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| Taylor Swift's Double album |
At first listen, everything seems cool in The Tortured poets department, barely released and already a new raid on the platforms breaking all records. Listening to it closely, the emotion continues to grow and the first track Fortnight with its soaring melody already evokes alcohol, drugs and separation like a laying bare.
This is the Taylor Swift miracle: being an interplanetary superstar capable of being herself in her own words in a double album of beauty evoking her own ills. The title The Tortured poets department evokes the club of his ex, the superb Joe Alwyn, a magnetic actor seen in Claire Denis whose evocation here never turns into a settling of scores.
Taylor Swift, confessions on the dancefloor
In her confessions in the form of a sentimental talk over, Taylor Swift never spares herself to evoke her past love: “You are not Dylan Thomas and I am not Patti Smith, you are just in self-sabotage mode, we were modern idiots , but who will hug you like me? ". The most famous artist on the planet keeps a cool head and all her lucidity. It's been a long time since we've heard such authentic confessions on the dancefloor, until So Long London to say goodbye to the city of its handsome British actor.
The Tortured Poets department, an ironic title?
The first beach of Fortnight already announces the departure for Florida!!! sung a few tracks later (in a duet with Florence and the Machine) and who should find an even more rock energy on stage... to “bury the regrets”. Just like I can do it with a broken heart, the most “Pet Shop boys” track of the opus. Superbly constructed, without affectation or ease, this breakup double album highlights the whispered voice of Taylor Swift like never before to tell her truth according to: "I am the queen of the sandcastles that you destroy, you sacrificed us on the altar of your saddest days. »
TAYLOR SWIFT: I'm so depressed it seems like it's my birthday every day »
The showwoman who will soon fill the Groupama Stadium in Décines for two evenings, dares her intimate confessions, like an American Mylène Farmer. Always with irony as a witness to her personality: “I'm so depressed that it seems like it's my birthday every day” she sings on a kid's disco on I can do it with a broken heart. We can already imagine him walking around the stadium's main stage in a sequin bodysuit to dust off his sadness. She's really pumped up and intelligent to still be able to be so much herself under the mask of notoriety.
Taylor Swift's double album album explodes the counters on Spotify, less than a week after its release
On April 22, 2024, Taylor Swift’s THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT became Spotify’s most-streamed album in a single week. The album has surpassed 1 Billion streams since release.
- 300 million streams in just 24 hours and more than a billion in less than a week, Taylor Swift's latest album is already breaking all records.
- “A historic date” that Spotify did not fail to highlight.
- The success of this new album is partly linked to the title “Fortnight”, a duet with the artist Post Malone.
As usual, pop star Taylor Swift is breaking records. Released on Friday April 19, his eleventh opus, The Tortured Poets Department, accumulated more than 300 million listens during the first 24 hours of its broadcast. “A historic date,” summarized Sportif sur X.
But the record didn't stop there. Less than a week after the release of his album, on April 22, it became the most listened to on Spotify by exceeding one billion listens, the platform announced on X. This success is linked in large part to its title “Fortnight” duet with Post Malone which has accumulated nearly 40 million streams. The single broke the record for the most streamed song in a single day, burying the one previously held by Adele with "Easy on Me".
