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One week of Tortured Poets (& Thoughts on the Manuscript)

We’ve had this epic double album for a week now and I’m still not over how much of a masterpiece this is. I’m very carefully saying this might be my new favourite TS album.

Still too many thoughts and feelings to process and still a little scared of anything that might happen a week from now (a fortnight after the release). And we’re getting a TTPD eras tour set, I’m so stoked, if she sings But Daddy I love Him to a full stadium every night from May I might just cease to exist.

Slowly coming around to just how much she’s coming for Scott and the industry as a whole, even though I was expecting that, I’m still shocked about the unhinged raw anger in these songs and I’m loving it. Also, love how much even the swifties have to admit that pretty much none of this album is about JA. I don’t even care who they think it’s about instead, I just love that they were all expecting the ultimate breakup album and instead they got an emotional exorcism of twenty years worth of trauma and a final goodbye. ☺️

A saw someone this morning say ‘The Manuscript’ would have been a great alternative title for this album and I would almost agree. The concept is very much a receipt of all the traumas and lessons learned, and that’s why this song is at the very end. The manuscript of my story is done, final page of this story is written and now I’m leaving that to you as I depart. I’ve also seen it be compared to the ATW10 short film and the lyric video style as a movie script is really interesting:

This is definitely a movie of Taylor’s story and she’s the narrator. The song itself also references a movie being made with ‘the actors hitting their marks and the tears were falling in synchronicity with the score’. A lot of film references. The whole album has a lot of references in the lyrics to film titles, good post here.

So is this about the ATW10 short film or a film that’s yet to come? She says on the first page that the scene is set inside the Tortured Poets Department at night and the person reading the manuscript is part of the scene (she vs I at the end) whereas Taylor is the voice over narrator. She also presenting ‘the entire torrid affair’, not just one relationship, all of it, the ENTIRE story. So, it feels more like a memoir or a documentary film to me than a short film. And I don’t know what this is an advert for but TN shared it to their story yesterday (it’s very film-coded):

There’s a TTPD bus outside what looks like a movie theatre, and the billboard looks to be showing the ‘story of us’ scene from the fortnight mv. (There’s also what looks like Stark tower in the background with a monster/crocodile. No idea why but it stood out to me🤷🏻‍♀️)

#the manuscript #ttpd and movie things #the story of us

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1. I’m too gay for this picture, I’m obsessed 😍

2. Is that a desk in the background?

3. That’s not the evermore microphone, that’s the mic from the rep tour piano…. 🤔

#eras tour 2.0? #exciting times #I know that mic 🎙️ #obsessed with those dungarees

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#wow these are gorgeous #tortured poets

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😍😍😍😍

#jodie comer #so cute #and so hot

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Just realised

“The story isn’t mine anymore”

Because she’s ending the story of Taylor Swift ™️ and telling her own story. Taylor Swift (Taylor’s Version) if you will 😉

Rep tv/karma will burn the house down and TS Taylor’s version will be the start of her new self.

#the manuscript #reputation (taylor’s version) #taylor swift (taylor's version)

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I have thoughts on this, especially given that the lyric video is also styled as a movie script. Will post some thoughts later.

just realized that in The Manuscript she uses the pronoun "she" throughout the entire song until the end where she says "now and then i reread the manuscript" because she's literally READING THE MANUSCRIPT TO US

#the manuscript #ttpd

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👆🏼

I am dusting off my little blog here because TTPD has my mind absolutely reeling. I am really wondering if anyone else listened to this and had this feeling that the album confirmed everything that they were thinking was going on with her. I know we talk so much about reading her songs beneath the surface of muses or certain details used to craft a story, but to me, TTPD reads so strongly of her reckoning with her life in the industry. like, it's so much more than the relationships. it's the comp het, it's the religious trauma, it's the being exploited as a child star, it's deep wound of abandonment and neglect when she as a person got split off from her brand and both could not thrive, it's giving everything to this brand and career and fandom and that still never being enough. it's her codependency with the very people that exploit her. it's the fact that she is bigger than she ever imagined and none of it feels how she wanted. it's the simultaneous love and resentment she has towards her family, and relationships, and career, and yes, even her fans.

the rawness of this album, the unrefined feel, the summation poem talking about this as mania, the continuation of the cage imagery and themes of escaping to her mind/fantasy, the coping with criticism, numbing it all with alcohol, the willingness to burn it all down and disgrace her name because none of this is what she wants or at least not how she wants.

I have seen so many criticisms of the album and honestly, I understand where they are coming from, but I also think the things they criticize make the exact point of what this body of work is - something that exists for it's own sake to turn things back on the people that made her into what she is now. art created not to be acclaimed but because it demands to be expressed. it is an exorcism, an expulsion. it is something that erupted from her. and it's so meta because this fandom and the industry are voyeurs in an echo chamber so desperate to see what they want that they miss that this is about them. that is what makes it brilliant to me - it is self-indulgent and metaphorical, and complex, and so direct, but yet still masked just enough that people miss it. her entire life has become performance art. it is a play within a play. and I fear the audience has not caught on.

it feels like she is reclaiming it all. I feel like this could either be a hint at a new beginning or a signal that she has broken and this is the end. this felt like the tell-all memoir written in code that everyone else will finally understand when she really leaves this spotlight. it's the lucky one come to life. she is daydreaming about fucking it all and leaving this life behind so she can finally have some goddamn peace.

I love this album for it as art. it is so expressive. it is so heartbreaking. it's messy and nuanced, and I think it is going way the fuck over most people's heads, especially when you really dig into poetry being the theme and the specific works she references. it's only been a week and I am just starting to really dig in but talk about a fucking iceberg.

#this #everything

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🥹🥹🥹

#Taylor is out of the glass closet! #I mean not yet but guys I’m so excited for her #let this be her time #pleeeaaase

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Happy Lesbian Visibility Day ❤️🧡🤍🩷

my favourite picture

#lesbian visibility day

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Taylor Swift via YouTube Shorts: A fortnight til Paris 🤍

#omg 🥵🫣🫣🫣 #it’s always the rehearsal outfits #so hot #also is that a white mic??

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“A rose by any other name is a scandal”

Rose= flower of love. But when it’s two women kissing it can’t possibly be love, it’s just a scandal for the tabloids. Still makes me livid 10 years later 😡

no one can convince me this isn't about karlie/kissgate

and then the "you don't get to tell me you feel bad" is so fucking heart wrenching

#the albatross #who’s afraid of little old me

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But anon, imagine (if your empathy can stretch that far) being a traumatised queer woman having to hide a whole family, and all the majority of your so-called fans see you as is a privileged straight woman who complains a lot for someone who has no obvious reason to and who deserves a boyfriend with anger issues.

She just released an album of 31 tracks full of suffering, pain and anger and for what reason, because she was mad that someone called her a snake once and pointed a finger because she dated a problematic man? Honestly, if you think she’s straight, you must think she’s such a thin-skinned petty bitch. She’s a tough kid, she said it herself, it takes more than some internet trolls or a breakup to break her. Like, maybe, two decades worth of religious trauma, forced closeting, gaslighting, a sexual assault trial and then some. Believe us, that nobody here wants that for her, but listening to someone and acknowledging their suffering might just be a better way to show empathy than to assume they’re just a bit wingey about breakups.

Gaylors would truly rather Taylor be a traumatized queer woman who has to hide a whole family, than her be a woman who fell in love with a man you consider is beneath her, or any man at all for that matter.

We’re just going by her own lyrics and what she presents to her fans on a silver platter for her public image, pal. They do not match up. At all.

#anon listen up #lesson in empathy

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Why has nobody told me yet that the pill box for the FORGET HIM pill is labelled with two dates from Taylor’s birthday 12/13/89 until April 19, 24??

NO MORE FORGETTING H(ER)!!

#fortnight mv

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On the subject of rings, has anybody had thoughts on why Post Malone’s character in the fortnight mv sometimes wears a wedding ring and sometimes not?

When they’re working in the TPD and when he’s in his glass phone box he’s wearing the ring but not in the shot where he’s dressed the same as Taylor in the paper storm. Notably he also doesn’t have his tattoos in that scene. Thoughts?

(I haven’t really decided if I think he’s meant to represent the muse or Taylor’s own male POV).

I mean… 😏

#fortnight mv

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There's also noticeably so many references to wedding rings and talks of children (imaginary rings/at dinner you take my ring off my middle finger.../talking rings and talking cradles/no, you can't come to the wedding), like, Taylor, honey, you go and torch that dolls house and put a big fat ring on your finger and show your gorgeous wife off to the world, you deserve it. Fuck the wine moms.

there are so many songs about the failed coming out(s) and she’s so feral pissed and like girl so glad you wrote this and got it out I love you so much do you want a hug

#kaylor #the tortured poets department #fresh out the slammer #loml #but daddy i love him

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jaMEs is coming home to betty 💕

#betty #cardigan #fresh out the slammer

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The one who deCODES her is her rebirth 🥹

REBIRTH 🦋🥹