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I Cry A Lot, But I Am So Productive, It's An Art refers to a lyric from pop singer Taylor Swift's song "I Can Do It With a Broken Heart" from her 2024 album The Tortured Poets Department. Following the release of the album in April 2024, the lyric went viral on social media, especially via a TikTok trend, as users posted dance challenges and lip dubs over Swift's song.

Origin

On April 19th, 2024, singer-songwriter Taylor Swift released her eleventh studio album The Tortured Poets Department. The album's 13 track, titled "I Can Do It With a Broken Heart,"^[1] contains the following chorus:

I'm so depressed, I act like it's my birthday every day
I'm so obsessed with him, but he avoids me like the plague
I cry a lot, but I am so productive, it's an art
You know you're good when you can even do it with a broken heart

Also on April 19th, X^[2] / Twitter user @holygroundsound tweeted Swift's lyric paired with an overload of emojis. The post gained over 71,000 likes and 24,000 reposts in a week (shown below).

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The lyric quickly inspired TikTokers to post lip dubs and dance challenges using the snippet from the song. For instance, on April 20th, 2024, TikTok^[3] user @francescabilocca posted a video of herself lip-dubbing the lyric "I cry a lot, but I am so productive, it's an art" (shown below, left), which garnered over 8 million plays and1.3 million likes in five days.

On the same day, TikTok^[4] user @mikaelarellano posted a dance challenge based on the "I Can Do It With a Broken Heart" lyrics (shown below, right), which received more than 2.5 million plays and 388,000 likes in five days.

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