Taylor Swift loves to fill each album with clues and puzzles — “Easter eggs,” as she and her fans call them — for her die-hard followers to decode over the ensuing weeks, months and (let’s be honest) years. Already, her new heartbreak-steeped album “The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology” has led Swifties to attempt to connect the album’s lyrics to events in the singer’s personal life — a hunt for literalism that Swift does not exactly discourage. With its apparent nods to exes (Joe Alwyn, Matty Healy), current loves (Travis Kelce), enemies (Kim Kardashian) and other famous figures (Patti Smith, Dylan Thomas), making sense of the double album, if that’s what you’re into, might feel like a full-time job.
