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the 'are you not entertained?' of it all is just so loud. paired with the whole come one come all it's happening again... but then the whole so high school of it. the way she forces us to unpack our entertainment of her

YUPPPPPPPPPPPP. it challenges you as a listener. i’m obsessed.

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taylor, twirling hair: tell me about the first time you saw meeee

travis, for the 1000th time: so she did it in eras

PLEASE

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someone referred to chloe and sam and sophia and marcus as chloe et al and I can't stop laughing 😂

@midnightsslut has been calling it the many names song

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"So being in the public eye since I was a young teenager, there's a lot that that does to your perception of the world, your perception of yourself—the idea that the world has this sense of ownership, and not just a right, but they feel they have a responsibility to judge you, and to critique you, and to weigh in. And that can really toy with you. Who's Afraid of Little Old Me? was a song I wrote alone, sitting at hte piano, in one of those moments where I felt sort of bitter about just all the things we do to our artists as a society and as a culture. There's a lot about this particular concept on The Tortured Poets Department. What do we do to our writers and our artists and our creatives? We put them through hell, we watch what they create, then we judge it. We love to watch artists in pain, often to the point where I think sometimes as a society, we provoke that pain, and we just watch what happens. So there's lines about feeling like I've been in the circus, those kinds of metaphors, or feeling like I'm sort of like a witch in a haunted house. Those are some ways that I feel sometimes when I'm not able to kind of right the ship and cope with my normal coping mechanisms. So this song was just a very, very true way that I feel sometimes, and it's always good when you can be honest about those things."

— Taylor on Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?

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hey someone posted the audios for the track by track explanations fyi

https://www.tumblr.com/holy-ground-tv/748675808875380736/the-tortured-poets-department-amazon-music-track

thank you! i transcribe even if the audios are posted - there’s room for both

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The Tortured Poets Department, Amazon Music Track By Track Audios

here's clara bow. tumblr wouldn't let me upload it bc of the limit

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TAYLOR SWIFT Lead single music videos + close-up shots

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TAYLOR SWIFT — 'Fortnight' (feat. Post Malone)

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taylorswift: A fortnight making TTPD 🤍 Brought to you by YouTube Shorts #ForAFortnightChallenge

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listening to florida!!! like yeah the exclamation points were necessary they really are saying florida!!!

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It makes me so sad seeing people reduce Taylor’s new album to “more of the same old talk about exes”. It’s so much deeper than that. For me, a part of it feels like a somewhat veiled cry about the overwhelming price of her stratospheric fame and the close connection her fans built with her. A strained vent about how it feels for her without putting herself as a victim to it, because she’s nourished this and valued this all along.

There’s also the beautiful, poetic lyrics about her feelings towards her past and current relationships (not exclusively love affairs), that are not about one ex or the other, but about what she took from these relationships, how they built and rebuilt her with time and experience.

As I listened, it felt like a glimpse to the raw, beaten feelings bottled up inside someone who is full of poetry and not that different from any of us at one point or other in our lives.

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not to be dramatic but "for one hour of sunshine years of labor locks and ceilings" is literally the most devastating thing she's ever said like what do you mean you spent years trying to recapture the way you felt when you first met? girl stand up

no, it makes me so sad. because it’s like, she loved him. but at every single cost!!!!!!!!!

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@pscentral​ event 26: minimalism

When you are young, they assume you know nothing.

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IM HAVING HIS BABY! NO IM NOT BUT YOU SHOULD SEE YOUR FACES!

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Taylor Swift, The Albatross