Critics love Taylor Swift's 'The Tortured Poets Department': Here's why

Taylor Swift is dominating the music scene with The Tortured Poets Department, and critics, largely, are gushing over the new album.

On MetaCritic, the Carolina's hitmaker's latest piece of work garnered thirteen positive, five mixed, and a single negative review as of now.

Writing in Rolling Stone, Rob Sheffield says “Tortured Poets” a “stunning” album that “combines the intimacy of ‘Folklore’ and ‘Evermore’ with the synth-pop gloss of ‘Midnights’ to create music that’s wildly ambitious and gloriously chaotic.”

Likewise, The Independent's Helen Brown wrote, “Her ability to put her lines over is as compelling as ever. I defy anyone not to lean into Swift’s concisely charged storytelling … She fills arenas and dominates the news agenda because listeners can relate to her starry dramas.”

While some expressed mixed reactions to the record-breaking album. Take, for example, Olivia Horn pens in Pitchfork that “its sense of sprawl creeps down to the song level, where Swift’s writing is, at best, playfully unbridled and, at worst, conspicuously wanting for an editor."

"It would help if Swift were exploring new musical ideas, but she is largely retreading old territory.”