bitch” and “s–t” can be heard in the new double album released on Friday, which in less than 24 hours, broke the record for most streamed album in a single day in Spotify history.Swifties are noticing the increase in dirty words in the songstress’ work since she debuted at the innocent age of 16 to the 34-year-old she is today, with a string of ex-lovers in her past and current boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl champ Travis Kelce.One fan even made a graph to illustrate just how many curses are uttered in each of her 10 previous albums and when she added words like “f–k” and “d–khead” to her repertoire. While her debut album in 2006, “Taylor Swift” only has one bad word — “damn” — the two that followed, “Fearless” and “Speak Now,” have none, according to an unscientific chart created by Reddit user katlaube.

Taylor Swift‘s fans are always pouring over her lyrics for clues about her personal life, and things are no different with the release of her newest album, “The Tortured Poets Department.” Before her world-famous relationship with Travis Kelce that was debuted this year, Swift had a long-term romance with British actor Joe Alwyn, and then a relatively short rebound with Matty Healy, frontman of the 1975. Most of the material was written and recorded before Swift and Kelce became an item, so he isn’t a key player in the album, although he makes a key late entry, assuming no one else drove her to use football metaphors for the first time.

Taylor Swift has namechecked the cult Scottish indie band The Blue Nile on a track on her huge new album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’.On the album’s ninth track ‘Guilty As Sin?’, Swift sings: “Drowning in The Blue Nile / He sent me Downtown Lights / I hadn’t heard it in a while / My boredom’s bone deep / This cage was once just fine / Am I allowed to cry?”‘The Downtown Lights’ was the band’s biggest song, reaching the Top Ten on the American Modern Rock Tracks chart in 1989, famously also the year that Swift was born.Listen to the two tracks in question below:Aside from having similar themes to Swift’s new album – navigating difficult relationships, the aftermath of heartbreak – the reference to the song also appears to be another nod to The 1975’s Matty Healy, with whom Taylor was romantically linked for a short period of time in 2023.Healy once told Vulture that The Blue Nile were his “favourite band of all time”, and he has named ‘Hats’, from which ‘The Downtown Lights’ is taken, as his favourite album of the ‘80s. He has also stated that his song ‘Love It If We Made It’ is like “The Blue Nile on steroids”.Led by singer Paul Buchanan, Glasgow’s The Blue Nile have a devoted underground following, and are praised for their elegant, melancholic melodies and restrained, patient synth and guitar arrangements.

her highly anticipated eleventh studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” which appears to feature nods to her current boyfriend, Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.It’s been speculated the three-time Super Bowl champ — who started dating the pop superstar last summer — is the focal point of the song “The Alchemy,” while others suggested the track “So High School” has a special Kelce meaning.“So High School is so Travis Kelce coded and I’m just like

It’s a bad day to be Kim Kardashian right now…

Taylor Swift has seemingly hinted at failed wedding plans with Joe Alwyn in her new album, where she also opens up about their emotional split. Rumours started swirling in April last year that Taylor and Joe had called it quits after six years together.

Taylor Swift‘s 11th album, ‘The Tortured Poets Department’, has arrived and fans have taken to social media to theorise what some songs mean, and who the albums was written about.Shortly after the album’s release earlier today (April 19), Swifties took to X (formerly Twitter) to theorise that despite her lengthy relationship with English actor Joe Alwyn, Taylor’s new album is seemingly more about her brief relationship with The 1975‘s Matty Healy. The pair were romantically linked for a short period time in 2023.According to fans, the title track ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ sees Swift reference Healy, with a lyric seemingly describing an ex-lover as a “tattooed golden retriever”.

Taylor Swift's eagle-eyed fans are convinced they've found the hidden 'proof' that her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, is all about her rumoured fling with Matt Healy from The 1975.Taylor released her 11th studio album titled The Tortured Poets Department on Friday, 19 April. Swiftie sleuths have now been piecing together clues on social media, suggesting Taylor's new tunes are a nod to the indie rocker.

Taylor Swift has a long history of writing about her exes on her albums — or so we think — from John Mayer and Jake Gyllenhaal to Joe Jonas and Harry Styles.But it’s Joe Alwyn, the British actor who the singer dated from 2016 to 2023, who is the object of the 34-year-old pop superstar’s wicked wordplay for a good — or for him, not so good — part of “The Tortured Poets Department,” which dropped on Friday.There’s even one song called “So Long, London” — a goodbye to the city where they once lived together. And just to show you how deep those Swift Easter eggs can be hidden, that track is 9 minutes and 28 seconds — which happens to line up with when the exes are rumored to have started dating on Sept.

Taylor Swift is embodying first the Everygirl, then the Everywoman — the Miss Americana in them all, from era to era.Beyoncé is a goddess, Taylor is a real life human — just like us.But there’s a moment on “The Tortured Poets Department” — the insanely anticipated 11th studio album by the Queen of the Swifties — when she embraces her power as the most famous, the most influential woman in America, if not on the planet.It occurs on “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” — one of two tunes that Swift wrote by herself with that wicked pen of hers.“I was tame, I was gentle/’Til the circus life made me mean/Don’t you worry folks, we took out all her teeth/Who’s afraid of little old me?/Well you should be,” she sings in the rumbling revenge song that brings some menace to the melody.And you can bet that Swift’s most recent exes — the 1975 frontman Matty Healy and, especially, British actor Joe Alwyn — have been quaking in their boots ever since the pop superstar announced “The Tortured Poets Department” after winning Best Pop Vocal Album for 2022’s “Midnights” at the Grammys in February.Sure enough — there is plenty of “Bad Blood” spilled on Swift’s latest.