Hearts & Numbers - Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department

 The Tortured Poets Department

(The Manuscript version)

by Taylor Swift

Is this Taylor's worst album? (I haven't really listened to Lover or Reputation so, I can't say for sure...)

1. Fortnight 90 💜
2. The Tortured Poets Department 95 💜
3. My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys 90 💜
4. Down Bad 90 💜
5. So Long, London 75
6. But Daddy I Love Him 85 💜
7. Fresh Out the Slammer 85
8. Florida!!! 95 💜
9. Guilty As Sin 60
10. Who's Afraid of Little Old Me? 85 💜
11. I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) 65
12. loml 55
13. I Can Do It With a Broken Heart 75 💜
14. The Smallest Man Who Ever Live 85💜
15. The Alchemy 75
16. Clara Bow 65
17. The Manuscript 80

3.75 out of 5

Solid B

I don't get the hate. Is it a bit long? Sure. But Taylor is a songwriting machine. And this is the reflection on two really terrible relationships. If anything, she is a confessionalist who takes us on her emotional (read:relationship) journey.

She doesn't really write about much else but that's why she is the avatar for a generation of young women.

The other thing I noticed is that this record sounds the most like a return to her country roots dressed up in Synth-Pop & Soft-Rock. 

Also, that it's really front loaded but, in the end I think it's a really strong record.