album Taylor Swift - 'THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT'

[wastedpotential]

Just now, PoisonedIvy said:

Sorry everyone, Last Kiss is a spiritual experience for me. Literal holy texts.

 

Yeah it's a standout Hymn

 

Me and the grannies at church always get into Whitney-offs when it comes up at the end of the Sermon Now service

 

[Vespertine]

I refreshed and saw all the new pages and got excited that maybe the credits dropped too. 

 

Nope, there's just a Peak Low listening party + round table discussion going on  

[PoisonedIvy]

7 minutes ago, Achilles. said:

Can I tell you about a boy named Ronan?

 

I don't want any Girl Scout cookies 

 

[Scandalous]

9 minutes ago, PoisonedIvy said:

Name a song with sadder lyrics than Last Kiss. I'm not sure it's possible.

 

 

I'll keep up with our old friends just to ask them how you are
Hope it's nice where you are

 

 

the PAIN

[wastedpotential]

1 minute ago, Achilles. said:

Yeah. Mine being Love Story but as a "real girl" cosplay instead of as fairytale dressup was meant to signify that she had "matured.” 
 

(Funny how everyone sees this retread for what it is, but hasn't fully fathomed that both songs are lifting from the Mary's Song blueprint—and that she did it again and again and again on nearly every album she's made. Ugh. Mother Mary's Hymn is line the single most important song in her catalog).

mmmhmmm exactly Mary's Hymn IS the genesis of the Holy Scriptures

 

[Brooklyn Baby]

hoax is sadder than Last Kiss

 

Had to spill

[Achilles.]

2 minutes ago, fab said:

track 2s being the best song on their albums, a streak that has been going on since 2019 

But Cornelia Street was track 9.
And False God was track 13.

And Miss Americana was track 7.

And Lover was track 3.

And all are **** Summer enders. 
 

[PoisonedIvy]

Today is the second most popular day in this album thread btw

 

[Klein]

Just now, Diesel is Desire said:

hoax is sadder than Last Kiss

 

Had to spill

Honestly, hoax is a very good qualifier for the title too. 

[PoisonedIvy]

Long Live being a literal song that could play at the end of a church service.

 

[wastedpotential]

Just now, Achilles. said:

But Cornelia Street was track 9.
And False God was track 13.

And Miss Americana was track 7.

And Lover was track 3.

And all are **** Summer enders. 
 

Corny Street? New Americana? I'll give you Fellow God and Louvre (and throw in AfterChrist), but not those two

 

[Klein]

Just now, PoisonedIvy said:

Today is the second most popular day in this album thread btw

 

The power of Speak Now + Track length. 

 

 

I fear for tomorrow with Red. 

 

[Magickarp]

I Can Fix Him's runtime would fit a IDSB sound 

[wastedpotential]

1 minute ago, Diesel is Desire said:

hoax is sadder than Last Kiss

 

Had to spill

hoax is the best song in Lord's entire discography, I know that's right

 

 

Lets have that conversation

[Peak Now]

If This Was A Movie is top 5 on Speak Now but y'all ain't ready for that discussion yet

 

[wastedpotential]

1 minute ago, PoisonedIvy said:

Today is the second most popular day in this album thread btw

 

Well we're all in a top 4 poster race, so I can't say I'm surprised. 75% of the posts come from our never-ending discourse, beloved

 

[Klein]

Just now, AndThenTheCocaine said:

If This Was A Movie is top 5 on Speak Now but y'all ain't ready for that discussion yet

 

Unfortunately Blondie herself BURIED that discussion altogether 

 

[Achilles.]

A potentially controversial opinion from the world's biggest Loser hater: "Cornelia Street" is the closest she has ever come to recapturing the feeling of Speak Now in a song released outside of that album. 
 

[PoisonedIvy]

Ours has one of her best chorus melodies. I've always loved it.

 

[chiliam]

Now we have the excuse if this doesnt break Spotify 24h record.

Like no one will repeat streaming those over 4+ min songs. This will serve a 30 tea.

[Klein]

1 minute ago, Achilles. said:

A potentially controversial opinion from the world's biggest Loser hater: "Cornelia Street" is the closest she has ever come to recapturing the feeling of Speak Now in a song released outside of that album. 
 

Now that's an opinion I'm gonna have to sleep on because it seems like there's something there but at the same time that sounds so scandalous 

 

[wastedpotential]

Just now, Klein said:

Unfortunately Blondie herself BURIED that discussion altogether 

 

I don't know what she was smoking that week, but the entire rollout of the eras celebration tracks was AWFUL. Time-stamping them as released YEARS previous? Attaching them to the random albums that they have a tenuous connection to (at best), the whole ******* If This Was From Moses mess, and releasing that scourgeful Lover reject a week before making her Hobo dumping public (but after it had happened)

 

[PoisonedIvy]

"Don't you worry your pretty little mind,

people throw rocks at things that shine"

 

has got to be in her top 10 couplets ever.

 

(along with "you made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter,” and "I took your matches before fire could catch me so don't look now / I'm shining like fireworks over your sad empty town,” of course. Oh Preach Now your holy texts are so sacred). 
 

[wastedpotential]

2 minutes ago, Achilles. said:

A potentially controversial opinion from the world's biggest Loser hater: "Cornelia Street" is the closest she has ever come to recapturing the feeling of Speak Now in a song released outside of that album. 
 

 

Just now, Klein said:

Now that's an opinion I'm gonna have to sleep on because it seems like there's something there but at the same time that sounds so scandalous 

 

Yeah... I'm on board (even though I do not like the song) but the thought terrifies me and I'll need to ruminate on it

 

[Dear Reader]

3 minutes ago, Achilles. said:

A potentially controversial opinion from the world's biggest Loser hater: "Cornelia Street" is the closest she has ever come to recapturing the feeling of Speak Now in a song released outside of that album. 
 

I can get behind this, Cornelia Street is godlike