'Tortured Poets: Anthology': Taylor Swift adds 15 songs in surprise 2 a.m. announcement

Bryan West, USA TODAY NETWORK

Taylor Swift, chairman of the “Tortured Poets Department” extended the meeting until past 2 a.m. with 15 new songs in project called, "The Anthology."

The secret double album's new tracks include:

  • "The Black Dog"

  • "imgonnagetyouback"

  • "The Albatross"

  • "Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus"

  • "How Did It End?"

  • "So High School"

  • "I Hate It Here"

  • "thanK you aiMee"

  • "I Look in People's Windows"

  • "The Prophecy"

  • "Cassandra"

  • "Peter"

  • "The Bolter"

  • "Robin"

  • "The Manuscript"

The Eras Tour singer joined Threads at midnight, which shares parent company Meta with Facebook and Instagram.

As part of the week leading up to the announcement, Swift worked behind the scenes with Threads to create a countdown when users pulled down on her Instagram page. The interface connected them to pre-follow the singer. At the stroke of 12 a.m., a new pull down countdown revealed two hours.

Her next post explained the double album project:

"It’s a 2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department 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. 🤍"

Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) on Threads

According to the social media site, users who share her first Threads post will receive a custom badge, inspired by "The Tortured Poets Department," for their profile and be able to change the background in their Instagram DMs to one inspired by the album.

Who’s afraid of a couple less hours of sleep?

The cover for Taylor Swift's new album, "The Tortured Poets Department"
The cover for Taylor Swift's new album, "The Tortured Poets Department"

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'The Tortured Poets Department'

If you didn't get the memo from the department's Chairman, "Tortured Poets" is Swift's 11th era album with 16 tracks and four bonus songs (four versions of the album each have a different bonus track).

Swift announced the project at the Grammys, when she won her 13th career Grammy for pop album of the year. Post Malone and Florence and The Machine are two contributors on the pop album.

Its track titles are brutal. Fans speculated the album was about Swift’s six-year relationship with English actor Joe Alwyn and their breakup. Both stars kept the relationship out of the public eye. The back of the first version of the album reads, “I love you, it’s ruining me,” serving as a dagger-to-the-chest harbinger.

The album was released during Swift's two-month break from her massively popular and economically fruitful Eras Tour. "Tortured Poets" serves as an exclamation point to the behemoth success the billionaire has seen over the past year since the three-plus-hour show launched in Glendale, Arizona. Swift will return to the stage in Paris, France, on May 9. Fans anticipate that her newest era will be added to the show.

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This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: 'Tortured Poets: Anthology': Taylor Swift adds 15 surprise songs

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