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Taylor Swift drops 15 new songs on double album, ‘The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology’

By MARIA SHERMAN
AP Music Writer

NEW YORK (AP) β€” Could there be a Taylor Swift new album rollout without a few additional surprises?

No.

On Friday, the pop star released her 11th album, β€œThe Tortured Poets Department,” an amalgamation of her previous work and reflecting the artist who β€” at the peak of her powers β€” has spent the last few years re-recording her life’s work and touring its material, filtered through synth-pop anthems, breakup ballads, provocative and matured considerations.

But that was midnight. At 2 a.m. Eastern, she released β€œThe Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology,” featuring 15 additional songs.

β€œI’d written so much tortured poetry in the past 2 years and wanted to share it all with you, so here’s the second installment,” Swift wrote in an Instagram caption. β€œAnd now the story isn’t mine anymore… it’s all yours.”

The songs are a natural continuation of the first half of the album; many return to her β€œevermore” and β€œfolklore” sound, with an assist from her collaborator Aaron Dessner.

This is not Swift’s first time surprising her fans, and certainly not her first time doing so with a surprise album release. A few months after β€œfolklore” was released in 2020, she announced β€œevermore” would arrive at the midnight the same day. And speaking of midnight, she dropped a β€œ3am” edition of β€œMidnights” featuring seven new tracks in 2022 a handful of hours after the original release.

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