Poetic justice — Taylor Swift spills bad blood on ‘The Tortured Poets Department’: review

Part of the art of being Taylor Swift is embodying first the Everygirl, then the Everywoman — the Miss Americana in them all, from era to era.

Beyoncé is a goddess, Taylor is a real life human — just like us.

But there’s a moment on “The Tortured Poets Department” — the insanely anticipated 11th studio album by the Queen of the Swifties — when she embraces her power as the most famous, the most influential woman in America, if not on the planet.

It occurs on “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” — one of two tunes that Swift wrote by herself with that wicked pen of hers.

“I was tame, I was gentle/’Til the circus life made me mean/Don’t you worry folks, we took out all her teeth/Who’s afraid of little old me?/Well you should be,” she sings in the rumbling revenge song that brings some menace to the melody.

And you can bet that Swift’s most recent exes — the 1975 frontman Matt Healy and, especially, British actor Joe Alwyn — have been quaking in their boots ever since the pop superstar announced “The Tortured Poets Department” after winning Best Pop Vocal Album for 2022’s “Midnights” at the Grammys in February.