One of Taylor's weaker releases. Since 2020 brought us folklore and evermore, Taylor has tried going back to her signature sound, but has struggled to come up with much original music. I appreciate the angle being a little more raw and real, but it comes with too many cliches and blatant copying of some of her peers Ariana Grande and Olivia Rodrigo, with the latter really doing it best right now.
Taylor Swift's latest album, "The Tortured Poets Department," is a mixed bag of brilliance and clichés. There's no denying Swift's talent; her songs are charming and subtly elegant. However, the album suffers from occasional generic songwriting and cringy lyrics (I'm looking at you, "The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived"), leaving me frustrated and conflicted.
One of the most significant drawbacks is the album's length. With so many tracks, it's easy to lose interest before reaching the end. It seems as though Taylor Swift's status as a megastar has granted her complete creative control, but sometimes, a little editing (or, in this case, a lot) could go a long way.
What's most perplexing about the album is the simultaneous abundance and… More
this is by far the weakest installment of her otherwise excellent repertoire of breakup albums, and possibly her weakest release ever … ? Amassing a billion US dollars, self-labeling yourself as tortured, and releasing a gratuitously unedited, pretty boring album full of garage band synth and elementary metaphor (one in which she literally compares herself to Jesus on the cross) does not a poet make