A Surprise From Taylor Swift!

She had something else in store...

Taylor Swift surprised fans when she announced that her new album, The Tortured Poets Department, would arrive as an anthology featuring 15 bonus tracks.

Two hours after the album hit streaming platforms, Swift posted an announcement to her socials that she had a second instalment of the album she calls The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology.

"It’s a 2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album," she writes. "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."

Swift explained the album in a separate post, writing that The Tortured Poets Department is "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. 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."