Saoirse Hanley: I’m a huge Swiftie but I refuse to analyse her every move to death any more – I just enjoy the music instead

With a new album entitled The Tortured Poets Department out today, Taylor Swift fans are already overanalysing what it might tell us about her personal life, but this Swiftie is over it.

Taylor Swift on stage at the Eras Tour in Singapore. Photo by Ashok Kumar/TAS24/Getty Images.

Saoirse Hanley

The rumour mill ramped up a notch on Thursday. Taylor Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Department, hadn’t even been released yet – though there were reports it had leaked – and speculation was rife around what it would reveal about Swift’s intensely scrutinised romantic life.

Although it’s her 11th album, it’s the first to come out post break-up since Red in 2012. Swift split last year from her six-year relationship with British actor Joe Alwyn, who starred in the TV adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends.