Taylor Swift's surprise double album 'The Tortured Poets Department' is daggers wrapped in a lullaby

The initial 16-track "Tortured Poets Department" album is a chaotic and complicated stream of consciousness where Swift works through waves of heartbreak, longing, anger, and self-reflection.

Swift describes the album 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.'

Swift believes that 'our tears become holy in the form of ink on a page. Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it. And then all that's left behind is the tortured poetry.'

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