Darian Weaver

I've sat with this album this last week and I swear every day I find even more to love about it. My only feedback is that Taylor made "I look in People's Windows" WAYYY too short of a song. I would have gladly taken a 2hr 4min album for that one song to be at least 4 minutes long. This album was so clearly written for her, as a form of therapy and release of all of her deepest, most dramatized emotions during that period of her life - and when you truly listen to (and absorb) the lyrics, THAT is what makes this album so relatable and one of her best albums to-date. So many of us have been here, and we too plead temporary insanity 😅. The honesty, the anger, the fight, the storytelling laced with the most specific truths, but most importantly - THE HUMOR, that is on this album is unlike anything she's done before - and yet feels like the culmination of everything she's done before. This one is for the lyric & book lovers for sure, but I find myself dancing or wanting to run in a field of open grass to half of these songs nonetheless. Tortured Poets is an absolute work of art that may not receive the level of praise it truly deserves until years from now when it inevitably becomes a musical artifact. Regardless, it could, and should, be the subject of an entire college literary course, IMO - because it will leave you thinking... maybe even reeling. Well done!