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

Tell me why that little noise at the beginning of Imgonnagetyouback (and at the start of every chorus) sounds like Taylor and Jack doing the gremlin voice

Or Sam might’ve stolen her man but SHE stole my pajamas !

Do you guys wanna see something funny?

Do you guys wanna see something funny?

CAN I GET SOME NOISE FOR FLORIDA!!!

BDILH is the most Taurus song I’ve ever heard in my life. Like you bet my stubborn ass is gonna do the exact opposite of what everyone wants me to do and resent the fuck out of everyone insinuating they have a say in my decisions (especially when I’m making terrible ones lol). Even if I don’t have a strong feeling one way or the other- if a bunch of ppl tell me to go left you can be damn sure I’m gonna swerve right faster than you can say “WTF STOP!”

this makes me sad and mad tbh

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

I’ve been thinking and I feel like some critics really liked folkmore because they devalue Taylor writing about her life and feelings. They are great albums and obviously have a lot of personal writing from Taylor about her own life but I feel like some critics found them more “high art” because of the facade that Taylor had evolved out of her “immature” confessional songwriting. Idk

There is a lot to unpack here and I'm posting the ask as a way to put a pin into it and open up the conversation

OH MY GOD DOES THAT THING SHES STANDING BY HAVE THE TTPD SYMBOL ON IT🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

what song could this possibly be

Insanely early prediction before we have time to think:

Where do u think the ttpd set would go? My early prediction is just after surprise songs.

i think it’ll go between evermore and rep

the title track of TTPD is like, such a quintessential taylor song. just everything about her distilled into one song

another word nerd fun fact: the 17 (!!!) times taylor says fuck in down bad are more than every other f-bomb in her discography to that point combined

remember when we knew but daddy i love him was going to be batshit crazy because it’s track six? WELL—

Incase anyone was wondering, I’m still simultaneously shaking my ask and SOBBING to down bad 50 times a day