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Picking a person like a rose is so imagery provoking and symbolic of the life of a “chosen one” musician and just the best way to start off a song like Clara Bow about the life cycle of a celebrity.
Roses are just so beautiful when they are on the plant in their prime after they ‘mature’ and bloom; but the minute you select it, and pick it (cut it from the plant) and remove it from its known life - ostensibly because it is the prettiest one on the bush - the rose slowly begins its journey to death. The parallel here to selecting a young female performer is perfect. There is a period of time where the rose is just as beautiful as the day you picked it.
But give it some time, and the tips of the petals start to wilt. it’s still very pretty but just not quite as perfect // The female performer is no longer the fresh new thing, but still popular. But they are also beginning to struggle from this life of fame.
Then the petals brown and the rose really starts showing signs of incoming death. It’s no longer regarded as super pretty or new, but you might keep it around in the vase still because you aren’t quite ready to throw it out with the trash yet. (Or maybe you do!) and this is the crossroads famous female artists arrive at.
BUT WAIT!!! If you don’t discard the rose after it browns and wilts and you KEEP TAKING CARE OF IT, if you take the time to remove it from the water and let nature take its course, the rose will dry out and become a beautiful dried flower - something you can keep around forever and still enjoy long after it’s “death”. This really plays into the hopeful nature the song promotes between the lines - maybe being replaced as the fresh new thing isn’t something to dread (“nothing new”) but rather a stage to embrace. Because now you have passed into this stage where you no longer brown, wilt, suffer; you’re memorialized how you once were. And a dried rose is not quite the same looking as a fresh rose, but is beautiful just the same.
Meanwhile a new fresh rose adorns your counter // new performers will continue to be selected and seem somehow ‘better’ than the past one. But- both the dried and fresh rose can coexist! We can appreciate both.
Because while the dried rose is not the same as a fresh rose, it doesn’t smell pretty, and it’s quite fragile from its journey to get there, and you must treat it with delicate hands, you can appreciate it for both what it once was and what it is now. You have the memories from when you picked it and it was in its prime. (Reminds me of how people keep wedding rose bouquets as a memento of the day). And you can keep a dried rose around for quite literally forever. Just like both music/art and a person’s memory will also endure over time.
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I think the craziest thing about TTPD as an album is that I think a lot more people would like it if they actually just sat and listened and applied to it their own lives and didn’t just focus on the muses. Like. It’s so obvious she doesn’t want us to just focus on the muses. The manuscript even said the story isn’t mine anymore, this story is over and she’s moved on and it’s ours now and we’ll find new and different meanings in it. And I think writing the whole album off as ‘her worst album and it’s all about her obsession with 1 man’ just does the album such a disservice even if it’s not their kind of album.
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Bars also refers to music. He's still in the lyrics, too.
"And you deserve prison, but you won't get time / You'll slide into inboxes and slip through the bars"
This is so clever because 'bars' continues the prison imagery and continuing to escape prison/punishment for the crimes she knows he'll keep committing but 'bars' also means literal bars where he goes to drink and pick up other girls victims
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i don’t know if this is anything but you know all the football imagery in the alchemy? what else happens in football stadiums? eras tour. and we joked all fall that eras tour was Barbie’s dream house and football was the mojo dojo casa house. so what if the alchemy we don’t need to fight is maybe our relationship as fans to Taylor.
“I haven’t come around in so long but I’m coming back so strong” she hasn’t toured since rep and she missed us.
“Hey, you, what if i told you we’re cool? That child’s play back in school is forgiven under my rule” she addresses the listener directly here, as she does in other spots in the album but specifically in but daddy i love him where she grapples with outsiders (and fans) judging her. Here she’s saying ok back to you, we’re good. Under my rule it’s all forgiven.
“Cause the sign on your heart said it’s still reserved for me” what do we do every night on tour? 🫶🏼 we’re always hearts opened for her, regardless of all the critic and push back we give her. Idk
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Sometimes I think about how reputation was black and stark. The dark of pain and the dark of shadows to hide in and the love you find there making forts under covers. And I think about how TTPD is black, and white, and most importantly the gray of nuance.
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Lyrical Parallels Between Variants and The Surprise Songs They Were Announced With
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The Manuscript (announced at Grammys; first show in Tokyo 2/7) - Holy Ground
“I was reminiscing just the other day, while having coffee all alone and lord it took me away” / “In the age of him, she wished she was thirty and made coffee every morning in a Frеnch press.”
“you skip the conversation when you already know” / “He said that if the sex was half as good as the conversation was soon they'd be pushin' strollers”
“our story’s got dust on every page” “the only thing that is left is the manuscript”
The Bolter - You're Losing Me
“I can’t find a pulse my heart won’t start anymore for you” / “as she was leaving it felt like breathing”
The Albatross - White Horse/Coney Island
“I’m not a princess, this ain’t a fairytale” / “Locked me up in towers. But I'd visit in your dreams”
The Black Dog - Clean/evermore
“Ten months sober, I must admit just because you're clean, don't mean you don't miss it” / “Six weeks of breathin' clean air I still miss the smoke” “and I was catching my breath”
“writing letters addressed to the fire” / “my longings stay unspoken”
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new swiftie banners just dropped! (part 1)
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Also the reason it’s working with Travis is because it’s literally built on actions. Attraction, ofc, but trust and daily choice thus far. And that has to feel good as hell.
YES, exactly. like, obviously they think what they have is special. but it's special because they built it, not because the universe told them it was so.
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The Tortured Poets Department, Amazon Music Track By Track Audios
here's clara bow. tumblr wouldn't let me upload it bc of the limit
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I'm a person who Never curses, so I generally prefer the clean versions of songs. Like, explicit version Snow On the Beach really pulls me out of it.
But sometimes there's one exception on an album.
For Midnights, it's Maroon.
For TTPD, it's I Can Do It With A Broken Heart.
#it IS a real f***king legacy!#bitch smile!#taylor swift#ttpd#midnights#maroon#icdiwabh#i can do it with a broken heart
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Someone somewhere has got to be at least _considering_ getting some lyrics from "Mine" tattooed on their upper thigh now
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everyone's getting really pissed at stuff swift wrote?? guys i think that stuff about eating babies was, like, probably satire
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I've been thinking about the 5 stages of heartbreak playlists and how the songs the titles come from match their "stage."
Denial--I Love You, It's Ruining My Life (Fortnight): This seems too reflective to be truly in the Denial stage since it's already over. There are some elements of "but what if it could be?," but the fortnight where they were together is clearly in the past and I'm not reading much denial of that. The repetition of it does seem like getting caught in a cycle, that does have some elements of denial.
Anger--You Don't Get To Tell Me About Sad (Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?): SO much anger. Anger at the one who contained the scandal to keep their good name, anger at the people who joke about her, anger at the "circus life." Levitating down your street, dripping with anger the whole time.
Bargaining--Am I Allowed To Cry? (Guilty As Sin?): This is definitely a bargaining song. If we've never physically done anything, I'm not guilty, right? What if the way you hold me is actually what's holy? Interestingly, it's a different kind of bargaining than the "trying to make things better" that Taylor describes in the intro to the playlist. This isn't a bargain within the relationship, but a bargain with herself that she is allowed to leave.
Depression--Old Habits Die Screaming (The Black Dog): Yeah, this is depression all over. "I move through the world with the heartbroken," sitting at home and watching the other person move on without you, dying screaming from an exorcism because all that's left of your is your demons. The loneliness, the hopelessness, it's all there. Also apparently the phrase "the black dog" has been used for depression since Roman times.
Acceptance--I Can Do It With A Broken Heart: It's...a flavor of acceptance, sort of. More defiant than anything else. There's an element of painting sparkles over the depression, but I still lean towards the Acceptance reading of this song. And it's worth noting that the songs on the official playlist aren't all a smooth moving forward, either. It doesn't quite get to the choosing good--the good still HURTS--but there's something to be said for truly knowing that you can handle your shit and that yeah, you're GOOD (even if you're not fine at all).
A few interesting notes overall
The first stage of heartbreak is represented by the first song on the album.
The Black Dog is the only song referenced that isn't on the main album, being a bonus track/part of the Anthology instead.
Acceptance is the only stage where the chosen lyric is the title.
The main album only has two songs that end in a question mark, and both are represented in the playlists. How Did It End? also has a question mark, but is part of the Anthology and not a bonus track on any version. Florida!!! also has punctuation, but three exclamation marks is more manic than any of the stages of heartbreak (reminding me of that discworld quote about sanity being inversely proportional to how many exclamation marks they use).
#taylor swift#ttpd#the tortured poets department#five stages of heartbreak#five stages of heartbreak playlists
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He jokes “it’s heroin but this time with an E” goes sooooo deep I can’t even begin to describe
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Also, big Barbie energy.
My favorite song on the album so far is I Can Do It With A Broken Heart. There's difficulty in being forced into this place, but it's empowering, too. I can see me singing it to myself to get through a difficult day at work or something.
#taylor swift#ttpd#first listen#ttpd first listen#i can do it with a broken heart#icdiwabh#barbie movie
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My favorite song on the album so far is I Can Do It With A Broken Heart. There's difficulty in being forced into this place, but it's empowering, too. I can see me singing it to myself to get through a difficult day at work or something.
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A local venue had a TTPD release party today, so I went. I don't love going to concerts alone, and that was a vibe, but...there was blackout poetry, and I traded friendship bracelets with little kids, and made blackout poetry of of the lyrics to Long Live. And now I've listened to the whole Anthology, even if I haven't processed most of it yet.
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