This is unashamedly a break-up album, with two former lovers in her crosshairs, although it is Matty Healy who is the target for most of her rage.
Some break-up albums bristle with anger, and this one is even more vitriolic. Swift appears to be a woman scorned and she doesn't hold back.
Most of the rage appears directed at Healy. Take the acidic title track, which lambasts an unnamed, tattooed, typewriter-toting figure for being in 'self-sabotage mode/ Throwing spikes down on the road'.
Even more vicious is the piano-led ballad The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived. 'I don't even want you back,' she sings with palpable venom.
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