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TTS testing-Taylor Swift's new album, The Tortured Poets Department, set to drop
This is the 11th studio album for the superstar singer.
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Taylor Swift is primed to release her highly anticipated record The Tortured Poets Department on Friday (Apr 19) – the 11th studio album from the megastar who is already having a blockbuster year.
Swift announced the album's release at the Grammys in February, a night that saw the 34-year-old billionaire win a record-breaking fourth Album of the Year prize.
And with Tortured Poets set to drop in the United States at midnight Eastern time (0400 GMT Friday, which is 12pm in Singapore), the artist could be on track for a fifth.
Since her bombshell announcement, her loyal legion of Swifties have been working around the clock shelling out fan predictions
The working theory is that the album centres on her ex, British actor Joe Alwyn, who Swift dated starting in 2016 until they broke up about a year ago.
Alwyn (The Favourite) and fellow actor Paul Mescal (Normal People) revealed in 2022 that they had a group chat entitled The Tortured Man Club, which also included Andrew Scott (Fleabag, Ripley).
The Swifties think their queen's album title is a likely reference to that text circle, and an early promo of the record indeed implied she's got tea to spill.
"All's fair in love and poetry..." she wrote on Instagram. "New album THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT."
Before their breakup, Alwyn had multiple songwriting credits on her albums under a pen name, William Bowery.
Swift already revealed the tracklist, with titles including So Long, London, I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) and The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived.
Florence + The Machine is among those set to make cameos on the album, as is Post Malone, who Swift said Thursday will feature on her first single Fortnight.
