Taylor Swift's next album, announced by the megastar at the Grammys on Sunday night, could have to do with the singer's relationship and subsequent breakup with Joe Alwyn, the ex-boyfriend with whom Taylor broke up last April.
It was the title of the Midnights singer's new creation - The Tortured Poets Department - that gave rise to the supposition: Tortured Men Club is a group on WhatApp where the British actor, when the two were together, met with friends Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott, the latter protagonists of the drama All of Us Strangers six times nominated for the next Bafta.
Taylor, a champion of 'break up songs' including All Too Well inspired by her breakup with Jack Gyllenhaal, has meanwhile published the list of songs included in the album which will be released on April 19 (an anniversary of the separation?) and in which Post collaborates Malone on Fortnight and Florence + the Machine (Florida!!!): legions of Swifties suspect that songs like So Long, London and The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived are inspired by the 32-year-old actor the singer dated for six years: " Joe, count your days,” one fan commented on Twitter.
The album is the eleventh studio album for Swift who in December was chosen as Time's Person of the Year (Alwyn entered the top 100 Next of emerging stars compiled by the magazine in 2022).
Among the 17 tracks announced there are also My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys, But Daddy I Love Him and I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can).
Last summer Taylor hooked up with Chiefs star Travis Kelce, a football superstar, and fans of both dream of Orange Blossoms.
Travis would have already listened to a preview of some songs: "It's incredible", said the tight end of the team that will play in the Super Bowl final next Sunday: "I can't wait for it to cause an earthquake when it finally sees the light".
Meanwhile at the Grammys, where she collected her fourth 'gramophone' for album of the year beating Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon and Stevie Wonder who remained at three, Taylor was photographed with the boygenius singers including Phoebe Bridgers who was Mescal's girlfriend for three years.
As for the relationship with Alwyn, who has roles in Mary, Queen of Scots and Catherine Called Birdy to her credit and who collaborated with Taylor on songs released between 2020 and 2022 including Exile from the album Folklore, it is not clear whether it ended in bad way.
“They had simply lost their steam,” People wrote at the time.
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