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So... Taylor Swift uses a mental health asylum and ECT as an aesthetic and wins awards for it and everyone is just going to be okay with that? For real???? Like no one has a problem? No notes huh?

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Absolutely NO ONE can reasonably consider Fortnight the song of the summer. That's not even the song to pick from TTPD let alone from the line up that it was up against. What a joke. Good luck babe. Espresso. Training season. We can't be friends. Guess. Apple. Birds of a feather. Lunch. Too sweet. Literally ANYTHING else. Not the asylum song for fucks sake.

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comforting myself with

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I think it's perfectly normal to feel a little insane when you consider that Florence Welch was right there, singing "I am no mother/I am no bride/I am king" as a refutation of the societal pressures on women of a certain age to get married and conveying the push-pull between her ambition and the desire to settle down, and her own self-recrimination for putting off these things with the lyrics "I was never as good as I thought I was/but I always knew how to dress it up/I was never satisfied" and "I need my empty halls to each with grand self-mythology" two whole years ago at age 35

and yet we are being told that the verse "I left all I knew, you left me at the house by the Heath/I stopped CPR, after all, it's no use/The spirit was gone, we would never come to/And I'm pissed off you let me give you all that youth for free" is a poetic revelation finally giving voice to the complicated feelings women of our generation have about kids and marriage

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Out of curiosity, does anyone remember when Taylor had to edit the Anti Hero music video for being fat phobic because she got on a scale and it read fat? Where's that energy in advocating against the psych ward she used in her fortnight video? How is this becoming an aesthetic instead?

A woman who has outright said she feels very sane and hasn't gone to a therapist is using a psych ward and relating it to a breakup and we're okay with that?

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full on offense but asylums, psych wards and any other variation of mental health facilities are not and will never be an aesthetic. mental illness is not an aesthetic.

and yes, this is coming from someone who has been hospitalized several times, fully angry that a white billionaire can be her quirky silly i-need-a-lobotomy [insert a tiktok reference] self while simultaneously having access to every single health treatment in the world.

while the rest of the world struggles to have access to a diagnosis, medication or human rights pertaining mental health.

"you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me", no, taylor. YOU wouldn't last an hour in the real world, where private jets are only ever seen on television and mental illness often means you cannot get a fucking job.

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Everything about ttpd makes me cringe.

Actively playing into the victim thing by hinting at her ex doing her wrong, when the album wasn't even about him. Doing nothing to prevent the hate he got from the Easter eggs she was leaving, and instead fueling it when she goes on to make it clear he already has mental health issues.

Using an aesthetic that does not relate to the album because poetry and dark academia explore deep emotions, not whatever power trip spiral she's on.

Calling her personal tantrum female rage the musical when female rage is supposed to attribute to the wrongs done to women by virtue of our societal structure.

The fetishism of cheating/wanting someone who is with someone else. How the fuck is fortnight a lead single when it outright says toxic things like 'your wife waters flowers. I want to kill her.'

And just when it can't get worse, the music video. That awful triggering harmful music video. Psychward aesthetic?!?! Thats an aesthetic now? And that too from a woman who has publicly said 'I've never been to a therapist because I just feel very sane?'

Stop. Just stop.

(Also whatever that song was with the hint at outing someone bisexual. Wtf)

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one thing i hate about ttpd is how misleading it's been since the title was announced

'here's the title or my new album, it's gonna be all tortured poetry, emily dickinson, virginia woolf and dead poets society! basically folkore 2.0'... 'look at the album over! it's a sexy sad girl album'... 'turns about it's an album about grief and all of my variants represent the stages!'... 'listen to my playlists! it's gonna be a joe alwyn bashing album and i never meant anything i wrote about him before'... 'turns out it's actually a cringy matty healy centered album'... 'i added ttpd to my tour so you can listen to fEmALe RaGe: tHe mUsiCaL live!'...

it's actually literally none of these things

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I dont know when the focus jumped from singing to songwriting in music artits. Theres suddenly so much talm about their only a good artist if they write their own music. Which is absolutely absurd.

I dont care if you have amazing song writing skills. If you sound bad when you sing, you aren't a singer. There are reasons that people just remain songwriters.

This is especially common in debates like taylor Swift vs. ariana Grande. I dont support either of them, but one of them is clearly a better singer than the other. Arianas vocal range is insane but taylor is supposedly the more talented artist because she's a 'better songwriter', and she writes all her songs by herself.

Firstly, if you write all your songs all by yourself, their going to start sounding the same. Secondly, if the song sounds bad, i dont care if the lyrics are great. Lastly, some of the most famous musical acts in history never wrote all their music by themselves.

The reason so much music nowadays has so many random 'cool and meaningful' lyrics is cause suddenly the value of a good voice is gone from most peoples ears. Bring back actual singers.

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tale as old as honey, a moment everybody knows History of Man (Maisie Peters) x The Prophecy (Taylor Swift)

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dash is having a normal one

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i couldn’t have found a normal artist to enjoy it just had to be this freak

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cassandra - taylor swift

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girl... 31 songs... some of us have places to be you know

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it’s joever

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A Bgraamiens Line Puzzle spotted under a 'The Black Dog' book in 'THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT' Library Installation.

Fun Fact: A Bgraamiens Line Puzzle is impossible to solve! (Credit: japrilss)

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A look at the Spotify The Tortured Poets Department Library (x)