Will Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ contain explicit lyrics?

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.

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.

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‘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.

‘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.