Taylor Swift's new album, "The Tortured Poets Department", was put online at 6 a.m. (French time) on music streaming platforms.
Two versions are available, the first of 16 tracks, and the second, "The Anthology," is a double album including 15 additional songs. The album is almost entirely devoted to her relationship with the actor Joe Alwyn, with whom she was in a relationship from 2016 to 2023, even if the two stars hid it. A title also concerns Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, and "thanK you aIMee', which forms the anagram "KIM” in capital letters. It was after their breakup, and while Swift began her giant concert tour "The Eras Tour," "with a broken heart" as she states in one of the titles, that she wrote all 31 songs. It is not joy or fantasies that dominate. This opus contains a very dominant number of ballads, which risks disconcerting fans, some already expressing their mixed reactions on social networks.