The opening chapter to is the lead single.
shared the news on Instagram at 2 p.m. ET that her collaboration with will hit radio stations. “Fortnight” will also be the music video that airs Friday night at 8 p.m. ET.
Swift sent a preview of the new music video out showing the majority of the teaser in a black and white filter with splashes of color. The iconography includes hundreds of burning pages thrown into the air, an insane asylum room where she flings furniture to shatter a mirror and an Emily Dickinson-style dress.
The haunting melody about a suburban wife who lives next door to a married man she longs for. The two shared a fortnight of embraces, but even the “good neighbor” pleasantries wear off and Swift’s character flees to “Florida!!!”
sings backup harmonies until the end of the song. His smooth vocals come in for a last verse. He’s calling, but Swift’s character won’t pick up. She’s calling, and he won’t pick up. Wires crossed, she escapes in a getaway car to the state she sings about in Track 8.
“Florida!!!” is a song about escaping a toxic relationship in Texas to get lost in drugs and fantasies of being taken out by a hurricane in Destin, Florida. Swift collaborates with from Florence + The Machine.
On Thursday, ahead of the album, Swift posted on Instagram that the first track would be the first single.
“The first single from The Tortured Poets Department is…………. Fortnight featuring 🤍,” Swift said on Instagram. “I’ve been such a huge fan of Post because of the writer he is, his musical experimentation and those melodies he creates that just stick in your head forever. I got to witness that magic come to life firsthand when we worked together on Fortnight. Honestly can’t wait for you guys to hear this song at Midnight TONIGHT and see the video at 8pm ET TOMORROW.”
Swift loves numerology and uses numbers often in her songs. A fortnight is 14 days.
In an interview with Zane Lowe (ahead of the Super Bowl), Post Malone said, “She’s so sweet and so kind and talented and she hit me up and said, ‘Let’s do it.’ And I was like, ‘Hell yeah.’”
Post Malone didn’t discuss any other details but said he couldn’t wait to hear the song.
‘The Tortured Poets Department’
If you didn’t get the memo from the department’s Chairman, “Tortured Poets” is Swift’s 11th era album with 16 tracks and four bonus songs (four versions of the album each have a different bonus track).
Swift announced the project at the Grammys, when she won her 13th career Grammy for pop album of the year. are two contributors on the pop album.
Its track titles are brutal. Fans speculated the album was about Swift’s six-year relationship with English actor Joe Alwyn and their breakup. Both stars kept the relationship out of the public eye. The back of the first version of the album reads, “I love you, it’s ruining me,” serving as a dagger-to-the-chest harbinger.
The album was released during Swift’s two-month break from her massively popular and economically fruitful . “Tortured Poets” serves as an exclamation point to the behemoth success the billionaire has seen over the past year since the three-plus-hour show launched in Glendale, Arizona. Swift will return to the stage in Paris, France, on May 9. Fans anticipate that her newest era will be added to the show.
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