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Taylor Swift's 'gloriously chaotic' new album The Tortured Poets Department is lauded by critics as they brand it her 'most personal record yet' and a 'sharp savage attack on her British exes'

Taylor Swift's new album The Tortured Poets Department seems to have struck to same chord with critics as it did with fans, with reviews praising the 'gloriously chotic' and 'audacious effort.'

'Although it features one sumptuously sad and gorgeous, lyrically forensic dissection of a fading romance with a depressed Brit on So Long, (that would be actor Joe Alwyn, who she dated for six years, but sounds like she got over in about six minutes), the arc of this album is about a torrid and obsessive affair with a bad boy poet.' The BBC's Mark Savage wrote: 'The Tortured Poets Department is an uneven album, and one that lacks a slam-dunk radio anthem like Anti-Hero or Shake It Off - but Swift has pop music in a stranglehold for now, so it will sell by the bucketload, even though it leaked a day ahead of release.' As the album hit streaming platforms, Swift published a lengthy statement on Instagram where she described it as 'an anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time - one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure.'

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