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Why Some Critics Didn’t Love Taylor Swift’s ‘TTPD': Rounding Up the Reviews’
Days after Taylor Swift released her latest album, ‘The Tortured Poets Department,’ some music critics explained why they didn’t love all the new music
Taylor SwiftBuda Mendes/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management Vogue ’s review expanded on Swift’s superstardom writing, “ The Tortured Poets Department seems like the liberating exhale of an artist at the height of her powers. Like a dog-eared composition book you’d find tucked tightly in the arms of a sullen teen poet, Swift brandishes the wear and tear of her heart like a badge of honor — yet the difference between well-loved and weathered lies in the eye, or the ear, of the beholder.” After Rolling Stone gave the album “instant classic” status and told fans to “come for the torture, stay for the poetry,” Swift shared the review and added, “And that’s the closest I’ve ever come to my heart exploding.”
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