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Taylor Swift: Why You Gotta Be So Mean?
Taylor misses no opportunity to make out publicly with her aggressively wholesome boyfriend. (Photo illustration by The Free Press and images via Getty.)
In her latest album, the pop star crucifies ex-boyfriends like never before.
By Freya Sanders
04.23.24 — Culture and Ideas
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Last year, Taylor Swift broke up with Joe Alwyn, the man she thought she’d marry—and she’s not trying to be mature about it. In her new album, The Tortured Poets Department, she literally sings, Everything comes out: teenage petulance. One of her songs is called “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived,” and it absolutely crucifies an ex-boyfriend for wanting w…

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Freya Sanders
Freya Sanders is a senior editor at The Free Press. She runs our culture section, working with a lot of your favorite columnists, including Suzy Weiss, Larissa Phillips, Caitlin Flanagan, Kat Rosenfield, and River Page. She's the editor of both The Weekend Press and our weekly profile column Two Drinks, as well as our beloved advice column, Tough Love with Abigail Shrier. She also edits personal stories—from 'What I Went Through to Meet My Daughter' to 'My Mom Was Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Then She Got Better'—and investigations, from 'A Wife's Revenge From Beyond the Grave' to 'When Freebirth Ends In Death'.
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