Avere il cuore spezzato è da sempre il motore creativo della reginetta del pop, Taylor Swift. Mom T è conosciuta per le sue canzoni di amore sofferto sin dall'inizio della sua carriera, e con il suo ultimo album The Tortured Poets Department, conferma la posizione sul trono d’onore che occupa dal 2006. Una breakup song di Taylor è cruda nella sua onestà e vertiginosa nella sua profondità, nientemeno che una catarsi.
In un mondo precedente a The Tortured Poets Department, questa classifica sarebbe stata un gioco da ragazzi, ma con 31 nuove tracce pubblicate, catalogare le lacrime d’amore versate collettivamente attraverso la penna di Swift non è mai stato così impegnativo.
La classifica ufficiale di Cosmopolitan delle 30 migliori canzoni di rottura di Taylor Swift è arrivata.
30. “Fortnight ft. Post Malone"
Album: The Tortured Poets Department
Dedicata (forse) a Matty Healy
Testo: All my mornings are Mondays stuck in an endless February / I took the miracle move-on drug, the effects were temporary / And I love you, it's ruining my life
29. “Hits Different”
Album: Midnights
Run time: 3:55
Dedicata (forse) a Joe Alwyn
Testo: And I never don't cry at the bar / Yeah, my sadness is contagious / I slur your name 'til someone puts me in a car / I stopped receiving invitations
28. “Sad Beautiful Tragic”
Album: Red (Taylor’s Version)
Run time: 4:45
Dedicata (forse) a Jake Gyllenhaal
Testo: And we both wake in lonely beds and different cities / And time is taking its sweet time erasing you / And you've got your demons and, darlin', they all look like me
27. “Last Kiss”
Album: Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)
Run time: 6:08
Dedicata (forse) a Joe Jonas
Testo: And I'll go / Sit on the floor wearing your clothes / All that I know is I don't know / How to be something you miss
26. “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys”
Album: The Tortured Poets Department
Run time: 3:24
Dedicata (forse) a Joe Alwyn
Testo: I know I'm just repeating mysеlf / Put me back on my shelf / But first, pull the string / And I'll tell you that he runs / Because he loves me
25. “coney island ft. The National”
Album: evermore
Run time: 4:36
Testo: How'd we get here so soon? / Did I close my fist around something delicate? / Did I shatter you?
24. “Forever & Always”
Album: Fearless (Taylor’s Version)
Run time: 3:46
Dedicata (forse) a Joe Jonas
Testo: Did I say somethin' way too honest, made you run and hide / Like a scared little boy?
23. “How Did It End?
Album: The Tortured Poets Department
Run time: 3:59
Dedicata (forse) a Joe Alwyn
Testo: Say it once again with feeling / How the death rattle breathing / Silenced as the soul was leaving / The deflation of our dreaming / Leaving me bereft and reeling / My beloved ghost and me / Sitting in a tree / D-Y-I-N-G
22. “illicit affairs”
Album: folklore
Run time: 3:11
Testo: And you wanna scream / Don't call me "kid," don't call me "baby" / Look at this godforsaken mess that you made me / You showed me colors you know I can't see with anyone else
21. “tolerate it”
Album: evermore
Run time: 4:06
Testo: I wait by the door like I'm just a kid / Use my best colors for your portrait / Lay the table with the fancy shit / And watch you tolerate it
20. “I Look in People’s Windows”
Album: The Tortured Poets Department
Run time: 2:12
Dedicata (forse) a Joe Alwyn
Testo: I look in people's windows / In case you're at their table / What if your eyes looked up and met mine / One more time
19. “exile ft. Bon Iver”
Album: folklore
Run time: 4:46
Testo: I can see you starin', honey / Like he's just your understudy / Like you'd get your knuckles bloody for me / Second, third, and hundredth chances / Balancin' on breaking branches / Those eyes add insult to injury
18. “loml”
Album: The Tortured Poets Department
Run time: 4:38
Dedicata (forse) a Joe Alwyn
Testo: You shit-talked me under the table / Talkin' rings and talkin' cradles / I wish I could un-recall / How we almost had it all / Dancing phantoms on the terrace / Are they second-hand embarrassed
17. “Back to December”
Album: Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)
Run time: 4:55
Dedicata (forse) a Taylor Lautner
Testo: And then the cold came, the dark days / When fear crept into my mind / You gave me all your love and all I gave you was goodbye
16. "The Last Time (Taylor's Version) ft. Gary Lightbody"
Album: Red (Taylor's Version)
Run time: 5:00
Dedicata (forse) a Jake Gyllenhaal
Testo: This is the last time I'm askin' you this / Put my name at the top of your list / This is the last time I'm askin' you why / You break my heart in the blink of an eye
15. “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart”
Album: The Tortured Poets Department
Run time: 3:39
Testo: I can hold my breath / I've been doin' it since he left / I keep finding his things in drawers / Crucial evidence I didn't imagine the whole thing
14. “Getaway Car”
Album: Reputation
Run time: 3:54
Dedicata (forse) a Tom Hiddleston
Testo: I'm in a getaway car / I left you in a motel bar / Put the money in a bag and I stole the keys / That was the last time you ever saw me
13. “Dear John”
Album: Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)
Run time: 6:44
Dedicata (forse) a John Mayer
Testo: Long were the nights when / my days once revolved around you / Counting my footsteps / Praying the floor won't fall through again
12. “So Long, London”
Album: The Tortured Poets Department
Run time: 4:23
Dedicata (forse) a Joe Alwyn
Testo: Pulled him in tighter each time he was driftin' away / My spine split from carrying us up the hill / Wet through my clothes, weary bones caught the chill
11. “You're Losing Me (From The Vault)”
Album: Midnights
Run time: 4:38
Dedicata (forse) a Joe Alwyn
Testo: And the air is thick with loss and indecision / I know my pain is such an imposition [...] And I wouldn't marry me either / A pathological people pleaser / Who only wanted you to see her
10. “Maroon”
Album: Midnights
Run time: 3:39
Dedicata (forse) a Matty Healy
Testo: You were standing hollow-eyed in the hallway / Carnations you had thought were roses, that's us
9. “Clean”
Album: 1989 (Taylor’s Version)
Run time: 4:31
Dedicata (forse) a Harry Styles
Testo: The rain came pouring down / When I was drownin', that's when I could finally breathe / And by mornin' / Gone was any trace of you, I think I am finally clean
8. “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should've”
Album: Midnights
Run time: 4:21
Dedicata (forse) a John Mayer
Testo: If clarity's in death, then why won't this die? / Years of tearing down our banners, you and I / Living for the thrill of hitting you where it hurts / Give me back my girlhood, it was mine first
7. “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived”
Album: The Tortured Poets Department
Run time: 4:06
Dedicata (forse) a Matty Healy
Testo: 'Cause it wasn't sexy once it wasn't forbidden / I would've died for your sins, instead, I just died inside / And you deserve prison, but you won't get time
6. “right where you left me”
Album: evermore
Run time: 4:06
Testo: I cause no harm, mind my business / If our love died young, I can't bear witness, and it's been so long / If you ever think you got it wrong, I'm right where / you left me
5. “The Black Dog”
Album: The Tortured Poets Department
Run time: 3:59
Dedicata (forse) a Matty Healy
Testo: I move through the world with the heartbroken / My longings stay unspoken / And I may never open up thе way I did for you / And all of those best laid plans / You said I needed a bravе man / Then proceeded to play him / Until I believed it too / And it kills me
4. “the 1”
Album: folklore
Run time: 3:31
Testo: I persist and resist the temptation to ask you / If one thing had been different / Would everything be different today?
3. “All Too Well (10 Minute Version)”
Album: Red (Taylor’s Version)
Run time: 10:13
Dedicata (forse) a Jake Gyllenhaal
Testo: "Any time now he's gonna say it's love," / you never called it what it was / 'Til we were dead and gone and buried / Check the pulse and come back swearin' it's the same / After three months in the grave / And then you wondered where it went to as I reached for you / But all I felt was shame and you held my lifeless frame
2. “Death by a Thousand Cuts”
Album: Lover
Run time: 3:18
Testo: My time, my wine, my spirit, my trust / Trying to find a part of me you didn't take up / Gave you too much but it wasn't enough / But I'll be alright, it's just a thousand cuts
1.“champagne problems”
Album: evermore
Run time: 4:04
Testo: "She would've made such a lovely bride / What a shame she's fucked in the head, " they said / But you'll find the real thing instead / She'll patch up your tapestry that I shred
