Taylor Swift released on Friday her long-awaited 11th studio album, "The Tortured Poets Department".
It comes a shade of months from announcing it at the 2024 Grammy Awards, Swift shows off her lyrical prowess on the 16-track album, which features songs inspired by her love life and includes collaborations with Post Malone, Florence and the Machine’s Florence Welch and more.
Swift also teamed up on her new album with her two go-to producers: Bleachers’ Jack Antonoff and the National’s Aaron Dessner.
She also worked on "The Tortured Poets Department" with recording engineers Laura Sisk and Jonathan Low, Grammy-winning mixer Serban Ghenea, Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche, string player and arranger Rob Moose, violinist Galya Bisengalieva, pianist Thomas Bartlett (aka Doveman), longtime Post Malone collaborator Louis Bell, the National’s Bryce Dessner, and the non-Antonoff members of Bleachers (Zem Audu, Mikey Freedom Hart, Sean Hutchinson, Michael Riddleberger, and Evan Smith).
The singer-songwriter’s follow-up to the 2022 record"Midnights" opens with the Post Malone collaboration “Fortnight”.
Swift plans to release the music video for “Fortnight” at 8 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Friday.
“I’ve been such a huge fan of Post because of the writer he is, his musical experimentation and those melodies he creates that just stick in your head forever,” Swift wrote on Instagram. “I got to witness that magic come to life firsthand when we worked together on Fortnight.”
In between "Midnights" and "The Tortured Poets Department", Swift issued two re-recorded albums—"Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)" and "1989 (Taylor’s Version)" —and began her world-conquering Eras Tour.
She is currently on a brief break from the tour, having last performed in Singapore in early March and not having a show scheduled until May 9 in France.
The UK and European leg of the Eras Tour continues into August and Swift returns to North America for more concerts in October. Meanwhile, her extremely successful concert film, "Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour", is available online in standard and extended editions.
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