Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department Pop-up Is Positively Packed With Easter Eggs
If you're a major Swiftie, you've probably already heard about the brand new Spotify Library Installation at The Grove in Los Angeles, celebrating this week's release of Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department
The pop-up runs from today, April 16, to Thursday, April 18, and is open to fans from 10 am to 9 pm daily, ahead of the big album drop on Friday, April 19. Our team was lucky enough to be there in person today, and whether you can't attend yourself or want a sneak peek of the excitement and all of its hidden Easter eggs before you head over, click HERE to-pre-save the album now on Spotify and keep scrolling to check out what it's all about.
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The Big Day
While it's no surprise that The Tortured Poets Department officially drops on April 19, it's still exciting to see it spelled out for us.
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The Track List
Though by now, the track list for The Tortured Poets Department is no secret, it's thrilling to see it laid out, as it's displayed on the typewriter above this card catalog cabinet. You can also read it below as follows:
1. "Fortnight" (featuring Post Malone)
2. "The Tortured Poets Department"
3. "My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys"
4. "Down Bad"
5. "So Long, London"
6. "But Daddy I Love Him"
7. "Fresh Out the Slammer"
8. "Florida!!!" (featuring Florence and the Machine)
9. "Guilty as Sin?"
10. "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?"
11. "I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)"
12. "Loml"
13. "I Can Do It With a Broken Heart"
14. "The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived"
15. "The Alchemy"
16. "Clara Bow"
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The Songs
The pop-up also gives fans the chance to weigh in and share The Tortured Poets Department songs they're most excited to hear on April 19. Is it cheating to vote for all 16?
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Behind The Glass
Staged behind glass, the pages of a yellow book lay open, reading the following lines (which are no doubt never-before-heard lyrics):
"Even statues crumble
If they're made to wait"
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A Message From the Chairman
One of our favorite tidbits from the pop-up is this innocuous-looking table, reiterating the release date next to a typed letter and fountain pen. On the letter are the following words, which Taylor has shared before, but which haven't lost any of their impact.
"And so I enter into evidence
My tarnished coat of arms
My muses, acquired like bruises
My talismans and charms
The tick,
tick,
tick
of love bombs
My veins of pitch black ink
All's fair in love and poetry
Sincerely,
The Charman
of the Tortured Poets Department"
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The Shelves
But the pop-up might have the most Easter eggs hidden in the book titles along its shelves and cubbies. Many of them are "authored" by Taylor Swift with distinct titles, including song names like I Can Do It With a Broken Heart, The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived and Guilty as Sin? as well as bonus track titles The Manuscript and The Black Dog.
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