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TTPD’s public expectation vs the actual album reminds me of when rep was released. Everyone thought the entire thing would be a massive take down of kimye but it was really an album about finding love through dark times. Meanwhile everyone thought TTPD was going to be a massive takedown of Joe but it’s really an intimate portrait of a woman going through it.

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I feel like the first half of TTPD is about the rage and the grief and the mania and the lust and all of the huge emotions that swirled through her in the immediate moments of the last 2 years. The second half is about all the little feelings and realizations and things she sat with afterwards and in-between the huge bombs going off in her life. The first half is just all the mess, laid out on the table. The second half is where she gets out a map and shows us how the paths connect to each other.

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Taylor calls herself crazy all throughout TTPD, but maybe I’m just as insane because I actually think she’s quite normal? Because if I ended a once happy 8 year relationship because the love was gone and we were both no longer in love to then get with a situation-ship who has been pinning for you for years only for them to abandon you when they finally got you, I’d commit full arson.

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desperately miss when only the swifties cared about an album release because why are random people who admit they do not care about Taylor making analysis posts about the lyrics. that’s not for you. you don’t even know what that means. for every random lyric Taylor throws into a song there is another lyric that requires at least 7 years of lore to fully understand.

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loml is very much about matty and the whole song lays that out for us, but just like the rest of the album, feelings she felt towards joe are represented via matty because she felt the same things with both of them. imo it’s more so that the same thing (being promised stability and a future and then the other person bailing) happened twice. once over the course of more than half a decade, and the other in less than a month. i think with joe she was like “okay i already have this boy to go to, he’s been chasing me” and she did, but it turned out to be tragic. also, i think with joe, she refused to feel the loss in the beginning and convinced herself that it’s for the better, and then matty and his fake-love-filled-promises happened and the succession of it was so quick that the second time around, she indeed felt like it was the loss of her life. and she talks about it all in “in summation.” out of the oven and into the microwave, out of the slammer and into a tidal wave indeed.

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Pubwe/rugby walked so that Aristotle/grand theft auto could run

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what's so clever about Clara Bow is that when she references her own name at the end, she's not talking about the present but the future, quoting the inevitable way people are going to one day talk about her, imagining it will only be in regards to the woma(e)n who surpass her. because there will be someone who surpasses her, eventually. that's the cycle of fame, isn't it? we're simultaneously captivated by the alluring trick of the past while looking for the next big thing. we compare current stars to the lights that shined before them, "you look like taylor swift." but we're also constantly waiting for someone new and greater to take the crown and captivate us anew, "you've got edge she never did." And half the song is about acknowledging that being revered is hell on earth for the people who are in it, because you're always trapped between what came before and what will come after. you're only safe insofar as you remain shiny. But the real beauty of the song is that it never succumbs to this dichotomy, but embraces it. It's Taylor acknowledging she wouldn't be who she is were it not for the women who came before her, who shared the same dreams, and recognizing her place in the chain of the women who will come after. The future's bright, dazzling.

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i think a lot of people are missing the point of the songs. the person behind the pronoun keeps changing. she’s expressing her feeling about joe via matty. for example in fortnight imo “all of this to say, i hope you’re okay, but you’re the reason, and no one here's to blame, but what about your quiet treason?” is about joe and then “and for a fortnight, there we were, forever running, till you sometimes ask about the weather, now you’re in my backyard, turned into good neighbors” is about matty, and the “i love you, it’s ruining my life” is about both of them. also, based on your interpretation, you could switch people around to fit these songs because it seems they’re a lot alike… a lot of what she’s trying to say is “what happened between us [her & joe] drove me to be insane” and the insane part happened with matty, hence, he’s in all these songs. i think we need to think of these songs in hoax light aka about 2 or people at once

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ARE YOU KIDDING ME 🥺

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i am so proud of her for making a very adult album for adults to listen to. i feel like she’s been held to such an insane standard for so long because people expect her music to be palatable to young audiences and specifically young girls. and she doesn’t necessarily owe that to anyone…it’s been really cool to see her embrace her adulthood more in work like folklore, evermore, and midnights, and i feel the tortured poets department is the most mature thing she’s put out. there’s no performance this time, and an astonishingly low amount of people pleasing because she’s laid it all out there, take it or leave it. honest, honest, and so very honest. i LOVE how adult this record is

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HOLY FUUUCCK! 314 million

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Alright, reblog with your top 3 tracks from TTPD as of rn

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me when i was 15

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starting the album with "i was a functioning alcoholic" was INSANE

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ttpd debuting with 313 MILLION streams, OVER 127 MILLION MORE THAN MIDNIGHTS????? her popularity is jaw-dropping i am genuinely flabbergasted, flummoxed oh my god.. how does she keep getting MORE popular

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But it won't start up 'til you touch, touch, touch me