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Posted: 2024-04-19T22:24:04Z | Updated: 2024-04-20T14:45:35Z

Taylor Swift is once again making headlines following the release of her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, at 12 a.m. Friday. Two hours later, the singer surprised fans with the revelation that TTPD is actually a double album, and dropped 15 additional songs, for a total of 122 minutes of new music.

With 31 brand new tracks, fans have plenty of lyrics about relationship trauma, mental health and other themes that fit into the albums tortured theme to dissect. But while many of the songs also sound melancholy, Swift sneaks some of her saddest sentiments into the upbeat electro-pop bop I Can Do It With a Broken Heart:

Im so depressed I act like its my birthday every day / Im so obsessed with him, but he avoids me like a plague / I cry a lot, but I am so productive; its an art / You know youre good when you even can do it with a broken heart.

They said, Babe you gotta fake it til you make it, and I did / Lights, camera, bitch, smile, even when you want to die / He said hed love me all his life, but that life was too short / Breaking down, I hit the floor / All the pieces of me shattered as the crowd was chanting, MORE!

The singer seems to describe performing on her record-breaking Eras tour which is all but confirmed by the concert footage that accompanies the track on Spotify and recalls glittering on the stage and hitting her marks while feeling miserable in her personal life. (Swift and her longtime boyfriend Joe Alwyn ended their six-year relationship around the start of the tour.)

As my colleague Jillian Capewell wrote in her TTPD review , She manically pep-talks herself through the devastation of heartbreak ... assuring herself shes a real tough kid who can handle her shit, but hinting at a harder fallout from her breakup with Alwyn that she didnt let the public see.

Swift concludes the song, practically laughing, Cause Im miserable, and nobody even knows! before sighing and declaring, Try and come for my job.

Although most of us dont know what its like to spend night after night performing for football stadium-sized crowds while grieving the end of a long-term relationship, many people can relate to the notion of throwing yourself into your work as you go through a difficult breakup.

For better or worse, distraction is one of the most tried and true coping strategies people turn to when dealing with difficult and overwhelming things, Brit Barkholtz , a Minnesota-based clinical therapist, told HuffPost. Productive distractions like throwing yourself into work or other projects can be particularly compelling to us because unlike a more passive distraction like maybe watching TV or reading a book productive distractions provide some tangible output that can give you a sense of control and agency and competency, which can feel like a much-needed balm.

Just as Swift boasts about how good she is at doing her job amid severe emotional turmoil, anyone can derive a sense of satisfaction from accomplishing something at work, especially in times when they feel like theyre failing in other areas of their lives.

You might feel better about yourself getting things done, and feel like it helps your self-esteem in some capacity, said Jessi Gold, an associate professor of psychiatry and the chief wellness officer at the University of Tennessee System. So many of us base our identity on our work and our relationships, so having one going OK can sometimes help balance our feelings of loss and confusion about the other.