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Genuinely from the bottom of my heart, thank you Taylor ❤️🩷❤️

I think it's really just starting to sink in that Taylor kinda gave our corner of the fandom the biggest fucking gift with these album(s). They're obviously still very much about her journey, but they are providing us an explanation, an apology, satirical commentaries, confirmations, etc. Maybe I'm crazy, but it's been a few days and a few full listens and it just keeps sinking in. I'm gonna go cry now. This is really so very, very beautiful.

I am still absolutely floored over TTPD

She told us everything, she explained everything, she acknowledged “Robin” like…….she presented an album to say “cool your fucking jets guys, I got this under control, I’m taking the trash out”

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˗ˏˋ ♡ ˎˊ˗

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Happy High Infidelity Day

lexy styles

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Down bad indeed 😉

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FIRED UP??? FIRED 🔥 🔥🔥🔥 🤯 ☠️

Fired Up huh

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Absolutely 💯

This is such a slay line, she really said “I’m a poet, you dumb idiot” 🤣🤣🤣

She’s given us full permission to make fun of him.

I may be projecting my own prejudice here, but am I the only one who thinks she called him dumb with "You know how to ball, I know Aristotle" line?

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One week of Tortured Poets (& Thoughts on the Manuscript)

We’ve had this epic double album for a week now and I’m still not over how much of a masterpiece this is. I’m very carefully saying this might be my new favourite TS album.

Still too many thoughts and feelings to process and still a little scared of anything that might happen a week from now (a fortnight after the release). And we’re getting a TTPD eras tour set, I’m so stoked, if she sings But Daddy I love Him to a full stadium every night from May I might just cease to exist.

Slowly coming around to just how much she’s coming for Scott and the industry as a whole, even though I was expecting that, I’m still shocked about the unhinged raw anger in these songs and I’m loving it. Also, love how much even the swifties have to admit that pretty much none of this album is about JA. I don’t even care who they think it’s about instead, I just love that they were all expecting the ultimate breakup album and instead they got an emotional exorcism of twenty years worth of trauma and a final goodbye. ☺️

A saw someone this morning say ‘The Manuscript’ would have been a great alternative title for this album and I would almost agree. The concept is very much a receipt of all the traumas and lessons learned, and that’s why this song is at the very end. The manuscript of my story is done, final page of this story is written and now I’m leaving that to you as I depart. I’ve also seen it be compared to the ATW10 short film and the lyric video style as a movie script is really interesting:

This is definitely a movie of Taylor’s story and she’s the narrator. The song itself also references a movie being made with ‘the actors hitting their marks and the tears were falling in synchronicity with the score’. A lot of film references. The whole album has a lot of references in the lyrics to film titles, good post here.

So is this about the ATW10 short film or a film that’s yet to come? She says on the first page that the scene is set inside the Tortured Poets Department at night and the person reading the manuscript is part of the scene (she vs I at the end) whereas Taylor is the voice over narrator. She also presenting ‘the entire torrid affair’, not just one relationship, all of it, the ENTIRE story. So, it feels more like a memoir or a documentary film to me than a short film. And I don’t know what this is an advert for but TN shared it to their story yesterday (it’s very film-coded):

There’s a TTPD bus outside what looks like a movie theatre, and the billboard looks to be showing the ‘story of us’ scene from the fortnight mv. (There’s also what looks like Stark tower in the background with a monster/crocodile. No idea why but it stood out to me🤷🏻‍♀️)

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1. I’m too gay for this picture, I’m obsessed 😍

2. Is that a desk in the background?

3. That’s not the evermore microphone, that’s the mic from the rep tour piano…. 🤔

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😍😍😍😍

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Just realised

“The story isn’t mine anymore”

Because she’s ending the story of Taylor Swift ™️ and telling her own story. Taylor Swift (Taylor’s Version) if you will 😉

Rep tv/karma will burn the house down and TS Taylor’s version will be the start of her new self.

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I have thoughts on this, especially given that the lyric video is also styled as a movie script. Will post some thoughts later.

just realized that in The Manuscript she uses the pronoun "she" throughout the entire song until the end where she says "now and then i reread the manuscript" because she's literally READING THE MANUSCRIPT TO US

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👆🏼

I am dusting off my little blog here because TTPD has my mind absolutely reeling. I am really wondering if anyone else listened to this and had this feeling that the album confirmed everything that they were thinking was going on with her. I know we talk so much about reading her songs beneath the surface of muses or certain details used to craft a story, but to me, TTPD reads so strongly of her reckoning with her life in the industry. like, it's so much more than the relationships. it's the comp het, it's the religious trauma, it's the being exploited as a child star, it's deep wound of abandonment and neglect when she as a person got split off from her brand and both could not thrive, it's giving everything to this brand and career and fandom and that still never being enough. it's her codependency with the very people that exploit her. it's the fact that she is bigger than she ever imagined and none of it feels how she wanted. it's the simultaneous love and resentment she has towards her family, and relationships, and career, and yes, even her fans.

the rawness of this album, the unrefined feel, the summation poem talking about this as mania, the continuation of the cage imagery and themes of escaping to her mind/fantasy, the coping with criticism, numbing it all with alcohol, the willingness to burn it all down and disgrace her name because none of this is what she wants or at least not how she wants.

I have seen so many criticisms of the album and honestly, I understand where they are coming from, but I also think the things they criticize make the exact point of what this body of work is - something that exists for it's own sake to turn things back on the people that made her into what she is now. art created not to be acclaimed but because it demands to be expressed. it is an exorcism, an expulsion. it is something that erupted from her. and it's so meta because this fandom and the industry are voyeurs in an echo chamber so desperate to see what they want that they miss that this is about them. that is what makes it brilliant to me - it is self-indulgent and metaphorical, and complex, and so direct, but yet still masked just enough that people miss it. her entire life has become performance art. it is a play within a play. and I fear the audience has not caught on.

it feels like she is reclaiming it all. I feel like this could either be a hint at a new beginning or a signal that she has broken and this is the end. this felt like the tell-all memoir written in code that everyone else will finally understand when she really leaves this spotlight. it's the lucky one come to life. she is daydreaming about fucking it all and leaving this life behind so she can finally have some goddamn peace.

I love this album for it as art. it is so expressive. it is so heartbreaking. it's messy and nuanced, and I think it is going way the fuck over most people's heads, especially when you really dig into poetry being the theme and the specific works she references. it's only been a week and I am just starting to really dig in but talk about a fucking iceberg.

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Happy Lesbian Visibility Day ❤️🧡🤍🩷

my favourite picture

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Taylor Swift via YouTube Shorts: A fortnight til Paris 🤍

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“A rose by any other name is a scandal”

Rose= flower of love. But when it’s two women kissing it can’t possibly be love, it’s just a scandal for the tabloids. Still makes me livid 10 years later 😡

no one can convince me this isn't about karlie/kissgate

and then the "you don't get to tell me you feel bad" is so fucking heart wrenching