The way we digest new music needs to be fixed.

Within less than 24 hours of pop star Taylor Swift’s release of The Tortured Poets Department and her surprise anthology, the internet was flooded with an inescapable number of reviews. In The New York Times, pop critic Lindsay Zoladz said Swift’s 11th long-playing record is “sprawling and often self-indulgent” and “full of detailed, referential lyrics that her fans will delight in decoding”.