She added in the Amazon music commentary for the track, “What do we do to our writers, and our artists, and our creatives? We put them through hell. We watch what they create, then we judge it. We love to watch artists in pain, often to the point where I think sometimes, as a society, we provoke that pain, and we just watch what happens.”

Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/noradominick/taylor-swift-tortured-poets-department-facts