Content

• Background
• Singles
• Track listing
• Notes

Background

The Tortured Poets Department is the eleventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released on April 19, 2024 by Republic Records, the album consists of sixteen tracks with four different bonus seventeenth tracks on physical releases of the album, which were released both exclusively to Swift’s official store and exclusively to Target stores. Swift also released several digital and physical copies of the album containing eleven different live performances, four phone demos of songs (digital only) and acoustic versions of five of songs (physical only) from both the standard and Anthology edition of the album. The Anthology edition of the album, making the album Swift’s first double album, was released two hours after the midnight release of the standard album and consisted of the four bonus tracks released exclusively to Swift’s official store and Target, as well as eleven other tracks that were written for the album. On October 15, 2024, Swift announced that she would be releasing The Anthology edition of the album to vinyl and CD exclusively to Target stores on November 29 and that it would include four bonus acoustic tracks.

The Tortured Poets Department consists of mainly synth, folk and chamber pop songs and was inspired by Swift’s tumultuous relationships and the public perception of her celebrity. Swift once again collaborated with longtime collaborator, Jack Antonoff who co-wrote ten songs and produced fifteen songs on the album along side Swift. Aaron Dessner, who Swift worked with on both folklore and evermore, as well as “Hits Different”, “The Great War”, “High Infidelity” and “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve” on Midnights, also collaborated with Swift on the album, co-writing fifteen songs and producing seventeen songs on the album with Swift. Post Malone and Florence + the Machine are featured on the album with Malone featured on the album’s lead single, “Fortnight”, and Florence + the Machine appearing on “Florida!!!”. Both artists co-wrote their respective songs that they appeared on. Swift wrote five songs on the album solo.

The album opened at number one on the Billboard 200 becoming Swift’s fourteenth number one consecutive album and spent twelve consecutive weeks at the top of the charts making Swift the first female solo act to do so. Swift also became the first artist to have 14 songs to occupying the entire top 14 simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time in chart history. Swift also set the record for most simultaneous entries by a female artist (32) and became the first woman to surpass 50 career top-10 songs.

Singles

On April 19, 2024, Swift released “Fortnight”, which features Post Malone, as the first single off the album. The song peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 becoming Swift’s twelfth number one song on the chart. On July 2, 2024, “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” was released as the album second single by Universal Music exclusively in Italy to celebrate Swift’s European leg of The Eras Tour. The song was later released to US radio on July 12, 2024. It peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 the day of the album’s release.

Track listing

The Tortured Poets Department – Standard track listing

Track	Writers	Producers	Length
1. “Fortnight” (feat. Post Malone)	Jack Antonoff, Post Malone, Taylor Swift	Swift, Antonoff, Louis Bell*	3:48
2. “The Tortured Poets Department”	Antonoff, Swift	Swift, Antonoff	4:53
3. “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys”	Swift	Swift, Antonoff	3:23
4. “Down Bad”	Antonoff, Swift	Swift, Antonoff	4:21
5. “So Long, London”	Aaron Dessner, Swift	Swift, Dessner	4:22
6. “But Daddy I Love Him”	Dessner, Swift	Swift, Dessner, Antonoff	5:40
7. “Fresh Out the Slammer”	Antonoff, Swift	Swift, Antonoff	3:30
8. “Florida!!!” (feat. Florence + The Machine)	Florence Welch, Swift	Swift, Antonoff	3:35
9. “Guilty as Sin?”	Antonoff, Swift	Swift, Antonoff	4:14
10. “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?”	Swift	Swift, Antonoff	5:34
11. “I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)”	Antonoff, Swift	Swift, Antonoff	2:36
12. “loml”	Dessner, Swift	Swift, Dessner	4:37
13. “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart”	Antonoff, Swift	Swift, Antonoff	3:38
14. “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived”	Dessner, Swift	Swift, Dessner	4:05
15. “The Alchemy”	Antonoff, Swift	Swift, Antonoff	3:16
16. “Clara Bow”	Dessner, Swift	Swift, Dessner	3:36

The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology extended track listing

17. “The Black Dog”	Swift	Swift, Antonoff	3:58
18. “imgonnagetyouback”	Antonoff, Swift	Swift, Antonoff	3:42
19. “The Albatross”	Dessner, Swift	Swift, Dessner	3:03
20. “Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus”	Dessner, Swift	Swift, Dessner	3:33
21. “How Did It End?”	Dessner, Swift	Swift, Dessner	3:58
22. “So High School”	Dessner, Swift	Swift, Dessner	3:48
23. “I Hate It Here”	Dessner, Swift	Swift, Dessner	4:03
24. “thanK you aIMee”	Dessner, Swift	Swift, Dessner, Antonoff	4:23
25. “I Look In People’s Windows”	Antonoff, Patrik Berger, Swift	Swift, Antonoff, Berger	2:11
26. “The Prophecy”	Dessner, Swift	Swift, Dessner	4:09
27. “Cassandra”	Dessner, Swift	Swift, Dessner	4:00
28. “Peter”	Swift	Swift, Dessner	4:43
29. “The Bolter”	Dessner, Swift	Swift, Dessner	3:58
30. “Robin”	Dessner, Swift	Swift, Dessner	4:00
31. “The Manuscript”	Swift	Swift, Dessner	3:44

The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology Target exclusive acoustic bonus tracks

Notes

• * signifies a vocal producer
• The Anthology physical CD release consists of two CDs with tracks 1-16 on the first disc and tracks 17-35 on the second disc.
• Four physical copies of the album were released as deluxe editions of the album, standard editions of the four different seventeenth bonus tracks were later released exclusively to Target, except for one which is the standard version of the physical album released to all stores, exclusively to Taylor’s official store. The four songs were:
  • “The Manuscript”
  • ”The Bolter”
  • ”The Black Dog”
  • ”The Albatross”
• Four digital versions with four different seventeenth bonus phone demos were released exclusively to Taylor’s official store. The four songs were:
  • “The Black Dog”
  • ”Cassandra”
  • ”Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?”
  • My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys”
• Eleven digital versions with eleven different seventeenth bonus live versions of songs performed on The Eras Tour were released exclusively to Taylor’s official store. The eleven songs were:
  • “loml”
  • ”My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys”
  • ”The Alchemy/Treacherous”
  • ”Guilty As Sin?”
  • ”Peter”
  • ”How Did It End?”
  • “I Hate It Here/the lakes”
  • “thanK you aIMee/Mean”
  • “The Albatross/Dancing with Our Hands Tied”
  • “The Bolter/Getaway Car”
  • “The Prophecy/Long Story Short”
• Five physical versions with five different seventeenth bonus acoustic versions of songs were released to Taylor’s official store. The five songs were:
  • “But Daddy I Love Him”
  • “Fortnight”
  • “Fresh Out the Slammer”
  • “Down Bad”
  • “Guilty As Sin?”
• Clean versions of the standard and Anthology editions of the album alter the lyrics on eleven songs (seven for the standard edition):
  • The clean version of “The Tortured Poets Department” alters the line “No-fucking body” to just “Nobody”.
  • The clean version of “Down Bad” alter the lines “Fuck it if I can’t have him”, “Fuck it if I can’t have us”, and “Cause fuck it I was in love” to “What if I can’t have him?”, “What if I can’t have us?” and “Cause what if I was in love?” respectively.
  • The clean version of “But Daddy I Love Him” alters the lines “Then listen to one more second of all this bitching and moaning” to “Then listen to one more second of all this gripping and moaning” and “All the wine moms are still holding out/But fuck them it’s over” to “All the wine moms are still holding out/But, it’s over”.
  • The clean version of “Florida!!!” alters the line “Just to wait out the shitstorm back in Texas” to “Just to wait out the firestorm back in Texas” and silences the word “fuck”.
  • The clean version of “loml” just removes the word “shit” from the line “You shit-talked me under the table”.
  • The clean version of “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” alter the lines “Cause I’m a real tough kid, I can handle my shit” to “Cause I’m a real tough kid, I can handle it” and “Lights, camera, bitch smile” to “Lights, camera, and smile”.
  • The clean version of “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” alters the line “Who the fuck was that guy” to “Who the hell was that guy”.
  • The clean version of “The Black Dog” alters the line “And I hope it’s shitty in The Black Dog” to “And I hope you miss me in The Black Dog”.
  • The clean version of “thanK you aIMee” just silences the word “fuck”.
  • The clean version of “Cassandra” alters the line “When it’s “Burn the bitch, ” they’re shrieking” to “When it’s “Burn the witch, ” they’re shrieking”.
  • The clean version of “The Bolter” alters the lines “Then he’ll call her a whore” to “Then she’ll call him a bore” and “All her fucking lives” to “All her many lives”.

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