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THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY

merch concept - a patch/magnet for every track (click for full quality)

#OOOH SO GOOD #the tortured poets department

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slvt! by taylor swift

#slut! #1989

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promise to be dazzling.

#clara bow #the tortured poets department

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1989 ERA × Fortnight

#1989 #the tortured poets department #fortnight

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and for a fortnight there, we were forever

#fortnight #the tortured poets department

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alright two days in what song off ttpd is YOURS 😤

#clara bow OF COURSE #self assigned ceo of the lucky one... of course i'm picking clara bow

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I can tell we got funny Taylor back cause douchey dudes are angry at “bad writing”

Welcome back shake it off bridge we missed you

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i had a feeling so peculiar, that this pain wouldn't be forevermore...

evermore (2020) - taylor swift

#evermore #oh this typography is gorgeous

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THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT | Concept Redesign

Taylor Swift's 11th studio album The Tortured Poets Department dives into the lives of victorian women who refused to adopt wholesale the codes and conventions of the male poetic tradition.

More about the concept under the cut

Theodore Turner, Thomas Bennet, Paul Wright and David Morgan founded TTPD in 1835 in New York with the hopes of making their way through the world of literature. 20 years later they found themselves being the most prolific publishing house in the city with acclaimed poems and short stories becoming an undeniable source of among their female readers. No one could believe four men around the age of 30 could understand the nuances of love, heartbreak, loss and hopelessness as well as they did. But not every story has a happy ending. While the four gentleman became history and their names were positioned next to the biggest names of american poetry of the 19th century there's something that lies beneath that chronicle.

35 Women were the backbone of TTPD writing everything from poems, short stories and even clever and witty jokes that were quite hard for victorian men to grasp. While relegated to the back of the building they tried to fought for their space in the poetry world. Each publication was signed with the initials TTPD and while common readers could interpret that as the well known acronym of the company's founders they believed leaving their own trace would mean something to future writers and women across the country.

The Tortured Poets Department was born out of anger and spite yet kept going for so many years, until the company closed, because the shared love for poetry and expressing and seeing the world in a different way was cathartic for 35 women who from a young age were told to get married fast and not intefere in gentlemen's business.

This album shines a light on those women who died thinking their efforts to become someone were useless. The Tortured Poets Department dives into lives of 35 victorian women who refused to adopt wholesale the codes and conventions of the male poetic tradition and recounts the story as it should've been told in the first place.

#oh this is too good #the tortured poets department #album redesign

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#don't even joke lad

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unfortunately the average chronically online Taylor Swift Anti™️ just isn’t intelligent enough understand that this album is not a call to arms against joe alwyn or a public proposal to the guy from the 1975

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what's so clever about Clara Bow is that when she references her own name at the end, she's not talking about the present but the future, quoting the inevitable way people are going to one day talk about her, imagining it will only be in regards to the woma(e)n who surpass her. because there will be someone who surpasses her, eventually. that's the cycle of fame, isn't it? we're simultaneously captivated by the alluring trick of the past while looking for the next big thing. we compare current stars to the lights that shined before them, "you look like taylor swift." but we're also constantly waiting for someone new and greater to take the crown and captivate us anew, "you've got edge she never did." And half the song is about acknowledging that being revered is hell on earth for the people who are in it, because you're always trapped between what came before and what will come after. you're only safe insofar as you remain shiny. But the real beauty of the song is that it never succumbs to this dichotomy, but embraces it. It's Taylor acknowledging she wouldn't be who she is were it not for the women who came before her, who shared the same dreams, and recognizing her place in the chain of the women who will come after. The future's bright, dazzling.

#clara bow #the tortured poets department

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TAYLOR SWIFT Lyric parallels in The Tortured Poets Department!

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i couldn’t have found a normal artist to enjoy it just had to be this freak

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Does anyone have a site with the lyrics uploaded? 😭😭 genius doesn’t have them yet I’M GOING THRU IT!!

#montana.txt

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the fresh out the slammer beginning kills me cause it sounds like the music from twin peaks LMFAO

#montana.txt #fresh out the slammer #the tortured poets department

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Is this what she's referencing in Guilty as Sin?

#montana.txt #the tortured poets department #guilty as sin? #Spotify