#the tortured poets society: the anthology

[visualsandvoices]

“I hate it here” makes me think of “Tis the damn season” for some reason like it’s a sort of extension of missing home, missing the life that would have been to pursue a dazzling future in a place you’ve only grown to hate. You want to go home, drive around, park by your old school, and be around people who know you before you became You. But that life doesn’t belong to you anymore so you can only kind of visit this shadow-life in a “garden in your mind” like you kind of have this self that is trailing you around watching you live out your decisions.

Anyway yeah love how folklore/evermore tones carried into this album cause the sound of that era really is my fave:)

[artemisandhersilverbow]

My innocuous screenshot of black dog didn’t work out…

[aliiaart]

every breath feels like rarest air

[rivusapoems]

[taylorsmidnights14]

Parallels: Taylor Swift and Post Malone. AMAs and Fortnight music video.

[pinkheart22]

My boy only breaks his favorite toys x Gorgeous

lyric parallels

august 5, 2024

[lyricallyiinlove]

i look in people's windows, taylor swift

[darkpoetryshop]

"So, they killed Cassandra first 'cause she feared the worst

And tried to tell the town

So they filled my cell with snakes, I regret to say

Do you believe me now?"

P.s. i made this

[goldenstattoo]

— 'Eras Tour' Paris Night 1 / Fearless Set

[iavender-haze]

🎼 for your 1k celebration, ttpd title track or imgonnagetyouback

but i’m gonna get you back

one thousand followers special

[artemisandhersilverbow]

The Spotify canvas for the song changing to this moment from Fortnight where Taylor walks into the typewriter room and goes from one Taylor to “two” and disappears behind Post Malone’s silhouette… Taylor did you read my post?

(The full clip is longer on Spotify)

Ok, if you don't want to engage in some (queer) tin foiling... scroll away.

So first off, I think this song rules. It was one of the few that I let just vibe instead of doing what my brain usually does, which is scrutinize lyrics/marvel over the layers of meaning. It feels like it has Kill Bill energy and that was good enough for me.

My Albatross variation of the TTPD vinyl showed up yesterday — TTPD is perhaps the best her team has done btw — and was pouring over the lyrics last night and paused on I Can Fix Him (No, Really I Can) in particular.

The last line has been one that most people have chuckled at. Like she spent a whole song building up this menacing conceit: "this boy is bad news, but he can't hold a candle to me — I'll handle him." Only to be like, lol jk at the end.

But seeing that last line written out this way scratched at my brain... she really doesn't scream that line at all. Why is it in all caps? And while we're at it... I mean it's an accepted spelling, but technically the incorrect spelling of 'whoa.' It kind of felt, by putting it in caps, like she was calling attention to it. Was it an acronym? Not that I could tell.

But... just to double check... how had she spelled woah/whoa prior? The only song I could think of off the top of my head to check was Better Than Revenge. When reading her lyrics you really wont find 99% of the "whoas" in her discography written because they're more like instrumentals.

And that right there is a "whoa." Of course my eyes twitched at the matching colors of the two vids, but I'll get to that. And then I was only able to find one more written "whoa."

Ok, cool.

But back to Better Than Revenge... It struck me that something had been "fixed" about the song. The famous "she's better known for things that she's done on the mattress" line had been swapped out in the rerecording for "he was a moth to the flame she was holding the matches."

So I looked back at I Can Fix Him... could this be a joke/hint about "fixing" him. Like fixing the pronouns? "WOAH" is an intentional misspelling just by comparing it to her own body of work. But it would be rather clever if the "he" she's referring to (at least on this one layer of the song) was her use of that pronoun in her work. It would make the lines "I can fix him / No, really, I can / And only I can" make even more sense, imo. She's the author of this music and she's rerecording it/making it.

What's more is that the collaged flower in the lyric booklet and the aesthetic of the lyric video are giving me um... big Reputation vibes?

Hey kids, spelling is FUN! Am I absolutely living in delulu thinking that Reputation could also be "fixed" re: pronouns? Oh, I don't doubt it. But I needed to get this out of my brain, out into the world, and let the chips fall as they may and always do.

And at least Taylor Nation is also in on the joke...

[blondewonk]

'𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚖𝚎 𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚖𝚢 𝚋𝚘𝚡 𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚝 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚎 𝚋𝚛𝚘𝚔𝚎𝚗 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚜 & 𝚔𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚖𝚢 𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝.

[aliiaart]

i love you, it’s ruining my life

[rivusapoems]

[taylorsmidnights14]

The new setlist for the EU leg be like:

[swiftiesoliloquies]

Characters as Taylor Swift songs part 1, please give me requests or ideas for more characters!