Taylor Swift is a tortured poet on her new album—but she's not above making fun of herself, writes Stephanie Burt.
Taylor Swift and Post Malone are trying to get through a seemingly painful black-and-white era. The music video for “Fortnight,” the lead single off Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album “Tortured Poets Department,” debuted on Friday night. The duet features the two artists in various states of melancholy reflection and despair, set in a dystopian and mostly monochromatic world. The video starts with Swift chained to a matressless iron bed frame in a white observation room. After begrudgingly...
By Megan Thomas, CNN (CNN) — Taylor Swift and Post Malone are trying to get through a seemingly painful black-and-white era. The music video for “Fortnight,” the lead single off Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album “Tortured Poets Department,” debuted on Friday night. The duet features the two artists in various states of melancholy reflection and
By Megan Thomas, CNN (CNN) — Taylor Swift and Post Malone are trying to get through a seemingly painful black-and-white era. The music video for “Fortnight,” the lead single off Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album “Tortured Poets Department,” debuted on Friday night. The duet features the two artists in various states of melancholy reflection and
The beef between Drake and what continues to be a strong sect of the hip-hop community grows deeper. On Friday night (April 19), the rapper released a song on his social media entitled “Taylor Made Freestyle,” which uses A.I. vocals from Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg on a stopgap between diss records as he awaits […]
Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. From “X” to Google Trends and YouTube… the top story everyone is talking about today is Taylor Swift, and Swifties were served a treat. The superstar released her 11th album – “The Tortured Poets Department” – at midnight with 16 tracks. But two hours later, she released another 15-song album titled “The Tortured Poets Department: […]
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This month, Swift released “The Tortured Poets Department,” her eleventh studio album. She has now reached a level of virtuosity within her genre that feels nearly immutable—she’s too practiced, too masterly, to swing and really miss. But “The Tortured Poets Department” suffers from being too long (two hours after it was released, Swift announced a second disk, bringing the total number of tracks to thirty-one) and too familiar. Swift co-wrote most of the record with Jack Antonoff and with Aaron...
Taylor Swift has spent the past two years on top of the world. Her worldwide Eras tour is the highest-grossing music tour of all time. It’s made her a billionaire. Her 2022 album, Midnights, won Album of the Year at the Grammys, making Swift the solo artist with the most wins of all time in that category. Her high-profile romance with football star Travis Kelce has delighted her fans while keeping her in the spotlight. She’s defeated all her haters; her fans are legion; practically everyone...
Taylor Swift has cultivated a daunting amount of lore to sift through. The casual fan doesn’t need to know the entire backstory to enjoy The Tortured Poets Department, the artist’s 11th album, but do casual fans of Taylor Swift even exist anymore? Over the past three years, she’s gone from megafamous to ultrafamous to something we may not even have words for yet, accumulating yet more fans who are here, not just for the music, but for the full Taylor Swift Experience. That includes the romance,...
When Taylor Swift sings, people pay attention. Over the past two decades, her words have become the backdrop of movies, life milestones, wedding dances and long car rides. Love her or hate her, the pop star’s cultural influence is undeniable. Swift grapples with the weight of her words in her latest offering “The Tortured Poets […] The post ‘Tortured Poet’ Taylor Swift offers troubled tales of our time first appeared on OSV News.
The Tortured Poets Department has been out in the world for several days now, and the biggest takeaway that I’m noticing from the Swifties is that it’s clear Taylor Swift needs a break from the chaos. I mean, she’s gone from strength to strength as a writer and performer, she’s clearly happy in her current […]