The 14-time Grammy winner shares the playlist ahead of the release of her 11th studio album, 'Tortured Poets Department', which is set to arrive on April 19.
- Apr 5, 2024
AceShowbiz - Taylor Swift has a special treat for fans ahead "Tortured Poets Department" album release. On Friday, April 5, the Grammy winner shared five specially curated playlists for Apple Music that chronicle stages of heartbreak.
The collection represents "Denial," "Anger," "Bargaining," "Depression" and "Acceptance". Each playlist is named for a track featured on the new album.
The first stage is "Denial", with a playlist titled "I Love You, It's Ruining My Life". The songs include "Lavender Haze", "Style (Taylor's Version)", "Treacherous (Taylor's Version)" and more.
"This is a list of songs about getting so caught up in the idea of something that you have a hard time seeing the red flags, possibly resulting in moments of denial and maybe a little bit of delusion," Taylor said in a statement. "Results may vary."
In the stage of "Anger", there are "Vigilant S**t", "Bad Blood (Taylor's Version)" and "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (Taylor's Version)". This playlist is titled, "You Don't Get to Tell Me About Sad Songs."
"These songs all have one thing in common, I wrote them while feeling anger," the musician explained. "Over the years, I've learned that anger can manifest itself in a lot of different ways, but the healthiest way that it manifests itself in my life is when I can write a song about it, and then oftentimes, that helps me get past it."
"Bargaining" is up next, with a playlist titled "Am I Allowed to Cry?". The selected songs are, "Soon You'll Get Better", "Say Don't Go (Taylor's Version)(From the Vault)" and "This Is Me Trying" among others.
"This playlist takes you through the songs that I've written when I was in the bargaining stage," she elaborated, "times when you're trying to make deals with yourself or someone that you care about, you're trying to make things better, you're oftentimes feeling really desperate, because oftentimes we have a gut intuition that tells us things are not going to go the way that we hope, which makes us more desperate, which makes us bargain more."
For "Depression," Taylor put "Champagne Problems", "We Were Happy (Taylor's Version)" and "Forever Winter (Taylor's Version)" in the "Old Habits Die Screaming" playlist. "We're going to be exploring the feelings of depression that often lace their way through my songs," she said.
"In times like these, I'll write a song because I feel lonely or hopeless. And writing a song feels like the only way to process that intensity of an emotion," she continued. "And while these things are really, really hard to go through, I often feel like when I'm either listening to songs or writing songs that deal with this intensity of loss and hopelessness, usually that's in the phase where I'm close to getting past that feeling."
The final stage of heartbreak is "Acceptance," titled here as "I Can Do It With a Broken Heart." For the songs, the girlfriend of Travis Kelce chose "You're On Your Own, Kid", "Closure", "Now That We Don't Talk (Taylor's Version)(From The Vault)" and "Long Story Short".
"Here we finally find acceptance and can start moving forward from loss or heartbreak," Taylor, who is set to release her 11th studio album on April 19, concluded. "These songs represent making room for more good in your life, making that choice because a lot of time when we lose things, we gain things too."
