The Tortured Poets Department includes 16 songs and the bonus track “The Manuscript.”
Although Taylor didn’t share any additional details about her upcoming album, Swifities began to speculate it referenced her ex Joe Alwyn—whom she dated for six years before they broke up in April 2023.
“I knew that taylor swift’s new album name sounded a little too familiar,” a fan wrote on X, alongside a screenshot of Joe discussing his WhatsApp group chat called “The Tortured Man Club.”
The actor first shared insight into the chat in 2022, explaining to Variety that he “started the group” with Normal People‘s Paul Mescal and Fleabag‘s Andrew Scott as a facetious homage to the characters they play onscreen.
“It’s the Tortured Man Club, I think,” Joe said in a joint interview with Paul. “We were both in the Sally Rooney universe and crossed over with Lenny Abrahamson. We were so lucky to have that experience.”
“It hasn’t had that much use recently,” he noted, with Paul jokingly adding they were “less tortured now.”
