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The tortured poets department (THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT), also abbreviated as TTPD, is the 11th study album by Taylor Swift. It was launched on April 19, 2024 in a standard version then extended in different reissues.

He beat several records and consolidated the absolute reign of the American singer in the entertainment industry of her country and the world.

One year after its launch, we remember our comment. The ephemeris merits it.

Taylor Swift’s last album’s voice comment

Everything goes at the speed of light in the life of Taylor Swift, so a relationship that ended in April 2023 can be placed in the Jurassic era of a frantic events course that contemplates, among other things, global tour, re -records, premiere of documentaries, permanent breaks of records and even the birth of a new love. On this last point, we all know that the Popstar I have fallen in love with Travis Kelce, an American football player with whom he looks radiant.

In that context, receive an album as The tortured poets department It can be as disconcerting as comforting.

Disconcerting because it does not seem the most indicated to oppose this expansive present a work Sublow And based on the need to heal the wounds of his failed relationship with British actor Joe Alwyn, with whom, judging by some lyrics, he planned to marry and wrote songs to four hands.

And comforting because the movement shows that even a star, in this case a 34 -year -old woman who is perceived as one of the most powerful in the world (to which some leaders are afraid of her influence, even), she needs to exorcise demons to take envy and continue living released.

But we are going to the core: is Taylor Swift’s new album good?

The answer depends on how questioning it is for it who listens to it. For the Swifties, It is a categorical yes, because it is a flood of revealing information about the love cartography of an artist who made the comments about herself, encapsulated in glorious songs (which began Folkies and that they sophisticated over time thanks to an infallible pop instinct), a distinctive expressive gesture.

For this music analyst, which must take distance after considering 1989 (2014), a folklore (2020) already Midnights (2022) as great pieces of American popular music of all time, TTPD It is high in the lyric and something flat in the musical in a first listening, in addition to extensive in its duration. It is an album that prevails a sleepy melancholy over a predictable timbric-rhythmic outbreak.

And for the general public, because there are people to whom the Swift care about anything, maybe they find it irremontable. It would be necessary to try.

Taylor Swift, with two known partners

Taylor Swift faces this new era with the two partners who held it in the pandemic chain of the pandemic chain of folklore and Evermore (Also from 2020): Jack Antonoff of Bleachers and Aaron Dessner of The National, who reincidate here to texture songs for the whisper to the interlocutor who understands what everything is going, a valid interlocutor, more than others designed for the song stunned with a vocalist with years of filming in the music industry.

So, Taylor Swift is expressed here among electronics Downtempo (Fortnight With his admired post Malone and Down Badamong many others) and experimental approaches to your primal folk (But daddy i love him), leaving for the end a shock Synth Pop Like the palpable in I Can Do It With A Broken Heart.

This piece is revealing, because in it Taylor refers to herself as a tanned woman in a demanding industry, who made her develop the ability to be happy even when she is getting inside.

“Lights, camera/ smiled, bitch/ even when you want to die,” he is heard in that song, where he also puts voice to those who demanded it at the time (“baby, you have to pretend it until she achieved it) and refers to the” always “of the love promised by his exprometed was a” quite short time. “

In the stimulant My boy only breaks his favourite toysMeanwhile, he describes herself as the queen of sand castles that an it destroys, and then characterized it as an irresponsible Ken in the affective.

“You did not meet the standards/ to any extent/ of a man,” punishes in the piano ballad The Smallest Man Who Ever Livedwhich wins in symphonic intensity towards the end.

With a heavenly vocal arrangement at the beginning, half -time electronic So Long, London It is the most visceral about the break with the slander (someone had to say) Alwyn. And the most revealing, because it is the one who states that the marriage plans were concrete.

Anyway, in TTPD Taylor Swift goes far beyond simple victimization or gloating in its own vulnerability.

For example, in The tortured poets departmentthe song that names the album and that has a percussive start similar to that of Looking for a peace symbol (Charly García), reminds someone (supposedly Alwyn, although he was speculated that he could also be the British Matty Healy, 1975) to river in his face to say: “You are not Dylan Thomas/ I am not Patti Smith/ this is not the Choral Hotel/ We are modern idiots.”

Another case of picara and poisonous lyric occurs in the aforementioned But daddy i love him. There she tells her parents that she loves her boyfriend and that she is pregnant with him, and then clarify that she was a fuck, but that they should see the faces they put.

Florida!!!next to the impetuous Florence Welch, it could be engaged among the most dramatic of TTPD For how pompous it is heard, but although the lyrics speak of purging penalties taking wine in the bathroom, it also leaves a Sagazo observation of the Taylor Thirty: at the same time that it has friends who smell like baby, it has others who smell like marijuana.

At your age, in general, the debate is to be functional to the biological clock or present battle to adulthood, to sitting head and fulfilling expectations. Brilliant on paper and velvety about the mic.

Through Kelce he has reserved something in this torrent of blockbuster: the ballad The Alchemyin which NFL rhetoric is imposed with words like TouchDown Before a chorus full of syllables that reminds the occasional of his profuse discography.

Taylor Swift, skilled, ingenious and something else

Singing to the leather while allowing ironies and darts for the timorard men who touched him in luck was interpreted by Rolling Stone as the expression of “an artist who sounds confused, bitter, furious, vulnerable, but more gloriously chaotic than we have heard before.” For the respected critic Alexis Petridis, who made a review for The GuardianSwift is “an authentically skilled composer: melodically talented, reflective, ingenious and willing to take risks in an era of pop with risk aversion.”

Both points of view are shared and it is pointed out that Taylor Swift, in addition to keeping his listeners in suspense with his sentimental becoming, is usually referred to figures of a glorious era of American culture to reinforce his narrative about the present time.

In this TTPD He does it with Clara Bowactress of silent cinema that in the 1920s led a life so in its terms, that it caused a wave of speculation in the conservative sectors. In that song about the artist for which the expression was coined It girl (For having starred the film Itemin 1927), Taylor Swift refers to herself in the third person.

As if it were another whose existential spasms deserve permanent analysis. Surely he will continue in that, perhaps with the idea that we never stop talking about her. Or that we never stop looking for your Easter eggs.