🤍 Breaking Down TTPD's Variants

Definitions, lore, theories, and more...

Dear Reader,

Are you as excited for April 19th as I am?! I’ve got a countdown going, and I can hardly believe that in 26 days we’ll be listening to a whole new album of songs from Taylor Swift. *insert silent scream here*

The roll-out for The Tortured Poets Department has given us 4 different variants of the album, each one getting progressively darker in color (which is a whole theory in and of itself). In this newsletter I’m breaking down all that we know about each variant, plus lots of theories and ideas on what we might see in the album.

I cannot wait to listen! But I’m also so scared of the story this album could tell - it’s looking like it’ll be a collection of the saddest songs we’ve gotten from Taylor yet. With track names like “So Long, London”, “But Daddy I Love Him” and “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart”, just to name a few, I have to wonder: how are we going to handle it?! 😭

In this newsletter you’ll find breakdowns of:

• The Tortured Poets Department

  • Full Tracklist

  • Theories and Speculations

    • April 19th

    • Potential Song Lengths

    • 2’s and Doubles

    • The Stages of Grief

• File Name: “The Manuscript”

  • Some Definitions and Thoughts

• File Name: “The Bolter”

  • Some Definitions

  • Speculations

• File Name: “The Albatross”

  • What is an Albatross?

  • Poem: L’Albatros

  • Did Taylor go to the Grammys as an Albatross?!

• File Name: “The Black Dog”

  • Meanings

  • Clara Bow’s Letter