Pitchfork – a prestigious American music criticism magazine – has scored Taylor Swift’s new album The Tortured Poets Department only 6.6 and the accompanying double album 6.0 points. This made fans extremely surprised when the score for the new album was too low for the female singer.

To explain this score, Pitchfork commented that the music of the singer born in 1989 was much more meaningful and better, that she was naturally talented at telling stories, knowing how to gather her emotions to turn them into stories. her indelible songs, that she can turn every emotion into art. However, it all disappeared in the 11th studio album. This magazine also affirmed the growing gap between artist Taylor Swift and the “phenomenon” Taylor Swift as audience expectations are increasingly high but female stars cannot satisfy that.

Pitchfork’s score for Taylor Swift’s double album. (Photo: Pitchfork)

“Even in its abridged version, the album feels rambling, where Swift’s writing, while unrestrained, clearly needed an editor. The title track is a farce of seriousness. “She piles up dense metaphors, throws them at the wall even if something gets stuck, picks up things that can’t stick to the wall and uses them anyway,” came the critical comment from Pitchfork for the new album from today’s biggest star.

Also according to this magazine, before releasing the album, the female singer made the audience believe that this was a product that showed her extremely private and unprecedented inner life. “I’ve never had an album that required as much writing as The Tortured Poets Department,” Taylor told the audience before its release.

However, Pitchfork also mentioned that the American singer has often used songs to talk about personal matters since breaking up with Joe Jonas in 2008. “What has changed is not the intimate way of writing lyrics, but It’s the hunger for the minutiae of Swift’s life and how much she’s giving it to people,” Pitchfork explains about why the album is getting more attention, “The Clues Clues and keywords may have been scattered throughout the lyrics.

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This music magazine believes that the audience is obsessed with Taylor (she’s not to blame for this) but the problem is that the album shows that the female artist herself cannot “hear herself clearly over the cheers”. of the audience”. In addition, critics believe that songs based on sensational broken love stories are not really excellent, tending to “suffocate” the listener more instead of feeling pain and ache.

The American magazine also expressed disappointment that the multi-Grammy award-winning star is following the same path, continuing her old music formula and not having new colors. For example, many songs sound similar, such as I can do it with a broken heart, which reminds listeners of Mastermind in Midnights , or So Long, London, which has a beginning similar to folklore ‘s My Tears Ricochet .

To summarize the 11th album, Pitchfork commented: “It’s unruly, unedited and a little tortured”.