Even though I don’t like Taylor Swift, I won’t try to disparage or destroy her. She’s been successful enough for a while to know that she must have something!

Songwriters ought to compose from a position of truth!

There will probably be people who can relate to Taylor Swift’s songs if she writes about real-life experiences. This applies to all songwriters. As Blackie Lawless once said, “You described exactly how I’m feeling, only I didn’t have the words to describe it.” This fan approached him.

That is a great songwriter’s gift. Some writers have the ability to capture emotions that you may be experiencing or have been experiencing for some time, but they have never been able to capture it as well as you heard in a song by one of your favorite songs.

Yes, Taylor Swift possesses the talent. You can’t argue with her success, regardless of your feelings on her music! She certainly connects with her audience in a unique way, and her music is loved by millions of people.

Swift managed to become an even greater cultural influence in the eighteen months that passed between the release of her new album, The Tortured Poets Department, and 2022’s Midnights. She did this by releasing three deluxe reissues of Midnights and Taylor’s Version re-recordings of 2014’s 1989 and 2010’s Speak Now. In between albums, she started her current three-hour career retrospective, the Eras Tour, which has increased local economies, brought in over a billion dollars, and drawn the kind of media attention typically reserved for the passing of popular presidents. Even though Swift was already well-known among the artists of her generation when Midnights was released, everything that has transpired since then has solidified her status as an enormously successful star.

Swift’s eleventh original studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, is marketed as a concept album that examines the five phases of grieving. Along with frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff (who also produced Midnights) and Aaron Dessner of the National (who she collaborated with on two own acoustic albums, Folklore and Evermore), she produced the album. In keeping with those credits, its subdued style alternates between the delicate pop-folk of Folklore and the downtempo pop of Midnights. In addition, as Swift declared in the wee hours of Friday morning, it is a “secret double album”; the entire 31-song collection, dubbed The Anthology, runs for an astounding two hours and two minutes.