TTPD is a Traumatic Breakdown
The length is a feature, not a bug
My favorite review of The Tortured Poets Department is just a tweet: “this album is like tolerate it on crystal meth”
It’s perfect because it’s true.1
This album is chaotic and unhinged and messy and circular and it’s exactly what it is supposed to be. The content of the art is informing the medium and form it is presen…
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