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Taylor Swift’s 13 Best Lyrics on ‘The Tortured Poets Department’: Critic’s Picks
Taylor Swift's 'The Tortured Poets Department' has arrived. Here are the 13 best lyrics on the new album.
But with a title like The Tortured Poets Department, the pop star’s new album calls even more attention to her lyricism than usual, inviting listeners to dissect, interpret and intellectualize each track just as a scholar might pore over the works of Walt Whitman or Emily Dickinson (whom the singer just so happens to be distantly related to, as we learned shortly before the record’s release). Why it’s great: Borrowing much stylistic inspiration from the pop star’s “Snow on the Beach” collaborator Lana Del Rey, “I Can Fix Him” is a cautionary tale warning against the dangers of romanticizing toxic men — because if Taylor Swift can fall into that trap, anyone can. Why it’s great: Swift and Alwyn’s breakup was the unspoken elephant in the stadium during the first couple months of the Eras Tour, the pain of which the pop star only betrayed when tears occasionally came to her eyes during particularly emotional surprise song performances.
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