To me, her line about things turning to ashes also references the sea--the practice of pouring the ashes of someone who has died out over the ocean. The lyrics are so deceptively simple yet so powerfully sad.
Existence origins can't be proven to you or anybody else whether by design or accidental chance, it can't be proven either way, you cling to the belief system that you desire and try to justify your personal choice by what seems most rational to you, it doesn't mean that it is any more rational, it just seems that way to you. The math is in and the odds of it being an accident are an impossibility so your reasoning can be turned right back at you.
A purely sad song. So beautiful and gentle and honoring. I really love it. I love the pure anger songs on rep album and the pure despair songs on TTPD in the same way. Taylor is expert at conveying really deep feelings so personally.
I'll demonstrate the accuracy of Scripture in a way that has been overlooked in my video 'Begining of understanding ' I'll demonstrate transmutation by electrical process of genetically superior creatures, my icon is a seraph kneeling for example and my channel is dedicated to giving examples of this I hope you'll consider watching
binging your Taylor reactions and you nailed it again with your breakdown. I immediately thought of Miss Havisham too 😭 Taylor seems to be well read so I think that is what she’s referencing with the dust on pinned up hair
Loved your breakdown!! Agreed that this is about a narrator separate from Taylor, though inspired by real events. I loved you pointing out the flat singing in the beginning and the emotional singing in the outro. I think this album, possibly more than any of her others, is made for repeat listening. Every listen, I notice new things in each song.
Taylor is such a classy badazz. She's also a very lovely human being. The haters are simply jealous. Taylor is always keeping notes and writing things down that pop up in her head. And she works very hard and puts 150 percent into anything she does. 🍒🌸💄👠
Other than switching a couple of your standouts for unmentioned album tracks, I found I agreed with everything you said. In the end though, I'm glad she put the whole thing out because firstly, a good editor would certainly have cut several of my favourites and secondly this was clearly extremely cathartic for her and what she needed to do at the time. Great to see your appreciation for thank you amy and peter. I think people are getting put off by the silly title trick (smart business decision but a poor artistic one) and aren't giving the song itself a fair shot. I'm sure Peter will climb in people's estimation on repeated listens but is likely getting buried under so many tracks at the moment. I loved your analysis of the dual, literary peters. I'd noticed the CS Lewis reference but hadn't remembered the book well enough to catch the significance. I think you're absolutely spot on there.
TTPD feels like some songs are simmering, some are boiling, and some are the top of the pressure cooker blown off. (I’m ignoring Kelce songs or Aaron Dessner’s child’s song). This song simmers. Tippy toeing on eggshells off and on for the last seven years feels like that pressure cooker for her. Fortnight is the first single and there are a lot of folks criticizing Taylor for this choice. I think it is far more interesting to look at it the way you did and grok what she might be saying here. The miracle move on pill reminds me of the Matrix red pill with the reality versus the programmed world. At the end in the video she sits atop an old English call box reminding me of Dr. Who. And the video treatment in the lab is old fashioned electric shock curing a monster craze but instead creating Frankenstein’s monster. So lots of elements of anger, apathy, craziness, science fiction, old fashion, betrayal. Thank you for great review. Looking forward to video review. Please let me know if you see some of the things I see?
I saw one of your vids yesterday, liked it & subbed. Then I see this today. Here's the thing: Let me start out by saying that you're going completely in an ad hominem direction here. I was waiting for the punchline or the example throughout listening to all you were going to say, but never heard it once. Everything is feelings based. You seem decent & intelligent enough, so I would suggest you cite specific examples instead of just stating the trendy thing. Secondly, all I can say is that while I may be no scholar or politician, that my country has gone to complete shit both under its current administration & the one that existed for 8 yrs before Trump. Esp since the USA has been spending so much money on wars that most of us here don't really care about at all. Now we're starting to pay for it financially. I also most especially hate the false virtue signaling that people under the Biden camp are a part of that panders to people who feel more victimized than they actually are. The propaganda for these false narratives has been both overt & subtle all over media. I don't know Trumpy from Adam, & he probably doesn't really care about me at the end of the day. But I'd rather him be in that seat before the Mob comes to eventually shut out all white Christian males. Maybe I suffer from this same complex, but all I know is that I have to call it what I see. But you're from the UK. So maybe you're not seeing what I'm seeing up front. Or maybe you do know, but have no problem with it....which is a nuch bigger problem in of itself.
The fact that you are so fearmongered into believing there's actually a mob coming to shut out all white christian males tells anyone all they need to know about your beliefs. You've been successfully brainwashed. Stop watching fox news, and start watching actual news.
I'm from Australia, and I would suggest that we get a less biased coverage here than you do there. If you can't see what a terrible, terrible person Trump is, then I really fear for your country.
There are two further things I would add for your consideration. 'I don't know Trumpy from Adam' is not somethng to be proud of. I suggest you do some work and find out who he actually is before you decide to vote for him. The second thing concerns this comment: 'people under the Biden camp are a part of that panders to people who feel more victimized than they actually are', followed later by 'before the Mob comes to eventually shut out all white Christian males'. I wonder, do you have any idea of the irony in that comment? The whole Trumpian agenda is to make 'white Christian males' feel as though they are the victims of some vast conspiracy against them. That perhaps the least victimised group in society is actually the most victimised. Maybe don't fall for that.
Popmusic 2 ways or lovesongs or political...songs... Air-/empty heads sings 1 stupid love song, up beat/balllad, after another ... Madonna went bit further more like sex-symbol... which aint feasible once u reach geriatric age... George Michael came out of his closet, decimated his fan base by half to 70%... lol. Elvis 1 political song :in The Getto. Bob Marley,.... well most songs were political... So the the CIA fighting socialist Soviet sponsored proxy wars 1960/70s, in Asia, Africa etc was not happy.. so thus poisoned and death by 36 years old. And Michael Jackson... was prodigal son of the equal rights movement LBJ great society 1960s into the 70s.. By 1980s he looked good after few touches of facial changes... but gone too far once cut of tip of his nose... He was put up pictures to pose with Tatum Oneal, Brook Shields, but never acquired a girlfriend.. while singing stupid lovesongs... Half way his career he was caught with minor in bed... 1993... Then again in 2003.. So he was his own self destructive, undermining force.. And so thus this kid from LBJs era great society/equal rights sabotaged himself... and all what he represented... Taylor Swift.. i dont know where she came from, what her message is, sexual or political... Bit of a weird spoiled white kid on big pharma s birth controll... Meaning: if Big Pharma didnt exist she would busy doing homework with 5 kids hanging on to her dress.. crying and feeding them... and clean their house. instead of also using uppers downer legal or illegal like most popstars. So this person taylor is also a fake... Popmusic, media mainstream/social are all owned by certain group/tribe which is today genocidng Gaza... They also own Big Pharma like Larry Finke/Blackrock/Pfizer... Plus if u see make up todays US politics its hijacked by them via the moneysystem/banks/wallstreet global trade. U Guys fought 2 times the wrong tribe during ww1 and 2 with ur masters at the Square Mile: British royals in bed Rothschild since Waterloo and bank of England... 1 eye is King... Check out which real names are Bob Dylans and Gene Simmons... those affecting our white naive children... future. Last few decades... See who owned 1980s MTV... to promote heroin music like Kurt Korbain/or like 1990s hosue music drug culture... of which also many died ... 911 was a stitch up... to undermine 4th largest global army in the region in Middle east... And see who dominates now with that iron dome.. Wake Up.
Thank you for taking the time to share this with us viewer's bc some don't understand Taylor's work. I was a little confused about the album when it came out and had to listen a few times. Talor is a brilliant lyrics.
Great review/reaction, good sir! I remember originally trying to figure out what to make of this song (and album), when it first came out. It was partly because I was a relatively new fan of hers, and it sounded so different - not as conventional and slickly produced - from much of her previous material. It took repeated listens to appreciate a lot of the often subtle nuances and striking lyricism in this album. TTPD may not be as a easy listen as, say, Midnights or Red, but it's still one Swift's best albums. Thank you for your keen analysis of this song! You've made an enthusiastic subscriber of me, up here in Northern Virginia!
This is the most fascinating subject ever: how biological entities seem designed, how the cycle of water in Nature seems intelligent, how every human life seems to have a Telos, how the destiny of every individual seems to have an apparent deliberateness, how it is very common among humans to feel like there are good or bad vibrations/energies, all around. To sum up: the sensation of something supernatural, when there is nothing supernatural at all.
Sir, if you were to record yourself reading all of Taylor’s discography in the beautiful manner you have here, I would watch them all and I strongly suspect so would many others. What a wonderfully different and unique way to enjoy her writing. You read poetry very well.
I shudder to even imagine if she had “killed” The Black Dog (which IS a break up song and you said you didn’t want more break up songs) 🙁 as a Swiftie of 15 years I have to agree with the other long-time Swifties in saying this album was not for the new fans. When you’ve been with someone since they were very young, vulnerable and NOT lauded as she is now, you listen with a different kind of empathy.
You will never find a country on Earth that does not have it's bigots and racists.Not one. However I have listened to people who have traveled across every continent and through many countries and strangely, they say that Australia, as a nation is one of the least racist. Tell me Phil, are you a proponent of the decolonizing of Australia.
Excellent again Phil. If you haven’t already done it I’d love to hear your thoughts on where we get our morality. The fundamentalists that come up on my Twitter feed think atheists are incapable of an objective morality.
The only surprise for me is "What a Wonderful World", because its popularity largely stems from its inclusion in the Good Morning, Vietnam soundtrack. The song failed to crack the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart in its initial release in the late 1960s, hitting its peak position in the late 1980s shortly after the movie's release.
Religions and gods evolve, which is ironic. God used to be in the sky, then we achieved flight, then she went somewhere else, and now exists "beyond space and time". I just got dizzy from rolling my eyes.
I feel like people have gotten used to Taylor being incredibly vulnerable in her songs and don't realise how incredibly brave it is, she's been doing it from such a young age too, exposing yourself in that way is very scary, at least from my perspective
