Taylor Swift shocked followers with a secret “double album” enlargement of The Tortured Poets Division early Friday morning. The enlargement, launched two hours after the preliminary album, options 15 extra songs titled The Anthology.
“It’s a 2am shock: The Tortured Poets Division is a secret DOUBLE album,” Swift wrote on Instagram. “I’d written a lot tortured poetry previously 2 years and needed to share all of it with you, so right here’s the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology. 15 further songs. And now the story isn’t mine anymore… it’s all yours.”
The singer-songwriter unveiled her preliminary 16-song album at midnight ET on Friday. Two tracks are collaborations with Submit Malone and Florence + The Machine. There are additionally 4 bonus tracks, “The Manuscript,” “The Bolter,” “The Albatross” and “The Black Canine” which might be featured on totally different vinyl variations of the album. The 4 tracks, together with 11 different new songs, are included in The Anthology.
On Instagram, Swift referred to as the album “an anthology of recent works that mirror occasions, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic second in time – one which was each sensational and sorrowful in equal measure.”
“This era of the writer’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up,” she continued. “There may be nothing to avenge, no scores to settle as soon as wounds have healed. And upon additional reflection, a very good variety of them turned out to be self-inflicted. This author is of the agency perception that our tears grow to be holy within the type of ink on a web page. As soon as we’ve spoken our saddest story, we may be freed from it. After which all that’s left behind is the tortured poetry.”
Forward of the album’s launch, Swift revealed that the album’s first single can be “Fortnight” that includes Submit Malone. “I’ve been such an enormous fan of Submit due to the author he’s, his musical experimentation and people melodies he creates that simply stick in your head endlessly. I obtained to witness that magic come to life firsthand once we labored collectively on ‘Fortnight,’” Swift wrote on Instagram alongside a photograph with Submit Malone.
Spotify additionally revealed on Thursday that the album turned the most pre-saved album Countdown Web page within the historical past of the audio streamer.