The Tortured Poet’s Department… the Anthology

At the 2024 Grammys, Taylor Swift announced she would be releasing her new album on April 19th of 2024. She was originally only supposed to release 16 songs in her new album at midnight, but to everyone’s surprise, she ended up releasing an extra 15 songs at 2 a.m. that morning. The second half of the album is known as “The Tortured Poets Department: the anthology”.

One of the more controversial songs, the 8th song on the expanded album, “thanK you aIMee” which spells out “KIM” in capital letters. This is obviously rumored to be referring to Kim Kardashian. I think that this was a very bold move of Swift but nothing unaccepted as she is known for her not so discrete “shady” lyrics. The conflict between Swift and Kardashian stems from the faked phone call in which Swift ‘gives consent’ for her likeness and name to be used in a derogatory way in Kanye West’s song “Famous”. Kim still has yet to respond to any backlash she may have received from people.

While most of the songs in this album are about Joe Alwyn who is past relationship of Swift, Swifts current boyfriend; Travis Kelce, does have two songs that supposedly were written about him. In the first part of the album the “The Alchemy” was supposedly written about Kelce as well as “So High School” from the anthology, with lyrics such as ” you know how to ball I know Aristotle” hinting towards Kelce’s football career.

My number one song from the anthology is 100% “Peter” because it reminds me a lot of her previous albums’ “Folklore” and “Red”; which are my favorite Taylor Swift albums. Coming in number two for my favorite anthology songs is “How did it end?”. Mainly due to the instrumental which reminds me a lot of another one of Swifts albums, “Evermore”, which is largely due to them sharing a producer, Aaron Dessner of The National.

The tortured poet’s department will forever have a long-term effect on her career with the album reaching 300 million streams on the first day alone. Nobody recognizes how intelligent and hard-working Swift is, to be able to create two albums while on tour is amazing. Not to mention for so long she had been hinting towards a double album the whole time from what she wore to her clever word play in her interviews.

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