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The Tortured Poets Department is the eleventh studio album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released on April 19, 2024, by Republic Records. Two hours after the album’s release, it was expanded into a double album subtitled The Anthology, containing a second volume of songs. It was written and produced by Swift, Jack Antonoff, and Aaron Dessner.
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Swift developed The Tortured Poets Department amidst the Eras Tour in 2023, with the resultant, heightened media scrutiny on her life inspiring the record. Self-described as her “lifeline” album, its introspective songs depict emotional tumult, with self-awareness, mourning, anger, humor, and delusion as dominant themes. Musically, the album is a minimalist synth-pop, folk-pop, and chamber pop effort with rock and country styling. The composition is largely mid-tempo, driven by a mix of synthesizers and drum machines with piano and guitar, whereas the visual aesthetic draws mainly from dark academia.
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The album broke numerous commercial records, including the highest single-day and single-week streams for an album on Spotify. It topped the charts across Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Americas. In the United States, The Tortured Poets Department became Swift’s record-extending seventh album to open with over a million units, spent a career-best 17 weeks atop the Billboard 200, and was certified six-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Its songs made Swift the only artist to monopolize the Billboard Hot 100’s top 14 spots, led by “Fortnight” featuring Post Malone. It became the best-selling album of the year in 11 territories, including the US.
Critical reception to The Tortured Poets Department was polarized upon release; critics praised Swift’s cathartic songwriting for its emotional resonance and wit, but some found the album lengthy and lacking profundity. Subsequent assessments have better appreciated the album’s musical and lyrical nuances, while disputing initial critiques for allegedly focusing on Swift’s public image rather than artistic merit. Swift included songs from the album in a revamped Eras Tour set beginning May 2024. It received six nominations at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards, including a record seventh Album of the Year nomination for Swift, and won the 2025 Premios Odeón for Best International Album.
Background and conception.
Swift released her tenth studio album, Midnights, on October 21, 2022, to critical praise and commercial success. In 2023, she released two re-recorded albums, Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) and 1989 (Taylor’s Version), as part of her “Taylor’s Version” re-recording project after a dispute over the ownership of her first six studio albums. Both re-recordings were released amidst Swift’s sixth headlining concert tour, the Eras Tour.
At the 66th Annual Grammy Awards on February 4, 2024, Swift won Best Pop Vocal Album and Album of the Year for Midnights. During her acceptance speech for the former category, she announced The Tortured Poets Department as a new original studio album that she had worked on since 2022. This announcement was met with surprise from her fans, who had anticipated her to announce the re-recording of her 2017 album, Reputation, based on her social media clues.
Swift began conceiving the album immediately after submitting Midnights to her record label, Republic Records, and continued working on it in secret throughout the U.S. leg of the Eras Tour in 2023. While she was creating the album, her dating life continued to be a widely covered topic in the press, who reported on Swift’s relationships with Joe Alwyn, Matty Healy, and Travis Kelce.
At the Eras Tour concerts in Melbourne in February 2024, Swift said that The Tortured Poets Department was a “lifeline” for her and an album that she “really needed” to make. She reflected on how it made her confirm that songwriting was an integral part of her life.
In an Instagram post, Swift described the album as “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”.
The standard edition consists of 16 songs; Swift wrote three of them herself and co-wrote the rest mostly with Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner. Post Malone featured on and co-wrote “Fortnight”, and Florence and the Machine featured on “Florida!!!”, which was co-written by the band’s frontwoman Florence Welch. Swift produced all tracks with Antonoff and Dessner.
After the Grammy announcement, Swift revealed the standard track listing via social media on February 6, 2024.
Taylor Swift announced four physical editions that were each titled after a corresponding bonus track: “The Manuscript”, “The Bolter”, “The Albatross”, and “The Black Dog”; she announced the latter three editions during the Australian and Singaporean shows of the Eras Tour. She partnered with Target for an exclusive “Phantom Clear” collector’s vinyl edition.
The Tortured Poets Department was released on April 19, 2024. A double album edition, subtitled The Anthology and containing 15 bonus tracks, was surprise-released digitally two hours later.
Track listing
- “Fortnight” (featuring Post Malone) Taylor Swift • Jack Antonoff • Austin Post Swift • Antonoff 3:48
- “The Tortured Poets Department” Swift • Antonoff Swift • Antonoff 4:53
- “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys” Swift Swift • Antonoff 3:23
- “Down Bad” Swift • Antonoff Swift • Antonoff 4:21
- “So Long, London” Swift • Aaron Dessner Swift • Dessner 4:22
- “But Daddy I Love Him” Swift • Dessner Swift • Dessner • Antonoff 5:40
- “Fresh Out The Slammer” Swift • Antonoff Swift • Antonoff 3:30
- “Florida!!!” (featuring Florence + The Machine) Swift • Florence Welch Swift • Antonoff 3:35
- “Guilty as Sin?” Swift • Antonoff Swift • Antonoff 4:14
- “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” Swift Swift • Antonoff 5:34
- “I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)” Swift • Antonoff Swift • Antonoff 2:36
- “loml” Swift • Dessner Swift • Dessner 4:37
- “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” Swift • Antonoff Swift • Antonoff 3:38
- “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” Swift • Dessner Swift • Dessner 4:05
- “The Alchemy” Swift • Antonoff Swift • Antonoff 3:16
- “Clara Bow” Swift • Dessner Swift • Dessner 3:36
Total length: 65:08
The Anthology
No. Title Writer(s) Producer(s) Length - “The Black Dog” Swift Swift · Antonoff 3:58
- “imgonnagetyouback” Swift · Antonoff Swift · Antonoff 3:42
- “The Albatross” Swift · Dessner Swift · Dessner 3:03
- “Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus” Swift · Dessner Swift · Dessner 3:33
- “How Did It End?” Swift · Dessner Swift · Dessner 3:58
- “So High School” Swift · Dessner Swift · Dessner 3:48
- “I Hate It Here” Swift · Dessner Swift · Dessner 4:03
- “thanK you aIMee” Swift · Dessner Swift · Dessner · Antonoff 4:23
- “I Look in People’s Windows” Swift · Antonoff · Patrik Berger Swift · Antonoff · Berger 2:11
- “The Prophecy” Swift · Dessner Swift · Dessner 4:09
- “Cassandra” Swift · Dessner Swift · Dessner 4:00
- “Peter” Swift Swift · Dessner 4:43
- “The Bolter” Swift · Dessner Swift · Dessner 3:58
- “Robin” Swift · Dessner Swift · Dessner 4:00
- “The Manuscript” Swift Swift · Dessner 3:44
Lyrics to ‘The Tortured Poets Department’: Taylor Swift’s New Album Title Track:
You left your typewriter at my apartment
Straight from the tortured poets department
I think some things I’ll never say
Like, “Who uses typewriters anyway?”
But you’re in self sabotage mode
Throwing spikes down on the road
But I’ve seen this episode
And still loved the show
Who else decodes you?
And who’s going to hold you Like me?
And who’s going to love you, if not me?
I laughed in your face and said,
“You’re not Dylan Thomas, I’m not Patti Smith”
This ain’t the Chelsea Hotel
We’re modern idiots
Who’s going to hold you like me?
Nobody.
No f—king body. Nobody.
You smoked then ate seven bars of chocolate
We declared Charli Puth should be a bigger artist
I scratch your head you fall asleep
Like a tattooed golden retriever
But you awaken with dread
Counting nails in your head
But I’ve left this one
Where you come undone
I chose this cyclone with you
And who’s going to hold you like me?
And who’s going to love you like me?
I laughed in your face and said,
“You’re not Dylan Thomas, I’m not Patti Smith”
This ain’t the Chelsea Hotel
We’re modern idiots
Who’s going to hold you like me?
Nobody.No f—king body. Nobody.
Sometimes I wonder if you’re going to screw this up with me
But you tell Lucy you’d kill yourself if I ever leave
And I had said that to Jack about you So I felt seen
Every we know understands why it’s meant to be
‘Cause we’re crazy.
