you can't fight the tears that ain't coming

ALSO girlie literally told us she was love bombed and it felt like an alien abduction because it was so foreign to feel that loved and you’re still gonna sit there and be like “well she should’ve known better” like ????

i love this album because for the first time in maybe her entire career she's not apologising for a single thing. the album is angry and raw and she's like "here's this chapter of my life, the sad, the bad, the terrible and it's all raw and fucking angry for you all to see and i don't need absolution for a single thing" like she's not asking forgiveness for a single thing from anyone and that's what makes the album so fucking heartbreaking

it's like she's so angry she doesn't give a fuck about biting her tongue or double guessing her words. she doesn't care if she comes out embarrassing, or naive, or angry, or pathetic, or whatever. she had to get this off her chest and she wasn't gonna ask for either permission nor forgiveness from her muses but also not from herself either. she said what she had to said how she had to say it and called it a day, hurt feelings be damned

ttpd is like... this fucking sucked... it was my fault... fuck joe... this also fucking sucked... fuck matty... i thought i was gonna die... straight up commit me to an asylum... FUCK matty... fuck joe... no one knows me... fuck kim kardashian... i created every problem and every consequence i have to face... please see me as human... i am exposing my flaws so you see me as a real person... fuck jake gyllenhaal... if you're gonna be so up my business you better realize how fucked up my business is... also hi killatrav ily... there is nothing redeeming about this chapter of my life... hi mom ily... this ALSO fucking sucked... there may be good in the world... here is every sin i have ever committed... i was promised love and forever repeatedly and no one ever delivered... my reaction to trauma was awful... i made so many bad decisions... if you're gonna crucify me do it for good reasons... are you not entertained?

I CAN DO IT WITH A BROKEN HEART

the amount of times taylor was promised a future with marriage and kids, from a older man who is societally at that stage in life (but she wasn’t good enough), to someone who wanted it so bad (in the wrong way) that he almost trapped her, to someone she grew up with for years and thought would love to be with her but that wasn’t true, to someone who came back in her life for a few weeks and promised her everything at her lowest and then ghosted her… built and broken down from the same high, promised what she wants the most and had it taken away repeatedly, and that leading into the prophecy and how she is fated to be left alone forever is just heartbreaking. i think one of the things i feel most in TTPD is resentment of these men making false promises, her hating herself because she always believes them and goes crazy when they leave.

also i think i was pretty on the money when i said TTPD wasn’t going to be an album of burn books but rather a story about what this man did (ultimately, two men) and how it made her feel. because at the end of the day this really is a story about her. they’re just characters.

singing about three different men carelessly promising her marriage and babies with no intention to follow through and then having a song begging the universe to change the prophecy that she’s doomed to be alone with no soul mate I …. *deep breathe*

that post thats like taylor swift is for people who have never gotten over anything in their lives ever is so true because tortured poets is really like well okay yeah fuck joe but really fuck matty oh also fuck you kim kardashian and while we're here fuck jake gyllenhaal too

taylor putting out a song about being careful to not forget she’s a human and explaining that she is in fact very human throughout the whole album and then people still being mad at her because she’s a human it’s all so

I actually think reducing interpretations of songs down to if it’s about Joe or mh does a massive disservice to what this is…taylor is finally centering herself. It’s about the themes of those life events not those people specifically. Things are now way bigger and more intertwined and complicated that clean chapters per person. Someone one time posted something about how women in our 30’s are finally no longer constantly perceived by men so we learn to live outside the male gaze…this album is Taylor’s gaze

me after listening to the most emotionally devastating song I have ever heard because an even more upsetting one is about to start

I think you guys need to learn to be ok with not knowing exactly what Taylor is talking about in her songs and also acknowledge that even if you think you know exactly what person or specific situation she is referring to, that does not make it true 🫶🏻

“this song is about matty” “this song is about joe” this song is actually about my 3 month relationship from 2020. What now

we went from ‘my waves meet your shore ever and evermore’ to ‘one last souvenir from my trip to your shores’ 🫠

"come one come all / it's happening again" actually makes me feel sadness and empathy, without knowing further context. Gives me circus vibes. I admire her bravery to keep putting herself out there knowing that there will be some very unpleasant reactions from people and uncomfortable outcomes she'll have to reckon with as a result.

but then again it was authenticity that drew me to taylor in the first place, why her music continues to resonate with me as we have both grown up and changed, and that is one of the main reasons why i've stuck around

charlie puth waking up today