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Taylor Swift’s Track 5 Songs Ranked After the 'TTPD' Release
Taylor Swift has acknowledged that she saves her most ‘personal’ and emotional’ songs for the fifth track of her albums, and Us Weekly ranked them all
Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for TAS Rights ManagementAlthough Swift proved with “Tolerate It” that she can write soaring melodies over a rhythmic piano part in 10/8 time, the song still feels a bit clunky, and the poignant portrait of an imbalanced relationship gets lost in lyrics about polishing plates and laying “the table with the fancy s–t.” The takedown of a man who’s an expert at “keeping lines blurry” with girls who are “too young to be messed with” feels timelier than ever, and the triumphant bridge makes this track five more than a cautionary tale; it’s a reclamation of power after temporarily losing yourself in someone who doesn’t care. Taylor Hill/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management Swift takes us through several stages of her life on this track five, from accepting that a crush will never see her as more than a friend to discovering her ability to escape through songwriting.
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