Tracks on The Tortured Poets Division
1. Fortnight (feat. Publish Malone)
Taylor seems to reference the tip of her relationship with Joe Alwyn and her subsequent fling with Matty Healy within the first monitor on her album.
The primary verse seems to trace on the finish of her romance with Joe as she sings: I used to be purported to be despatched away however they forgot to return and get me.
Taylor then needs an ex effectively who betrayed her: All of this to say, I hope you are okay, however you are the rationale / Nobody here is in charge however what about your quiet treason.
Within the second verse, Taylor talks a couple of short-lived fling that helped her ‘transfer on’, doubtlessly a reference to Matt.
She sings: ‘All my mornings are Mondays caught in an infinite February / I took the miracle transfer on drug and the results have been short-term / And I really like you, it is ruining my life / I touched you for less than a fortnight.’
2. The Tortured Poets Division
The titular monitor is a shimmering melody which recommend that Taylor, modestly, would not see herself on the high desk of tortured poets: ‘You are not Dylan Thomas, and I am not Patti Smith.’
It additionally seems to closely reference her fling with Matty as she sings: ‘You smokеd then ate seven bars of chocolate / We declared Charlie Puth ought to be an even bigger artist.
‘I scratch your head, you go to sleep / Like a tattooed golden retriever / However you awaken with dread.’
She additionally makes a candid reference to her psychological well being, singing: ‘However you advised Lucy you’d kill your self if I ever go away /And I had stated that to Jack about you so I felt seen’.
3. My Boy Solely Breaks His Favourite Toys
Written solely by Taylor, this tune’s dense digital hum provides forceful notes.
Followers have recommended the title is a reference to the ‘shiny toy she sang about in her hit Merciless Summer time from the album Lover.
It is not clear if she is referring to heartbreak after splitting from Joe or the abrupt finish to her romance with Matty.
‘As soon as I repair me, he is gonna miss me,’ she vows, including: ‘I do know I am simply repeating mysеlf Put me again on my shelf / However first, pull the string And I am going to let you know that he runs As a result of he loves me (He loves me).’
4. Down Dangerous
Taylor references psychological well being once more as she particulars how ‘down’ she feels with out an ex and the infatuation she felt with him.
‘The whole lot comes out teenage petulance,’ sings Taylor as she bitterly surveys the fallout from an outdated relationship.
She continues: ‘The whole lot comes out teenage petulance / F**ok it if I am unable to have him / I would simply die, it might make no distinction / Down dangerous, waking up in blood /Staring on the sky, come again and decide me up.
‘F**ok it if I am unable to have us / I would simply not rise up / I would keep down dangerous.’
5. So Lengthy, London
The primary monitor to be written with The Nationwide’s Aaron Dessner brings a change of tempo, with a stunning, choral intro. ‘So lengthy, London, you will discover somebody,’ sings Taylor.
The tune seems to be a reference to British ex Joe and a comply with as much as her hit London Boy from Lover.
She references their completely different approaches to the tip of their romance, singing within the first verse: ‘I saved calm and carried the load of the rift / Pulled him in tighter every time he was drifting away / My backbone cut up from carrying us up the hill.’
Verse three she muses: ‘And also you say I deserted the ship, however I used to be happening with it / My white knuckle dying grip holding tight to your quiet resentment.’
Taylor Swift formally dropped The Tortured Poets Division on Friday – her hotly-anticipated eleventh studio album
6. However Daddy I Love Him
‘I do know he is loopy, however he is the one I need,’ sings Taylor, displaying wry humour as she admits to falling for the dangerous boys. Produced, with actual brightness, by Dessner.
She goes on to revel within the reality she dismisses warning from critics, singing: ‘They slammed the door on my entire world / The one factor I wished
‘Now I’m operating with my costume unbuttoned, / Screaming, However daddy I really like him / I’m having his child / No I’m not, however it is best to see your faces.’
7. Contemporary Out The Slammer
Finger-picked acoustic guitar provides folky notes paying homage to lockdown albums Folklore and Evermore to Contemporary Out The Slammer, which particulars dashing into a brand new relationship.
Seemingly a reference to her fling with Matty – who she beforehand dated in 2015 – she sings: ‘Now fairly child, I’m operating again dwelling to you. / Contemporary out the slammer I do know who my first name can be to.’
On the decay of her previous relationship, she sings: ‘Splintered again in winter, silent dinners, bitter he was along with her in goals / Grey and blue and fights and tunnels, handcuffed to the spell I used to be below.
‘For only one hour of sunshine / Years of labor, locks and ceilings / Within the shade of how he was feeling.’
8. Florida!!! (feat. Florence + The Machine)
An album spotlight, this theatrical duet with London singer Florence Welch is an uplifting tune of escape – from small-town life and a nasty romance.
Tellingly the primary tour cease following her cut up from Joe was in Tampa, Florida and she or he begins her tune by singing: ‘You’ll be able to beat the warmth for those who beat the costs too.
‘They stated I used to be a cheat, I suppose it have to be true / And my buddies all scent like weed or little infants / And this metropolis reeks of driving myself loopy.’
9. Responsible As Sin?
A story of unrequited love, and an outstanding slice of Nineteen Eighties-style delicate rock. It even mentions The Downtown Lights, a 1989 single by Scottish band The Blue Nile.
She begins the monitor along with her emotions on being ‘trapped’ in a relationship, singing: ‘My boredom’s bone-deep, this cage was as soon as simply effective / Am I allowed to cry?
‘I dream of cracking locks, throwing my life to the wolves or the ocean rocks.’
She hints at an emotional affair offering her launch, singing: ‘These deadly fantasies giving method to labored breath taking all of me we’ve already executed it in my head.
‘If it’s make-believe why does it really feel like a vow we’ll each uphold someway?”’
10. Who’s Afraid Of Little Outdated Me?
Large drums, a dramatic association, and extra dry humour in one other tune penned solely by Taylor. ‘You would not final an hour within the asylum the place they raised me,’ she snarls.
It is paying homage to her hit single Look What You Made Me Do and the villain arc is outstanding in her lyrics.
She sings: ‘I used to be tame, I used to be light until the circus life made me imply /Don’t you are concerned of us, we took out all her enamel
‘Who’s afraid of little outdated me? Effectively you ought to be.’
That is her first new album for the reason that finish of her six-year relationship with British actor Joe Alwyn and, whereas she would not point out Alwyn by identify, hypothesis can be rife that tracks similar to So Lengthy, London are about him. Pictured collectively in 2019
Taylor Swift and Matty Healy seen leaving The Electrical Woman studio in Manhattan on Could 16, 2023
11. I Can Repair Him (No Actually I Can)
A moody, stripped-down quantity worthy of Lana Del Rey, who has additionally labored extensively with the tune’s producer, Jack Antonoff.
She seems to be referring to chain smoking, booze loving Matty, as she sings: ‘The smoke cloud billows out his mouth like a freight practice by means of a small city / The jokes that he advised throughout the bar have been revolting and much too loud.’
Followers had expressed their issues when Taylor began courting The 1975 dangerous boy rocker and it appears her buddies had the identical reservations.
Taylor sings: ‘They shake their heads, saying, “God assist her” after I inform ‘em he’s my man / However your good Lord doesn’t have to elevate a finger / I can repair him, no actually I can / And solely I can.’
12. loml
‘You stated I am the love of your life,’ sings Taylor on this heat, resonant piano ballad. In a sensible twist, the ‘loml’ in the end turns into ‘the lack of my life’.
She describes being love-bombed by an outdated flame, seemingly referring to Matty given their previous expertise.
Others have recommended the depth of the lyrics recommend it pertains to her longterm relationship with Joe.
She sings: ‘I felt a glow like this, by no means earlier than and by no means since /If it in a single glimpse it’s legendary.
‘You and I am going from one kiss to getting married / Nonetheless alive, killing time on the cemetery / By no means fairly buried.’
13. I Can Do It With A Damaged Coronary heart
Extra Nineteen Eighties influences on an digital pop monitor that sees Taylor vowing to stay a trouper, regardless of any romantic strife.
She sings about placing on a courageous face whereas her relationships publicly crumble, noting: ‘They stated, “Babe, you gotta faux it until you make it,” and I did.
‘Lights, digicam, b***h, smile / Even once you wanna die / He stated he’d love me all his life / However that life was too quick / Breaking down, I hit the ground / All of the items of me shattered as the gang was chanting extra.’
Taylor has beforehand admitted she struggled along with her love stay taking part in out so publicly and the narrative that she’d had extra boyfriends than different ladies.
14. The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
‘You did not measure up in any measure of a person,’ sings a disdainful Taylor on a melodramatic ballad.
The title is noteworthy, on condition that Matty’s stature is an object of some debate. The singer beforehand disclosed: ‘Everybody in [the 1975] is 6’4” and I’m 5’10”, so everybody thinks that I’m 5’5”.’
Extra not too long ago, he addressed these quick man allegations by telling a fan that he was ‘sick to f***ing loss of life of this’, insisting that he’s ‘a giant boy.’
She sings: ‘And I don’t miss what we had / However might somebody give a message / To the smallest man who ever lived?’
15. The Alchemy
Not all of the songs are about heartbreak, as sporting metaphors aplenty recommend a monitor impressed by the singer’s present boyfriend, American soccer star Travis Kelce.
‘After I contact down, name the amateurs and lower them from the staff,’ she sings.
Talking concerning the upcoming launch again in February, when he was constructing as much as the Tremendous Bowl in Las Vegas, Kelce stated he had heard among the songs on Taylor’s newest launch.
‘I’ve heard a few of it and sure, it is unbelievable,’ he stated to reporters. ‘I am unable to anticipate her to shake up the world when it lastly drops.’
16. Clara Bow
It is tempting to assume Taylor sees one thing of herself in a closing monitor impressed by Clara an American actress of the Nineteen Twenties who lived her life within the Hollywood goldfish bowl.
She goes on to reference Stevie Nicks as she particulars combating the trimmings of fame.
Taylor sings: ‘I am not making an attempt to exaggеrate / However I feel I would die if I made it, die if I made it / Nobody in my small city thought I would meet these fits in LA / All of them need to say.’
The Alchemy: Sporting metaphors aplenty recommend a monitor impressed by the singer’s present boyfriend, American soccer star Travis Kelce. Pictured at Coachella this week
Bonus tracks on The Tortured Poets Division: The Anthology
17. The Black Canine
The Black Canine can also be a reference to melancholy and lack of power based mostly on a demonic hellhound appearing as an omen of loss of life in English folklore and literature.
In addition to the eerie lyrical that means to the title, The Black Canine is a bar in Vauxhall, London – her ex Matt’s metropolis of beginning and only a stone’s throw away from Joe’s hometown of Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent.
Within the tune, she belts out: ‘I’m somebody who till latest occasions you shared your secrets and techniques with and your location / you forgot to show it off / And so I watch as you stroll into some bar referred to as The Black Canine…
‘I simply do not perceive how you do not miss me in The Black Canine when somebody performs The Beginning Line and also you leap up, however she’s too younger to know this tune that was intertwined within the magic cloth of our dreaming.’
18. Imgonnagetyouback
Taylor is torn between calling issues off for good or rekindling with an ex in imgonnagetyouback.
Feelings are clearly operating excessive as she sings: ‘Whether or not Im gonna be your spouse / Or smash up your bike / I haven’t determined but’.
She seems to reference her new romance with Travis because the tune goes on, sharing: ‘I can really feel it coming / In the way in which you progress / Push the reset button /We’re changing into one thing new.
‘See you bought any individual else / Say I received another person too / Even when it’s him, I am leaving right here with you.’
19. The Albatross
It appears London watering holes are a theme of the album, with The Black Canine and The Bolter becoming a member of The Albatross as obvious references to venues.
The Albatross Membership is a pub in Farringdon, London but in addition has notably eerie significance in its that means as a phrase alone.
Albatross is outlined within the Britannica Dictionary as: ‘A seamless drawback that makes it tough or unimaginable to do or obtain one thing. Fame has change into an albatross that forestalls her from main a standard and completely satisfied life.’
Moreover, an albatross is a big white ocean fowl that has very lengthy and infrequently black wings – which many likened to her outfit from the Grammys.
Taylor is taking no prisoners on this monitor, referring to herself as one of many largest seabirds on Earth – famed for his or her large wingspan and talent to glide seamlessly.
She sings about taking revenge with the lyrics: ‘She is right here to destroy you/ Devils that / Elevate worse hell than a stranger’.
20. Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus
Taylor tells the story of a rocky relationship through which their associate betrays them and focuses on medicine greater than her.
She hints at infidelity on their half by singing: ‘Your hologram stumbled into my house / Arms within the hair of any individual in darkness.
‘Named Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus / And I simply watched it occur / As the last decade would play us for fools.’
Taylor goes on to reference, singing: ‘You stated some issues that I can’t unabsorb / You turned me into an concept of types / You wanted me, however you wanted medicine extra / And I couldn’t watch it occur.’
Taylor reignited her explosive feud with Kim Kardashian by releasing a diss monitor aimed on the actuality star (pictured with Kim in 2015)
Taylor additionally appears to reference Kim’s 10-year-old daughter North West dancing to Shake It Off on TikTok again in January, she writes:# your child comes dwelling singin’ a tune that solely us two is gonna know is about you’
21. How Did It Finish?
Taylor seems to reference the hypothesis over her relationship with Joe as she particulars within the refrain:
‘Come one come all It is happ’nin’ once more / The empathetic starvation descends We’ll inform no-one / ‘Cept all of our buddies / We should know How did it finish?’
Accusing folks of conducting their very own ‘autopsy’s’ within the opening sentence, Taylor additionally accuses folks of being smug: ‘Quickly they will go dwelling to their husbands / ‘trigger they know they will belief him / Then feverishly calling their cousins.’
She later admits that whereas everyone seems to be questioning, ‘How did it finish?’ she would not know herself: ‘However I nonetheless do not know, how did it finish?’
22. So Excessive Faculty
Whereas many tracks are daring goals at her exes Matt and Joe, happiness does reign in her monitor So Excessive Faculty the place she discusses present boyfriend Travis.
She sings: ‘You understand how to ball, I do know Aristotle, model new, full throttle // Contact me whereas your bros play Grand Theft Auto // It is true, swear, scouts honor // You knew what you wished, and, boy, you bought her.’
Taylor the instantly references a resurfaced video through which Travis was requested who marry, kiss or kill between Ariana Grande, Katy Perry and Taylor.
She sings: ‘Are you gonna marry, kiss or kill me? Kill me. It is only a recreation, however actually, actually, I am betting on all three for us two.
23. I Hate It Right here
Taylor depends in escapism to distract herself from the problems plaguing her actual life, describing herself as going to ‘secret gardens in my thoughts’.
She seems to be coping with the fallout of being lied to, singing: Inform me one thing terrible like you’re a poet / Trapped contained in the physique of a finance man
‘Inform me all of your secrets and techniques / All you’ll ever be is / My everlasting comfort prize.’
She seems to be between relationships, musing: ‘I’m lonely, however I’m good /I’m bitter, however I swear I’m effective.’
24. thanK you aIMee
Followers are satisfied the twenty fourth monitor – thanK you aIMee – is aimed toward Kim Kardashian, because the letters Ok,I and M are capped as much as spell out her identify.
Taylor sings in a single line: ‘There is a bronze spray-tanned statue of you and a plaque beneath it/That threatens to push me down the steps, at our college.’
‘All that point you have been throwin’ punches, I used to be buildin’ somethin’ / And I am unable to forgive the way in which you made me really feel / Screamed ‘F**ok you, Aimee’ to the evening sky, because the blood was gushin’ / However I am unable to neglect the way in which you made me heal.’
She goes on so as to add: ‘And it wasn’t a good combat, or a clear kill / Every time that Aimee stomped throughout my gravе / After which she wrote hеadlines/ Within the native paper, laughing at every child step I would take.’
Taylor concludes by confirming she’s modified the identify of the girl she’s singing about – additional fuelling hypothesis the monitor is about Kim.
She additionally appears to reference Kim’s 10-year-old daughter North West dancing to her 2014 single Shake It Off on TikTok, discovering it ironic because the ‘tune is about you’.
She sings: ‘And so I modified your identify, and any actual defining clues/And in the future, your child comes dwelling singin’ a tune that solely us two is gonna know is about you.’
25. I Look in Folks’s Home windows
Whereas she might have the last word lady squad round her, Taylor admits she will be able to’t assist however really feel lonely when chasing a person.
She sings: ‘I look in folks’s home windows / Transfixed by rose golden glows / They’ve their buddies over to drink good wine.
‘I look in folks’s home windows / In case you are at their desk / What in case your eyes seemed up and met mine / Yet one more time.’
26. The Prophecy
Taylor appears to be pained by the considered looking for an intimate love when her life is so public.
The singer – who discovered fame as an adolescent – reveals that being within the highlight and adored by thousands and thousands of followers cannot measure as much as being beloved by a associate.
She shares: ‘Please / Change the prophecy / Let it as soon as be me / Who do I’ve to talk to / About if they will redo the prophecy?’
Taylor has beforehand revealed how fame modified her life for the worst, explaining: ‘It is a social state of affairs each time I am going out.
‘I simply need to get up within the morning and say, “How am I feeling right this moment? If somebody asks for an image, am I gonna really feel imposed upon right this moment as a result of I am coping with my very own stuff? Am I gonna take my very own stuff out on some harmless 14-year-old right this moment and be in a nasty temper?”
‘OK, possibly not … Perhaps I will not go away the home.’
27. Cassandra
thanK you aIMee won’t be the one tune issuing photographs at Kim Kardashians, with Cassandra additionally seeming to be crammed with veiled digs.
Greek god Cassandra, ‘entangled males’ and was punished with a curse the place nobody would consider what she needed to say.
In her refrain, Taylor sings: ‘When the primary stone’s thrown, they’re screaming /Within the streets, there’s a raging riot / When it’s “Burn the b***h”, they’re shrieking / When the reality comes out, it’s quiet.’
This could possibly be in reference to Kim sparking a social media firestorm when she shared a Snapchat video of then-husband Kanye West throughout a cellphone name with Taylor, the place she seemingly gave the rapper to incorporate lyrics about her in his new tune.
Whereas Taylor insisted that she hadn’t consented to Kanye labelled her a ‘b***h’ in his monitor, many accused her of being a snake.
Kardashian followers and Swifties went to conflict with each other by posting snake emojis.
Taylor references snakes in her tune, sharing: ‘So, they killed Cassandra first ‘trigger she feared the worst / And tried to inform the city / So, they stuffed my cell with snakes, I remorse to say / Do you consider me now?’
28. Peter
Taylor displays on her childhood and pleads for forgiveness as she displays on dropping a previous love.
It could possibly be in reference to Matty, who she was first linked to in 2014, and their subsequent breakup as she sings: ‘Stated you have been gonna develop up /Then you definately have been gonna come discover me.
‘Phrases from the mouths of babes / Guarantees oceans deep / However by no means to maintain / By no means to maintain.’
It may be a comply with as much as her tune Cardigan, the place she sang: ‘Tried to vary the ending / Peter dropping Wendy’.
Taylor displays on her childhood and pleads for forgiveness as she displays on dropping a previous love (pictured in 2008)
29. The Bolter
Followers have made many interpretations of The Bolter – with hyperlinks to a London pub within the type of Mansion Home’s bar of the identical identify whereas additionally alluding to a suitor operating into the evening – one thing followers insisted was about Joe.
Some Twitter customers claimed the placement is the place the previous couple loved their first date – but the claims have been rapidly disputed by devoted followers.
The preliminary declare got here from a fan writing: ‘The Bolter is a bar in London the place Taylor and Joe went on their first outing?!?!???? I’m executed, BYE’.
Others adopted up writing: ‘***Apparently that’s not the bar they have been publicly first seen collectively!!!!*** However there’s certainly this bar in London which is loopy anyway… guys it is not actual, it was completely different place’.
She sings: ‘Began with a kiss / “Oh, we should cease assembly like this” / However it at all times ends with a city automotive dashing / Out the drive one evenin’ / Ended with the slam of a door / However she’s received the very best tales // You might be certain…
‘All her f**kin’ lives / Flashed earlier than her eyes / And she or he realized / It feels just like the time / She fell by means of the ice / Then got here out alive’.
30. Robin
Her penultimate monitor can also be reflective of her youth as she displays on how innocence is ripped away with age.
She sings: ‘You get the dragonflies above your mattress /You have got a favourite spot on the swing set / You don’t have any room in your goals for remorse
‘You don’t have any concept / The time will arrive for the merciless and the imply / You will study to bounce again identical to your trampoline.’
Regardless of this there’s a component of hope concerned as she sings: ‘However now we’ll curtail your curiosity / In sweetness / Method to go, tiger / Method to go, tiger /Increased and better / Increased and better / Wilder and lighter.’
31. The Manuscript
The one bonus monitor on the primary bodily variations of Taylor’s album appears to be a comply with as much as All Too Effectively – her tune about Jake Gyllenhaal.
She displays on a previous romance as she sings: ‘From time to time she rereads the manuscript / Of all the torrid affair /He stated that if the intercourse was half nearly as good because the dialog was / Quickly they’d be pushin’ strollers / However quickly it was over.’
In a nod to All Too Effectively (10 Minute Model) and its music video instantly, Taylor continues: ‘The Professor stated to write down what / Lookin’ backwards is likely to be the one method to transfer ahead / Then the actors / Have been hitting their marks.’
The Dangerous Blood songstress, 34 – who not too long ago teased a ‘timetable’ to her followers forward of the LP’s launch – initially introduced the album whereas attending the 2024 Grammys in February