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queer-froggit · 2 months ago

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my opinion on The Tortured Poets Department? it doesn't exist to me. i think you're going a bit crazy there, actually. Taylor Swift doesn't have an 11th album--unless you count the Taylor's Version of 1989.

#taylor swift #a froggit's ribbits #I HATE TTPD #i will listen to folklore and red and 1989 and evermore midnights on repeat #but i hate hate *hate* the tortured poets department #i thought this album was gonna be so good #a piece about how the music industry pressures artist to over-produce so much #that they put every bit of emotion into their work #making it an unhealthy coping mechanism where they expect all the bad things in their life to go away once they put it into words #(which she said in the twitter post talking about the meaning of the album)#but NOOOOO #Taylor's too busy in Holiday House crying because repulblicans don't like her to actually put effort into an album #and don't even say it's because it's a “sad album”#i love “folklore” and “evermore” yet i would chose “did you know that there's a tunnel under ocean blvd” over ttpd any day

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evermoredeluxe · 9 months ago

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“i hate it here” is peak escapism and hearing her talk about how she lives in a garden no one else has access to in her mind (unlike the rest of her life) for most of the year is sooooo. made up scenarios and imagining living in the 1800s… it’s giving the lakes except she’s alone and she can’t actually leave. so much of the album is about feeling stuck and this one is about feeling stuck in herself.

#i hate it here #ttpd #the tortured poets department #taylor swift #arshia takes #arshia talks

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oldhabitsdie · 8 months ago

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No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears

#taylor swift #the eras tour #folklore #the tortured poets department #ttpd #i hate it here #tswiftedit #taylor swift edits #tswiftlyrics #tswiftedits #taylor swift lyrics

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vanessa-rafesgirl · 9 months ago

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me since april 19th

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hits-differently · 8 months ago

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#taylor swift #*mine #tscreators #tswiftedit #taylor swift edit #taylorswiftedit #tswiftlyrics #ttpd #*ttpd #the tortured poets department #the tortured poets department the anthology #i hate it here

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stillgotscars · 6 months ago

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i hate it here - taylor swift

#taylor swift #ttpd #the tortured poets department #i hate it here #tswiftedit #my edit #typography

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sadbeautifutragic · 5 months ago

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I read about it in a book when I was a precocious child

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petaltexturedskies · 9 months ago

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Taylor Swift, I hate it here

#taylor swift #tswiftedit #the tortured poets department #ttpd #I hate it here #ts lyrics #typographyedit #typography #lyricsedit #lyrics

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hope-ur-ok · 7 months ago

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something something about romanticizing escapism (my thoughts on this mashup are not currently coherent)

#taylor swift #the eras tour #the tortured poets department #folklore #i hate it here #the lakes #ttpd #live audio

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taylorswiftarthistories · 5 months ago

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The Swing, 1767 by Jean-Honoré Fragonard / "I Hate it Here" by Taylor Swift

#already on redbubble <3 #the swing #jean honoré fragonard #rococo #rococo art #taylor swift #ttpd #i hate it here #ihih #tsart #tsedit #art history

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khruschevshoe · 9 months ago

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You know, it's rather interesting to me that Taylor Swift's parasocial relationship with her fans is honestly more akin to a YouTuber than a writer's. When I scroll through her tag on tumblr/Twitter, it's far more regarding the connection to her personal life/relationship developments than the actual metaphors/fictional story she might be telling. Everything comes back to how her songs reflect back on her relationships with Joe/Matty/Travis/Jake/insert ex-boyfriend here. And what fascinates me about it is that even though she complains about it, she leans into that very perception because it strengthens the parasocial bond.

The marketing for TTPD so clearly being about Joe Alwyn and the songs to Matty Healy. The marketing/video for Red TV so CLEARLY being about Jake Gyllenhaal, with so many of the new lines in All Too Well specifically being digs at him (I'll get older but your lovers stay my age, casting an actor that looks like him for the video, specific lines in I Bet You Think About Me). The fact that songs like Getaway Car and Bejeweled and Gorgeous and London Boy and Lavender Haze being picked apart at time of release and long after for signs of relationships crumbling. The way she uses surprise songs in relation to her relationship development with Joe/Matty/Travis. The damn TTPD "stages of grief" playlists where she deliberately undid/changed the meanings of old songs just to keep her audience speculating on her love life.

It's not sexist to point out that her wielding her love life is a marketing tool and that the strongest connection to her audience isn't the strength of her writing/the composition of her music- it's her deliberate crafting of a connection between her music and her personal life, leaving the audience invested in her music as an extension of Taylor the Person/Girlfriend rather than Taylor the Artist.