Taylor Swift Announces New Music Video With Cryptic Clip Full of ‘Tortured Poets’ Easter Eggs (2024)

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What is the meaning behind The Tortured Poets Department? ›

“The Tortured Poets Department”

From overt references to Healy's love of typewriters, calling her ex a “tattooed Golden Retriever”—Healy has plenty of ink—and “Lucy”, speculated to be Healy's old friend Lucy Dacus from Boygenuis, fans feel its all very Healy-coded.

Taylor herself told The Washington Post, "When I was 15 and putting together my first album, [...] I decided to encode the lyrics with hidden messages using capital letters. That's how it started, and my fans and I have since descended into color coding, numerology, word searches, elaborate hints, and Easter eggs."

“Bejeweled” Easter Egg: The number 3 also = Speak Now

Eagle-eyed fans also saw more subtle references to the album Speak Now, which is Taylor's third album. The motif of “3” pops up throughout the video in various places, making fans believe that Taylor's Version of Speak Now will be the next in her re-records.

She ends the note by decreeing, "all's fair in love and poetry…" and signs it off with, "Sincerely, The Chairman of The Tortured Poets Department." The album cover is in grayscale, with Swift lying on a bed of white sheets clad in all black.

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Reginald Dwayne Betts grew up an honor student with hopes for college, but went to prison at 16 for carjacking, his first run-in with the law. Reading, and poetry in particular, became a comfort and gave him a new identity.

Taylor Swift has 12 publicly known exes. Who was the first famous person Taylor Swift dated? Reportedly, Joe Jonas.

Whether you're a massive Taylor Swift stan or not, there's no denying that the fan theories about her new album Folklore are pretty convincing - and we're particularly loving this wholesome one about her ex, Joe Jonas.

Swift dropped “Tortured Poets” as planned at midnight, which confirmed that the leaked tracks were indeed real. But two hours later, she made the surprise announcement that it was actually a double album and released another 15 tracks. The leak was barely half the album.

An entomologist named a new millipede species after Taylor Swift The Swift Twisted-Claw Millipede, or Nannaria swiftae, was among several new species found in Tennessee.

What is the Easter egg for Lover Taylor Swift? ›

The music video features everything from a cat face on a watch (she loves cats) to a phone case that spells out “Lover” to a back tattoo that shows off a snake metamorphosing into a cloud of butterflies (a nod to her evolution out of the Reputation era and into the Lover one).

When she's in the elevator, Taylor rocks tons of different colored jewels. However, her earrings can potentially be an Easter egg as they have a small red jewel above a larger purple jewel, representing her last re-record, Red (Taylor's Version), and potentially her next, Speak Now (Taylor's Version).

After announcing the record, she went on to post its cover, alongside possible song lyrics, on her socials. 2 hours after THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT's release, Taylor surprise released a reissue subtitled THE ANTHOLOGY, adding 15 tracks (including 4 bonus physical tracks) to the album's 16-song tracklist.

The length of each song on 'The Tortured Poets Department' vary, the shortest being 'My Boy Only Breaks His Favourite Toys' and the longest being 'But Daddy I Love Him' at 5 minutes and 40 seconds. The track list in total is one hour and five minutes.

On April 19, THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT was the first album in Spotify history to have over 300 million streams in a single day.

The "Graveyard Poets", also termed "Churchyard Poets", were a number of pre-Romantic poets of the 18th century characterised by their gloomy meditations on mortality, "skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms" elicited by the presence of the graveyard.

A tortured artist is a stock character and stereotype who is in constant torment due to frustrations with art, other people, or the world in general. The trope is often associated with mental illness.

The Cover. In the black-and-white album cover shared by Swift moments after announcing the album, she poses in a black top and shorts with her arms wrapped around her body, lying back on white bedding. Similar to the original 1989 cover, the top half of her face is obstructed.

To read a poem is, on some level, to loathe it—both poem and poet aspire to fulfill a set of impossible expectations from the culture. In his new book, The Hatred of Poetry, Ben Lerner argues that a disdain for poetry is inextricable from the art form itself.