Leo Nekko Romero

On #TorturedPoets The album feels like it was a trash can of folklore, 1989 and midnights repacked and sold to consumers as brand new. With the critical acclaim of her previous albums (midnights, folklore and evermore), it seemed that @taylorswift focused more on making "tolerable" in lieu of "consumable" music. I was expecting more knowing how she would shed her music genre like second skin—from country to pop to synth to folk, but now she just overhyped, over-saturated and hyper-fixated on "just making art" that doesn't even feel or sound like art at all. Not to mention the fact that she made several useless versions with only one song different from the other (not very environment-friendly) and made it even more dull and tedious by announcing it as a "double album" with songs that sound all too familiar. Aaron Dessner has indeed helped Taylor's songwriting maturity but Jack Antonoff seriously needs to up his stats. Listening to "Fortnight" alone is enough to tell you what the other songs are about. She didn't even gave justice to her featured artists like @honeymoon in Midnights and now @postmalone in TTPD. She's obviously using them to her business advantage given that Lana and Post are both critically-acclaimed music artists (love them both!) and just trying to make everything fit to her own liking. Using "complex" and "grandiose" lyrics does not mean quality and the whole "Tortured Poets" thing is overdone and overkill. Been a Swiftie since 2008, and as an OG fan who's been listening to her ever since, I cannot tolerate this lackluster music. Only those with open ears can tell how mid and overdone this album is.