The female singer, owner of 14 Grammy awards, made passionate fans surprised when she released the 11th album of her career. While fans were still busy listening to the 16 songs of the album The Tortured Poets Department , Swift released 15 more songs and named volume 2 of the album The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology .
Volume 1 of the album was released in the first moments of April 19, through the digital music platform. After only 2 hours, volume 2 of the album was released to the surprise of fans.
“This is the surprise I have for you, The Tortured Poets Department is a double album. I have written a lot of lyrics over the past 2 years and want to share them with you. Now, the story This story is no longer just mine, this story has become yours all,” Taylor Swift wrote on her social network account.
Many fans have expressed their shock at Taylor Swift’s remarkable artistic efforts. “While I was listening to the melodies of the songs in The Tortured Poets Department , Taylor Swift released volume 2 of the album. How can I live normally when my idol has super strength? Why is this?”, a fan commented humorously.
Currently, expert reviews for the album The Tortured Poets Department are quite positive. The album’s melody, arrangement, vocals, and lyrics were all praised. Reviews in The Independent (UK), The Times (UK) and Rolling Stone (USA) music magazine also gave Swift’s new album perfect scores.
The Tortured Poets Department is considered an album full of Taylor Swift’s own personality. This is her ambitious music project, showing the multi-dimensionality of Swift’s musical personality.
In the album, many songs use bold lyrics and melodies that express intense emotions. This shows that the female singer is willing to take risks in music.
Swift developed ideas for this album shortly after completing the album Midnights (2022). She continued to compose and develop ideas for the new album during the Eras tour (the 6th tour of her career).
For Swift, The Tortured Poets Department is the “saving” album in her career and life. Swift wrote this album by delving deeply into her high emotions and personal stories. The songs were written under the impulse of the need to compose that appeared in her.
The album is a combination of pop rock, synthetic pop, folk music… The 34-year-old female singer wants to express her deepest self by telling personal stories through music.
Critics see this album as a way for Swift to express and relieve her feelings. In the album, audiences will see both sadness and humor.
Taylor Swift’s artistic labor is currently something that the public admires. She released an album with a shocking capacity, right in the middle of her world tour.
Going on tour is a very energy-consuming activity and makes many big stars feel “bored”. There are stars who are even afraid of going on tour because they cannot stand the pressure and harsh demands of going on tour.
However, Taylor Swift is on tour while quietly completing her new album. Each of her shows on the Eras tour lasts more than 3 and a half hours, with a song list of more than 40 songs.
Even though it hasn’t ended yet, the Eras tour has become the highest-grossing tour of all time and helped Swift join the group of USD billionaires. Not only that, she also invested herself in making a movie revolving around the tour – the movie Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour .
This film also set a record, becoming the highest-grossing film among films made about tours. During the tour, Swift also recorded and filmed the MV for the new album and re-released the old album… That huge amount of work has been done by Swift in just… the past year and a half.
This tireless hard work can only be explained by Swift’s own words. She told Time magazine (USA) about her state at this stage: “This is the time when I feel the proudest, happiest, and also the time when I am most satisfied with my creative ideas. created, I feel freer than ever.
We can keep things simple, we can make things as complicated as we want, but in the end there’s only one question… Do you find yourself entertained when you follow me? “.