Taylor Swift dropped an album of 16 songs at midnight. Then at 2am she added 15 more, for a total of 31 songs.
The collection is called The Tortured Poets Department Anthology. The 2am part is total surprise. It sounds like demos, it’s a little underproduced. But what the heck?
Swift wrote on social media: “it’s a 2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album. ✌️ I’d written so much tortured poetry in the past 2 years and wanted to share it all with you, so here’s the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology. 15 extra songs. And now the story isn’t mine anymore… it’s all yours.”
Just two hours earlier she’d written — with no indication that more was coming (bold face is mine):
“The Tortured Poets Department. An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time – one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure. This period of the author’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up. There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed. And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted. This writer is of the firm belief that our tears become holy in the form of ink on a page. Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it.
And then all that’s left behind is the tortured poetry.”
How can there be so many songs? Are they any good? Why do some of them sound a lot like Lana Del Rey? All questions to be answered in the days ahead.
31 songs?
