This cover image released by Republic Records show "The Tortured Poets Department" by Taylor Swift. (Republic Records via AP)
April 19, 2024
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April 19, 2024 10 a.m.
Music Review: Taylor Swift's 'The Tortured Poets Department' is great sad pop, meditative theater
In moments, her 11th album feels like a bloodletting: A cathartic purge after a major heartbreak delivered through an ascendant vocal run, an elegiac verse, or mobile, synthesized productions that underscore the powers of Swift's storytelling.