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Taylor Swift may possibly be the Chairman of The Tortured Poets Division, but the rest of the college has lastly been discovered.
The songwriting credits for TTPD have dropped ahead of its April 19 launch day, and lovers swiftly uncovered who wrote what on Swift’s forthcoming album. To no one’s surprise, Swift, 34, is credited on all 16 of the album’s tracks. She’s also the sole songwriter on two TTPD tunes: “Who’s Fearful of Tiny Old Me?” and “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys.”
Swift’s longtime collaborator, Jack Antonoff, is stated amongst the credits. The 40-yr-aged Bleachers frontman commenced doing work with Swift in 2013, most notably on her 1989 album, and has been by her side at any time since. On TTPD, he’s credited with co-creating “Down Bad,” “Fresh Out the Slammer,” “Guilty as Sin,” “I Can Take care of Him (No Truly I Can),” “I Can Do It With a Damaged Heart,” “The Alchemy,” “Fortnight” and the album’s title track.
Austin Post — a.k.a. Write-up Malone — also has a credit history on “Fortnight.” Post’s collab with Swift opens the album. The only other showcased performer on TTPD is Florence and the Device, who show up on the tune “Florida!!!” Florence Welch, the band’s principal songwriter and vocalist, is credited with helping produce the track with Swift.
Moreover Antonoff, Malone, 28, and Welch, 37, the only other songwriter stated in TTPD’s credits is Swift’s recent artistic confidant, Aaron Dessner of The National. Dressner, 47, to start with worked with Swift on her cottagecore albums, 2020’s Folklore and Evermore. Because then, his function has appeared in the Taylor’s Variations of Fearless, Purple and Discuss Now. Dessner also assisted deliver music on the deluxe and 3 A.M. editions of Swift’s 2022 album, Midnights.
On TTPD, Dessner co-wrote five music: “So Long, London,” “But Daddy I Appreciate Him,” “LOML,” “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” and the album’s nearer, “Clara Bow.”
Songwriting credits for the bonus tracks — “The Manuscript,” “The Bolter,” “The Albatross” and “The Black Dog” — ended up not designed obtainable on the internet. The music are bundled in the respective exclusive version vinyl pressings of The Tortured Poets Department and will not be right away out there on streaming providers.
Lovers have speculated that TTPD concerns Swift’s romantic relationship with ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn. When Swift won the Album of the Yr Grammy for Folklore in 2021, she credited Alwyn, 33, with being “the to start with individual that I perform just about every solitary track that I write, and I experienced the best time creating tracks with you in quarantine.”
Alwyn wrote with Swift less than the pen name William Bowery, contributing to tracks “Exile,” “Champagne Problems,” “Betty,” and more. He also contributed to “Sweet Nothing” on 2022’s Midnights. He is not credited on The Tortured Poets Section.
Swift and Alwyn broke up in April 2023 following 6 several years of courting. Afterwards that 12 months, Swift commenced her present relationship with Kansas Town Chiefs tight close Travis Kelce.
