Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department MEGATHREAD
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Tracklist:
The Tortured Poets Department
- Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)
- The Tortured Poets Department
- My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
- Down Bad
- So Long, London
- But Daddy, I Love Him
- Fresh Out the Slammer
- Florida!!! (feat. Florence + The Machine)
- Guilty as Sin?
- Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?
- I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)
- loml
- I Can Do It With a Broken Heart
- The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
- The Alchemy
- Clara Bow
The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology
- Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)
- The Tortured Poets Department
- My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
- Down Bad
- So Long, London
- But Daddy, I Love Him
- Fresh Out the Slammer
- Florida!!! (feat. Florence + The Machine)
- Guilty as Sin?
- Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?
- I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)
- loml
- I Can Do It With a Broken Heart
- The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
- The Alchemy
- Clara Bow
- The Black Do
- imgonnagetyouback
- The Albatross
- Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus
- How Did It End?
- So High School
- I Hate It Here
- thanK you aIMee
- I Look in People's Windows
- The Prophecy
- Cassandra
- Peter
- The Bolter
- Robin
- The Manuscript
News:
- Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets Department’ Breaks a Major Spotify Record in Less Than 12 Hours
- On April 19th, 2024, THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT became Spotify's most-streamed album in a single day, and Taylor Swift became the most-streamed artist in a single day in Spotify history
- On April 19, 2024, Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department was the first album in Spotify history to have over 300M streams in a single day.
- On April 19th, 2024, Taylor Swift's 'Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)' became Spotify's most-streamed song in a single day.
- Taylor Swift Sells 1.4 Million Copies of ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ on First Day of Release in U.S.
Reviews:
Rolling Stone: 100/100 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.
The Independent: 5/5 With its playful narratives and hooks like anchors, Swift’s 11th studio album is a terrific reminder of her storytelling powers.
Variety: 94/100 Taylor Swift Renews Her Vows With Heartbreak in Audacious, Transfixing ‘Tortured Poets Department’
The Irish Times: 4.5/5 This album is the fruit of abject misery but is also steeped in Swift’s trademark indefatigable optimism.
The Line of Best Fit: 8/10 It's less playful than before but feels like an evolution rather than an adjustment. There's a more textural feel too, edging closer to the muted space of Phoebe Bridgers' Punisher, or Antonoff's work with Lana Del Rey, and it suits Swift well as this point in her career.
Clash: 8/10 Though haunted by the phantoms of what could’ve been, Taylor’s most cathartic release to have created is her most cathartic to listen to; a spell-binding, toxic, chaotic illustration of what floating adrift and losing yourself looks like.
The Guardian: 4/5 Subtly detailed album splits the difference between 1989’s glossy pop-rock and Midnights’ understatement – and lets her ex Matty Healy have it in no uncertain terms.
The Telegraph: 4/5 The superstar mercilessly mocks ex-boyfriends Matty Healy and Joe Alwyn in this emotionally insightful, icily vengeful breakup album.
LA Times: 80/100 Taylor Swift turns heel, owning her chaos and messiness on ‘The Tortured Poets Department’
A.V.Club: 75/100 The Tortured Poets Department is a solid but underwhelming effort from a pop star at the peak of her powers.
The Forty-Five: 3.5/5 On her 11th studio album, the superstar makes her feelings about meddling fans and aesthetic expectations resoundingly clear.
musicOMH: 3.5/5 While there’s much to enjoy here, there’s also a sense that she could benefit from some new lenses through which to view the world.
NME: 3/5 Arriving at the peak of her imperial phase, Swift’s 11th studio album is surprisingly flat and, at times, cringeworthy.
New York Times: 60/100 Over 16 songs (and a second LP), the pop superstar litigates her recent romances. But the themes, and familiar sonic backdrops, generate diminishing returns.
Evening Standard: 2/5 Predictable production choices and occasionally hollow lyricism dulls the glow of the US mega-star’s eleventh album.
Paste Magazine: 3.6/10 Swift is the most famous musician—and, arguably, person—on Earth, but on her latest album she can’t help but infantilize the very people who buy into her music and drive her successes upwards in the first place.
Stereogum: Swift has evidently decided that she’s not making any big musical statements with this album. Instead, she’s making all of her statements with her lyrics.
Billboard: The Tortured Poets Department is extreme in its emotions and uninterested in traditional hits; not everyone will love it, but the ones who get it will adore it fiercely.
The Critic: Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets