down bad - taylor swift
who’s afraid of little old me?
Jo-Jo, how are you doing? I always like when I see you pop up on the dash. How is your TTPD listening experience so far?
hi em!! I'm doing well, thank you! hope you are too? I've loved listening to ttpd!!! not gonna lie sometimes it still feels like I'm just listening to words and their meaning does not come through because I'm so overwhelmed 😅 but I absolutely love the album 🥰 how about you?
The Tortured Poets Department + my favorite lyrics
"you look like taylor swift" 🤝 "and then it was bought by me"
You look like.... Taylor Swift
The Tortured Poets Department: Taylor Swift, 2024
Denial, Bargaining, Anger, Depression, Acceptance.
Peter
i touched you for only a fortnight, but i touched you
I don’t have enough brain cells to understand who/what fortnight is about… the neighbor and husband references?
okay, so like taylor said, fortnight is sort of a prologue to the entire album. it references a lot of other songs (down bad, florida!!!, peter, guilty as sin?) there are a few different ways that it could be read, and i may not stick to this interpretation, but the below is where i landed.
fortnight sets the scene for the entire album and the events that are about to unfold by telling a story about an alternate reality about the future she was headed to in which she and joe ignore their problems, stay together, and build the life they're planning. she's in need of psychiatric help, she's drinking, she's depressed. but the other guy has re-entered her orbit. they're going to keep crossing paths. she feels insane. he's right there. she is insane. her husband cheats on her; she's enraged at him. the other guy is married to someone great; she's enraged at her too. she feels insane. she is insane, because she's fully consumed with the anger of following the bad path instead of taking the risk.
so at the end of the song, she decides she has to run for it. she has to move to america. she has to go to florida and start over. she has to buy the car and let him touch her instead of just daydreaming about it. because if she doesn't scratch the itch, if she doesn't see what happens, if she doesn't chase the guy that's been her "what else?" then well, how will she ever know? and the rest of the record is her realizing that maybe she wishes she hadn't.
feeling sooooo soft bc taylor is sharing tidbits of her personal life with us again this feels so special🥹🥹🥹🥰🥰🥰
jackantonoff: TTPD is here
my favorite work we have made together / made in the most wild unhinged moment. all the pain distilled in this album and all the laughter that came out of it. will hold those days in the studio forever as the most inspiring of my life. i adore this album and the way it came together. ttpd FOREVER
1- the day we made down bad
2- fots day
3- florida
4- laura sisk forever
5- black dog
6- electric lady
7- i love you taylor!
love you @sharp_stick / @olijacobs1 / @jack_m_manning / @electricladystudios / @aarondessner / @heyjonlow / @florence / @postmalone / @mikeyfreedomhart / @esmith109 / @zemaudu / @hutchdrums / @mriddles / @serbangheneamixes
from 1989 to TTPD (x)
Industry prognosticators are now fearlessly predicting that Taylor Swift's latest Republic rocket, THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT, will soar into the rarefied air of 2 million+ in first-week activity
As you probably know, the new set was expanded to 31 tracks mere hours after its arrival in an "ANTHOLOGY" edition that will inevitably supercharge the already-frenzied consumption underway by Swifties. POETS quickly blew past Spotify and Amazon Music records for single-day album streams; expect more records to be set very soon.
So if 2m is now considered a floor, what's the ceiling? For the time being, we'll content ourselves with reiterating that this thing is big. Very, very big.
“I’m having his baby! No I’m not, but you should see your faces!”
Aaron barely on the standard album and always on the double secret album…. She doesn’t let Aaron be bejeweled
— Taylor on Fortnight