#Florida!!!“ (featuring Florence and the Machine)

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

Florence’s part in Florida!!! makes me feel some type of way…my soul buzzes when she inflects her voice during, “well, me and my ghosts, we had a hell of a time” and then my insides collapse when she softly sings, “All of the bodies that have ever been on my body.”

[justaweirdspecimen]

And thats how my heart broke, realized, healed, and was set free. Taylor Swift is a goddess in writing lyrics, it connects with everything and its meant to be understood with thousand meanings. She really is something. And she is freaking good at what she do.

[got-that-oh-i-mean]

Florida!!! is a millenial song

no, i will not elaborate

[cactusflowerfemme]

all insane girls are on the same wavelength

[youcanfacethis]

I honestly can’t believe we’re getting a track called Florida!!! As someone born and raised there it’s so funny to me. Watch this song be completely heart wrenching when in my head I want it to be like “Florida is crazy / Why am I here? / Left alone with only the alligators and my last beer / Florida!!!! Oh Florida!!!! My dear / Get me the heck out of here!”

[goldrushenthusiast]

FLORENCE AND TAYLOR MY WORLDS ARE COLLIDING LETS GOOOOOOO

[my-reputation-precedes-me]

i haven’t finished listening to all of ttpd yet but my top three so far is

1. clara bow

2. but daddy i love him

3. loml

[tswiftupdatess]

Florence + the Machine will be featured on Taylor Swift’s new album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ on a track titled ‘Florida!!!’

[bananaofswifts]

Taylor Swift is giving fans more insight into her new album “The Tortured Poets Department,” thanks to a track-by-track experience with Amazon Music.

Fans can now listen to the album — which shattered streaming records after its release on April 19 — along with commentary from Swift breaking down the meaning of each track. To listen to “The Tortured Poets Department” with Swift’s commentary, fans can simply say to Alexa, “I’m a member of ‘The Tortured Poets Department.'”

Through the experience, Swift has revealed the inspiration behind songs including “Fortnight” with Post Malone, “Clara Bow,” “Florida!!!” with Florence + the Machine, “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” and “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys.”

“‘Fortnight’ is a song that exhibits a lot of the common themes that run throughout this album. One of which being fatalism — longing, pining away, lost dreams,” Swift said of the album’s opening song. “I think that it’s a very fatalistic album in that there are lots of very dramatic lines about life or death. ‘I love you, it’s ruining my life.’ These are very hyperbolic, dramatic things to say. It’s that kind of album.”

Of “Clara Bow,” named after the silent film actress, Swift said the track is “a commentary on what I’ve seen in the industry that I’ve been in over time.”

“I used to sit in record labels trying to get a record deal when I was a little kid. And they’d say, ‘you know, you remind us of’ and then they’d name an artist, and then they’d kind of say something disparaging about her, ‘but you’re this, you’re so much better in this way or that way.’ And that’s how we teach women to see themselves, as like you could be the new replacement for this woman who’s done something great before you,” she said. “I picked women who have done great things in the past and have been these architypes of greatness in the entertainment industry. Clara Bow was the first ‘it girl.’ Stevie Nicks is an icon and an incredible example for anyone who wants to write songs and make music.”

“Florida!!!” featuring Florence + the Machine is one of the rare songs on the album that doesn’t see Swift directly speaking of a former lover. Swift said the inspiration for this track actually came from “always watching ‘Dateline.'”

“People have these crimes that they commit; where do they immediately skip town and go to? They go to Florida,” the singer added. “They try to reinvent themselves, have a new identity, blend in. 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.’ And so that was the jumping off point. Where would you go to reinvent yourself and blend in? Florida!”

As for “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me,” Swift revealed that she wrote the tune “alone, sitting at the piano in one of those moments when I felt bitter about just all the things we do to our artists as a society and as a culture.”

“There’s a lot about this particular concept on ‘The Tortured Poets Department,'” she added. “What do we do to our writers, and our artists, and our creatives? We put them through hell. We watch what they create, then we judge it. We love to watch artists in pain, often to the point where I think sometimes as a society we provoke that pain and we just watch what happens.”

Lastly, Swift broke down the metaphor within “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys.”

The song is about “being somebody’s favorite toy until they break you and then don’t want to play with you anymore,” she said. “Which is how a lot of us are in relationships where we are so valued by a person in the beginning, and then all of the sudden, they break us or they devalue us in their mind. We’re still clinging on to ‘No no, no. You should’ve seen them the first time they saw me. They’ll come back to that. They’ll get back to that.’”

[thelasttime]

i need someone with better eyes to tell me the song titles 😭 i am SQUINTING

full tracklist for the tortured poets department:

"Fortnight" featuring Post Malone

"The Tortured Poets Department"

"My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys"

"Down Bad"

"So Long, London"

"But Daddy I Love Him"

"Fresh Out the Slammer"

"Florida!!!" featuring Florence + the Machine

"Guilty as Sin?"

"Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?"

"I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)"

"loml"

"I Can Do It With a Broken Heart"

"The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived"

"The Alchemy"

"Clara Bow"

Bonus Track: "The Manuscript"

[likedaylighht]

Go back to April 2023, joever news just hit, and Taylor is going to fuck ass (affectionate) Tampa Florida and now in April 2024 we are getting “Florida!!!” Featuring Florence and the Machine

[gild-and-fire]

okay hear me out.. "shitstorm back in texas" in florida!!! is not a call out to her eras tour concerts in Texas. its paris, texas. as in "we were in paris / I'm so in love I might stop breathing" and also in Lana's song "Paris, Texas" she refers to "Florence, Alabama" and guess who's featured on this song. florence and the machine....like okay ms mastermind

[pansexual-lilychen]

okay since i know all about the last hours & all about taylor swift & i already did this for midnights…

my predictions for which ttpd track relates to which tlh character

1. Fortnight (Featuring Post Malone) Jesse

2. The Tortured Poets Department Matthew / James (maybe Lucie)

3. My Boy Only Breaks His Favourite Toys Charles & Alastair

4. Down Bad Thomas / Christopher

5. So Long, London Matthew / Cordelia

6. But Daddy I Love Him Cordelia / Grace

7. Fresh Out the Slammer Matthew

8. Florida!!! (Featuring Florence + The Machine) Lucie

9. Guilty As Sin? Alastair / Grace

10. Who's Afraid of Little Old Me? Grace

11. I Can Fix Him (No Really, I Can) Cordelia, Lucie / Christopher

12. loml Lucie / Christopher / Ari

13. I Can Do It With A Broken Heart Cordelia

14. The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived Alastair & Charles / Jesse

15. The Alchemy Lucie & Jesse

16. Clara Bow Cordelia / Eugenia

17. The Manuscript Christopher / Lucie

18. The Bolter Cordelia (lol)

19. The Albatross James

20. The Black Dog Anna

i’ll come back to this to see how accurate this was

[senatortedcruz]

Florida!!!! (featuring Florence + the Machine)

[likeadevils]

I hope TTPD is weird and has sounds like Question...? all over it. She could get away with it too.

no like i hope this album is so weird. i hope there’s songs on this that are just a series of one liners tied together with pettiness humor and a prayer. like do i love folklore yes absolutely but i am fully prepared that this album will make me shake my ass just as much as it makes me cry 100%. like there’s a fucking post malone feature. that full on broke my brain. and a florence and the machine feature on a song called florida!!!??? that’s just insane. that’s going to be so weird. i can’t wait

[bittersweetbangers]

My thoughts after two listens to The Tortured Poets Department

I love this album. On my first listen, the anthology tracks interested me more than the original album tracks, but on my second listen, the album grew on me as a whole. The album itself is less sad than I was expecting it to be, but the sad songs are absolutely gut wrenching. The dark pop sound on the first half is exactly what I was hoping for/expecting when she announced the Post Malone and Florence + the Machine features, and I think it's a sound that really suits her. But the folklore/evermore-esque production on the second half also really suits her, and as a folklore girlie I'm very glad to see her returning to that sound.

I've seen some people saying that she's outgrown Jack as a collaborator and that they aren't making anything new anymore, and while I agree that some of the Jack-produced tracks are reminiscent of stuff on Midnights, I think there's also a lot of new sounds on this album. I also think we need to stop holding artists to this expectation that everything they make must be fresh and new. If Taylor likes a sound, why can't she repeat it? We also know she's very comfortable writing with Jack, even the most vulnerable stuff. A lot of my favorites on the album are Jack songs.

Anyway, my top 5 as of right now are:

Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?

Florida!!!

loml

The Black Dog

So High School