album Taylor Swift - 'THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT'

[selena_lavigne]

8 hours ago, YR. said:

The song isn't radio candy at all

When i get to the US and hear "Your wife waters flowers, i wanna kill her" on pop radio in my Lyft to the club then what? 

[IBeMe]

I know we prob wont get more singles BUT if she did I want it to go like this hunties:

 

1. Fortnight

2. I Can Do It With a Broken Heart

3. Down Bad

4. Guilty As Sin?

end era OR:

5. But Daddy I Love Him (sent to country radio) & So High School to pop and HAC/AC (just to promote the anthology too with a physical release push of the album) 

[vale9001]

Not the Swiffers acting like if fortnight is some obscure pop track not radio friendly 

Edited May 13 by vale9001

[willmcclure9]

I Look In People's Windows

[Kyle-x]

A resequencing of TTPD because I cannot sleep

 

Chapter I: The Longing

 

1. Fortnight

2. Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus

3. Peter

4. I Look In People's Windows

5. Guilty as Sin?

 

A rumination on the "what-ifs?" of a relationship that could-have-been. Longing and yearning for a love that was never actually lost. Evidence of the narrator being trapped in a relationship while coveting another. Provides essential context for the chapters to come.

 

Chapter II: The Disintegration 

 

6. My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys

7. I Hate It Here

8. So Long, London

9. The Prophecy

10. How Did It End?

11. I Can Do It with a Broken Heart

 

The relationship the narrator feels trapped in ends. A range of complicated feelings emerge. The narrator is feeling both devastated and a sense of newfound freedom. Explanations for the actions of the narrator that follow are presented here.

 

Chapter III: The Rebound

 

12. The Bolter

13. Fresh Out the Slammer

14. Florida!!!

15. imgonnagetyouback

16. Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?

17. But Daddy I Love Him

18. The Alchemy

19. I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)

20. The Tortured Poets Department

 

The narrator gets right into that getaway car and drives it straight into the deep end with a rekindled flame. Once brought to the light, the relationship is immediately scrutinized by outside influences and causes the narrator lash out. The narrator relates the relationship to being under the influence in many of the songs and the cracks in the facade start to show themselves by the end of the chapter.

 

Chapter IV: The Betrayal

 

21. Down Bad

22. The Black Dog

23. loml

24. The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived

 

Things have gone up in flames for the narrator in the new relationship. All of the red flags from the previous chapter are now being dissected and put on blast in this chapter. 

 

Chapter V: New Beginnings

 

25. So High School

26. The Albatross

 

A new muse has entered the picture and a potential taste of the things to come on the next record are being teased here. 

 

Clara Bow

thanK you aIMee

Cassandra

Robin

The Manuscript

 

These songs feel too specifically tied to past lore that I can't really place them in the sequence of events I've laid out here. I could maybe stretch The Manuscript to be the closer but it still feels a bit too tied to the re-recordings and the Swiftie experience to be placed in this world dd. Clara Bow is in my top 3 so I'd never cut her so don't get it twisted. These would be cute bonus tracks.

[mael]

Lucid dreams like electricity

the current flies through ME!
and in my fantasies I rise above it
And way up there

I actually love it

 

[Kyle-x]

Wtf Down Bad back at #10 on US Apple Music right behind Fortnight at #9 

[Dear Reader]

The "The Alchemy is for Ratty" truthers are very quiet today 

[Life Savers]

1 hour ago, vale9001 said:

Not the Swiffers acting like if fortnight is some obscure pop track not radio friendly 

Why do you take everything as criticism? I don't think Fortnight is radio poison but it's not as immediate and poppy as Cruel Summer or even Anti-Hero and that's fine. If anything it shows that charts are not her primary concern.

Edited May 13 by Life Savers

[kayliah]

2 hours ago, IBeMe said:

I know we prob wont get more singles BUT if she did I want it to go like this hunties:

 

1. Fortnight

2. I Can Do It With a Broken Heart

3. Down Bad

4. Guilty As Sin?

end era OR:

5. But Daddy I Love Him (sent to country radio) & So High School to pop and HAC/AC (just to promote the anthology too with a physical release push of the album) 

we will i mean its not a folklore or evermore situation. I mean probably ? Midnights had 4 singles and according to that insider there's a WAOLOM fmusic video filmed.. i wrapped my mind that I can do it will probably be second single but i could used more upbeat tempo like a remixed radio version for its single release. I wanted down bad and My boy as singles though.

[vale9001]

39 minutes ago, Life Savers said:

Why do you take everything as criticism? I don't think Fortnight is radio poison but it's not as immediate and poppy as Cruel Summer or even Anti-Hero and that's fine. If anything it shows that charts are not her primary concern.

And radio hits doesn't have to be only poppy. They already want a Song It's doing great on International radios (and american radios too), very strong on Shazam (so people get interested to It when they caught It) to be scrapped for another kid bopz sound like 2012 Taylor. A Song International nradios will hate and it's everything She shouldn't promote in this phase of her career when she's finally building a certain image in these markets.

 

The Song doesn't have anti Hero updates cause anti Hero was her first radio pop single in 3 years.

 

Instead in the last 18 months She has sent 7 songs on radioz, so of course this doesn't take the immediate update of something after a long radio- career break, but for radio looks like the 3-4th single of an album cause She has sent them 4 pop songs in the last 12 months. 

Edited May 13 by vale9001

[Life Savers]

13 minutes ago, vale9001 said:

And radio hits doesn't have to be only poppy. They already want a Song It's doing great on International radios (and american radios too), very strong on Shazam (so people get interested to It when they caught It) to be scrapped for another kid bopz sound like 2012 Taylor. A Song International nradios will hate and it's everything She shouldn't promote in this phase of her career when she's finally building a certain image in these markets.

 

The Song doesn't have anti Hero updates cause anti Hero was her first radio pop single in 3 years.

 

Instead in the last 18 months She has sent 7 songs on radioz, so of course this doesn't take the immediate update of something after a long radio- career break, but for radio looks like the 3-4th single of an album cause She has sent them 4 pop songs in the last 12 months. 

See, you acknowledge that it's not as poppy. That was the whole point, could have saved the extra paragraphs (I don't think that the single is doing badly or that it should be replaced,  on that I agree with you and I've said as much before in this thread). 

Edited May 13 by Life Savers

[vale9001]

The post- wallen Song Is loosing hype faster than almost everyone taught. Already #2 on AM under Kendrick and third day on Spotify is 300K less than fortnight first sunday.

 

At this rate fortnight could still get the biggest debut of the year maybe.

[Club classic]

Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus and The Albatross are the best songs on the album and I'm praying one of them will be my surprise song 

[EndofASadMovie]

Fortnight isn't that radio friendly nor streaming friendly and that's ok. Why are we acting like saying that is a crime. 

[YR.]

All the paragraphs won't make fortnight a smash btw

me and anti-hero laughed at that  

[Michael196]

36 minutes ago, YR. said:

All the paragraphs won't make fortnight a smash btw

me and anti-hero laughed at that  

the 1.5 year old AH that is barely scrapping 1M daily streams (below the way older Lover, cardigan & august) despite tour effect 

[mypaintoyou]

Everyday I'm in love with a new song 

rn is LOML

 

robin is The only one I can't get into much 

[YR.]

4 minutes ago, Michael196 said:

the 1.5 year old AH that is barely scrapping 1M daily streams (below the way older Lover, cardigan & august) despite tour effect 

Still a WORLDWIDE(!!!) smash that should've won SOTY

[fridayteenage]

day 24:

fortnight 6.0 mil

broken heart 4.0 mil

(cruel summer 3.2 mil)

down bad 3.1 mil

who's afraid 2.6 mil

so long london 2.4 mil

 

anti-hero 5.5 mil

midnight rain 2.8 mil

lavender haze 2.7 mil

snow on the beach 2.3 mil

kid 2.2 mil

[Miss Fortune]

The Anthology doesn't hit as immediately (especially Chloe/Sam + Peter / Robin) but all of them have such wonderful melodies. 

At this point though, I need a video for I Can Do It With A Broken Heart. 

[feelslikeadream]

I know it'll never get a video, but imagine the slayage if there was a Clara Bow video and it went like this:

 

- For first verse/chorus, Taylor cosplays as Clara Bow, on an old film set

- For second verse/chorus, Taylor cosplays as Stevie Nicks in '75 (the hair and lips)

- Then for the last verse, Olivia Rodrigo is featured, cosplaying as Taylor.

 

It would reflect the song's themes perfectly and could be the way they end their beef (a la Katy in YNTCD)

[Nick_317]

6 minutes ago, feelslikeadream said:

I know it'll never get a video, but imagine the slayage if there was a Clara Bow video and it went like this:

 

- For first verse/chorus, Taylor cosplays as Clara Bow, on an old film set

- For second verse/chorus, Taylor cosplays as Stevie Nicks in '75 (the hair and lips)

- Then for the last verse, Olivia Rodrigo is featured, cosplaying as Taylor.

 

It would reflect the song's themes perfectly and could be the way they end their beef (a la Katy in YNTCD)

Good luck booking that Olivia Rodrigo that you speak of

[Jpkun]

6 hours ago, Kyle-x said:

A resequencing of TTPD because I cannot sleep

 

Chapter I: The Longing

 

1. Fortnight

2. Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus

3. Peter

4. I Look In People's Windows

5. Guilty as Sin?

 

A rumination on the "what-ifs?" of a relationship that could-have-been. Longing and yearning for a love that was never actually lost. Evidence of the narrator being trapped in a relationship while coveting another. Provides essential context for the chapters to come.

 

Chapter II: The Disintegration 

 

6. My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys

7. I Hate It Here

8. So Long, London

9. The Prophecy

10. How Did It End?

11. I Can Do It with a Broken Heart

 

The relationship the narrator feels trapped in ends. A range of complicated feelings emerge. The narrator is feeling both devastated and a sense of newfound freedom. Explanations for the actions of the narrator that follow are presented here.

 

Chapter III: The Rebound

 

12. The Bolter

13. Fresh Out the Slammer

14. Florida!!!

15. imgonnagetyouback

16. Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?

17. But Daddy I Love Him

18. The Alchemy

19. I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)

20. The Tortured Poets Department

 

The narrator gets right into that getaway car and drives it straight into the deep end with a rekindled flame. Once brought to the light, the relationship is immediately scrutinized by outside influences and causes the narrator lash out. The narrator relates the relationship to being under the influence in many of the songs and the cracks in the facade start to show themselves by the end of the chapter.

 

Chapter IV: The Betrayal

 

21. Down Bad

22. The Black Dog

23. loml

24. The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived

 

Things have gone up in flames for the narrator in the new relationship. All of the red flags from the previous chapter are now being dissected and put on blast in this chapter. 

 

Chapter V: New Beginnings

 

25. So High School

26. The Albatross

 

A new muse has entered the picture and a potential taste of the things to come on the next record are being teased here. 

 

Clara Bow

thanK you aIMee

Cassandra

Robin

The Manuscript

 

These songs feel too specifically tied to past lore that I can't really place them in the sequence of events I've laid out here. I could maybe stretch The Manuscript to be the closer but it still feels a bit too tied to the re-recordings and the Swiftie experience to be placed in this world dd. Clara Bow is in my top 3 so I'd never cut her so don't get it twisted. These would be cute bonus tracks.

I'll play along.. my new tracklist/combined single version album concept with cuts! This version of the album is only for the crazy girlies who are willing to live in the chaos of Taylor's mind. (would probably not be very commercially viable given the completely psychotic 9 track run in the beginning)

 

Album concept: psychotic artist who needs to write in order to stay "sane", hopeless romantic, roughly chronological (around emotions)

 

1. I Hate It Here - what can I say. It's a thesis statement of how she moves around the world and why she produces art. 

2. Guilty As Sin? - My relationship is jail so I am fantasizing

3. imgonnagetyouback - I'm delusional and bored. I kind of hate you, I kind of love you.

4. The Black Dog - I can't believe you're already over it? F*ck you

5. How Did It End? - all our friends know its over and keep asking me, but I don't know either

6. I Look in People's Windows - I'm still sad and I miss you

7. So Long, London - I'm sad, mad, and ready to move on (LOL not really, but Taylor is again delusional). It's Joever

8. Fresh Out The Slammer - Jail is OVER. I need a rebound. Hey Ratty I'm coming

9. But Daddy I Love Him - Delusional. Amazing. Serve of the century. Fans STFU.

10. Florida!!! - Yeah, this is a rebound, it's a drug. 

11. My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys - The guy is a mess and he f*cking sucks but I'm delulu and I like him

12. I Can Fix him (No Really I Can) - I love him so much I'm going to fix his dumb ass. OK... maybe I am delusional and I can't fix him

13. Fortnight - Wow I was really delusional for two weeks, I'm going to write a vibey song to make it seem less intense and more mature than it really was

14. Down Bad - Ok this fling is ending. Taylor being exceptionally dramatic. Ratty was an alien who gave me extraterrestrial feelings only to put me down back to Earth.

15. The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived - Oh Ratty you are DEAD to me!!

16. The Tortured Poets Department - Ratty, after hearing ^ no one's ever going to touch you like ME! Nobody, No f*cking body... nanananana i'm teasing you.

17. loml - f*ck me I'm SO SAD.... 

18. I Can Do It With a Broken Heart - but I'm a professional gdi, and a MPG shows up

19. The Prophecy - F*ck I'm never finding love. I'm gifted with all this artistry/success, but absolutely f*cked in life.

20. Who's Afraid of Little Old Me - I'm so sad that I'm angry. F*ck the GP, F*ck the music industry, F*ck Scoot Braun/Scott Borchetta. You know what, y'all should be scared of me.

21. The Albatross - Everyone and all the men think I'm out to get them. But Its only when you hurt me that I come for your neck like I did to Ratty, so just be nice to me. 

22. Clara Bow - Profound!! being a woman in the industry is f*cking exhausting.

 

 

Cuts:

1. The Alchemy - Girlies, we have no room in this album to just have a little "love" song. Although I suppose this is again more of a delulu love song than really anything else.

2. Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus - Good lore building and super devastating but not sure it is needed in this track list.

3. So High School - again, I don't need moments of such pure joy in my psychotic version of the album

4. thanK you aIMee - well... it's a song

5. Cassandra - A tiny bit too vague of a song, although quite profound. I somewhat prefer Who's Afraid of Little Old Me. I dislike the song title

6. Peter - I can see why some people like this, but not for me.

7. The Bolter - Idk she's just not the girl some of you think she is!

8. Robin - Why was this made?

9. The Manuscript - meh..

Edited May 13 by Jpkun

[chiliam]

Is it me or The Anthony track titles are giving interludes.

Like on the release day, when she annouce it and i broke my heels running to Spotify and read those song names. And i was like is half of those are interlude or spoken word poems. Like theres no way she can just drop 15 songs like that. All the songs with name title must be interludes.

And till this day when i read those names, its still the same, they are so messy and simple compare to the dramatic names in the original album.