Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department
Added 2024-05-24 17:00:09 +0000 UTC
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What? Justice for Guilty as Sin! That song is gorgeous! Ok, I'll cut you some slack for a 1st listen to such a complex album. There's a LOT to process on TTPD and it requires, nay, deserves multiple listens to unlock the layers and layers of art on display here. And the Tay-Lore is crucial to grasping the meaning of many of the tracks. That requires more than a casual investment from the listener, I think.
Tinwhistle
2025-03-28 23:50:24 +0000 UTCmichael picking up the 80s vibe after listening to track two (the title track) and the start of the song sounds almost exactly like the song 1963 by new order (from 1987)
Emilie
2025-01-26 16:50:10 +0000 UTCEspecially them saying taylor is due to a spanking because they didn't like a couple songs... like what?
Laura Zambarda
2024-12-15 15:14:04 +0000 UTCI actually agree with a lot of what you guys said about who’s afraid of little old me. I get where she was going but I think it could have been edited down some for sure. I still like it because I know the lore but don’t feel bad for not liking it.
Carey Benedict
2024-12-13 21:46:29 +0000 UTCI hope I haven't come off too feral. I really do like you guys.
Molly Cornelius
2024-10-02 20:40:14 +0000 UTCI'm sortof baffled by some of your reactions, but I think you'll like The Anthology better.
Molly Cornelius
2024-10-02 20:35:04 +0000 UTCOmg thank you for googling Clara Bow before listening to the song.
Molly Cornelius
2024-10-02 20:21:17 +0000 UTCThe Smallest Man is Matty Healy (who's known to wear formal suits on stage). Matty seduced her, love-bombed her, promised love & marriage & children & forever, then ghosted Taylor. He's the typewriter loving, cinephile, singer songwriter, frontman of The 1975 loml rebound relationship who absolutely broke her.
Molly Cornelius
2024-10-02 20:20:02 +0000 UTCA spanking? Michael? That's just a disappointingly disrespectful way to speak about a grown woman and professional artist. Unacceptable. Would you say that about a 35 year old man if you didn't like two of his songs in a row? Do better.
Molly Cornelius
2024-10-02 19:36:58 +0000 UTCWho's Afraid of Little Old Me - is a gorgeous synthesis of female rage. You know about the cancelation, the manufactured rumors, the slut-shaming, the baseless hate, the betrayal of her own manager, the stolen masters, the sexual assault & the trial, the body shaming, the crazy stalkers who break into her house, the mobs outside her front door, the hate from the conservative media and the Republican Party, the forced year of isolation... Even if you don't know about the condemnation of her relationship with Matty Healy, or the absurd conspiracy theories that she's a witch or a satanist or that she's using mind-control on her audience, or that she unfairly manipulates the charts to crush smaller artists... (I could go on!) How can you not understand where the rage is coming from? And you're just wrong. The music is perfect for the song. I frankly don't understand how you guys didn't like it or even get it. And yes. Swifties Love it. We totally adore it. We know exactly why she's so angry, and we're so here for it.
Molly Cornelius
2024-10-02 19:32:37 +0000 UTCI'm sortof stunned that Mike didn't Name That Tune in Guilty As Sin. It's forgivable though. It's very lore heavy. Downtown Lights by The Blue Nile is an important music reference. Part of the reason for the repetition is because the song deals with intrusive thoughts. Part of it is that the song is about female self pleasure. The way the song builds is important. There's an emotional trigger- a song sent to her by a would-be lover while she's still in a dying but committed relationship. The song is like a love letter. It sends Taylor into a reverie of lust & longing in the middle of her depression and loneliness. She starts fantasizing but at the same time is considering the question of fidelity & cheating if she's fantasizing & getting off to thoughts of someone who isn't her partner. She's also reflecting on what the public/media will say & do if she leaves the long relationship she's in and immediately starts things up with the man she's longing for. There's a whole emotional and philosophical and physical story taking place in the course of the song, and it all starts with the first line, "Drowning in the Blue Nile, he sent me Downtown Lights. I hadn't heart it in a while." It's actually a very personal & sexy song. Give "Downtown Lights" a listen (especially keeping in mind the idea of receiving it as a message from an old-flame/one that got away). Think about how the song might have struck Taylor while she's stuck in a relationship that has become like a prison. Then listen to "Guilty As Sin?" again. See if that doesn't change how you hear it.
Molly Cornelius
2024-10-02 19:05:16 +0000 UTCFlorida!!! is... complicated. There's a lot. a few of many things: *Texas & Florida are relevant in the timeline of Taylor's relationships & Eras tour stops *Florida as escapism *Florida as a person/relationship (the miracle move on drug)
Molly Cornelius
2024-10-02 18:24:14 +0000 UTCFresh Out The Slammer introduces the really important theme of her 6 year relationship as a prison. It's really hard to fully appreciate TTPD without an understanding of the TayLore. The Album tells about many stages of her emotional life during the end of one long relationship and then the full span of her rebound relationship with Matty Healy (the what-if man who she had chemistry & friendship with for 10 years but *probably* never actually dated until her relationship with Joe Alwyn collapsed). TTPD is mostly about the wild relationship with Matty who started love-bombing Taylor before she & Joe were officially & publicly over. "So Long London" is about Joe, but most of the rest of the album is about some stage of Taylor's relationship with Matty all the way from seduction to uniting to ghosting and grieving & raging. There are a few exceptions where songs are about critics/media/the industry/fame, but yeah - mostly this album is about coping with the death of two very different relationships. And then... the twinkles of something new on the horizon.
Molly Cornelius
2024-10-02 18:19:47 +0000 UTCSo you're absolutely right, Michael. She was totally breaking the 4th wall to clap back hard (and punk) all the insane & overly entitled "fans" who got way too possessive in their parasocial relationship to Taylor & were delusional enough to think they should be treated as shareholders of the brand "they helped to build" and that they should be allowed to dictate terms of Taylor's personal life. Go ahead and google "Speak Up Now" and you'll find the crazy letter some of these unhinged individuals posted. They were way too invested in Taylor's relationship with Joe Alwyn (which fell apart- see track 5, "So Long London") and they were rabidly outraged at Taylor's following relationship with Matty Healy. He may be problematic, but some "fans" just couldn't accept that Taylor is a grown ass individual with the right to make her own relationship decisions. "But Daddy I Love Him" is basically a joyful Fuck You to everyone who felt like they should have a say in Taylor's personal life. She was both telling a story, and drawing a line. She's had rabid fans make problems for her relationships before (Harry Styles' fans for instance back in the 1989 days). She's old enough and wise enough to set a boundary this time. And yeah, she was flexing her vocabulary; but why shouldn't she remind people of her eloquence and sophistication when people are calling her choices stupid or crazy? Just be glad that "But Daddy" isn't aimed at you. You're just witnessing shots fired.
Molly Cornelius
2024-10-02 17:56:28 +0000 UTCBut Daddy is absolutely directed to the audience - "Daddy" is the large crazy group of fans who didn't approve of her relationship with Matty Healy to the point where they formed a "union" and wrote her a letter demanding she break up with him and apologize and atone for the damage to her reputation and brand.
Molly Cornelius
2024-10-02 17:31:15 +0000 UTCHas anyone explained to you guys about track 5 songs?
Molly Cornelius
2024-10-02 17:18:59 +0000 UTCMatty Healy uses a typewriter. lugs it around & everything.
Molly Cornelius
2024-10-02 17:00:59 +0000 UTCThey both lived periods of pretty tumultuous & self destructive behavior. The tortured existence was almost part of the aesthetic of their respective lives. Taylor is saying that she & Matty don't have to be self-destructive to be writers and performers- that that kind of behavior is idiotic and unnecessary to being artists.
Molly Cornelius
2024-10-02 16:49:11 +0000 UTCUm, Dylan Thomas and Patti Smith were both poets. Patti Smith is still alive. She's a poet, a singer, songwriter, author, painter. They both lived at the Chelsea Hotel, but they didn't know each other. Dylan Thomas was the poet who wrote "Do not go gentle into that good night".
Molly Cornelius
2024-10-02 16:43:54 +0000 UTCI think it's sad that you feel like you can't give your insight into what you hear. Isn't that the point of a reaction video....to react? Personally, I love hearing what someone who is unfamiliar with the "insider information" takes from the lyrics and what their perspective and insight is. I'm really sorry that you've been made to feel like you can't do that. :(
Danielle B
2024-07-23 13:27:41 +0000 UTCTHE ALCHEMY IS A LOVE SONG TO TRAVIS!!!!
halle
2024-07-20 18:40:35 +0000 UTCsame 😭 but i appreciate the honesty from reactors. i think maybe they’re just missing some context? or they just don’t like it sonically
halle
2024-07-20 18:11:04 +0000 UTCYou said it on your red reaction that she had this ability to be both mature (eg state of grace)and childish (eg I knew you were trouble). I don’t think that has changed, if you look back at her throughout her whole career she has had this ability to be wildly childish but mature enough to be able to recognise each feeling she’s feeling. It’s interesting how that’s respected at a young age but condemned as she’s gotten older. I’m not her age yet but I would assume that the childishness doesn’t just vanish, and it probably comes out more when you’re feeling wildly chaotic. She described in her prologue that this album is describing a short period of time (hence fortnight) in which she has said she looks back and sees that she was going through a manic phase. I think it’s interesting that you guys came away really not liking it when you only really disliked a couple of the songs (who’s afraid of little old me, Florida, the alchemy, I can fix him, plus guilty as sin but I really think you need to go back and refathom as I don’t think you grasped what she was talking about). I think what you might not like is her still talking about a breakup at her age but at the end of the day she did go through a breakup at her age. You could look at this album as having the manic phase at the start with the big pop songs and then throughout the (full) album it turns from manic to depression where she’s really fathoming life at the end. I think it’s perfectly natural to be spiralling slightly after coming out of such a long term relationship as a slightly older women. And I actually think it’s quite nice to know that someone is still able to feel these feeling at that age, but then showing through the second half of the album that there’s more depth. We love a girl that can do both.
Na
2024-07-07 09:47:37 +0000 UTCGuys I can’t find them reaction to part two but they said it’s here can someone guide me please pretty please
sama azzawi
2024-06-28 10:54:38 +0000 UTCI also don't see it.
Guillermo Rodriguez
2024-06-07 16:45:40 +0000 UTCWAY ahead of you! Lol love how much you love CC. My pick for AOTY
April Green
2024-06-07 14:06:40 +0000 UTCI don't see the second album. Only the TTPD part.
Richard
2024-06-07 13:12:33 +0000 UTCThank you 💚
Mike Mulligan
2024-06-07 12:42:49 +0000 UTCOhhhhh
Mike Mulligan
2024-06-07 12:41:50 +0000 UTCI never listened to much of solo stuff but The Police for sure.
Mike Mulligan
2024-06-07 12:41:04 +0000 UTCThank you! Cowboy is included now.
Mike Mulligan
2024-06-07 12:40:04 +0000 UTCI’ll have to ask the boss😂
Mike Mulligan
2024-06-07 12:39:24 +0000 UTCIt’s included here. Scroll up
Mike Mulligan
2024-06-07 12:38:12 +0000 UTCWhen are reacting to the Anthology album of Taylor?
Richard
2024-06-07 03:43:39 +0000 UTCI think the bridge of WAOLOM is really Taylor saying, "you hate me so much and you think I'm this awful person who retaliates against any slight against me, but you're still secretly singing along to my songs. What does that say about you?" Also, the "asylum" is the music industry and being scrutinized in the public eye since she was 16
Eva Zhu
2024-06-06 17:57:46 +0000 UTCSuper interesting reaction. This album was an album for the swifties. Midnights was an album for the masses. You were missing a lot of contextual clues here - so some of the BEST songs you weren’t getting because the album wasn’t directed at you - also a reason for the fourth wall breaks. She was speaking AT us haha (sometimes telling us off, sometimes begging for us to understand). I’ve been a fan since her first album, and I’ve only just realised that albums liked these are the ones that are her true masterpieces - the ones that are confusing at first, but are adored in 5 years haha
Lucy Martin
2024-06-04 09:02:06 +0000 UTCI’m right there with you!! It’s been on repeat since it came out!
Meagan Muller
2024-06-03 16:10:41 +0000 UTCWhere is the Anthology reaction?
Richard
2024-06-02 12:39:02 +0000 UTC“My bedsheets are ablaze, I’ve screamed his name…” come on y’all lol. It didn’t take the average listener to pick up on what she’s singing about in Guilty As Sin? I honestly think you were resisting relating the songs to her life too much on this reaction. She said she needed songwriting more than anything when she wrote this.
Erin Perkins
2024-06-02 02:24:23 +0000 UTCLate to the party (but so were you! lol) but this album was definitely a grower for me. I didn’t know how to feel on my first listen, then it slowly became one of my favorites of hers. It’s a really interesting and unique album either way. Also - I would love to see reactions to some of Mike’s favorite albums that might have been before our time for some of us!
Richie Dias
2024-06-01 03:15:07 +0000 UTCman, "who's afraid of little old me" is my favorite on the album :') but for real always love your reactions!
Kaitlin Danielle
2024-05-31 22:34:15 +0000 UTCI recently had to cancel all my subscriptions to save money. You guys were the only one I kept 🫶🏼 love how honest you are (even if I don't always agree RIP waolom) I hope you do a cowboy carter reaction!
April Green
2024-05-31 17:37:31 +0000 UTCAs a 33 year old OG swiftie I am LOVING this album
April Green
2024-05-31 17:34:00 +0000 UTCYeah, they like the shallower songs which isn’t a problem but it’s definitely disappointing to do 2+ hour videos and not dig into the meanings of lyrics.
Mandi
2024-05-31 15:40:13 +0000 UTCthis is a grown up album about grown up pain and loss so well done.iom/
Mark Barnwell
2024-05-31 15:39:49 +0000 UTCHaving men dismiss the feelings and experiences of women and being frustrated by that is not ridiculous or “just pure hate towards men as a whole”.
Mandi
2024-05-31 15:34:39 +0000 UTCMEN! Amirite? My girl is on a mastabatory mission and sheets were in flamesss..
Mandi
2024-05-31 15:18:24 +0000 UTCDamn, are we ever going to hear Mike introduce us to Sting? lol. Nothing Like the Sun or Dream of the Blue Turtles or Synchronicity. I think I am being troll like over this. Really not sure what that is. 64 year old here. enjoy your show guys!
Mark Barnwell
2024-05-31 14:21:45 +0000 UTCOh, please, stop with these silly und unreasoned sexism allegations! This is just ridiculous and just pure hate towards men as a whole at this point!
thejumpr
2024-05-31 13:57:29 +0000 UTCI actually think you are pretty spot-on with your impressions of the album! I think loml is BY FAR the best song on the "original" version of the album. I also liked Fortnight, Down Bad, So Long London and The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived, however, still, I think that the "Anthology" version is just so much better!
thejumpr
2024-05-31 13:55:38 +0000 UTCYes I definitely was thinking of Maplethorpe. Memory ain’t what it used to be.
Mike Mulligan
2024-05-31 02:09:31 +0000 UTC😎🫶🏻
Mike Mulligan
2024-05-31 02:07:13 +0000 UTCps. your Courage the Cowardly Dog shirt gives off MAJORRRRR Down Bad vibes!! All them aliens in that show??? you knowww Courage was down bad for at least ONE of them 🤣
Tyler Asberry
2024-05-31 01:14:17 +0000 UTCTo me, this album is SOOOO 80's inspired. I mean, the alien abduction metaphor in Down Bad is soooo enhanced by the trippy, sinthy 80's production. Down Bad literally reminds me of "American Horror Story: Asylum". The storyline from that particular season had to do with both Asylums and Alien abduction and, to me, this song fits that narrative so perfectly. 🤣 But also, the references to typewriters and asylums throughout the album also fit the 80's era so well. I guess I just think the album has a lot of nods to the 80's lyrically, but there's also a modern 80's take on the production. If that makes any sense?
Tyler Asberry
2024-05-31 01:03:43 +0000 UTCMy favourite Taylor album!
ellie pendall
2024-05-30 21:21:17 +0000 UTCI say this with love, respect and humor, but I find it hilarious that you didn’t get much imagery out of guilty as sin😅🤣
Candice Rossi
2024-05-30 19:27:59 +0000 UTCThey are entitled to their opinion, they didn't like it and they gave their reasons why. Do I agree with them? No, WAoLOM is one of my favourites. Would I ever tell them they just "don't understand because they're men"? Absolutely not. Sexism is not a good look either
Lindsey
2024-05-30 14:12:02 +0000 UTCWatch the music video to Fortnite, Mike will recognize two familiar faces from the dead poets Society in it
Candice Rossi
2024-05-30 10:58:56 +0000 UTCThis album is so much to take in on a first listen! As an OG Swiftie I had no idea what I felt about it after my first listen, but it’s rapidly grown to be one of my top Taylor albums. The Anthology is the perfect b side too 🤍 Would love to know your opinions after listening a few more times
Holly James
2024-05-30 10:48:41 +0000 UTCTotally agree! It’s such a sexy bop full of yearning and heartache. The girlies get it
Holly James
2024-05-30 10:43:53 +0000 UTCIn my opinion ‘Who’s afraid of little old me’ is incredibly written and produced! It’s genuinely my fave on the album and slowly becoming a top fave Taylor song overall. The instrumentation is so cinematic and the lyrics tell such an interesting story it’s like I can see a fantasy movie playing out in my mind. You obviously don’t have to like the song if it’s not for you, but I think some of your criticisms were pretty rough. I think it’s definitely worth looking into the meaning behind some of the lyrics and giving it a re-listen! Hope it’s a grower for you guys 🙏🏼
Holly James
2024-05-30 10:40:06 +0000 UTCGuilty as sin explores female masturbation so poetically. It’s a shame you’ll didn’t explore the lyrics more.
Samuel Sampayo
2024-05-30 10:36:43 +0000 UTCYou sound insufferable
Mr. Bigweld
2024-05-30 08:52:58 +0000 UTCI still need lemonade too 😭 that’s what I joined Patreon to request! But I’ve loved all their content so can’t complain!
Sarah
2024-05-30 04:42:59 +0000 UTCSame. Lost some respect tbh. The irony of them questioning her sing writing ability during THAT song is exactly why she wrote the song
Brianna Butlee
2024-05-29 22:43:12 +0000 UTCSo disappointed in your reaction to Who’s afraid of little old me…. The song writing is genius - I think it’s a man thing to not understand ☹️ your negativity made me stop watching. Don’t like something, fine. But you don’t have to say it’s not good, weak and messy. Toxic masculinity is not a good look ✌️
Brianna Butlee
2024-05-29 22:41:50 +0000 UTCI really appreciated that you guys didn't know Taylor's romantic history. It was refreshing to watch a reaction where the focus was on the lyrics and music, not who the song is written about. I was super surprised you guys didn't like Guilty as Sin!!! That is my number one favorite of the album (including the tracks from The Anthology)
Alyssa Malecha
2024-05-29 21:58:45 +0000 UTCOmg you guys’ commentary is so insightful!! Y’all caught things I totally missed and I’ve listened to this album so much since it came out
Fatimah Alnaseri
2024-05-29 19:38:31 +0000 UTCCowboy Carter when?
LoonaStar
2024-05-29 18:48:25 +0000 UTCI get where you’re coming from as a whole with the album - honestly. I think this is very much for herself and the fans. By the 25th full listen (at least lol) it’s my favorite body of her work. It resonates so much with my 30-year-old self.
Meagan Muller
2024-05-29 01:11:12 +0000 UTCI think the Clara Bow song is so much heavier - that everyone has always compared her (and all female artists when they’re starting out) to other people. You look like this one, you sound like that one, but finally she’s come out the other side. She is THE Taylor Swift. She has her own identity to the point others get compared to her now. She’s fully found herself and she and we as the OG fans are loving it.
Meagan Muller
2024-05-29 01:07:24 +0000 UTCDad picking up the Travis references before Michael did…so proud 🥹
Meagan Muller
2024-05-29 00:55:21 +0000 UTC“Damn that guy must suck” re: Smallest Man 😂
Meagan Muller
2024-05-29 00:53:04 +0000 UTCWAOLOM 🥲🫣⁉️ I think this one you had to have context for bc it’s def a fan fav. But I hear what you’re saying musically and lyrically especially we really stray, but it’s just so raw. “Yea? That’s what you think I do? That’s who I am right? Fuck you, you couldn’t understand what it’s like.”
Meagan Muller
2024-05-29 00:26:12 +0000 UTCShocked you’d think die hard swifties wouldn’t like Guilty As Sin. Coming back from Florida!!! to that I was like “ah, okay we’re back to what I like”
Meagan Muller
2024-05-29 00:19:19 +0000 UTCI was not at all a fan of Florida!!! on first listen, but it’s grown on me and now it’s a vibe lol FL isn’t just Disney, however the Disney x Taylor tshirts that have come out as a result from Etsy creators has been fantastic 😂 From that song and others
Meagan Muller
2024-05-29 00:11:17 +0000 UTCI’m with dad on But Daddy I Love Him - the story telling is just so captivating! “Sanctimoniously preforming soliloquies I’ll never see” is such a great line
Meagan Muller
2024-05-28 23:55:06 +0000 UTCPost def got more than the Lana treatment 😂 but he’s in the music video too which you should def watch
Meagan Muller
2024-05-28 23:00:17 +0000 UTCThis is so well said!
Meagan Muller
2024-05-28 22:57:54 +0000 UTCDylan Thomas and Patti Smith weren't a couple - I think you're confusing him with Robert Mapplethorpe (though he didn't write Patti's lyrics). Dylan Thomas was a Welsh poet who died when Patti Smith was like 10 years old. He's the one who wrote "do not go gentle into that good night". The unifying factor of Dylan Thomas and Patti Smith is that they were both tortured poets - Taylor is saying, "we're not tortured poets, we're modern idiots".
Thalia Woods
2024-05-28 14:51:26 +0000 UTCi was kind of cringing waiting for them to mention the m*sterbation part but then they didn’t pick up on it 😂
Jessie
2024-05-27 21:21:47 +0000 UTCNoooo so disappointed you guys didn’t get “Who’s afraid of little old me” 😭😭😭
Jessie
2024-05-27 21:20:05 +0000 UTCBut daddy I love him summarized - -Matty and her say they're inlove -fans and her parents (everyone) opposing their relationship -then eventually the heat died down and i think her parents started to be okay with them being together -but then Matty decided to leave her (also referenced in the smallest man who ever lived "it wasnt sexy once it wasnt forbidden") - then now on the outro she says time gives perspective and now she's inlove again with ofc Travis "even her daddy just loves him" "im his lady" and you cant come to the wedding 😂 thats why on the tour she mixes it with so high school 💖
Grace Abelita
2024-05-27 18:09:18 +0000 UTCI think it’s funny that the tracks you guys like aren’t the fan favorites and vise Versa lmao
Cassidy gajewski
2024-05-27 15:23:38 +0000 UTCWho's afraid is one my favorites (and a lot of Swifties'), so it's really fun to see someone not connect to it at all. To me, it's Taylor playing a character, embracing everything that was said and done to her, and rolling with it. Almost every line is a reference to something that happened or how she was portrayed. Can't wait to see it live!
Andrija Prelec
2024-05-27 14:53:44 +0000 UTCGet into the lore, friends!! We’d love to help😂🩷
Madison Bowling
2024-05-27 08:54:08 +0000 UTCSurprising you like the first 3 tracks because most fans like the second half of this 1st album more. Funny that Taylor put some of the songs you didn't like was on the eras tour. Guilty as sin is a fan favorite. I think it is a masterpiece album. It is more a swiftie tailored album. I think you need to have context on these songs. Who's afraid of little old me is a great performance on the eras tour.
Richard
2024-05-27 05:39:44 +0000 UTCIt took me a couple listens for the album as a whole to jibe with me. I think the first one is focused on telling us what she was going through during her two breakups and that whole summer. The second one has great songs but less of a storyline. I can see why she put them on a second album. At this point, I love it and like many fans have said on X, this is all I listen to. It’s still #1 after 5 weeks so it’s clearly connecting with fans.
Teresa Salas
2024-05-27 03:23:41 +0000 UTCFlorida!!! Taylor described as sometimes you want to run away to a new life and on crime shows they always run off to FL. Guilty as Sin? No imagery?! Lololol she’s talking about fantasizing about a potential lover and more. It’s FULL of imagery. WAOLOM is an anthem for female rage but specific to Taylor about the music industry and all the crap she’s dealt with over the years.
Teresa Salas
2024-05-27 02:29:29 +0000 UTCBut Daddy I Love Him is a cute story but even more it’s an indictment of the media, the fans, the public thinking they have a say in who she dates and how she lives her life. She is breaking the fourth wall bc she’s sick and tired of people judging her every move. Let her live! 😂
Teresa Salas
2024-05-27 02:04:32 +0000 UTCThey said they were going to record it this weekend and it should be up sometime this coming week :)
KO
2024-05-26 23:11:07 +0000 UTCI keep checking for part two 😅😅😅
Caitlin Green
2024-05-26 23:02:54 +0000 UTCYou too not getting 'guilty as sin?' is so funny, it is 100% female experience coded 😏😏😏
aij smagul
2024-05-26 16:04:53 +0000 UTCThe anthology will be more your speed. It kind of is an a side b side in the production. On the first half, it’s a majority Jack Antanoff songs, on the second half, it’s a majority Aaron Desner songs.
Cassie Olson
2024-05-26 08:17:03 +0000 UTCSo much of this album is about Matty Healey. The smallest man who ever lived is 1000000% about him.
Cassie Olson
2024-05-26 08:15:39 +0000 UTC😂wait next video Mike say : I’m obsessed… as a fan I’m so lost on first listen… but I can’t stop listening TTPD now
levine Jiang
2024-05-26 04:43:05 +0000 UTCI'm a young fan (nearly 20), and I love this album. It's definitely a grower, the more I listen the more I like it. Guilty as sin is one of my favourites, as is loml. However, I think the anthology is the best, Aaron Dessner produces most of those songs, and there's so many great songs with just taylor and the piano.
Anya Smith
2024-05-26 00:51:59 +0000 UTCloml to i can do it with a broken heart killed me LOL the complete 180
andrea
2024-05-25 23:12:29 +0000 UTClets goooo
andrea
2024-05-25 23:03:58 +0000 UTCA SWIFTIE THEORY THAT HAS GONE AROUND about London and Florida: London is a reference to Joe Alwyn (her 6 year relationship) and Florida is a reference to Matty Healy (her situationship right after her breakup). So the song Florida!!! is referencing Matty and their relationship. So the lyrics about the hometown and being a guest or getting arrested is in reference to London how it was her home but she actually just ended up being a guest. Then the timeshare reference is bc Matty and Taylor have known each other for about 10 year and this was just something brewing from then. So she technically had a “timeshare” in him until it was her turn so to say. Also “the shitstorm down in Texas” is bc the news broke about her breakup with Joe between Texas and Florida stops. And I think that’s all the lore you’re welcome 😁
Laura Guerrero
2024-05-25 22:43:14 +0000 UTCYes, so disappointed at the reaction to WAOLOM.
ACR
2024-05-25 20:49:24 +0000 UTCThank you for discussing each song in depth. it's fun this way. like other comments here said, I believe Taylor wrote this album first and foremost for herself and then to the fans. because she said she needed songwriting the most during the making of this album. to process what she went through. it's a very vulnerable and raw emotion album that grows on you with each listen. with each listen you discover more I think we all have different tastes and favorite songs so it's natural we'll all have different favorites criticism is welcomes as long as it's respectful which you two have always been. I think saying every song is great, every song is amazing is worse than saying what you didn't like on the song. so I respect and appreciate you two. my least favorite song on this album is 'I Can Do It With A Broken Heart' because i'm tired of Jack and Taylor's 80's synths sound, yet this song is a fav favorite. like Who's Afraid Of Little Old Me is my favorite song on this album (excluding the anthology) and I still enjoyed your input even if you disliked the song. that's okay. I can't wait for you "The Anthology" reaction because that album is more folklore/evermore vibe with piano focused melody and the story and lyrics are great. thank you again :)
Tal
2024-05-25 17:09:21 +0000 UTCOne more note to add, she intentionally made it feel chaotic because that is what she was feeling at the time. The prologue for the album explains it so well!
Camille Platts-McPharlin
2024-05-25 16:20:37 +0000 UTCI think a LOT of folks had mixed feelings especially on first listen. This is def an album that grows as you listen and pick up on more of the details. Always love hearing your perspectives! My favs *currently* are some of your least favs lmao 😂 I love the chaos of Florida, but daddy I love him feels like stepping out of the darkness and into the sun especially at the end when she talks about her “wild boy, and this wild joy”, and then I loveeeeee down bad and guilty as sin - the melodies are little earworms for me. Can’t wait for you to listen to the anthology, I love it more than the first set of tracks!
Camille Platts-McPharlin
2024-05-25 16:19:21 +0000 UTCThe summation poem answered so many questions for me!
Sarah
2024-05-25 16:18:31 +0000 UTCI really hope you guys do a part two, the second album is alot more straightforward and quicker to digest. While I love the first album I can understand that without context it’s alot to take in. But honestly shocked how you guys didn’t get who’s afraid of little of me.
Jamie Walker
2024-05-25 15:31:12 +0000 UTCI think if there is one Taylor album you need context for it is this one. Going in to this blind I can definitely understand that you're confused about some of the songs like but daddy I love him. Long story short, she was in a six year relationship which seems to have been really strained the last couple years(considering she basically calls it a prison multiple times) and when they broke up she rebounded with Matty Healy(a very very controversial singer) who she might have had a thing with like ten years ago. She received a ton of hate, some fans made an open letter called "speak up now" which was basically them being like we don't like this guy so you should break up with him. In the summary of the album that she includes in the vinyl she calls this period of her life "a manic episode, self-harm" so the album is just basically her explaining the last couple years to her fans but being like "this was a time in my life, it's over now, let's move on." It's definitely a grower album to, I didn't really like more than three songs on first listen but I love it now. I think you'll enjoy the second half more both lyrically and sonically, as much as I love the first half, the second half is up there with folklore and evermore for me so I think that's more your speed. Either way love your reactions🫶🏻🫶🏻
Julia Kahrs
2024-05-25 15:08:49 +0000 UTCAs a 25 year old Swiftie who's been a fan since age 8, I'm thrilled to share my thoughts on TTPD - my current favorite album! I was instantly captivated by its raw emotion and production, particularly in WAOLOM. It's clear Taylor's unleashing pent-up rage after years of public scrutiny, and it's heartbreaking to see her pain and happiness alike met with mockery. I mean look at all the people who berated her for simply attending football games to support her boyfriend. I saw a video of people screaming and cursing at her, and she simply said back “I didn't DO anything.” She’s right, it is disturbing how some people treat her for simply living her life. I don’t blame her for wanting to “snarl” but knowing she can’t because “at all cost keep your good name”. I understand not everyone will love every song, but sometimes during this one in particular you guys looked in literal pain, and I just wanted to share my perspective. I respect your opinions and appreciate your enthusiasm for most of the album! Taylor's music has been a constant companion for me, and I'm grateful for her courage in sharing her story when some people(in general) use her truth against her and turn it into another joke. Can’t wait for your reaction to the second half! 🤍🤍🤍
Serena
2024-05-25 14:42:35 +0000 UTCThe first two listens of this first part of the album had my head all over the place - it was very intense and I think that reflects the ‘fortnight’ in her life the bulk of this first album is about, aside from the last 2 songs which are different again. I think maybe reading the prologue may have helped as she explained it as a wild 2 week relationship rekindled from many years ago (the mental hospital she refers to), after coming out of a long term 6 year thing (the slammer!). I enjoy the album now and there are some incredible tracks on it - I think loml is up there with her best - but there are a few skips for me on it. It’s interesting the ones you guys seemed to check out on are perhaps the ones that needed the most context. Thankfully, the second album doesn’t need context it is just a really brilliant body of work. It really props up the whole front part of the album. In summary, I think the highs are incredibly high and the lows are quite low. But the good news for you is that you’ve covered off the lows already! At the end of the second album, if I reflect back and pick my 10 favourite songs from the whole thing, I think it’s right up there with her best work. That’s how I look at it. I’ll make a playlist soon of about 24 songs from it and as one body of work it would be easily her best for me. But just that first half on its own isn’t it for me. I think it was something she needed to do as she processed what she went through and there’s a lot of criticism of the fans in it - especially But Daddy I Love Him (the last part of this song is about Kelce - after the ‘but fuck it, it’s over now’ line she switches to her current relationship. Appreciate the content! I had a feeling it was going to dip for you and ended where you did feels like she didn’t quite turn it around but I’m confident she does that next half for you.
Ciara Panton
2024-05-25 11:58:17 +0000 UTCFlorida was also the next stop on the tour after the whole debacle, so I think that plays a part too.
Ciara Panton
2024-05-25 11:48:14 +0000 UTCPeople have zero reading comprehension if they think Smallest Man is about Joe. I honestly think some people just won’t come to terms that most of the album was written about Matty, bc they can’t handle that reality. She even said in the summation poem, it‘s the worst men she writes best.
Courtney McAlexander
2024-05-25 10:44:13 +0000 UTCWho's Afraid of Little Old Me gave me CHILLS the first time I heard it. Production is perfect.. writing is perfect. Female rage at its finest, maybe that's why you can't relate (that's not a bad thing). But it might be my favorite song she's ever written. I'm Taylors age, and have followed her from the very beginning. We just grew up with her. The things she still writes about is stuff I'm still relating to. I think this is her best album she's ever done, and I know most of her long time fans agree.
Brianna
2024-05-25 07:56:07 +0000 UTCI think absolutely context while it's not essential but invested in all of her personal life, but it absolutely helps to process this album. Another excellent creater described this song as being potential quite alienating for the causal listener - I think the ability to click in and understand and then appreciate many of the songs (particularly the ones you weren't a fan of) really hinge on having an understanding of the events of her 6 year relationship with Joe and the whirlwind rebound (and rekindled flame) Matty Healy, as well as the timelines that surround them i.e. thinking about the contrast of lyrics in I Can Do With a Broken Heart linking to the period post break up (most likely after Joe but I'm of the opinion could be a reflection of both breakups) Absolutely fine to not like a song, but I think you do need to consider that the ability to understand the context they love in allows a more complete listen - whether or not from a consumer/marketing/critique this is inher6a good or bad thing can be argued either way, but I think her fan base is so huge at this point it almost doesn't matter haha. Regardless of your first impressions, I encourage some repeated listens as it absolutely is a grower this album! ❤️ Always appreciate the time for these reactions :)
Philippa
2024-05-25 07:39:41 +0000 UTCPersonally, I think The Anthology has the best songs of the album. It also helps to think of the first chunk of songs until 'The Alchemy' as her being in a mental hospital. She kind of alludes to being in that state of mind in several of the songs, and then she says 'what if I told you I'm back, the hospital was a drag...' like she's back to herself.
Casey Kendrick
2024-05-25 06:57:05 +0000 UTCI can’t wait for part 2!!!!!! I think you will like the anthology!
Caitlin Green
2024-05-25 05:22:24 +0000 UTCI’m 25 and I’m a die hard Swiftie but it did take me a minute to digest (which it always does) but more bc Taylor is willing to experiment and go all these different routes with her music and is not afraid to how people will perceive it. It always an initial shock for me tbh but i absolutely love this album and its probably my favorite now and I haven’t listened to anything else since this came out 😅
Laura Guerrero
2024-05-25 04:32:22 +0000 UTCYou guys are going to loveee the Anthology side. It is definitely more cohesive and the writing is some of her best work
Brianna
2024-05-25 04:27:53 +0000 UTCBut also I know you all will love The Anthology part gives more folklore and evermore vibes and they have some of my favs. But honestly I wish you all would look up the lore to understand. I know Genius has some info on there and most of the time it’s got good information
Laura Guerrero
2024-05-25 04:23:55 +0000 UTCHonestly I really thought you all would love Who’s Afraid Of Little Old Me? bc it’s a bunch of rage like reputation was and I felt like you all would hear that 🥲
Laura Guerrero
2024-05-25 04:22:02 +0000 UTCClara Bow was the first “it” girl and it was when the phrase was coined. But you’re only “it” until society moves on, often through no fault or actions of your own. I think it’s a warning to young artists!
Sarah
2024-05-25 04:18:58 +0000 UTCI think it’s a quintuple entendre 1 music industry as a whole 2 specifically her masters and re recordings 3 her exes fearing her lyrics but her agents holding her back 4 snakegate/kanye/kim 5 the regular people who are haters like it’s their life’s mission to hate Taylor
Sarah
2024-05-25 04:17:17 +0000 UTCYes The Alchemy is for Travis 🤭 first one hehehe!!! We get another with The Anthology
Laura Guerrero
2024-05-25 04:11:17 +0000 UTCThe TTPD set made me appreciate the songs so much more, the vocal performance live is untouched! I’m an anthology girly but you have to love the songs she has in the set list because of how brilliant it is!
Sarah
2024-05-25 04:11:02 +0000 UTCIn the Smallest Man Who Ever Lived, it’s a reference to her situationship with Matty Healy from The 1975 or so is the rumor. He always wears a suit for his concert so the “Jehovah’s witness suit” is a reference to that. Also I took the “push pin” line that he was all willing to show her and everything but not willing to be true to the relationship. It’s just for show.
Laura Guerrero
2024-05-25 04:10:36 +0000 UTCI think it’s a double entendre, I hear both of their perspectives in it and I think it’s intentional!
Sarah
2024-05-25 04:09:18 +0000 UTCThe black dog is so good!
Sarah
2024-05-25 04:08:43 +0000 UTCAnthology is 100% the folkmore triplet!
Sarah
2024-05-25 04:05:46 +0000 UTCI love her performance of it on tour, and I love the power ballad, and it draws me back to her masters and her flipping the table on them, plus her exes who’ve wronged her being terrified of what her lyrics will say…but my top 5 are all from the anthology!!!
Sarah
2024-05-25 04:05:24 +0000 UTCYes I definitely see that!! Like they were truly trying to tear Taylor down with that and she’s like “who’s afraid of little old me? You should be 😈” this is the angry version of my tears ricochet
Laura Guerrero
2024-05-25 04:04:35 +0000 UTCIt brings me back to My Tears Ricochet and the revenge she got for refusing to sell her her masters!
Sarah
2024-05-25 04:02:38 +0000 UTCYes! Thank you! I’ve seen several random posts swearing it’s Joe. I don’t get Joe AT ALL! It’s totally Matty!
Sarah
2024-05-25 04:00:20 +0000 UTCStevie Nicks wrote a beautiful poem that’s on the vinyl and CD inserts, and Taylor wrote a truly touching poem for the back cover. Check those out!
Sarah
2024-05-25 03:48:54 +0000 UTCOh it’s 100% about Matty!
Aloha Record Sargent
2024-05-25 03:47:08 +0000 UTCWhen Taylor starts a song with a sigh you know it’s about to touch your soul
Sarah
2024-05-25 03:46:40 +0000 UTCI’m so sad you all didn’t get Who’s Afraid Of Little Old Me? bc it’s such a powerful song and especially for Taylor.
Laura Guerrero
2024-05-25 03:41:54 +0000 UTCI do think that is one that is uniquely relatable to women but who knows, I'm sure many male fans love it too
Molly C
2024-05-25 03:41:13 +0000 UTCThere’s some debate about “the smallest man who ever lived” but I’m 100% of the camp that it’s about Matty Healy
Sarah
2024-05-25 03:37:10 +0000 UTCThe longer I watch the more excited I am for the anthology reaction 🤍🤍🤍 love your guys take on the lyricism!
Sarah
2024-05-25 03:26:50 +0000 UTCI love that you guys picked up on the message of Clara Bow! There’s a lot of reactors I watch that had no idea what she was saying and it was so frustrating!
Mary M
2024-05-25 03:09:02 +0000 UTCDad was spot on with the alchemy being about Travis 😂 she even played it as one of the surprise songs in Paris at the show Travis came to
Mary M
2024-05-25 02:57:13 +0000 UTCThe song writing comes back I promise!! And the anthology is 🪶 🖋️ ✍🏻 +++++
Sarah
2024-05-25 02:49:38 +0000 UTCI felt the same way about Guilty As Sin (and fresh out the slammer had my ear bored too) 🙈 but the other tracks make up for it.
Sarah
2024-05-25 02:45:08 +0000 UTCWell said
Courtney McAlexander
2024-05-25 02:42:20 +0000 UTCThe “timeshare down in Destin” I think is saying you’re working your whole life to get 2 weeks vacation max, like what are we doing this for? Fuck me up Florida cause I gotta work again on Monday.
Sarah
2024-05-25 02:34:43 +0000 UTCYes, and that idea fits perfectly with her repeated line in the song, “am I allowed to cry?”
Aloha Record Sargent
2024-05-25 02:25:08 +0000 UTCI love that I can never predict what songs you’re going to like or not like! And man a lot of the tracks you guys didn’t like, I’m in love with. “Who’s afraid of little ole me,” might be my favorite Taylor song of all time! (Long time mid 30s Swiftie here)
Bella B
2024-05-25 01:50:18 +0000 UTCexactly!
Kate Ayotte
2024-05-25 01:38:34 +0000 UTCOh me too! But I couldn’t help but laugh at their faces 😂😂 They almost looked disgusted by it
KO
2024-05-25 01:23:49 +0000 UTCI saw a reactor say that Guilty As Sin? was like high school lust.. and I’m like WHAT no! Those are the thoughts of a FULLY GROWN WOMAN 😭
Isabella
2024-05-25 01:23:16 +0000 UTCI felt slightly offended by it, to be honest LMAO
Isabella
2024-05-25 01:21:50 +0000 UTCContext is everything….
Teresa Jorgensen
2024-05-25 01:15:34 +0000 UTCBrilliantly stated!
Aloha Record Sargent
2024-05-25 01:11:27 +0000 UTCI find it interesting that you will do a 4 part series on the Drake/Kendrick "thing" and review the entire lore associated with it, but dismiss "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me" or "But Daddy I Love Him" without diving into the Tay-lore. Trust me when I say, if you take the time the songwriting hits next level.. She is furious. There is a lot of Female Rage out there, and the fact that you don't get it or understand why she's screaming or the sentiment, speaks volumes. In a completely unrelated topic, I have yet to see men grasp the significance or depth of " Guilty As Sin?" and every woman I have spoken to it is in their top picks.
Kate Ayotte
2024-05-25 01:08:47 +0000 UTCHAHA Who's Afraid of Little Old Me? is most people's favorite song on the album!!!! I was honestly cracking up at y'all's reaction to it being like WTF is this
KO
2024-05-25 01:08:42 +0000 UTCIn my opinion The Anthology is actually a lot closer to Evermore than TTPD in terms of songwriting and soundscape, I'm excited to see if you like it 🤍🖤
Hayden Smith
2024-05-25 00:49:45 +0000 UTCSo long London is about her 6 year relationship ending with Joe (who is British and lives in London) and it hits so hard when you’ve observed their relationship for nearly 7 years, and the albums she wrote about him (half of reputation, lover, he cowrote several folklore and evermore tracks) and then the hints in midnights that the relationship was coming to and end. It hits so hard!
Sarah
2024-05-25 00:46:46 +0000 UTCIt's a lot to take in at once, especially if they're new to Tay-Lore
Hayden Smith
2024-05-25 00:46:00 +0000 UTCLoved the down bad breakdown! She does play it live now during the eras tour, it’s epic! And all f bombs are intact 😂
Sarah
2024-05-25 00:37:25 +0000 UTC“She must play wordle” 😂💀
Sarah
2024-05-25 00:25:14 +0000 UTCOh, also, great job with deciphering the alien / UFO metaphors in Down Bad. You got it! I like to think of Joe as a ship on water (safe, steady, grounded, slow) and Matty as a spaceship (dangerous, other-worldly, fast). She made a similar comparison in the epilogue, when she says she went from an "oven" to a "microwave"
Aloha Record Sargent
2024-05-25 00:25:01 +0000 UTCI loved the album from first listen, because like you noted, the vocals are very strong and help convey the overall tone, which is raw honesty. It feels like she is speaking directly to us (yes, she is breaking the 4th wall). And you guys did very well for not knowing any of the context!!! This album is written about a specific period of Taylor's life, where she ended her 6-year relationship with Joe, and jumped into a manic rebound with her former flame Matty Healy, lead singer of The 1975. This created a huge scandal and media circus, with even her "fans" turning against her and writing letters on social media telling her to break up with Matty. Because of all the drama, he did indeed leave her; ghosted her, in fact. Her fame and her relationship with the media, fans, and the music industry run through the album like a thread (after all, one could argue it was her fame that ultimately precipitated the end of both relationships discussed here). It might help to read Taylor's epilogue poem for the album, and Stevie Nicks also wrote a prologue poem for the album! Both help to explain the overall premise. Even with all of this, though, there are SO many esoteric references to The 1975 and Matty Healy in many of the songs, which is not necessary to know, but does make it a bit more fun!
Aloha Record Sargent
2024-05-25 00:17:03 +0000 UTCI really love TTPD, but I am gaggggged over the anthology!! Can’t wait for that reaction!! Thanks for this one too though 😊🤍
Sarah
2024-05-25 00:15:51 +0000 UTCALSO you should read the epilogue that’s in the back of the vinyl.. I’m sure you can find it online. It definitely helps you understand what she’s saying!!!!
Shannon
2024-05-25 00:07:27 +0000 UTCAgree!
Aloha Record Sargent
2024-05-25 00:03:41 +0000 UTCThis album is A LOT to digest and gets better each listen. I think knowing some context helps. Guilty As Sin is top 3. Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me is iconic, she’s playing into the witch theme like she did during Rep. it’s also one of her best live performances! The whole TTPD eras set is SO GOOD! You guys should check it out.
Shannon
2024-05-25 00:03:08 +0000 UTCWell said
Aloha Record Sargent
2024-05-25 00:01:08 +0000 UTCLiterally everyone loves it lol
Shannon
2024-05-24 23:57:33 +0000 UTCAs everyone's saying she wrote this album for herself and her core fans, she described it as "Female rage: the musical" which is so accurate. It's so chaotic and unhinged but on purpose. And at time it's so funny but i guess the type of humor that only her truest fans would understand. I think it's just like reputation so ahead of its time rep had mixed reviews at first but as time passed more people started to appreciate it and it kinda became a cult classic (ik im reaching lol) also I think it resonate more with the girlies because we get it. I'm the same age as Taylor and it is scary how many tracks describe how i feel and certain things in my life literally word for word. I think it genuinely captures how impossible to be a woman weather you're in the public eye or just a normal person living in this society. It's just the type of album that if you get you get it. Also the smallest man who ever lived bridge arguably is one of her best bridges and that's saying a lot!! it just captures the female rage so beautifully I just had to say that because I was so surprised you didn't appreciate it enough it's so so so powerful. Also one more thing (sorry lol) but daddy i love him (imo) is directed at swifties it clearly shows that she was extremely upset about our reaction to her dating Matty Healy (the rat lol) she called us out so specifically but it's so funny to me for her to have this response then goes to write the smallest man who ever lived about him 😭😭😭 so we essentially were right about him lol.
Nouf
2024-05-24 23:42:51 +0000 UTCThe second half is more ballad heavy and it definitely feels like a separate set of tracks from the standard edition!
Shanice Nowak
2024-05-24 23:39:18 +0000 UTCI love this album and it has no skips for me. I do think it is easier for long time fans to connect with because they have all the lore. As Taylor said herself, she’s never needed songwriting more than when making these songs for this album, she was truly processing her emotions from two heartbreaks in short succession. I think through processing these heartbreaks, she found herself looking back at all her relationships included romantic ones, relationships to the fans and the industry itself. in a lot of ways I feel like this album is ultimately Taylor closing the book and moving on from some long standing hurt she’s had. I found this album to be her most personal and vulnerable she has ever released. She truly made this album for herself. It wasn’t about chart success, record sales, radio hits , or awards. I think ultimately she only released most of this music only because it helped her process her emotions and she knows that if it helped her, it probably would be able to help a lot of her fans.
KyraB
2024-05-24 23:39:14 +0000 UTCFor Florida context here's what Taylor said in a interview: Swift recently revealed the inspiration behind the eccentric song in an Amazon Music commentary. “I think I was coming up with this idea of, like, what happens when your life doesn’t fit or your choices you’ve made catch up to you,” she said. The singer said in the voice note that the song is about escaping “harsh consequences and judgment and circumstances.” Swift started imagining the perfect place to run off to and thought of a television show she frequently watches. “Is there a place you could go?” she asked before laughing. “I’m always watching, like, ‘Dateline.’ People have these crimes that they commit. Where do they immediately skip town and go to? They go to Florida.” She continued, “They try to reinvent themselves, have a new identity, blend in. And I think when you go through a heartbreak, there’s a part of you that thinks, ‘I want a new name. I want a new life. I don’t want anyone to know where I’ve been or know me at all.’” She explained that this desire to disappear and begin anew was the starting point for the song. “Where would you go to reinvent yourself and blend in? Florida!” she concluded.
Irene
2024-05-24 23:38:43 +0000 UTCBut daddy I love him is her telling her fans to fuck off 😂 basically saying we need to chill and it doesn’t matter what we think of her love life cause she’s gonna do what she wants
Mary M
2024-05-24 23:06:26 +0000 UTCOh yes exactly
Irene
2024-05-24 23:01:43 +0000 UTCLiterally Who's Afraid of Little Old Me is one of the most loved and at the same time deepest songs of the first part of the album. It refers to many things but in particular the entertainment industry and how she is perceived by the people around her
Irene
2024-05-24 22:56:50 +0000 UTCAt first I skipped a few near the end but once I listened to them again I came to love them. But the black dog has my heart
Kayla
2024-05-24 22:56:05 +0000 UTCIt bugged me a little bit at first but Papa Mike and I agree that it fits really well with the character she's painting.
Hayden Smith
2024-05-24 22:46:21 +0000 UTCagreed except the anthology is definitely not as cohesive as they’re hoping for - still some absolute stunners on there though
G
2024-05-24 22:44:50 +0000 UTCBut Daddy I Love Him is very quickly becoming one of my favorite songs of all time.. Thank you Papa Mike for getting it immediately! You put it into words better than I could ♥️
Hayden Smith
2024-05-24 22:44:28 +0000 UTCSomeone has created a acoustic version of it on youtube and it is so sad
Daisy
2024-05-24 22:41:10 +0000 UTCHi guys, I completely understand your initial impression of TTPD. After my first listen, I decided to exclusively stick to the standard version of the album for a month to give it a second chance. Not all the songs impressed me at first; some due to the lyrics, others because of the somewhat repetitive synths. However, I can confidently say that even the ones I didn't like initially have grown on me. The songs age really well. Just last week, I started listening to The Anthology, and it's amazing. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
V. Masala
2024-05-24 22:39:36 +0000 UTCAgreed! This album, TTPD/Anthology is *almost* completely no skip for me.
Isabella
2024-05-24 22:29:54 +0000 UTCThe anthology is SO GOOD I died every song was a no skip. I feel like this album is a grower you have to listen to it multiple times
Kayla
2024-05-24 22:23:22 +0000 UTCI'm only at the song But Daddy I Love him and I can certainly say that she broke the fourth wall with those verses precisely referring to the face that public opinion would have made if she had revealed that she wanted a child with that man mentioned in the song aka Matty Healy who, as can be seen from the lyrics of the song, was not very "loved" by some of her fans, the most “obsessive “ ones
Irene
2024-05-24 22:22:07 +0000 UTCIt was so painful to watch them completely miss the meaning of that song
Morgan Sanderson
2024-05-24 22:19:13 +0000 UTCI'm the only one who thinks that guilty as sin is very sad, that feeling that the person you love has abandoned you in every way and the pain is so much that you start dreaming about another person, I will never agree with being unfaithful but when you are already cheating emotionally it is better to let that relationship go, nothing more exhausting than fighting for a partner on your own
Maggie
2024-05-24 22:16:01 +0000 UTCHonestly so funny that you guys enjoyed the beginning and felt a lull in the middle because with all the reactors I’ve seen it’s been opposite. I’ve seen everyone say it’s a slow start and then gets super good once you hit down bad. Guilty as sin and Who’s afraid of little old me are fan favorites for sure so it’s funny you guys really disliked those. But Daddy I Love Him calls out toxic fans who hate everyone she dates and dig up dirt on them. Who’s afraid of little old me calls out the media and public. The part that you disliked where she says “I wanna snarl and show you just how disturbed this has made me” comments on the fact that she is Taylor Swift and cannot respond. People get to treat her however and she just has to take it because it’s a part of the job. Celebrities as a whole have to just behave a certain way despite the way the media treats them or even other celebrities. “You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me” self explanatory I think. Do you think you could last an hour under the scrutiny that Taylor Swift gets? I couldn’t. The way the public has treated her since she was 16 is insane and all those people who dish it wouldn’t be able to take it like she has. Could be applied to pretty much any public figure, the standards they are held to are insane and ridiculous. “I’m always drunk on my own tears, isn’t that what they all said” Taylor often gets labeled as this person who likes the play the victim and that comments on that. “That I’ll sue you if you step on my lawn” people say Taylor sues people for no reason like the guy who tracks her private jet and posts it, or the deja vu Olivia Rodrigo song where Taylor got writing credits and people are convinced she sued Olivia for them. “Put narcotics into all of my songs, and that’s why you’re still singing along” addressing the witch or cult allegations she always gets. But anyways, I’m 22 and this album is top 3 for me and was instant. Midnights was a grower and is certainly on the bottom ish of my album ranking for Taylor but this album is sooo good and was so instant for me. Second part is a little more familiar sounding but people like it more. It’s definitely a different energy for sure. Just more stripped back I think more instruments. But there’s some pop heavy songs too. Overall, Taylor said she made this album for herself. It wasn’t for us really. She needed it for her healing process and I think that’s why the masses are having so much divide on it. I think you gotta find your own way to relate to the songs because she didn’t make them for us to be able to relate to. They are very personal and specific but honestly they are based on such real general human experiences so once you know where she is coming from, you can apply it to yourself.
Jaz
2024-05-24 22:13:01 +0000 UTCOne thing I love and appreciate about your reaction videos is the honesty!! Can’t wait for part 2 . Also you gotta watch the fortnight music video with post malone
Jood
2024-05-24 22:11:43 +0000 UTCI listened to it 10 times in a row the first time there’s actually sm to unpack … the subject matter gagged me
G
2024-05-24 21:47:59 +0000 UTCYou guys are gonna LOVE the second half, it’s even more poetic I personally love it more
Jood
2024-05-24 21:42:57 +0000 UTCthis was a little hard to watch at times, but i’m glad y’all are always honest and give everything a shot. can’t wait for part 2! 🩶
Jenna
2024-05-24 21:03:10 +0000 UTCI’m with you guys. After many listens it’s just 50/50 for me. I feel like I’m listening to an *almost* really great album. Like it’s a rough draft and is still waiting for the final edit.
Michelle
2024-05-24 20:52:20 +0000 UTCI agree, she also doesn’t need her younger audience too because she is grown. Like she doesn’t need to appeal to them as a career move. I am 23 and I LOVED IT. I like poetic lyrics.
Daisy
2024-05-24 20:46:59 +0000 UTCOh nooo. You've got tracks like Florida and WAoLOM, which are not about her ex's. And You like the ones that are about her ex's . And You said thay maybe it is better for her to not write that much about her ex's:D I can understand a lot. But Who's Afraid of Little Old Me is amazing song. She pour her heart out. It's a song mostly about music industry. How she grew up in that toxic enviroment and how she is a part of it. It is fan fav for sure And I'll forget it, but I'll never forgive the sweetest men who ever lived:)
Justyna
2024-05-24 20:45:39 +0000 UTCThat’s part of the art
Mr. Bigweld
2024-05-24 20:43:22 +0000 UTCYall simply HAVE to watch the new TTPD set once you have finished the anthology. She really brings the songs to life and it's some of the best live performances on the Eras tour (and potentially of her whole career).
Courtney McAlexander
2024-05-24 20:39:33 +0000 UTCSide note - I LOVE that you guys have lyrics pulled up! Please do that for taylors videos because we do tend to miss out a lot when we are listening
Daisy
2024-05-24 20:39:25 +0000 UTCDefinitely. My sisters who are 13,11, and 10 don’t connect with this album so much, therefore they don’t don’t care for it. Me? A 27 year old fan since I was 9? I love it so much lol
Isabella
2024-05-24 20:39:11 +0000 UTCI think since us swifties are in the know about who the songs are about they hit different for us. However, I can’t wait for you guys to listen to the 2nd album. It definitely has more of the song writing you guys like.
Selena Martinez
2024-05-24 20:38:43 +0000 UTCThat chorus can hit me like 20 times
Daisy
2024-05-24 20:36:33 +0000 UTCHer family even forgot to get her on her release date from, the asylum “i was supposed to be sent away but they forgot to come and get me” from fortnight
Daisy
2024-05-24 20:35:57 +0000 UTCI do like this album and really love songs like tortured poets department, down bad, so long London, but daddy I love him, loml and a few more some of them I just found lacking something. Again I like this album but I wouldn’t say it would be in my top 5 of her albums. Maybe like place 6 or 7 😊
Nicole scott
2024-05-24 20:34:57 +0000 UTCAfter finishing the reaction video, I can understand how you guys wouldn’t like some of the songs, especially with no context. I think context is really important with this album, and it’s not an album for the general public. While there is songs the general public can and will enjoy, it’s mostly an album for the fans, and more importantly for Taylor. It’s also an album that continues to grow on you. As a fan since 2006, this and the Anthology are some of her best work. It has definitely earned its place in my top 5 albums from her. Love your guys videos, always. Cant wait for your reaction to The Anthology 🙏🫶🏻
Isabella
2024-05-24 20:34:41 +0000 UTCFor me if i like more than half of the songs from the album it is success for me! This album was actually loved by the harcore fans. Especially since they know the context. This album is like her diary. She did not care at all for the first time and let it all out. Whos afraid of little old me and guilty is sin is a fan favorite. As for twitter the old and the new fans both love it. It’s mixed reviews are more based on taste i think than age?
Daisy
2024-05-24 20:31:56 +0000 UTCguilty as sin & who’s afraid of little old me are some of my favorites lol
Alyson Morris
2024-05-24 20:31:35 +0000 UTCI much prefer reactors who focus on the art rather than fixating on figuring out the story/plot/muse!
G
2024-05-24 20:13:12 +0000 UTCReally enjoyed your reaction and thoughts. I do agree with what others sad. I think she has made this album for herself and the fans and not the masses and it is totally fine if not everybody likes every song. I mean in general and for every artist, but also for Taylor. I don't unterstand why there's this weird perception that you have to like either the whole project oder you have to completely not like it. There are not many albums where I absolutely like every song and that's finde, especially if the project is that long. Not to be sounding like a broken record, but I do think you both will like the other half of the Album way more. For me it fells like Midnights Bonus Tracks, it is truly the storytelling of folklore and evermore.
Anna-Liesa
2024-05-24 20:12:37 +0000 UTCOmg guilty as sin is a fan favorite 😅😭
Laura Rubenstein
2024-05-24 20:04:20 +0000 UTCI‘m not done with the video yet, but I just thought maybe you could react to videos of her Tortured Poets set on the Eras Tour, that she added for Europe. Because she is definitely having fun with it 😂
Claudia
2024-05-24 20:03:43 +0000 UTCI literally scream-sing the bridge to Smallest Man every day on my drive to work lol. It's so good!!! The way you can hear how close she is to the mic gives me chills
Sophia Sanchez
2024-05-24 19:59:09 +0000 UTCI hate being that person who asks for another reaction right away, but I’m listening to the final thoughts right now and I cannnotttt wait for The Anthology reaction! On the edge of my seat :) Ps love your honesty, even when I feel differently!
Brooke Noelle
2024-05-24 19:58:17 +0000 UTCok so in a nutshell, this is what happened: taylor was in a 6 year relationship with joe alwyn, then they broke up after she realised he didn't know what he want, she decided to be with matty healy (1975 vocalist) whom she had a 10 year history with. it was controversial, the fans hated him (but daddy i love him). matty lovebombed her, ghosted her and then after a few months she gave travis kelce a chance. the album has a lot of mixed songs between joe and matty, joe being prison, matty being the hospital. there's also a little bit of her talking about fame itself. i just want to say but daddy i love him is THE taylor swift song, if you listen to love story you'll understand. and yes the alchemy is about travis kelce hehe. i think it's the perfect timeline of what happened since the joe breakup. i love that papa mike appreciated the poetry of it all. also there are a LOT of references to her early work in this album (lyrics and production wise). hope you like the anthology!! it IS a shift. p.s.: one of the first tips we had on the album were the words "red herring" so i think she gives a lot of false information in this album and we shouldn't be pointing names and all (it's fun but we could be wrong). a lot of the songs could be about more than one person or moments in her life.
Emilie
2024-05-24 19:57:21 +0000 UTCMaybe you just need more context, but definitely the fans love the album 🫶🏼, she continues making a whole world of conexions between all hers albums and his career and the hate that she receives. I love TTPD ❤️
Eddy
2024-05-24 19:55:47 +0000 UTCWho’s Afraid of Little Old Me is about the music industry and her losing her records. I’m surprised you guys completely missed the point.
Josh
2024-05-24 19:53:52 +0000 UTCThe smallest man who ever lived is about Matty Healy from 1975. I think we were all collectively confused on first listen because we thought it would be mostly about Joe and turns out it’s mostly about Matty lol. So second listen it was like ahhh yes it all makes sense haha.
Caroline Farley
2024-05-24 19:53:00 +0000 UTCI agree! I was instantly in love with WAOLOM and I thought the smallest man was good because she ripped Matty Healy to shreds, but after a few listens man it is just so good now. It just goes hard lol. It definitely really does take a couple listens before you’re like these songs are amazing.
Caroline Farley
2024-05-24 19:50:25 +0000 UTCThis album is HYPER specific. I do think Taylor is kinda done writing for the masses. She said this album was something she desperately needed to write for herself (seemingly to process both the long term relationship with Joe and the short, but long-time-in-the-making situationship with Matty, and it appears also deep rooted issues with her level of fame). So the end result is an album that I’m sure is very opaque if you don’t know the lore, but at the same time, I don’t know the lore of Kendrick’s music and that’s ok. I think our issue is that Taylor has gotten so big that we assume her music should be accessible and cater to every listener but in reality no artist should be held to that standard. Anyway, I’m rambling ha!
Courtney McAlexander
2024-05-24 19:49:56 +0000 UTCI took the message from Clara Bow as how easily the industry disposes of women (and men, I suppose) and the beauty standards they are held to. Like, they’re only appreciated if they are a 10/10 but the moment they slip up in any way, that’s what they’re remembered for. After researching the woman Clara Bow, I learned she was treated terribly towards the end of her career and eventually put into an actual insane asylum (which ties back to “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?”).
Meghan Hameister
2024-05-24 19:43:26 +0000 UTCNot liking Guilty as Sin is the true meaning of tortured. lol
Josh
2024-05-24 19:42:36 +0000 UTCAs a longtime Swiftie, all the songs you guys were iffy about, I was too on first listen. But oh boy did they grow on me LOL I think The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived and Guilty As Sin are my top 2 songs rn. And I LOVE Who's Afraid of Little Old Me - I think the chaotic production adds to the whole angry feeling of the song. And it's amazing live. This album definitely benefits from multiple listens, it feels like each song references the other songs in some way, and I keep catching new references each time I listen (Like in Fortnight, she and Post talk about packing up and running away to Florida!!!) Excited to see u guys react to The Anthology! As a Folklore/Evermore stan I enjoyed it a lot more on first listen than the other half.
Sophia Sanchez
2024-05-24 19:38:02 +0000 UTCI genuinely thought you‘d love this album through and through 🥹🤣 but I‘m 100% sure you‘ll love the anthology
Anna28
2024-05-24 19:36:31 +0000 UTCvery funny how guilty as sin and waolom are literally fan favourites 😭
Mia
2024-05-24 19:32:34 +0000 UTCI think it’s so funny how after Guilty As Sin, you said you wonder how it will hold up with the die hards, and as a diehard, Guilty As Sin is one of my FAVORITE tracks on the album 🤭
Isabella
2024-05-24 19:26:10 +0000 UTCWow, FLOORED at your reaction to Who’s afraid. It’s a stunning song, and the live version is arguably the best live performance she’s ever done. I think yall will be converted when you see the TTPD set.
Courtney McAlexander
2024-05-24 19:20:40 +0000 UTCI was with you for the most part, but you lost me at Who’s afraid of little me because that song slaps! #2 on my list lol. For me it just encompasses how powerful she is but also how people view her. It gives rep vibes so maybe that’s why I love it since rep is my album through and through. I was gutted you felt that way but loved how you both looked like when will this over 😆.
Caroline Farley
2024-05-24 19:11:35 +0000 UTCGuilty as sin blasphemy lol. It’s a fan favorite.
Courtney McAlexander
2024-05-24 19:09:17 +0000 UTCThe first listen is like my mind was still processing and trying to understand but after like 3 or 4 I loved those
ashley
2024-05-24 18:56:56 +0000 UTCAlso, and i think its kind of a universal experience here, this album is definitely a grower. Gets better on every listen. I think the problem is because it’s so lyrics heavy, its hard to absorb and process all the songs
mir
2024-05-24 18:55:26 +0000 UTCAdult Swifties love this album! I’m not surprised at all that this is resonating with your dad. She’s 34, she’s an adult and all the swifties that are around her age are ready for this maturity level.
Courtney McAlexander
2024-05-24 18:54:07 +0000 UTCSo glad you reacted to this. I've been waiting for this!
MAria Elena Velazquez
2024-05-24 18:49:26 +0000 UTCi think your dad messed up dylan thomas with robert mapplethorpe, him and patti smith were romantically linked but were more of platonic soulmates and lived together in chelsea hotel for a while. patti smith released a book called “just kids” about her time with him, he was an artist, a painter. and dylan thomas is a welsh poet and writer, “do not go gentle into the night” is probably his most known work
Margot Lacroix
2024-05-24 18:35:22 +0000 UTCMy message for Mike (dad): I love this album so much! It hits me so hard and im absolutely enthralled by how her music has changed so much. Her writing seems to just keep leveling up & this is one of my favorite albums (maybe im biased right now because its still so new) but with each listen i hear something new! Its an absolute wild ride to listen to both albums back to back & even crazier on shuffle but man… its so goooood.
noelle
2024-05-24 18:29:03 +0000 UTCYou might be surprised at the fact that’s who’s afraid of little old me and guilty as sin? are actually fan favorites lol I’m actually surprised you guys didnt like them!
mir
2024-05-24 18:28:38 +0000 UTCSo funny how we are all so scared lol, but back me up here, y’all… we all KNOW they will love The Anthology! 💯
Brooke Noelle
2024-05-24 18:27:20 +0000 UTCDidn’t Dylan Thomas die in 1953?
Sara Silva
2024-05-24 18:26:18 +0000 UTCKnew yall would love Down Bad! Wait til you see how she incorporated these into the TTPD set 🛸👽
Courtney McAlexander
2024-05-24 18:21:20 +0000 UTCYou’ll love the new Eras performances of TTPD especially Down Bad lol
Morgan
2024-05-24 18:06:51 +0000 UTCI’m so excited to watch. Dad is probably gonna hate all the heartbreak songs 😂 so basically the whole album lmao
Mary M
2024-05-24 17:53:46 +0000 UTCThank you guys so much for posting this! So excited to watch
noelle
2024-05-24 17:49:39 +0000 UTCYay!!! I’m so terrified but so ready 😅
Meagan Muller
2024-05-24 17:22:14 +0000 UTCSo nervous, but so ready! Here we go 🤍
Caroline Farley
2024-05-24 17:20:55 +0000 UTCYayyy! It's here! 🙂. Can you guys please react to Kacey Musgraves Deeper Well album?
Cloud Atlas
2024-05-24 17:20:31 +0000 UTCFortnight music video has actors from dead poets society in it🩶
Madison Bowling
2024-05-24 17:19:42 +0000 UTCSo happy you’re splitting them up! They are 2 different and unique projects imo.
Brooke Noelle
2024-05-24 17:13:26 +0000 UTCis it only ttpd or anthology?
Viktoria Virabiani
2024-05-24 17:12:37 +0000 UTCI’ve got a drink and snacks and i’m ready! I’m excited to hear your thoughts!
Cassie Christensen
2024-05-24 17:11:37 +0000 UTCYESSSSS
Madison Bowling
2024-05-24 17:09:03 +0000 UTCoh i’m seated
Kacper Ciesielski
2024-05-24 17:06:33 +0000 UTC
