Taylor Swift seemingly tells fans not to 'avenge' subjects of The Tortured Poets Department

Hours after the hitmaker dropped her eleventh studio album at midnight on Friday, she appeared to ask fans not to harass her exes. "The Tortured Poets Department. An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time - one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure," Taylor wrote in an Instagram post. "There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed," she continued. "And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted.