#ttpd song

[walkscornelia]

“at dinner you take my ring off my middle finger and put it on the one people put wedding rings on and that's the closest i've come to my heart exploding” made me feel lots of things

[whyshouldelisabesad]

me when i find a new fictional character to obsess over

[swirlingyouintomypoems]

WHOS GONNA KNOW YOU GONNA HOLD YOU GONNA TROLL YOU???

[fearlessandless]

So I've been thinking a lot about "I chose this cyclone with you." Specifically, about "chose" rather than "choose"

Lyrically, it sounds better because of the assonance of the long O with cyclone.

SEMANTICALLY, it means this is a choice she's made in the past. She's here in the cyclone because she chose it once and she lives here now. Maybe not stuck, exactly, but who else is going to hold him like her? Where else is she going to go? She chose this cyclone, she doesn't get to go somewhere else now.

[allamericanb-tch]

unpopular opinion (?) the clean version of the tortured poets department (song) is better than the explicit version

[evermoredeluxe]

Okay so when I first heard the Charlie Puth line, I thought it meant that Charlie should be a bigger artist THAN both of them not that he should be a bigger artist, period. And I feel as though the first interpretation is more in line with the self-aware track that TTPD is. We’re not Dylan Thomas or Patti Smith, we simply aren’t that good so maybe Charlie puth should be bigger than us both.

Does that make sense

hm i don’t see it that way. not to disrespect charlie puth, but i honestly think that lyric is said in a “you were high and eating seven bars of chocolate, we were doing dumb shit and talking dumb shit, and we said charlie puth should be a bigger artist” it’s like when you’re being silly with someone.

also, the very next lyrics are about her scratching his head and he falls asleep, and she then talks about what happens when he is awake. his head is killing him, he isn’t high anymore and he feels dreadful and mentally not-well. and then she’s like “i chose this cyclone with you.” so i take the whole verse as “im with you in the fun times and the tough times,” esp cause the chorus is all about “you’re gonna find no one like me, no one will understand you like i do, and vice versa. we’re crazy together.”

as for the dylan thomas & patti smith line, i take that as her tryna be funny, and also say that their relationship is not an iconic one for everyone to romanticize. “we’re modern idiots,” as in they’re dumb for choosing each other, but they don’t care because no one else is gonna hold and understand him like she does, and no one’s gonna hold and understand her like he does.

the whole song is about committing to each other from accepting self-sabotaging, drug use, mental health issues, dying if the other leaves, and promising marriage (even though she knows they’re being crazy).

[thetorturedpoetheadquarters]

The Tortured Poets Department Song Title Analysis

Similar Lyrics:

“Back when you fit my poems like a perfect rhyme” - Holy Ground

“Take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die” - The Lakes

“On the way home, I wrote a poem, you say, “what a mind,” this happens all the time” - Sweet Nothing (which Joe wrote with her apparently)

The title “The Tortured Poets Department” is seen as a reference to a group chat Joe Alwyn was in with some of his co-stars called “The Tortured Man Club” - which was revealed to exist in a Variety interview of him and Paul Mescal that came out December 15, 2022.

A source talked to The Daily Mail (which is believed to be the news source that Joe’s PR team talks to) and discussed how Taylor felt about it.

"It’s undeniable that the name of her upcoming album is in reference to Joe’s WhatsApp group chat. Taylor knocked him for the name of this when they were together. She didn’t want people to think that it had anything to do with her, so when he spoke out about it, she was, of course, bothered."

Apparently, Joe also had a Soundcloud account where he read poetry. It dates back to a little bit before him and Taylor met. However, knowing Taylor this fact most likely helped him in winning her over.

Often accidentally called the Dead Poets Society which is a movie that came out in 1989 and stars Robin Williams.

Synopsis: Maverick teacher John Keating returns in 1959 to the prestigious New England boys' boarding school where he was once a star student, using poetry to embolden his pupils to new heights of self-expression.

Taylor does have serious ties with New England, mentioning Rhode Island in The Last Great American Dynasty due to Holiday House residing there - which is Taylor’s Rhode Island Home. She has been residing in Rhode Island since 2013 and it's where she holds her well-known Fourth of July parties.

It's also giving, "I'm standing in a 1950s gymnasium," from Suburban Legends.

[cowboylikedean]

My boy only breaks his favourite toys or The tortured Poets department song?

TTPD SONG!!!! SONG OF ALL TIME

[messytop-lipkiss]

The title song is my least favorite 💀

[notapoetbutstilltortured]

I’ve seen so many people have ‘hot takes’ about the lyrics from the second verse of TTPD but I honestly feel like in the context they’re pretty clever. To me they sound like something you would hear on a 1975 album which when we consider who she’s talking about it adds another level of humour to it all.

obviously we can all interpret the meanings in these songs differently but this is just something that struck me when first listening to the song.

[walkscornelia]

so that was the best album ever

[wouldvebeensweet]

just wait til u guys find out charlie puth's middle name is otto

[swirlingyouintomypoems]

YOU LEFT YOUR TYPEWRITER AT MY APARTMENT STRAIGHT FROM THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT

[cardsharksplayingames]

So tell me, who else is gonna know me? At dinner, you take my ring off my middle finger And put it on the one people put wedding rings on And that's the closest I've come to my heart exploding

The way my heart actually skipped a beat in the pause between “and that’s the closest I’ve come” and “to my heart exploding” on release night

[taylor-on-your-dash]

fave lyrics today?

"who else decodes you?"

I don't particularly like TTPD the song, but there's something intimate about this rhetorical question: nobody else decodes him, only Taylor does. they're in their world, a world that only them understands because they're crazy

[idkmybffjillyy]

title track has me SHOOK