What are the big takeaways from Swift’s new album? She’s refining her sound, confronting elements of her fanbase and done with romantic idealisation
‘I cry a lot but I am so productive / It’s an art’ … Taylor Swift performing in Florida, 14 April 2023.‘I cry a lot but I am so productive / It’s an art’ … Taylor Swift performing in Florida, 14 April 2023.Swift named an entire album after the concept of her reputation and has been engaging with public perceptions of her as far back as 2010’s Speak Now; songs such as Mean, Blank Space and the gothic half of Reputation lash out directly at critics.
Mingling the mordant and the cocksure, I Can Do It With a Broken Heart reveals – and revels in – how she duped hundreds of thousands of people into thinking she was having the time of her life on the Eras tour when in reality she was depressed. “I cry a lot but I am so productive / It’s an art,” she sing-songs, lording in her ability to keep up appearances – you suspect her therapist might have something to say about leaning on work as a coping mechanism.
Moreover, there are even gags in the music – the burbling synths, booming drums and glazed backing vocals of opener Fortnight, featuring a barely thereWhen Swift released Red three years ago, it came with an expanded 10-minute version of All Too Well that deepened the song’s already considerable evisceration of a past relationship with an imbalanced power dynamic.
Swift’s own wounds are as deep as those she inflicts. From the tracklist, fans assumed that TTPD would go deep on her relationship with Alwyn. It’s actually surprisingly sparing, with the majority of the songs seeming to address the Healy situation.
As for newer directions, Florida!!!, Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me and I Can Fix Him make a great, subtle virtue of the southern gothic melodrama Swift tried out on Evermore’s shlocky No Body, No Crime; while the only supersized pop moment is I Can Do It With a Broken Heart, which blows dazzling arpeggiated synths worthy of Robyn or the Pet Shop Boys stadium-wards. The whole album seems to pulse with an anxious, human heartbeat.
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