On Friday, Taylor Swift released her 11th studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department.” But just how poetic is it? Is it even possible to close read lyrics like poems, divorced from their musical source material? The Associated Press asked four experts to give a close reading of the lead single “Fortnight,' featuring Post Malone.
Taylor Swift fans check out a new pop-up opening to celebrate Taylor Swift ’s upcoming album “The Tortured Poets Department,” at the Grove in Los Angeles on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Taylor Swift fans check out a new pop-up opening to celebrate Taylor Swift ’s upcoming album “The Tortured Poets Department,” at the Grove in Los Angeles on Wednesday, April 17, 2024.
Swift surprises fans hours after the release of ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ with 15 additional tracks“It’s proper to talk about every songwriter as a poet,” says Michael Chasar, a poetry and popular culture professor at Willamette University. Swift has long played with rhyme and unexpected rhythm. “She’ll often establish a pattern and won’t satisfy it — and that often comes in a moment of emotional ache,” says Adair.
“From the perspective of harnessing particular poetic devices, this kind of trucks in familiar metaphors for one’s emotional state,” Chasar says of “Fortnight.”
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