Who’s afraid of buying 30-plus “Tortured Poets Department” album variants?
Between her ongoing record-shattering “Eras” tour and the album holding the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 chart for eight consecutive weeks, no one should question the might of Taylor Swift and the Swiftie fandom.
But to keep the album charting, the singer has been dropping multiple variants of her soul-baring “Tortured Poets Department” album since its April 19 release — some of which have a bonus song from its surprise double-album expansion, “The Anthology” (which she has yet to release in a physical form but will surely cause a major splash once available), acoustic tracks, live renditions or voice-memo demos. The total is nearly at three dozen, and there are almost certainly more coming.