Catch the latest buzz on Taylor Swift’s Tortured Poets Department – live updates: Hear What critics and Fans Have to Say!

Catch the latest buzz on Taylor Swift’s Tortured Poets Department – live updates: Hear What critics and Fans Have to Say!

Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department – live updates: What critics and fans are saying
Taylor Swift has released her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Society, revealing just three hours after it dropped that it is a surprise double album.

The pop titan’s latest record, announced earlier this year when she won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album (Midnights),was released overnight on Friday 19 April and reportedly caused a spike in Spotify outages.

Physical copies of the LP feature a prologue/poem written by legendary Fleetwood Mac star and solo singer-songwriter Stevie Nicks, a longtime champion of Swift, and an epilogue written by Swift herself.

Physical copies of the LP feature a prologue/poem written by legendary Fleetwood Mac star and solo singer-songwriter Stevie Nicks, a longtime champion of Swift, and an epilogue written by Swift herself.

In a five-star review of the album, The Independent’s critic Helen Brown praised the “playful narratives” and “hooks like anchors”.

“In keeping with the literary (if ungrammatical) album title, Swift is on her most piercingly polysyllabic form here,” she wrote.

Fans have been surprised that many songs on the album seem to take aim at Swift’s ex Matty Healy, whom she briefly dated last year, instead of her boyfriend of six years Joe Alwyn, whom she was reported to have parted ways with around April 2023.