#ttpd journaling

[mostlynatur3]

Journaling The Tourtored Poets Department 🏬 today.

[cruellesummer]

and they nicknamed her "The Bolter"

[lottiestudying]

27.04.2024—i cry a lot but im so productive 🤪 ✨it’s an art ✨

[fancyschmancyopinions]

TAYLOR SWIFT at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards on September 11th 2024 wearing CHRISTIAN DIOR

Taylor made a statement in plaid, and she had a few outfit changes. So many people are trying to guess if she’s hinting at her next project or maybe a re-recording. While writing this, I’m not sure what she’s alluding to, but she has work quite a few plaid outfits.

I thought this was an interesting look, with the plaid and leather details. I thought it was a cool and edgy look. It’s not my favorite look from Taylor, but it’s a very eye catching and interesting look.

[melodyvega1967]

scrapbook i made a few days (weeks?) after ttpd dropped

[ohdorothea]

I do think the way (certain) reviewers mocked the mental health issues brought up in TTPD was really cruel and mean and nothing to do with actually reviewing the music that was released and was clearly a ‘safe’ way for reviewers to express their internal ableism/saneism

[beautyinhealing]

but i looked to the sky and said:

“please”

[visro]

all the books i read in feburary! 🌷💌🍵

[tisthepamseason]

So - Taylor Swift & Florence Welch both have songs called Cassandra. Why is that significant?

✨First- Who is Cassandra, Anyway? EW.

Cassandra is a figure in Greek mythology, blessed with the ability to see the future & cursed to never be believed. She sees the fall of Troy before it happens but can't do anything to stop it (there's a lotttt more Cassandra lore, keeping it basic here).

In the 1940s, a French philosopher dubbed "Cassandra complex" to encompass situations where someone reacts validly & with reason and raises the alarm but is not believed until it's too late.

✨Second- What is Taylor's interpretation of Cassandra?

Taylor's Cassandra remains faithful and places herself into the myth, issuing warnings about untrustworthy individuals that went ignored by her peers, the media, and the general public - invoking her Reputation era. ("You can mark my words that I said it first in a morning warning no one heard"). She's telling the story of her Reputation era through Cassandra, who was famously ignored after giving warnings about the fall of Troy.

She references snakes in her cell, a double meaning:🐍 on her actual cell phone (hehe) & a reference to the snakes mentioned in the myth of Cassandra, where snakes whispered the future to her. She goes on to say, "so they killed Cassandra first because she feared the worst and tried to tell the town"..."do you believe me now?" asking if, after the witch hunts & death of her reputation, we believe her now that the truth has actually come out. She makes a point to say, "when the truth comes out, it's quiet. it's so quiet."

A line that I personally feel is very important within Taylor's story is "they say 'what doesn't kill you makes you aware' - what happens if it becomes who you are?" Changing the famous "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" to "makes you aware" is a very important distinction for her to make. Ever since she was made aware of the shady characters that exist within her world, she has been vigilant in order to protect herself, her art, and her integrity. Next, she worries that the struggles she went through will define her in the same way that Cassandra's struggles continue to define her today, which we've seen carry over thematically in albums she's released since Reputation.

In her outro, she reiterates: "When the first stone's thrown, they're screaming. In the streets, there's a raging riot. When it's BURN THE BITCH, they're shrieking... when the truth comes out, it's quiet. It's so quiet." Taylor Swift has not forgotten the volume of the voices that condemned her, or their apparent silence (lack of apology?) in the aftermath.

✨Third- What is Florence's interpretation of Cassandra?

Florence's Cassandra is a told a bit more in abstract, and comes after Florence believed that the music she was writing, as well as her own personal wishes pre-pandemic, seemed to call upon her the isolation that came during the pandemic.

She starts with, "I used to see the future and now I see nothing"..."Crying like Cassandra, I used to tell the future but they cut out my tongue" and tells a story of a Cassandra who had the gift of foresight, was cursed, and then was ultimately stripped of it & left to cope in the aftermath. Combined with the uncertainty & loneliness felt during the early months of quarantine, Florence's Cassandra is blinded, condemned, and left to question how she fits into the world crumbling around her.

[sunny-like-the-weather]

Although we talk about four seasons, ecologists actually distinguish six. The prevernal season is when tree leaf buds begin to swell. You can smell that spring is coming, but it's not actually here yet. We know the vernal season as spring. This is when the buds burst open to reveal leaves. The peak of summer, when the trees are in full leaf, is called the aestival season. During the serotinal season, the leaves begin to change colour. In the autumnal season, the leaves start to fall. In the hibernal season, the trees are bare and the leaves begin to decay. - Nature Tonic: A Year in my Mindful Life, Jocelyn de Kwant

I read this in a journal I got for Christmas today and was inspired to use it to redo my taylor swift albums as seasons/months to see how it changed things, so here you go:

Prevernal

TTPD

Vernal

Taylor Swift (Debut)

Lover

Aestival

Fearless

1989

Serotinal

Red

folklore (actually feels more like somewhere between Aestival and Serotinal)

Autumnal

Speak Now

evermore

Hibernal

Reputation

Midnights

[snowgloberoundandround]

This is my Roman Empire btw

[tsmerch]

The Tortured Poets Department Journal (x)

$30.00

[fancyschmancyopinions]

TAYLOR SWIFT at the 2024 Grammy Awards on February 4th 2024 wearing custom SCHIAPARELLI

Taylor Swift used this night to announce her new album “The Tortured Poets Department”, which released on April 19th.

When she arrived, many Swifties incorrectly thought she’d be announcing Reputation (Taylor’s Version) since that albums colors were black and white. However, Miss Swift is always 20 steps ahead and had an even bigger surprise.

Since the album has released, as well as the first (and so far only) music video before I’ve written this post, we also now know that this look is heavily inspired by looks we sale in the “Fortnight” music video.

Onto the outfit review! I honestly really loved the dress. I thought the accentuated hip was so interesting. The draping was really beautiful. I thought the gloves were a great accessory. She looked really cool, and it was an interesting outfit.

I wasn’t a huge fan of the hair. I think this entire look was picked for very specific reasons, so I’m sure Taylor chose the hair style for some reason, but I just didn’t think it looked great.

[bloodmoonlich]

There's just something so extra special about the period of Taylor announced new music -> having fun speculating about what the music will be like & Taylor teasing little hints here and there -> hearing the album for the first time and being shocked and excited and falling in love with something new -> finding connections to her older work and weaving things together

[ohdorothea]

Also m*tty when I find you……….

[bisexual-yuri]

New medium just dropped