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Taylor Swift: 'The Tortured Poets Department' Album Review

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Sylvia Plath did not stick her head in an oven for this! When Taylor Swift took the Grammy’s stage last month to claim her award for Best Pop Vocal Album for Midnights, she saw that spotlight as an opportunity to announce her 11th studio album: The Tortured Poets Department. The follow-up cut to audience members—Swift’s music industry peers, mind you—told us all that we would ever need to know, and the collective disinterest across the crowd echoed through our TVs. Folks from all walks of life took to social media to express a multitude of reactions. Swifties clamored to their beloved monarch’s forthcoming era, while others lambasted the terminally cringe title and artwork and ridiculed Swift for making a night recognizing musical achievements across an entire industry about herself—knowing perfectly well that it would send her fanbase into a surge that would, no doubt, overpower the excitement around the ceremony itself. Quite a few people questioned whether or not that moment suggest

3.6 Taylor Swift Strikes Out Looking on The Tortured Poets Department Swift is the most famous musician—and, arguably, person —on Earth, but on her latest album she can’t help but infantilize the very people who buy into her music and drive her successes upwards in the first place. Paste Staff --> By Paste Staff | April 19, 2024 | 4:30pm Music Reviews Taylor Swift Copy to clipboard × Copy Link Facebook X Reddit Bluesky Email --> --> Sylvia Plath did not stick her head in an oven for this! When Taylor Swift took the Grammy’s stage last month to claim her award for Best Pop Vocal Album for Midni

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