Federica Ripoli

this is an apparently straight-forward album. But you should not stop at the first listen. Each song is multi-layered and applicable to a number of scenarios and circumstances. It is a haunting tale of love, loss, anxiety, desperation, obsession, self-loathing, liberation, self-destruction and, finally, moving on. The lyricism is at its best, with connections that span across the past 17 years of Taylor Swift's career, the sounds reminiscing of many different artworks and yet so different and new. The wise hands of Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner help us deep-diving into the familiar waters of Taylor's poetic universe and understand why we are still singing along, after all these years, forever and always.