has fans (and staffers) busy with the across two versions of her 11th studio album, Swift, 34, on Friday, April 19, dropping the first 16 songs at midnight EST. Two hours later, she announced and released , featuring 15 additional tracks. “I’d written so much tortured poetry in the past 2 years and wanted to share it all with you.
” she wrote in part via Instagram. “And now the story isn’t mine anymore… it’s all yours. 🤍” On that note, keep reading for how breaks down all the theories that link songs to past Swift tracks and more: There are a few songs that Swift gave context to while debuting the album with iHeartRadio on Friday, and the lead single is one of them.
“Fortnight is a song that I think really exhibits a lot of the common themes that run throughout this album. One of which being fatalism, longing, pining away, lost dreams. I think it’s a very fatalistic album in that there are a lot of very dramatic lines about, you know, life or death,” Swift explained.
“‘I love you, it’s ruining my life’ — these are very hyperbolic, dramatic things to say. But it’s that kind of album. It’s about a dramatic, artist, tragic kind of take on love and loss.
‘Fortnight’ — I’ve always imagined it took place in this American town where the American dream you thought would happen to you didn’t, right? You ended up not with the person that you loved and now you just have to live with that every day, wondering what would have been, maybe jus.