NEW YORK.- The new and long-awaited disco de Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department came with a surprise second part and more than 30 songs in which he exorcises internal torments by breaking down their Love’s stories.
The first album with 16 songs was released, as planned, at 04H00 GMT. But two hours later, he revealed a surprise to his fans: “The Tortured Poets Department “It’s a DOUBLE secret album,” he said. He revealed another 15 tracks to the delight of his legion of fans.
On Friday night, Spotify declared the album the most streamed in a single day, and Swift also became the most streamed artist in a single day.
The multimillion-dollar artist, 34, is a specialist in managing networks, creating atmospheres of intimacy and mystery with her millions of followers for each important release.
“In the last two years I had written so much tortured poetry and I wanted to share it with you, so here is the second installment of TTPD: The Antology“, he wrote on Instagram when revealing the double album. “There are 15 additional songs. Now this story is no longer mine… it’s all yours,” he added.
Swift’s new compositions come after a year full of activity and success for the artist, whose album Midnights (2022) earned him the fourth Grammy for best album of the year, an absolute record.
His world tour The Eras Tour It is on track to become the highest-grossing concert series in the history of music, with revenues of more than $1 billion.
He also released two re-recordings of his old albums, which were very successful, and broke box office records with the film of his tour. But at the same time, he ended a six-year relationship with British actor Joe Alwyn, after which he briefly hooked up with singer Matty Healy, from the band The 1975.
Now she is in a relationship with American football player Travis Kelce, winner of the last Super Bowl.
And the drama of all that is recorded in their songs.
“Sensational and painful”
When she announced that she would release the album, Swift said that it would be: “an anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and feelings of a fleeting and fatalistic moment, sensational and painful in equal parts”, of a closed and closed chapter of her life.
Combining the roots that appear on your album Folklore of 2020 and more electronic sounds from her more pop side, Swift unloads on Alwyn and Healy.
So Long, London dialogues like a heartfelt postscript with the cheerful London Boy from your disk Lover of 2019, about the end of the relationship with Alwyn.
El actor Alwyn (The favourite) and his colleague Paul Mescal (Normal People) revealed in 2022 that they had a group chat titled The Tortured Man Club (The Tortured Man’s Club), which is why some fans related the name of the new album to this circle.
His verses about Healy are sharp, as in The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived: “I don’t even want you to come back / I just want to know / if the goal was to rust my bright summer.”
But at the same time she portrays herself as a troubled character.
For LA Times pop music critic Mikael Wood, Swift’s confessional style is raw and refreshing.
“In times of out-of-control fandom, it’s exciting to see a superstar address his fans in this way,” he wrote in the column.
He also refers to his relationship with Kelce, describing the dopamine invasion caused by a new romance in The Alchemy.
Post Malone and Florence + The Machine participate in the songs Fortnight y Florida!!!, respectively.
Tortured poem
Born in Pennsylvania in December 1989, Swift began writing songs professionally in her teens, in the country scene.
After a public dispute with his Big Machine label, and when he had already migrated to the pop genre, he made the decision to completely re-record his first six albums, to recover the rights to the material.
The move was worth it, as he delighted his old fans, gained many new ones, and gained greater respect in the industry.
It is now expected that with The Tortured Poets Department make people talk again, although they will have to face competition from figures like Beyonc and Billie Eilish in the next awards season.
Tortured Poets It is Swift’s ninth album in five years – five originals and four re-recorded. And like the others, it will surely reach the top of the charts.
“Once we have told our saddest story, we can free ourselves from it,” the artist said on Instagram on Friday. “And then all that remains is tortured poetry.”
FUENTE: AFP
