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Taylor Swift recommended a poem for Florence Welch’s book club in honor of 'THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT' (Via betweentwobooks)

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happy 5th anniversary queen

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A person made “shalala” bracelets and brought them to the Hozier concert last night and I wanted one so bad😭 Anyways it was an incredible concert! 💚

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raise your hand if you were personally victimized by 4.26

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I HATE IT HERE SO I WILL GO TO SECRET GARDENS IN MY MIND

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🌸💖🦋🌸💖🌸🦋💖🌸 I love her so much.

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there are so many things we still need to talk about in ttpd but one thing no one is paying attention to is this line: "my beloved ghost and me, sitting in a tree, d-y-i-n-g"

this line simultaneously brings together all of the essential themes of this album: dying and being haunted by love, fables and stories, specifically those for children, as this line is a reference to a well-known nursery rhyme, reinforcing the idea that she can't grow up, and probably most importantly, the rhyme that she references itself:

two people (ie. x and x) sitting in a tree k-i-s-s-i-n-g! first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in a baby carriage... all of which she sings about throughout this album but never actually gets. all she has is her beloved ghost (and she doesn't even have that since a ghost isn't something you can physically have)

and to put this lyric in the song "how did it end?" is such a gut punch because here in one sentence are all of the reasons why it ended

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ending midnights with “is that your key in the door? Is it okay? Is it you? Or have they come to take me away?” and then immediately starting ttpd with “I was supposed to be sent away but they forgot to come and get me” we never stood a chance

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Can’t believe it’s been 5 years since the ME! mural in Nashville 😵‍💫

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

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I really do apologise in advance for the person I'll become if you'll always find your way back is included in debut tv

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Ok I’m so obsessed with the way Taylor sings “too high a horse for a simple girl” that alone has narcotics

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the more I sit with the tortured poets department, the more it makes perfect sense as a body of work taylor would create/release especially when you consider the fact she operates much more closely to an indie artist artistically than a lot of her contemporaries.

so honest it's catching people off guard? she's been doing that her whole career from the minute she put people's real names in her songs. lyrically sharp and slightly alarming? may I present "and you come away with a great little story about a mess of a dreamer to adore you" or "you made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter." bold and sonically strange? she's been blurring the lines of genre since her earliest albums, regularly blending country, pop, folk and even rock. 1989 has been her only traditionally dare I say 'sonically cohesive' album and the only reason its palate is so clean is because of the risk a pure pop album posed to her successful country career. if she hadn't nailed the landing then, she wouldn't be where she is now. *it also feels worth noting her most adventurous 'weird' but music has come AFTER she thought she'd had her last chance at mainstream success (lover) and as a result, thrown away the checklist because she thought she had nothing to lose. she was just making music for herself with no expectation of success*

'there's too many metaphors and characters/the muses are murky and I can't tell what's real. does she have to write so much fiction now?' this is the girl who immortalised her neighbours love story, who rewrote romeo and juliet, dreamed about crashing a wedding and was inspired by bob + ethel kennedy for god's sake. she's always written stories and imagined.

'I just can't understand why she'd make this and take this risk when we all liked her so much?' my friend, have we been paying attention to the same artist all these years? taylor swift not taking creative and honestly quite punk career risks would be like christopher nolan films without cillian murphy. she walked away from a development deal at age 14, took a chance on an independent label she built from the ground up and then bet on her future when they held her past hostage. took a genre they said wasn't for teenage girls and transformed it. wrote an album on her own after her songwriting was questioned. took a 10 minute song to #1, directed music videos and a short film worthy of oscar buzz, stretched her muscles and is directing a feature film AND re-recorded all her old work in arguably the biggest potential interruption to her career not for any perceived gain but for the statement of an artist's worth. but the world doesn't view them as risks because they worked

tldr; the tortured poets department is the most taylor swift thing taylor swift has ever made.

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The Tortured Poets Department is a great reminder that women don't owe the world pretty. Taylor Swift doesn't owe anyone an easily digestible pretty pop album wrapped in a bow with short songs you can make TikToks to. She's allowed to present something raw, uncomfortable, and vulnerable to the world.

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the manuscript ending the album on the utter jawdrop moment that neither of the muses of the actual album were the first men to fuck her up with promises of marriage and babies, and that first heartbreak so long ago laid the scene for the woman she would become and the ways she would approach love and how we all watched her life like scenes in a show but she kept coming back to the manuscript of the first torrid affair that ruined her, to bookend an album about two love affairs that destroyed her utterly in almost the exact same way, because all her muses are acquired like bruises........ it's bone-chilling

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this is the most taylor swift album idk

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this might be my favourite reaction to ttpd