How Taylor Swift Captured Modern Dating Despair

Taylor Swift performs on the first night of The Eras tour of Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia on February 16, 2024.Image source, EPA
By Noor Nanji and Annabel RackhamCulture Reporters

For two female journalists in their 30s — who also happen to be huge Swifties — there's a lot about Taylor Swift's new album that rings true.

Partners who accompanied us, to eat comfortably after a breakup. We've all been there, and so has pop's biggest superstar.

Swift is no stranger to writing about personal subjects. And she is by no means the first musician to sing about heartbreak, pain and sorrow.

But in The Department of Tortured Poets, Swift identifies the unique 21st century anxieties that so many of us millennials have experienced while dating.

Perhaps more than any other song on his new album, So Long, London packs the real punch.

"I'm pissed that you let me give you all this, all this youth for free", she laments, in a piece widely considered to be about his ex. -associate, Joe Alwyn.

How Taylor Swift Captured Modern Dating Despair
Taylor Swift performs on the first night of The Eras tour of Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia on February 16, 2024.Image source, EPA
By Noor Nanji and Annabel RackhamCulture Reporters

For two female journalists in their 30s — who also happen to be huge Swifties — there's a lot about Taylor Swift's new album that rings true.

Partners who accompanied us, to eat comfortably after a breakup. We've all been there, and so has pop's biggest superstar.

Swift is no stranger to writing about personal subjects. And she is by no means the first musician to sing about heartbreak, pain and sorrow.

But in The Department of Tortured Poets, Swift identifies the unique 21st century anxieties that so many of us millennials have experienced while dating.

Perhaps more than any other song on his new album, So Long, London packs the real punch.

"I'm pissed that you let me give you all this, all this youth for free", she laments, in a piece widely considered to be about his ex. -associate, Joe Alwyn.

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