The word "FORTNIGHT" refers to a specific time frame (2 weeks), distinct from the well-known video game. Taylor Swift's poignant track "Fortnight," from her album "The Tortured Poets Department," showcases a compelling collaboration with rapper and singer Post Malone.
In her Amazon Music commentary about her new album, Taylor Swift further explored the dark theme of the first single. The renowned pop artist elaborated on the inspirations and significance of various other tracks from the album, such as "Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?" and "My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys.”
In an Amazon Music voice note to her fanbase, Taylor Swift shared that "Fortnight" encapsulates the recurring themes woven throughout the entire album, with one of these themes being fatalism—capturing feelings of yearning, lamentation, and shattered dreams.
Expanding on her thoughts, Taylor Swift described the album as deeply fatalistic, characterized by numerous melodramatic lines concerning life and death. Expressions like ‘I love you, it’s ruining my life’ carry a hyperbolic and dramatic intensity, encapsulating the essence of the album's sentiments.
Fortnight" adeptly portrays a passionate, temporary, and forbidden romance. As Taylor Swift hinted, the repercussions of this affair linger, with her repeatedly emphasizing: “I love you, it’s ruining my life.”
Prior to the album's launch, this specific line was subtly hinted at in an Apple Music playlist and conveyed through meticulously crafted imagery, almost as if foretelling its significance.
The character in "Fortnight" is bluntly portrayed as distressed. She sings, “I was supposed to be sent away/ But they forgot to come and get me.” Her inner turmoil is exemplified when she expresses, “functioning alcoholic ‘til nobody noticed my new aesthetic,” indicating that her substance abuse may have been a silent cry for help and acknowledgment.
The narrative unfolds with the protagonist grappling with her emotional wounds. It appears that the song centers around two ex-lovers who have moved on, married others, and now reside as neighbors engaging in superficial conversations about the weather. However, the facade of normalcy is met with disdain by the narrator (Taylor Swift).
The protagonist articulates her sentiment by stating, “Now you’re in my backyard, turned into good neighbors / Your wife waters flowers/ I wanna kill her,” Within this tangled domestic situation, there is a conspicuous absence of marital bliss, as she later reveals, “My husband is cheating/ I wanna kill him.”
Despite her efforts to mend and alleviate the pain, the solace she sought was fleeting. Recalling, she states, “I took the miracle move-on drug/ The effects were temporary,”
While she maintains a semblance of civility in her interactions with her former partner, beneath the surface lies a smoldering resentment.
The song concludes with Post Malone reflecting that he contemplated contacting the narrator, yet he presumed she would not answer the call.
"‘Nother fortnight lost in America/ Move to Florida, buy the car you want/ But it won’t start up," Swift and Post Malone sing together in the final verse.
The two ex-lovers (Taylor & Post) try to forget about their affair, but, it follows them everywhere, including into “The Tortured Poets Department” next single—“Florida”. As the narrator (Swift) and ex lover (Malone) mention towards the end of “Fortnight.”
“Florida” part two of this blog is coming this Monday! Keep checking back. Subscribe to our YouTube & Rumble Channel for more Taylor Swift content.
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Smthn about escapism and why someone (me) might choose to stay with Kinito even tho he was a bit mean and also didn’t like that u had freewill lol
Also a little bit of thinking abt how Kinito and the Player Who Stays (the Stayer???) share a lot of parallels (working hard to deserve nice things, crippling loneliness, selfish reasons for clinging to one another, self awareness, dissatisfaction/disappointment with their respective realities leading to them idealizing the concept of each other, etc etc)
(The song lyrics are from ‘Woof woof’ by ARTHUR. It took a few listens to rlly appreciate it, now it scratches my brain in v nice ways)
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