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"This is a song that I think really exhibits a lot of the common themes that run throughout this album, one of which being fatalism, longing, pining away, lost dreams. I think that it's a very fatalistic album in that there are lots of very dramatic lines about, you know, life or death, "I love you, it's ruining my life," these are very hyperbolic, dramatic things to say. But it's that kind of album. It's about a dramatic, artistic, tragic kind of take on love and loss. And Fortnight, I've always imagined that it took place in this American town where the American Dream you thought would happen to you didn't, right? You ended up not with the person that you loved, and now you have to just live with that every day, wondering what would've been, maybe seeing them out, and that's a pretty tragic concept, really. So I was just writing from that perspective."
— Taylor on Fortnight
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"My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys is a song I wrote alone, and it's a metaphor of, you know, from the perspective of a child's toy, being somebody's favorite toy, until they break you, and then don't want to play with you anymore, which is, you know, how a lot of us are in relationships, where we are so valued by a person in the beginning, and then all of a sudden, they break us, or they devalue us in their mind, and we're still clinging onto, 'No, no, no, you should've seen them the first time they saw me. They'll come back to that. They'll get back to that.' So it's kind of like, a song about denial, really. So that you can live in this world where there's still hope for a toxic, broken relationship."
— Taylor on My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
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"A lot of the songs on The Tortured Poets Department deal with the idea of heartbreak, or loss, in a metaphor of something else. The metaphor in Down Bad is that I was comparing sort of the idea of being like, love-bombed, where someone like, you know, rocks your world and dazzles you and then just kind of abandons you, as an alien abduction, where you were abducted by aliens, like this girl was abducted by aliens, but she wanted to stay with them. And then when they drop her off back in her hometown, she's like, 'Wait, no. Where are you going? I liked it there! It was weird but it was cool. Come back' and so she's just like, the girl, the character in the song, just felt like, had just been exposed to a whole different galaxy and universe she didn't know was possible. How can you just put me back where I was before?"
— Taylor on Down Bad
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"Florida!!! is a song that I wrote with Florence + The Machine, and I think I was coming up with this idea of like, 'What happens when your life doesn't fit, or your choices you've made catch up to you?' And there's just, you're surrounded by these harsh consequences, and judgment, and circumstances did not lead you to where you thought you'd be. And you just want to escape from everything you've ever known. Is there a place you could go? I was watching like Dateline. People have these crimes that they commit. Where do they immediately skip town and go to? They go to Florida, you know? They try to reinvent themselves, have a new identity, blend in. And I think when you go through a heartbreak, there's a part of you that thinks, 'I want a new name. I want a new life. I don't want anyone to know where I've been, or know me at all.' And so that was kind of, that was the jumping off point behind, 'Where would you go to reinvent yourself and blend in?' Florida!!!"
— Taylor on Florida!!!
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the grammys dress was an easter egg
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The first single from The Tortured Poets Department is…………. Fortnight featuring @postmalone 🤍 I’ve been such a huge fan of Post because of the writer he is, his musical experimentation and those melodies he creates that just stick in your head forever. I got to witness that magic come to life firsthand when we worked together on Fortnight. Honestly can’t wait for you guys to hear this song at Midnight TONIGHT and see the video at 8pm ET TOMORROW.
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TTPD lyric teasers
"crowd goes wild at her fingertips, half moonshine, full eclipse" (4/8)
"i wish i could un-recall how we almost had it all" (4/14)
"even statues crumble if they're made to wait" (4/16)
"one less temptress. one less dagger to sharpen" (4/16)
"lost the game of chance, what are the chances?" (4/17)
“as she was leaving, it felt like breathing” (4/17)
"come one come all, it's happening again" (4/18)
#i feel like 7 will be about her ~reputation~ and the serial dater stuff that started back up a bit#the tortured poets department
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Rosé performs on Music Core with BLACKPINK.
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logging onto tumblr during album week is so fun bc you see so many out of context theory posts the second your dash loads and you just think "what are you people talking about"
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Wait a minute. So there’s a clear Roman numeral “II” in the logo but there’s also what looks similar to the yin and yang symbol in the D. So if this is a double album, what if THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT focuses on the dark, loss and finding the path to healing and the second album is focused on light and healing? Like you can’t discover love without some heartbreak?
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denial: i love you, it's ruining my life songs
"This is a list of songs about getting so caught up in the idea of something that you have a hard time seeing the red flags possibly resulting in moments of denial, and maybe a little bit of delusion. Results may vary."
Lavender Haze
Snow on the Beach (ft. More Lana)
Sweet Nothing
Glitch
betty
willow
Cruel Summer
Lover
Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince
False God
Style
Wildest Dreams
Treacherous
That's When
Ours
Superman
Bejeweled
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anger: you don't get to tell me about sad songs
"These songs all have one thing in common: I wrote them while feeling anger. Over the years, I've learned that anger can manifest itself in a lot of different ways, but the healthiest way it can manifest in my life is when I can write a song about it, and often times, that helps me get past it."
Vigilante Shit
High Infidelity
Would've, Could've, Should've
exile
illicit affairs
mad woman
tolerate it
Bad Blood
Is It Over Now?
I Knew You Were Trouble
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
The Last Time
The Moment I Knew
Babe
I Bet You Think About Me
Dear John
Better Than Revenge
Tell Me Why
You're Not Sorry
Forever & Always
Mr. Perfectly Fine
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bargaining: am i allowed to cry? songs
"This playlist takes you through the songs that I've written when i was in the bargaining stage, times when you try to make deals with yourself, someone you care about. You're trying to make things better. You're oftentimes feeling really desperate bc often times, we have a sort of gut intuition that tells us things are not going to go the way that we hope, which makes us more desperate, which makes us bargain more."
The Great War
this is me trying
peace
The Archer
Cornelia Street
Death By A Thousand Cuts
Soon You'll Get Better
Afterglow
I Wish You Would
Say Don't Go
Come Back...Be Here
Better Man
The Story Of Us
Haunted
Come In With The Rain
The Other Side Of The Door
If This Was A Movie
Renegade
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depression: old habits die screaming songs
"We're going to be exploring the feelings of depression that often lace their way through my songs. In times like these, I'll write a song because I feel lonely, or hopeless, and writing a song feels like the only way to process that intensity of an emotion. And while these things are really, really hard to go through, I often feel like when I'm either listening to songs or writing songs that deal with this intensity of loss and hopelessness, usually that's in the phase where I'm close to getting past that feeling."
Bigger Than The Whole Sky
Dear Reader
Maroon
You're Losing Me
my tears ricochet
epiphany
hoax
champagne problems
coney island
right where you left me
Nothing New
All Too Well
Forever Winter
We Were Happy
Last Kiss
Castles Crumbling
Carolina
White Horse
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acceptance: i can do it with a broken heart songs
"We finally find acceptance, and can start moving forward from loss or heartbreak. These songs represent making room for more good in your life, making that choice, because a lot of times, when we lose things, we gain things too."
You're On Your Own, Kid
Midnight Rain
Labyrinth
the 1
august
invisible string
happiness
long story short
closure
evermore
it's time to go
I Forgot That You Existed
Daylight
This Love
Clean
Now That We Don't Talk
Begin Again
Innocent
Breathe
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how gossip girl characters would react to tumblr's booping
blair: acts like she doesn't care but forces the minions to keep booping her so she can say she got the most out of anyone
chuck: pays his staff to repeatedly boop blair so her numbers go up
serena: boops some people she's following but doesn't care too much because she has to go and can't stay on all day
dan: boops a few mutuals then gets bored
nate: his favorite day on the internet ever, spends hours booping everyone (including random people) and laughs constantly, spectator staff are concerned
jenny: keeps booping everyone on her dash hoping to get boops back but less than half of those people return her boops
eric: in a boop war with jonathan to see who can boop the most people
dorota: prefers doing super boops
lily: doesn't understand what all these notifs mean but takes it as a compliment
rufus: makes cat paw pancakes
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