Review: Taylor Swift turns heel, owning her chaos and messiness on 'The Tortured Poets Department'
Taylor Swift has spent years warning us not to believe everything we hear about her. As the biggest star of pop music's parasocial age, she argues that the facts of her existence are constantly warped by gossip and misinformation, which is one reason the Easter eggs and coded messages she's long built into her work have helped create such a tight bond between her and her fans. Pay close enough attention, the thinking goes, and her art will always tell you the truth.
Except when it doesn't.
Toward the end of her juicy new album, "," Swift unloads a sparky electro-pop song called "I Can Do It With a Broken Heart." In the song she essentially admits that last summer, as she was crisscrossing the country on her record-breaking (and
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