盼望着，盼望着，4月19日终于到了！
大声告诉我，今天是什么日子？今天是“霉霉”泰勒·斯威夫特（Taylor Swift）发新专辑的日子！
《THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT》，中文译名《苦难诗社》正式发布！共计31首歌大放送， 厉害了霉霉，当之无愧的“业界劳模”！
Taylor Swift has sent her die-hard fansinto a frenzy after announcing her new album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” is a double album.泰勒·斯威夫特宣布她新专辑《苦难诗社》是双专辑，让她的铁杆粉丝陷入狂热。
Titled “The Anthology,” Swift’s late-night surprise, announced at 2 a.m., includes 15 bonus tracks, bringing the total song count to a whopping31.斯威夫特深夜惊喜发布的《The Anthology》专辑包含 15 首额外曲目，歌曲总数达到惊人的 31 首。该专辑于凌晨 2 点宣布。
01欧美媒体如何评价新专？
欧美各大主流媒体都给出了超高评价。比如美国文化娱乐杂志《Variety》这样写道：
It’s not like she exactly lacked for candoras a writer at any point in the past, but “The Tortured Poets Department” feels like it comes the closest of any of her 11 original albums to just drilling a tube directly into her brain and letting listeners mainline what comes out.
泰勒·斯威夫特一直以来都以坦诚的创作风格著称，但她的第11张原创专辑《苦难诗社》却更胜一筹，宛如直接将导管插入大脑，让听众毫无保留地接收她脑中的思绪和情感。
If you value this confessionalquality most of all, she’s still peaking: As a culmination of her particular genius for marrying cleverness with catharsis, “Tortured” kind of feels like the Taylor Swift-est Taylor Swift record ever.
“如果你最看重的是泰勒·斯威夫特袒露心扉的品质，那么她仍然处于巅峰状态。《苦难诗社》这张专辑完美地展现了她将聪明才智与情感宣泄巧妙结合的独特才能，感觉是史上最 ‘泰勒·斯威夫特’ 的专辑。”
02 网友热议：前男友们汗流浃背了吗？
然而，被过度诠释和被误解是表达者的宿命。霉霉的新专辑一上线，就已经有很多人拿着放大镜意欲窥探她的感情生活。以下是外网对其中三首比较重要的歌曲的解读：
《Fortnight》（主打单曲）
On opening track "Fortnight," Swift wistfully reflects about becoming strangers with a former lover. "And no one here's to blame/ But what about your quiet treason?" she sings about the short-lived romance. "I took the miracle move-on-drug/ The effects were temporary/ And I love you, it's ruining my life."
在第一首歌《Fortnight》中，斯威夫特忧伤地回忆着与前男友变成陌路人的经历。她唱道:“没有人应该受到责备 / 但你的沉默的背叛呢？”“我服用了神奇的药物 / 但效果是暂时的 / 我爱你，这毁了我的生活。”
Taylor appears to reference the end of her relationship with Joe Alwyn and her subsequent fling with Matty Healy in the first track on her album.
在专辑的第一首歌中，泰勒似乎提到了她与乔·阿尔文关系的结束以及随后与马蒂·希利的恋情。
《So Long, London》
Fans were especially primed for the fifth track, “So Long, London,” given that (1) Swift has said she often sequences her most vulnerable and emotionally intense songs fifth on an LP, and (2) the title suggested it may be about Joe Alwyn, the English actor who was Swift’s boyfriend for about six years, reportedly until early 2023.
粉丝们对第五首歌曲《So Long, London》特别期待，原因有二，其一是泰勒·斯威夫特曾表示，她经常将专辑中最脆弱、最具情感张力的歌曲排在第五位。其二是歌曲的标题暗示这首歌可能与英国演员乔·阿尔文有关。据报道，两人曾交往六年，直到2023年初。
Indeed, “So Long” is an epic breakup tune, with lines like “You left me at the house by the heath” and “I’m pissed off you let me give you all that youth for free.”
没错，《So Long, London》是一首史诗般的分手曲，歌词中包含着诸如「你把我丢下了荒野旁的房子」和「我气愤的是你让我白白浪费了所有青春」这样的句子。
《The Tortured Poets Department》（专辑同名曲）
The title track, “The Tortured Poets Department,” also seems to reference Healy, and its title appears to be a joke aimed at him for bringing a typewriter to her apartment in the vein of famed poets like Dylan Thomas.
主打歌《The Tortured Poets Department》似乎也影射了马蒂·希利（英国乐队The 1975主唱）。歌名听起来像是开玩笑，调侃他学着著名诗人迪伦·托马斯一样，抱着打字机来到她的公寓。
The fact that Healy has previously spoken of his affinity for typewriters lends credence to the theory that the song is in fact about him; in 2018, he told GQ that he “really” likes working on typewriters and putting pen to paper — and even hinted at having crushes on unnamed “pop stars.”
希利之前曾说过他对打字机的喜爱，这让大家相信这首歌实际上是关于他的；2018年，他在接受《GQ》采访时表示，他“真的”喜欢用打字机创作，喜欢用笔在纸上写作——甚至还暗示自己暗恋某位“流行歌星”。
这首歌的歌词里甚至还有“断眉”Charlie Puth的友情客串：
'You smokеd then ate seven bars of chocolate / We declared Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist.'
"你抽了烟，然后吃了七块巧克力 / 我们宣布查理·普斯应该成为更伟大的艺术家。
八卦归八卦，更多歌迷还是更专注于霉霉的音乐。不得不说，霉霉粉丝们，真的“吃得又饱又好”！
新歌大家都听上了吗？快来说说最喜欢哪一首？
今日词汇 2024/4/19
die-hard fans：铁杆粉丝
whopping：adj.巨大的, 庞大的
candor:坦白；直率
confessional：adj.自白的；忏悔的
peak：n.巅峰，顶点，v.达到高峰，adj.巅峰状态的
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