A new Taylor Swift album means one thing to the codebreakers known as Swifties: spending hours poring over every line, allusion, and reference, figuring out what it all means in the scope of Swift's life and lore. Now that The Tortured Poets Department, her 11th studio album (not counting the re-records), has dropped, it's time once again to grab the magnifying glass and the encyclopedia to get to the bottom of her lyrics. Characters of all kinds populate Swift's work, starting from her very... Read this story
