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— DAVID GRAY/AFP/Getty Images Taylor Swift takes aim a lot of her enemies on The Tortured Poets Department, from recent exes to longtime rivals, but she also seems to turn her wrath onto an unexpected group: her own fans. Actually, maybe that isn’t all too unexpected. Swifties are known as one of the most passionate fanbases there is, and there are several instances where Swift’s superfans have gone too far in invading her personal life. Now, it seems like Swift is firing back in her new song “But Daddy I Love Him,” which calls out the “bitchin’ and moanin’” from “judgmental creeps” who have ..read more

— Erika Goldring/WireImage/Getty Images Taylor Swift didn’t pull any punches in The Tortured Poets Department, although the bulk of its subject matter did come as a bit of a surprise. Many of the songs seemed to be about her brief fling with Matty Healy (whom she publicly dated for a month in May 2023)... not her six-year relationship with Joe Alwyn. One diss track in particular — namely, “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” — had some choice words for a certain someone who certainly *could* be the 1975 frontman. But apparently, Healy is unbothered by TTPD. ICYMI, in “The Smallest Man Who Ever L ..read more

— Ashok Kumar/TAS24/Getty Images Now that Swifties finally have Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department, all those puzzle pieces she left behind are coming together. Leading up to the album’s release on April 19, the queen of Easter eggs started sharing lyrics from different tracks on social media and in library installations. On the day of the 2024 total solar eclipse, the Midnights singer shared a video to her Instagram story with a line from “Clara Bow,” the final track on the standard edition of TTPD: “Crowd goes wild at her fingertips / Half moonshine, full eclipse” As appropriate a ..read more

— Michael Owens/Getty Images Sport/Getty Images Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s romance has a new anthem. Don’t worry, “Karma.” The “guy on the Chiefs” line will always be famous in the Swiftieverse. On her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, she explores the dark woes of heartbreak and her most questionable flings — but not for long, though. She soon falls in love again on “So High School,” a sweet track that’s filled with metaphors about Kelce. Swift isn’t subtle about her feelings for her football player BF on “So High School.” (She has the same approach on “The Alchemy,” describi ..read more

— Ashok Kumar/TAS24/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images The stage might be set for Olivia Rodrigo to get Taylor Swift back — at least, that’s what some fans think. After Rodrigo had to give Swift hundreds of thousands in royalties over songs that sounded too similar to Swift’s, the tables may have turned as Rodrigo’s fans called out a new Swift song that sounds pretty familiar. Shortly after The Tortured Poets Department was released, Swift’s track “imgonnagetyouback” sparked comparisons to Rodrigo’s single “Get Him Back!,” as both songs center on the same play on words. In “imgonnagetyou ..read more

— Taylor Swift Already, The Tortured Poets Department has taken over the internet (and Spotify and Apple Music). On the 31-track double album, TTPD: The Anthology, Swift shows off her songwriting skills to the fullest. But it’s not like the language in Swift’s latest collection was made completely from scratch. Throughout the album, there are several lyrical references to other songs in Swift’s discography. For example, “So Long, London” is basically one long tribute to her previous work on Midnights and Lover. Whether Swift is directly quoting herself or simply recycling the same metaphors ..read more

— Ashok Kumar/TAS24/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images It’s true what the tortured poets say: old habits die screaming. While most of Taylor Swift’s new album seems to be about her love life — ranging from bitter exes to her current football-feuled euphoria — there’s one track that’s pretty clearly devoted to her years-long nemesis, Kim Kardashian. In the very pointed (and intentionally capitalized) “thanK you aIMee,” Swift sings about a bully named Aimee who would “push [her] down the stairs” and “beat [her] spirit black and blue.” It’s not just some sus lyrics that suggest Aimee is act ..read more

— ohn Shearer/Getty Images for MTV/Taylor Hill/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images Welcome to the literary halls of The Tortured Poets Department. On April 19, Taylor Swift released her 11th album, the first taste of her tenure as a wilted poet with a possible coffee addiction. (Ahem, the brown-stained edges on the writings displayed in her library.) True to her songwriting lore, Swift draws musical inspiration from those close to her on this project. In fact, some fans believe she may have had Selena Gomez in mind on the album’s title track... but not in a good way. On the song “The Tort ..read more

— Ariela Basson/EliteDaily; Getty Images, Stocksy, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Universal There was a time when fanfic was looked down upon. Passionate fans would only gush about their OTPs and dream up imagined scenarios for them in the dark corners of Tumblr and Wattpad, where fellow shippers could spend hours devouring every morsel of content about their fave pairings. But now, there’s nothing shameful about being a vocal pop culture fan, and fanfic has gone mainstream. The form has become so popular, some of the most famous fics have been turned into hit movies. And these specific journeys from ..read more