Will Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ contain explicit lyrics?
As the clock ticks down to the new Swift album, excitement levels among her legion of fans is at an all-time high.
It’s difficult to recall such a high level of expectation surrounding a new album, but on the eve of her eleventh studio release, Taylor Swift is on the cusp of breaking a myriad of records with the ‘The Tortured Poets Department’.
The singer seems set to break her own streaming records with Spotify and has already seen ‘Tortured Poets’ already become Spotify’s most pre-saved album Countdown Page via the streaming platform.
On April 18th, 2024, Taylor Swift's THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT became the most pre-saved album Countdown Page in Spotify history. 🤍 pic.twitter.com/gJbZgegdwV
— Spotify (@Spotify) April 18, 2024
Despite the record set to be released in a variety of formats, including cd, cassette and a number of vinyl versions, it looks at this stage there will be no ‘clean’ version of the album as we saw with Midnights upon release in October 2022. On that occasion an ‘explicit’ version: Midnights ‘Til the Dawn Edition’ and a clean version of the same album with expletive words with subtle amends.
‘The Tortured Poets Department’ expletive
This time around, it appears that one streaming version of the album will be made available with seven songs being tagged with the small ‘e’ (expletive symbol).
With the album still yet to be released, it’s not known at yet to the nature of the expletive language on the record.
Seven expletive songs on 'Tortured Poets'
The Tortured Poets Department
Down Bad
But Daddy I Love Him
Florida (with Florence Welch)
Ioml
I Can Do it with a Broken Heart
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
‘Midnights’ currently tops the Spotify’s record books for most streams in one day and everything points to ‘Tortured Poets’ set to eclipse the more than 180 million global streams when it sees the light of day on Friday.