album Taylor Swift - 'THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT'

[Dear Reader]

1 hour ago, wastedpotential said:

I will say I've taken a few days away from TTPD to re-evaluate my scores for the discography rate, but I just went through The Apotheosis front to back (except Kim ofc) for the first time in probably a week and whew 

 

Like maybe I'm a delulu stan but what are people hearing when they call this bad? I really just have to believe they're biased and looking for things to hate because I'm just NOT getting it otherwise 

I always think the same when I listen to it, like there's just no way people actually think this album is bad 

[Heldenzeit]

Who is gonna stop us from waltzing back into rekindled flames, if we know the steps anyway? 

 

[Taylor fanboy]

Spring - Fortnight

Summer - ICDIWABH

 

What's our fall single bets?

 

I'd imagine Republic would want to extend the era and widen the SPS gap for the YE BB200 No. 1.

 

 

[cruelhprince]

2 hours ago, Taylor fanboy said:

Spring - Fortnight

Summer - ICDIWABH

 

What's our fall single bets?

 

I'd imagine Republic would want to extend the era and widen the SPS gap for the YE BB200 No. 1.

 

 

Guilty As Sin would be my pick. wouldn't be mad if it's Down Bad tho

[torontowest91]

6 hours ago, Enrique523 said:

This is what people get wrong about Taylor Swift, even among her own fanbase: she's not actually interested in being richer, she's interested in being as big as possible commercially. She never came across as a money-hungry person, ever. But she DOES care a lot about being on top and all her decisions those last few years are perfectly coherent with that goal.

 

Taylor has always been hungry for success and legacy, always. And that's NOT a bad thing, no matter how much ATRL/stan twitter try to rewrite history and act as if being ambitious is somehow "evil". I'm really glad to see Taylor doing what EVERY pop star should do instead of hiding behind this hypocritical "ambition is bad" BS that several of her peers have used to make themselves look "nice" in public.

 

They ALL want success, they're just not as successful as Taylor in getting it, especially when it comes to pure sales. EVERY pop star would do the exact same thing Taylor is doing if they thought their fans would actually buy their products.

She doesn't need anymore money. I think she's set for life. 

[Magickarp]

The way that "RECORD STORE DAY" calendar in the TTPD teaser video was accurate 

 

[BoDaToe]

7 hours ago, Taylor fanboy said:

Spring - Fortnight

Summer - ICDIWABH

 

What's our fall single bets?

 

I'd imagine Republic would want to extend the era and widen the SPS gap for the YE BB200 No. 1.

 

 

Not choosing Down Bad for the fall single would be criminal. It's way better for radio than GAS, especially the clean version which is superior in every way.

[IBeMe]

7 hours ago, Taylor fanboy said:

Spring - Fortnight

Summer - ICDIWABH

 

What's our fall single bets?

 

I'd imagine Republic would want to extend the era and widen the SPS gap for the YE BB200 No. 1.

 

 

Guilty As Sin? and / or So High School for that back to school vibe

[mael]

Can we move on to Guilty as Sin? already? That other single already flopping even with the radio payola..

 

[Nick_317]

Is it just me or does this album makes you want to just drop everything (now) and slap, punch, kick or body someone?

Like my masc4masc side comes out the moment the album starts playing and no Taylor album has done that before

And OTHs really say all her albums sound the same

 

[IBeMe]

tbh I wouldnt mind if she skips Down Bad as a single. It's a cute song but it doesnt do much to showcase other sides of the album or a new part of her artistry to the GP.

 

Guilty as Sin? on the other hand does ALL of that. It's the perfect fall single too since it's a lot sexier and kinda darker in a way...imagine listening to it in the rain while you're on the bus heading to work or school in a warm sweater...there's something about it lol. 

 

Then when it's close to Xmas she can release physicals of The Anthology for the holiday sales boost and have So High School as the 4th and final single so it can help promote the release of the physical edition of The Anthology (she'd secure another like 800k week ).

Perfect era imo

[IBeMe]

56 minutes ago, mael said:

Can we move on to Guilty as Sin? already? That other single already flopping even with the radio payola..

 

isn't Broken Bbussy doing like 1.7M daily streams? It's not bad tbh....by the time it gets to like 40 million radio audience she should release a ton of remixes, discount it, have physical copies of the single and release a tour mv (like the lyric video but better) to secure a week at #1 

[IBeMe]

I have a feeling she's going to release a mv for Broken Heart as a thank you the day that she scores that 13th week at #1 for TTPD. 

[Starchild]

3 hours ago, IBeMe said:

I have a feeling she's going to release a mv for Broken Heart as a thank you the day that she scores that 13th week at #1 for TTPD. 

I noticed the lyric video is now first on the YouTube ttpd playlist so I'm guessing it's coming 

 

Ngl it's funny seeing how everyone was begging for this to be a single and now that she listened it's "what a dumb single, what a regressive single, what a dumb move, what was she thinking, etc etc"

 

Cause from what I gathered there was to be no other singles for this until stans started saying how viral it was and how wasted it would be to let it die 

Edited August 3, 2024 by Starchild

[Magickarp]

I went to the Midnights Survivor thread & wow

Y'all are NEVER beating the CULT allegations ranking the "Stop being a cult" song 2nd last

 

21. Vigilante ****
20. Dear Reader
19. Paris
18. Sweet Nothing
17. Glitch
16. Question...?
15. Hits Different
14. High Infidelity
13. Snow On The Beach
12. Bigger Than The Whole Sky
11. Labyrinth
10. Mastermind
9. Bejeweled
8. Midnight Rain
7. Anti-Hero
6. Karma
5. Lavender Haze
4. Would've, Could've, Should've
3. The Great War
2. Maroon
1. You're On Your Own, Kid

[Taylor fanboy]

6 minutes ago, Magickarp said:

8. Midnight Rain
7. Anti-Hero
6. Karma

We're never beating the success stans allegations.

 

[Nein]

So it's been about 3.5 months now since TTPD dropped. My top 10 listened tracks off the record are:

 

1) The Black Dog - 424

2) Fortnight - 255

3) Guilty as Sin? - 238

4) My Boy Only Breaks His Favourite Toys - 222

5) So Long, London - 201

6) Down Bad - 185

7) I Can Do It with a Broken Heart - 178

8) loml - 152

9) Fresh Out the Slammer - 144

10) I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) / So High School - 129

 

[fridayteenage]

hmm, yesterday i was like "oh there's no new releases doing anything, let's keep number one," then today that west person dropped. oh well

[Sweeftie13]

2 hours ago, Nein said:

So it's been about 3.5 months now since TTPD dropped. My top 10 listened tracks off the record are:

 

1) The Black Dog - 424

2) Fortnight - 255

3) Guilty as Sin? - 238

4) My Boy Only Breaks His Favourite Toys - 222

5) So Long, London - 201

6) Down Bad - 185

7) I Can Do It with a Broken Heart - 178

8) loml - 152

9) Fresh Out the Slammer - 144

10) I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) / So High School - 129

 

Love your taste. My list is this (according to SpotifyStats) :

1) Gulty as Sin?

2) Down Bad

3) Fortnight

4) My boy only breaks his favorite toys

5) The Prophecy 

6) I hate it here

7) Peter 

8) So High School

9) But Daddy i Love Him

10) imgonnagetuback

Edited August 3, 2024 by Sweeftie13

[YellowRibbon]

2 minutes ago, Sweeftie13 said:

Love your taste. My list is this (according to SpotifyStats) :

1) Gulty as Sin?

2) Down Bad

3) Fortnight

4) My boy only breaks his favorite toys

5) The Prophecy 

6) I hate it here

7) Peter 

8) So High School

9) But Daddy i Love Him

10) imgonnagetuback

Mine is...

 

1) So Long, London

2) The Tortured Poets Department 

3) My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys

4) The Albatross 

5) Down Bad

6) Fortnight 

7) But Daddy, I Love Him 

8) Fresh Out The Slammer 

9) The Black Dog

10) I Can Do It With A Broken Heart

[Starchild]

So when is Folklover1989 going to stop pretending to be a fan?

 

Cause weird "fans" that make threads for the purpose of everyone hating on someone they supposedly like are just that, weird af 

 

This place has given some of you brain rot

[Dear Reader]

I thought she was announcing The Anthology vinyls 

[cruelhprince]

is she trying to block ye with a draft phone memo 

[YellowRibbon]

She's so queen I can't 

[Dear Reader]

well this is sad