Taylor Swift shocked her followers early Friday morning by releasing the second half of her long-awaited album “The Tortured Poets Division.”
After the primary 16 songs had been out there at midnight, a countdown appeared on their web site indicating one thing else was coming at 2 a.m. ET.
Shortly after 2 a.m., Swift introduced that “Tortured Poets” is a “secret double album.”
“I had written a whole lot of tortured poetry within the final 2 years and I needed to share all of it with you, so right here is the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology. 15 bonus songs. And now the story is not mine… it's all yours” , he captioned the announcement.
Earlier that evening, her official fan account, Taylor Nation, responded to a fan who observed that not one of the lyrics from a Spotify pop-up occasion in Los Angeles this week had appeared on the album.
“That's bizarre,” the account posted at 1:21 a.m. ET, including a brand new hashtag, #TTPDBoardMeeting.
As a part of Spotify's pop-up occasion, a number of strains of lyrics had been revealed to the general public:
Even statues crumble if saved ready.
One much less temptress, one much less dagger to sharpen
As he left, I felt like I used to be respiratory.
Misplaced the sport of probability, what are the probabilities?
Come one, come all / it's occurring once more
Nonetheless, the second a part of the album didn’t shock all Swifties. Some eagle-eyed followers had observed the pop star inserting quantity two all over the place these days. From holding up two fingers whereas accepting her Grammy Award (and asserting the album) to the aforementioned Spotify pop-up in Los Angeles, the quantity 2 appeared to be a giant image for her. Even the “TTPD” brand seems just like the Roman numeral two.
With the extra 15 songs, Swift brings her complete observe rely for this period to 31, her fortunate quantity 13 in reverse. She additionally makes the album her longest ever, surpassing “Crimson (Taylor's Model)” by one tune.
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