Taylor Swift has shared a new video for The Tortured Poets Department

The singer-songwriter published a clip on her social media profiles for the long-awaited album due on Friday 19 April 2024. The star also revealed one of the lyrics of the album (which will be the artist’s 11th studio album). An official video should also be released tomorrow

Taylor Swift shared a new video for The Tortured Poets Departmentthe long-awaited album that should arrive tomorrow (Friday 19 April 2024).

In addition to the video published in recent hours on social media for The Tortured Poets Department, the American singer-songwriter also revealed one of the album’s lyrics. Furthermore, tomorrow, together with the release of the artist’s 11th studio album, an official video clip of a song should also be released.

This new album by the pop icon is the ideal follow-up to Midnights of 2022, awarded with the Grammy.
Now, in anticipation of the LP’s release, the singer has posted a short animated video on Instagram, full of “Easter eggs” related to the release.

Shared on social media on the night of April 16, the video begins by showing a clock pointing to two. This marks the last clue Swift has shared, a clue that contains a reference to that very time. Previously, the same time she was seen in the music video of Karma (Remix).

From there, then, the camera exits the animated room, showing crumpled paper scattered on the floor and vinyl variants of Lavender Haze (which is the singer-songwriter’s single released on November 29, 2022 as the third extract from the tenth studio album Midnights). The camera then enters a white corridor and looks out onto a door with a plaque that reads “The Tortured Poets Department”, which is the title of the album.

Then he jumps and squeezes through the keyhole, approaching a calendar that opens to April 19 and reads: “Record Release Day The Tortured Poets Department“.

You can watch the video shared on Taylor Swift’s social networks in the clip found at the bottom of this article.

Lots of other “Easter eggs” in Swift’s video

There are many more eloquent details in the singer-songwriter’s video.
There’s also the calendar that reads “8pm ET music video release!!”, then a nod to April 20th (which, coincidentally, is Record Store Day…).

Other hidden details include moments of Swift at her piano during the Eras Tour, shots of her with her close friend and longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff (who appears to have reunited with the star for this new album).

In addition to suggesting his passage from that which the music magazine NME defines “the Midnights era” at the stage of his career The Tortured Poets Department – and in addition to suggesting that a new music video will arrive tomorrow, Friday 19 April, together with the album itself – Swift also surprised her “swifties” (that’s what Taylor Swift’s die-hard fans are called) by revealing new lyrics to one of the songs on the album. album coming soon.

The aforementioned text was shared just three days before the release of the LP, i.e. Tuesday 16 April. Swift teamed up with Spotify to debut a snippet of an unknown track at Swift’s library installation in Los Angeles.
At the inaugural event in LA, an installation was presented with an open book on top displaying the phrase: “Even statues crumble if they’re made to wait.” ”).

In the video, there is Swift sitting at a typewriter

As the music magazine pointed out Billboardin conjunction with the Spotify event in Los Angeles, a video was shown on the Spotify page for the singer-songwriter’s next album.

It is a clip that shows Swift sitting in front of a typewriter, hammering away at the keys and the same phrase comes out: “Even statues crumble if they’re made to wait”.

Prior to this, he shared the following phrase: “Crowd goes wild at her fingertips. Half moonshine, full eclipse” (“Crowd delirious under her fingers. Half moon, total eclipse,” shared on the same night as the solar eclipse). And then she posted the phrase: “I wish I could un-recall how we almost had it all,” after announcing special vinyl variants.

Initially, the first lyrics Swift revealed to her fans came on the same day she announced The Tortured Poets at the 2024 Grammy ceremony, when on Instagram – after the ceremony – he wrote: “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/ All’s fair in love and poetry…” (“And so I enter into trial my coat of arms stained with shame / My muses, acquired like bruises, my talismans and amulets / The tick, tick, tics of love bombs / My veins of pitch black ink / All is fair in love and poetry …”).

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An album inspired by the five stages of grief

Swift suggested that his new The Tortured Poets is inspired by the five stages of grief. Recently, the musician said she dealt with denial, anger, negotiation, depression and acceptance, which she also addressed on five Apple Music playlists (each representing one of these phases).

It seems that The Tortured Poets Department includes Swift’s past collaborators, Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner of The National, as co-writers of the songs, as well as hosting many other international music stars, from Florence Welch and Post Malone.

Earlier this year, Swift explained that writing The Tortured Poetsit was “really a life line” for her. She added: “The things I was going through are the things I was writing about.”

Swift continued: “It reminded me a little bit of why songwriting is something that really gets me through my life, and I’ve never had an album where I needed songwriting more than I needed it on The Tortured Poets“.

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After the release of the new album, Swift will resume her Eras Tour

Following the LP’s release, Swift will resume her Eras Tour in Europe next month, after which she will travel to the UK and Ireland in June.

Taylor Swift is expected to perform eight shows at Wembley Stadium in London this summer as part of her tour, with support from Paramore, who will open the show (as reported by the magazine NME).

Below you can watch the video shared on Taylor Swift’s social networks.