album Taylor Swift - 'THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT'

[Mdawg]

Wait...Guilty as Sin? references Matty's favorite 80's band/song, Downtown Lights by The Blue Nile

 

https://www.covermesongs.com/2020/10/off-the-beaten-path-the-blue-nile.html

[folkloreking]

7 minutes ago, Cruel Summer said:

I'm just now realizing that I can finally add Taylor to my favorite personal playlist ever, which is my playlist of synth pop music from a few 2015/2016 albums (The 1975's I like it when you sleep and Carly's Emotion Side B for example) and music from laters that sounds like them, oh my ******* god 

 

it's like this album was made for me and I don't know what to do with that anymore now that the initial excitement is passing into deeper feeling, like I'm tearing up to ******* Fortnight of all songs

OMG yeah this album will definitely join the top 3 with folk/more for me. I adore synthpop and I think the closest she got to my vision of it for her were the 1989 vault tracks — and apparently this is more of that (but better?!) so I'm PERCHED. 

[Magickarp]

2 minutes ago, Magickarp said:

Sorry, but The Black Dog's lyrics are so ambiguous. It could literally be about Matty or Joe.

And i'm siding towards Rat unfortunately  Joe doesn't use social media, why would she be able to snapchat location stalk him.

 

The Black Dog

  Reveal hidden contents

I am someone who until recent events you shared your secrets with and your location you forgot to turn it off And so I watch as you walk into some bar called The Black Dog and pierce new holes in my heart you forgot to turn it off And it hits me, I just don't understand

How you don't miss me in The Black Dog when someone plays the starting line And you jump up but she's too young to know this song that was intertwined in the magic fabric of our dreaming Old habits die screaming

I move through the world with a heart broken My longings stay unspoken and I may never open up the way I did for you And all of those best laid plans, you said I needed a brave man Then proceeded to play him until I believed it too And it kills me, I just don't understand

How you don't miss me in the shower And remember how my rain soaked body was shaking, do you hate me? Was it hazing for a cruel fraternity I pledged And I still mean it, old habits die screaming

Six weeks of breathing clean air, I still miss the smoke Were you making fun of me with some esoteric joke Now I wanna sell my house and set fire to all my clothes And hire a priest to come and exorcise my demons Even if I die screaming And I hope you hear it

And I hope it's shitty in The Black Dog when someone plays the starting line And you jump up but she's too young to know this song That was intertwined in the tragic fabric of our dreaming Cause tail between your legs you're leaving

I still can't believe it Cause old habits die screaming

 

Doesn't "Old habits die screaming" also serve the old fling they had?

And Joe doesn't seem like the type to go for young girls at a bar.

[19SLAYty9]

3 minutes ago, velocity said:

she actually deserves prison for this

 

 

[IBeMe]

Top 5 so far (unfortunately could not hear The Bolter, The Manuscript and The Albatross) 

 

Guilty as Sin?

The Alcuumy 

Florida!

Clara Bow 

The Black Dog

 

 

 

 

[velocity]

3 minutes ago, xxxlamb said:

87 pages of thieves 

boohoo cry harder

 

 

[georgechxng]

okay this is my ranking as of right now after listening to the album a couple times. 

 

1. guilty as sin
who's afraid of little old me?
florida
the alchemy
but daddy, i love him 
the smallest man who ever lived
my boy only breaks his favorite toys
fresh out of the slammer
loml
the tortured poets departament
clara bow
i can do it with a broken heart
so long, london
down bad
i can fix him (really, i can)
16. fortnight

 

there's def space for things to move but i don't see my top 2 changing  overall, i'm satisfied with the album. it isn't her best but it's far from being her worst. the production on some of the jack's tracks are a bit of a letddown and some melodies are lacking (she needs to drop him ASAP) but overall this is a step up from midnights, especially lyrically and thematically. 

Edited April 18 by georgechxng

[OnlyManInTheWorld]

2 minutes ago, FolkLover1989 said:

Btw went through early pages Hives and Arianators tried so hard to make us believe album is bad

 

Thank god now I can see actual reaction from Swifties 

I won't listen now but I am happy that people actually love it

I'm literally shoving it down my throat to force myself to like it, because how can't I? Did that with Puta and it worked (until it started descending on charts).

 

[Reiner Braun]

Looping clara bow

MIDnights never had something this excellent 

[discotitzz]

But Daddy, I Love Him hits so hard, also having had experience going to bat for someone who had no qualms about humiliating me 

 

 

 

I'll tell you something about my good name 

It's mine alone to disgrace 

 

Edited April 18 by discotitzz

[Reiner Braun]

Looping clara bow

MIDnights never had something this excellent 

[EndofASadMovie]

Ms Florence was also doing the peace/Two sign and I'm starting to think it's about Florida!!! visuals

[velocity]

4 minutes ago, 19SLAYty9 said:

 

she was really gonna end it all for this man

 

[OnlyManInTheWorld]

Down Bad

But Daddy I Love Him

 

are standouts.

 

[Magickarp]

Maybe the MV will explain Fortnight

[IBeMe]

Guilty As Xi Jinping? NEEDS to get an MV with her delicately being tossed around in the bed on the album cover and then cut scenes of the ocean crashing into rocks...UGH...I HAVE A VISION!!!!  

[Scandalous]

i'm waiting to listen till release but is it true this album is mostly about matty and not Toe?

[georgechxng]

fortnight is truly the worst song of the album

 

weird ass lyrics, post's voice choking, subdued production. if it's the lead, someone needs to stop her. 

[Klein]

Oh @Cruel Summer I see you caved in too. Can't wait to read your reaction. 

[OnlyManInTheWorld]

„You look like Taylor Swift… you got edge"

 

Now girl!

 

[Cruel Summer]

5 minutes ago, 19SLAYty9 said:

What songs do you think sound like them? What songs do they sound similar to?

Basically, I think this album's overarching sonic texture is similar to some particular tracks by The 1975 and their general vibe. Some of the songs aren't really like that - so, like, Florida!!! and I Can Fix Him, for example, don't fit that vibe. But a lot of the of the melodies and instrumentation on tracks like Fortnight could fit on any The 1975 album. In particular I'm getting bits and pieces of the energy of the album I mentioned in that post, their 2016 album I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it. Some of the parallels that I'd draw aren't exactly ironclad, like how I think I Can Do It With A Broken Heart is sort of this album's answer to that albums track The Sound - not in narrative but in sound. Their whole thing, really, is the kind of midtempo synth pop that drives this entire album - though usually they have some rock elements as well, so this album reads like an intentionally more subdued take on the sound. I could probably articulate more specific, better examples with more time, but I very strongly believe that the sound of this album is an intentional parallel to their music because it's apparently largely about Matty. It's tough because I did sort of put the band on ice for a long time after the situation last year, since listening to them became uncomfortable.

[georgechxng]

Just now, Scandalous said:

i'm waiting to listen till release but is it true this album is mostly about matty and not Toe?

yes. she reflects on her relationship w joe in 2 or 3 tracks but it's mostly abt her relationship w ratty. 

[IBeMe]

GUILTY AS XI JINPING? is THE HIT on the alburm 

Imagine the tiktokers swaying their hips around pretending to be shexy babies 

#1 on Phub charts for MONTHS 

[IBeMe]

Just now, OnlyManInTheWorld said:

„You look like Taylor Swift… you got edge"

 

Now girl!

 

She did insinuate drug use on this record so...

[OnlyManInTheWorld]

Playing Down Bad on repeat