In 2023, following a hush-hush breakup with longtime partner Joe Alwyn, then a highly publicized, fan-criticized courtship with 1975 frontman Matty Healy, Taylor Swift penned what should be remembered as the saddest song of her career.
In “The Prophecy,” a four-minute lament at the end of 2024’s The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology, the 36-year-old pop star for the first time acknowledges that even she is sick of this turmoil. Even she is sick of wanting one thing so badly and failing to achieve it.
