Taylor Swift is switching up her setlist. Swift is back on the road for the international leg of her Eras Tour which kicked off Thursday night (May 9) in Paris. For the first time since her The Tortured Poets Department album dropped on April 19, the Grammy winner is performing fan favorites from the project.
So far, the singer has included six new songs to her setlist from TTPD. They are: “But Daddy I Love Him” with a”So High School” snippet as an outro, “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me,” “Down Bad,” “Fortnight,” The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived,” “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart,” and an acoustic version of “loml.”
Taylor Swift Released The Tortured Poets Department
Swift announced the album as she was picking up her 13th Grammy win back in February.
“Okay, this is my 13th Grammy, which is my lucky number. I don’t know if I’ve ever told you that,” Swift joked at the beginning of her speech. “I want to say thank you to the members of the Recording Academy for voting this way, but I know that the way that the Recording Academy voted is a direct reflection of the passion of the fans. So I want to say thank you to the fans by telling you a secret that I have been keeping from you for the last two years, which is that my brand-new album comes out April 19th. It’s called ‘The Tortured Poets Department.’ I’m going to go and post the cover right now backstage. Thank you, I love you! Thank you!”
She later went to Instagram to describe the body of work as “an anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time — one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure.”
She continued: “This period of the author’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up. There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed. And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted. This writer is of the firm belief that our tears become holy in the form of ink on a page. Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it. And then all that’s left behind is the tortured poetry.”
Two hours later after the release, she surprised her fans that TTPD was going to be a double album.
“It’s a 2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album,” Swift wrote on Instagram. “I’d written so much tortured poetry in the past 2 years and wanted to share it all with you, so here’s the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology. 15 extra songs. And now the story isn’t mine anymore… it’s all yours.
The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and she also took up the first 14 spots on Billboard Hot 100. “Fortnight” featuring Post Malone took the top spot. Swift made history as she was the first artist to ever take up the first 14 spots on the chart.
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