Hey I'm Brian Hyatt. This is Rolling Stone Music Now. I have with me once again our friends

Brittany Spanos and Rob Sheffield and for once we're going to talk about an album that we

haven't heard yet that no one's heard yet it doesn't exist yet

We haven't heard a note of it. It's our tortured poets department anticipation episode. There's already so much to talk about, there's fake

songs, there's fake scandals, all manner of things. Tortured Poets Department is

due April 19th and we know the track listing we know I guess there's a few it seems like there's a few line at least one line that's like in the album art yeah

There's lines from the bonus tracks it's almost guaranteed that there's lines all over the place that we've heard yet that she

planted years ago in her NYU speech turn out to be on this album. She does that stuff. In

midnight's when it was like, breathe in, breathe out. And it was like, she was already teasing this like in her commencement speech. So we almost certainly know lots of lines from this album that we just did not know yet was being planted.

That is a good point. I'm going to feed all her utterances into an AI and have a guess what the

lyrics might be. People think that Fort Knight featuring Post Malone, I feel like there's a vague idea out there that it might be the first single, but we don't know that.

The midnight's rollout was so much of the kind of, there was no songs, there's no hint of what the songs would sound like, there was nothing, and then we got the album.

I feel like she's going to end up doing the same.

However, she did announce it so far in advance that I can't tell.

It's like a shocking amount of time between the

announcement and the album that feels like there's too much empty space there has

to be maybe like a single this time but yeah there's no indication at all. It seems like she's teasing

reputation TV already too so it's like your restraint in not saying blank space. I think in

part I think she released the song titles in part honestly because they're just so good

They're some of her best song titles and I think she was proud of them and they also are like

Extremely how do I put this provocative eyebrow raising question begging and I think

that it's just too delicious not to put them out would be perhaps my guess.

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