{"id":91205,"date":"2024-04-19T11:25:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T11:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/19\/taylor-swift-shocks-the-world-announces-double-album\/"},"modified":"2024-04-19T11:25:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T11:25:22","slug":"taylor-swift-shocks-the-world-announces-double-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/19\/taylor-swift-shocks-the-world-announces-double-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Shocks the World, Announces DOUBLE Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Welp, celebrity gossip fans. We were wrong.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, we did not know everything there is to know about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2024\/04\/the-tortured-poets-department-everything-we-know-about-taylor-swifts-album\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Tortured Poets Department<\/a>, Taylor Swift\u2019s brand new studio album.<\/p>\n<p>Because Swift dropped a bombshell very early on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>She has not actually released a brand new studio album, you see\u2026<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2024187452-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor Swift down in Australia\" class=\"wp-image-498176 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2024187452-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2024187452-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2024187452-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2024187452-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2024187452-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2024187452-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2024187452-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2024187452-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Taylor Swift is Down Under, performing here for fans in Australia.<span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by DAVID GRAY\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2026 she has released TWO brand new studio albums.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a 2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album,\u201d wrote the global superstar at, well, 2 a.m. on Instagram. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d written so much tortured poetry in the past 2 years and wanted to share it all with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, there had been speculation that Swift might be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2024\/04\/taylor-swift-surprise-two-albums-ttpd-speculation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">releasing two albums at the same time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But now we have confirmation \u2014 oh, and we also have A LOT of new Taylor Swift music!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C57qcCPucLV\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p>\u201cSo here\u2019s the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology. 15 extra songs,\u201d concluded Swift on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018And now the story isn\u2019t mine anymore\u2026 it\u2019s all yours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swift had often held up two fingers in the past during public appearance, doing so, for example, on stage at the Grammy Awards in February.<\/p>\n<p>Astute followers knew this wasn\u2019t a mere peace sign from the artist; they suspected that she was leaving them a clue as to what she had planned.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"656\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474272247-1024x656.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor Swift in Arizona\" class=\"wp-image-498177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474272247-1024x656.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474272247-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474272247-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474272247-2048x1312.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474272247-960x615.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474272247-1080x692.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474272247-1200x769.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"656\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474272247-1024x656.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor Swift in Arizona\" class=\"wp-image-498177 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474272247-1024x656.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474272247-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474272247-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474272247-2048x1312.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474272247-960x615.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474272247-1080x692.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474272247-1200x769.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474272247-scaled.jpg\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">It begins! This is a photo from the first night of the Eras Tour.<span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Kevin Winter\/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The first part of The Tortured Poets Department features references to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2024\/04\/who-is-lucy-dacus-taylor-swift-friend-ttpd-lyrics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lucy Dacus<\/a>, along with tracks that were seemingly written about her brief romance last year with The 1975 musician <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/stars\/matty-healy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matty Healy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was really a lifeline for me \u2014 just the things that I was going through, the things that I was writing about \u2026 it kind of reminded me why songwriting actually gets me through my life,\u201d she told fans about her new music at a tour stop earlier this year. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never had an album that I needed songwriting more than I needed it on Tortured Poets.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474275194-695x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor Swift on opening night\" class=\"wp-image-498178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474275194-695x1024.jpg 695w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474275194-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474275194-768x1132.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474275194-1390x2048.jpg 1390w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474275194-651x960.jpg 651w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474275194-733x1080.jpg 733w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474275194-814x1200.jpg 814w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474275194-scaled.jpg 1737w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474275194-695x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor Swift on opening night\" class=\"wp-image-498178 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474275194-695x1024.jpg 695w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474275194-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474275194-768x1132.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474275194-1390x2048.jpg 1390w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474275194-651x960.jpg 651w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474275194-733x1080.jpg 733w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474275194-814x1200.jpg 814w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474275194-scaled.jpg 1737w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474275194-scaled.jpg\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Taylor Swift on her Eras Tour.<span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Kevin Winter\/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Elsewhere, via the single \u201cSo Long, London,\u201d Swift makes apparent nod her split from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/stars\/joe-alwyn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Alwyn<\/a>, including the following raw and candid lyrics:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou swore that you loved me but where were the clues? I died on the altar waiting for the proof. You sacrificed us to the gods of your bluest days\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u2019m just getting color back into my face\u2026 I\u2019m just mad as hell \u2019cause I loved this place for so long, London\/Had a good run\/Moment of warm sun\/But I\u2019m not the one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taylor, of course, has since moved all the way on with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/stars\/travis-kelce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Travis Kelce<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474282486-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor Swift tours the country\" class=\"wp-image-498179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474282486-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474282486-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474282486-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474282486-2048x1535.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474282486-728x546.jpg 728w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474282486-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474282486-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474282486-960x720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474282486-1080x809.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474282486-1200x899.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474282486-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor Swift tours the country\" class=\"wp-image-498179 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474282486-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474282486-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474282486-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474282486-2048x1535.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474282486-728x546.jpg 728w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474282486-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474282486-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474282486-960x720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474282486-1080x809.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474282486-1200x899.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1474282486-scaled.jpg\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Taylor Swift is simply the best. That\u2019s our caption here.<span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Kevin Winter\/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Swift isn\u2019t yearning for the past, as fans know well. She\u2019s making it clear how she\u2019s looking to the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Tortured Poets Department. An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time \u2013 one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure,\u201d she previously wrote. \u201cThis period of the author\u2019s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion at the time?<\/p>\n<p><strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>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. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And then all that\u2019s left behind is the tortured poetry.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/urls.grow.me\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlaG9sbHl3b29kZ29zc2lwLmNvbS8yMDI0LzA0L3RheWxvci1zd2lmdC1zaG9ja3MtdGhlLXdvcmxkLWFubm91bmNlcy1kb3VibGUtYWxidW0v\/e\/*%7CEMAIL%7C*\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welp, celebrity gossip fans. We were wrong. As it turns out, we did not know everything there is to know about The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift\u2019s brand new studio album. Because Swift dropped a bombshell very early on Friday morning. She has not actually released a brand new studio album, you see\u2026 Taylor Swift [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-91205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}