Popular Post Peroxide Posted April 7 Popular Post Posted April 7 I broke up with my boyfriend of 4 years today. God I am glad I'm at least getting a Taylor album to help with the healing… 26
Brooklyn Baby Posted April 7 Posted April 7 Just now, Peroxide said: I broke up with my boyfriend of 4 years today. God I am glad I'm at least getting a Taylor album to help with the healing… Sending love 1
Faniquita Posted April 7 Posted April 7 2 minutes ago, Peroxide said: 2 minutes ago, Peroxide said: Im sorry 😢 don't forget to buy the album we need more sales
Maroon legacy Posted April 7 Posted April 7 6 minutes ago, Peroxide said: I broke up with my boyfriend of 4 years today. God I am glad I'm at least getting a Taylor album to help with the healing… Oh it's time to get over The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived 4
Maroon legacy Posted April 7 Posted April 7 8 minutes ago, scottstreet said: 1 year anniversary tomorrow, could our comedian be planning something? definately. there's no way she's ignoring such a date but tbh I would love her to mention the exact day of their final breakup on one of these songs
Goaty Posted April 7 Posted April 7 10 minutes ago, Peroxide said: I broke up with my boyfriend of 4 years today. God I am glad I'm at least getting a Taylor album to help with the healing… Sorry to hear sis. 1
vale9001 Posted April 7 Posted April 7 (edited) 46 minutes ago, scottstreet said: 1 year anniversary tomorrow, could our comedian be planning something? Are you saying is less than a year from all the matt thing + travis ? Edited April 7 by vale9001
Redstreak Posted April 7 Posted April 7 26 minutes ago, Peroxide said: I broke up with my boyfriend of 4 years today. God I am glad I'm at least getting a Taylor album to help with the healing… Sending you love and strength 1
Peroxide Posted April 7 Posted April 7 (edited) Thanks for the kindness girls. Feels timely this is just 12 days away now… she best have some tearjerkers… Theres a beautiful, twisted, catharsis to heartbreak. Excited to feel all the feels. Edited April 7 by Peroxide 9
Mandalore Posted April 7 Posted April 7 (edited) 40 minutes ago, scottstreet said: 1 year anniversary tomorrow, could our comedian be planning something? Free from The British shackles! Edited April 7 by Mandalore 5
vinicius Posted April 7 Posted April 7 This album is coming at the right time. I'm trying to get over someone for almost a year and a half and it's really hard sometimes. This album might help me get over it for good. Thank you, Taylor! 13
Dear Reader Posted April 7 Posted April 7 Can Taylor put me on her close friends on instagram and reveal track lengths and production credits? I promise I won't tell anyone 7
Mandalore Posted April 7 Posted April 7 31 minutes ago, vale9001 said: Are you saying is less than a year from all the matt thing + travis ? She's been dating Travis for close to 8 months? Idk about Ratty, it was a blur, like two weeks in May or something? But crazy to think back on all that happened this past year. As a fan from the distance it seems like a lot, I can't imagine how it must feel for her. Like living a thousand lives probably. 1
Kyle-x Posted April 7 Posted April 7 12 hours ago, Cruel Summer said: New turbo-unhinged crack theory because I'm super bored: Six Sister Theory. Hide contents The name is derived from the fact that Folklore and Evermore are explicitly sister albums, and form the middle set of sister records. Let's start there and make some simple assumptions: first, that Folklore and Evermore are intentionally similar in theme, sound, aesthetic, and subject matter; second, that more of the songs on those records are autobiographical in nature than Taylor initially let on, and showcase some of her feelings during the middle of her then-current relationship (see in particular tracks like Tolerate It). These aren't really unpopular opinions among Swifties here from what I can tell. What I'd then go further and say is that Midnights, whether intentionally conceived as such or not, ultimately serves as a foil - a "sister" - to Lover. The latter was the first album in which Taylor was overtly loud and proud about her relationship with Joe, but crucially not the first album about that relationship in general (I'll come back to that). It was a celebratory record, the title saying literally everything about what it addressed, with the obvious occasional side quest track like Soon You'll Get Better. Midnights, in contrast, was similarly pop in genre and used similar colors and aesthetics, but represented the slow and steady breakdown of the same relationship that Lover celebrated. Rather than simply showing the cracks in the foundation more clearly, it showcased a clear trajectory toward a complete end, its Target bonus track and later its From The Vault track representing the finality of that ending. These two albums, like Folklore and Evermore, therefore form a kind of pair - less intentional, less explicit, but very clear in their thematic contrasts and sonic similarities. Note here that a few of us were calling Midnights some variation of "The Archer: The Album" upon release, because it seemed to take several sonic cues from that track and similar productions. While I don't think she literally said "hey let's make a whole album that sounds kinda like this song,” I do think that this is a consequence of The Archer - a song explicitly about her fears and anxieties - coming from a very similar place as much of Midnights. So we've established a bit of an arc now. Two central sister albums, surrounded on both sides by two other studio albums that form an implicit pair, all addressing the same relationship to some extent or another, a little more or a little less each. But as I mentioned before, Lover isn't actually where that relationship started - and since a human reaction to a relationship's end is reflection and grief, Midnights isn't actually where it ends. The relationship started with Reputation, most of which is about that relationship, and much of which has a now-familiar synth pop sound. Think of songs like King of My Heart, or Delicate, for example. But above all else, think of the album's most straightforward statement about her relationship at that time: Call It What You Want, which I would argue is a clear predecessor to The Archer and most of Midnights in its general sound. But unlike those, it doesn't come from a place of anxiety or fear or uncertainty - it offers a relatively singular sense of self-assuredness among Taylor's songs about her relationships. I would like to put forward the theory that The Tortured Poets Department will serve as a foil to Reputation, more intentionally perhaps than Midnights did to Lover, and as the final entry in a six-studio-album-long arc - the aforementioned Six Sisters. TTPD will contrast the grief in the death of a relationship and dealing with the aftermath in the public eye with Reputation's focus on a new relationship being experienced in near-total privacy. I think if it takes any sonic cues from Reputation, it will take them specifically from Call It What You Want. This is partially because I posit that it's the original thread for the sound that became Midnights (please ignore that songs like OOTW also exist). But also, it's my favorite song on Reputation, and The Archer was my favorite on Lover! Coincidence? Of course not because then my theory wouldn't work! I also think that the titles have always given Reputation a little bit, with some of them a little more direct and punchy like This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things or I Did Something Bad. Another element to support the idea is the color scheme of the era - a white heart to contrast the black of Reputation, the white and black Grammy outfit, the black fingernail that we all thought hinted at a Reputation announcement, the sepia tones of the covers ending with a near-black shade. We can even take it a little further - we initially thought when her website went haywire around the announcement that Reputation TV was imminent, but a sneaky bit of code explicitly said "red herring" at the time - Reputation TV being the red herring for TTPD. These albums are intrinsically linked thematically, both in the ways I described above, and also in that they must inherently be so as they appear to address the beginning and end of the same relationship. TL;DR: TTPD will intentionally contrast Reputation and will sound like Call It What You Want. I will take no questions and I'm not actually even sure I believe any of this but it was like 1 AM and I was bored and I'm falling apart because we still have like 12 days to go reputation cover being black and white, us vs. the outside world, good vs. evil, truth vs. lie clear cut dichotomies and TTPD being the gray areas in between oh wow oh wow 4
scottstreet Posted April 7 Posted April 7 11 minutes ago, Dear Reader said: Can Taylor put me on her close friends on instagram and reveal track lengths and production credits? I promise I won't tell anyone Kinda hate Billie for doing it first, such a good marketing strategy
Popular Post Mandalore Posted April 7 Popular Post Posted April 7 Just now, scottstreet said: Kinda hate Billie for doing it first, such a good marketing strategy Swifties do NOT need another stunt like this, they're entitled and parasocial enough as it is. In fact she should move the opposite direction and start blocking some of them. 3 13
Dear Reader Posted April 7 Posted April 7 5 minutes ago, scottstreet said: Kinda hate Billie for doing it first, such a good marketing strategy 4 minutes ago, Mandalore said: Swifties do NOT need another stunt like this, they're entitled and parasocial enough as it is. In fact she should move the opposite direction and start blocking some of them. omg i can only imagine some of the meltdowns that would occur when some would find out they're not the only ones on her close friends 3
scottstreet Posted April 7 Posted April 7 5 minutes ago, Mandalore said: Swifties do NOT need another stunt like this, they're entitled and parasocial enough as it is. In fact she should move the opposite direction and start blocking some of them. Don't say that, I just know us ATRLers would be first on that list 1
Dear Reader Posted April 7 Posted April 7 Do y'all think this album will have any interlude? If so, which one? Or do you expect all of them to be full length songs? I was looking at the tracklist and I thought to myself that loml is the only one written in lower case and it might be an interlude?
mypaintoyou Posted April 7 Posted April 7 15 minutes ago, Dear Reader said: Do y'all think this album will have any interlude? If so, which one? Or do you expect all of them to be full length songs? I was looking at the tracklist and I thought to myself that loml is the only one written in lower case and it might be an interlude? She wouldn't she wants all streams olus she's never done one and I hope she doesn't start now 1
vale9001 Posted April 7 Posted April 7 26 minutes ago, Dear Reader said: Do y'all think this album will have any interlude? If so, which one? Or do you expect all of them to be full length songs? I was looking at the tracklist and I thought to myself that loml is the only one written in lower case and it might be an interlude? With *just" 16 tracks no
Timeless Posted April 7 Posted April 7 She should never do long waits for albums without a pre-release single again. I am about to go insane. 1
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