Albums Are — Finally! — Getting Shorter. Thank Dua Lipa and Billie Eilish

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Albums Are — Finally! — Getting Shorter. Thank Dua Lipa and Billie Eilish

If this story were a hard-boiled detective novel, the title might be The Case of the Mysteriously Shrinking Album. Over the past few weeks, both Beyoncé and Taylor Swift unveiled projects that seemed to include every piece of music they had ever recorded for their respective albums: Cowboy Carter stretched out to 27 tracks, the complete version of The Tortured Poets Department to 31. But while critics and some fans grapple with that overload …