Taylor Swift Makes One for Herself

At a February concert in Melbourne, Taylor Swift spoke to the stadium crowd of nearly one hundred thousand strong about The Tortured Poets Department, the forthcoming album she had announced two weeks prior at the Grammy Awards. “It was really a lifeline for me,” she said. “It sort of reminded me why songwriting gets me through life. I’ve never had an album where I needed songwriting more than I needed it on Tortured Poets.”