The second-to-last song on “The Tortured Poets Department,” “The Alchemy,” is one of the only pure love songs on an album that skews melancholy. This is a story of a love that “happens once every few ...

This is a story of a love that “happens once every few lifetimes,” Swift’s narrator sings. Alchemy refers to the quest in ancient and Medieval times to find a philosopher’s stone, which would make it ...

We have a play call from Taylor Swift: “Call the amateurs and cut them from the team!” The second-to-last song on “The Tortured Poets Department,” “The Alchemy,” is one of the only pure love songs on ...