The Tortured Lawyers Department: What Taylor Swift’s Newest Album Can Teach Students About Persuasive Legal Writing
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Introduction
On April 19, 2024, Taylor Swift dropped her newest album, The Tortured Poets Department (and The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology).[1] The lyrical savant takes listeners through a journey of happiness, heartbreak, affairs, post-mortem examinations, alien abductions, zombies, Super Bowls, and, of course, Florida. Although law students everywhere likely listened to the album while studying for (o