Since she started the Era’s Tour, and truly even before then, Taylor Swift has been one of the biggest names in the music industry. She’s only grown bigger, after releasing 2 new albums and re-releasing 2 old albums in the span of 2 years. That’s 4 albums, 2 of which were entirely rerecorded and even had some songs added to them. But that’s not why we’re here. We’re here because of that second new album. On April 19, 2024, Taylor Swift released The Tortured Poet’s Department. After dropping hints for weeks that weren’t solved by many, if any, Swifties, she surprised fans with a double album drop. What fans had known was that she would be releasing 15 new songs, with collaborations on a few of those, but at 2 am on April 19, she released another album, The Tortured Poet’s Department The Anthology, totaling 31 brand new songs.
As we all know, this singer loves her puzzles and games. Recently, Swift put secret messages into her songs on Apple Music. When looking at the lyrics, day by day a message is being spelt out. Different letters of different songs are capitalized. Swift is notorious for her puzzles and this one seems to be spelling out a message. The message wasn’t clear until all the words were found. “Hereby” (Glitch) “Conduct” (Peace) “This” (Better Than Revenge (Taylor’s Version)) “Post” (Clean) “We” (We Were Happy) Mortem (Begin Again). The full message finally read out "We hereby conduct this post mortem." Truly, Swifties are still unsure of what this might mean, but it was interesting to find. Possibly it was in relation to the 2 am album, maybe something else.
A two hour album is absolutely absurd. Happy for her success, though.