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[speaknowworldtour]

“but your eyes are flying saucers from another planet” // “did you really beam me up… showed me this world was bigger than us… staring at the sky, come back and pick me up”

“once upon a time the planets and the fates and all the stars aligned” // “for a moment i knew cosmic love”

“my town was a wasteland. full of cages full of fences pageant queens and big pretenders” // “in a field in my same old town that somehow feels so hollow now”

“i know heavens a thing. i go there when you touch me honey hell is when i fight with you” // “for a moment i was heavenstruck now i’m down bad crying at the gym”

“making forts under covers” // “i’ll build a fort on some planet where they can all understand it”

“please leave me stranded, it’s so romantic” // “how dare you think it’s romantic, leaving me safe and stranded?”

“trust him like a brother” // “like i lost my twin”

“and when i was shipwrecked, i thought of you” // “wavin at the ship”

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[lipslikethegardensofbabylon]

#ttpd analysis day fourteen - The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived

i'm gonna be honest with you this was the hardest song to dissect because every time i listen to it the bridge makes me lose my mind. it has the same addictive pull as the bridge of Would've, Could've, Should've, Cruel Summer, Getaway Car. it's SO good, imo one of her best bridges ever written.

i first want to comment on in your Jehovah's Witness suit which is again another lol-lyric moment, but in a big brain connection i saw that @thisisctrying pointed out that he was essentially selling her a religion. i love this bc it continues the religious imagery of Guilty As Sin?

you hung me on your wall, stabbed me with your push pins makes me think of a couple of different things - image wise, it makes me think of pinning a map up on a wall, marking places that you’ve been (also a hint of carve your name into my bedpost ≠ i'm just a notch in your bedpost, but you're just a line in a song (from FOB)). it also makes me think of pierced through the heart but never killed. the other connection that comes up is to “put a pin in it” means to save something for later, typically to postpone something useful but not for immediate use. this meaning feels more likely given the subsequent were you a sleeper cell spy? in fifty years, will all this be declassified?

the bridge just goes so hard, I’m obsessed. there are a few callbacks to previous work but to me this bridge is on mtr echelon:

the betrayal in did you sleep with a gun underneath our bed? is so good. esp given how she historically describes her bed/room as a safe space - turned my bed into a sacred oasis/drew a map on your bedroom ceiling/the warmest bed I’ve ever known

the gun weapon of choice is also interesting to me considering she’s also discussed daggers and poison, and a gun specifically has to be loaded. it makes me think of memories feel like weapons/we gather stones, never knowing what they'll mean, some to throw, some to make a diamond ring

the line were you writing a book? IMMEDIATELTY made me think of so I'll go back to L.A. and the so-called friends who'll write books about me, if I ever make it which is especially painful i think for the narrator. they’ve historically said “I struggle a lot with the idea that my life has become unmanageably sized,” she continued. “Not to sound too dark, but I just struggle with the idea of not feeling like a person.” and this lyric does exactly that - it reduces the person to a product, a story to be sold for a profit.

to end, the lyric and in plain sight you hid but you are what you did and I'll forget you, but I'll never forgive gives me such chills. i saw someone share that they had a history of abuse and that lyric made them feel so validated. there’s just something so haunting and angry but beautiful about it.

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[takingontheworldtogether]

okay i'm briefly emerging from the chaos of finals to ramble about my boy only breaks his favorite toys because MY GOD is this song amazing... like the sound but also the central metaphor is so simple but so effective

idk i work with kids a lot, and they always want the new shiny thing, and then they get it and it's fun for a bit but they inevitably get bored. and that's fine, because they're children, and it's an inanimate object. but i just can't imagine how painful it would be to be in a relationship who is so excited to get with you but doesn't want to keep you

and i think this song parallels the smallest man who ever lived in a really interesting way:

but you should have seen him when he first got me -> it wasn't sexy once it wasn't forbidden

he saw forever so he smashed it up -> once your queen had come, you'd treat her as an also-ran

it also kind of reminds me of bye bye baby? like the whole song is kind of giving "you took me home but you just couldn't keep me" except less angry and more pathetic, which is so relatable

can you tell that

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[nothing-but-glitter-and-lashes]

TTPD thoughts time!!!

so, the 2 track 5s, So Long, London and How Did It End. they’re supposedly the 2 main “joever songs”. ive seen multiple people say that they want to keep them as the only joever songs. (we’ll just. ignore the black dog shall we)

but even these 2 songs, they’re still kind of, looking at it from a different angle, staying away from talking about the actual relationship, at least in the main hook. SLL mentions the place London a lot, despite the verses being about the relationship, eg “I kept calm and carried the weight of the rift”

HDIE also does this. in the verses it mentions the relationship eg “we learned the right steps to different dances”. but the chorus and the title are both about the public perception of the breakup(s?) and how everyone else reacted to them

(and even if we’re bringing the Black Dog into this, the title is the pub name, so)

she’s looking at the relationship, under the framework of something else. like the title of SLL is about the place, and HDIE the public view of it, and the scandal, although the verses are about the relationship itself.

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[lovewithoutresin]

Hey Resin zero pressure or rush but when you have the time I’d love to hear your thoughts on the alchemy???

okay yes ive been thinking about this for a few days and it actually makes me want to cry (in a good way!) that you'd be interested enough to literally follow up. admittedly i don't know how much sense this would make to someone who isn't me (as in, how much of this is individualized) but i'll share my thoughts on a few specific lines nonetheless.

so the song as a whole seems pretty straightforward which is why, in contrast with some of the songs that seem more intellectually challenging, people may have a hard time feeling like there's much to connect to there. maybe if you yourself are in a very victorious space you can, but that's not everyone always! so here's how i think of it (huge rant under the cut)

first off, i LOVE the immediate use of "these chemicals hit me like white wine". people talk a lot about the contrast of so high school with various other parts of the album, but it's not as common for people to compare sections of the alchemy from what i've seen, and this line contrasts SO sharply with the thread of substance use (or abuse) in the rest of the album. now i am not an alcohol aficionado. but i do know in terms of how people think of substances, white wine is probably like. the tamest one you could possibly reference. not to mention the only two times when substances aren't referenced as dangerous, illicit, self-harming or sad in some way is in The Alchemy and So High School. to my understanding wine is also associated with relaxation, which is a really nice transitional opening line from the rest of the album's chaos and devastation. it's also i think why, despite the upbeat tone, it's also a very calming backing track.

which is basically what the song as a whole connects to in terms of the album's overall storyline! more than just a comedown from the intensity and a basking in happiness after a storm, the song to me mostly represents a return to the self. multiple times i've experienced the sensation of feeling detached from my sense of self, like i'm not me anymore and am not sure how to return to that person, much less feel in touch with my life as a whole. so for me, just the assertion of "what if i told you i'm back?" is... huge. like yes! i'm back! i'm me again! but there's a question in it also. if i told you i'm back, how would you react? can you look past the crazy shit i was pulling or going through before i returned? have you all moved on without me since i was 'gone'? there's a sort of commitment in the lyrics that follow. 'i circled you on a map. i'm coming back so strong'. even though there's a 'what if' attached, she's coming back anyway, one way or the other. this is more tangential but it's something i was thinking about while writing this.

the chorus reiterates this commitment. it's a complete 180 shift in lifestyle and choice-making. we're getting rid of the clowns that don't have a place on our team. we're not keeping anyone around that's harmful. we are focusing on getting the crown we want and that's going to be something to be proud of, rather than ashamed of (and it's clear that desire HAS been shamed in her in many ways, as if she shouldn't desire success or enjoy a sense of 'victory' lest she be a diva/full of herself/make a partner feel small).

i also personally just really love the line 'that child's play back in school is forgiven under my rule'. it's harder to explain this one but there's something about the idea of taking back charge of one's own life, possibly even realizing the insane amount of power you have, and using that to say we're good. we're not fighting like this anymore. (actually that concept is kind of giving veronica sawyer at the end of the heathers musical lmao). we're forgiving and moving on and i'm coming back to you whether you like it or not! and yes i take this to mostly be directed at the general public and her trying to live in the world again and better appreciate her fan relationships and her new romantic one. but i can't say i don't personally relate it to my own close friendships and how ready they always are to accept me in the wake of whatever i was feeling so strongly before. in that way, it's sort of like an anti-bolter! the bolter says that when there are leaks in the floorboards, you run. the alchemy says if the whole boat explodes and you have to ride a piece of fucking driftwood back to shore, you still come back and you let people love you again. and that pays off! you get life and career victories, you get close relationships! you can get people who commit to you that you can commit back to!

but if i'm honest, the main thing i love this song for is its title lyric. it says so much and raises so many questions with so little. she's spent her whole career toeing the line between fate and free will in her story - the things that are predestined according to some outside force vs the things she meticulously arranges and manipulates. where she falls on the spectrum is always grandiose in some way, but it's almost confusing (unless, yknow. you're the same way and get it sort of instinctively) that she can go to the extreme on these beliefs in both directions at difference times. i think that's well-condensed in this song, because she spends MOST of the album caught up in this idea that she's been swept along by some grander force. here though, she switches from fate over to alchemy, which is the very active process of making gold out of something lesser. and yeah, on its own that's an impressive switch. but it's made more intriguing by the phrasing of "who are we to fight the alchemy?" is she taking matters into her own hands via alchemy (as opposed to prophecy)? if so, why is it something they have to not fight? who is doing the alchemy? or is the fun and freedom of this metaphorical alchemy too much to resist, so it's like getting swept up in your own agency?

it raises a lot of questions and to be honest i haven't fully settled on the meaning of that line to me. what i DO know is as a certified fate/free will obsessor i gravitate towards it like catnip.

so yeah, that's the gist of my thoughts. not sure if you'll find anything that's helpful/enjoyable to you in this but! if the alchemy has zero fans i am not of this earth.

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[theasylumwheretheyraisedme]

Debut/ttpd parallels >>>>>>

Fearless/ttpd parallels >>>>>>

Old lyric/new lyric parallels >>>>>>

Artists using motifs that they continue to build on and develop over the course of 18 years/11 albums >>>>>>

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[faithlesslovee]

#posting today's ttpd minutes early for no particular reason #ttpdminutes #web weaving #taylor swift #1k #2k

[swifttosaturn]

the wait for ttpd

#i spent 5 minutes on this #i saw this meme a lot during Tayfootball season #rachel rambles #ttpd #the tortured poets department #taylor swift #1k

[thegirlivealwaysbeen]

your idea of me (chloe et al. by taylor swift x body better by maisie peters x all too well by taylor swift)

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[youareinlove]

shut the actual fuck up

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[lipslikethegardensofbabylon]

#ttpd analysis day thirteen - I Can Do It With A Broken Heart

so fun fact, when I first listened to ttpd I hadn't read the prologue (does this make me a bad swiftie? lol) but so when i first heard ICDIWABH i texted one of my friends "this song sounds like mania". i know now that she referred to the relationship itself as the mania but following heartbreak, some people can be purposefully self destructive/harmful, and in that same vein i think some people refuse to process events when they've recently happened and occupy their mind with other things (hello denial stage). so basically that is ICDIWABH in a nutshell

so the lyrics of ICDIWABH are worrisome and extreme (and dare I say, unfortunately painfully relatable). to couple those lyrics with the upbeat, speedy production, the whole song sounds like avant-garde dadaism, basically

Dada was an art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in negative reaction to the horrors and folly of the war. The art, poetry and performance produced by dada artists is often satirical and nonsensical in nature.

lights, camera, bitch, smile, even when you wanna die

I cry a lot but I am so productive, it's an art

I'm miserable! and nobody even knows!

once you get past the satirical production and first verse, there are some parallels to Hits Different (which also has an upbeat production):

I keep finding his things in drawers crucial evidence, I didn't imagine the whole thing/I find the artifacts, cried over a hat

one of the lyrics that stands out to me in ICDIWABH is I can pass this test. it can go a lot of different ways and I think that's why it resonates. it makes me think of TIMT and fell behind all my classmates and I ended up here, Bejeweled did all the extra credit, then got graded on a curve, and even Dear John's never impressed by me acing your tests. it could be indicative of the relationship itself being a test (to the public), or the muses partner testing the narrator. given the context of the song, it's likely the narrator saying i can show everyone I'm fine but it wasn't true

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[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

Celebrity worshipping stans on Twitter have become upset over Taylor Swift not posting on Twitter anymore due to the #SwiftiesForPalestine movement trying to hold her accountable for her silence. It has caused a lot of division within the fandom.

The celebrity worshipping stans who infantilise the 34-year old billionaire are extremely upset:

The fans who care about genocide and social issues also react:

#sorry we care about children being burned alive I guess #celebrity worship is a disease #some of the people in our fandom need to log off and go outside for a minute #Kim! there are people who are dying #how are you this desperate for a tn mention or ts Twitter post #do y’all have nothing else going for you in your offline lives?? #swifties for palestine #taylor swift #taylorswift #ts #free palestine #the eras tour #the tortured poets department #ttpd #palestine #gaza #free gaza #rafah #swifties for ceasefire #miss americana #activism

[sealedfates]

sorry to all these critics but actually the only thing wrong with this album is that i look in people’s windows isn’t ten hours long

#it’s so magical and gripping and wonderful #WHY IS IT ONLY 2 MINUTES LONG 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 #taylor swift #the tortured poets department #i look in people's windows #ts ttpd

[mastermindmp3]

ttpdminutes - fortnight ft. post malone

The idea of a 50s housewife is very like, ubiquitous in American culture, and the reexamining of that stereotype is, in it's own way, a stereotype ( think the Stepford Wives. ) Fortnight, I think, is Taylor's imagining on this ( as confirmed in her IHeartRadio interviews, ) weaving personal experience with a slice of very specific Americana.

Taylor's take is somewhere between the Joneses of 1950s advertisements, and Stepford, Connecticut; a wife forever longing for her previous lover, who's since moved on. She clearly struggles with depression (stuck in an endless February,) and I think her lack of love only exacerbates the feeling of being stuck.

Fortnight feels stuck in a lot of way. The narrator lamenting her previous love, stewing in murderous drive. The feeling is helped by a repetitive beat, and coming back to that refrain. Her husband is cheating, she fantasizes of killing him. Her lover sees her at the mailbox and makes small talk, as if he's not the lohl (love of her life.)

The love she keeps coming back to, like repeating the outro, that everyone else has moved past.

Honestly, I love the very scant imagery the song. It allows the song to have its own identity outside of the main metaphor ( unlike some songs, which get smothered in the metaphor without going anywhere. ) while still tying into those touchstones - meeting at the mailbox, watering flowers in suburbia's plasticine lawns.

#ttpdminutes #ttpd #fortnight ft post malone #the cassandra speaks #sdklgfds i hope any of this makes sense #i havent dusted off my analysis hat in a hot minute

[curlyhairedintrovertsworld]

ttpd is healing in how imperfect it is. it's not a bestseller. i mean, it is, but not in the usual way. it's not a dance pop album. it's just a woman sharing her art and (new and old) feelings. i don't care how long ago some of the things she sings about happened. what matters is that it happened, and it impacted her.

tell me fifteen/ten/five years ago didn't shape who you are today. tell me your past traumas don't haunt you to this day. honestly, tell me you don't like something without insulting it or the person who made it. you can say it's just not for you. not liking a particular piece of art is okay!

for me, however, as a writer and a poet and a bleeding heart, ttpd is proof that my messy feelings and cluttered mind and the words that pour out of me are valid and that no matter what anyone else thinks, i can be and am an artist too

#angel speaks #taylor swift #ts #kind of wrote this messy but #i'm literally going back to sleep in a minute anyway #ttpd #there's a lot of insult going around #criticizing is not the same as critiquing #the tortured poets department #writers and poets #artist

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

Also thinking a lot about the 3am and associated tracks and how we know some of them were written way before what became the standard Midnights album (eg WCS, renegade on BRM,etc.) and if I remember correctly Aaron said they had been working on something completely different when Midnights came to fruition and… I have a feeling with TTPD it’s going to be even more obvious why those tracks were “quietly” released under the radar after the main album and that they may give us a taste of what’s to come and the themes therein… (also shameless plug for my spiralling over the 3am tracks the other week)

#gonna keep screaming that wcs is going to become a cornerstone of her discography #because even if ttpd isn’t about That incident #I think some of those feelings of pain and rage and trauma will #taylor swift #ts11 #the tortured poets department #uuuuuuuugh wait a minute someone else used to get the ‘tortured’ moniker too oh shit