Taylor Swift surprises followers

Taylor Swift’s eleventh studio album, that includes 16 tracks, was launched at midnight EDT (0400 GMT). Two hours later she revealed a second installment with 15 extra songs.
“I’d written a lot tortured poetry up to now 2 years and wished to share all of it with you,” Swift wrote on Instagram.

Spotify mentioned “Poets” broke the report for the platform’s most-streamed album in a single day this yr, attaining the feat in lower than 12 hours.

Taylor Swift, 34, has been setting music trade milestones and boosting native economies with The Eras Tour, which resumes in Paris in Might.

Time journal named Swift its 2023 Individual of the Yr, citing her musical accomplishments and affect on every thing from popular culture to voter registration.

An outline of “Poets” on Instagram mentioned it was “an anthology of latest works that mirror occasions, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic second in time – one which was each sensational and sorrowful in equal measure.”

“This era of the writer’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up,” it added.

“There may be nothing to avenge, no scores to settle as soon as wounds have healed. And upon additional reflection, a great variety of them turned out to be self-inflicted.”

The publish additionally instructed that Swift used the writing course of to heal.

“This author is of the agency perception that our tears change into holy within the type of ink on a web page. As soon as we have now spoken our saddest story, we could be freed from it,” it mentioned.

The Instagram publish didn’t say which occasions Swift was referring to. Followers have speculated she was writing about her relationship with British actor Joe Alwyn. The pair break up in April 2023 after six years of relationship.

Taylor Swift is amongst a number of of music’s prime feminine artists releasing albums in what’s being known as “Pop Woman Spring.” Beyonce’s “Cowboy Carter” debuted in March. Dua Lipa and Billie Eilish have releases scheduled for Might.

Critiques of “Poets” had been largely constructive, with Rolling Stone calling the music “wildly bold and gloriously chaotic.”