pls no more posts about blandie or that album or her fans, just dump it all here and leave the rest of us alone 😭😭😭😭
What this means is “everyone on the internet talks about it like they’re an expert but if you pull the numbers very few people actually finished it - they’re all just repeating opinions they heard elsewhere”
So John Green thinks "the writing is so, so good"?
Is this what people feel like when I defend HIS writing?
Seriously, I like a lot of John Green’s writing and I appreciate the vlogbrothers YouTube channel and he and Hank’s philanthropic work. But his tweets about the album were an ick lol
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand The Tortured Poets Department. The lyricism is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of literary devices most of the lyrics will go over the average listeners head. There's also Taylors nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into her character- her personal philosophy draws heavily from Silvia Plath's literature, for example. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these lyrics, to realize they are not just beautiful- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike The Tortured Poets Department ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, Taylors best lyric "we declared Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist" which itself is a cryptic reference to modern societies dislike of truly gifted individuals. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Taylor Swift's genius wit playout on their speakers. What fools... how I pity them 😂 And yes, by the way, i DO have a Tortured Poets Department tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the swifties' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎
The fact that it took me reading half of this to grasp fully that it was sarcasm because I didn’t realize this was the circlejerk sub at first 💀
Edit: You forgot the lyrical genius in “touch me while your bros play Grand Theft Auto.” Truly a misunderstood lyric, you have to have a super high IQ to come close to understanding it.
It was between that lyric and the Charlie Puth one and I had a better idea for the follow up of the Charlie Puth lyric
I hate myself for typing this all out
Took me a few seconds to realize HIS isn't the acronym for a TS song
we declared Anne Frank should have been a bigger artist
If Swifties were normal, people wouldn't hate on Blondie as much for putting out a mid album
thanK you aIMee!!
i cAN do it with a brokeN hEart
I LOVE THE ALBUM and i love it SO MUCH i made my own playlist with a supercut of my favorite songs! I don't understand the criticism about the album being too long an unedited.
Anyway, here's my supercut of TTPD:
- Witness
- Hey Hey Hey
- Roulette
- Swish Swish (featuring pedo apologist)
- Deja Vu
- Power
- Mind Maze
- Miss You More
- Chained to the Rhythm (featuring who??)
- Tsunami
- Bon Appetit (feat. Migos)
- Bigger Than Me
- Save as Draft
- Pendulum
- Into Me You See
I think this playlist tells a beautiful, groundbreaking story and I hope you guys like it Taylor's encouraging US to be poets too <3
Even the cringiest lyric on Witness has got nothing on how cringe the writing on Tortilla Pussita Defartment has to offer
anutha one in the casket 💅
Babygirls whose gonna tell her?
Why are the chonically online people so mad that a white woman (Taylor) writes music from the perspective of a white woman that resonates with white women. Same criticism I have for Gaylor’s being mad that she writes straight music as if she hasn’t exclusively been in homophobic relationships- god forbid she write music that is authentic to her and I, a good homophobic racist woman, resonate with it.
why can’t I, a white woman, love music made by a white woman about the experience and perspectives of white women without being attacked about my white privilege?
I’m both annoyed but genuinely curious why people get so argumentative specifically about whiteness when it comes to swifties.
sauce: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueSwifties/comments/1cc1atz/ttpd_controversy_re_i_hate_it_here/
That Olivia Rodrigo rip off song is just her flexing and taunting
Who? Anyway Madonna just released a disco album in gonna go listen to it
i can do it with a broken heart pisses me the fuck OFF. would be so good if not for the chorus and that annoying hasbro commercial ass production
We have the same opinion 🥰
try to come for op’s job
I wrote it first in this thread😡
who’s afraid of little old me?
Yesterday I saw a white twunk tearing up at the gym while lifting and all i could think was damn he's down bad.
Ajay hasn't posted her reaction and I think it's because she's scared
I like to believe she stopped listening after the 2nd song. Good for her
She's skipping the first listen. Going straight to the revisit this time.
Another amo for livies
/uj which song was it referring to?
/uj i think “imgonnagetyouback” seeming similar to “get him back!” from olivia. both cover feeling conflicted on whether they want to rekindle a relationship with a man or get their revenge
honestly i can see it, i didn’t like olivia’s song to begin with but taylor’s song is just her take on the same song. just slightly worse
/rj betty and obsessed duh 🙄
/uj oh that! taylor’s is so forgettable. At least “get him back!” was fun
I am convinced Taylor swift makes music for people who don’t like music
don’t forget delusional ppl w martyr and victim complexes (aka me)
SHe gets us girlies who got popular later in life jk she doesnt shes a billionaire and I shop at aldi.
This guy is my spirit animal
Florence saved Florida. She should've sang through the whole song.
Florence should run against De Santis
This is like 3 songs into any emo album
me in any given hour with adhd truthfully
omg clearly what you need is methamphetamine 👨⚕️💅
I was on legal meth for a long time and too bad being 26 years old you now get put on waitlist so the kiddos who can have it first.
this comment’s more confusing than blondie’s lyrics
Average hypomanic episode for me
nicki on big foot
azaelia banks does it in one instagram story 🙄
They're not ready for this revelation.
I do this all in a single hour 🙄 she's not that special
Ah yes the ADHD GAYS PLEASE STAND UP.
The way that "I can do it with a broken heart" would've been on of my all time favs if it wasn't for that fucking chorus
It's meant to be ironic. The frustration you from the disconnect listening to the serious lyrics over the perky production is how she feels having to pretend to be happy. That is my favorite song from the album because she actually uses the production to help her make her point emotionally resonate.
Hey! Give her some slack. She’s so depressed like it’s hEr BiRtHdAy 🤭
Same here. I like the way it builds, but then it falls apart and gets so perky it's annoying. Like imagine listening to a decent song then it's suddenly interrupted by ME-HE-HEEE!
i was genuinely so mad at her for putting those crazy lyrics in “i hate it here” as a bitch that’s been developing mild agoraphobia… like give me a fucking break
Just listen to Supercut
Wait, the chorus is my fav part ;( Its so boppy...
wdym, what part of it don't u like?
They found Taylor's masters in Iraq
I will say it's crazy to say it was too long before she dropped the 2nd, the length was fine before she said "Double it and give it to the next"
Honestly good for these publications and editorials giving their honest opinions despite the Swifties are insane as hell. The more they are honest, the more Swifties will be much more afraid to threaten them
One more before I go
Hannah Montana mansion
please tell me you know what set that actually is
I actually don't but its giving one of those Disney sitcoms set
It's a sticom set so you're half right
Boooooo
It's The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Am I old?
Really puts this quote into perspective
That sounds more like a quotr from Ye tbh
You just hear "[gluk gluk gluk] mee-hee-hee! [gluk gluk gluk]"
Further proof that Taylor cannot write good lyrics about Travis
Has this bish ever touched grass?! Does she have a single song/thought that isn’t about herself or what “boys” (🤮 the woman is in her 30s ffs) think about her???
You just reminded me why l have never liked her or her music: it's always abt dudes. Screw that shit
Except for the songs where she calls out other women.
I don't rly keep up with her antics tbh. So ldk much abt this part.
Nah, it's all about girls but the industry would never let a main pop gorlie write such explicitly sapphic songs (Please, avoid all evidence to the contrary)
Straight Sex at the Gay Pride Parade
i cant tell if we are still in circlejerk or no lmao
BLANK SPACE
amazing
Only missing a "(Taylor's Version)".
Considering risking a trip over to to the g*ylor sub just to see if they think the kimmy song is gay.
I accidentally posted a comment there once cause I thought I was here so it’s all up in my algo now. It’s kind of a guilty pleasure at this point tbh. I’m manic depressive but reading the finely articulated projection of these peoples fantasy is a pretty good dopamine hit.
Omg me too! /uj im being so serious it’s a morbid curiosity thing for me
get out lotr and one piece, new melatonin just dropped
Y'all swifties are fucking insane
I will never understand the whole 'defend your fave even if you have to be a raging, racist prick''.
TS doesn't give a flying fck abt any of y'all losers.
You chose the wrong time to post this, TS told them to get a dictionary for this album so the Swifties have finally learned to read. They will be coming for you
Plot twist: this “Zed” is actually Matty Healy
What the fuck
To be fair, she sings in English we have no clue what she’s going on about.
The BETTER Adele??
nothing good ever comes out of germany
Germans 🤢🤢🤢🤢
I thought the Tiddied Pigeon Depot was big in Germany?
Pls listen to the Cindy Lee album tho TTPD is so boring
It’s probably pretty hard to write about complex emotions when you are the human embodiment of superficiality 😔
feel so seen rn (but not in some weird parasocial way)
i know they would eat up the “tortured poet” concept she was going for
him too. gonna go listen to grace brb
Who is this? I want to listen to him because he’s attractive (my only metric for music)
jeff buckley
i want him to stick his mojo pin in my bussy
wait listenable music in phcj? not a real gay smh
Literally a fake gay like Taylor
This mf bout to be working overtime.
Tree Paine's pay better be 7 digits per month
looking at social media comments the Swifties have decided to go after ALL their staff members instead
Sis tryna be Lana Del Rey
TYRA BANXXX? PORN STAR MENTIONED!!!
She’s not even Lana Deli Tray
more like loner belly gay
Every time a song ended and the next track kept starting with a soft whimsy guitar it started pissing me off lol. I guess I get the visions she has but ultimately it has the comfort of rice porridge whose only flavor is a quarter teaspoon of salt. Like I’m not expecting every song to be groundbreaking, overwhelm me with synths and instrumentals since clearly that’s not her intentions, but 2 entire discs worth of songs with remotely nothing memorable made me feel like she could have condensed 3 songs into just 1 if it’s all just gonna sound the same LMFAO.
Is this poet in the room with us ?!
HOW MANY SWEATERS DOES THIS BITCH HAVE?!?
ITS ALL WINE STAINED TOO
GOODWILL BARBIE GIRL
🤣🤣🤣 large if factual
massive if authentic
Humongous if veracious
This is a real lyric from TTPD in case you haven't listened yet
SOTY material right here
Typical taydolf swiftler
Releasing the album a day before his birthday too! Hetlor confirmed
i’m dead in the ground.
What Now is still AOTY
Found Heaven for me..I swear my life actually changed due to that album, started going to the gym and being a lot more confident in my own skin. Never have I related so hard to a new album
she did tell them to bring their dictionaries……….
A double album on it’s own is a red flag
my friends didnt even listen to the 2am version (which is way BETTER than the standard one) because the tracks are too many. she shouldve scrapped the first 16 tracks and went with the 2am edition but she probably wont accept that because she wants to sell a lot and break records
I’ve been having a lot of fun the last few days using one twitter account where I act like a stupid swiftie and another account where I harass swifties
least petty taylor hater
Visualizing in the mirror the type of Taylor hater I want to become.
radical optimism baby amazing 🤩. With Jesus and black magic on our side we can accomplish anything. All shall be devoured. Praise be to Them/They
God is an enby
listen it could have been worse. I just pretend part 1 doesn't exist and live with my discount woodvale delusions
This. Perfect summary on how I feel on the album
I think the issue is it’s just so…different. Like, good for her for trying something different.
She probably should have just burned her poetry like the rest of us did with our high school break up poetry, but here we are.
Sure. An album that got everyone screaming for her to stop collaborating with Jack is “different”.
Do you mean lyrically? Because musically it’s really not that different at all, which is my biggest issue with it
Yeah, the lyrics are not exactly as…refined as she usually has. Like, half of the songs feel like they are the one campy song on the album. I also feel like it the baby of Folkmore and Midnights and it’s just…not what I expected.
Like when two hot people have an ugly baby
Yeah agreed. I get that the lyrics being messy could be seen as intentional due to the themes of the album, but there’s a way to do messy lyrics in a controlled and intentional way that doesn’t feel as all over the place as this album lol I also feel like thematically it’s just so repetitive. Almost every song is about the same thing and she’s in the same mindset at the beginning of the album as she is by the end. Idk, it’s definitely a weird album. I do admire how unhinged she allowed the lyrics to be, but I don’t know if that necessarily makes them good.
I just wish the creative risks of the lyrics was reflected in the songs themselves. I think it’d be her most interesting album if the music itself took any risk.
this post, is, like, really really bad, delete it op???? idk what she do to you for you to carry so much hate in your heart for her? do you even have a heart? and the fans? they did nothing to you, like, come on? don't be homophobic??? ever since she dyed her hair blonde you guys been hating on her and lasso is going to be the first country album ever, queen lana is going to remain the only blonde woman in music ever since dolly parton passed. so delete this before you regret it in the future and get bullied by other elders at the elderly house when you are no longer young and beautiful. not to feed into your FOMO but no twink is going to want to sleep with you. so delete this post and let freedom of speech conquer in this subreddit. enough is enough.