The Crucial Cruelty of Taylor Swift
28th April 2024
Taylor Swift has released another album spilling the beans on her private life. “I’d written so much tortured poetry in the past two years and wanted to share it all with you,” she says. Her fans are lapping up The Tortured Poets Department, but her critics say dishing the dirt on her ex-boyfriends isn’t fair.
Swift is famous for two things; being so massively successful that a musical visit by her can boost a country’s GDP, and for writing snarky songs about her exes. There is something very appealing about the extremes at play here; the former so grown-up and the second so teenage.