#also that tumblr has very disturbing content that also romanticizes mental illness so i'd suggest people to just not go there

[akindplace]

Hi! About the Taylor album…it’s tongue-in-cheek. Joe Alwyns group chat was called “The Tortured Man Club”, so the album is “The Tortured Poets Department” in reference to egotistical romanticization of the self in that image. It’s not because she’s calling herself a Tortured Poet.

Yes! I wasn't aware of that group chat thing, but I thought it was going to be about how some men she dated have those "tortured artist" vibes, and maybe how some people criticize her for making sad songs about her exes. It feels very obvious but some people just act in bad faith. Thank you for telling me that anon! I like her music, and I have a very broad music taste, and I have a huge distaste over people being overly critical and not letting people enjoy things... it's so 2010 tumblr when people would call each other posers for not being a true fan of an unknown band, instead of, you known, allowing people to enjoy it and get the band more recognition. It's so immature. It's kind of obvious it was going to be tongue-in-cheek as you said, and realizing that is so easy that people don't even have to like her songs to notice it, so that thing was written in bad faith, coming from a biased notion by someone who never left 2010 while at the same time glorifying mental illness and addiction. It's the worst take possible on every artist mentioned... what about their art? their writing? their songs? they lived meaningful lives and changed the world forever, that's what mattered most. Not their deaths. Their lives!

Thank you for the message!