The singer surprised her fans with “The Tortured Poets Department,” revealing that it was a double album with songs about heartbreak and a period described as “the saddest story” of her life.
“The Tortured Poets Department”, the new musical release by Taylor Swift. Photo: X @taylorswift13
The breakup after six years of relationship Taylor Swift with the actor Joe Alwyn led to the launch of “The Tortured Poets Department”in which the American singer emphasized the evils of her relationship and undertook a therapy exercise after the end of the romance.
Its publication also came with surprise: after the leak this past Thursday of the 16 cuts that were to make up the complete album, Finally there were 31 songs that made it up and in them his personal life constitutes once again his favorite material to build songs.
New Taylor Swift album. Photo: Taylor Swift
That decision had very positive effects on its first day on digital platforms. On the first day alone, “The Tortured Poets Department” reached a all-time record on Spotifymore than 300 million views in just one day.
Taylor Swift’s album became the first in the history of the music company to reach such a high number of views in a 24-hour period.
“History was made! On April 19, 2024, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department was the first album in Spotify history to exceed 300 million streams in a single day”Spotify announced through its social networks.
The celebration for the record. Photo: Spotify
The incredible thing is that the Grammy winner was the person who held the title for the most streams in one day with her previous albums, Midnights and 1989 (Taylor’s Version).
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“They reflect events, opinions and feelings from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time, one that was both sensational and painful in equal measure,” Taylor Swift commented on her networks after the publication about “a chapter that is closed and walled up”in which “there is nothing to avenge and no scores to settle once the wounds have healed.”
Rumors about the possible thematic core of the album began since Swift herself revealed the title at the last Grammy gala, very similar to that of a online chat that his ex shared with fellow actors Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott, called “Tortured Man Club”.
Joe Alwyn and Taylor Swift. Photo: X
Likewise, the geographical coincidence between the British nationality of his ex and the inspirational source of the song does not seem coincidental. “So Long, London”one of the most tortured along with “Florida!!!!”. Regarding this, there are those who pointed out that this was the state in which “The Eras Tour” ended when the couple’s breakup was made public in April 2023.
The reproaches continue in “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys” (in Spanish, my child only breaks his favorite toys), in which the artist announces the moment in which she gives up on a relationship that is not prospering: “I abandon building castles that he destroys.”
Heartbreak conceptually covers the entire album and, with it, the melancholy becomes strong, but without despair either in its words or in its forms, rather acceptance, with spaces for irony and sarcasm in songs like “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” either “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart”.
