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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. The Tortured Poets Department, Swift’s 11th studio album, senses that widening gap between Taylor Swift the artist and Taylor Swift the phenomenon, and wants to fill it with a firehose of material. The burden of expectation is substantial: This is Swift’s first body of new work since the end of a years-long relationship and a pair of high-profile, whirlwind romances—one of which, with the 1975’s Matty Healy, appears to have provided much of the inspiration here. Fans came to Tortured Poetsseeking emotional catharsis, or at least the salacious details. Swift, it seems, wanted the comfort of familiarity. Returning to Jack Antonoff and the National’s Aaron Dessner, her primary songwriting and producing partners of the last several years, Swift picks up threads from Folk-more and Midnights without quite pulling anything loose. Tortured Poets’ extended Anthology edition runs over two hours, and even in the abridged version, its sense of sprawl creeps down to the song level, where Swift’s writing is, at best, playfully unbridled and, at worst, conspicuously wanting for an editor. The winking title track—a joke about its subjects’ self-seriousness—makes fun of the performance of creative labor, which is funny, given the show that Swift is putting on herself. She piles the metaphors on thick, throws stuff at the wall even after something has stuck, picks up the things that didn’t stick and uses them anyway. There is a clear emphasis here on vulnerability; it’s an effort to rub some of the varnish off of Taylor Swift the commercial product and focus on Taylor Swift the tender, unlucky romantic with whom we fell in love so many years ago. No matter her stature, Swift can still reach the everywoman. She is versed in memespeak: “Down Bad” works because of the juxtaposition between its banal hook and its description of “cosmic love”; the corporate girlies will go feral for “I cry a lot but I am so productive” (“I Can Do It With a Broken Heart”). I can even get on board with the outlaw machinations of “I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can),” if mostly for the lyrical backflip of its chorus: “They shook their heads saying, ‘God help her’ when I told ’em he’s my man/But your good Lord didn’t need to lift a finger/I can fix him, no really I can.” If Swift believes that output for its own sake is what she has to offer, she underestimates her gift. Listeners who believe that her every ounce of experience is inherently interesting—because she was the one to have it—misunderstand her as well. Taylor Swift doesn’t need a whole album to tell the story of a relationship; she only needs one song, sometimes even one line. She almost has it in Tortured Poets’ title track, with the tossed-off brilliance of “We’re modern idiots.” She’s nearly there with the vignette, which needs a bit more burnishing, about her man slipping a ring from her middle to her eager left ring finger at dinner. You can see what she’s chasing here: the moment in time that triggers a flash of feeling that lasts forever—the sort of thing people call Swiftian. We’ve been students of Swift’s poetry for years. The lesson of The Tortured Poets Department is not to push through the pain—it’s to take the time to process it. https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/taylor-swift-the-tortured-poets-department-the-anthology/

American businesswoman Taylor Swift has just released her new album called "The Tortured Poets Department" breaking records left and right, the 34-year-old queen of multiple album variants has received mixed to positive reviews and Pitchfork decided to give the album 6.0 points on their review, this places it below the pediatric icon "Peppa Pig" This did not go unnoticed by the 4 year old pork; the pink swine decided to post a picture comparing both reviews. It seems that the battle between these two to reach the children's audience with their lyrics has barely begun. Which album do you think is better?

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Seriously, it's such an epic mv and it's hardly talked about or appreciated within the Gaga fandom. On TikTok there's like no HQ stills or edits using JW. Closest is her runway walk from 2016 which gained a bit of traction in 2023. Hell, you have better chance of finding higher quality "DWUW" footage and that didn't even get released officially. And yes, im aware its her lowest viewed mv to date, but still Major Acid/Harley hybrid vibes too. Thank you Jonas!

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DO NOT POST ANY LINKS OR REQUEST TO DM YOU. There's a rumor floating around that a gay fan made his way to DJWS' stolen laptop using Gr*ndr and there's stuff leaking soon. ARTPOP sessions, Act II unreleased and Born This Way stems. Most likely fake of course BUT there's an audio out there with Gaga talking about the recording of the title track and singing. You know where Two lookX!

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I just think that with genocidal war criminals escaping accountability and justice, fascist agendas becoming mainstream all over the world, and the consistent and terrifying reality that technology from AI to nuclear warfare could wipe out every beautiful soul on this planet, I just can't bring myself to summon the fashionable amount of hatred for this woman. Arrested development? Sure. Irritating? Often. A real-world problem worthy of flooding my body with stress hormones and neurotoxins? Nope.

For me it was Just Dance. Back in 08- it was embedded on some blog and automatically began playing. I remember thinking “who is this basic blonde b!tch”

You just described what Swifties do to every single artist that doesn’t publicly lick Tay’s booty lol

i think it's obvious that there was no act ii as far as artwork, final tracklist etc. but djws said: "I hadn't listened to ARTPOP in three years before this all happened… I pulled my ARTPOP computer back out and listened to it, and there are 40 songs on there that are done or in the phases of being done" so it's not just a bunch of demos. at least some songs are finished. also, people were asking her to just drop it, because most of us expected it to be (if anything) a bonus disc for the 10th anniversary, not a whole new proper era/album

wait, what do u mean? wasn't gay pop invented by Jojo siwa this year?