Two hours after releasing her highly anticipated album, “The Tortured Poets Department”, Taylor Swift surprised fans early Friday morning with a secret “double album” expansion of the album.
The expansion, released two hours after the initial album, features 15 more songs titled The Anthology.
“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. 🤍,” Swift wrote on Instagram.
Among the 15 extra songs were four previously announced bonus tracks — “The Manuscript,” “The Bolter,” “The Albatross” and “The Black Dog,” which were set to be available on separate physical album variants. Now, the tracks and 11 others make up the second installment of “TTPD.”
The tracklist for the surprise second half also includes “imgonnagetyouback”, “Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus”, “How Did It End?”, “So High School”, “I Hate It Here”, “thanK you aIMee”, “I Look in People’s Windows”, “The Prophecy”, “Cassandra”, “Peter”, and “Robin”.
The surprise drop is not shocking as the pop star started subtly hinting toward the timetable a few days ago. First, inside the Spotify library installation promoting the release, which popped up on Tuesday at the Grove in Los Angeles, Swift left her first easter egg: the clock above the card catalogue was set to 2:00.
Among the knick-knacks on the bookshelves was a peace sign, which she’d flashed at the Grammys back in February while announcing that she’d been keeping this album a secret for two years. Then, on Wednesday, Swift dropped a teaser video that tracked the transition from her “Midnights” era to the “Tortured Poets Department.”
The clip begins on a wall clock set to 2:00. Finally, just as Swift released the album at midnight on Friday, a mysterious two-hour countdown appeared hidden on her Instagram profile.
Upon a deep dive into the new tracks’ lyrics, a few songs stood out. One track titled “thanK you aIMee” is styled with a capital K, I and M, leading many social media users to believe the diss track is about Kim Kardashian and their longtime public feud, despite the lyrics alluding to a much older acquaintance. Swift sings, “Your kid comes home singin’ a song that only us two is gonna know is about you.”
On the track “So High School,” Swift pauses to celebrate the good times, describing how she feels “so high school every time I look at you,” presumably talking about her current love, NFL champion Travis Kelce. Fans made this connection after the “ball” mention: “I’m watching ‘American Pie’ with you on a Saturday night. Your friends are around, so be quiet I’m trying to stifle my sighs.” And later, “Truth, dare, spin bottles. You know how to ball, I know Aristotle. Brand new, full throttle. Touch me while your bros play ‘Grand Theft Auto.’”
The singer-songwriter unveiled the 16-song album at midnight ET on Friday. Two tracks are collaborations with Post Malone and Florence + The Machine. There are also four bonus tracks, “The Manuscript,” “The Bolter,” “The Albatross” and “The Black Dog” that are featured on different vinyl versions of the album. The four tracks, along with 11 other new songs, are included in The Anthology.
On Instagram, Swift called the album “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,” she continued. “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.”
Ahead of the album’s release, Swift revealed that the album’s first single would be “Fortnight” featuring Post Malone.
“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. I got to witness that magic come to life firsthand when we worked together on ‘Fortnight,’” Swift wrote on
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