Taylor Swift fans went into quite the frenzy over alleged leaks from the upcoming album “The Tortured Poets Department.”
According to Daily Mail, snippets of the song were taken from a Google Drive, which showed 17 songs.
Swift, 34, also confirmed that this was the number of tracks coming out on the anticipated album.
Fans of the songwriter wondered if indeed the tracks were real or created from AI. Many urged fans not to report the leaks and not listen to the tracks.
“Tip: Turn Your Device’s Volume COMPLETELY OFF on Twitter for the NEXT 24 HRS and REPORT EVERY POST spamming about album leaks! We got this!” tweeted one die-hard fan.
“It’s not a Taylor Swift album release if you don’t have fake ass ‘Swifties’ spreading leaks because they can’t wait one day to listen to the project … pathetic,” added another.
Yet another person posted a video of two models walking and wrote, “Me and my bestie on our way to listen to #TSTTPD leaks.”
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Swift herself has gone to great lengths to prevent unintended early releases in the past.
“I have a lot of maybe, maybe-not-irrational fears of security invasion, wiretaps, people eavesdropping,” Swift said of her music during an 2014 appearance on”Jimmy Kimmel Live.” She added that her “1989” album only existed on her phone, “covered in cat stickers and the volume buttons don’t work very well because there’s candy stuck in there,” for nearly two years.
“The Tortured Poets Department” is Swift’s 11th album and comes after she became the first woman and only solo artist to win the Grammy for album of the year three times.
The alleged tracks reference Matty Healy at times, with many who thought it was going to be about Joe Alwyn.
The lyric in reference states “You smoked then ate seven bars of chocolate, we declared Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist,” she apparently sings. // I scratch your head, you fall asleep like a tattooed golden retriever.”
Many wonder if these are actually true though as some wonder if the short-lived relationship would get any music attention.
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The two have dating history back to 2014 but some wonder indeed if it is real.
Another interesting thing about this leak is the fact that on X … the search term “Taylor Swift Leak” was blocked for a bit, which seems to lend credence to the notion this is real.
Taylor’s marketing team has been hard at work in the leadup to ‘TTPD’ … with pop-ups in L.A. and Easter Egg “hunts” sending fans into a frenzy.
