how i think each of the albums would act in The Tortured Poets Department if it was a class
Debut: would set the books on fire because they had words that she didn’t understand (the guy she liked read her poetry once…now he reads it to other girls). She prefers music class or science (because there is fire)
Fearless: would fall in love with romance poetry, but would spend her lessons staring out the window daydreaming about prince charming coming to save her.
Speak Now: would very adamantly insist she writes everything herself and would refuse help. she would write some of the most heartbreaking poetry about her much older boyfriend and causing the chairman of the department to pull her aside to check she’s okay (she insists she is).
Red: sits at the back of the class and cries as she writes. she’s really into metaphors these days. don’t ask about her scarf. just don’t.
1989: would show up to class holding a latte and her phone never stops buzzing with instagram notifications (she’s kinda famous). all of her assignments have city skyline doodles along the bottom of them. she didn’t like poetry until the chairman explained that pop music IS a variation of poetry.
Reputation: doesn’t really show up to class. Sits in the back corner. She’s got a lot going on. But the Chairman learns a lot about her through her poetry, she shows a softer side that not many people get to see. She’d kill the Chairman if she made her read her poetry to the class.
Lover: submits every assignment on pink paper and writes solely in gel pen (they are scented). She’s just like REALLY REALLY REALLY in love and everyone knows. She writes a piece about accepting everyone during pride month and it wins an award. She only addresses her partner as Lover in her writing, and it makes the Chairman smile because it reminds her that love truly exists.
Folklore: the star pupil. all her assignments are somehow connected, its like she has her own world. She uses words the Chairman has to look up in the dictionary sometimes. The Chairman had to raise a cause for concern over a piece called Hoax but Folklore insists it definitely is 113% fictional.
Evermore: sits beside folklore. She only writes poetry in the forest, “because the spirits speak to her there”. The Chairman is slightly scared of her, but her assignments are great (even if they are a bit murdery sometimes)
Midnights: sleeps through class. she doesn’t sleep at night. always has red eyes, The Chairman doesn’t know if its from crying or from tiredness. all of her work is submitted on ripped paper, as though it was scribbled during a late night manic episode that happened the wrong side of 12. when asked about it Midnights just shrugs, but The Chairman loves her work, and submits it for multiple awards (she wins everything)
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the manuscript ending the album on the utter jawdrop moment that neither of the muses of the actual album were the first men to fuck her up with promises of marriage and babies, and that first heartbreak so long ago laid the scene for the woman she would become and the ways she would approach love and how we all watched her life like scenes in a show but she kept coming back to the manuscript of the first torrid affair that ruined her, to bookend an album about two love affairs that destroyed her utterly in almost the exact same way, because all her muses are acquired like bruises........ it's bone-chilling
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Pictured: The Chairman of THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT making Swifties spiral just before winning her 13th GRAMMY, announcing a brand new album, and bringing home Album of the Year for Midnights. What will she do next? 😳
📸: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for The Recording Academy
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there's a reason taylor swift called her new album the tortured poets department because it would literally torture any poet that listens to it
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1989 is for anxiety girlies who have a cup of coffee in one hand and other clutching onto sink saying it's gonna be okay i will be the best it's good it's good i am good
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