Swifties React To Taylor Swift's 'The Tortured Poets Department'

The album is here, and the early reactions are here. Taylor Swift’s highly anticipated eleventh album, THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT, has just landed on streaming services (after a leak surfaced yesterday), and Swifties already have some thoughts out there.

Swift's new album, which features 16 songs across an hour and five minutes, has arrived with massive fanfare after she opted not to release any singles in the lead-up to the big day.

For the LP, Swift once again joined forces with producers Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner (of The National fame) for an indie-pop-sounding album with flashes of rock and electronic music.

Bolstered by lead single (and the album’s first track) Fortnight starring Post Malone, THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT features another collaboration, Florida!!! with Florence + The Machine.

In addition to the 16 tracks on the album, fans who pre-ordered physical editions will gain an extra track, either The Manuscript, The Albatross, The Bolter, or The Black Dog.

Of course, any new Taylor Swift album will be met with varied reactions, and this one is different. Fans are currently screaming on X (formerly known as Twitter)—no surprise there—check out what fans are saying about THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT below.

“I’d rather burn my whole life down, than listen to one more second of all this bitching and moaning. I’ll tell you something about my good name, it’s mine alone to disgrace”

She just GET IT. I needed that so bad right now 😭#TSTTPD #THETORTUEDPOETSDEPARTMENT pic.twitter.com/zt3Fcr1G6e

— Taylor Robinson (@finelytaylored) April 19, 2024

SO LONG, LONDON GOOD RIDDANCE GOODBYEEEEEEE !!!!! #TSTTPD pic.twitter.com/wbaXtb2jUR

— karen🪶ttpd (@picturetokurn) April 19, 2024

“AT DINNER YOU TAKE MY RING OFF MY MIDDLE FINGER AND PUT IT ON THE RIGHT ONE,

PEOPLE PUT WEDDING RINGS ON AND THATS THE CLOSEST IVE COME”

I AM SPIRALLING TAYLOR YOU CANT DO THIS TO ME ???!! 😭#TSTTPD #THETORTUEDPOETSDEPARTMENT pic.twitter.com/yOYlN4tkgD

— Taylor Robinson (@finelytaylored) April 19, 2024

many were praying on her downfall but I fear the tortured poets department is excellent 😭 oh taylegend may they never question your pen again #TSTTPD pic.twitter.com/i04VAZLPi4

— Oscar Gracey (@oscargracey) April 19, 2024

this is just sooooo sooo... mature and dark and REAL like this feels SO quintessentially Taylor Swift like this just feels straight from her pen, unaffected by genre or trend or anything like this is just so so raw and real!!! fuck I love her #TTPDBoardMeeting #TSTTPD

— ✷ iggy ✷ edi, lpool + ldn (@intheweeeds) April 19, 2024

Taylor saying ‘fuck’ 17 times in Down Bad#TSTTPD @taylorswift13 pic.twitter.com/KOWdd4du2I

— Gabe is Out of the Woods ⸆⸉ (Taylor’s Version) (@OutOfWoodsClear) April 19, 2024

loml 😭 I am sobbing oh my god Taylor #TTPDBoardMeeting #TSTTPD pic.twitter.com/3CvnkSsbqn

— ally 🪶 | indy N3 (@vigilante_swift) April 19, 2024

Taylor casually mentioning the word “vault” in Guilty As Sin? knowing fully well that our ears literally jump up at that word #TSTTPD pic.twitter.com/rCpVo15HEY

— Raghav • NYC | Dress stan 🖤 Swiftball Staff 🥰 (@RaghavsRep) April 19, 2024

I have full body chills Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? is an IMMEDIATE favorite… not just on this album. Of all time. Already. My god Taylor, I wish I could give you a hug. 😭😭😭 #TSTTPD

— Sav 🪩 (@SavLovesSwift) April 19, 2024

i don’t think i will ever get over this album 🤍 #TSTTPD pic.twitter.com/GkZWLTfJK3

— rania (@ttpdCeoRai) April 19, 2024

this album is probably the most personal body of work that taylor swift has ever put out. i am so honored that she trusts us and wanted to share this side of her mind with us :’) this is your best album yet @taylorswift13 #TSTTPD

— bethany ♡ tortured poet 🪶 (@corneliastagain) April 19, 2024

AND I LOVE YOU IT’S RUINING MY LIFE I TOUCH YOU ONLY FOR A FORTNIGHT #TSTTPD pic.twitter.com/BsSpCmC58h

— cel 🦢 (@celestialswiftt) April 19, 2024

In a live review of Swift’s first show of the Eras tour at the MCG, The Music’s Christopher Lewis wrote, “The Eras Tour is, first and foremost, Taylor Swift’s victory lap. But at three and a half hours long, it’s a victory marathon.”

In other Taylor Swift news, her music made its triumphant return to TikTok a week before THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT was released. Universal Music Group notably pulled all their music from the social media giant earlier this year, which included Swift’s discography, but it seems the mega pop star might’ve struck her own deal with TikTok in allowing her music to return to the platform.

And if you thought that fans were already freaking out about the new Taylor Swift album, they became even more excited when she announced that THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT is actually a double album.

It’s a 2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album. ✌️ I’d written so much tortured poetry in the past 2 years and wanted to share it all with you, so here’s the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology. 15 extra songs. And now the story isn’t mine… pic.twitter.com/y8pyDK8VTd

— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) April 19, 2024