Ep. 7: "The Tortured Toto Apartment" - A Review of Taylor Swift's "TTPD"

Update: 2024-04-22

Description

In this week's episode, Bianca and Julian dive deep into Taylor Swift's 11th studio (and first double!) album, "The Tortured Poets Department" ("The Anthology" edition). In this rant/review, they discuss quantity vs. quality, musical vs. lyrical analysis, Jack Antonoff's production, AI and "demo-itis," our "Guilty as Sin?" music video, and the influence of The 1975. Is this Taylor at her very best? Listen to find out!

Also discussed are:

- Jojo Siwa's "Karma"

- The new "Lennon/McCartney" song

- OJ

- Sabrina Carpenter

Email us at anythingbuttoto@gmail.com

Music by Daniel Konikoff

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Ep. 7: "The Tortured Toto Apartment" - A Review of Taylor Swift's "TTPD"

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Ep. 7: "The Tortured Toto Apartment" - A Review of Taylor Swift's "TTPD"