Taylor Swift drops 15 extra songs at 2 a.m.

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Taylor Swift drops 15 extra songs at 2 a.m.

At midnight, a session for “The Tortured Poets Department” began and later continued at 2 a.m.

On Friday, Taylor Swift introduced her 11th album, bringing new poems with deeply emotional songs and lively tunes. The album surprisingly grew to 31 songs when she announced an additional 15 tracks titled “The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology.”

As the session started, the room filled with excitement. This is why journalists Austin Curtright and Bryan West are gathering important details for the meeting record, ensuring you have all the necessary information about the album.

Let’s get ready to explore the eagerly awaited album “The Tortured Poets Department.”

Also Read: Taylor Swift’s Parents Divorced Years Ago

Travis Kelce is ‘So High School’

In song number 22, Swift sings about knowing deep thoughts like Aristotle and going all out. She talks about being close while friends are busy playing a video game. She promises it’s the truth, seriously. She acknowledges that the boy knew what he desired and he succeeded.

The story is like a romantic comedy happening on a football field. Swift has been to 13 games, including the Super Bowl, and Kelce has watched her perform in three different countries: Argentina, Australia, and Singapore. Their romance has unfolded in front of countless fans.

Swift wonders if she will be chosen for marriage, a kiss, or be dismissed. She says it’s all in fun, but she’s actually hoping for all three outcomes with him. This refers to a video where Kelce was asked whom he would marry, kiss, or dismiss. He chose to marry Katy Perry and kiss Taylor Swift, while Ariana Grande was not chosen.

Does ‘The Anthology’ have songs about Kim Kardashian?

In her usual creative way, Swift played with capital letters in the song “thanK you aIMee,” which seems to be about a mean girl at school. But it might be more than that. The name “KIM” that comes up a lot with Swift is Kim Kardashian, who once called Swift a snake using an emoji. And talking about snakes, they are mentioned a few times in the song “Cassandra.”

Swift talked about her problems with Kardashian in an interview for Time’s person of the year.

She said, “There was a fake setup in a secretly recorded phone call that Kim Kardashian cut and shared to make me look like a liar. This really hurt me mentally, taking me to a dark place I had never been. I went to live in another country.

I stayed inside a house I was renting for a year. I was scared to make phone calls. I pushed away almost everyone in my life because I couldn’t trust anyone. It hit me very hard.”

‘The Black Dog’ is a real bar

In her song, Swift talks about a bar named “Black Dog” where she sees her former boyfriend by accident because he didn’t stop sharing his location with her. This small thing makes her feel very sad and maybe a bit jealous. She imagines a story where her ex is with a new girl who is too young to get the meaning of a song’s first line. Some of the lyrics say, “I go around feeling heartbroken. I keep my desires to myself, and I might never be as open as I was with you.”

The Black Dog is a pub in London at this address: 112 Vauxhall Walk, London SE11 5ER, UK.

The soft sound at the end of the song perfectly shows the hurt of ending a relationship.

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15 extra songs drop at 2 a.m.

Swift always surprises her fans. At 2 a.m. Eastern Time, just two hours after her latest album came out, she added 15 more songs to “The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology,” calling it a “hidden second album.”

She shared, “I have written a lot of deep and emotional poetry in the last two years and I want to share everything with you, so this is the next part of TTPD.”

Here are the 15 new songs:

  • “The Black Dog”
  • “imgonnagetyouback”
  • “The Albatross”
  • “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”
  • “The Bolter”
  • “Robin”
  • “The Manuscript”

Could ‘The Alchemist’ be about Travis Kelce?

Is the song before the last one on Taylor Swift’s album, “The Alchemist,” inspired by her boyfriend, Travis Kelce?

The song includes the words, “Where is the trophy? He comes running to me,” suggesting it might be about Kelce’s victory in the Super Bowl with the Kansas City Chiefs. Following the victory, Kelce and Swift had a significant encounter on the field at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.

Taylor Swift name-drops Patti Smith and Dylan Thomas on new song. Here’s why

The main part of the song talks about two famous writers and a well-known hotel: Patti Smith, Dylan Thomas, and the Chelsea Hotel.

In the song “The Tortured Poets Department,” Swift sings, “I laughed and told you, ‘You are not Dylan Thomas. I am not Patti Smith. This place is not the Chelsea Hotel. We are just silly people.’”

Dylan Thomas was a writer from Wales known for his works like “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,” “Under Milk Wood,” and “Fern Hill.” He was born in 1914 and passed away in 1953. Patti Smith is a well-known writer, musician, and artist born in 1947. She says on her Instagram, “Writer. We are all living together.” Smith is still writing and recently had a book signing in New York City.

The Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan was built in the late 1800s. It’s a tall, 12-story building that’s recognized as a historic landmark in New York. It’s been home to many creative people like writers and artists, and it still is.

Stephanie Burt, a professor at Harvard who teaches about Swift, talked about the deeper meaning of these words in the song.

Track lengths

Spotify shared the length of each song a week before the album came out. They didn’t include the extra songs.

  • “But Daddy I Love Him” – 5 minutes and 40 seconds
  • “Who is Scared of Little Old Me?” – 5 minutes and 34 seconds
  • “The Tortured Poets Department” – 4 minutes and 53 seconds
  • “loml” – 4 minutes and 37 seconds
  • “Goodbye, London” – 4 minutes and 22 seconds
  • “Feeling Low” – 4 minutes and 21 seconds
  • “Am I Guilty?” – 4 minutes and 14 seconds
  • “The Tiniest Man Ever” – 4 minutes and 5 seconds
  • “Two Weeks” (featuring Post Malone) – 3 minutes and 48 seconds
  • “I Can Manage with a Broken Heart” – 3 minutes and 38 seconds
  • “Clara Bow” – 3 minutes and 36 seconds
  • “Florida!!!” (featuring Florence + The Machine) – 3 minutes and 35 seconds
  • “Just Got Out” – 3 minutes and 30 seconds
  • “My Boy Only Damages His Favorite Toys” – 3 minutes and 23 seconds
  • “The Magic” – 3 minutes and 16 seconds
  • “I Can Fix Him (Yes, Really I Can)” – 2 minutes and 36 seconds

Five writers credited on the album

As is common, Taylor Swift is recognized as the writer for all 16 songs. She wrote two songs on her own: “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys” and “Who is Afraid of Little Old Me?” Austin Post, also known as Post Malone, contributed to the song he appears in, “Fortnight,” and Florence Welch from Florence + The Machine is acknowledged for the song “Florida!!!”

Jack Antonoff, who has been working with Swift since her album “1989,” has his name on eight songs: “Fortnight,” “The Tortured Poets Department,” “Down Bad,” “Fresh Out The Slammer,” “Guilty As Sin?,” “I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can),” “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart,” and “The Alchemy.”

Aaron Dessner, who has collaborated with Swift since the album “Folklore,” is named on five songs: “So Long, London,” “But Daddy I Love Him,” “loml,” “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived,” and “Clara Bow.”

The names of those involved in the extra songs have not been shared yet.