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Taylor Swift sings about how she was 'feeling suicidal' at the prospect of ending her relationship with an ex-lover on her new album.
The singer, 34, officially dropped The Tortured Poets Department - her 11th studio album - on Friday.
After releasing her new album at midnight ET (2am UK time), Taylor took to Instagram to announce her latest record was actually a surprise 'double album,' after sparking a flurry of speculation by posting a countdown clock on social media.
And in one of the songs, Taylor opens up on one of her intense romances, and claims she and the boyfriend felt suicidal at the prospect of them splitting up and parting ways.
In the title track, The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor sings: 'You told Lucy you'd kill yourself if I ever leave/But I had said that to Jack about you, so I felt seen.'
Taylor Swift sings about how she was 'feeling suicidal' at the prospect of ending her relationship with an ex-lover on her new album
The singer, 34, officially dropped The Tortured Poets Department - her 11th studio album - on Friday
Fans are convinced these lyrics are a reference to her pal Lucy Dacus and co-songwriter and close friend Jack Antonoff.
Taylor also touches on dying because of heartbreak in the song Down Bad. Taylor goes on to sing, dramatically and amid expletives: 'I might just die, it would make no difference.'
Elsewhere, furious fans have slammed Joe Alwyn as she hinted he was a cheat in her new album.
And many believe that Taylor is claiming Joe cheated with her acerbic song The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived - with fans raging at the actor.
Taylor was in a relationship with actor Joe, 32, for six years before their shock split in early 2023.
In the song, she belts out: 'And you'll confess why you did it... And I'll say good riddance. Cos it wasn't sexy once it wasn't forbidden.
'You didn't measure up in any measure of a man. I would have died for your sins but instead I just died inside. You deserve prison, but you won't get time. You will slide into inboxes and slip through the bars.'
She also jibes: 'In plain sight you hid but you are what you did. And I'll forget you, but I'll never forgive the smallest man who ever lived.'
In the fourth track, Swift admits to breaking down 'crying at the gym' and how the end of hers and Joe's six-year relationship left her feeling 'hollow.'
She sings: 'Did you take all my old clothes just to leave me here naked and alone/ In a field in my same old town that somehow seems so hollow now'
Swift later accuses the past lover of abandoning her. ' How dare you think it's romantic/ Leaving me safe and stranded.'
Taylor also touches on dying because of heartbreak in the song Down Bad. Taylor goes on to sing, dramatically and amid expletives: 'I might just die, it would make no difference.'
Swift implies that Healy would be devastated if she left him and even appears to reference his close friend Lucy Dacus of the band boygenius (Matt pictured in May 2023)
Enraged fans queried the lyrics and added to the cheating speculation.
X was flooded with responses, with users writing: 'the smallest man who ever lived: so did he cheat on her? did he abuse her? both deserved...';
'who's The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived for?! did joe cheat?!... I'll never understand how the hell that pink faced victorian looking man dared to cheat on THE Taylor Swift. The smallest man who ever lived for real.';
'Imagine cheating on THE Taylor Swift omg I'm furious';
'My husband is cheating I want to kill him. She's so real for this I love u Taylor';
'Imagine cheating on a beautiful woman like Taylor'
Fans are also convinced the title of her album is a savage nod to the group chat her ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn shared with pals Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott.
Swifties remembered a crucial detail relating to her ex and her pal Phoebe Bridgers ' ex.
Back in 2022, Joe revealed a mutual friend created a WhatsApp group with him and Paul called The Tortured Man Club.
They later explained to Variety that Andrew 'started the group,' with Paul saying: 'He's just on it every day. He's just on it by himself.'
Joe jokingly added: 'Just messaging himself good mornings.'
Taylor Swift sent her fans into an emotional frenzy as she officially dropped her anticipated 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department - with Swifties already labeling the LP 'a masterpiece.'
The Grammy winner, 34, also announced on Thursday that the first single from the new work is Fortnight , which features fellow music artist Post Malone.
The album became available at 9p.m. (PST) and her dedicated fans have voiced their thoughts over the music, with some being driven to tears and others calling Tortured Poets the singer's 'best album.'
Ahead of the release, Taylor kept busy by taking to social media to reveal that Fortnight, featuring Post Malone, would be the first single from the album.
Alongside a photo of the songstress and the Circles hitmaker, she penned, 'The first single from The Tortured Poets
