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so all these years matty is actually taylor's backburner smh

#taylor swift #matty healy #ttpd #the tortured poets department

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I... like you. Please keep smiling like this. I... will stay by your side. So that you don't feel lonely or think about scary things.. when you are having a hard time. I'll stay by your side for the rest of my life. So please live long.

#lovely runner

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#tol smol

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#lovely runner

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the tortured poets department wallpapers

part 1 | part 2

#ttpd

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#work life

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so long, london - taylor swift

#ttpd

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the issue with ttpd personally is that I love some of the songs but sadly I've been force-fed her personal life so much, these details keep coming and leaves a bad taste in my mouth

You can't say "1830s without the racist" after writing an album about matty healy

"So high school" is a cute love song, but it's about our xenophobic racist king tk

"I can fix him" have some elements I like but it's about mh and her getting offended she's being held responsible for her problematic actions

"guilty as sin?" is one of my favs, but it reads very different when you know (unfortunately) the context

"so long, london" is amazing, but just like "renegade" she blames joe alwyn for having mental health issues, but also out them to the world which is the worst part of it all

wishing I didn't know the context, but it is practically impossible to engage in any taylor swift space without knowing

#ttpd

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You know, it's rather interesting to me that Taylor Swift's parasocial relationship with her fans is honestly more akin to a YouTuber than a writer's. When I scroll through her tag on tumblr/Twitter, it's far more regarding the connection to her personal life/relationship developments than the actual metaphors/fictional story she might be telling. Everything comes back to how her songs reflect back on her relationships with Joe/Matty/Travis/Jake/insert ex-boyfriend here. And what fascinates me about it is that even though she complains about it, she leans into that very perception because it strengthens the parasocial bond.

The marketing for TTPD so clearly being about Joe Alwyn and the songs to Matty Healy. The marketing/video for Red TV so CLEARLY being about Jake Gyllenhaal, with so many of the new lines in All Too Well specifically being digs at him (I'll get older but your lovers stay my age, casting an actor that looks like him for the video, specific lines in I Bet You Think About Me). The fact that songs like Getaway Car and Bejeweled and Gorgeous and London Boy and Lavender Haze being picked apart at time of release and long after for signs of relationships crumbling. The way she uses surprise songs in relation to her relationship development with Joe/Matty/Travis. The damn TTPD "stages of grief" playlists where she deliberately undid/changed the meanings of old songs just to keep her audience speculating on her love life.

It's not sexist to point out that her wielding her love life is a marketing tool and that the strongest connection to her audience isn't the strength of her writing/the composition of her music- it's her deliberate crafting of a connection between her music and her personal life, leaving the audience invested in her music as an extension of Taylor the Person/Girlfriend rather than Taylor the Artist.

#taylor swift #ttpd #i love her but her marketing strategy for ttpd was seriously a low blow

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the day i get rid of my crazy fear of failure and my procrastination, it will be over for you all.

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omg imagine cheating on Joe Alwyn with ratty that's INSANE.

anyway is that's true she would be a huge hypocrite and a liar since she's the one making it sound like Joe is the cheater when performing you're not sorry and the other side of the door on tour. she's giving me the ick lately with this whole situation, she's like a 34 year old child.

I'm not even that excited about this album coming out... she also didn't do any kind of interview o stuff like that and that's like so boring? idk I have zero anticipation :(

sending luv 💞

Hi sweet anon <3

I completely agree with you. It's important to know that she is a marketing mastermind and she knows what kind of people her fans are. She fed the "Joe cheated" allegations because it increases her sales. It's a profitable rumour for her. And her fan base lacks critical thinking so they don't realise that she's milking them.

And yes, it does seem like she might have cheated. According to her new song, "Guilty As Sin?" she was talking to and fantasazing about another man while she was in a relationship. At the very least, that counts as emotional cheating.

But she is a known cheater anyway so this isn't new information.

#taylor swift #ttpd #the tortured poets department

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Note This is not accurate and should not be treated as such. (More detailed note at the bottom)

I was listening to Lover (the album, not just the song) and i was hit with a realization; one that's been a long time coming.

I realized that maybe Taylor and Joe were never meant to last and that maybe the signs were there all along.

You can hear in the songs she put out throughout their relationship that she was always afraid it would end, that what they had wasn't enough to sustain itself (New Year's Day, Cornelia Street, Peace, The Great War).

And that doesn't sound right.

She also felt that for their love to survive, she had to pretend like all the bad in the world didn't exist – block it out, ignore it (i forgot that you existed, paris, lavender haze)

And she even sang about running away, just the two of them. (The Lakes)

And a relationship that can't withstand any outside force like that is going to crumble eventually.

So while they were obviously right for each other during the time they were together, i think maybe they were never meant to truly last.

The More Detailed Note: this is based on very little information, which is pretty much just Taylor's lyrics. I just lke dissecting Taylors lyrics because they have so much to them.

#taylor swift #ttpd #the tortured poets department

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i'm afraid taylor only used the joe drama to market ttpd who will hype over ttpd if it's about matty anyway? the business minded queen she is

perhaps it's just a coincidence that she used the group chat name of joe

perhaps she got inspired because of it

perhaps it was her plan all along because she's a mastermind

#taylor swift #ttpd #the tortured poets department #im sad she let the fans harass joe over nothing #it's not a crime if feelings were lost along the way #joe doesnt deserve all the hate #joe alwyn

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The beautiful thing as you get older is that you realize so many “rules” are made up and you can just do whatever. Posters can go anywhere in the house not just my room. I can sit down while cooking a meal or taking a shower. I can make the same thing for breakfast lunch dinner for a week straight. I can roam around the house shirtless. I can wear a dress with jeans. The world is my oyster key word my and I can live as I please embracing little things such as this

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if yall ever want like serious advice from me about how to solve burnout as a creative it's like...

literally ignore it. stop pushing. go do something else, enjoy your life, fill it with other things, do what brings you joy in the moment if you can.

go to the gym, take a walk to touch grass and look at dogs and smell flowers, cook dinner, watch tv with your friends, talk about your feelings as needed with ppl you trust, take a drive and blast your music, do the chores you need to do, the job hunting slog you need to do, read books that aren't for research, stop cordoning off your brain for The Craft or The Draft or whatever the fuck

forget about the project, stop thinking about it for as long as it takes to be excited again.

fuckin rest, basically

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a girl does start to feel optimistic in a patch of sun

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