Taylor Swift put up five Apple Music playlists about heartbreak and shared them with her devoted fans on Friday.

The 34-year-old pop artist is anticipating the release of her album The Tortured Poets Department, which is supposed to be based on the phases of sorrow.

Taylor has now given her fans five playlists that symbolize five different emotional aspects of a breakup, adding fuel to the rumor mill.

Each playlist includes some of Taylor’s past singles, such as Bad Blood and We Are Never Getting Back Together.

The playlists are based on Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s classic five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

Taylor’s new album, due out on April 19, follows her blossoming romance with Travis Kelce and is her first album of new songs since her official split from Joe Alwyn.

She has dated a number of A-listers, including John Mayer, Calvin Harris, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Tom Hiddleston.

However, other admirers believe that The Tortured Poets Department is explicitly about the termination of her six-year romance with Joe.

Her debut Apple Music playlist, I Love You, It’s Ruining My Life, is filled with classic Taylor Swift songs related to the denial stage.

In a personal message before the music, she says: ‘This is a list of songs about getting so caught up in the idea of something that you have a hard time seeing the red flags, possibly resulting in moments of denial and maybe a little bit of delusion.’

Songs in the playlist include Lavender Haze, Betty, Cruel Summer, Style, Treacherous, Untouchable and her duet with Lana Del Rey, Snow On The Beach.

Next comes You Don’t Get to Tell Me About Sad Songs, which is about the anger stage and is sprinkled with some of her most enduring hits.

‘Over the years, I’ve learned that anger can manifest itself in a lot of different ways,’ Taylor said in her message: ‘but the healthiest way that it manifests itself in my life is when I can write a song about it, and then oftentimes that helps me get past it.’

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Out April 19, Taylor’s new album comes amid her flowering romance with Travis Kelce, whom she is pictured with at one of his NFL games in January

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However some fans have speculated that The Tortured Poets Department is specifically about the end of her six-year relationship with Joe, whom she is pictured with in 2019

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For the bargaining stage, she created a mixtape titled Am I Allowed To Cry? composed of songs in a mournful mode, such as I Wish You Would and Afterglow.

Her classic songs Bad Blood, I Knew You Were Trouble, We Are Never Getting Back Together, Dear John, and Better Than Revenge are all on the playlist.

For the bargaining stage, she created a mixtape titled Am I Allowed To Cry? composed of songs in a more mournful tone.

Taylor explained in her message to the fans: ‘You’re trying to make things better, and you’re often feeling really desperate, because sometimes we have a gut intuition that tells us things aren’t going to go the way we think, which makes us more desperate, which makes us bargain more.’

The Great War, This Is Me Trying, Death By A Thousand Cuts, Soon You’ll Get Better, I Wish You Did, The playlist includes Better Man and Afterglow, among other songs.

Taylor’s playlist for the following stage, ‘the sensations of depression that often weave their way through my songs,’ is called Old Habits Die Screaming.

‘I often feel that while I’m listening to or creating songs about the severity of loss and hopelessness, I’m on the verge of getting over it,’ she remarked.

Old Habits Die Screaming includes songs such as You’re Losing Me, My Tears Ricochet, Champagne Problems, and Forever Winter.

The last playlist, I Can Do It With A Broken Heart Songs, is centered on acceptance, which means’creating room for more good in your life, making that choice because a lot of times when we lose things, we gain things too.’

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Her playlists come after her partner Jack Antonoff turned down an interview after being asked if he was working on The Tortured Poets Department. He is shown in March in NYC.

Midnight Rain, Labyrinth, and Closure That collection includes songs like I Forgot That You Existed, Now That We Don’t Talk, Innocent, and Breathe.

Her playlists come after her colleague, Jack Antonoff, declined an interview when asked if he was working on The Tortured Poets Department.

According to Page Six, the 39-year-old composer and record producer, who has frequently collaborated with Taylor in the past, hung up on a Dutch news site NRC when asked about the project.

‘You know, I don’t talk about that. If you’re seeking for clickbait, you have come to the wrong place. ‘Thank you for this talk,’ he concluded, concluding the interview.

Earlier in the talk, Antonoff, who recently criticized Swift’s enemy Kanye West, addressed Swift while comparing his latest project Bleachers to the music he has created for Swift and singer Lana Del Rey, 38.

‘I don’t see it as producing. I create music with my friends. It comes as it comes. I’m not the kind of producer who likes to give commands from behind a mixing console.’ 

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The record producer, 39, who’s frequently worked with Swift, 34, in the past, hung up on a Dutch news outlet NRC after being questioned about the project; the two seen in 2024

‘I concern myself with the music itself; the way in which you can manage the creative process,’ he explained.

‘Success is a strange phenomenon. It distracts attention from the ordinary mechanisms that lead to good pop music,’ he added.

‘Being able to listen to each other well is one thing. The artists I work with trust that I can help them make their music better.’ 

Tortured Poets Department is Swift’s eleventh studio album, set to be released on April 19.

Swift surprised fans by announcing her new album while accepting a 2024 Grammy in February for best pop vocal album for Midnights, which Antonoff co-produced. He also co-wrote 12 of the 13 tracks on the album.

It’s not the first time Antonoff has proved to be a fiercely loyal friend to Swift, after he defended her songwriting abilities and said questioning it ‘is like challenging someone’s faith in God.’

Two years ago, Gorillaz and Blur frontman Damon Albarn scoffed to the LA Times that the pop star ‘doesn’t write her own songs.’

Outraged, Jack took to Twitter to call the 55-year-old Englishman an ‘herb’ and wrote: ‘I’ve never met Damon Albarn and he’s never been to my studio but apparently he knows more than the rest of us about all those songs Taylor writes and brings in.’

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‘You know I don’t talk about that. If you’re looking for clickbait, you’ve come to the wrong place. Thank you for this conversation,’ he said, before ending the interview; seen in 2021

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Earlier in the conversation Antonoff mentioned Swift as he compared his latest project Bleachers with the music he has produced for Swift as well as songbird Lana Del Rey, 38

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‘I don’t see it as producing. I create music with my friends. It comes as it comes. I’m not the kind of producer who likes to give commands from behind a mixing console’