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Also: Cassandra was a trojan priestess who was cursed by Apollo to be able to utter true prophecies but never be believed. The song could be about the 🛴 situation but also about the Kanye phone call bc of the lyric "when it's burn the b-tch they are shrieking (when the edited video of the phone call was posted by Kim and people cancelled her), when the truth comes out is quiet" (in 2020 when the original full video leaked on twitter and almost no media outlets ran the story). Loved the reaction and I also enjoyed the anthology as a whole more than the standard version of TTPD.
5:24 - The Black Dog 8:24 - imgonnagetyouback 12:26 - The Albatross 15:33 - Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus 19:56 - How Did It End? 26:03 - So High School 31:07 - I Hate It Here 35:26 - thanK you aIMee 39:27 - I Look in People's Window 41:56 - The Prophecy 45:31 - Cassandra 48:38 - Peter 52:01 - The Bolter 55:16 - Robin 58:52 - The Manuscript
I like the fact that he can voice his opinions without being afraid of the bashing that can sometimes come from it and honestly EVERYONE HAVE DIFFERENT TASTE IN MUSIC
It doesn't connect for you because you don't have these problems. And for you to say that these lyrics are cringing while gushing over the "aMerican History!!!" of Cowboy Carter - most of which is Bey bitching about n ot wining awards or feeling comfrotable at the CMAS - is reductive. Nothing here on this album is cringey. But you sure as hell are. Christ.
Lord. Both albums are equally good. I'm sorry neither have some mindless, meaningless pop number for you to shake your ass to. Although, Lover did and all you did was btich about how it was the worst of all time. God save us all from white men who don't have real problems reviewing Taylor's music.
I let this album breathe a little so it could grow on me and i came to realize that even though there are songs i legitimately like on the album, i don't really wanna relisten to them because they're about a bigot who's said god awful shit about black women and women in general. Like, i don't want to listen to a song and be reminded of a racist dude every time I hear it. I always find something i enjoy on her albums, but this one wasn't it for me. And that's coming from someone who enjoys the lore and the Easter eggs and has been listening to Taylor since debut
TIMESTAMPS 5:24 - The Black Dog 8:24 - imgonnagetyouback 12:26 - The Albatross 15:33 - Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus 19:56 - How Did It End? 26:03 - So High School 31:07 - I Hate It Here 35:26 - thanK you aIMee 39:27 - I Look in People's Window 41:56 - The Prophecy 45:31 - Cassandra 48:38 - Peter 52:01 - The Bolter 55:16 - Robin 58:52 - The Manuscript
The 1830s line makes PERFECT sense and the people who say it’s unnecessary are just silly. Also, as an autistic who can’t read social cues, I used to do this as a kid. I’d pick a decade and pick out all the things I didn’t like about it. Lol. It’s relatable af.
TTPD was not an album that I loved on the first listen... Differently than Midnights, evermore, and reputation, this was an album where I spent a good thirty minutes going: "What the heck is going on here? What am I listening to? What is she trying to tell?" - However, from the second listen onwards it started growing and I think there hasn't been a day I haven't listened to the full album at least once. I think that the similarities to other songs: mastermind, begin again, bejeweled, mirrorball, call it what you want, death by a thousand cuts, etc. Can be viewed as either juxtaposing what the previous song said, or she's explaining further what she meant in those songs or she's finally getting closure of that longing she sang about. I believe TTPD is the ending of an era (and all of the previous ones too). Going further, we probably won't see glimpses of the "old Taylor". She's moving on (and I am here for it). I also enjoyed the fact that the "muse" of some songs is not easily identifiable. Some songs tell us a story of the two of them at the same time. In "but daddy I love him", I think she's singing about three different people throughout the song - when she says 'even my daddy just loves him', it makes no sense she's talking about the same man she did at the beginning of the song. To be honest, most of the time I do forget the guy between the actor and Travis. I wasn't expecting him to be mentioned at all, and I try my hardest to NOT revolve Taylor's creativity and art around the men in her life, so I focus on the feelings and emotions she conveyed in the songs. At the end of the day both of them have hurt her immensely the only difference being the time they got to do it. My friends and I also thought that the two starting songs "Fortnight" and "TTPD" weren't connected to the remainder of the album. So while conversing the night away we came up with a hypothesis: the album's concept is a poetry book, so the two opening songs are the prologue of the narrative: the love story ending in TTPD and she remembering how it happened in Fortnight. Those two encouraged her to write the 14 other poems to tell us about the fortnight (the period of time) when it unravelled. Then in the Anthology, she brings another fortnight of stories based on her own suspicions and suppositions to themes of her past (including the romantic relationships). Whilst in the first album she tells us what happened on the outside (even though she pretty much shows what she was feeling), the second album shows us what was going on inside her head and heart. That is backed up by TN and TS posts asking us to listen to the 5 stages playlists so we could review/remember the past and when Tay said 'only a fortnight til TTPD' asking us to focus on the present/future. So, I'd advise everyone to listen at least once like this: Fortnight and TTPD. Then My boy only breaks his favorite toys followed by the black dog; down bad and imgonnagetyouback and so on. (Beware though, cause the combo: loml, the prophecy, I can do it with a broken heart and Cassandra is BRUTAL). The Manuscript is the epilogue... wrapping up this poetry book she wrote. Closing the chapter of her life and moving on. TTPD is a DENSE album. You finish it tired. She makes us feel everything she felt during those times. And I think this is what she meant, give us a glimpse of how she felt whilst she was conquering the world, hitting her marks with her broken heart.
i think ttpd is supposed to be more of a 'joke', like mocking the 'tortured poets' (ex: "who uses typewriters anyways", "this ain't the chelsea hotel, we're modern idiots" etc) and the anthology is more like an actual 'tortured poet ' album. and that's why the ttpd songs have these "cringy" lyrics or whatever and the anthology has more poetic ones :)
The first part it's good, with some standouts, but I prefer The Anthology to be honest. And I fully agree the songs from both parts are all over the place by designs because she was processing the three relationships at once. Getting out of a six year relationship will inevitably make you look your life, and new and the old one through a new perspective. It's not a simple timeline but several coming at you at the same time. I really liked that aspect of the album.
