Is the world ready for Taylor Swift, utterly untortured poet? Possibly — it’s not as if a whole season’s worth of NFL television cutaways didn’t prime the planet for the idea that Dark Taylor might be ready to take five for a bit. And, sure, the Eras Tour went a little way toward that, too, as no one’s idea of an angst-ridden experience. But not everyone has gotten past the original line on her, that she is someone who professionally mines heartache for hits. She’s almost overturned that notion as a cliche when her last album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” actually really did trade in real-life misery, again, for
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