the tortured poets department should’ve been scrapped

while in the past i’ve appreciated and enjoyed some of taylor’s albums and writing, the tortured poets department was by far the greatest disappointment to me. To start, the timing was horrible. Most fans wanted more of her re-recordings and tbh me as well as many others were getting tired of seeing her EVERYWHERE. it’s almost like “girl just take the win and finish your tour and take some time off”. it’s like if you’re a baker and you’re surrounded by cakes all day you get so tired of it all you want is a steak. besides it feeling like it was the complete wrong time, i also personally found the album to be a sleep fest. it felt almost like something a snark redditor would make in spite of taylor mocking her writing style. the production was way too close in sound to her other albums so much so that anyone who isn’t an extreme fan would have a hard time deciphering what piece of work the songs coincide with. plus the titles of the songs are enough to turn you off from the album entirely. “but daddy i love him” is something better suited for a personal diary or something that is dated for 2011 tumblr. and let’s be so honest in the fact that if katy perry or any of the other artists with far less popularity and public appeal put out a track list and sound like this they’d be pushed off the charts and scrutinized. the album felt too long and times like this i feel like labels need to step in and force the artist to wait and reconsider their work. they do with smaller artists but when someone like taylor swift comes in breaking all their records and supplying them with 5 new cars a year, why argue. here’s an idea, just release a poetry book. not everything needs to be a song put with the same 5 cords and identical production style (jack antinoff please take a vacation). overall ttpd really turned me off from taylor as an artist this past year and made me exhausted seeing her name in the news and charts.