Taylor Swift has revealed a surprise double album version of The Tortured Poets Department.
“It’s a 2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album” Swift announced on social media. “I’d written so much tortured poetry in the past 2 years and wanted to share it all with you, so here’s the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology. 15 extra songs. And now the story isn’t mine anymore… it’s all yours.”
In totality, The Tortured Poets Department now spans 31 songs and a runtime exceeding two hours in length.
Whereas the first half of The Tortured Poets Department is largely produced by Jack Antonoff, the surprise second half is mostly helmed by Aaron Dessner of The National. Dessner has worked on a majority of Swift’s most recent releases, but his most significant contributions came on her 2020 LPs, folklore and evermore. At first listen, the second half of TTPD is more sonically in line with those albums as opposed to the Antonoff-helmed Midnights.
In a statement posted at midnight when the first half of the album dropped, Swift described it 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.”
Continuing, she wrote, “This period of the author’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up. There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed. And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted. This writer is of the firm belief that our tears become holy in the form of ink on a page. Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it… and then all that’s left behind is the tortured poetry.”
Stream The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology in full below. Beginning in May, Swift will resume “The Eras Tour” with a run of shows in the UK/Europe, before returning to North America in October for another leg of stadium shows. Get tickets to her upcoming shows here.
The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology Tracklist:
01. Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)
02. The Tortured Poets Department
03. My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
04. Down Bad
05. So Long, London
06. But Daddy I Love Him
07. Fresh Out the Slammer
08. Florida!!! (feat. Florence + the Machine)
09. Guilty as Sin?
10. Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?
11. I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)
12. loml
13. I Can Do It with a Broken Heart
14. The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
15. The Alchemy
16. Clara Bow
17. The Black Dog
18. imgonnagetyouback
19. The Albatross
20. Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus
21. How Did It End?
22. So High School
23. I Hate It Here
24. thanK you alMee
25. I Look in People’s Windows
26. The Prophecy
27. Cassandra
28. Peter
29. The Bolter
30. Robin
31. The Manuscript (bonus track)