Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department release date and full tracklist

"I want to say thank you to the members of the Recording Academy for voting this way," she said, whilst accepting the award for best pop album.

"But I know that the way that the Recording Academy voted is a direct reflection of the passion of the fans. So I want to say thank you to the fans by telling you a secret that I've been keeping from you for the last two years – which is that my brand new album comes out on April 19."

Before Swift announced the album at the Grammy Awards 2024, fans had been speculating online about whether the singer would use an acceptance speech to announce a re-recording of Reputation, continuing her project of re-recording her first six albums as "Taylor’s Versions".

Read on for everything you need to know about the album, including the full tracklist.

Taylor Swift new album: The Tortured Poets Department release date

The album released on 19th April 2024.

Swift revealed the release date in the caption of her post on Instagram, writing: "All’s fair in love and poetry... New album THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT. Out April 19."

She released 1989 (Taylor’s Version) in October 2023.

The Tortured Poets Department release time

The album was released at midnight ET (00:00am ET) on Friday 19th April, and became available to Swifties all over the world at the corresponding time in your country.

For fans in the UK, this means the album dropped at 5am BST.

Here’s when the album was released in your country:

• United States (PT) - 9pm (Thursday 18th)
• United States (ET) - 12am
• Canada - 12:00 AM (Toronto), 9pm (Thursday 18th) (Vancouver)
• Brazil (Rio De Janiero) - 1am
• Argentina (Buenos Aires) - 1am
• United Kingdom (BST) - 5am
• Europe (Central European Time) - 6am
• South Africa (Cape Town, Central Africa Time) - 6am
• India (New Delhi) - 9:30am
• Indonesia (Jakarta) - 11am
• Philippines (Manila) - 12pm
• China - 12pm (Beijing, Shanghai)
• Hong Kong - 12pm
• Singapore - 12pm
• Australia - 12pm (Perth), 2pm (Sydney)
• Japan (Tokyo) - 1pm
• New Zealand (Auckland) - 4pm

The Tortured Poets Department reviews and reactions

Reviews so far have been mostly positive, with Rolling Stone calling it "wildly ambitious and gloriously chaotic" and Variety labelling it "audacious" and "transfixing".

On the more negative side, the Evening Standard called the new album "underwhelming and clunky".

Meanwhile, the NME said the album contained "some of her most cringe-inducing lines yet".

Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department tracklist: Full list of songs

The new album treats fans to 20 brand new songs, as well as four mysterious bonus tracks, and includes features from Florence & The Machine and Post Malone.

Speaking about writing the album on The Eras Tour, the singer described it as a "lifeline", adding: "It sort of reminded me of why songwriting is something that actually gets me through life, and I’ve never had an album where I’ve needed songwriting more than I needed it on Tortured Poets."

Here’s the full tracklist and all the track lengths:

1. Fortnight feat Post Malone (3:48)
2. The Tortured Poets Department (4:53)
3. My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys (3:23)
4. Down Bad (4:21)
5. So Long, London (4:22)
6. But Daddy I Love Him (5:40)
7. Fresh Out the Slammer (3:30)
8. Florida!!! feat Florence and the Machine (3:35)
9. Guilty as Sin? (4:14)
10. Who's Afraid of Little Old Me? (5:34)
11. I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) (2:36)
12. Loml (4:37)
13. I Can Do It With a Broken Heart (3:38)
14. The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived (4:05)
15. The Alchemy (3:16)
16. Clara Bow (3:36)
17. EXCLUSIVE BONUS TRACK: The Manuscript (Vinyl only)
18. EXCLUSIVE BONUS TRACK: The Bolter (Vinyl only)
19. EXCLUSIVE BONUS TRACK: The Albatross (Vinyl only)
20. EXCLUSIVE BONUS TRACK: The Black Dog (Vinyl only)

The four bonus songs will only be available to listen to on the specific vinyl variants they’re being released on.

They won’t be available for streaming and you won’t be able to listen to them on the standard physical editions of the album.

Here are the corresponding vinyl variants the bonus songs are set to be released on:

• The Manuscript Edition - The Manuscript
• The Bolter Edition - The Bolter
• The Albatross Edition - The Albatross
• The Black Dog Edition - The Black Dog

Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department: What is the album be about and is there a genre?

The new album is a pop album.

When Swift first announced the album, many fans were quick to theorise that Swift’s new album could be about her ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn.

Alwyn and Swift dated for six years before they broke up last March.

Swifties noted that the album's release date is exactly one year to the day since Swift grabbed dinner with Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively. The couple unfollowed her ex Alwyn immediately afterwards, according to The Mirror.

Fans also unearthed a discussion that Alwyn and Paul Mescal had with Variety back in December 2022, during which they revealed they had a WhatsApp group chat with Andrew Scott called The Tortured Man Club.

"It’s the Tortured Man Club, I think. It’s me, you – and Andrew Scott started the group," Alwyn said in the interview.

But now that the album has released, while there are songs that allude to her time with Alywn, there are also songs touching on Swift's experiences of fame, friendships, mental health and other relationships.

The singer previously released a first look at an album cover – a black-and-white image of Swift lying on a bed with her hands wrapped around her body – in a post she shared on Instagram on the night of the Grammy Awards 2024.

In another slide, Swift gave fans a first look at lyrics that read: "And so I enter into evidence/ My tarnished coat of arms / My muses, acquired like bruises / My talismans and charms / The tick, tick, tick of love bombs/ My veins of pitch black ink."

Underneath the lyrics, Swift wrote: "All's fair in love and poetry ... Sincerely, The Chairman of The Tortured Poets Department."

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