Taylor Swift's 11th studio album 'The Tortured Poets Department,' was fundamentally misunderstood. One year after its release, on April 19, here's why 'TTPD' will go down as one of her keystone records,

“The new Taylor Swift album, The Tortured Poets Department, really hit me hard,” I told my therapist exactly one year ago. I was speaking about the end of a seemingly life-altering situationship. “She felt like she’d never find love again,” I explained. The whole thing felt so familiar.

Taylor Swift has been following a specific pattern for the last four years, but recent rumors suggest that she might break this for her next album.