The “tortured artist” is a pervasive trope in music discourse, from Beethoven and Robert Schumann to Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse. It is perpetuated in popular culture in films like Whiplash (2014) ...

Perhaps expectedly, Taylor Swift has ruled the charts, spending 17 weeks at number one for two different albums, 1989 (Taylor’s Version) and The Tortured Poets Department. The latter has sat in the ...

Matty Healy fueled rumors that he was the inspiration for the song “Guilty as Sin” from his ex-girlfriend Taylor Swift’s latest album, “The Tortured Poets Department.” The 1975 frontman took to his ...

He is the right kind of cantankerous, still finding it in himself to rage against predatory music industry practices and not, y’know, young people. Way back in 1992, he released an album that showed ...