Tortured Poets Department Heartbreak: Taylor Swift's Explosive Easter Eggs Reveal Joe Alwyn Breakup Secrets!

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Calaugashock Media, Hi, and Welcome
to Taylor Swift Today. A short round

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up of all the headlines around Taylor's
music, tours, movies and life.

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Taylor Swift is dropping more hints about
her new album, The Tortured Poets Department

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ahead of its highly anticipated release on
Friday. The singer teamed up with Spotify

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for a special library installation at the
Grove in Los Angeles, curated specifically for

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her eleventh studio album. Page six
stopped by the exhibit on Tuesday, where

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they got an up close look at
all the Easter eggs hidden within the pop

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up display. One of the most
notable clues was displayed front and center on

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one side of the exhibit. It
was an open book that revealed a few

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new lyrics within its pages. One
Less Temptress, one Less Dagger to Sharpen,

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and even statues crumble if They're made
to wait. The surrounding tomes were

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authored exclusively by Taylor Swift and featured
the titles of some of the tracks on

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her upcoming album, like Down Bad
But Daddy, I Love Him. Clara

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Bow and the Bolter Fans have been
theorizing that many of the unreleased songs will

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be about Swift's failed romance with Joe
Alwyn ever since she announced the new project

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at the twenty twenty four Grammy Awards. The album title appears to be a

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savage nod to a boy's only group
text the actor had titled The Tortured Man

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Club with pals Paul Mescal and Andrew
Scott, and now with the new clues

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from the exhibit, it's clear Swift
won't be shying away from revealing the details

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behind their breakup. One example,
as eagle eyed swifties took notice of at

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the event, was a library card
catalog displaying seventy two individual boxes. Many

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analyzed that number to symbolize seventy two
months, which equates to six years,

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aka the same amount of time Swift
was in a relation relationship with Alwyn before

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coupling up with her current bow Travis
Kelcey. Others paid extra attention to one

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of the sculptures that was set out
on the bookshelves, symbolizing Diana of Ephesus,

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the Goddess of childbirth and fertility,
and the Goddess of the Moon.

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The original statue of Diana crumbled while
waiting to be shipped to London. In

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the sixth century due to years of
neglect, succumbing to the passage of time

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and the elements. A fan tweeted
via x implying that the treatment of the

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statue could be reminiscent of how Swift
felt while dating Alwyn. Also interesting were

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the pens on display only quill and
feather, no glitter, which could be

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a clue into the dark and melancholy
themes many of her fans are anticipating with

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an album about heartbreak. Swift previously
spoke about how her songs fall into the

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three different pen categories. Fountain songs
are modern personal stories written like poetry about

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those moments you remember all too well, where you can see, hear,

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and feel everything in screaming detail,
told Apple Music in twenty twenty two,

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while quill tracks feature a period piece
detail, all old fashioned, like you're

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a nineteenth century poet crafting your next
sonnet by candlelight. Meanwhile, Swift said

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the glitter gel pen songs are typically
happy and upbeat, with lyrics that make

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you want to dance, sing,
and toss glitter around the room. Other

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Easter eggs included globes with pushpins marking
the state of Florida, the name of

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one of the new tracks, and
where Swift performed her first eras tour show

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post split notebooks that had us written
on the front in black marker, seemingly

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a nod to her nineteen ninety nine
song The Story of Us, and dried

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up flowers including lavender, perhaps symbolizing
the death of the lovey feelings she expressed

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about Alwyn in twenty twenty two's Lavender
Haze. Swift's birthday, December thirteenth,

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was also prominent inside the exhibit,
along with April nineteenth, the date of

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the new album's official release, a
clock set to two two pm, and

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empty bird cages believed to symbolize freedom. Swifties are also going wild over a

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new mural that appeared in Chicago Monday
evening. Painters were seen on a green

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scissor lift in the River North district
of the Windy City, creating a QR

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code out of TTPD letters and thirteen
numbers. When people scanned the code with

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their phone cameras, it took them
to a thirteen second YouTube short attached to

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Swift's page. A line of Swifties
stood from the curb below to capture photos

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and videos and plaster them over TikTok. The YouTube short animates like a typewriter

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with the message error three twenty one
and a faded thirteen. Two hours before

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the Grammys, where Swift announced her
eleventh Era album, her website Taylorswift dot

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Com showed an error three to twenty
one message and included the scrambled phrase red

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herring. There was also a DPT, which backwards is TPD for Tortured Poets

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Department. Swift loves to create buzz
with cryptic messages and easter eggs ahead of

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an album release because she knows a
mural in Chicago with a QR code to

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YouTube will keep Swifti's guessing and anticipating
the eras tour performer's next move. The

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album comes out at midnight Eastern tonight. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey were relationship

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goals as they attended Coachella over the
weekend. The couple were spotted sharing another

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loving moment as they watched one of
the acts perform on Saturday evening. Travis

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sweetly pulled Taylor into his arms as
they danced about in the crowd. The

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NFL star donned a white happy Gilmour
cap and sunglasses, while his lady Love

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opted for a black top and head
full of loose waves. It came after

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Swift skipped her pal Lana del Rey's
headlining gig on Friday night and instead enjoyed

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a sushi date with Travis in Los
Angeles. This is the first time Swift

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has attended the music festival since twenty
sixteen. Meanwhile, Kelsey was seen at

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the event in twenty twenty two and
twenty twenty three with some of his friends.

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Travis was also seen and effortlessly lifting
Taylor into the air as they danced

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to a set by DJ Dom Dolla. The pair were also spotted watching Taylor's

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pal Jack Antonov's band Bleachers perform at
the festival on Saturday. The couple were

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also seen attending the celeb packed Neon
Carnival bash. Kelsey recently told people that

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he is a Coachella guy. I
love going to Coachella. I love live

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music in general, so you might
see me pop up over there at some

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point. I'm not sure if I'll
go to a weekend one or two,

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or if I even have time,
knowing my schedules filling up pretty quick before

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we get started back up for football
here. Taylor Swift hilariously reacted to James

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Kennedy remixing her hit song Cruel Summer
during his Neon Carnival after party set at

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Coachella. Taylor was caught jamming out
to her own tune like every swiftye in

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a TikTok video, only to act
stunned when she noticed a shift in the

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song. She promptly stopped singing before
glancing sharply over her shoulder the way she

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he looks at us like Jim in
the office. One social media user joked

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of Swift's exaggerated response. A second
fan claimed, it's giving. If I

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wanted it that way, I would
have made it that way. It's safe

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to say. Patrick Mahomes approves of
his best Buddies relationship with Taylor Swift.

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He gushed over Travis Kelsey's boo during
a recent interview, praising the pop star

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for being down to earth. The
Chiefs quarterback spoke about her during a lengthy

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chat with Time for its Most Influential
People of twenty twenty three issue, and

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he had nothing but kind things to
say about her. He said, of

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all the celebrities he's met, She's
probably the most chill out of all of

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them. He then raved about her
tireless work ethic, before saying he's also

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been impressed by the way she's trying
to become a football expert. Even when

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she's talking about football, he said, when she's learning it, you can

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see her business mind putting it together. It's almost like she's trying to become

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a coach. Why can't you try
this, this, and this. She's

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asking the right questions. Mahomes then
shut down any talk that Swift's presence might

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have caused some of Kansas City's woes
in the twenty twenty three season, saying

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the team actually embraced the newfound popularity
it received from Swifties. Of course,

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it'd be quite awkward if Mahomes felt
any other way. After all, Kelsey

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and Swift don't seem to be breaking
up anytime soon, and Patrick's wife Brittany

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has become one of Taylor's BFFs too. More in a moment, Courtney Love

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took aim at Taylor Swift's artistic merits
in a new interview, saying the wildly

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popular musical artist is not important nor
interesting as an artist. The whole singer

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speaking with The Evening Standard Friday,
Taylor is not important. She might be

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a safe space for girls, and
she's probably the Madonna of now, but

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she's not interesting as an artists.
The Doll Part's vocalist, who has been

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based out of London since twenty nineteen, appears to have changed her tune about

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Swift, who she previously praised on
multiple occasions via her Facebook page. In

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a February twenty ninth, twenty sixteen
post, she posed between Swift and Royal's

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songstress Lord after attending the Grammys in
Los Angeles. Lovely Ladies at Taylor,

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Swift at Lord of Music. These
two win the Oscar for Art, Talent,

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Voice and Astonishing Beauty hands down,
Love said in the caption. The

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Malibu artist again paid homage to Swift
in a December twenty twenty one post,

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wishing Swift a happy belated birthday.
The celebrity skin performer, who reposted the

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pick they took at the Grammys five
years earlier, called Swift an aspirational,

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huge role model for many young women. Taylor was not the only musical artist

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Love took shots at in the interview, as Lonna del Rey, Madonna and

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Beyonce also were the target of the
grunge artist's ire. The San Francisco native

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I've told the outlet of del Rey, I haven't liked Lana since she covered

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a John Denver song, and I
think she should really take seven years off

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up until take Me Home, Country
Roads. I thought she was great when

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I was recording my new album,
I had to stop listening to her as

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she was influencing me too much.
As for Madonna, Love made clear there

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was a personal element to the discord
between her and the Vogue artist. I

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don't like her and she doesn't like
me, Love said of Madonna, I

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loved desperately seeking Susan, but for
the city of New York as much as

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her Love also mentioned she wasn't a
fan of Beyonce's catalog. I mean,

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I like the idea of Beyonce doing
a country record because it's about black women

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going into spaces where previously only white
women have been allowed. Not that I

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like it much, Love said as
a concept. I love it, I

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just don't like her music. The
singer songwriter, who was married to late

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grunge icon Kurt Cobaine from February nineteen
ninety two until his nineteen ninety four,

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Death invoked the name of the late
Nirvana front man. In contrasting their personalities.

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People used to say that I was
so difficult, Love told the outlet.

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They said I was disagreeable. Yes, I am completely disagreeable, and

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I'm never going to apologize for that. I always wanted to be known as

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a bitch. Being liked was never
my thing. And there you have it.

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