If you smoke and eat 7 bars of chocolate, who are you suggesting should be a bigger artist?
"When I'm not able to right the ship and cope with my normal coping mechanisms" There are volumes spoken between the lines here
VOLUMES! TOMES EVEN!
thinking thoughts about her wanting to perform the difficult stuff immediately to lessen its hold over her even more
OH MY GOD DOES THAT THING SHES STANDING BY HAVE THE TTPD SYMBOL ON IT🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
I know Taylor songs are from her pov so someone else could always argue this isn’t true, but what amazes me is how exacting she is in her descriptions of others - it’s the worst men that I wrote the best - while they don’t even see her. Like whether it’s someone she loves or someone she hates, she so precisely cuts through and describes them just sooo
it’s so precise and exacting and honest and she’s also able to really capture their essence/vibe? like it’s not just the words, it’s also the way the sounds sound and feel. truly a unique talent.
i went to go type literally exactly what jaime had written in her tags and then read her tags and was like
I’ve been thinking and I feel like some critics really liked folkmore because they devalue Taylor writing about her life and feelings. They are great albums and obviously have a lot of personal writing from Taylor about her own life but I feel like some critics found them more “high art” because of the facade that Taylor had evolved out of her “immature” confessional songwriting. Idk
There is a lot to unpack here and I'm posting the ask as a way to put a pin into it and open up the conversation
The Tortured Poets Department, Amazon Music Track By Track Audios
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
— Taylor on Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?
taylor, twirling hair: tell me about the first time you saw meeee
travis, for the 1000th time: so she did it in eras
things I can’t stop thinking about: that after everything that has happened to Taylor she says that she has never been more open and trusting than she is NOW
it’s literally a miracle. so proud of her, so happy for her
the 'are you not entertained?' of it all is just so loud. paired with the whole come one come all it's happening again... but then the whole so high school of it. the way she forces us to unpack our entertainment of her
YUPPPPPPPPPPPP. it challenges you as a listener. i’m obsessed.
BRIAN HIATT, BRITTANY, AND ROB SHEFFIELD MADE A TTPD BREAKDOWN EVERYONE CHEER
you know I think sometimes maybe Taylor thinks we love her because she’s like a “role model” and good advice giver or something, like if you listen to dear reader, but what I think she maybe does not always remember or know is that we love her not because we think she’s perfect or a guiding light, but because she’s just like us…human!!! imperfect, contradictory, passionate, messy, hopeful, reflective, depressed, daydreamy, bitter, unsure … and the only difference between her and us is that she puts all things all we go through into music. Music that we can listen to and adopt and relate to and not feel so weird and lonely about ourselves
oh my god you hate TTPD? it killed your love of taylor? oh my god. i’m so sorry. here let me take your eras tickets off of your hands i’m so sorry-