It’s been over a year since we got an album from Taylor Swift. On April 19, the first anniversary of The Tortured Poets Department came and went, and I think we need to take a minute to appreciate it and this milestone.

On April 19, 2024, Taylor Swift released The Tortured Poets Department and then quickly expanded on it with The Anthology. We got 31 new songs from the singer via this double album, and fans immediately fell in love with TTPD and its dramatic, loving, poetic and heartbreaking lyrics.

Now, it’s been a whole year since we heard songs like “But Daddy I Love Him” and “I Can Do It With A Broken Heart” for the first time, and that’s kind of mindblowing for a few reasons.

First of all, now that it’s been a year, this album marked a bookend in a way for a major, major moment in Taylor Swift’s career. In six years, she released nine albums – Lover (2019), folklore (2020), evermore (2020), Fearless (Taylor’s Version) (2021), Red (Taylor’s Version) (2021), Midnights (2022), Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) (2023), 1989 (Taylor’s Version)(2023), The Tortured Poets Department (2024). Between 2019 and 2024, we didn’t wait more than a year for new music from Swift. She was pumping out project after project, and when Midnights came out, she also embarked on her historic two-year-long Eras Tour.

TTPD was the last new thing to come out during this era of Swifties getting something new to consume frequently. So, it almost feels like an end to this wild and wickedly successful chapter for Swift.

On top of this, this album by itself is unlike anything she’s done before, because it’s a double album. In the short time between Midnight and TTPD, she was on tour, re-released two albums, and made a project that seemingly covered three relationships – including her current relationship with Travis Kelce – and an intense moment of professional success, and it was done masterfully.

To make matters even better, she added TTPD to her Eras Tour setlist, which changed the concert in a significant way that fans adored.