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...
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 […]
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)."Taylor became a legend as the poet laureate of teen romance. But that was kid stuff compared to the adult heartbreak of her stunning new album the cathartic confession...
The Associated Press asked four experts to give a close reading of the lead single “Fortnight," featuring Post Malone. They found that while songwriting and poems are different mediums, Swift regularly uses poetic devices such as metaphor, enjambed lines, rhyme and unexpected rhythm.
Taylor Swift release day always arrives with a thicket of real-life allusions to ancient myths, literary heroes and local bars alike. The 31-track (!) "Tortured Poets Department" is packed with new poets to read, bands to discover and weird vacation towns to visit, and here's a brief field guide to the best of them. As you're crushing "Florida!!" calling in your wellness checks on the 1975's Matty Healy today, be sure to send Patti Smith's "Just Kids" back up the book charts too. Charlie Puth...
Who Taylor Swift worked with on The Tortured Poets Department
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Taylor Swift dropped her double album 'The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology' on Friday, and the internet reacts to its lyrics, surprises, and heartbreaking revelations.