Taylor Swift at the Grammys in February. Photo: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for The Recording Academy
To all the tortured poets out there: Your time has come.
State of play: Taylor Swift's 11th studio album, "The Tortured Poets Department," arrives at midnight.
"The lead-up to release day has been littered with puzzles, Easter eggs and other hallmarks of Swift's ever-theorizing fan base," NBC News reports.
Zoom in: In the run-up, Swift released playlists arranged around the stages of grief, intensifying speculation that this will be a breakup album, Axios Nashville co-author Adam Tamburin writes.
💠Nathan's thought bubble: I thought every Taylor album was a breakup album.
