Taylor Swift's 'The Tortured Poets Department' already has everybody talking

At nan 2024 Grammys connected Sunday night, Taylor Swift amazed fans by announcing her caller album, The Tortured Poets Department, while accepting Best Pop Vocal Album for Midnights, her first of 2 awards — including nan night's last prize, Album of nan Year. The caller medium title — The Tortured Poets Department — is four words long, giving Swifties and casual listeners alike truthful overmuch to talk about.

Swift darted disconnected shape and uploaded nan moody achromatic and achromatic medium screen to Instagram pinch a sneak peek of a verse of poesy that ends with, "All's adjacent successful emotion and poesy ... Sincerely, The Chairman of nan Tortured Poets Department." Of course, nan speculation and jokes rolled successful connected X / Twitter.

Immediately, fans started claiming nan medium arsenic being for nan "English and classics girlies," BookTok, "tote container carrying, bookstore wandering, literature-loving girls," and those who place pinch nan dark academia aesthetic.

Others poked nosy astatine nan seemingly Tumblr-inspired title medium cover. One X personification captioned a Tumblr-era doodle with, "Her temper committee erstwhile naming nan album." Another said, "That 1 woman successful precocious schoolhouse photography classes that would station her homework connected Tumblr pinch 30 Seconds to Mars lyrics."

Yet nan dramatic, black-and-white screen and verbose title were besides met pinch excitement. One instrumentality exclaimed, "The Tortured Poets Department? YES. MILLENNIAL CRINGE IS THE MOMENT. 2008 TUMBLR CORE. IT’S GIVING 274 PHOTOS IN THE FACEBOOK ALBUM. MOVE OVER GEN Z, WE ARE BACK."

Some moreover started to theorize astir The Tortured Poets Department because if there's 1 point Swifties (and nan internet) emotion to do it's speculate.

If Swift is nan chairman, nan net formed Sex and nan City's Carrie Bradshaw, Girls' Hannah Horvath, Little Women's Jo March, The Tumblr Teens, and, of course, Dead Poets Society as her cohorts.

With conscionable 4 words, a photo, and a verse, nan speculation is underway. Fans clocked that nan title mightiness beryllium a reference to Swift's ex-boyfriend character Joe Alwyn. In an interview pinch Paul Mescal, nan brace revealed that they are successful a group chat pinch Andrew Scott titled, "The Tortured Man Club."

On April 19 each will beryllium revealed.

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