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Matty Healy Is Taylor Swift’s Unlikely Inspiration and Six Other Takeaways From ‘TTPD’

'The Tortured Poets Department' gave everyone about two albums’ worth of material to sift through — here's everything we learned

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Taylor Swift’s New Album Opens With a Stevie Nicks Poem

But you can only find it on physical versions of The Tortured Poets Department

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Taylor Swift Busts Out the Quill Pen and Delivers an Epic Double Album

The songs she's added to her eleventh album tap the delicate, acoustic side of her songwriting

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Come for the Torture, Stay for the Poetry: This Might Be Taylor Swift’s Most Personal Album Yet

The Tortured Poets Department combines the intimacy of Folklore and Evermore with the synth-pop gloss of Midnights to create music that’s wildly ambitious and gloriously chaotic

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Peso Pluma Broke All the Barriers. Only He Knows Where He’s Going Next

He rocketed to superstardom with a signature brand of música mexicana. Now, can he navigate a new stratosphere of fame?

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The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time


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