album Taylor Swift - 'THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT'

[bluebirdsforever]

Robin is quietly one of the most revealing songs on the album because it speaks to how Taylor Swift’s biggest fantasy is to escape back to her childhood because she feels like a caged animal suffocated by her success and is starting to despise it, in this essay I will—

 

[Starchild]

1 hour ago, mael said:

wait. loml could also be about matty as well oh...

 

It sounded more like joe but I feel like maybe he was verse 1 and Marty was verse 2

[bluebirdsforever]

11 minutes ago, Scheissex said:

The hooks and melodies of Fearless and 1989 are where exactly 

The hook of But Daddy I Love Him is the spirit of Fearless reincarnated melodically like we have not seen since and probably won’t ever see again, in this essay I will— [2]

 

[Achilles.]

12 minutes ago, PoisonedIvy said:

and nothing for Lover. It's non canonical, confirmed  @Taylor fanboy @Vespertine

Someone on tumblr put it this way:

-Debut's teenage petulance

-Fearless's hope and naivete

-Speak Now's lack of filter

-Red's emotional roller coaster

-1989's pride

-reputation's angst and rebirth

-Lover's hopeless romanticism

-folkmore's storytelling and literary nature

-Midnights's moody reminiscences

 

I'd add that the album has the prickly defensiveness of reputation, while Anthology has the emotional maturity and introspection of folkmore. 

[wwshooter]

11 minutes ago, PoisonedIvy said:

and nothing for Lover. It's non canonical, confirmed  @Taylor fanboy @Vespertine

No offense, but have to Lol at this irrational hatred towards Lover, borderline assembling OTH…

 

Don't tell me you cannot depict blondie being this try-hard romantic throughout her life, and Lover(song), Cruel Summer, False God, Cornela Street, I think he knows are integral part of that

[TayDine1989]

 

 

[BloodLuster]

10 minutes ago, Scheissex said:

The hooks and melodies of Fearless and 1989 are where exactly 

in my case The Black Dog sounds like Breathe at times. 1989 is kinda a reach yeah

[Blade Runner]

The Bolter is the best song of all time. Yep. 

[Achilles.]

5 minutes ago, bluebirdsforever said:

Robin is quietly one of the most revealing songs on the album because it speaks to how Taylor Swift's biggest fantasy is to escape back to her childhood because she feels like a caged animal suffocated by her success and is starting to despise it, in this essay I will—

 

The fact that she already felt that way all the way back on Never Grow Up and Innocent and is still trapped there. I fear her monologue about celebrities getting stuck at the age they became famous at has too much truth to it. 

 

[Miles.]

Quote

"The thing about Shakespeare is, he's so eloquent...he speaks the unspeakable. He turns grief and triumph and rapture and rage into words, into something we can understand. He renders the whole mystery of humanity comprehensible." 

This is a quote from If We Were Villains, a book by M.L. Rio. If you replace "Shakespeare" with "Taylor", I think it perfectly encapsulates the essence of Taylor Swift and why she resonates so strongly with so many millions of people.

[Saintlor]

Saw a lot of Olivia AI edits of I Hate It Here with a lot of views.

 

Although I think she sounds good on it, it must feel horrible for any artist to see AI make another singer sing your song and people are praising it or even saying it's better

 

 

[Saintlor]

1 minute ago, Achilles. said:

The fact that she already felt that way all the way back on Never Grow Up and Innocent and is still trapped there. I fear her monologue about celebrities getting stuck at the age they became famous at has too much truth to it. 

In some ways, although I'm sure it would've hurt her at first, maybe if she naturally declined after Lover she would've been happier and could've enjoyed being a famous singer (but not the most famous) without the pressure of having everything perform well and live up to expectations

[PoisonedIvy]

4 minutes ago, wwshooter said:

No offense, but have to Lol at this irrational hatred towards Lover, borderline assembling OTH…

 

Don't tell me you cannot depict blondie being this try-hard romantic throughout her life, and Lover(song), Cruel Summer, False God, Cornela Street, I think he knows are integral part of that

I refuse to acknowledge that album as a valid part of the Taylor Swift canon when It adds nothing to her discography that Fearless, Red, and 1989 didn't already accomplish for her!

[keerbyriri]

classic as sin has to be the next single 

[Starchild]

Y'all I haven't been able to spend much time here so sorry if it was already brought up, but the black dog is for sure about joe right? She has mentioned before that he started leaving her at home while he went out and this adds that it was with some younger girl, wasn't his costar younger?

[Blade Runner]

I want to snarl and show you just how disturbed this has made me
You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me
So all you kids can sneak into my house, with all the cobwebs
I'm always drunk on my own tears, isn't that what they all said?
 

 

Who's Afraid of Little Old Me? best song of all time. 

Edited April 26 by Blade Runner

[chiliam]

5 minutes ago, Saintlor said:

In some ways, although I'm sure it would've hurt her at first, maybe if she naturally declined after Lover she would've been happier and could've enjoyed being a famous singer (but not the most famous) without the pressure of having everything perform well and live up to expectations

it`s always a conflict inside her

She always want to make history, The Eras Tour is the ultimate example for that. She doesn`t need to work that hard but she did cause she wants her name in the history book. She want to build a legacy and dare i say she dreams about being the biggest artist in the world, and now she achieve that, she is aiming for the all time title. 

But obviously on the way to get there, she will have a love/hate relationship with fame. 

[Saintlor]

3 minutes ago, chiliam said:

it`s always a conflict inside her

She always want to make history, The Eras Tour is the ultimate example for that. She doesn`t need to work that hard but she did cause she wants her name in the history book. She want to build a legacy and dare i say she dreams about being the biggest artist in the world, and now she achieve that, she is aiming for the all time title. 

But obviously on the way to get there, she will have a love/hate relationship with fame. 

But if she were to ask herself why does she want to be the biggest artist of all time? Why is that?

 

As long as she is financially successful and people want to go to her shows (whether that be at a 5,000 venue or 100,000 venue) and releases great music that has an audience, does it even matter if she's the biggest artist of all time?

[Achilles.]

Most Played Songs After 1 Week:

(All Songs Debut In My Top 100 of 2024)

 

1. The Albatross

2. I Look In People's Windows

3. So Long London

4. I Can Do It With A Broken Heart

5. Guilty As Sin?

6. The Prophecy

7. Clara Bow

8. Florida!!!

9. Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus

10. Fresh Out The Slammer

11. I Hate It Here

12. Fortnight

 

[PoisonedIvy]

4 minutes ago, Saintlor said:

But if she were to ask herself why does she want to be the biggest artist of all time? Why is that?

 

As long as she is financially successful and people want to go to her shows (whether that be at a 5,000 venue or 100,000 venue) and releases great music that has an audience, does it even matter if she's the biggest artist of all time?

It's the combination of her teenage insecurity and the enterprise that her name now represents. She is a franchise and dozens if not hundreds of people depend on her to continue to increase profits year over year. She's a victim of her own tyranny. 

[Achilles.]

20 minutes ago, PoisonedIvy said:

I refuse to acknowledge that album as a valid part of the Taylor Swift canon when It adds nothing to her discography that Fearless, Red, and 1989 didn't already accomplish for her!

In Loser's uh… defense(?), it added songs—if you can call them that— addressing sociopolitical topics to her discography. 

[TayDine1989]

My Most Played TTPD:TA songs of the week:

1. Guilty as Sin?

2. I Can Do It With a Broken Heart

3. So High School

4. ThanK you aIMee

5. Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?

6. Down Bad

7. The Albatross

8. I Hate It Here

9. imgonnagetyouback

10. Peter

11. Chloe et al.

12. How Did It End?

13. I Can Fix Him

14. I Look In People's Windows

15. The Prophecy

 

Standard: 5

Anthology 10

Edited April 26 by TayDine1989

[PoisonedIvy]

It's always been clear Taylor is trying to prove something to the world (despite it being glaringly obvious at this point). 
 

They said she couldn't sing? She got a vocal coach and improved her voice to the point it's at now over the past 14 years. 
 

Said she wasn't really writing her music? She wrote an album entirely alone.

 

Country music didn't wanna recognize her anymore? She dabbled then switched to pop.

 

Red was too divisive and messy? She made a cohesive and digestible album for the masses with 1989 (and nailed the genre switch with a dynasty of an era).

 

Snakegate? Reputation

ME! ? folklore + evermore 

Etc etc etc. 

 

Everything she does is reactionary to negative criticisms she has received. MA documentary outlined it for us — her brain is hardwired to seek positive affirmation and dismantle rejection.

[PoisonedIvy]

1 minute ago, Achilles. said:

In Loser's uh… defense(?), it added songs—if you can call them that— addressing sociopolitical topics to her discography. 

Eyes Open did that first, she was telling us to stay woke! 

[Goaty]

20 minutes ago, Starchild said:

Y'all I haven't been able to spend much time here so sorry if it was already brought up, but the black dog is for sure about joe right? She has mentioned before that he started leaving her at home while he went out and this adds that it was with some younger girl, wasn't his costar younger?

The owner of the pub did an interview and basically confirmed that Joe is (well, was, as I'm sure he'll never go back after all the media attention on it) a frequent patron.