album Taylor Swift - 'THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT'

[YR.]

Like So High School is the next cruel summer and I'm very serious about it

[Enrique523]

1 hour ago, YR. said:

- Guilty as sin not being performed when it's so clearly a standout track. Girl can't choose a single for her dear life 

GAS is a fan favorite for some reason but it won't do well as a single. Many other album tracks are already doing way better.

[Life Savers]

Fortnight RISING. ATRL and a good chunk of swifties wrong again, why?

[Starchild]

19 minutes ago, Life Savers said:

Fortnight RISING. ATRL and a good chunk of swifties wrong again, why?

They're always wrong tho cut them slack 

To the fortnight/ttpd haters, I'm glad y'all are seething that this is doing just as well as midnights with a less commercial album 

[DevilsRollTheDice]

I Look In Grammy Voters' windows is the Ivy of TTPD

 

[selena_lavigne]

Currently obsessed with So High School.

Yes girl promote THE classic sex/comedy American Pie. 

[Buffy]

Am I the only one mishearing these lyrics in the bridge of WAOLOM?

 

I keep hearing "You wouldn't last an hour in me"  

 

but it's actually "you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum." 

[selena_lavigne]

Fortnight - 4/5

The Tortured Poet's Department - 4/5

My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys - 3.5/5 there is something about this song that makes me turn the album off when i get to it though. YAWN.

Down Bad - 4/5

So Long, London - 3/5

But Daddy, I Love Him - 3/5

Fresh Out The Slammer - 3/5

Florida! - 2.5/5

Guilty As Sin? - 3.5/5

Who's Afraid Of Little Old Me - 3.25/5

I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) - 2.5/5

Loml - 3/5

I Can Do It With A Broken Heart - 4.5/5

The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived - 2/5

The Alchemy - 4.25/5

Clara Bow - 3.5/5

Edited May 11, 2024 by selena_lavigne

[Migs30283]

Atp, TTPD album is going more than 5 weeks at number one in Billboard 200.

[selena_lavigne]

If we are talking about the standard edition of the album AND ONLY THAT VERSION, TS11 gets a 3.5/5 from me. 

AND A VERY GENEROUS 3.5/5.

These scores are extremely generous.

Edited May 11, 2024 by selena_lavigne

[selena_lavigne]

Like, i love this album, technically. 

I like this album better when i'm not playing it than when i'm actually listening to it.

But for some reason i can barely sit through it nowadays.

She starts it out with Fortnight and it starts off right where we left off with Hits Different.

A great start.

It takes a slight pivot with Track 2 but i can tolerate the shift in direction.

But when we get to Track 3 i can't help but acknowledge this is not the album it could have been.

She could have told a really cool story here, like the one she told in Midnights but a different story.

But instead it all kinda gets muddled and incoherent at times.

I enjoy many of the themes.

I just feel they aren't tied together in a way where i can say THAT is an incredible album you should listen to.

It's not that. But i have learned to enjoy it for what it is.

 

Edited May 11, 2024 by selena_lavigne

[Starchild]

This album just gets better and better she really did put narcotics up in this bittchh 

 

Also, I still can't believe queef was about ratty 

[Prismee]

13 hours ago, Badgalbriel said:

Even though I criticized Jack a lot in the past, he basically saved this album. Anything slightly interesting was produced by him, except a couple of tracks where you can see Aaron was inspired a little bit. 

honestly the biggest problem is the flow of the tracklist itself. the first four songs are kinda the samey lo-fi midtempo synthpop that it becomes so immediately jarring to a casual listener. even i was fully bought into the "this is just 1989 vault/Midnights all over again" narrative.

 

but then we get so many more interesting songs production-wise afterwards like Florida!!!, FOTS, WAOLOM? afterwards. I believe moving some songs around and switching some for a couple interesting The Anthology tracks (The Black Dog, So High School, How Did It End?, I Look in People's Windows) would easily solve a lot of listening problems from the get go.

[selena_lavigne]

4 minutes ago, Prismee said:

honestly the biggest problem is the flow of the tracklist itself. the first four songs are kinda the samey lo-fi midtempo synthpop that it becomes so immediately jarring to a casual listener. even i was fully bought into the "this is just 1989 vault/Midnights all over again" narrative.

 

but then we get so many more interesting songs production-wise afterwards like Florida!!!, FOTS, WAOLOM? afterwards. I believe moving some songs around and switching some for a couple interesting The Anthology tracks (The Black Dog, So High School, How Did It End?, I Look in People's Windows) would easily solve a lot of listening problems from the get go.

MAYBE but i'm really loyal to the tracklisting. I always believe the tracklistings are done intentionally, so if the album at times doesn't flow well, i would instantly judge the quality of the album as a whole. I personally enjoy the tracklisting. I understand it. I get it. I am judging the album as a whole.

[Saint James]

Is The Manuscript about All Too Well TV?

[Achilles.]

2 minutes ago, Saint James said:

Is The Manuscript about All Too Well TV?

At least partially, yeah. 

[Elliot]

the tour has made me like the smallest man and omg she really dragged 🐀

[Tusk]

What week are we on because I'm still playing the album nonstop and it's still fresh (out the slammer).

[Life Savers]

28 minutes ago, Tusk said:

What week are we on because I'm still playing the album nonstop and it's still fresh (out the slammer).

Entering week 4 

 

What's your current fav song?

[ALA]

Third week was third biggest streaming week of the year on Spotify

[vale9001]

Fortnight was last week the most played Song on Radio Deejay (#1 radio station in Italy).

 

[Diet Pepsi]

Am I going crazy or did the lyric used to be "who the f*** uses typewriters anyways"?

[Catch22]

When Guilty as Sin? is a surprise song, we need to do everything to performance go VIRAL so she has no choice but to release it as a single.

[vale9001]

First 4 TTPD songs on this Is Taylor Swift are now : fortnight, down bad, i can do it and loml.

 

The 4 planned singles? As I said before I would like for once a pure piano ballad as single. As soft Winter single could be an interesting choice.

 

 

[Bloody Willy]

Peter, oh my god, I love this song so much. And Smallest Man. And I Hate it Here. And I Look in People's Windows. 

 

This is my Woodvale.