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Taylor Swift Responds to ‘TTPD’ Reviews After 1 Critic Remained Anonymous Over Harassment Concerns

Taylor Swift responded to TTPD reviews with lyrics from songs on the album amid one outlet's critic remaining anonymous due fear of harassment from Swifties.

While reposting his review, Taylor, 34, wrote in the caption, “And that’s the closest I’ve come to my heart exploding,” a line from the song “The Tortured Poets Department.” Rob called TTPD the Grammy winner’s “most personal album yet” and said it “combines the intimacy of Folklore and Evermore with the synth-pop gloss of Midnights to create music that’s wildly ambitious and gloriously chaotic.” The Pennsylvania native went back to “The Tortured Poets Department” for the lyric, “Everyone we know understands why it’s meant to be,” when posting Helen R. Brown ‘s glowing five-star review in The U.K.’s The Independent, saying the “Anti-Hero” singer’s “11th studio album is a terrific reminder of her storytelling powers.” The review, simply bylined by “Paste Staff,” claimed Taylor took “the multi-dimensional feelings of heartbreak, mental illness or what-have-you,” and chose to “monetize them into a wardrobe she can wear for whatever portion of her Eras Tour setlist she opts to dedicate to the material.

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