On April 19, 2024, Taylor Swift released her 31-track double album, The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology, which reflects on a challenging period in her life. She described the album as a collection of works capturing both sensational and sorrowful sentiments. Swift later compared the album to her upcoming record, The Life of a Showgirl, stating it was a more concise reflection rather than an exhaustive emotional release. She acknowledged that each of her albums has distinct goals, with her new work aimed at delivering impactful tracks.
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. This period of the author's life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up. There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed. And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted.
It's not like Tortured Poets Department, a data dump of everything I thought and felt in the last two or three years.
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