album Taylor Swift - 'THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT'

[brokee]

I like the way she pronounces "long-suffering propriety" 

[brokee]

Also, forgot to post recently I started to like  How Did It End a lot. I didn't think I would end up liking that song but here we are. my latest song to like from TTPD.

[Enrique523]

On 10/1/2024 at 1:39 AM, wastedpotential said:

lets absolutely ignore how many of those units came from the first week but yes it's bonkers 

 

I'm too lazy to look up the numbers but I'd be amazed if there were more than like 5 non-Taylor albums this decade to hit 6x (Sour, SOS, Dangerous, OTAAT (maybe?), and probably a rap album or two I'm not super familiar with) but even then I might be overestimating the cumulative units for some of these 

Taylor is really in a league of her own, no other female artist in the past has had this kind of consistent commercial success with each album. Even some of her previous albums that initially underperformed (like Reputation and Lover) ended up being massive smash hits thanks to their longevity, especially Lover which is now her most streamed album on Spotify 

 

I've said it many times and i'll say it again: i'm SO GLAD i'm a Swiftie, if i was a hater i'd be so miserable. It's NOT fun to see an artist you hate being so successful all the time 

[hoax]

4 minutes ago, Enrique523 said:

Taylor is really in a league of her own, no other female artist in the past has had this kind of consistent commercial success with each album. Even some of her previous albums that initially underperformed (like Reputation and Lover) ended up being massive smash hits thanks to their longevity, especially Lover which is now her most streamed album on Spotify 

 

I've said it many times and i'll say it again: i'm SO GLAD i'm a Swiftie, if i was a hater i'd be so miserable. It's NOT fun to see an artist you hate being so successful all the time 

No I can't imagine what my life would be like if my 2007 ass self had latched onto Rihanna or Gaga instead of Lord 

 

Every loss is a victory in the long run, in a way that no one else is seeing 

[Ivan_brit]

 

 

Best Female Single of The Year is Back!!! 

 

Poests singles + Is It Over Now at this year game

 

Round 01:

 

 

Good Luck to Taylor 

[hoax]

46 minutes ago, brokee said:

Also, forgot to post recently I started to like  How Did It End a lot. I didn't think I would end up liking that song but here we are. my latest song to like from TTPD.

I've definitely had a new favorite TTPD song basically every single week since it came out. That's why I'm so glad it was a 31 track double album, because we get the chance to really explore the depths of each track with time 

[Incandescent Glow]

11 minutes ago, wastedpotential said:

No I can't imagine what my life would be like if my 2007 ass self had latched onto Rihanna or Gaga instead of Lord 

 

Every loss is a victory in the long run, in a way that no one else is seeing 

You'd be me. 

 

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Which is not necessarily something I'd wish for you but still 

[hoax]

3 minutes ago, Klein said:

You'd be me. 

 

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Which is not necessarily something I'd wish for you but still 

It's a very good thing for me that Taylor released Fearless in 2008 because I'd very likely have gone for The Fame and become the most annoying Liddo around 

 

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Being a Rihanna fan probably wouldn't be a bad thing except for the whole... retirement thing 

 

[Magickarp]

Never in my Wildest Dreams did i ever think SHS would be a single  please give me a retro vibe MV like this but with that old school filter. Her and Travis can be dressed up like their younger selves, with her bringing back the Self Titled hairdo  I need it to smash so bad, just so she'll take the hint and finally give me that rock album

 

 

(Too bad it will be **** with her directing) 

(Kahn finished directing his movie, please call him up)

[chiliam]

15 minutes ago, wastedpotential said:

I've definitely had a new favorite TTPD song basically every single week since it came out. That's why I'm so glad it was a 31 track double album, because we get the chance to really explore the depths of each track with time 

I eat up those 31 tracks. Like even The Manuscript or Robin which i hate so much now has there moments.

This album needs time and patient to digest. Hope she didnt give us anymore new music, TV until at least next summer.

Lets release Down bad ,Gas, My boy as singles.

[brokee]

16 minutes ago, wastedpotential said:

I've definitely had a new favorite TTPD song basically every single week since it came out. That's why I'm so glad it was a 31 track double album, because we get the chance to really explore the depths of each track with time 

Actually, that's the same reason I didn't complain about the length cause the weeks and months go by you'll find new songs that you'll fall in love with and it's a good feeling  also it's Taylor so I have nothing to complain about her packing up the album I mean you not gonna like the whole album but you'll eventually find songs that you like even after months. 

[Magickarp]

Anthology ate TTPD on release, but after 6 months? She's eating aged like milk even more

 

Black Dog

Albatross

How Did It End?

SHS

I Hate It Here

The Prophecy

Peter

The Bolter

Robin

 

[Incandescent Glow]

13 minutes ago, wastedpotential said:

It's a very good thing for me that Taylor released Fearless in 2008 because I'd very likely have gone for The Fame and become the most annoying Liddo around 

 

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Being a Rihanna fan probably wouldn't be a bad thing except for the whole... retirement thing 

 

Well, living in France, good luck hearing about that Fearless you speak of. 

 

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But to be fair, I also didn't become a stan after discovering her through We Are Never, Trouble, 22, Shake It Off, Blank Space and Look What You Made Me Do. 

 

I think the thing that makes me the most annoyed to have seen the light so late is that the re-recordings process is not tied to nostalgia for me. It's mostly like "oh, a new version of a song I discovered 3 years ago". 

 

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Oh and I shouldn't forget about the fact that I was not inclined to like her back in the day because I remember of seeing someone mention that Speak Now would be blocking LOUD from #1 so... well. 

 

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[hoax]

15 minutes ago, brokee said:

Actually, that's the same reason I didn't complain about the length cause the weeks and months go by you'll find new songs that you'll fall in love with and it's a good feeling  also it's Taylor so I have nothing to complain about her packing up the album I mean you not gonna like the whole album but you'll eventually find songs that you like even after months. 

I started off really liking maybe 26 of the tracks, and now I'm up to 30/31  

 

The day may come for Kim eventually, too 

[hoax]

10 minutes ago, Klein said:

Well, living in France, good luck hearing about that Fearless you speak of. 

 

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But to be fair, I also didn't become a stan after discovering her through We Are Never, Trouble, 22, Shake It Off, Blank Space and Look What You Made Me Do. 

 

I think the thing that makes me the most annoyed to have seen the light so late is that the re-recordings process is not tied to nostalgia for me. It's mostly like "oh, a new version of a song I discovered 3 years ago". 

 

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Oh and I shouldn't forget about the fact that I was not inclined to like her back in the day because I remember of seeing someone mention that Speak Now would be blocking LOUD from #1 so... well. 

 

Well yes but that would mean I'd have to live in France 

 

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kidding, I do love visiting France though several of my... least favorite university peers were from France ddd

I'm just glad Love Story got spammed so ******* hard on the radio here because I really was tempted by miss Poker Face and that'd've been disastrous 

[Kyle-x]

I chose this cyclone with you… ah that's a classic 

[Enrique523]

2 hours ago, wastedpotential said:

No I can't imagine what my life would be like if my 2007 ass self had latched onto Rihanna or Gaga instead of Lord 

 

Every loss is a victory in the long run, in a way that no one else is seeing 

LORD HELP ME if i became a Rihanna or Gaga stan, it would've made my stanning life so different... for the worse. I can't imagine having to deal with no album since 2016 or pretending to care about an acting career 

 

The thing that is also fascinating with Taylor is how she took negative things that happened in her career and turned them all into the biggest commercial comeback ANY female pop star ever had. Losing her masters to Scooter was obviously traumatic for her but it allowed her to do the TVs, which played a huge role in the GP's current connection with her discography as a whole. Same with COVID, if it wasn't for COVID we maybe wouldn't have gotten Folkmore (the beginning of her career revival) and she wouldn't have waited so long before touring again, which mean we may not have had the Eras Tour, the tour that consolidated her massive comeback and made her the biggest star in the world (16 years into her career, how insane is that ).

 

Her career's trajectory is so unique, she really knew how to take advantage of opportunities in a way almost no other popstar ever did. And this is why she fully deserves to be the #1 Pop Girl, she more than earned it through her hard work, talent and intelligence. Long may she reign, happy to have been a stan since 2010 

[Achilles.]

2 hours ago, wastedpotential said:

No I can't imagine what my life would be like if my 2007 ass self had latched onto Rihanna or Gaga instead of Lord 

 

Every loss is a victory in the long run, in a way that no one else is seeing 

It's so funny that you chose those two names in particular because Rihanna was my first favorite pop star, quickly joined and replaced by Gaga. I joined social media as a little monster and had so many twitter friends among that fandom and used to get "top tweets" (the precursor to viral tweets) on Gaga trends all the time. Then I joined ATRL as a monster (and Natalia Kills stan) but didn't fit in with them here so I ended up finding a home with the swifties. Which was kinda funny, because I had been a huge Taylor fan since her first song but I never really interacted with her fandom until coming here in 2011.

[hoax]

1 minute ago, Achilles. said:

It's so funny that you chose those two names in particular because Rihanna was my first favorite pop star, quickly joined and replaced by Gaga. I joined social media as a little monster and had so many twitter friends among that fandom and used to get "top tweets" (the precursor to viral tweets) on Gaga trends all the time. Then I joined ATRL as a monster (and Natalia Kills stan) but didn't fit in with them here so I ended up finding a home with the swifties. Which was kinda funny, because I had been a huge Taylor fan since her first song but I never really interacted with her fandom until coming here in 2011.

ddd I chose my #2 and #3 and I think they were pretty popular alternates for the Taylor fans who weren't crossing over from like... the Carrie Underwood fandom 

[Achilles.]

3 minutes ago, wastedpotential said:

ddd I chose my #2 and #3 and I think they were pretty popular alternates for the Taylor fans who weren't crossing over from like... the Carrie Underwood fandom 

I crossed over from the Shania Twain and Faith Hill fandom.

 

I actually got to Rihanna and Gaga the old fashioned organic way. Both were payola'd to me by friends in high school gym class. A female friend in freshman year introduced me to "Disturbia" and Evanescence, establishing my long-standing preference for "dark pop." I lived for Rated R and basically dropped Rihanna the day I got home from school and heard OGITW the first time (nearly as catastrophic as hearing WANEGOD for the first time, though I got over it too). Then in sophomore year gym class, my gay friend used to tell me all about Gaga and I was weirded out and uninterested, but the back to back punch of Paparazzi at the VMAs followed by Bad Romance won me over in a heartbeat. Dark pop, high concept, performance art was right up my alley at the time. I ate it all the way up. 
 

It was so funny being a swiftie on here back in early 2010s. Being lumped in with the Underwood and Lambert stans despite having a dubstep smash. The way were seen as niche country stans in the way the KPop stans are mostly irrelevant outside of their thread and then suddenly we weren't just competing with their faves, but stomping all over them. Hilarious times.  
 

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Actual ATRL user testimonials from 2012-2014:

 

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These Taylor stans are like King Cobras I swear. They normally mind their own business but step into their territory......

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That grimacing stare like she knows the other pop girls are just her minions.

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I just can't anymore. Our faves might as well take their wigs and just hand them to Taylor.

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Taylor plz stop making music

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Was only a matter of time before you stanned for Taylor: the queen of country, pop, dubstep, music, breathing, water, and most species of land mammals.

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It's like Taylor just died or something

(The last one is about her iTunes domination).

 

[hoax]

12 minutes ago, Achilles. said:

I crossed over from the Shania Twain and Faith Hill fandom.

 

I actually got to Rihanna and Gaga the old fashioned organic way. Both were payola'd to me by friends in high school gym class. A female friend in freshman year introduced me to "Disturbia" and Evanescence, establishing my long-standing preference for "dark pop." I lived for Rated R and basically dropped Rihanna the day I got home from school and heard OGITW the first time (nearly as catastrophic as hearing WANEGOD for the first time, though I got over it too). Then in sophomore year gym class, my gay friend used to tell me all about Gaga and I was weirded out and uninterested, but the back to back punch of Paparazzi at the VMAs followed by Bad Romance won me over in a heartbeat. Dark pop, high concept, performance art was right up my alley at the time. I ate it all the way up. 
 

It was so funny being a swiftie on here back in early 2010s. Being lumped in with the Underwood and Lambert stans despite having a dubstep smash. The way were seen as niche country stans in the way the KPop stans are mostly irrelevant outside of their thread and then suddenly we weren't just competing with their faves, but stomping all over them. Hilarious times.  
 

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(The last one is about her iTunes domination).

 

Taylor was really the first artist I ever really got into (actually it was Gwen Stefani circa like... 2005 but I dropped her so quickly it hardly counts nnn), and all because I was devouring Teardrops on the local country station that my dad liked to the point that I made them buy the CD for me. Around the same time (I guess right as Umbrella was smashing and GGGB got released), I really got into Rih's music and I might've gone that way if Taylor didn't release Love Story and then Fearless back to back, after which I lost interest in literally all non-Taylor music for about 6 months, and didn't start tuning back in until Poker Face. I was riding hard for Taylor and Gaga (and also TD era Katy nnn) and I actually first got on Twitter to celebrate the release of Born This Way 

 

Then, I got burned out on Katy and Gaga went... in a Reverse Warholian direction that I wasn't really interested in, and at the same time I was fighting in the trenches of the internet and the school lunchroom with the One Direction fans and that just glued me to Taylor in some sort of trauma bond. I guess it also helps that Sermons Now and Redemption came out and absolutely bowled my English Teacher's Favorite Student™ ass over during that same period, but I've really never given a second thought to another artist since. I will admit that I thought the absolute meltdowns over WANEGBT were hilarious because clearly y'all weren't ride or die for Taylor 

 

I've spent several hours going back to read the Red and 1989 era Taylor threads in the classic archive and they're ******* insane in hindsight. So many things have changed, and yet nothing has really changed, either 

[rebeltwat]

There was danger in the heat of my touch, he saw forever so he smashed it up if I had a nickel 

[Achilles.]

8 minutes ago, wastedpotential said:

I was devouring Teardrops on the local country station that my dad liked to the point that I made them buy the CD

I got my first ipod for my 13th birthday a few weeks before "Tim McGraw" was released and that was when iTunes was still really new so they were doing promos to attract users. One of their promos was putting a code for 2 free downloads onto cereal boxes. I had the only ipod in the house, so I got the code. I used it on Tim McGraw, my first ever iTunes purchase. (The other download, incidentally, was used on a song by that artist). And a few months later I was sitting at the desktop playing a computer game when my parents came home from Walmart and gave me Taylor's album and I still remember being upset because I'd already bought Tim McGraw and that meant I wasted my code!  
 

It was very convenient for us that Taylor was levelling up her career at the same time Gaga started stumbling in hers.

[Achilles.]

Anyways, back to the topic at hand. 
 

Peter and So High School just pushed Lover and I Did Something Bad out of my top 150 most played Taylor songs. That puts 10 PTSD songs in the top 150, while reducing Lover to 6 and reputation to 8. PTSD is also poised to pass reputation in total plays as early as tomorrow.

 

There are ~30 plays between my tenth and eleventh most played songs on PTSD, so it seems like the top 10 is starting to establish a firm lead over the rest of the album. 

 

[YellowRibbon]

The way I basically joined this fandom in like 2015/2016... I started listening to LORD back in 2012 though, when IKYWT came out, then I kinda missed the rest of the Red era and came back gagging when I saw the Blank Space video for the first time on YouTube. I joined Twitter afterwards and there I met so many mutuals with whom I'm still friends to this day. 

 

Whenever I think of the 1989 era I remember waiting for the premiere of the BB MV, then the OOTW MV, then the meltdowns when that New Romantics video came out, then the entire "Is Turkey a nickname or a country?" mess during that T&T Event (ahhh the memories).