album Taylor Swift - 'THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT'

[Great Username]

Down Bad

Fresh Out The Slammer

Guilty As Sin?

I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)

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These texts should literally be in a museum. The whole ablum should, but these ones literally need to be studied for hundreds of years, and in conversation with each other, in order to be truly understood. They must be preserved.

Edited July 21, 2024 by Great Username

[wastedpotential]

nnn with Cruel Summer about a sneeze away from diamond eligibility, Taylor will have what... 5 albums with diamond eligible singles (4 in a row nnn), which is surely more than anyone else, right? 

 

I can excuse the Disney people for not giving a **** but can Republic Records please step to the microphone to defend their decision to not keep Taylor's certifications up to date 

[Lille]

7 hours ago, Burqa said:

i don't wanna be that kind of person but this video makes me sick. where were all these people in 2017-2019? get out of my house

I agree, we need to bring back gate-keeping to the fandom.

 

Like, do y'all want to fight little 12 year old b****es in the street again for tour tickets? NO! We need a Swift literacy test before tickets can be reserved.

[extra_ordinary]

Is there any chance TTPD will return to the top for the 13th week? 

[LostInStereo100]

2 hours ago, extra_ordinary said:

Is there any chance TTPD will return to the top for the 13th week? 

It will eventually. Even if it's in October when she is performing in the states again. 

[1989]

The Cassandra hate blows my mind; the best song she's written about/alluding to that situation, and a large part of the fanbase doesn't like it. 

[wastedpotential]

7 minutes ago, 1989 said:

The Cassandra hate blows my mind; the best song she's written about/alluding to that situation, and a large part of the fanbase doesn't like it. 

I understand that people say it's similar to Mad Woman (which I agree, but since it addresses an entirely different situation, I think the connection actually strengthens Cassandra), but I love the central metaphor, and as I said literally the day before yesterday, I love the ethereality of her vocals in the bridge. I always think about like... Taylor's ghost floating around singing the bridge when I listen 

[wastedpotential]

Also the way she poked deeeeply at the hypocrisy of their actions in contrast with their supposed faith... I think that's got to be one of the most personally biting things she's ever written, and y'all just gloss over it 

[wastedpotential]

3 hours ago, Lille said:

I agree, we need to bring back gate-keeping to the fandom.

 

Like, do y'all want to fight little 12 year old b****es in the street again for tour tickets? NO! We need a Swift literacy test before tickets can be reserved.

I think we should be made to sing the entirety of I Heart ? into the microphone in one take before being allowed into the presale queue 

[Ms. Togekiss]

she needs to have active singles to move more units. The reason Morgan has stayed at 70k units for over a year is because he has multiple songs smashing at different times

[wastedpotential]

2 minutes ago, Ms. Togekiss said:

she needs to have active singles to move more units. The reason Morgan has stayed at 70k units for over a year is because he has multiple songs smashing at different times

Country radio is a lot more forgiving of an album going 7+ singles deep than pop or the AC world ever was, but I do agree that the best thing for TTPD would be at least one more after ICDIWABH finishes up (probably in early/mid September if I had to guess)

[Ms. Togekiss]

5 minutes ago, wastedpotential said:

Country radio is a lot more forgiving of an album going 7+ singles deep than pop or the AC world ever was, but I do agree that the best thing for TTPD would be at least one more after ICDIWABH finishes up (probably in early/mid September if I had to guess)

as long as broken heart lingers in the top 20 for a bit, and then have gas?/down bad released early in the fall, she will stay somewhat stable. She will cut the album's life super short if she abandons it or releases more TVs

[Prismee]

i will not forgive her is GaS? is not a single, but the fact that it's not even on the TTPD set is worrying. she's probably just going with Down Bad...

[wastedpotential]

8 minutes ago, Ms. Togekiss said:

as long as broken heart lingers in the top 20 for a bit, and then have gas?/down bad released early in the fall, she will stay somewhat stable. She will cut the album's life super short if she abandons it or releases more TVs

The fact that it's cleared 5x plat. in 3 months means that it'll absolutely have some inertia and, even if ICDIWABH died tomorrow and she never spoke about the album again, it'll probably be over 7x by it's first anniversary. However, if she plays the era right and doesn't just let it rot, it could speed run to diamond eligibility

[1989]

21 minutes ago, wastedpotential said:

I think we should be made to sing the entirety of I Heart ? into the microphone in one take before being allowed into the presale queue 

And then to cut the number down even further, those who sang it perfectly then have to name and sing a Debut vault track not named I'd Lie 

 

 

See (most of) you girlies in the queue 

 

[wastedpotential]

4 minutes ago, Prismee said:

i will not forgive her is GaS? is not a single, but the fact that it's not even on the TTPD set is worrying. she's probably just going with Down Bad...

Yeah, usually the songs she thinks could be singles get slotted into the tour before she makes those decisions (I had several conversations with people about Karma getting pushed after the Eras setlist debuted, a month and a half before it got picked), but Guilty might be the exception to that rule because she probably didn't want to sing about getting off to the thought of Matty Healy every night on tour, and since she's not doing talkshows anymore, it could hypothetically be a single without her ever having to play it again 

[wastedpotential]

2 minutes ago, 1989 said:

And then to cut the number down even further, those who sang it perfectly then have to name and sing a Debut vault track not named I'd Lie 

 

 

See (most of) you girlies in the queue 

 

Whew, the poor Ticketmaster intern would be stuck with my godawful rendition of Just South of Knowing Why or Your Face 

[1989]

6 minutes ago, wastedpotential said:

Whew, the poor Ticketmaster intern would be stuck with my godawful rendition of Just South of Knowing Why or Your Face 

My renditions of Dark Blue Tennessee, Just South of Knowing Why, and Need You Now will be enough for them let me in on the first try, I'm positive 

 

[Ms. Togekiss]

godly as hymn will not be released a single and will get the pre-2023 cruel summer treatment imo. It will take something major for it to gain momentum like cruel summer did, although it wont be nearly as big (if it even happens)

[wastedpotential]

4 minutes ago, 1989 said:

My renditions of Dark Blue Tennessee, Just South of Knowing Why, and Need You Now will be enough for them let me in on the first try, I'm positive 

 

The way it's gonna be like fifty of us in the stadium and we're all gonna have to have floor seats because our hip replacements act up if we stand for too long 

 

Spoiler

Actually, and I have given this some thought, if I could attend any previous Taylor concert it would be that random one-off she did for AT&T in Chicago for like... a hundred people in 2018 because no one in that audience was more than 15 feet from her, and it would be so iconic if we gate-kept her show so well we ended up there again 

 

[wastedpotential]

The that'll never be a single I think I'll mourn the most is My Bible Only Has My Favorite Scriptures, because I know the doll themed video would EAT, and I'm also convinced she intentionally wrote that hook as a radio chorus, and it sucks that she's decided to never put it to good use 

[1989]

24 minutes ago, wastedpotential said:

The way it's gonna be like fifty of us in the stadium and we're all gonna have to have floor seats because our hip replacements act up if we stand for too long 

 

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Actually, and I have given this some thought, if I could attend any previous Taylor concert it would be that random one-off she did for AT&T in Chicago for like... a hundred people in 2018 because no one in that audience was more than 15 feet from her, and it would be so iconic if we gate-kept her show so well we ended up there again 

 

Spoiler

Nnnn if we're on the topic of shows we would've wanted

 

I would've liked to have attended the Formula 1 Grand Prix just because of the 2016 of it all, and also on a more shallow note, that outfit has always been one of my favorites 

I also have always wished I could've been at that first Speak Now thing she did on Hollywood Boulevard right after the album came out because she did Long Live for the first time. 

 

I would 1000% be at that show any day with you all, hip problems be damned 

Edited July 22, 2024 by 1989

[wastedpotential]

Just now, 1989 said:

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Nnnn if we're on the topic of shows we would've wanted

 

I would've liked to have attended the Formula 1 Grand Prix just because of the 2016 of it all, and also on a more shallow note, that outfit has always been one of my favorites 

I also have always wished I could've been at that first Speak Now thing she did on Hollywood Boulevard right after the album came out because she did Long Live for the first time. 

 

I would 1000% be at that show any day with you all, hip problems be damned 

Spoiler

I was living in Texas when she did the Grand Prix and someone I was at school with actually ended up going to the Formula 1 race (who wasn't even a huge Taylor fan) and seeing her, I was soooooooo envious 

 

Also nnnnn not the bus performance  I vaguely remember oomf at the time live tweeting being terrified that she was going to fall off 

 

Another performance I'd kill to have seen live was the random Harvey Mudd College contest one where she knew the names of everyone in the crowd, or maybe the Civil Wars show in Nashville when she showed up and devoured Safe and Sound 

 

[1989]

2 minutes ago, wastedpotential said:

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I was living in Texas when she did the Grand Prix and someone I was at school with actually ended up going to the Formula 1 race (who wasn't even a huge Taylor fan) and seeing her, I was soooooooo envious 

 

Also nnnnn not the bus performance  I vaguely remember oomf at the time live tweeting being terrified that she was going to fall off 

 

Another performance I'd kill to have seen live was the random Harvey Mudd College contest one where she knew the names of everyone in the crowd, or maybe the Civil Wars show in Nashville when she showed up and devoured Safe and Sound 

 

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The way I would have been so incredibly envious if they weren't even a huge fan, I might have even been messy 

 

Was it a bus or a building top? Either way, I remember all of us in the Swiftie chat I was in at the time () hoping it would go smoothly and literally being on the edge of our seats nnnn 

 

Not the Harvey College show unlocking memories, I still remember hearing about how she knew names asfjglhk the way we've really all been here forever 

 

I actually don't remember the Civil Wars show, but if I'm being honest, that's because I've never been a Safe & Sound fan 

 

[LostInStereo100]

GAS will be next. Let's manifest