Taylor Swift shocks fans by dropping second ‘Tortured Poets Department’ album

Samantha Kubota
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Taylor Swift shocked her fans early Friday morning by releasing a second half of her much-anticipated album "The Tortured Poets Department."

After the first 16 songs were made available at midnight, a countdown appeared on her website indicating something else would be coming at 2 a.m. ET.

Shortly after 2 a.m., Swift announced that "Tortured Poets" is a "secret double album."

"I’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 of TTPD: The Anthology. 15 extra songs. And now the story isn’t mine anymore… it’s all yours," she captioned the announcement.

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Earlier in the evening, her official fan account, Taylor Nation, responded to a fan who noticed none of the lyrics from a Spotify pop-up event in Los Angeles this week had been featured in the album.

“That’s weird,” the account posted at 1:21 a.m. ET, adding a new hashtag, #TTPDBoardMeeting.

As part of the Spotify pop-up event, several lyrics lines were revealed to the public:

Even statues crumble if they’re made to wait

One less temptress, one less dagger to sharpen

As she was leaving, it felt like breathing

Lost the game of chance, what are the chances?

Come one, come all / it’s happening again

The second part of the album did not surprise all Swifties, however. Some eagle-eyed fans had noticed the pop star planted the number two everywhere lately. From holding up two fingers while accepting her Grammy Award (and announcing the album) to the aforementioned Spotify pop up in L.A., the No. 2 seemed to be a big symbol for her. Even the "TTPD" logo resembles the Roman numeral for two.

With the additional 15 songs, Swift brings the total number of tracks for this era to 31, her lucky No. 13 backward. It also makes the album her longest ever, edging out of “Red (Taylor’s Version)” by one song.

Here’s the full track list, including the new songs:

  1. Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)

  2. The Tortured Poets Department

  3. My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys

  4. Down Bad

  5. So Long, London

  6. But Daddy I Love Him

  7. Fresh Out the Slammer

  8. Florida!!! (feat. Florence + The Machine)

  9. Guilty as Sin?

  10. Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?

  11. I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)

  12. loml

  13. I Can Do It With a Broken Heart

  14. The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived

  15. The Alchemy

  16. Clara Bow

  17. The Black Dog

  18. imgonnagetyouback

  19. The Albatross

  20. Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus

  21. How Did It End?

  22. So High School

  23. I Hate It Here

  24. thanK you alMee

  25. I Look in People’s Windows

  26. The Prophecy

  27. Cassandra

  28. Peter

  29. The Bolter

  30. Robin

  31. The Manuscript

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"The Tortured Poets Department" is also available as a Phantom Clear vinyl, exclusively at Target. You can order it here.

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