tortured poets

addy miller

while thank you aimee is a lot of lingering resentment over what kim did to her, “but when i count the scars, there’s a moment of truth: that there wouldn’t be this if there hadn’t been you” is a really mature lyric that i think gives us a lot of perspective on how she views 2016 (and maybe a little bit about her perspective on the sale of her masters). had 2016 never happened, reputation and its tour wouldn’t have ever happened, she wouldn’t have been pushed into healing after the absolute insanity that 1989 was, etc etc etc you all get it

Taylor for Vogue, September 2019

TAYLOR SWIFT The Eras Tour - Singapore, SG - March 2nd, 2024. Photographed by Ashok Kumar.

the thesis statement of ttpd is "she would have made such a lovely bride, what a shame she's fucked in the head"

Sapphire tears on my face, sadness became my whole sky

that’s it

Critiques of Taylor Swift in 2024 are literally just like oh noooo she does her job too much!! oh noooo too many people like her!!! Oh nooooo she works too hard!!! Oh noooo she was a little too honest in her music!! OH NOOOOOO

Peter

make me choose

anonymous asked: forever & always or better than revenge?

“Was I out of line? Did I say something way too honest? Made you run and hide like a scared little boy? I looked in to your eyes. Thought I knew you for a minute now I’m not so sure. So here’s to everything coming down to nothing. Here’s to silence that cuts me to the core. Where is this going? Thought I knew for a minute but I don’t anymore.”

TAYLOR SWIFT & POST MALONE Fortnight Music Video (2024)

[ID: A quote tweet by multitude container @bartleby_era that says, “speaking of tortured poets, today seems like as good a day as any to read, really sit with, and (crucially) be inspired to action by the work of palestinian writers, who are being executed, imprisoned, starved, displaced, and *literally* tortured.”

The original tweet if from Gaza Poets Society @PoetsGaza and is captioned “but if we resist, they kill us.” Attached is a poem by Mohammed Moussa:

We walk; no one follows us. We die; no one visits us. We shout; no one hears us. We write; no one reads us. We sleep; no one wakes us. We hope; no one saves us. We starve; no one feeds us. But if we resist, they kill us.

/End ID.]

I am once again asking Swifties to understand that Taylor Swift songs and albums are not "about" anyone other than Taylor Swift and how she is thinking or feeling or reacting to any particular stimuli in her life. And that is more true than ever with this album.

“I might just die, it would make no difference” “I died on the altar waiting for proof” “I might just not get up” “oh, what a way to die” “two graves, one gun” “I would’ve died for your sins” “I leap from the gallows” “if you wanted me dead you should’ve just said” “never quite buried” “were you sent by someone who wanted me dead?” “I think I might die if I made it”

The thing that is striking me the most about this album is just how messy and human it is. She’s not holding anything back or trying to appear one way or another. She’s just letting it all out regardless of what anyone might say. She found that trying to be polished and keep all the ugly, imperfect, human stuff in to be stifling and just said fuck it I need to do this for me. This album was an exorcism for her.