POP GONE WRONG | Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (2024)

Pop Gone Wrong: Taylor Swift & The Tortured Poets Department. The superstar’s 11th album is a lukewarm, synthetic attempt at unhinged revenge in love & war, and it’s the final straw in my complicated appreciation for a musician too big to fail.

“The Tortured Poets Department”
Republic Records
Released: 4/19/24
Rating: 1.5/5

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Taylor Swift - “The Tortured Poets Department” Standard Tracklist

"Fortnight" (feat. Post Malone)
"The Tortured Poets Department"
"My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys"
"Down Bad"
"So Long, London"
"But Daddy I Love Him"
"Fresh Out the Slammer"
"Florida!!!" (feat. Florence + The Machine)
"Guilty as Sin?"
"Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?"
"I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)"
"LOML"
"I Can Do It With a Broken Heart"
"The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived"
"The Alchemy"
"Clara Bow"

[artvjon]

Taylor...NOW look what you just made me do
Tell me your thoughts on #TTPD, hope you enjoy this episode of Pop Gone Wrong 😜

Please don't kill each other (or me) Swifties

[StoneColdSteveAutism]

This is like when Green Day released a trilogy album and instead of 12-15 great songs we got 37 mediocre ones

[corysimpson]

My biggest problem is that every song sounds the same like I can't think of one song that stands out.

[thedreschcode]

Read a review saying this album is the result of Swift making an album because she CAN, not because she SHOULD. Yep, couldn’t agree more with that lol

[abbiee]

She needs to take a break for at least a couple years when the tour/re-recordings are done. Everyone not a hardcore Swiftie is TIRED

[SmileForever]

As a fellow Taylor fan, I agree with everything you said. So disappointing. This was such a downgrade in my opinion. I always loved her lyricism, but some of these lyrics made me roll my eyes or laugh out loud. It's fine if other people disagree and honestly think it's a great album, but I'm tired of the Swifties who worship anything she does like she's a God who can do no wrong.

[saintrocketIX]

Thank god, I thought I was the only one. This album did not land for me at all. Almost all the songs sound alike and most of them are filler. I would like Jack Antonoff to go away for a while. Also, don't care about her personal life, and I don't want to have to read a cheat sheet to get what she's singing about. I went back and listened to folklore today, and it's still phenomenal, but yeah, it's the beginning of the creative downward spiral.

[markamashov]

Swifties saying that it’s not a commercial, it’s a “personal” album… yeah, I’m not sure about that:

It’s not meant to be commercial, eh? With all the vinyl variants? With all the TikTok campaigns? Making playlists feeding the rabid fans with their theories about a person with mental problems being a cheater (when the one who cheated emotionally was her)? With releasing the second half (with all the “limited/exclusive” edition tracks) couple of hours later, making hardcore swifties buy it AGAIN to get the full experience? It’s not a charity release, it’s made to boost sales and charts.

The mental gymnastics I swear to god…

[themoley]

I want to know if she's actually this petty, self-obsessed, immature person as presented in the lyrics here or if it's all just put on as a very smart business decision because she knows it makes her money. I don't know which option is worse.

[Ava-wmcv]

She has always punched down and set her fans against whoever she thinks wronged her, she's too old and accomplished to be so thin skinned and insecure .

[laura]

This album is a manic episode, and thank you for pointing out how much she’s punching down on Joe. She spends 31 tracks complaining about fame while bullying her ex for having depression?? Crazy!

[sonofjesus]

Tortured Poets Department? More like Tortured Listeners Department

[RhapsodyHC]

Part of the reason I struggle to listen to post Evermore Taylor is that she drops too many versions. I get that it makes her money because her fans eat it up, but from an outsider, it’s overwhelming and a bit disturbing how she’s taking advantage of her fans, but her fanbase is like a cult, which is in itself also disturbing.

Evermore and Folklore were her last good albums.

[unoriginal]

It's concerning that this is the only negative review I have found for this album online when every other review says that this is an "8/10" or "10/10", basically all of which sum up the album as "it was her most vulnerable and personal album yet"... that really worries me for some reason

[sallysue]

Even just the title is to narcissistic for me.

[BridgetAnnika]

I couldn't agree more with this review! As a Swiftie, I was so disappointed in this album. It feels rushed, unoriginal, and lazy. Half the tracks on the album sound almost exactly like previous songs she's written.

[iliketrains]

Until the past year or so I never really felt one way or the other about Taylor but my god it's gotten to a point where if I never heard her name again I would be happier. The amount of meme pages etc. I've unfollowed because they insist on forcefeeding her down everyone's throats is stupidly high

[holly]

Yes!
It’s about Matty mostly. It must of been longer behind the scenes supply. Otherwise it’s just psycho to put so much energy into this guy, rather than Joe.
Joe’s songs were her best! I think he tried to help her down a more lyrical path.

And poor Joe. So shitty to write what she did publicly. Where is the respect. Making herself sound amazing as usually (despite covert humble pretence) what was his sin ?
He didn’t deserve that.
Shows how shallow and uncaring she truly is.

[johnangelo]

Where is the woman who wrote folklore and evermore? TPPD is so meh

[killer]

I listened to her deluxe edition of this album, the one that's over 2 hours long, and while the first half is definitely a slog to go through, the second half is MILESTONES better than the first half, and now i'm baffled as to why she didn't use the 2nd half as the main album course!!