‘The Tortured Poets Department’ is the eleventh full-length studio album from Taylor Swift. It’s also one of her most polarising works to date. Her songwriting is captivating in places and extremely flawed in others. She’s produced some of her best work on this record, but it’s sprinkled amongst some tracks that desperately needed a critical eye to glance over them.Continue reading‘The Tortured Poets Department’: unedited and unruly
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With devastating lines, murderous rants and a twisted choose-your-own-adventure, Taylor Swift’s ninth studio album, Evermore, is a haunting rendition of a failed love.Continue reading‘evermore’ by Taylor Swift: a masterful melancholy
The first release from Taylor Swift’s ‘Red’ was a fan favourite, and the new re-release is no exception. At a length of 10 minutes and 13 seconds, ‘All Too Well’ has become the longest song to reach Number 1 on the Billboard 100 USA music charts, surpassing Don MacLaine’s ‘American Pie’ at 8 minutes and 37 seconds. The 10-minute hit single encapsulates all the reasons listeners love Swift’s music. It is giving us a lot more of what we loved the first time she released this song.Continue reading‘All Too Well’ by Taylor Swift – A Ten Minute Hit