Two days before Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department” release, the artist didn’t leave fans waiting in vain. Following the installation of a “library” in downtown Los Angeles, California, featuring the tracklist for this project, the 14-time Grammy winner also suggested that we mark our calendars for Friday, as “The Tortured Poets Department” will be released at 12:01 a.m as well as a new music video!
Taylor Swift will release a music video from her upcoming album, ‘The Tortured Poets Department’, on Friday at 8PM EST. pic.twitter.com/psFTMpeKjb
— Pop Tingz (@ThePopTingz) April 17, 2024
The album will consist of 16 songs and, as if that’s not enough, Taylor will unveil the first single with a music video premiering at 8 PM ET.
Taylor is already famous for dropping hints to her fans, and that is why everything indicates that ‘Fortnight‘, the collaboration with Post Malone, could mark the beginning of this new era, as in the Instagram video posted on her account where she reveals the time there are 14 marks on a clock. It could also be the fourteenth song on the album, ‘The Smallest Man.’ Only swifties could tell!
Tracklist, the number, and it’s meaning
The album will beginning with “Fortnight”, ending with “Clara Bow.” Taylor chose the 16 tracks on “The Tortured Poets Department” as a special wink honoring the age she was at the time of her first single ever, Tim McGraw,” and her self-titled debut album in 2006.
In addition, there will be three alternate editions with different album covers and bonus tracks: “The Bolter Edition,” “The Albatross Edition” and “The Black Dog Edition.”
Here are the names Tay chose for the 16 songs:
- “Fortnight”
- “The Tortured Poets Department”
- “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys”
- “Down Bad”
- “So Long, London”
- “But Daddy I Love Him”
- “Fresh Out the Slammer”
- “Florida!!!”
- “Guilty as Sin?”
- “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?”
- “I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)”
- “loml”
- “I Can Do It with a Broken Heart”
- “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived”
- “The Alchemy”
- “Clara Bow”
- “The Manuscript” (bonus track)
We are very excited to see the music video and we can’t help but speculate about which song it will be!
