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100/10 execution of the TTPD set. I’ve had disagreements with the queen on song choice in the past but I have no notes, she truly nailed everything and went above and beyond in every possible way. TTPD doubters silenced forever.
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This is so important to me
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the eras tour, the tortured poets department wallpaper
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I can’t believe we lost Long Live (as a pre-Speak Now TV show girl this HURT), the Archer, Tolerate It, and TLGAD… but somehow I Knew You Were Trouble remains. I need to know the thought behind this
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Does anyone else have this interpretation of How Did It End? Taylor isn’t telling us truths about the relationship as she experienced it, that’s more So Long London. When she puts forward these one liner descriptions as the verses of why the relationship failed “He was a hothouse flower to my outdoorsman” “we were blind to unforeseen circumstances” “we learned the right steps to different dances” etc, it’s not her voice. It’s the voice of everyone online theorizing about HER relationships demise. She’s saying that she’s well aware of the dominant narrative online about her and Joe. She’s NOT confirming that narrative, she’s deriding it. The bridge isn’t her describing her perspective the way everyone is acting devastated by. To me it’s Taylor voicing her resentment at everyone demanding she reenact her breakup in her art- they’re demanding that she “say it once again with feeling”, describe and validate what we all but know to be HER feelings everyone predicted and analyzed and speculated about. I.e. “come on Taylor, tell us every little detail about the psychoanalysis of why it didn’t work, give us the gut punch of describing as only you can do the death of your love, give us every moment of you bereft and reeling come on come on.”
And then at the end of the bridge we finally hear the switch to her voice for the question “how did it end?” It’s her finally now asking herself, and there’s anger in this song at everyone wanting to know, thinking they know, because most of all she herself admits that she does not know. All this to say this album is laced with more complexities regarding the relationship she’s developed with her audience than I think I picked up on first listen.
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This is crossover content but I would bet all the money in my bank account plus a million dollars that TTPD has a crucial impact on SJM. Like this raw, emotion-forward, powerful album is literally going to jolt her into another ACOMF/KOA tier book, I can feel it. Saving us from the HOFAS quality situation is yet another thing to be thankful to Tay for 🖤
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Okay I’m FINALLY ready to do my overview. I’ve sat with it I love it I think this is a brilliant album and some of these songs are some of my favorite TS of all time.
Top tier, profoundly affected me, has sunk into my bone marrow and become part of my DNA:
So Long, London
Down Bad
Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?
I Can Do It With a Broken Heart
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
The Black Dog
How Did It End?
The Prophecy
Peter
Amazing and genius and would never skip:
Fortnight
But Daddy I Love Him
Fresh Out The Slammer
Florida!!!
loml
imgonnagetyouback
The Albatross
I Look in Peoples Windows
The Bolter
I like it I vibe with it. Not my favorite but I appreciate it when it comes on and respect their place on the album:
The Tortured Poets Department
Guilty as Sin?
Clara Bow
Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus
So High School
The Manuscript
Could have been a cut imo:
My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)
The Alchemy
I Hate it Here
thanK you aIMee
Cassandra
Robin
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I am the LAST person to care about pinning TS’s art to a face and name. For all I care everything we think about her dating life could be complete lies to cover up her reality 100%. Like Matty Joe etc as far as me loving the songs I do not care about these men AT ALL.
…that being said Peter is so Harry coded to me and I have to say it
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Humbly begging for a So Long, London music video 🥺
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Renegade x So Long London
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He made her start carrying all the weight… gain the weight of you then lose it… I’m crying
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Wow the last verse of Clara Bow. I’ve seen people talking about how it’s a reference to the future artist who they’ll say that about, which we know is a thought that she examines and returns to in her music (Nothing New). But I also think it’s a reference to the way the public views her right now, and is working on two levels (Taylor loves a double entrendre) You can take it as the former:
“You look like Taylor Swift in this light. We’re loving it”
An imagining of her legacy, of those who will come after. Taken with the former verses about Clara and Stevie, a foresight that Taylor the person fades and will be reduced to Taylor the myth in peoples minds. But also the second layer of meaning:
“You look like Taylor Swift. In this light, we’re loving it”
Meaning, in this light (this current time) everyone loves superstar Taylor Swift. But Taylor reminds us she’s well aware that the light has shifted before and will shift again and people will not be loving it. Taken with the rest of the album, I see it as a lament of the impermanence of love that she feels is paralleled in both personal and public life.
I could totally be making this up but I just love it so much when she writes these lines that can have multiple layers of interpretation 🤍
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I love my bf but what a TERRIBLE time to be in a healthy stable “love is a choice made every day” fulfilling relationship. This album is tailor-made (pun intended) for the most intoxicating, tumultuous, insane obsession and subsequent heartbreak of your life. Like bonus points if you were never even official. I have the memories but I’m having to pull from 7+ years ago!! Truly lucky if you’re living through it with TTPD as the soundtrack (excluding all the pain and trauma)
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OKAY I’m finally starting to calm down and process. This album’s highs are so high. It’s genius and I love it. It’s hitting so many chords in me with its raw emotion. Across months and miles and marketing rooms and synth production I still feel like her pain is in the room with me when I listen.
I haven’t gotten my head around the entirety of it enough to go through everything, but So Long London, I Can Do It With A Broken Heart, and Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me are already god tier of her whole discography.
Sincerely,
Undergraduate
The Tortured Poets Department
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This whole album has me thinking about the ways that Taylor is steeped in misdirection… Taylor the human is well aware of what conclusions people will jump to about Taylor the narrative with every little thing she does, and it’s really sinking in how much she constantly plays with that for her own protection/benefit… it’s like the facts of what she lets people assume about her are (mostly) accurate, but the heart of her story is intentionally not aligned with the trail of breadcrumbs at all. (And by the way I love this for her, I think it makes the moments of raw emotion she does expose through her music even more special)
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MAN DOWN
her putting a secret message in better than revenge
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Me: and then he PICKED her up and they pretty much hugged and danced and were in love all night-
My boss: ya but I asked how you were doing?
Me: I just told you??
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Forever devastated that we missed the chaos of what would’ve been Taylor’s track list roll out for TTPD. Like please imagine the moment she said the words So Long London, But Daddy I Love Him, Fresh Out the Slammer etc in whatever announcement scheme she had cooked up… we would have LOST our collective MINDS. I mean we still did but definitely would have been fun 😛
Anyway 1 more week until we HEAR those tracks AH
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Daylight ☀️ -> full eclipse ⚫️
this record will break me I fear
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