**BONUS** INSIDE TAYLOR'S TORTURED MIND: Shocking New Video Exposes Dark Metaphors and Hidden Meanings

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Calarrogashawk Media. Hi, and welcome
to another episode of Taylor Swift. Today.

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I'm your host, Annalie's idol.
Taylor Swift has once again taken the

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world by storm with the release of
her highly anticipated eleventh studio album, The

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Tortured Poets Department. The album dropped
at midnight on Friday, and just two

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hours later, Swift surprised fans by
revealing that it was actually a double album,

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dropping an additional fifteen tracks for a
total of one hundred twenty two minutes

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of new music. To kick off
the album's release, Swift debuted the music

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video for Fortnite featuring post Malone on
Friday evening. The black and white video

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is filled with metaphors and references to
the album's themes, with Swift and post

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Malone portraying tortured tragic heroes in various
settings, from a psych ward to a

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room full of vintage typewriters. The
video also features a pear pearances by Ethan

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Hawk and Josh Charles, who starred
in the nineteen eighty nine film Dead Poet

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Society. In an Instagram post about
the music video, Swift wrote, when

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I was writing the Fortnite music video. I wanted to show you the worlds

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I saw in my head that served
as the backdrop for making this music.

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Pretty Much everything in it is a
metaphor or a reference to one corner of

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the album or another. For me, this video turned out to be the

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perfect visual representation of this record and
the stories I tell in it. Swift

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also started a new YouTube shorts challenge, inviting fans to share their own Fortnite

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recaps using the hashtag for a Fortnight
Challenge. Her own montage features snippets of

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her personal life, including moments with
her boyfriend Travis, as the Fortnite track

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plays in the background. With thirty
one new tracks to explore, fans have

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been eagerly dissecting the lyrics, which
touch on themes of relationship trauma, mental

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health, and the tortured artists experience. One standout track is the upbeat electro

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pop bop I Can Do It with
a Broken Heart, in which Swift sings

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about performing on her record breaking Era's
tour while dealing with the aftermath of her

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breakup with longtime boyfriend Joe Alwyn.
I'm so depressed. I act like it's

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my birthday every day I'm so obsessed
with him, but he avoids me like

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a plague. I cry a lot, but I am so productive. It's

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an art. You know you're good
when you even can do it with a

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broken heart, she sings. They
said, Babe, you gotta fake it

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till you make it, and I
did. Lights camera, bitch, smile

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even when you want to die.
He said he'd love me all his life,

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but that life was too short.
Breaking down, I hit the floor.

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All the pieces of me shattered as
the crowd was chanting more. While

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most of us can't relate to performing
for stadium sized crowds while grieving a breakup,

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many can understand the urge to throw
themselves into work during difficult times.

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As clinical therapist Britt Barkholtz explains,
productive distractions like throwing yourself into work or

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other projects can be particularly compelling to
us because, unlike a more passive distraction

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like maybe watching TV or reading a
book, productive distractions provide some tangible output

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that can give you a sense of
control and agency and competency, which can

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feel like a much needed balm.
In another standout track, but Daddy,

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I Love Him Swift seems to clap
back at critics who have wasted time bitching

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and moaning about her love life throughout
her career. The song, which some

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speculate is about her short lived fling
with Mattie Healy, puts her relationships into

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the perspective of a small town of
judgmental churchgoers. I'd rather burn my whole

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life down than listen to one more
second of all this bitching and moaning,

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she asserts, declaring her good name
hers alone to disgrace, and not that

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of the vipers dressed in mpath's clothing. Album also features a surprising credit for

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actress Emma Stone, who is listed
in the linear notes for the song Florida

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featuring Florence and the Machine as having
contributed oddities. This isn't the first time

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Stone has been associated with one of
Swift's songs. Last year, Swift released

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a track titled When Emma Falls in
Love on her re recorded version of Speak

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Now, which fans speculated was written
about the actress more in a moment.

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To celebrate the album's release, Swift
sent luxurious gift packages to a select few

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NFL wags, including Kristin Jusick,
wife of forty nine Ers star Kyle Jusick.

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And Cariah Gordon, girlfriend of Chiefs
player Mikole Hardman Junior. The packages

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included loungeware sets with the album name
stitched on, bracelets featuring the out A's

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emblem, and even a vinyl copy
of the album with a handwritten note from

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Swift herself. Swift's close friendship with
Britney Mahomes, wife of Chiefs quarterback Patrick

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Mahomes, has also been in the
spotlight, with Mahomes quickly reacting to the

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album's release on Instagram despite being away
in Cabo. The penultimate song on the

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album, The Alchemy, appears to
contain multiple references to football and Swift's boyfriend

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Travis Kelcey, with lyrics like cheers
chanting because they said there was no chance

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trying to be the greatest in the
league. Where's the trophy? He just

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comes running over to me. Some
fans have even speculated that the line about

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amateurs is aimed at Kelsey's teammate Cadarius
Tony, who endured an inconsistent season despite

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the Chief's Super Bowl victory. The
Tortured Poet's Department has already broken records,

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becoming Spotify's most streamed album in a
single day. And cementing Swift's status as

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the most streamed artist in a single
day. As fans continue to unpack the

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album's many layers and Easter eggs,
it's clear that Swift's rain as one of

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her generation's greatest artists shows no signs
of slowing down. That's all for this

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episode of Taylor Swift Today. Be
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time, I'm Annale's idol my Thanks to

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Mark Francis and John McDermott. This
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