**BONUS** Part 1 - The insider's guide to every track on Taylor Swift's "The Tortured Poets Department"

0:03 Calaucashock Media, Hi, and welcome to Taylor Swift. Today, her much anticipated eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poet's Department, has been unveiled after two months of fervent anticipation from her devoted fans. As swifties meticulously analyze each and every lyric of the thirty one track record, it comes as no surprise that it's filled to the brim with intricate details and easter eggs that are sure to send them into a frenzy. The album, which Taylor has dubbed a double album after surprising fans with fifteen bonus tracks, takes numerous swipes at her former flames, Joe Alwyn and Maddie Healy. However, fans are also observing that Taylor has infused the album with various hints and homages, including a nod to her famous Lucky number. Here's a comprehensive breakdown of each track on The Tortured Poet's Department with help from The Daily Mail. Let's start with tracks one through sixteen. Track one Fortnite featuring post Malone, Taylor appears to reference the end of her relationship with Joe Alwyn and her subsequent fling with Matti Healy in the first track on her album, The first verse appears to hint at the end of her romance with Joe, as she sings, I was supposed to be sent away, but they forgot to come and get me. Taylor then wishes an ex well who betrayed her all of this to say, I hope you're okay, but you're the reason no one hears to blame. But what about your quiet treason? In the second verse, Taylor talks about a short lived

1:34 fling that helped her move on, potentially a reference to matt She sings, all my mornings are Mondays, stuck in an endless February. I took the miracle move on drug and the effects were temporary, and I love you it's ruining my life. I touched you for only a fortnight. Two The Tortured Poet's Department. The titular track is a shimmering melody which suggests that Taylor modestly doesn't seem herself at the top table of tortured poets. You're not Dylan Thomas and I'm not Patti Smith. It also appears to heavily reference her fling with Mattie as she sings you smoked then ate seven bars of chocolate. We declared Charlie Pooth should be a bigger artist. I scratch your head, you fall asleep like a tattooed Golden retriever, but you awaken with dread. She also makes a candid reference to her mental health, singing but you told Lucy you'd kill yourself if I ever leave, And I had said that to Jack about you, so I felt seen three My boy only breaks his favorite toys.

2:35 Written solely by Taylor, this song's dense electronic hum adds forceful notes. Fans have suggested the title is a reference to the shiny toy she sang about in her hit Cruel Summer from the album Lover. It's not clear if she is referring to heartbreak after splitting from Joe or the abrupt end to her romance with Maddie. Once I fix me, he's gonna miss me, she vows, adding I know I'm just repeating myself. Put me back on my shelf, But first pull the string, and I'll tell you that he runs because he loves me. He loves me. Four Down Bad, Taylor references mental health again as she details how down she feels without an ex and the infatuation she felt with him. Everything comes out teenage petulance, sings Taylor as she bitterly surveys the fallout from an old relationship. She continues, everything comes out teenage petulance effort. If I can't have him, I might just die. It would make no difference. Down bad, waking up in blood slash staring at the sky, Come back and pick me up, effet. If I can't have us, I might just not get up. I might stay down bad.

3:38 At number five, So Long London, the first track to be written with The National's Aaron Desner, brings a change of pace with a lovely choral intro. So Long London You'll find someone, sings Taylor. The song appears to be a reference to British ex Joe and a follow up to her hit London Boy from Lover. She references their different approaches to the of their romance, singing in the first verse, I kept calm and carried the weight of the rift, pulled him in tighter each time he was drifting away. My spine split from carrying us up the hill. Verse three, she muses, and you say I abandoned the ship, but I was going down with it, my white knuckle dying grip, holding tight to your quiet resentment. Six But Daddy, I love him. I know he's crazy, but he's the one I want, sings Taylor, showing rye humor as she admits to falling for the bad boys. Produced with real brightness by Desner. She goes on to revel in the fact she dismisses warning from critics, singing, they slammed the door on my whole world, the one thing I wanted. Now I'm running with my dress unbuttoned, screaming. But Daddy, I love him.

4:46 I'm having his baby. No I'm not, but you should see your faces. Seven Fresh out the Slammer fingerpicked acoustic guitar adds folky notes reminiscent of Lockdown albums, folklore, and evermore to Fresh Out the Slammer, which details rushing into a new relationship, seemingly a reference to her fling with Maddie, who she previously dated in twenty fifteen. She sings, Now, pretty baby, I'm running back home to you. Fresh out the Slammer. I know who my first call will be to. On the decay of her past relationship, she sings splintered back in winter, silent, dinners, bitter, He was with her in dreams gray and blue, and fights in tunnels, handcuffed to the spell. I was under for just one hour of sunshine, years of labor, locks and ceilings in the shade of how he was feeling. Eight Florida featuring Florence and The Machine an album highlight. This theatrical duet with London singer Florence Welch is an uplifting song of escape from small town life and a bad romance telling Lee. The first tour stop following her split from Joe was in Tampa, Florida, and she begins her song by singing, you can beat the heat if you beat the charges too. They said I was a cheat. I guess it must be true. And my friends all smell like weed or little babies, and this city reeks of driving myself crazy. The ninth track is Guilty as Sin, a tale of unrequited love and a superb slice of nineteen eighty style soft rock. It even mentions The Downtown Lights,

6:19 a nineteen eighty nine single by Scottish band The Blue Nile. She begins the track with her feelings on being trapped in a relationship, singing my boredom's bone deep, This cage was once just fine? Am I allowed to cry? I dream of cracking locks, throwing my life to the wolves or the ocean rocks. She hints at an emotional affair providing her release, singing these fatal fantasies giving way to labored breath, taking all of me. We've already done it in my head. If it's make believe? Why does it feel like a vow will both uphold somehow? Ten? Who's afraid of Little Old Me? Big drums, a dramatic arrangement, and more. In another song penned solely by Taylor, you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me, she snarls. It's reminiscent of her hit single Look What You Made Me Do, and the villain arc is prominent in her lyrics. She sings, I was tame, I was gentle till the circus life made me mean.

7:17 Don't you worry, folks? We took out all her teeth. Who's afraid of little old me? Well you should be eleven. I can fix him, No, really, I can. A moody stripped down number worthy of Lona del Rey, who has also worked extensively with the song's producer Jack Antonoff. She appears to be referring to chainsmoking, booze loving Mattie as she sings the smoke cloud billows out his mouth like a freight train through a small town. The jokes that he told across the bar were revolting and far too loud. Fans had expressed their concerns when Taylor started dating the nineteen seventy five bad boy rocker, and it seems her friends had the same reservations. Taylor sings, they shake their heads, saying, God help her when I tell him he's my man. But your good Lord doesn't need to lift a finger.

8:03 I can fix him. No, really I can, and only I can. The twelfth track is l OML You said, I'm the love of your life, sings Taylor on this warm, resonant piano ballad. In a smart twist, the LML ultimately becomes the loss of my life. She describes being love bombed by an old flame, seemingly referring to Maddie given their past experience. Others have suggested the intensity of the lyrics suggest it relates to her long term relationship with Joe. She sings, I felt a glow like this, never before and never since. Slash if you know it in one glimpse, It's legendary. You and I go from one kiss to getting married, still alive, killing time at the cemetery, never quite buried. Thirteen, I can do it with a broken heart More nineteen eighties influences on an electronic pop track that sees Taylor vowing to remain a Trooper despite any romantic strife.

9:01 She sings about putting on a brave face while her relationships publicly fall apart, noting they said, Babe, you gotta fake it till you make it, and I did light's camera, bitch, smile even when you want to die. He said he'd love me all his life, but that life was too short. Breaking down, I hit the floor. All the pieces of me shattered as the crowd was chanting. More. Taylor has previously admitted she struggled with her love life playing out so publicly and the narrative that she'd had more boyfriends than other women. More in a Moment. The fourteenth song is the smallest man who ever lived. You didn't measure up in any measure of a man sings a disdainful tailor on a melodramatic ballad. The title is noteworthy given that Maddie's stature is an object of some debate. The singer previously disclosed everyone in the nineteen seventy five is six foot four and I'm five ten, so everyone thinks that I'm five five. More recently, he addressed these short man allegations by telling a fan that he was sick to effing death of this, insisting that he is a big boy. She sings, and I don't miss what we had, but could someone give a message to the smallest man who ever lived? Fifteen the Alchemy. Not all the songs are about heartbreak, as sporting metaphors of plenty suggest. A track inspired by the singer's current boyfriend,

10:33 American football star Travis Kelcey. When I touch down, call the amateurs and cut them from the team, she sings. Speaking about the upcoming release back in February, when he was building up to the Super Bowl in Las Vegas, Kelsey said he had heard some of the songs on Taylor's latest release. I have heard some of it, and yes, it's unbelievable, he said to reporters. I can't wait for her to shake up the world. When it finally drops. The last track is Clara Bow. It's tempting to think Taylor sees something of herself in a closing track inspired by Clara, an American actress of the nineteen twenties who lived her life in the Hollywood Goldfish Bowl.

11:13 She goes on to reference Stevie Nicks as she details struggling with the trappings of fame. Taylor sings, I'm not trying to exaggerate, but I think I might die if I made it. Die if I made it. No one in my small town thought I'd meet these suits in La They all want to say. That's it for part one of the song Breakdown from the Tortured Poets Department. We'll have part two tomorrow with the bonus tracks. Until then, I'm Annalise's idol and this is Taylor Swift today. My thanks to Mark Francis and John McDermott. This has been a production of Calaroga Shark Media. Some portions may have production assistants by Ai