6.8
Avg Score
19
Opinions
#42,740
All Time
15
Tracks
“The Tortured Poets Department combines the intimacy of Folklore and Evermore with the synth-pop gloss of Midnights to create music that’s wildly ambitious and gloriously chaotic”
“In a time of so many upended certainties, Taylor Swift’s 11th album arrives as a tale very much foretold. It’s no genre bolt from the blue like Beyoncé’s recent country album; it delivers not just what Tayloristas have been speculating about furiously for months, but more: a surprise second album, The Tortured Poets Department: the Anthology, dropped at 2am the night after the first album’s releas”
“Taylor Swift finds new ways to open up on the sophisticated pop of The Tortured Poets Department”
“In standard and extended editions, Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album races to fill the gap between her intimate songwriting and her increasingly outsized persona. It’s unruly, unedited, and even a little tortured.”
“Since emerging in 2006 with a tear-stained six string, Taylor Swift has seesawed through public opinion perhaps more than any other 21st century artist. In 2024, she’s landed as a monolithic force in pop culture with an unavoidable, omnipresent force permeating every facet of daily life. There are reporters appointed solely to cover her exploits, and University modules dedicated to dissecting her ”
“The two halves of the project couldn’t be more at odds with one another, making it easy to wonder why the decision to drop them not quite all together, but together for all intents and purposes nonetheless, was made. There’s a vivid line of demarcation between the narrative of chaotic implosion and the gentle piecing back together that happens later. ”
