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THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY

merch concept - a patch/magnet for every track (click for full quality)

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Critiques of Taylor Swift in 2024 are literally just like oh noooo she does her job too much!! oh noooo too many people like her!!! Oh nooooo she works too hard!!! Oh noooo she was a little too honest in her music!! OH NOOOOOO

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I Look Through People’s Windows is like “please don’t ever become a stranger whose laugh I could recognize anywhere” come true

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forgive me for being this dark. but all these people saying Taylor Swift is too perfect and too privileged to suffer would have pitied her and championed her as an underdog if she had successfully killed herself like she said she wanted to over and over on TTPD.

Movies would have been made about the last few years leading up to her death, they’d make theories about whose fault it REALLY is, they’d shame and scold each other for how they treated her, comparing her to Marilyn Monroe and Whitney Houston and Amy Winehouse. And she would be dead just the same. And they would learn nothing.

They’re playing Drown The Witch. If she lives, her life isn’t that bad. If she dies, oh my god, she was suffering, we should’ve known.

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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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t.s - the prophecy 🌙🖤

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would love it if the last god/goddess percy has to do a quest for is hestia. and all she only asks of him a simple, easy-to-do, done in two minutes task. and then that's it. no tricks or double meanings. and he just sobs into her shoulder at the end of it. and she just holds him and tells him that he's all done. he can go live his life now.

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Just because an album and/or song is long, that does not mean it's "unedited." I find it very lazy that people are falling back on editing as a critique for this album, because the core album is extremely coherent and cohesive and every lyric and sound feels like it adds value. And even on the "double" album, each of the 31 songs individually is an incredible piece of art. So, if someone is able to make 31 incredible songs and it helps them illustrate the story of an unstable part of their life, why can't that be part of the artistic statement?

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to put it succinctly, the tortured poets department is the definition of “sharp pen, thin skin, open heart”

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Call It What You Want / Peter

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What I am about to say could be considered so evil to some but like... the fact of the matter is that you need to be a certain level of thoughtful and intelligent to understand TTPD and it is very evident that the people who are very vocal about it being "bad" just... aren't that thoughtful or intelligent. And that's okay! But maybe don't say something is bad if you just don't personally want to take more than 2 seconds to understand a piece of art.

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everyone needs to reconcile with the fact that taylor actually felt insane and like she should be in an asylum and she actually felt like dying. ofc in hindsight she can see that all of it hyperbolic, but these are not just metaphors. it was true in the moment. she’s also tired of the public image of a good girl because she inflicted that on herself and that hindered her from growing, and public inflicting this image on her is also hindering her, and she hates that. she wants to make mistakes and learn on her own and she has reconciled with the fact that she’ll have to live with herself and live with regret because she chose to do it. she thinks she’s fucked up because she is! and she wants the public to see it! (even though now i think she’s trying to un-fuck herself)

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Taylor saying her own name on Clara Bow felt hauntingly strange. It almost felt unnatural.

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we really went from “i’m fastening myself to you with a stitch” to “so long, london / stitches undone”

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The thing that is striking me the most about this album is just how messy and human it is. She’s not holding anything back or trying to appear one way or another. She’s just letting it all out regardless of what anyone might say. She found that trying to be polished and keep all the ugly, imperfect, human stuff in to be stifling and just said fuck it I need to do this for me. This album was an exorcism for her.