Taylor Swift is earning inexplicably rave reviews from music critics for her eleventh studio album, THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT, released on April 19. It currently holds a Metascore of 84 based on 12 reviews, making it her fourth highest scored album behind 2020’s folklore (88) and evermore (85) and 2022’s Midnights (also 85).
[Review]
Rolling Stone’s review of @taylorswift13‘s #TheTorturedPoetsDepartment is here.
“She sounds confused, bitter, raging, vulnerable, yet more gloriously chaotic than we’ve ever heard her before.”
Read: https://t.co/zi44RibYJ9 pic.twitter.com/GVvTcm0ngQ
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) April 19, 2024
“[Swift is] an exceptionally talented writer: there’s a depth and maturity to this album that makes her competitors look a little wan by comparison.” ★★★★ —The Guardian
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Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department review – fame, fans and former flames in the line of fire https://t.co/XpLzGXy5I0
— The Guardian (@guardian) April 19, 2024
“…a terrific reminder of the intense, personal connection Swift can conjure in song.” ★★★★★ —The Independent
[Review]
Taylor Swift’s country-hued tales of bad boys & good girls are irresistible – review https://t.co/gauk40qzm5
— The Independent (@Independent) April 21, 2024
“In terms of emotional insight and sheer singer-songwriter genius, it is not in the league of such heartbreak classics as Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks and Joni Mitchell’s Blue, but at least it reaches for such heights. Swift knows her way around metaphors and similes and delights in conjuring delicately cascading tranches of clever puns and dazzling word play rooted in real feelings.” ★★★★ —The Telegraph
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Taylor Swift ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Tortured Poets Department: a sharp, savage attack on her British exeshttps://t.co/snxlHWqR8M
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) April 19, 2024
“As a culmination of her particular genius for marrying cleverness with catharsis, [it] kind of feels like the Taylor Swift-est Taylor Swift record ever.” ★★★★½ —Variety
[Review]
As a culmination of her particular genius for marrying cleverness with catharsis, “Tortured Poets Department” kind of feels like the Taylor Swift-est Taylor Swift record ever.
Read the full album review here: https://t.co/b7fz6Hs56P pic.twitter.com/SFz0wnGF5H
— Variety (@Variety) April 19, 2024
What’s your favorite track off the album?
The Tortured Poets Department
1(0.7%)
My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
4(2.8%)
So Long, London
21(14.5%)
But Daddy I Love Him
8(5.5%)
Fresh Out the Slammer
0(0.0%)
Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?
10(6.9%)
I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)
3(2.1%)
I Can Do It with a Broken Heart
17(11.7%)
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
6(4.1%)
What’s your favorite track off THE ANTHOLOGY?
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10(7.7%)
Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus
4(3.1%)
I Look in People’s Windows
12(9.2%)
