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Seeing people say "wait TTPD is growing on me" is soooo frustrating because how could you ever think you're going to form a fully-fledged opinion on a new piece of music after listening to it once???? Our culture of instant gratification is ruining us.

the fact is it’ll be funny if taylor adds ttpd to the set and it’ll be funny if she doesn’t. both ways will generate the funniest reactions on my dashboard & i get to see french swifties freak out either way. that said

additional question

TTPD selling 2.6 million units in its first week is ~techincally~ the second biggest opening week of all time, but it is for all intents and purposes THE biggest album opening week of all time, when you adjust for how much the consumption of music and purchases have changed since Adele's record was set (and what counts as a sale and how those sales were made).

It is not a stretch to call this the biggest first week for an album since we've been tracking and reporting on album sales. INSANITY.

god i love taylor album release nights

lover era being 5 years ago doesn’t sit right with me

Getaway Car / august / The Other Side of the Door mashup lyrics (Melbourne Night 2)

Aaaand their possible connection to The Tortured Poets Department

I’m going to do this for each of the mashups she performed at the 2024 shows, because I firmly believe that she chose the songs for a reason and arranged the lyrics / switched between songs carefully to craft entirely new stories. A lot of the themes those songs hinted at have since been explored in detail on the new album. This mashup, which discusses the concept of cheating from three different perspectives, is perhaps the best example. She switches POVs between the cheater in the getaway car, the other woman realizing she never had her lover in the first place, and the woman who had to leave after being cheated on but still misses her ex.

Taylor switches to the chorus of august

back to Getaway Car

and onto the outro of The Other Side of the Door

She wants to leave her relationship, and this man is the perfect getaway car/‘reason’ for her to do so. Of course she would leave. She quickly realizes that the new relationship is doomed as well. They never had a shot. He was never hers. The entire relationship seemed to only last a single month and was over when the summer ended. At the end of the mashup, she assumes the position of the woman who was cheated on. Was she worth this mess? I need you.

See: Fortnight, Fresh Out the Slammer, loml

Republic’s Taylor Swift has notched the second-biggest album debut of all time with THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT. Swift’s 31-track marvel moves an astounding 2.6m units in its opening week, knocking NSYNC’s No Strings Attached out of the #2 spot (Adele’s 25 remains the all-time #1 with 3.4m+). Physical sales account for 1.9m of the total, with record-setting vinyl sales contributing nearly half of the total. As we reported earlier today, Swift also set a new first-week streaming record, logging 865m streams.

Stay tuned to see the full HITS Top 50 later today. It's been a while since we tabulated a sales week of this magnitude, so we're going to go stare at some clouds for a bit.

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new swiftie banners just dropped! (part 1)

part 2

part 3

#needs holiday themed versions#for when im a swiftie and it’s also christmas or halloween

when you're a swiftie and it's also christmas or halloween:

new for 1989TV!

ttpd time!

(op loves when Taylor makes country music)

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