Tortured Poets Department: How Taylor Swift album lyrics captured modern dating despair - BBC News

From exes who wasted our time, to comfort-eating after a breakup. We've all been there and so has Swift.

23 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, EPAImage caption, The Tortured Poets Department, released on Friday, features 31 songsBy Noor Nanji & Annabel RackhamCulture reportersFor two female journalists in their 30s - who also happen to be massive Swifties - there's a lot about Taylor Swift's new album that rings true.

From exes who strung us along, to comfort-eating after a breakup. We've all been there, and pop's biggest superstar has too.

Swift is no stranger to writing about personal subject matters. And she's also by no means the first musician to sing about heartbreak, pain and sorrow.

But in The Tortured Poets Department, Swift pinpoints the unique 21st Century anxieties that so many of us millennials have experienced when dating.

Perhaps more than any other song on her new album, So Long, London is the real sucker punch.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68856232

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