Taylor Swift Tortured Poets Department review: Album finds star vulnerable but vicious - BBC News

The star's 11th album is much more than a break-up record, and may even mark the end of an era.

2 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Taylor Swift has won the Grammy for Album of the Year four times - more than any other artistBy Mark SavageMusic correspondent, BBC NewsThat Taylor Swift would write a break-up album is no surprise.

Over her last 10 records, the star has taken a scalpel to her personal life, filleting the details of flings and trysts and heartbreaks to create some of pop's most memorable lyrics.

For the last half-decade, she's been in romantic mode. Songs like Delicate, Lover, Invisible String and Lavender Haze were all inspired by her boyfriend of six years, the British actor Joe Alwyn.

They were so close that Swift moved to London, and shared writing credits with Alwyn (under the pseudonym William Bowery) on her Grammy Award-winning albums Folklore and Midnights.

Then, in April 2023, a month after Swift kicked off her record-breaking Eras tour, it was announced that they had split.

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