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I keep thinking about “all is fair in love and poetry” and how it reflects on her theme of brutal honesty on this album. as a poet myself, I can confirm that our poems is where we just spit out everything, uncensored, unfiltered, without concerning ourselves with whether it’s reasonable or not, and I feel like that’s exactly what she’s done here. the full truth. no restrictions, no rules, no censorship, no bylines or explanations, no nuance, just pure, raw, brutal honesty. and I think that’s what makes this into such a piece of craftsmanship.

#taylor swift #the tortured poets department

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I have a theory about the trpd set on tour: she came up with multiple concepts for multiple songs, rehearsed them all and then waited until after the release of the album to see which songs would generate buzz from people. like, fortnight is the obvious choice since it’s the single, but you’re not telling me it’s coincidence that the exact songs that are doing really well on TikTok are getting added to the set list… like, she totally saw people’s reactions to the so high school bridge (why else would she sing EXACTLY the bridge part? ) and their covers of the smallest man who ever lived beige, and the twerks to down bad and the praise for who’s afraid of little old me. like, for down bad I’d say it was a tie with guilty as sin for popularity, and I can do it with a broken heart was practically a given too because it’s so upbeat and OBVIOUSLY she wanted to do but daddy I love him because that song just SCREAMS how proud she is, but yeah, I definitely think she wanted to see what the album would do and had stuff planned to implement other songs should they have performed better.

#taylor swift #the tortured poets department #the eras tour

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trpd is for the fans that love daylight, exile, ivy, cowboy like me, the archer, labyrinth, the Great War, Carolina, sad beautiful tragic, this love, suburban legends, my tears ricochet and come in with the rain

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the parallel between fresh out the slammer as a whole and ‘you deserve prison but you won’t get time’ is so insane, like he was her liberation from imprisonment until he himself committed a crime against her :(

#taylor swift #fresh out the slammer #the smallest man who ever lived #the tortured poets department

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what makes the smallest man who ever lived’a bridge so insanely good is the way her vocals sound both insanely angry and so utterly heartbroken because of the betrayal from that one person she bestowed her hope upon and that furious sadness is so so powerful

#taylor swift #the smallest man who ever lived #the tortured poets department

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I love it so so much how Taylor chooses to tell the stories of women that have long been forgotten by history, if they ever made it. Who had ever heard of Rebelah Harkness before tlgad? Who remembered Clara Bow before the song? I’m sure they’re both not entirely forgotten but I have never ever heard anyone in the general public talk about them the way people like Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe were talked about, and there’s also her grandmother Marjorie. I sincerely hope she will continue to use her storytelling for this.

#taylor swift #Rebekah harkness #clara bow

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right now my ‘on repeat’ playlist contains songs from speak now tv and 1989 tv as well as midnights and ttpd and the whiplash the shuffle can cause is real

#taylor swift

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what makes ttpd such an incredible masterpiece is that it’s the madhouse where you go after the dollhouse, the fever dream, the tantrums and breakdowns because you don’t care anymore, the giving way to wrath and rage, the breaking free after having submitted to what people want from you for way too long and having been a willful prisoner, the reclaiming after sacrificing, the lashing out after having been leashed, the accepting of feelings you used to not want to have, the dealing with what was never okay to begin with, the actual escape after the wistful escapism, the coming to terms with having come undone, the saying goodbye, the letting go of trying, the speaking out after keeping quiet, the embracing desire after having kept up decorum, the putting the resentment to rest, the freely processing in all the ugly ways and then finally being discharged because you’re ready to start over

#taylor swift #ttpd #the tortured poets department

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it’s me, hi, I’m a tortured poet

#taylor swift #the tortured poets department

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I feel like people are so quick to call a relationship toxic or abusive when it comes to Taylor - like? Just because it didn’t work out doesn’t mean it was bad? I’ve said before and I’ll say it again, Joe was probably exactly what she needed at a certain time in her life and he probably also taught her a lot, but when push came to shore, she changed and evolved and their differences came out which is okay. Like obviously her relationships with John and Jake were pretty shitty and yeah there’s always a reason for breaking up but that can be as simple as things not working anymore. Also: WE DONT KNOW.

#taylor swift

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“she only ever writes breakup songs”

no she doesn’t. she writes songs about relationship trauma (JG, JM) about the right love at the right time (JA, CK) about betrayal (JJ) about maturing through love (TL) about rebounds (TH) and revenge (CH) and sorrow for what wasn’t meant to be (HS) but also about recovery and healing and the lasting effects of love and the scars it leaves and how those change overtime. she has never written ‘just’ breakup songs, she has always written love songs.

#taylor swift

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just realizing now that is it over now has the ‘uh uh’ that sounds like clean as well as the melody that sounds lkke you are in love and I don’t know what to do with that

#taylor swift #1989 taylors version #is it over now?

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“I’ll pay the price // you won’t”

ok but this line is so devastatingly accurate and hits the theme of the song so hard :( like the whole point of slut shaming is that the woman is hissed at, gossiped about, judged and blamed for choosing to sleep with a man she’s only just met or isn’t in a relationship with or whatever while the man in question is applauded or doesn’t get any feedback at all… and to build a whole concept around how all that shit is still worth it, good lord

#taylor swift #slut! taylor’s version #1989 taylors version

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when 1989 was first released, I was 20 and a sophomore in college, struggling with my physical health and limitations as I was trying to navigate this brand new stage in my life where it felt like I was coming into my own like never before. I loved the album because of how poppy it was and of how happy she seemed, but shake it off was also my anthem because I did, in fact, have this music in my mind saying it was gonna be alright. now, nine years later, I’m 29, struggling with work mistakes and anxiety, but also about to finally move out of my parents’ house, and as I turn on 1989 TV for the first time and hear WTNY’s line “it’s a new soundtrack, I could dance to this beat forevermore” for what feels like the first time, I realize that this is once again so in sync with my life in such a powerful way and I feel like that is the most amazing unexpected thing about the re-records: I don’t think we would have realized how much Taylor’s music has grown with us without them and for that I will be eternally grateful.

#taylor swift #1989 taylors version

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listen, to everyone saying they dislike a re-recording because it sounds different, I get it. I get that when you have listened to an album so intensively that you know every piece and part of it by heart, it’s impossible not to notice differences and also impossible to not be at least a tad bit upset with those differences. however, I hope y’all can consider how incredibly challenging of a process this must have been for Taylor, not just emotionally because of going back to those times in her life, but also because I can only imagine how almost undoae it is to recreate your exact voice from sometimes DECADES ago. I can only imagine her determinedly and frustratingly doing several takes to get the songs just right and I think that alone deserves the hugest applause and respect, because seriously.

#taylor swift #1989 taylors version

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she made it out of the woods guys, she really did

#taylor swift #1989 taylors version

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ok don’t get me wrong I’ve always loved 1989 to death because it was the album that turned me from a regular fan into a hardcore Swiftie but to this day I still feel like the way it was branded/marketed does not match the songs and that is popping up into my head again now that I see people talking about it. like, so many are saying that 1989 represents freedom, friendship, coming into your own and making your own life and even Taylor herself has said something along those lines in her billboard woman of the year speech. and yet, pretty much all of the songs on the album are about love, heartbreak and relationships. the only songs that really fit the description seem to be shake it off, welcome to New York and New Romantics and the latter is a bonus track nonetheless. again I love every single bit of this album and I can’t wait to be listening to it again but really, a coming into your own album? no. I’m sorry bht that’s just not what it is to me. it’s kind of the same with how midnights was presented as 70s singer songwriter sultry vintage Joni Mitchell/Fleetwood mac/daisy jones and the six and it… really wasn’t. both records are absolute pop perfection, but not lining up with what Taylor/her team seem to want us to think they are.

#taylor swift #1989 taylors version