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Taylor Swift’s new album is about a reckless kind of freedom. If only it sounded as uninhibited | Laura Snapes

The Tortured Poets Department depicts a spell of post-breakup mania against the perfect backdrop of the Eras tour – a thrillingly immature reality undermined by safe music

But at 2am EST on Friday, she revealed that TTPD was in fact a double album – the second half closer to the fictional narratives of 2020’s Folklore and Evermore than the sharp disclosures of the first – and added 15 additional songs to streaming services. Although the song is a backhanded message of gratitude for “the way you made me heal”, it also doubtless lights the way to the release of Reputation (Taylor’s Version), the re-recording of her 2017 retort to the Kim and Kanye drama likely due later this year. Even in such a loose record, Swift is unwilling to relinquish her trademark Easter eggs (But Daddy I Love Him references The Little Mermaid, released in her birth year/album title 1989, as was the Blue Nile’s The Downtown Lights, cited in Guilty as Sin?)

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