#but i love the packaging of ttpd so much!

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

I know UMG is garbage with the merch orders generally but they replied almost instantly to the two orders I just cancelled and refunded immediately and I'm very impressed right now.

(Now I'm trying to decide if I really do want to re-order them with combined shipping or if I should take this as a sign to be fiscally and environmentally responsible and not order additional variants after all lol)

[killa-trav]

if u would have told me when willie gay jr asked for swag surf to be played it would a) get the chiefs to win the super bowl and b) become a part of the eras tour choreography i would've said ur crazy

[taylorswiftstyle]

The Eras Tour | The Tortured Poets Department section | Version 1.5

Vivienne Westwood 'White Three Row Bas Relief Choker' - $690.00

I don’t think I’ve seen Taylor as committed to accessorizing as she has been on the Eras Tour.

It started with the Versace necklaces she wears for the opening Lover set, with each version getting its own coordinating necklace. Even the RED set sees Taylor wear the refreshed version of the Cathy Waterman ‘Love’ ring that appeared in the original 2012 album photoshoot and was later reworked to say ‘Red’ for the 2021 Taylor’s Version re-record.

During the TTPD set, Taylor has taken to coordinating her three row VW choker based on the two piece set worn underneath her corseted gown. So far, she’s worn a black one for her black and grey sets and this white one for a white set.

These are relatively small details but I find myself appreciating them so much. It’s the little things! Especially in a show that already requires so many quick costume changes, accessory swaps are something that could easily be forgotten about or done away with for ease. It’s with this in mind that I really appreciate that she chooses to complete the visual package as she goes through a live retrospective of the past ‘eras’ of her life.

Photo by Kevin Mazur/TAS24 via Getty Images

[rainbowdaisy13]

Something I love about TTPD is that its artfulness isn't simply about the songs that are on it, but the entire package and presentation as a whole. The exterior matters as much as the interior, if you will. I just keep thinking about the almost physical responses we get from this album--it's very long, it's harrowing, some songs are heartwrenching, some maybe sound like they don't fit with the rest ("so high school" comes to mind). This all feels intentional. The track order, the way this rollout has happened since Taylor first announced it with a ✌ at the Grammy's, the fact that this album appears to many Swifties to be built on the backs of three weak ass muses (JA, ratty, tractor), but we know that isn't what's happening here. Taylor has used this album not as an album, but almost more like a tool. It's much more than the listening experience at face value.

Already, I've been so impressed at how divisive it has been. I know some think she's in a creative rut, but I don't think so. Even the "weak" parts feel intentionally "weak."

I'm just marveling at it all. From the beginning, Taylor's positioning this as something she had to write and that it's for the fans makes it all the more clear to me that the album is like a package bomb that we all got on our doorsteps, and we're each being filtered in some way.

BRAVO!!! YES!!!

[myohmine]

Which songs Taylor has written do you think could be about Louis?

My god, SOOOOOO MANY. There are songs that reference Louis like a bait (tolerate it: took this dagger in me and remove it. Like Louis’s tattoo. hoax: my twisted knife like Louis wrote about in 1D’s Love You Goodbye) Songs like kindred spirits of Louis’s Habit: Come so far from Princess Park (Champagne Problem: This dorm was once a madhouse, Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me: You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me. also the black dog: old habits died screaming in connection to Louis’s copy of a copy of a copy: I can hear you howling til your lungs hurt. Then there are songs about LouisandHarry as a package deal.

Lover: Miss Americana and The Heartbreak Prince (written to Louis from Harry’s POV), it’s nice to have a friend (oh look at the gays-in-blue wedding in you need to calm down mv. I wonder if this song was written for that particular ceremony. Leeds tent, mario cart/fifa video games, pass me a note on couple tattoos, like)

Fearless (Taylor’s Version From the Vault): That’s When (I know the OG was written way before Taylor and Louis ever met, but she said she revised the lyrics and significantly tweaked the meaning of this song, because her own perspective on needing space and time has changed. Do you protect each other’s solitude? And it’s like the perfect answer to Louis’s Always You.)

RED (From the Vault): track 28 run (ft. Ed Sheeran) #twinning: 1D’s FOUR Ready to Run

reputation: dancing with our hands tied #twinning: 1D’s Midnight Memories Little White Lie

folklore: peace, hoax

evermore: willow (a message to her Coming Out team “wait for the signal and I’ll meet you after dark”/“every bait and switch was a work of arts”) Coney Island aka duet from the other side of Out of the Woods where they didn’t make it. So I guess it’s not really about LouisandHarry but more like a comparison between Larry and swiftgron. Because Louis & Harry always, always put each other on the centerfold of their songs.

1989: Out of the Woods (written from Louis’s POV, special shoutout to my favorite line the rest of the world was black and white but we were in screaming colors), I Know Places (written from Taylor’s POV first then applied Harry’s POV (the rewinding tape sound is very much an I think I’ve seen this film before and I didn’t like the ending re:swiftgron sunken ship “something happened when everybody finds out”) then she tried to change the ending from Peter losing Wendy aka Taylor losing Diana by switching POV at the very end, just like Harry/1D did in Something Great, to Louis’s POV aka the new Peter) but it wouldn’t been fun if i could’ve been the 1.

TTPD: Track 28 Peter, But Daddy I Love Him

Midnight: Question…? (Started with “I remember” from Out of the Woods manipulated into male pitch. Sounded like Taylor was dealing with being almost out of the closet, so close but so far with the whole thing came crashing down. And wondering how did Louis & Harry deal with almost getting to come out, only to be shoved so much deeper into the closet. How did they make it through TOGETHER pass all that bullshit AGAIN?)

This one is purely my highest hope that it was written for LouisandHarry (given how Taylor usually released a song about two to three years after she first drafted it) and also applied to TaylorandKarlie now

1989: You Are In Love

[ashleyhlovestay]

My bestie @lorenalegroso sent me the sweetest package. She made me friendship bracelets inspired by 'TTPD' songs, which is my favorite album. She also got me a keychain from when she visited Thailand, which I absolutely LOVE!! 🤍 Thank you, Loren, for the sweetest card, bracelets, and keychain!! Love you so much, girlie! So grateful for our friendship! 🫶✨️💜

@taylorswift @taylornation

[likedaylighht]

So Long, London and The Black Dog just do something so special to my brain. But I do have to admit to having a track five bias, so I think I knew from the start that SLL was going to be one to watch. I love your top choices too! I've been loving seeing what songs all of us have been latching onto, because I really do think there is something for everything on TTPD. And we're all still in processing mode too! xoxo seatgeek p.s. I got my manuscript vinyl, and my bolter and black dog CDs in the mail and I am Gagged by how much thought was put into it all??? I'm a slut for the bookmarks I shall be using those Often.

So long London is one of the songs I find stuck in my head most often! “How much sad did you think I had did you think I had in me” or “and you say I abandoned the ship but I was going down with it” pop up in mind very often!

And omg yes the album packaging and design is some of my favorite work she’s ever done. It’s so thoughtfully made and uniquely done. The collector edition of the black dog cd is my favorite by far!