TRACK BY TRACK

TRACK BY TRACK: TAYLOR SWIFT / The Tortured Poets Department ★★★★

1. Fortnight With Post Malone, Taylor gives Lana Del Rey vibes on this hazy recollection of a two-week affair that’s “ruining my life”.

2. The Tortured Poets Department A Swift pop classic, fusing startling honesty with typical melodic wonder. The “who uses typewriters anyway” line will have a certain Healy smarting.

3. My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys Closest thing to a Midnights track, where Taylor puts “me back on my shelf.”

4. Down Bad A sweet but harrowing anthem with Taylor at her most despondent: “If I can’t have us I might just not get up.”

5. So Long, London Some of her smartest lyrics recounting the end of a love affair.

6. But Daddy I Love Him An American rock feel where she attacks “judgemental creeps who say they want what’s best for me”.

7. Fresh Out The Slammer Brooding acoustic highlight. Taylor sings: “Handcuffed to the spell I was under… I did my time.”

8. Florida!!! Sounds like an attack on someone with Florence Welch playing the other woman.

9. Guilty As Sin? Semi-acoustic tune about longing.

10. Who’s Afraid Of Little Old Me? “If you wanted me dead... nothing makes me feel more alive” defiant anthem.

11. I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) Modern Americana full of atmospheric guitars. As alluring as the man she dreams of snaring.

12. Loml Simple piano ballad written with Aaron Dessner about being told you are the love of someone’s life.

13. I Can Do It With A Broken Heart Ironically upbeat song, this is Tay grinning and bearing it as her love life explodes: “I’m miserable and no one even knows!”

14. The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived Another piano ballad and scathing account of being let down by a lover.

15. The Alchemy More experimental ballad about coming out of the darkness

16. Clara Bow Sweet song about the original It Girl.