‘the last great american dynasty’, ‘The Lucky One’ and ‘Starlight’ are all magnificent examples of story telling.
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fresh out the slammer is literally evil country sonically like the way she says “now pretty baby i’m cominnnnnnnn”
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I think Taylor singing the following in the manuscript is truly the first time she addresses the jake age gap outside of all too well 10 minute- and think that that release in 2021 really changed so much shit in her brain
She thought about how he said Since she was so wise beyond her years Everything had been above board She wasn't sure
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I can’t take credit for this thought because J suggested it while we were watching Chats & Reacts but I interpreted “your Jehovah’s Witness suit” as just like, you look stupid. BUT the way he showed up on her doorstep unsolicited and sold her a fairytale and she traded her belief system for it !!!!!!!
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Matty as a spaceship and Joe as a sailboat ship is also something I fear we will be unpacking for years to come
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I know that everyone has realized this already but I absolutely love how on such a confusing album, she gave us a through line to understanding through the track 5s.
So Long London & How Did it End being the most directly about Joe & being the track 5s is such a lovely way for her to say, “this is what was behind it all. This is what I was really so upset about.”
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what really blows my mind here is that cardigan actually did become the story of this album because when she felt lost and forgotten he came along and said she was his favorite….. only to throw her back under the bed the second he couldn’t handle the heat it’s all so
and when she did the whole “this song is about you” thing to dedicate the song to him she was thinking he was the one who put her on and made her feel cozy and warm but two weeks later he was the one stuffing her under the bed
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Anonymous asked:
“down bad, waking up in blood” me when my alarm goes off in the morning and I discover my period started in the middle of the night
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thisispattismith: This is saying I was
moved to be
mentioned in
the company
of the great
Welsh poet
Dylan Thomas.
Thank you Taylor.
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feeling sooooo soft bc taylor is sharing tidbits of her personal life with us again this feels so special🥹🥹🥹🥰🥰🥰
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And so I was out of the oven / and into the microwave
This line really sums it up for me. The microwave being the sped up version of an oven but same end result.
YUPPPPPPPPPPP. she thinks that he managed to do everything that joe did to her in the course of a weird mutual pining thing for years and then a few weeks of love, without any of the real love, and also without any of the real closure. i think she also feels like he lured her out of her relationship with joe before she was ready (and don't get me wrong, it was going to end. but i think she pins the timing on the love bombs he offered her for the moment it did).
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"A lot of the songs on The Tortured Poets Department deal with the idea of heartbreak, or loss, in a metaphor of something else. The metaphor in Down Bad is that I was comparing sort of the idea of being like, love-bombed, where someone like, you know, rocks your world and dazzles you and then just kind of abandons you, as an alien abduction, where you were abducted by aliens, like this girl was abducted by aliens, but she wanted to stay with them. And then when they drop her off back in her hometown, she's like, 'Wait, no. Where are you going? I liked it there! It was weird but it was cool. Come back' and so she's just like, the girl, the character in the song, just felt like, had just been exposed to a whole different galaxy and universe she didn't know was possible. How can you just put me back where I was before?"
— Taylor on Down Bad
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"Florida!!! is a song that I wrote with Florence + The Machine, and I think I was coming up with this idea of like, 'What happens when your life doesn't fit, or your choices you've made catch up to you?' And there's just, you're surrounded by these harsh consequences, and judgment, and circumstances did not lead you to where you thought you'd be. And you just want to escape from everything you've ever known. Is there a place you could go? I was watching like Dateline. People have these crimes that they commit. Where do they immediately skip town and go to? They go to Florida, you know? They try to reinvent themselves, have a new identity, blend in. And I think when you go through a heartbreak, there's a part of you that thinks, 'I want a new name. I want a new life. I don't want anyone to know where I've been, or know me at all.' And so that was kind of, that was the jumping off point behind, 'Where would you go to reinvent yourself and blend in?' Florida!!!"
— Taylor on Florida!!!
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"My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys is a song I wrote alone, and it's a metaphor of, you know, from the perspective of a child's toy, being somebody's favorite toy, until they break you, and then don't want to play with you anymore, which is, you know, how a lot of us are in relationships, where we are so valued by a person in the beginning, and then all of a sudden, they break us, or they devalue us in their mind, and we're still clinging onto, 'No, no, no, you should've seen them the first time they saw me. They'll come back to that. They'll get back to that.' So it's kind of like, a song about denial, really. So that you can live in this world where there's still hope for a toxic, broken relationship."
— Taylor on My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
I think anyone stuck on the M. H of it all is doing themselves a disservice. If you must death to the muse first do that. It’s not pretty on purpose but that is what makes it so excellent
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The Tortured Poets Department. An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time - one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure. This period of the author’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up. There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed. And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted. This writer is of the firm belief that our tears become holy in the form of ink on a page. Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it.
And then all that’s left behind is the tortured poetry.
THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT is out now.
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The Tortured Poets Department. An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time - one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure. This period of the author’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up. There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed. And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted. This writer is of the firm belief that our tears become holy in the form of ink on a page. Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it.
And then all that’s left behind is the tortured poetry.
THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT is out now.