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‘Like eating too much chocolate’: Guardian readers on Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department

‘Bland’ or ‘absolutely breathtaking’? Our readers are divided over Swift’s epically long, richly detailed new album

While Folklore, Evermore and Midnights were full of either fictional tales or vague reminiscences, The Tortured Poets Department is a clear return to her old style of extremely personal, confessional songwriting, but still retaining the poetic lyricism she’s acquired in recent years. The Tortured Poets Department follows the pattern of Swift’s clever, intelligent and rarely cliched lyrics with a voice that has grown more ethereal as she has matured. She has managed to write and record 31 new songs in the middle of a world tour of three-hour shows, as well as completing a couple of re-recorded TV albums.

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