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"I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)"
Song by Taylor Swift
from the album The Tortured Poets Department
ReleasedApril 19, 2024 (2024-04-19)
Studio
GenreAmericana
Length2:36
LabelRepublic
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Taylor Swift
  • Jack Antonoff
Lyric video
"I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)" on YouTube

"I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift from her eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Department (2024). She wrote and produced the song with Jack Antonoff.

The Americana[1] track experiments with Southern Gothic[2] and Western[3] and country elements.[4] In it, Swift sings in her lower register.[5] The track's arrangement is minimal[6] and features sparse, tremolo twangy[7] guitars,[8][9] a backdrop of drum machine and keyboards,[10] and reverbed percussion slaps to accentuate the lyrics.[11] Swift's vocal harmonies are backed by synths.[12]

The lyrics depict a narrator being confident in her abilities to "fix" her problematic man, until she realizes at the end that she cannot do so.[13][14][15] The song contains sexual innuendos using outlaw imagery.[6][16] It also uses imagery of God and heaven to describe the narrator falling for a bad boy ("They shake their heads sayin', 'God, help her'/ When I tell 'em he's my man").[17][18]

Paste provided a negative review, saying that while the track showed Swift venturing to musical directions that evoked the "country renegades" before her like Tammy Wynette and Loretta Lynn, it fell flat due to her "self-aggrandizing inflation of importance, glinting through via a seismically-bland bridge".[10] In The New York Times, Jon Pareles thought that the track contained some of the best musical moments on the album, and Lindsay Zoladz picked the ending line ("Woah, maybe I can't") as one of her favorite moments.[12] Mary Kate Carr of The A.V. Club wrote that "I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)" is one of the album's more interesting tracks sonically with its "sultry" vibe.[19] Consequence's Mary Siroky praised its "lonesome, moody instrumentals" that made it one of "a few wonderful moments of personality".[20]

References

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  1. ^ Zaleski 2024.
  2. ^ Snapes, Laura (April 19, 2024). "Breakups, fantasies and her most cutting lyrics: inside Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department". The Guardian. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
  3. ^ Molloy, Laura (April 19, 2024). "Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department review: a rare misstep". NME. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
  4. ^ Fish, Ryan (April 22, 2024). "Every Song on Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department, Ranked". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
  5. ^ Lipshutz, Jason (April 19, 2024). "Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department: All 31 Tracks Ranked". Billboard. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
  6. ^ a b Wohlmacher, John (April 23, 2024). "Album Review: Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Department". Beats Per Minute. Archived from the original on April 23, 2024. Retrieved October 16, 2024.
  7. ^ Jones, Nate (May 20, 2024). "All 245 Taylor Swift Songs, Ranked". Vulture. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
  8. ^ Jones, Nate (May 20, 2024). "All 245 Taylor Swift Songs, Ranked". Vulture. Archived from the original on September 13, 2019. Retrieved October 16, 2024.
  9. ^ Savage, Mark (April 19, 2024). "Taylor Swift Tortured Poets Department review: Album finds star vulnerable but vicious". BBC. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
  10. ^ a b "Taylor Swift Strikes Out Looking on The Tortured Poets Department". Paste. April 19, 2024. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
  11. ^ "Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff's 20 Best Collaborations". Slant Magazine. April 29, 2024. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
  12. ^ a b Pareles, Jon; Sisario, Ben; Zoladz, Lindsay; Ganz, Caryn (April 23, 2024). "Tortured Poets Has Shifted the Taylor Swift Debate. Let's Discuss". The New York Times. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
  13. ^ Hopper, Alex (May 1, 2024). "Behind the Meaning of Taylor Swift's 'I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)'". American Songwriter. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
  14. ^ Puckett-Pope, Lauren (April 19, 2024). "Taylor Swift Tells Herself 'I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)' In Another Nod To Matty Healy". Elle. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
  15. ^ Walters, Meg (April 22, 2024). "Taylor Swift's 'I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)' lyrics and Matty Healy references explained". Glamour UK. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
  16. ^ Horn, Olivia (April 22, 2024). "Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department / The Anthology". Pitchfork. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
  17. ^ West, Bryan (April 19, 2024). "Filing Tortured Poets into Taylor Swift's card catalog, track by track". The Tennessean. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
  18. ^ Miyashita, Nina; Waterhouse, Jonah (April 24, 2024). "All the hidden meanings in Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department album". Vogue Australia. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
  19. ^ Carr, Mary Kate (April 19, 2024). "Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department is stuck in the past". The AV Club. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
  20. ^ Siroky, Mary (April 19, 2024). "On The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift Gets Lost in the Shadow of Taylor Swift". Consequence. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
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