By: Sophia Elmstrom

‘The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology’ is Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album. Taylor had been working on this album for two years before her announcement at the 2024 Grammys. Many fans had been speculating that at the Grammys Taylor would announce her re-recording of ‘Reputation’. The album was originally called ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ but then at 2 A.M. the night that the album was released Taylor surprised everyone and released a double album called ‘The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology’.

On the combined albums there are 31 songs in total and the whole album is a little over 2 hours long. Many of the songs on this album are about the recent breakup of Taylor and her ex boyfriend of over 6 years.

1. Fortnight (ft Post Malone)
2. The Tortured Poets Department
3. My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
4. Down Bad
5. So Long, London
6. But Daddy I Love Him
7. Fresh Out the Slammer
8. Florida!!!
9. Guilty as Sin?
10. Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me
11. I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)
12. loml
13. I Can Do It With a Broken Heart
14. The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
15. The Alchemy
16. Clara Bow

These 17 songs are all of the songs that are on the original album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’. Overall, these songs are very clever and the lyrics are catchy and well written. This album definitely stood up to the expectations of the fans but many people who are not fans do not think this album is very good. Lots of listeners said that the album had basic lyrics that did not mean anything. Although that could be true to many I believe that the lyrics did have lots of meanings and in order to understand it you would kind of need to know a lot about Taylor’s life.

My favorite songs on this part of the album are “Down Bad” and “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart”. Both of these songs are about the heartbreak that Taylor went through last year. I really like these songs because the lyrics are very sad while the music is very upbeat and happy.

I give this part of the album a 9/10 because a few of the songs sound a lot alike but I really liked them all.

1. The Black Dog
2. imgonnagetyouback
3. The Albatross
4. Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus
5. How Did It End?
6. So High School
7. I Hate It Here
8. thanK you aImee
9. I Look in Peoples Windows
10. The Prophecy
11. Cassandra
12. Peter
13. The Bolter
14. Robin
15. The Manuscript

This second album is very good but I do not think I have listened to it enough to fully give it a rating. My favorite songs so far include “Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus” because the lyrics are very good and catchy. I also think the same for “So High School” which is a song about her new relationship with Travis Kelce.

Another song that is very clever is “thanK you aIMee” which is a song about Kim Kardashian. Its a song about how all of the rude things that Kim said led to where Taylor is today.

I will give this album a 7/10 so far because I have not listened to it enough yet. I think the first album is better because I like the beats of the songs and lyrics.