Swift has been unstoppable for a year. Her current (very long) album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” has some exhausted.
Four new studio albums. Also four rerecorded albums. A $1 billion oxygen-sucking globe tour and concert film. One famous romance that spilled into the Super Bowl.
Some are experiencing Taylor Swift fatigue, a previously inconceivable feeling due to the relentless deluge over the past year.
It is a sentiment that has only strengthened online in the days since “The Tortured Poets Society,” which went from a 16-song album to a 31-song, two-hour epic just hours after its publication.
Many reviews, including The New York Times, called the album overcrowded and not her finest.
And music criticism has opened a sliver of space for a bigger round of complaints, unlike any Swift has faced during her prolific and world-conquering recent run.
The art suffers when overproduction is used to control a market, rather than having something meaningful to express. Vanity Fair staff writer Chris Murphy posted on X.
Not that nobody heard the album—far from it. “Poets,” published on Friday, was the most-streamed album in a day with over 300 million streams, according to Spotify.
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