#arshia talks

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im sure lots of people will listen to TTPD and discount it because she talks about matty in it (and ofc people have their valid issues with him, but im not gonna go into that), but the whole lead up to the album has been “we’re investigating,” and imo a lot of us took that as her saying “we’re investigating why my relationship ended” whereas the album is actually about “we’re investigating this caricature of a girl who went through something life-changing, and she has apparently gone crazy” and she’s basically done a public autopsy of herself; something that the media/fans/public have done since the beginning, but this time around she was like “i’ll do it to myself.”

hence, the album aesthetic feels so sterile too imo. she’s trying to distance herself from the subject but!!!!!! she is the subject. and in conclusion, i think what she’s really putting down is “the summary of the investigation of this girl is that she went insane because of what happened to her, but it’s hopefully gonna be okay”

sidenote: i think what we need to take away from the album is to… let her live…

#the tortured poets department #ttpd #taylor swift #arshia takes #arshia talks

[cyarskj1899]

The greatest add in TV history.

Dunkin Donuts

Featuring Tom Brady, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and J Lo.

And jack Harlow

Incredible.

#taylor swift #superbowl 2024 #arshia talks #Super Bowl #nfl #kansas city chiefs #super bowl xl #super bowl commercial #super bowl 58 #super bowl 2024 #super bowl lviii #kansas city #chiefs #patrick mahomes #kansas city royals #kansas city kansas #kansas city missouri #kansas city mo #chiefs kingdom #missouri #san Francisco 49ers #brock purdy #nick bosa #christian mccaffrey #nfl football #usher #halftime show

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“i hate it here” is peak escapism and hearing her talk about how she lives in a garden no one else has access to in her mind (unlike the rest of her life) for most of the year is sooooo. made up scenarios and imagining living in the 1800s… it’s giving the lakes except she’s alone and she can’t actually leave. so much of the album is about feeling stuck and this one is about feeling stuck in herself.

#i hate it here #ttpd #the tortured poets department #taylor swift #arshia takes #arshia talks

[evermoredeluxe]

“more later” WHAT DO YOU MEAN

#ttpd #jack antonoff #taylor swift #arshia talks

[evermoredeluxe]

i just wanna make a post about how insanely talented taylor is and how much awe i am in about how much she absolutely loves her art. she’s so resilient and brave for taking something that broke her and making beautiful poetic music out of it while being on a world tour where she plays three 3.5 hour shows each week. she can indeed do it with a broken heart, and goddamn im so grateful that she constantly chooses to share this with us and lay herself bare.

#the tortured poets department #ttpd #taylor swift #arshia talks

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brain after finishing TTPD

#arshia talks

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i feel very insane right now. being a swiftie is not for the weak.

#arshia talks

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hm interesting (x)

#ttpd release #taylor swift #arshia talks

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“who’s afraid of little old me?” being about how the media and her life of fame has hardened her to the point where she feels the meanness in herself. she literally says that none of us would survive what she’s been put through so confidently, and tells us to be afraid of her. it being pointed at the public and how their treatment of her is what has made her crazy… very much getting how the tributes in the hunger games were normal people put through the most traumatic thing which the people enjoyed it as if it’s a show and then they were berated for being hard and calculating and “un-humanlike”

#waolom #arshia takes #arshia talks

[evermoredeluxe]

i think a lot of people are missing the point of the songs. the person behind the pronoun keeps changing. she’s expressing her feelings about joe via matty. for example in fortnight imo “all of this to say, i hope you’re okay, but you’re the reason, and no one here's to blame, but what about your quiet treason?” is about joe and then “and for a fortnight, there we were, forever running, till you sometimes ask about the weather, now you’re in my backyard, turned into good neighbors” is about matty, and the “i love you, it’s ruining my life” is about both of them. also, based on your interpretation, you could switch people around to fit these songs because it seems they’re a lot alike… a lot of what she’s trying to say is “what happened between us [her & joe] drove me to be insane” and the insane part happened with matty, hence, he’s in all these songs. i think we need to think of these songs in hoax light aka about 2 or people at once

#i feel like im seeing…….. yeah #the tortured poets department #ttpd #arshia talks #arshia takes

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“please i’ve been on my knees, change the prophecy, don’t want money, just someone who wants my company, let it once be me, who do i have to speak to about if they can redo the prophecy?”

her singing about how she think it’s her fate to not have someone no matter how much she tries. literally groveling on her knees to just. have someone for herself who loves her. kill me.

#i can’t #the prophecy #arshia takes #arshia talks

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“press play simultaneously so that all members can review the evidence together” i know investigating is a theme of the album, but goddamn what the FUCK did he do?

#guess i’ll find out #arshia talks

[evermoredeluxe]

and if i say i laughed

#arshia talks

[evermoredeluxe]

TTPD is very much giving 2023 summer and “here’s a detailed analysis of what happened when i was feeling insane. all my raw thoughts about how the person i loved the most betrayed me by stealing me of our future, and how that drove me to be rebellious. here’s my hatred of people trying to control me” and so much of what happened with matty and her feelings for him are connected to how joe made her feel. every song about what happened last summer in her life goes back what and who and why of her relationship with joe. so many interconnections.

whereas the anthology is giving pre-2023 and “here’s how what happened with joe made me feel. i felt stolen and i blame you, but i also blame myself because maybe it’s me and my prophecy” and the album ending with the manuscript and her analyzing her past is helping her move forward because she has hindsight feels soooo

#initial thoughts #bound to change on re-listen and as my understanding increases more #the tortured poets department #ttpd #arshia takes #arshia talks

[evermoredeluxe]

and so the two theory continues

#ttpd #ttpd release #arshia talks

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“one less temptress, one less dagger to sharpen” // “my twisted knife, my sleepless night, my winless fight, this has frozen my ground”… “your faithless love’s the only hoax i believe in”

#ttpd #parallels #arshia talks