2024-04-19 09:44:08
New album ‘The Torched Poet’s Department’ after 2 years
Post Malone, Florence and the Machine participation
Presumed to be Kim Kardashian’s ‘diss track’, Yeon-i’s Travis Kelsey love track, etc.
Close producer Jack Antonoff also produced.
Taylor Swift, the American pop superstar who is shaking up the global pop music industry, released her 11th full-length album ‘The Tortured Poets Department (TTPD)’ on the 19th, record distributor Universal Music announced.
This is an album released about two years after the 10th regular album ‘Midnights’ (2022). As the album title suggests, the lyrics are written from the perspective of a ‘suffering poet.’ The literary lyrics that Swift aims for were incorporated.
Swift said, “I’ve never written a song with so much earnestness. “This album had to be made,” he said.
In addition to the 16 regular songs, the album includes 4 bonus songs from each of the four versions of the album, making a total of 20 songs. American pop star Post Malone contributed to the opening track ‘Fortnight’. He worked with Florence Welch, the vocalist, songwriter, and leader of the British band ‘Florence + The Machine,’ on ‘Florida!!!’
However, two hours after the album was released (3 p.m. Korean time), Swift shared surprising news. They said that ‘The Torched Poet’s Department’ was actually a double album and released 15 additional songs.
“I’ve written so many painful poems over the past two years, and I wanted to share them all with you,” Swift said on social media. So here is the second part of ‘TTPD: The Anthology’. 15 songs were added. Now the story is no longer mine. “It’s all yours,” he wrote.
Among the 15 additional songs are the four previously announced bonus tracks: ‘The Manuscript’, ‘The Bolter’, ‘The Albatross’, and ‘The Black Dog’. Black Dog)’ was included. This will be released as a separate physical album. Accordingly, Swift’s album this time has become a blockbuster with a total of 31 songs included in the double album.
The time when the additional album was released is 2 a.m. Eastern time in the United States. In fact, Swift left an ‘Easter egg’ about 2 a.m. in the Spotify pop-up library related to ‘The Torched Poet’s Department’ held at the Grove in Los Angeles on the 16th. The clock on the catalog was set to 2 o’clock. At the ’66th Grammy Awards’ acceptance stage last February, they revealed that they had kept the album a secret for two years. Swift’s Instagram profile also had a hidden two-hour countdown.
American media such as Variety are making various speculations by looking at the lyrics of Swift’s new album tracks.
In particular, regarding the track titled ‘thK you aIMee’, the letters ‘K’, ‘I’, and ‘M’ are in capital letters, and netizens claim that this track is related to American model Kim Kardashian. It is estimated based on ‘track’.
As all music fans know, Swift and Kardashian have a bad relationship. This is due to the insensitive words and actions of Kardashian’s ex-husband, American hip-hop singer Ye (formerly Kanye West). It started with the 2009 ‘MTV Video Music Awards (VMA)’ awards ceremony. Swift won the ‘Video of the Year Award’ in the female category for ‘You Be Long With Me’ and was about to give her thoughts when Ye stormed onto her stage and caused a scene. He ruined her award show by claiming, “Beyoncé’s ‘Single Ladies’ should have won.”
Afterwards, Ye released ‘Famous’, which sexually harassed Swift. She included a rude lyric in which she called Swift a “bitch.” When Swift protested and it became a problem for the industry, Ye claimed, “I asked for Taylor’s consent in advance.” Swift was accused of being a liar when Kardashian, who was Ye’s wife at the time, revealed phone records in which Ye and Swift communicated, saying, “Thank you for letting me know in advance.” However, it turned out that the call details were all made up. Afterwards, Swift’s name was cleared, and Ye and Kardashian were put in a corner.
On the other hand, the track ‘So High School’ is interpreted as containing Swift’s happy times. It’s a song about the high school days I think about every time I see you, and it’s expected to be about Travis Kelce, the NFL champion and Swift’s lover.
Swift’s best friend, Jack Antonoff, also served as the producer of this album. Antonov is the best producer in name and reality, having been named ‘Producer of the Year’ at the ’66th Grammy Awards’ for three consecutive years. He has participated in eight of Swift’s albums, including ‘Midnights’, ‘Folklore’, and ‘Evermore’.
Although Swift is busy ahead of the release of this album, she is attending the ‘Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival’ held in Indio, USA with Kelsey to support the band ‘Bleachers’ led by Antonoff. ) was also found.
There is also interest in the new record Swift will achieve with this album. Through her ‘Mid Nights’, she swept the US Billboard main single chart ‘Hot 100′ from 1st to 10th for the first time in pop history. It was recorded as the best-selling album of 2022, and on Spotify and Apple Music, it set records as the most streamed album in one day and the most streamed pop album on the first day of release, respectively. At the ’66th Grammy Awards’, ‘Midnights’ received the ‘General Fields’ (main award) highest honor, the ‘Album of the Year’ award. With this award, Swift became the first to receive the ‘Album of the Year’ category four times at the ‘Grammy Awards’.
In particular, Swift holds an unrivaled number of new Billboard records. Female artist with the most songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (total of 232 songs), longest song to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart, ‘All Too Well (Taylor’s version) (10 minute version) Taylor’s Version (10 minute Version)), the first female artist to have three songs from different albums enter the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and the first to have three albums reach number one on the ‘Billboard 200’ chart within one year. female artists, etc. In the United States, pop-ups such as ‘The Torched Poet’s Department’ are held, raising enthusiasm for the album.
In addition, Swift’s world tour ‘The Eras Tour’, which started in the United States in March of last year, created a huge economic effect and was named ‘Taylornomics’ or ‘Swift’, named after her name and surname. Swiftnomics (Swiftnomics) created a new word and caused a syndrome. In particular, the ‘Dieras Tour’ achieved sales of 1.37 trillion won, the highest touring performance profit in popular music history, in less than half of its schedule. Swift was honored last year as the first artist to be named Time Person of the Year for her day job. Following the Asia and Oceania tour including Japan, Australia, and Singapore earlier this year, a European tour is scheduled in the future. She is also interested in whether she will perform songs from ‘The Tortured Poet’s Department’ during her European tour.
The following are expectations expressed by domestic music experts ahead of the release of Swift’s album. He also pointed out a phenomenon that has received relatively less attention in Korea despite the fever that is boiling around the world.
▲Lim Hee-yoon, music critic (Korean Popular Music Award selection committee member)
“We started with country pop and expanded our spectrum to electronic pop and indie pop. Looking at the structural aspect of the music, in fact, he has insisted on diatonic-based isomorphic repetitive melodies, which can be so simple that they can even be called simple, from the beginning of his career to the present. It’s almost like a children’s song. Although the arranging palette was diversified by hiring a variety of producers, from Max Martin to Aaron Dessner, the song’s framework seems to have barely moved away from the country that Americans are most familiar with listening to and singing along to for nearly 20 years. That ‘evolving stagnation’ paradoxically made Taylor Swift a singer loved by the working class in America for a long time. Of course, aspects other than music and his constant function as an issue maker (whether intended or not) must have played a very important role in his continued popularity. Regarding the new work, I personally hope that Swift will break away from those boring diatonic melodies and show a truly exciting musical adventure. I don’t think they have yet shown a musical performance worthy of winning the Grammy ‘Album of the Year’ four times. Or, it could be seen as proof that the Grammys are just a commercial awards ceremony.”
▲Hye-rim Cho, PRIZM music content planner (Korean Popular Music Award selection committee member)
-Expected points for the 11th album
“The 11th album, which will be released immediately after winning the 2024 Grammy Best Pop Vocal Album, is the 10th regular album in October 2022, the regular album released after successively releasing last year’s re-recorded version of ‘Speak Now’ and the re-recorded version of ‘1989’. As she has been on a world tour for over a year, we cannot hide our amazement at her sincerity and genius in constantly releasing her music without a single break. She has won 13 Grammys so far, and she is called the greatest superstar of the 21st century. She has even created a creed called Swiftnomics, which suggests that the economy will rise wherever she passes, and has been causing a constant syndrome since her debut. “I’m looking forward to what kind of record she will write with her new album.”
-Relatively less spotlighted in Korea Why we still need to pay attention
“Most Korean pop stars have SNS hit songs that become very popular through SNS. However, Taylor Swift has never gone viral like that in Korea. As a result, Taylor Swift’s popularity is not felt that much in Korea. However, there is no change in the fact that she is currently the best female artist in the world. There are analyzes such as because she is a beautiful white woman, because she writes and sings her own songs, but in fact, her popularity comes from practicing singing by singing over 40 songs without getting out of breath on a treadmill, constantly working hard, performing without stopping, and releasing albums. “It seems to be enough to prove her greatness and passion.”
▲Hwang Seon-eop, popular music critic (Korean Popular Music Award selection committee member)
-Expected points for the 11th album
“Taylor’s music encompasses many genres, including country, pop, folk, and indie rock, and its strength is its literature-like lyrics that clearly reflect her thoughts and emotions. In other words, I would like to say that his new album always contains ‘Taylor Swift’s now’. What kind of music does he want to make now, and what story does he want to tell? Why now? He is currently on a tour that will forever be etched in music history, and at the same time, he is the first person to win Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards four times. What path does he want to take in the future? Since she discloses the minimum amount of information before presenting her work, the most curious part is what kind of music style and message the work contains, and what direction the ‘current Taylor Swift’ wants to go through.
– Reasons that are relatively less highlighted in Korea Why we still need to pay attention
“The fact that the lyrics play a large part in the song and that it is somewhat different from the high-pitched or volume-oriented singing style that Koreans prefer. The fact that he started his career with country, a genre that is somewhat unfamiliar to Korea, seems to be the reason for receiving relatively less attention. Nevertheless, his music has a powerful power to captivate the public. In addition, he is positioned as the greatest superstar in global music history. “I believe that through this work, we will be able to discover to some extent the reason for his unique charm, which is difficult to find in other artists, and the reason for his influence to be called Swiftnomics.”
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2024-04-19 09:44:08