Another Taylor Swift track Department of Tormented Poets he has stepped into his place. With just three days to go until the new album arrives, the 34-year-old pop star revealed another verse from the 16-track set in collaboration with Spotify on Tuesday (April 16) — and it's packed.
The streaming service premiered a snippet of an unknown track at the Swiftie Library installation in Los Angeles on Tuesday, the first of three days the pop-up is set to take place. A display case supported by pressed flowers and a lacy white veil at the event finds an open Tortured Poets Department book reading the new verse in capitals: “Even statues crumble if made to wait.”
Around the same time, a video appeared on the Spotify page for Tormented poets showing Swift herself sitting at a typewriter saying the same phrase.
The reveal isn't the first time the transport-loving Grammy winner has given fans a taste of her new album, which follows her 2022 Billboard 200 chart-topping LP. Midnight. On April 8, the day of the 2024 total solar eclipse, she shared the timely verse on social media: “The crowd goes wild on her hands. Half moon, total eclipse.”
Then on Sunday (April 14), Swift celebrated the news that Target would be carrying special vinyl variants Tormented poets posting another quote: “I wish I could not remember how we almost had it all.”
It's also possible that the taglines assigned to each deluxe edition of the record double as lyrics. For example, on the back of 'The Manuscript' version of the play is the phrase 'I love you, you're ruining my life', while 'The Bolter' has the message, 'You can't call me sad'.
The first track from the album Swift gave fans, however, came on the day she announced it Tormented poets at the 2024 Grammys. Shortly after breaking the news during her best pop vocal acceptance speech, the superstar posted on Instagram: “And so I prove my tarnished coat of arms/ My muses, acquired like bruises, amulets and my charms/ The tick, tick, tick of love bombs/ My veins of black ink/ All is well in love and poetry…”
See how Spotify introduced the new Department of Tormented Poets verse below.
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