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Taylor Swift is detailing the deeper meaning behind some of the songs on her latest album 'The Tortured Poets Department.' She offered fans a track-by-track experience for the songs "Fortnight," "My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys," "Clara Bow" and more.

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00:00Taylor Swift is now detailing the deeper meaning behind some of the songs off her latest album,

00:04The Tortured Poets Department. Swift offered a track-by-track experience for some of the songs,

00:09including Fortnite, featuring Post Malone, which also happens to be the album's first single,

00:14noting, I always imagined that it took place in this American town where this American dream you

00:18thought would happen to you didn't. Florida, featuring Florence and the Machine, saying,

00:22people have these crimes that they commit. Where do they immediately skip town and go to? They go

00:26to Florida. Who's Afraid of Little Old Me, which she said she wrote alone at the piano in one of

00:31those moments when I felt sort of bitter about all the things we do to our artists as a society and

00:35as a culture. My boy only breaks his favorite toys, where she speaks of being somebody's favorite toy

00:40until they break you and they don't want to play with you anymore, which is how a lot of us are in

00:44relationships, where we are so valued by a person in the beginning, and then all of a sudden they

00:48break us. And Clara Bow, where she recalls being at record labels where executives would compare her

00:53two previous artists. But they'd kind of say something disparaging about her, where you're

00:57this, you're so much better in this way or that way. And that's kind of how we teach women to see

01:01themselves, as like you could be the new replacement for this woman who's done something great before

01:06you. The track-by-track experience is offered on Amazon Music. Swift has called the album an

01:11anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions, and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic

01:16moment in time, one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure. After dropping her album

01:21at midnight last Friday, Swift later surprised fans by releasing a secret double album expansion

01:26at 2 a.m. with 15 extra songs for the album. For more on the track-by-track experience, head

01:32to THR.com. And for the latest entertainment news and updates, keep watching The Hollywood Reporter News.

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