How Taylor Swift Captured Modern Dating Despair
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.
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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