Every week, Billboard unveils the top 10 songs on the latest Hot 100 chart. The most recent rankings, for the chart dated May 4, are out now, so let’s run down who had this week’s biggest hits. 10. Taylor Swift — “Guilty As Sun?” Quite the week for Taylor Swift! I’ll spoil one of the […]
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Even Taylor Swift Can’t Believe The Record ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Just Set On The ‘Billboard’ 200 Chart
Taylor Swift has a long list of haters (including Courtney Love and Neil Tennant). However, the list of supporters is much longer. On April 25, the “Fortnight” singer became the first musician to have an album with one billion streams on Spotify. But now that record seems to be a mere drop in the bucket […]
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MTV ‘Making The Band 2′ Star Freddy P Makes Chilling Claims Against Diddy, Jeezy and Jeannie Mai’s Divorce Gets Uglier, Kanye’s Abandoned $57 Million Mansion and More Celeb News
Photo: Frazer Harrison (Getty Images) Taylor Swift is known for her overly emotional, soul-baring lyrics. When someone of her influence in the music industry puts out an album titled, “The Tortured Poets Department,” we expect a certain amount of dramatic feelings. However, what we were not expecting from the Queen of the Swifties was to […]
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Monica Lewinsky Used Taylor Swift’s ‘Who’s Afraid Of Little Old Me?’ Meme To Joke About Bill Clinton
In Uproxx’s review of Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department, Josh Kurp pointed toward “Who’s Afraid Of Little Old Me?” as an example of Swift’s “genuine humor.” Perhaps the only person who can credibly one-up Swift’s self-deprecation — and can understand Swift’s omnipresence in monoculture — is Monica Lewinsky. On Wednesday night, April 24, Lewinsky […]
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Matty Healy Can’t Even Take A Walk Without Being Asked About Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’
Taylor Swift announced the April release of The Tortured Poets Department at the 2024 Grammys in February, and Swifties spent the ensuing two months presuming the bulk of the album would be about Swift’s early 2023 breakup from British actor Joe Alwyn. Plot twist: Upon the album’s release last Friday, April 19, the presumption changed […]
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Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’: All The Artists Referenced On The Album (And If They’ve Commented)
Taylor Swift‘s 11th studio album The Tortured Poets Department not only has a lot of songs, especially on the Anthology edition, there’s also a lot of references to other artists, bands, and poets. Below, you’ll find an explanation for all the name drops, and if the person / group mentioned has said anything about the […]
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Someone Tell Taylor Swift We’re Not All Nostalgic for the 1830s, When Black People Were Enslaved
Taylor Swift is known for her overly emotional, soul-baring lyrics. When someone of her influence in the music industry puts out an album titled, “The Tortured Poets Department,” we expect a certain amount of dramatic feelings. However, what we were not expecting from the Queen of the Swifties was to drop controversial lyrics that seemingly […]
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Taylor Swift Can’t Forget A Tragic Love In Her ‘Fortnight’ Video, Which Also Has Some Fun Cameos
Last night, Taylor Swift treated fans to the official release of her new album The Tortured Poets Department, only to surprise everyone at 2 a.m. by dropping an additional fifteen songs. After listeners managed to get some sleep and finish the record, Swift has now continued the rollout by dropping the era’s first music video […]
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Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology’: Here Are The Full Album Credits With Songwriters
Taylor Swift fans got more than they expected today (April 19): Swift released The Tortured Poets Department at midnight, then shortly after that, she released the double album version, The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology. All in all, there are a whopping 31 new songs here, so let’s take a look at who is credited […]
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Who Is Cassandra From Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Album?
Who Is Cassandra From Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department’ Album? Some have connected the song title to Cassandra, a figure from Greek mythology. The Brooklyn Museum explains: “The ravishing Cassandra, literally ‘she who entangles men,’ was the daughter of Priam and Hecuba, king and queen of Troy. The god Apollo, enamored of her, granted […]
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Taylor Swift Fans Think They’ve Spotted Travis Kelce Lyrics Sprinkled Throughout ‘The Tortured Poets Department’
More than just about any musician today, Taylor Swift is known for working elements of her personal life into her lyrics. So, with her new album The Tortured Poets Department out now, fans have been combing through the tracklist. Some lyrics have been identified as potentially being about Travis Kelce, so let’s check them out. […]
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Taylor Swift Fans Are Convinced She Disses Kim Kardashian On A New ‘Tortured Poets Department’ Song
Taylor Swift’s new album The Tortured Poets Department is here, and Charlie Puth gets a flattering, direction mention on one of the songs. On the flip side, fans are certain that Kim Kardashian gets an unflattering, indirect mention on another track. Let’s run through the lyrics of “Thank You Aimee,” but first, it’s important to […]
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What Does Taylor Swift Say About Charlie Puth On ‘The Tortured Poets Department’?
What Does Taylor Swift Say About Charlie Puth On The Tortured Poets Department? At the start of the song’s second verse, Swift sings, “You smoked, then ate seven bars of chocolate / We declared Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist.” Once the track dropped, social media was filled with memes about Charli being pleasantly […]
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Taylor Swift Surprised Everyone By Releasing A Secret Double Album Of ‘The Tortured Poets Department’
While many Swifties were making their way through The Tortured Poets Department (our review) for the first time, Taylor Swift revealed that the 16-song single album was actually a 31-song double album. “It’s a 2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album,” she wrote on social media. “I’d written so much tortured […]
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Taylor Swift Comes To A Level-Headed Conclusion On ‘I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)’
Taylor Swift dropped her new album The Tortured Poets Department, which, according to her speech at the 2024 Grammy Awards, was written over the course of the past two years. Though she may never flat-out reveal who exactly her songs are about, it seems clear as day which ex Swift is referring to on one […]
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Taylor Swift And Florence And The Machine Embark On A Healing Journey To ‘Florida!!!’ On Their New Collab
Taylor Swift knows how to take us on a journey. Tonight (April 19), the illustrious hitmaker dropped her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department. On the album, Swift details an escape to the Sunshine State, with Florence And The Machine by her side. Haunted by the demise of a relationship, Swift and Florence Welch […]
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Taylor Swift And Post Malone Recall A Tumultuous ‘Fortnight’ On Their Brisk New Collab
From the desk of The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift is in the building, and she’s brought a special visitor. Her 11th album opens with “Fortnight,” a smooth, silky new collaboration with Post Malone. On “Fortnight,” Swift sets the scene for the album’s tone, with her vivid lyricism. Beautifully decorated with background vocals from Malone, […]
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Taylor Swift Spills All The Tea About ‘The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived’ On A New Song
Taylor Swift isn’t mincing words. Tonight (April 19), the prolific pop icon has shared her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department. And as its title suggests, Swift is sharing the poetry of her tortured soul. On the album is a song called “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived,” on which, she details her time […]
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Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Isn’t The Breakup Album You Were Expecting — It’s Better
In honor of The Tortured Poets Department being Taylor Swift‘s 11th studio album, here are 11 initial thoughts on the album. 1. In his memoir Chronicles, Bob Dylan writes about how a new way of playing the guitar changed the way he connected to his songs. “I never used this style, didn’t see that there’d […]
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Will Taylor Swift Drop A Music Video With ‘The Tortured Poets Department?’
There is now less than one day before the release of Taylor Swift’s highly anticipated new album, The Tortured Poets Department. Usually, Swift will have released at least a song or two ahead of the album. This time around, though, she has kept fans in the dark, dropping no advance singles to tease the project. […]
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Taylor Swift Finally Reveals The First Single From ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ And It’s One Of The Collabs
With just a few more hours to go until Taylor Swift officially releases The Tortured Poets Department out into the world, fans got to find out exactly what the first main surprise was she had in store this afternoon. After teasing that something would happen at 2 p.m. ET, Swift finally unveiled what the first […]
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How To Use Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Spotify Countdown Page
How To Use Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department Spotify Countdown Page Upon searching for Taylor Swift on the Spotify app, you will be prompted to visit Taylor Swift’s Spotify Countdown page, which allows fans to pre-save The Tortured Poets Department and see a tracklist preview. Additionally, the Countdown page is home to exclusive clips […]
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How Many Editions Of Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Are There?
It’s finally happening: This Friday, April 19, Taylor Swift is set to release her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department. By now, most Swifties have surely decided which edition (or more likely, editions) of they album they’re going to get. For those who haven’t though, let’s take a look at the options. How Many Editions […]
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Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’: Here Are The Full Album Credits With Songwriters
Taylor Swift is now just a few days away from dropping her new album, The Tortured Poets Department. Between building the excitement by having a QR code painted in Chicago and announcing a Spotify pop-up in Los Angeles, fans have also discovered the songwriting credits for the entire record. According to Capital.FM, the credits were […]
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Taylor Swift Honors Being A ‘Fortnight’ From ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ With Five Themed Playlists
Taylor Swift took to social media tonight to remind fans that it’s only a “fortnight” (two weeks) until her new album The Tortured Poets Department drops on April 19. Earlier today in celebration, she also released some special playlists to Apple Music that divide her previous music into the different stages of heartbreak. These include […]
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