Taylor Swift's 'gloriously 大混乱/混沌とした' new album The 拷問d Poets Department is 称讃するd by critics as they brand it her 'most personal 記録,記録的な/記録する yet' and a 'sharp savage attack on her British exes'
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Taylor Swift's much-心配するd new album The 拷問d Poets Department seems to have struck to same chord with critics as it did the 星/主役にする's millions of fans, with many reviews 賞賛するing the 'gloriously chotic' and 'audacious' 成果/努力.
誘発するing 告訴,告発s that she was trying to 反対/詐欺 her fans, the 星/主役にする sent social マスコミ into 炉心溶融 when she dropped the 16-跡をつける 記録,記録的な/記録する, before 発表するing 15 特別手当 songs just two hours later.
In a slew of reviews, critics were quick to brand Taylor's album her 'most personal yet' and branded it a 'sharp savage attack on her British exes,' after fans 推測するd that several 跡をつけるs took 目的(とする) at her former 炎上s Joe Alwyn and Matty Healy.
令状ing in Variety, Chris Willman 公式文書,認めるd that the album is '新たにするing Taylor's 公約するs with heartbreak,' 公式文書,認めるing that it had been a 10年間 since she had 解放(する)d a 類似の 記録,記録的な/記録する taking such swipes at her exes.
He penned: 'The 拷問d Poets Department?gives everyone a 十分な dose of the never-getting-over-it Taylor that no one really 手配中の,お尋ね者 to get over.?
Taylor Swift's The 拷問d Poets Department seems to have struck to same chord with critics as it did fans, with many reviews 賞賛するing the 'gloriously chotic' and 'audacious' 成果/努力
'As 崩壊/分裂 albums go, it's a doozy, as they would have said 支援する in Clara 屈服する's day - an unapologetically 劇の (if often witty) 記録,記録的な/記録する that will be soundtracking untold millions of 悲劇の 不和s to come. If you've been putting one off, now might not be a bad time to schedule it.'
Rolling 石/投石する's 略奪する Sheffeld 述べるd the album as her 'most personal album yet,' 追加するing: 'It's the cathartic 自白 of a woman who thought she had adulthood ― and adult romance ― all 人物/姿/数字d out, only to find herself realizing she knows nothing.
'Even by Swiftian 基準s, she gets wildly ambitious with her songwriting here.'
一方/合間 UK critic?Neil McCormick, 令状ing in The Telegraph puts 焦点(を合わせる) on Taylor's savage swipes at her British exes in the album, while awarding it four 星/主役にするs.
He wrote: 'On the simplest of 条件, what we have here is a very smart, seductive, lyrically sharp 始める,決める of smooth synth pop songs about 事件/事情/状勢s of the heart, (手先の)技術d with love, 知能 and passion ? another hugely 控訴,上告ing 新規加入 to Swift's 拡大するing canon...
'But it can be hard to disentangle the hook lines from the headlines on an album that is not so much a blockbuster entertainment 解放(する) as a 全世界の news event.
'Although it features one sumptuously sad and gorgeous, lyrically 法廷の dissection of a fading romance with a depressed Brit on So Long, (that would be actor Joe Alwyn, who she 時代遅れの for six years, but sounds like she got over in about six minutes), the arc of this album is about a torrid and obsessive 事件/事情/状勢 with a bad boy poet.'
令状ing for The 後見人,?Alexis Petridis awarded The 拷問d Poets Department four 星/主役にするs, 令状ing: 'There's 明確に a 危険 伴う/関わるd in calling out elements of your own fanbase, however 正当化するd said attack is, but Swift pulls it off.
In a slew of reviews, critics were quick to brand Taylor's album her 'most personal yet' and branded it a 'sharp savage attack on her British exes' (the singer is pictured with Joe Alwyn)
'She can do it because she's an exceptionally talented writer: there's a depth and 成熟 to this album that makes her competitors look a little 病弱な by comparison.
'明確に, the monocultural ubiquity she's 達成するd isn't terribly healthy for anything other than her bank balance ? The 拷問d Poets Department seems to 同意する ? but if we have to have a 選び出す/独身 artist 支配するing pop, we could have 選ぶd worse.'
However, not all critics were as enamoured by Taylor's 最新の 記録,記録的な/記録する, with NME's Laura Malloy 述べるing it as 'a rare misstep,' while 言及/関連ing that she takes a surprise 目的(とする) at the struggles that come with her 抱擁する fame.
令状ing: 'Swift seems to be in tireless 追跡 for superstardom, yet the 消極的な public opinion it can come with 困らすs her, and it's a tired 主題 now 疫病/悩ますing her discography and leaving little room for the poignant lyrical 観察s she excels at.'
'It's why the 落し穴s that 苦境に陥る her 11th studio album are all the more disappointing - she's proven time and time again she can do better.'
言及/関連ing the album before Taylor 明かすd 15 特別手当 跡をつけるs, The Daily Mail's Adrian Thrills penned: 'There's certainly a sense that she's pulling out all the stops on The 拷問d Poets Department.?
'Even for someone with a 跡をつける 記録,記録的な/記録する of 非常に長い, value-for-money albums, it's a mammoth 請け負うing.?
'Its 16 songs stretch out across 66 tireless minutes, with 特別手当 跡をつけるs take the running time to over 74 minutes.?
'It's essentially a 二塁打 album. It's also an immersive, cinematic 事件/事情/状勢 that often feels more like an old Hollywood film script than a straightforward pop 記録,記録的な/記録する.'
The 基準's El 追跡(する) penned an even harsher critique, awarding the album just two 星/主役にするs, 令状ing: 'I'm 最終的に left wishing there was much more of this frankness.?
'There are no 疑問 countless lyrical puzzles here, waiting to be unpicked, but The 拷問d Poets Department is at its most potent when it does away with all of the arch 装置s and (一定の)期間s it out plainly.'
While ELLE's Georgia Nelson 述べるd the album as 'her best storytelling yet,' The Times'?Will Hodgkinson 追加するd: 'The musical style is also perfect for Swift at this 行う/開催する/段階 in her career. Having come through the perky teenage pop of Shake It Off, the would-be hipster 辛勝する/優位 of Bad 血 and the lockdown-friendly indie folk of Cardigan, she has arrived at the all-征服する/打ち勝つing adult mainstream.?
'Taking in synth pop, Eighties 力/強力にする ballads and the emotional AOR of Stevie Nicks (who 申し込む/申し出s her own poem on love gone wrong in the liner 公式文書,認めるs), these songs are 配達するd with Swift’s trademark gusto and メガワット professionalism - and it’s a five-星/主役にする album.'
誘発するing 告訴,告発s that she was trying to 反対/詐欺 her fans, the 星/主役にする sent social マスコミ into 炉心溶融 when she dropped her album, before 発表するing 15 特別手当 songs two hours later?
令状ing for The Mirror, Mollie Quirk 噴出するd: '全体にわたる, The 拷問d Poets Department is the most magnificent 団体/死体 of work that sees Taylor 連合させる her love of poetry and music.?
'The album is incredibly 深い and moving, hard to unravel and decode, yet 平易な to 落ちる into and draw comparisons to of your own life.'
The BBC's?示す Savage wrote: 'The 拷問d Poets Department is an uneven album, and one that 欠如(する)s a 激突する-dunk 無線で通信する 国家 like Anti-Hero or Shake It Off - but Swift has pop music in a stranglehold for now, so it will sell by the bucketload, even though it 漏れるd a day ahead of 解放(する).'
Taylor - who recently teased a '時刻表/予定表' to her fans ahead of the LP's 解放(する) - 最初 発表するd the album while …に出席するing the 2024 Grammys?in February.
The 肩書を与える of her 最新の work had 原因(となる)d fans to 推測する that the 指名する was 目的(とする)d at her ex, Joe.?
As the album 攻撃する,衝突する streaming 壇・綱領・公約s, Swift published a 非常に長い 声明 on Instagram where she 述べるd it as 'an anthology of new 作品 that 反映する events, opinions and 感情s from a (n)艦隊/(a)素早いing and fatalistic moment in time - one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal 手段.'?
She continued: 'This period of the author's life is now over, the 一時期/支部 の近くにd and boarded up. There is nothing to avenge, no 得点する/非難する/20s to settle once 負傷させるs have 傷をいやす/和解させるd. And upon その上の reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-(打撃,刑罰などを)与えるd.
'This writer is of the 会社/堅い belief that our 涙/ほころびs become 宗教上の in the form of 署名/調印する on a page. Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be 解放する/自由な of it.
'And then all that's left behind is the 拷問d poetry,' 結論するd Swift, as she 発表するd: 'THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT is out now.'
Hours later, Swift surprised fans by 発表するing it was a surprise 二塁打 album.??
にもかかわらず already splashing out for 多重の 見解/翻訳/版s of the 記録,記録的な/記録する in a 企て,努力,提案 to get their 手渡すs on all four 特別手当 跡をつけるs, fans will have to part with even more hard-earned cash when the 最高の-sized 記録,記録的な/記録する goes on sale.
After 解放(する)ing her new album at midnight ET (2am UK time), Taylor took to Instagram to 発表する her 最新の 記録,記録的な/記録する was 現実に a surprise '二塁打 album,' after 誘発するing a flurry of 憶測 by 地位,任命するing a countdown clock on social マスコミ.
Captioning the 地位,任命する, Taylor told her 信奉者s that she'd written 'so much 拷問d poetry in the past two years' that she 手配中の,お尋ね者 to 株 it with her fans.
株ing the 二塁打 album was called The 拷問d Poets Department: The Anthology, she wrote: 'It's a 2am surprise: The 拷問d Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album. ???
'I'd written so much 拷問d poetry in the past 2 years and 手配中の,お尋ね者 to 株 it all with you, so here's the second 分割払い of TTPD: The Anthology. 15 extra songs. And now the story isn't 地雷 anymore… it's all yours.'?
Fans are 納得させるd the 24th 跡をつける - thanK you aIMee - is 目的(とする)d at Kim, as the letters K,I and M are capped up to (一定の)期間 out her 指名する.?
Taylor sings in one line: 'There's a bronze spray-tanned statue of you and a plaque underneath it/That 脅すs to 押し進める me 負かす/撃墜する the stairs, at our school.'
Taylor also seems to 攻撃する,衝突する out at Kim's 10-year-old daughter North West as she sings: 'And so I changed your 指名する, and any real defining 手がかり(を与える)s/And one day, your kid comes home singin' a song that only us two is gonna know is about you.'
株ing their thoughts on social マスコミ 壇・綱領・公約 X, fans wrote: 'The ultimate f**k you';
'OMFG thanK you aIMee is about Kim Kardashian. This album is SO unhinged';
'Kim your day of reckoning is here'; 'Welcome to your tape'?
Regardless, the new 記録,記録的な/記録する earned a flurry of 賞賛する from fans on social マスコミ, with some quickly labelling the LP a 'masterpiece.'
地位,任命するs 含むd: 'IM CRYING RN. TAYLOR WE LOVE YOU!!!!; This is going to be the best album Taylor has made I know it.'?
'13 seconds in and its already the best album; 'OMG Taylor this is a masterpiece!! Thank you for this amazing album!! Love you.'?
'Me as soon as each 跡をつける begins; 'I love this song!'
'I love it so much already; THIS IS THE BEST ALBUM YOU'VE EVER MADE.'?
'You literally have a way with words that no one else has, it's SO breathtaking. THANK you for all that you do, once again. now if you'll excuse me, I got an album to stream all day;'
'Fortnight is so so soooooo good you and @PostMalone together #TSTTPD I can't believe I went this long without you two on a 跡をつける together! I'm so excited to delve into this album!'?
'the 現実化 that this album is more about matty healy than joe alwyn; Joe Alwyn breathing a sigh of 救済 tonight #TTPD;
'She so real for this. This album is so good and the same unique.'
'It's crazy but her 説 that they think Charlie Puth should be bigger just 確認するs for me that the song is 100% Matty. That is 正確に/まさに something Matty Healy would say;'
'joe alwyn to matty healy tonigh t,' a fan penned, along with a GIF of, 'Call the 救急車! But not for me!'
'joe alwyn you will begin to cough in two minutes,' and 株d the lyrics, 'And I'm p***ed off you let me give you all that 青年 for 解放する/自由な.'?
They were also quick to clock that Taylor's album 申し込む/申し出d plenty of insight into the end of her six-year romance with actor Joe Alwyn,?同様に as her short-lived fling with The 1975 rocker Matty Healy.
Many fans had 予報するd that The 拷問d Poets Department album would be the ultimate Joe/Taylor '崩壊/分裂 album' as it's been 推測するd the 指名する was a direct dig at the British actor, who she 時代遅れの from 2016 to 早期に 2023.?
Swift 設立する herself in a whirlwind romance with Healy ― though neither ever 直接/まっすぐに 確認するd ― that started in April 2023 after they were seen kissing in NYC.?
But the fling ended as 急速な/放蕩な as it began after Healy's 'bad boy' image and '人種差別主義者' 発言/述べるs?原因(となる)d squeaky clean Swift to 直面する (激しい)反発.
Swift is now happily in love with Kansas City 長,指導者s tight end Travis Kelce?― but it's (疑いを)晴らす she still has a few bones to 選ぶ with the 'worst men' in her life.