straight from the tortured poets department...

a track by track analysis of taylor swift's latest album + my favorite lines from every song

buckle up, friends. this is a long one.

thank GOD i didn’t attempt to squeeze my full analysis into stories, because—much like the record itself, which is a whopping 31 tracks, this post-mortem is anything but short. i’ll admit that i petered out (pun not intended) by the anthology tracks; once we get there, i’ve only written about the ones that stood ou…