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Taylor Swift will release her 11th album on April 19, and here’s everything we know about “The Tortured Poets Department,” or “Tortured Poets” for short.

 

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There are 16 tracks plus a different bonus track on four versions of the album (20 songs in total). At the Grammys, Swift announced version one would include “The Manuscript.”

In Melbourne, Australia, Swift announced a second version with a different bonus track, “The Bolter.” In Sydney, Australia, she announced a third version with the track “The Albatross.”

In Singapore, she announced a fourth and final version with the track “The Black Dog.”

 

Post Malone and Florence and The Machine are two contributors on what appears to be a break-up album. The titles are brutal.

Fans speculate the album is about Swift’s six-year relationship to English actor Joe Alwyn. Both stars kept the relationship out of the public eye.

The back of the first version of the album reads, “I love you, it’s ruining me,” which may serve as a dagger-to-the-chest harbinger.

Keep scrolling for an analysis of what the track titles may mean.

What tracks are on ‘Tortured Poets Department’?

On Thursday, April 11, the desktop version of Spotify released the track lengths. The longest song is “But Daddy, I Love Him” at 5:40 and the shortest song is “I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)” at 2:36. Bonus song lengths were not included.

Side A: 

“Fortnight” (ft. Post Malone) 3:48
“The Tortured Poets Department” 4:53
“My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys” 3:23
“Down Bad” 4:21

Side B: 

“So Long, London” 4:22
“But Daddy I Love Him” 5:40
“Fresh Out the Slammer” 3:30
“Florida!!!” (ft. Florence + The Machine) 3:35

Side C: 

“Guilty as Sin?” 4:14

“Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” 5:34
“I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)” 2:36
“loml” 4:37

Side D: 

“I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” 3:38
“The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” 4:05
“The Alchemy” 3:16
“Clara Bow” 3:36

Bonus: 

“The Manuscript” (Bonus track, version 1)
“The Bolter” (Bonus track, version 2)
“The Albatross” (Bonus track, version 3)
“The Black Dog” (Bonus track, version 4)

Explicit tracks announced on Apple Music

Apple Music made the album — the streaming service has categorized as “pop” — available for pre-order on March 18 showing that seven of the tracks included curse words, the most of any of Swift’s former albums: “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.” The four bonus tracks were not included.

Why announce the new album at the Grammys?

Taylor Swift loves numerology, especially when it comes to the number 13. On Feb. 4, the singer won her 13th career Grammy for pop vocal album.

“I want to say thank you to the fans,” Swift said in her acceptance speech, “by telling you a secret that I’ve been keeping from you for the past two years, which is that my brand-new album comes out April 19.”

During her first Tokyo concert later that week, Swift said she intended to announce the album in Japan but switched to the Grammys.

“I had this plan in my head and I told my friends, I told Jack (Antonoff), but I hadn’t really told many other people,” she said. “I thought, ‘OK, so if I’m lucky enough to win one thing tonight, I’m just going to do it. I’m just going to announce my new album.'”

Version one of the album included the bonus track “The Manuscript.”