Taylor Swift’s eleventh studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” released at midnight and has already received reviews and praise from critics and fans. Indiana author John Green has also voiced his thoughts on the album.
Green took to X, formerly Twitter, Friday morning to respond to Swift’s 2 a.m. announcement of the secret double album “The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology.”
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“Shut the front door; this is incredible!” Green wrote on his alternate account, @sportswithjohn. “The writing is so, so good on this one. Or these ones, I guess I should say.”
Green doubled down on his praise of the album in response to a Tweet from his social media manager, Payton Mitchell, who made a comment about one of the lyrics on her new song “The Alchemy.”
The lyrics she refers to are “These blokes warm the benches/ We’ve been on a winning streak,” which fans assume is in reference to her exes.
“I could never recover,” Green said. “I would retreat to the Scottish Highlands and live off the land in quiet contemplation for the rest of my tortured days.”
Mitchell, who works for both Green and his brother Hank Green, helps with their new weekly newsletter, “We’re Here.”
Friday’s email was titled “The Turtles and Penguins Department,” in reference to Swift’s album drop, John Green’s upcoming movie “Turtles All the Way Down,” and well, they talk about Emperor Penguins too.
They also make their own Connections puzzle, based on the one created by the New York Times, and several of their clues seem related to the new album.
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