Followers react as new album The Tortured Poets Division ‘leaked’
Taylor Swift‘s new album, The Tortured Poets Division, seems to have leaked on-line a day earlier than its launch, sending followers right into a frenzy.
Many individuals have been sharing the tracks on social media, with some saying they got here from a Google Drive hyperlink containing the entire 17-song checklist.
Whereas some Swifties have dived straight in, others insisted true followers will look ahead to the official launch on Friday.
The BBC has approached Swift’s representatives for remark.
The singer introduced the existence of her eleventh studio album on the Grammy Awards in February. It’s her first assortment of fully new materials since October 2022’s Midnights.
On X, previously Twitter, some followers have been fast to say they would not be indulging within the music forward of schedule; whereas others flooded the positioning with false hyperlinks to “bury” the leak and cease folks discovering it.
“Increase your hand in case you’re an ACTUAL Taylor Swift fan and are not listening,” wrote one social media consumer.
“Individuals want to know that this is not nearly being a fan. It is about respecting others of their exhausting work!,” wrote one other.
“She and her crew [have] deliberate and labored so meticulously for this album launch, do not disrespect and break it for others as nicely.”
One other mentioned they needed to attend to take heed to the entire album on Friday “and actually get the primary pay attention expertise”.
Different followers speculated that the tracks may very well be fakes generated by synthetic intelligence, though some “AI” tracks that have been shared on-line turned out to be older, much less well-known Swift songs.
It would not be the primary time that the star has had a run-in with AI. In January, X blocked searches for “Taylor Swift” after specific AI-generated photographs of the singer began circulating on the site.
The arrival of a brand new album has been hotly anticipated by her fan group because it means there will likely be new materials so as to add to the star’s blockbuster Eras tour, which hits Europe this summer season.
Midnights, which featured the singles Anti-Hero, Bejeweled and Karma, additionally leaked on-line forward of its drop date. However the leak did not damage Swift’s industrial prospects, and the album bought 1.6 million copies in its first week within the US.
It went on to win album of the yr on the Grammys, making Swift the primary individual to win the award 4 occasions.
Earlier this month, Swift joined Elon Musk as rating among the many world’s wealthiest folks, based on a brand new wealthy checklist.
The pop star entered the Forbes World’s Billionaires Listing for the primary time with $1.1bn (£877m), together with Sam Altman, creator of the AI chatbot ChatGPT on $1bn (£800m).
