Taylor Swift shares FIVE breakup playlists based on stages of grief... as fans ... trends now

Taylor Swift put together five Apple Music playlists about heartbreak and released them to her devoted fanbase on Friday.

The 34-year-old pop star is awaiting the release of her album The Tortured Poets Department, which is thought to be structured around the stages of grief.

Adding grist to the rumor mill, Taylor has now treated her fans to five playlists representing five different emotional components of a breakup.

Each playlist contains some of Taylor's own past songs, including old hits like Bad Blood and We Are Never Getting Back Together.

The playlists are indeed based on Elisabeth Kübler-Ross' famous five stages of grief - denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.

Out April 19, Taylor's new album comes amid her flowering romance with Travis Kelce - but also her first album of new songs since her official split from Joe Alwyn.

She boasts a formidable A-list dating history, ranging from John Mayer and Calvin Harris to Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Hiddleston, among many others. 

However some fans have speculated that The Tortured Poets Department is specifically about the end of her six-year relationship with Joe.

Her first Apple Music playlist is called I Love You, It's Ruining My Life and is full of old Taylor Swift songs connected to the denial stage.

In a personal message before the music, she says: '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.'

Songs in the playlist include Lavender Haze, Betty, Cruel Summer, Style, Treacherous, Untouchable and her duet with Lana Del Rey, Snow On The Beach.

Next comes You Don’t Get to Tell Me About Sad Songs, which is about the anger stage and is sprinkled with some of her most enduring hits.

'Over the years, I've learned that anger can manifest itself in a lot of different ways,' Taylor said in her message: '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.'

Her classic songs Bad Blood, I Knew You Were Trouble, We Are Never Getting Back Together, Dear John and Better Than Revenge are all included in that playlist.

For the bargaining stage, she assembled a playlist called Am I Allowed To Cry? comprised of songs in a more plaintive mode.

Taylor explained in her message to the fans: '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.' 

The Great War, This Is Me Trying, Death By A Thousand Cuts, Soon You'll Get Better, I Wish You Would, Better Man and Afterglow are part of the playlist, among others.

For the next stage - 'the feelings of depression that often lace their way through my songs,' in Taylor's words - her playlist is called Old Habits Die Screaming.

'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,' she explained. 

Some of the songs she bundled into Old Habits Die Screaming were You're Losing Me, My Tears Ricochet, Champagne Problems and Forever Winter. 

I Can Do It With A Broken Heart Songs is the final playlist, centered on acceptance, which is to say 'making room for more good in your life, making that choice because a lot of time when we lose things, we gain things too.'

Midnight Rain, Labyrinth, Closure, I Forgot That You Existed, Now That We Don't Talk, Innocent and Breathe are all part of that grouping of songs. 

Her playlists come after her collaborator Jack Antonoff shut down an interview

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