It's official: Taylor Swift's eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Department is here!
After the album's midnight release and a surprise 2 a.m. announcement by Swift—revealing TTPD is actually a secret double album with 15 extra tracks—many fans and diehard Swifties are wondering who helped Swift write the album.
While Swift is listed as the sole writer on a few songs, Jack Antonoff of the band Bleachers and Aaron Dessner from the rock band The National are also listed as co-writers.
After the album's release, Dessner shared a candid picture of Swift recording in the studio on Instagram, along with a lengthy caption thanking the singer for letting him be part of her latest project.
"We started working on these songs over two years ago and it feels like they have kept us company and evolved in beautiful and unexpected ways through so much life lived during this process," Dessner wrote in part, adding that it's "hard to believe" he has "recorded over 60 songs" with Swift since the pair started collaborating in 2020.
