The Tortured Poets Department and the Taylor Swift phenomenon

Audio Mp3 of Article https://xenagoguevicene.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/21may2024am615swift.mp3 But Swift’s music does not justify her record-shattering success and adulation.

The Tortured Poets Department (2024), the singer’s latest album, makes this clear.

The extended version of the album includes 31 nearly indistinguishable songs and lasts for more than two hours.

It is largely tedious, vapid and self-centered.

Instead of the poetry that the album title promises, the lyrics resemble teenage journal verse, including the inevitable pretentiousness.

Swift is best understood not as an artist but as a creation of the music industry and a reflection of the present state of cultural decline.

She was born in West Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1989.

Her father is a former stockbroker for Merrill Lynch, and her mother worked as a mutual fund marketing executive.

When she was growing up, Swift enjoyed the privileges of America’s financial elite.

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