Quick pop quiz: Prior to this week, what was Taylor Swift’s last new No. 1 hits series, because we’d just covered “Cruel Summer,” and “Over” seemed like a rounding error—a fluky side effect of Swift’s newest album-release gambit, not a hit anyone beyond rabid Swifties would remember by 2024. But Swift’s streams per song number was also exceptionally high: “Fortnight” …
Taylor Swift's ascension as pop music's head lyricist in charge didn't happen by accident. In a mega two-hour, dual album, released in two parts as "The Tortured Poets Department" and "The Anthology," Swift pens 31 different heartbreaks, triumphs and intimacies — tortured poems if you will. While Dessner's work dazzles in "The Anthology," and Antonoff's production in "Tortured Poets" lacks …
