By Daniel Kreps
After celebrating a Super Bowl victory this weekend, Taylor Swift and her Eras Tour are back overseas in Melbourne, Australia, where the singer had a surprise announcement for the audience: Another variant of her upcoming album, The Tortured Poets Department, with a different bonus track titled “The Bolter.”
Like her post-Grammy-winning announcement of her new LP, Swift had Friday’s news at the ready, revealing that “The Bolter” edition of TTPD — with different album art — is available to preorder now through February 19 at her official site; the initial version of TTPD is packaged with the bonus track “The Manuscript,” and still available at Swift’s site.
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While Swift didn’t play any Tortured Poets tracks during her first night in Australia, she did tell the crowd about her 11th studio LP. “Tortured Poets is an album,” she said, “I think more than any of my albums that I’ve ever made, I needed to make it. It was really a lifeline for me. Just the things I was going through and the things I was writing about. It kind of reminded me of why songwriting was something that actually gets me through my life.”
Swift added, “Basically, I’m very excited for April 19 because The Tortured Poets Department will be out on that date, and I cannot wait for you to hear all of those songs then.”
Swift revealed her new album at the 2024 Grammys when she took the stage to accept the award for Best Pop Vocal Album (Midnights). The fact that it marks her 13th Grammy win (her lucky number) caused fans to speculate that Swift would make an announcement. (Her backup plan, if she didn’t win, was announcing TTPD at last weekend’s Tokyo concerts.) Swift also shared the album’s 16-song (plus bonus track) track list, which includes features from Post Malone and Florence + the Machine.
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