Taylor Swift, The Winter's Tale, and Sylvia Plath
I loved "The Prophecy" and so many of the other songs too! Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the new album and making insightful comparisons between it and other literature. "The Winter's Tale" is one of my favorite Shakespeare plays. I never would have noticed a connection between "The Winter's Tale" and "THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT" but your comparison makes sense.
It's going to take me a while to digest and absorb all of the new songs. They're all so good, but I often feel mentally and emotionally stuffed after listening to long (and good) albums. as if the artist had just served me a huge, delicious feast. The better the long album is, the more stuffed I feel, because while I'm always happy when an album has as few weak spots as possible, long good albums have few or no places that I can tune out of because I want to absorb everything. There's no dish at this musical feast that I don't want to at least try a little of, but it's a lot to take in at 1 sitting. (I could rant good-naturedly all day about ideal album lengths and ideal song lengths, but I'll end it here).
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