*The Tortured Poets Department* Full Album Reaction
Added 2024-04-21 15:11:03 +0000 UTC
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Hi I’m a brand new patron, I joined because of your Buffy and Angel reactions but I’m also a pretty new swiftie. So I was very excited to see this reaction, and I’m not even finished watching it but I love your insights into the lyrics of this album. I’ve watched ALOT of reactors react to this album and yours is up there with the best. 💜
Carol
2024-06-11 22:49:18 +0000 UTCI can see that. Fortnight seems to me to be a bit of a fakeout, Taylor starting out with a 'story' song, a song where you can't really draw direct lines to her personal life, but it does introduce the important themes of the album: infidelity (both real and emotional), the pain of relationships (thwarted, realized, or dying), the phony facades and standards that oppress. I can believe she would imagine herself into the situation (and would want us to imagine her into it.) The song itself makes me think of the fiction of John Cheever, whose stories were set in picture-perfect upper-upper-middle class suburbia, filled with unhappy people whose desperate longings and infidelities didn't make them any happier. I don't have any idea if Taylor is a reader of Cheever, but she's very erudite, and I can believe she might be.
DanielOrme
2024-04-24 03:20:40 +0000 UTCI think the "wife" in Fortnight is Taylor in her imagination. She wanted to be the wife....it didn't happen....now she wants to kill that part of herself. Am I delulu?
Pure Jealousy
2024-04-23 14:21:05 +0000 UTCI'm no swiftie, but you are correct. I thought it would be "I hate Joe" and Matt Healy was a small afterthought, but woah!
Clive
2024-04-22 14:17:56 +0000 UTCIts been said that they have known each other for 10 years plus it also seems like that Matty Healy was like a backup plan for her
carly powell
2024-04-22 08:10:13 +0000 UTCTremendous reaction! It's an amazing album, and I agree Taylor is at her greatest when she is at her most self-aware. I can't call myself a true hardcore Swifty, since the True Swifties I've seen have FAR more knowledge than me, but from what I can glean from them, they seem stunned that so many of these songs are referent to Matt Healy. "So Long London" and "loml" (also maybe "My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys") are conceded to be about Joe Alwyn, and I think all the references to prison or jail seem to be about the 6-year relationship, and any to 'ghosts' seem to be about Joe. The others all seem to be about Healy. For example, he is known to have a fetish about using typewriters (the title song). His favorite song is "Downtown Lights" by Blue Nile (he sampled it in one of his own songs). It must have been a far more intense and meaningful relationship than anyone thought. Or maybe since it's more recent, she's still more passionate and angry ("The Smallest Mn Who Ever Lived!" Yikes!!) about it.
DanielOrme
2024-04-22 02:16:50 +0000 UTCLoooved your takes and feelings on this album thanks for sharing. imo this is the most “Taylor Swift” Taylor Swift has ever Taylor Swifted since speak now. Unhinged and vulnerability had a word baby and this album was born. Really looking forward to your thoughts on anthology also does anyone else feel like I can fix him (no really I can) is like a sister song to Lana’s say yes to heaven?
NatS
2024-04-21 23:45:04 +0000 UTCi've listened to this album so many times now and right now i feel like it's going to be the one to finally dethrone Rep as my number 1, which i never thought would happen. Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?, Fresh Out the Slammer, So Long, London, Florida!!!, and The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived are my current top songs, but The Alchemy and Down Bad have been growing on me a lot with every listen.
Jared
2024-04-21 22:53:55 +0000 UTCOh wow this is gonna be my lunch entertainment thank u for blessing us cassie
kerry berry
2024-04-21 15:40:14 +0000 UTCI’ve been waiting for this 🙌🏼🤍
k80scorner
2024-04-21 15:39:21 +0000 UTCIn the middle of watching but couldn’t resist commenting - “SULTRY” - LOVE IT LMAO
iMiller21
2024-04-21 15:33:56 +0000 UTCI’LL SEE Y’ALL IN 2HRS
CoreyIsSus
2024-04-21 15:11:44 +0000 UTCwe have been blessed
Patrick
2024-04-21 15:11:30 +0000 UTC
