The queen of pop Taylor Swift released a new album this Friday. This is the eleventh opus from the American country singer who became a global megastar, shattering records one after the other. “Everything is fair in love and poetry… The new album THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT [Le cercle des poètes torturés, N.D.L.R.] is available now,” she wrote on Instagram.
The star announced her release in February during the Grammy Awards ceremony, the prestigious American music awards where she won the trophy for best album of the year for the fourth time. Her millions of fans, the “Swifties”, have been impatiently waiting for her ever since and have tried to detect clues about what awaits them in each publication of the star.
With Post Malone and Florence + The Machine
Among the known elements: the album contains collaborations with the British rock group Florence + The Machine and the American rapper Post Malone, who accompanies him on the first track Fortnight. “I am a very big admirer of Post because of his quality as an author, his musical experiments and these melodies that he composes and which stay in your head forever,” the singer wrote on Instagram on Thursday. “I had the opportunity to see this magic come to life when we worked together on Fortnight “, she added, announcing the release of a music video late this Friday.
At the age of 34, Taylor Swift became the first artist to become a billionaire at the start of the year thanks to income from her music alone. Among the theories circulating about this new album: The Tortured Poets Department would open up about the singer’s ex, the British actor Joe Alwyn.
In reference to his ex
The name of the opus would also be taken from a group discussion called “The tortured man club” (“The tortured man club”, in French) that the actor held with Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott, two other actors. The list of songs, 16 in total, already gives some clues: So Long, London (Goodbye London), I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) (I can change it, no really I can) and The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived (The shortest man who ever lived) – an English man does indeed seem to be involved in the affair.
Almost twenty years after launching, nothing seems to be stopping Taylor Swift. His world tour, “Eras Tour”, is expected to bring in a total of two billion dollars in revenue after having already broken the symbolic ceiling of one billion last year, a first in the history of music.
Political impact
The Pennsylvania native began writing songs as a teenager and got her start in the country capital of Nashville. By gradually moving away from this very American style, she is climbing the rankings. With 283 million subscribers on Instagram, she is so influential among American youth that the political world is beginning to imagine the impact she could have on the presidential election in November, even if she rarely takes the lead. word on this subject. Her new album landed on platforms three weeks after that of another American icon: Beyoncé and her Cowboy Carter.
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The singer’s new opus, with rich country influences, could be a competitor for the next Grammy. With perhaps, also, the new album of another star: Billie Eilish is released Hit Me Hard and Soft on May 17. But all these rich and influential artists insist at every opportunity: it’s the music that counts. This latest album, Taylor Swift recently said, “reminded me that writing music is what keeps me going.”