album Taylor Swift - 'THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT'

[IBeMe]

1 minute ago, chiliam said:

TTPD only lack the nostalgic factor to become her top album for me.

It has everything we die-hard fans want from her. Lyrics and storytelling. 

 

And some might say the lack of melody but it`s just because they havent get use to the beautiful melody this album provide.

That's exactly how I view it too personally. It's literally the PERFECT album imo. Especially as stans...this is EXACTLY what we want. Diaristic, unedited streams of consciousness and vulnerability. You'd think that in her imperial phase she'd be more closed off from us and I remember a lot of stans saying Midnights was an example of her editing how much she wants to share with us (until 3AM edition came out of course with some of her most honest lyrics) but with TTPD: Anthology she shared soooo much that I dont think ANY popgirl in her imperial phase would ever admit to in song format....it's so RAW and honest...sometimes even painting Taylor as overbaring etc...like idk it's just perfect for us stans. But I do understand why casual fans and GP could be turned off to some extent. For them they are not as invested in the Taylor lore to care a lot about lyrics and vibe and stuff. They really just want the melodies that instantly stick in their heads That's why TS12 should prob be a little more uptempo imo (at least strategically) but as a fan I could take 100 more TTPDs tbh! It's that amazing of a record 

[swifthino]

8 hours ago, Klein said:

The bridge of The Prophecy is really top tier 

 

And I sound like an infant
Feeling like the very last drops of an ink pen
A greater woman stays cool
But I howl like a wolf at the moon
And I look unstable
Gathered with a coven round a sorceress' table
A greater woman has faith
But even statues crumble if they're made to wait
I'm so afraid I sealed my fate
No sign of soulmates
I'm just a paperweight
In shades of greige
Spending my last coin so someone will tell me
It'll be ok

 

I always have an actual physical reaction to "But I howl like a wolf at the moon". I don't know what it is, but it's like something wants to get out and I guess it just gets me. That song is truly settling as one of my (all time?) favorites from her.

 

I still can't believe I got to witness it live as my surprise song, and mashed-up with an evermore song no less. Between this and loml in Paris N1 + The Alchemy/Treacherous in Paris N4 + Chloe in Lyon N2, I truly got blessed by the TTPD gods. 

highlight of her discography i fear 

[Taylor fanboy]

On 7/8/2024 at 6:14 AM, Kyle-x said:

She said let me rewrite those Big Machine era personal records and leave Borchetta in the dust.  Under Republic, she'll have had her personal longest running #1 album with TTPD, longest running #1 single with Anti-Hero, longest charting song with Cruel Summer, highest first week sales 3x over with Midnights>1989TV>TTPD, most successful tour with Eras, matched her AOTY wins, most critically acclaimed album with Red TV, charted more songs total on the Hot 100, more top 10s on the Hot 100, more #1s on the Hot 100, more cumulative weeks at #1 on the BB200, and had more #1 albums on the BB200.  

 

Lover is also coming for her longest charting album ever.

 

Lover - Taylor Swift

folklore - Fearless

evermore - Speak Now

Midnights - Red

The Tortured Poets Department - 1989

 

OH something tells me the next Republic album will be that *****.

[on the line]

Okay, I'm loving the Fortnight Cult Remix lmao. It feels more pop. I usually don't like remixes.

[liam13]

1 hour ago, chiliam said:

And some might say the lack of melody but it`s just because they havent get use to the beautiful melody this album provide.

yeah, beautiful but boring and somewhat reductive melody  

even sad, beautiful, tragic sounds better melodically than a lot of songs on ttpd.

i personally want her to simplify her lyrics and focus much more on strong melodies and harmonies instead of trying to prove that she is the most prolific lyricist of her generation 

[DanMex]

I love the new Fortnight remix!!

[PoisonedIvy]

27 minutes ago, on the line said:

Okay, I'm loving the Fortnight Cult Remix lmao. It feels more pop. I usually don't like remixes.

Listening now, I use the BLONDISH remix at the gym all the time. Fortnight has such an intriguing melody honestly. It's underrated, but I get it cause it's lowkey.

[LostInStereo100]

There has to be a reason why she isn't pushing a new single. It's literally been three months and all we have is fortnight  

 

Like this is literally shaping up to be her biggest or one of her biggest albums ever and no single lined up. Broken Heart is still just a rumor I believe 

 

[fridayteenage]

6 minutes ago, LostInStereo100 said:

There has to be a reason why she isn't pushing a new single. It's literally been three months and all we have is fortnight  

 

Like this is literally shaping up to be her biggest or one of her biggest albums ever and no single lined up. Broken Heart is still just a rumor I believe 

 

there will be no explanation 

[Migs30283]

Taylor you better drop the ttpd anthology edition this Friday.

[mypaintoyou]

Omg I love the acoustic of fornight so beautiful ahjjj

[Kitboga]

Just laying this out here: i hope for her next contract, she let the label do the singles promotion. 

 

watching Sabrina & Miley going ham with auto play payola while fortnight was only on TTH #1 for 2 weeks makes it so laughable. 

 

so hopefully this particular effort will fall under UMG instead of her cheapass self. 

 

Edited July 9, 2024 by Kitboga

[Enrique523]

Yeah i have to say i wish she was more hungry when it comes to her singles's success. They could've pushed Fortnight way harder than they did and it's just weird to not have a second single when the album is so successful. I'm happy the album is naturally so successful but i wish she'd push it harder, it could be her best streaming album eventually if she did that.

[on the line]

6 hours ago, Kitboga said:

Just laying this out here: i hope for her next contract, she let the label do the singles promotion. 

 

watching Sabrina & Miley going ham with auto play payola while fortnight was only on TTH #1 for 2 weeks makes it so laughable. 

 

so hopefully this particular effort will fall under UMG instead of her cheapass self. 

 

I'm not sure any single would have really stuck and taken off when the whole narrative of TTPD is it being a 31-track double album. It actually makes sense that Fortnight is less of an era-defining single ala Anti-Hero.

[Kitboga]

1 hour ago, on the line said:

I'm not sure any single would have really stuck and taken off when the whole narrative of TTPD is it being a 31-track double album. It actually makes sense that Fortnight is less of an era-defining single ala Anti-Hero.

I get your point, but my point goes for any of her singles ever since signing w/ UMG. 
 

the post-debut support for her singles were minimal, basically non existent, and then you look at the out-of-control autoplay Sabrina has rn? It's just laughable. A small act who hadn't had any real success until now gets that much resources, think about how much TS would've had if her singles were handled by UMG.
 

 

Edited July 9, 2024 by Kitboga

[Klein]

12 minutes ago, Kitboga said:

I get your point, but my point goes for any of her singles ever since signing w/ UMG. 
 

the post-release support her singles got were minimal, basically non existent. And then you look at the out-of-control autoplay Sabrina has rn?  It's just laughable. A small act who hadn't had a successful era until now gets that much "resources", think of how much TS would've had if her singles were handled by UMG.

But the whole point of autoplay is to get your music out there. These new up and coming artists need the autoplay to reach a larger audience before they drop their album, so the labels pay for it. Taylor doesn't need it at all. In Taylor's case, releasing the album is the best promotion she could ever get, pushing a single with autoplay would have little to no long term impact. Sure it would boost the streams by 500k-1M daily for the time the autoplay is active, but these 30M total extra streams serve no purpose long term since she already reached everyone by just releasing the album. 

 

Taylor doesn't really need to push a song anymore to get a hit/get out there, except for extending a #1 run if she wants to. If one of her songs resonates with the public at large, it'll become a smash (see Anti-Hero or Cruel Summer). Fortnight, Karma or Is It Over Now wouldn't have gotten significantly bigger if they were autoplay'd. 

[Broadcastthatboom13]

11 hours ago, Taylor fanboy said:

We were robbed of Tour Visuals.

Need a mashup of this and Getaway Car ASAP

[wastedpotential]

I really do like the Fortnight acoustic and I'm glad it's on streaming now. I think stripping out the drone production (which I do really like, fwiw) allows the vocal melodies and hooks to really shine through. Fortnight was never going to be a mega smash like Cruel Summer or Anti-Hero, but I hope those of y'all who took issue with it as the single can begin to understand where the choice came from. 

 

Now, that cults remix... I'd probably like it more if they didn't pitch her vocals and speed the song up by .25, but they put the vocals way back in the mix and put the ******* xylophone line over top 

[wastedpotential]

11 hours ago, Taylor fanboy said:

We were robbed of Tour Visuals.

Oh now don't get me started on this 

 

If I sat at the conference table at 13 Dinosaurs during the rollout planning meeting, this would've been the lead 

[Klein]

4 minutes ago, wastedpotential said:

but I hope those of y'all who took issue with it as the single can begin to understand where the choice came from. 

No. 

 

 

3 minutes ago, wastedpotential said:

Oh now don't get me started on this 

 

If I sat at the conference table at 13 Dinosaurs during the rollout planning meeting, this would've been the lead 

And YES! My Boy would have been a great lead single with that ear-worm chorus. Even better would have been GAS because if you think about it, that's kind of the starting point for everything that happened later... the Joe boredom and Ratty intense fling. So what better way to start the album campaign than with the beginning of that story as the lead? 

[kayliah]

I cant i wont suppot broken heart cuz that song is like stay stay stay with slightly better lyrics and production.  I'll stream so long,down bad, my boy,slammer, guilty as sin and some of the anthology tracks. There I said it. why this has 300 million streams i will never understand.

[Klein]

Just now, kayliah said:

I cant i wont suppot broken heart cuz that song is like stay stay stay with slightly better lyrics and production.  I'll stream so long,down bad, my boy,slammer, guilty as sin and some of the anthology tracks. There I said it. why this has 300 million streams i will never understand.

Now, not liking Broken Heart is perfectly fine, but comparing it to Stay Stay Stay? Let's not. 

[wastedpotential]

1 minute ago, Klein said:

No. 

 

 

And YES! My Boy would have been a great lead single with that ear-worm chorus. Even better would have been GAS because if you think about it, that's kind of the starting point for everything that happened later... the Joe boredom and Ratty intense fling. So what better way to start the album campaign than with the beginning of that story as the lead? 

I didn't want to @ you but I'm glad you knew who I was talking to 

 

 

And I mean GaS would've also been a great pick (and as a song I prefer it significantly), but there's just something so streamlined about the melody in the My Boy hook (and if I had any say, that would be the entire title ) that it just screams lead single to me. Might not have been another Anti-Hero but it'd have been special, and there's a literal doll themed video concept built in...

 

Imagine what it would've been like on tour 

 

 

[wastedpotential]

4 minutes ago, kayliah said:

I cant i wont suppot broken heart cuz that song is like stay stay stay with slightly better lyrics and production.  I'll stream so long,down bad, my boy,slammer, guilty as sin and some of the anthology tracks. There I said it. why this has 300 million streams i will never understand.

To my eyes, it's a mix of the better qualities of Gorgeous and Bejeweled (but I don't love either of those songs, so...), but Satan Satan Satan is a bit of a harsh comparison 

[Klein]

4 minutes ago, wastedpotential said:

Imagine what it would've been like on tour 

Honestly replacing Fortnight with My Boy on tour would be the most perfect case scenario (even though I like the Fortnight performance). The only potential problem is that the "puppet" scenery would have been redundant with the Broken Heart intro.