A shade over two months after announcing it at the 2024 Grammy Awards, Taylor Swift has released her long-awaited 11th studio album, "The Tortured Poets Department".
The singer-songwriter’s follow-up to 2022 record" Midnights" opens with the Post Malone collaboration “Fortnight” and features another star act, Florence and the Machine, on mid-album cut “Florida!!!”.
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).
Swift plans to release the music video for “Fortnight” at 8 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Friday, April 19.
“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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