‘The Tortured Poets Department’: A track-by-track listener’s guide to Taylor Swift’s 31-song double album

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‘The Tortured Poets Department’: A track-by-track listener’s guide to Taylor Swift’s 31-song double album

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Taylor Swift released “The Tortured Poets Department” on Friday, a 31-track surprise double album, and she’s clearly in an emotionally evolved era. On its surface, the album offers a pretty mellow listening experience, sounding like a marriage of the haunting depths of 2020’s “Folklore” and the synthy riffs of 2022’s Midnights. Underneath it all, however, you’ll find a boldly vulnerable expression of the pop star …