Taylor Swift Reveals TTPD Lunar-Themed Lyrics on Eclipse Day
Taylor Swift teased fans with what seems to be lunar-themed lyrics from her upcoming album, The Tortured Poets Department.
Taylor Swift Reveals TTPD
Swift took to Instagram Story on Monday, April 8, 2024, the same day as the solar eclipse, and shared a mysterious video clip.
The video showcased a typewriter in action, typing out the words that stated, “Crowd goes wild at her fingertips/Half moonshine, Full eclipse.”
This snippet includes a link for fans to preorder the album, which will be released at midnight on April 19. The tease comes on the same day that millions of people in the U.S., Mexico and Canada will experience a darkened sky along the path of totality for the total solar eclipse.
Just two days before this teaser, the Blank Space singer had started a 13-day countdown to the release of The Tortured Poets Department, marking the days with her favourite number, 13.
“13 days until THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT,” she wrote in an Instagram Story on April 6 that featured the same typewriter.
The Grammy-winning star announced the record on Feb. 4 at the Grammy Awards, saying in an acceptance speech that she’d worked hard on the record for the past two years.
Swift later shared a set of exclusive playlists with Apple Music that broke her song catalogue into the five stages of heartbreak: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.
The playlists lent credence to fan theories that The Tortured Poets Department will explore those same five stages, as each playlist is titled after either a new song on the album or a phrase Swift has shared during the album’s promo: I Love You, It’s Ruining My Life Songs, You Don’t Get to Tell Me About Sad Songs, Am I Allowed to Cry? Songs, Old Habits Die Screaming Songs and I Can Do It with a Broken Heart Songs.
Taylor Swift announced her album during her acceptance speech for Best Pop Vocal Album for Midnights at the Grammy Awards on February 4, revealing that she had been working on it for two years. Taylor Swift Reveals TTPD Lunar-Themed Lyrics on Eclipse Day.
The album, The Tortured Poets Department is scheduled to release on April 19, 2024.
