On April 19, 2024, the day that Taylor Swift’s 31-track double album, The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology , was released, she described the sensation of making the record on her Instagram . “An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time — one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure. This period of the author’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up. There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed. And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted,” she explained. To call it “wordy” would be an understatement : The whole record was lyrically dense and over-expository, Swift laying out the past two years and change in ear

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