By Julio Cortes
Feb 18, 2024, 12:00 PM EST
Everytime that Taylor Swift releases an album, her fans know that she has some surprise in store for them, and now she took the opportunity to announce that his new production The Tortured Poets Department It will have a special edition, with a bonus track and collector’s items.
During the first of her four concerts in Australia, the singer said that, in addition to the standard and deluxe versions of the album, there will be a special edition on CD and double LP, which will contain a clothing patch, a bookmark and postcards with photos, Besides of bonus track “The Bolter”. The cover is different, and shows Taylor lying down and very thoughtful.
The news delighted the artist’s fans, but it also caused surprisesince it had previously been reported about another deluxe edition with an unreleased song titled “The Manuscript”. The album has 16 songs, among which collaborations with Post Malone and Florence And The Machine.
On the other hand, Swift also told the audience at the concert that during the pandemic, while writing the songs for her album Folklore (released in 2020) saw herself as an ancient character: “I was imagining that, instead of being a lonely woman covered in cat hair and drinking my weight in white wine, I was the ghost of a Victorian lady, wandering around the forest with a candle in a candelabra. And she wrote only on parchment with a quill. That was what I had in my mind, how I thought she would see me while I was writing Folklore.”
The Tortured Poets Department It will go on sale on April 19. People say that Several of the album’s songs are inspired by Taylor’s six-year relationship with actor Joe Alwyn. He has not made any statement about it so far, but there is a clue that there could be a connection, since in 2022 it was announced that Alwyn, Paul Mescal and other friends had a group of WhatsApp called “The Tortured Man Club”.
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