IS THIS TAYLOR SWIFT ALBUM ACTUALLY GOOD? | The Tortured Poets Department Album Reaction 

Taylor Swift - *The Tortured Poets Department* (Timestamp Tracklist) INTRO - 0:00 1. Fortnight (feat. Post Malone) [2:31] 2. The Tortured Poets Department [7:29] 3. My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys [14:05] 4. Down Bad [18:37] 5. So Long, London [24:15] 6. But Daddy I Love Him [29:39] 7. Fresh Out The Slammer [35:55] 8. Florida!!! (feat. Florence + The Machine) [40:02] 9. Guilty as Sin? [45:17] 10. Who’s Afraid Of Little Old Me? [50:33] 11. I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) [56:56] 12. loml [1:00:25] 13. I Can Do It With a Broken Heart [1:05:45] 14. The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived [1:11:16] 15. The Alchemy [1:15:53] 16. Clara Bow [1:20:29] OUTRO - 1:23:18

Only 30 years old understand how relatable the “all my friends smells like weed or little babies “

When people say TTPD all sounds the same I honestly feel like they're gaslighting me. I mean everyone is entitled to their opinion but there's no way loml and ICDIWABH could be accused of being the same, and I could randomly pick any rub of three songs from the tracklist and they'd be completely different from each other

This album gets better with every listen. From start to finish, all 31 songs

clara bow is a song about females in the spotlight. Three names were dropped: Clara bow, stevie nicks, Taylor swift. Every 50 years, people just wants someone new

i understand maybe you don't like sad songs... but honestly i can tell apart taylor's sad songs because i love them they are my favourites honestly and i hope she never stops doing them

The comments you said at the end of lomI, think you are just saying what most of the "haters" of this album said (and actually you talked about it at the beginning): "it´s more of the same" "they sound like songs she already has done" "they're repetitive" ... and it is because most of her songs are connected, once you get the context, that is gonna change... and i'm sure this album will also grow up in you as it did with many of us. Cheers!

The golden retriever thing is just saying they want someone loyal and gets super happy when they're around you

I was surprised to know how many songs here were influenced by Matty, I was expecting more about Joe. But after hearing that even tho matty and Taylor officially dated for 2 weeks (a Fortnight) they were on and off for years. This album is definitely a grower, it took me time to fully digest the songs and the meanings behind them.

London is Joe Alwyn a british guy she dated for 6 years who promised her a proposal and children and a life together and the relationship just fizzled out. She has a ton of songs about him mostly in lover and reputation albumsl. Matt Healy the front man of the 1975 band she dated in the summer of last year a very short relationship has some songs in this album (the smallest man who ever lived) is the biggest one. Travis has 2 songs in this album. I don't like to pick a part who each song is about in this album I am just letting you know her past/present relationships to give you an idea. I am more focused on her mental health when it comes to this album.

40:55 exactly my thoughts i think guilty as sin goes deeper than a religious allegory; it's moreso about emotional cheating and the religious implications of feeling sinful in that way at the core of WAOLOM, she addresses and mocks all the rumors that surround her professional and personal life. every single conversation online HAS to revolve around taylor and most of the time it is haters bringing it up.

Golden Retriever - kind and loyal. always has your back. loves you in spite of your faults. there through thick and thin

Omg finally!! cannot wait for anthology

bestie youd love 1989 if you like i can do it with a broken heart that album is a pop BIBLE with hit after hit

dude i love all your taylor reaction videos

I think out of the double album,31 Tracks Backwards is 13 her favorite #. The Anthology is my favorite one of the 2 I love the Anthology, I think it's the best album is her best so far.

Ahhh, the metaphors of Taylor's songs and the non Swifties trying to decipher them is probably two of my favorite things! You did great, too! As a long time Swiftie from allll the way back to Fearless, I was able to figure 90% of it out first listen, but that other 10% took me a little while lol

Smallest Man is about Matty Healy, who was known to have addiction issues.

Red (Taylor's Version) is my favorite Taylor Swift album, maybe you can react to it.

There’s nothing wrong with the lyrics or production choices on this album. It’s the album she wanted to present, and she probably had specific reasons for including lyrics that some criticize. Oh well. My thought is that many reviews were canned or based in their own negativity that has nothing to do with the album. You can’t review such an expansive work of art within a day or two of its release. If anyone has a problem they should write produce and perform their own album and see how it sells. For me it’s my favorite of her albums because it’s the first I identify with. It’s adult. It’s raw. It’s painful. It’s beautiful.

it’s her best album imo

Loml definitely doesn’t sound like anything else. If anyone can say what it sounds like, I’d love to know. For me it’s the gut punch of the first half of the album.

To anyone who thinks all the tracks sound the same: A challenge. Take any 2 random songs from the album and compare them. Repeat until you find 2 which you find sound the same. Then come here and tell us which they were.

In "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me," she literally says it's the circus life that made her this way and then she's getting backlash for anything she does. She is what she is because "we" trained her.

1:22:40 more like that's what alot of people already say about Olivia Rodrigo when she blew up in 2021... also Olivia has the edge Taylor never really did, I personally like to interpret it like that cuz it's fitting... the bridge of Taylor's song "nothing new" is speculated to be referring to Olivia as well which is really fitting. Also Olivia's song "the grudge" could be about Taylor .

Maybe shes referring to a convo she had when Charlie wasnt as big

A fortnight is 2 weeks. UK term.

you’ve gotta react to madison beer

That album destroyed me and then healed me.

now where did you hide lotus

Swifties are all about the tea.

Please I REQUEST YOU TO NOT DO ANYTHING WHILE U LISREN TO HER...pause the video if u like... u missed too many lyrics..😢

If you title the video like that? Means you're a hater. Not even gonna give you a chance. Blocked!

Matty Healy

Its interesting how you dont like songs like loml when the majority of Swifties and haters loves songs like it.

1:18:47 How cute. 😂

PLEASE REACT TO MORE LANA

plssss do the anthology as well. i loved both albums but the anthology is 100% superior

She said “if you don’t want bad things written about you, don’t do bad things” Some songs are about a guy she was in a 6 year relationship with and as far as I could guess… he didn’t really do anything; they just fizzled out. The ones that sound like low blows, or pretty toxic… they are about Matty Healy (frontman of 1975). Great reaction as always!

Down Bad uses an alien abduction as a metaphor of how he made her fall in love and then left. Hence the spaceship sounds during the track 👽

i think ttpd is her best album i cant stop listening to it

I think that you (along with 90% of the rest of the world’s population) are taking Taylor’s lyrics too literally. Taylor is an artist, not a documentarian. Her music is “diaristic” and “confessional” in the sense of inspiration, but that doesn’t mean that people should think they are exposing “reality” when they try to pinpoint who any particular song is “about” as if the song was a chapter in her autobiography. She’s conveying emotions rooted in personal history and she sprinkles in real life details but her primary goal, as an artist is generally not to tell us “true stories”, as such. TTPD has become my favorite album. Not just my fave Taylor, but my fave of all time. I agree with some swifties who have said this album is a “grower, not a shower.” That has been my experience. I liked it when I first heard it but, as of now, I’ve grown completely obsessed with it. More obsessed than I’ve ever been with any other album. After over 30 listens, I’m still entranced. I still listen to it every day.

People complain it's too long. No one is making anyone listen to the whole thing at once. Listen to your faves and let it be.

Long wait is over, thank you! Waiting for the Anthology 😜

The delay between the baby line in But daddy I love him and him understanding it killed me

It is her sad songs that make me stay a fan of her's lolm is a masterpiece to me...but I think knowing the back story helps understand, but the lyricism is poetry.

This is such a vulnerable, personal and emotional album. It wasn't written for the fans, but as a way to process, then put behind her a variety of emotional highs and deep lows. The first listen through is difficult, it's painfully focused on the lyrics, and the music is a vessel to carry her messages with much less emphasis on hooks and beats. This whole album, and it's second part, are really growers.

who's afraid of little old me....mostly the media; also she didn't sue; during this time. There was a lawsuit during her Red Album age 22-23 ish. she was sexually assaulted by a Radio Dj. He got fired and then sued her for millions of dollars, and she countersued for $1. She won, but it is a sad story. Ok moving onto present time, her old record label screwed her over, abusive etc. sold her Masters to Scooter Braun (Not a very well liked person these days as many people are leaving him)....anyway, since she writes her own music, she is in the process of re-recording her 6 albums from former label. She has re-recorded 4/6. She does give credit to Kelly Clarkson who simply suggested she re-record her albums since she writes her own songs. So for every album she has successfully re-recorded, she calls it Taylor's version lol. Fans try to stream only Taylor's version. Also she sends Kelly Clarkson flowers every time she releases a re-record. I have also read that Bryan Adams was inspired by Taylor and he is re-recording his own songs to own his own version/masters. Ok That was alot. someone else please feel free to make any corrections if I have given any mis-information.

Intense comment incoming: 🔥 What about with your clickbait, is actually good?. You need to know Taylor is co producer of all this album. I don’t know why people are stripping away the production work of Taylor, she’s been doing since her second album. She’s part of the producers and engineers wing of the Grammys. Those people who said this double album was awful were actually haters who would say anything, like those lyrics, they don’t know anything about lyricism and descriptive language, you actually need to know the language to use it, like literary devices, copywriting techniques. “You smoke and ate 7 bars of chocolate, we declare charlie puth should be a bigger artist” is the same descriptive language as “our fields of dreams engulfed in fire” is just the latter is a metaphor and more poetic but a great songwriter NEED TO HAVE BOTH because we are not poetic and tortured every moment of our life, we talk shit a lot. Hahah

if taylor stop making song like loml, i'll never listen to her ever again. its her best type of work. like cold as you in debut album, white horse in fearless, last kiss in speak now, sad beautiful tragic in red, you are in love in 1989, new years day in reputation, soon you'll get better in lover, all of folklore really, champagne problem plus evermore in evermore, youre losing me, and all of the anthology. thats the soul of taylor. come on!

The album is kinda a reaction to Midnights in the sense that she did momentarily leave Joe but something brought them back together, she left for the tour and he ended things I guess, she was reeling but had the tour and then Matty love-bombed her, promised marriage and kids and then ghosted her. The album is honestly devastating, no one should have to go through that while also dealing with media scrutiny, pressure from fake fans, and a label still expecting her to push out her rerecords, preform and record a new album.

It's basically when you get to a certain age, your friends either have babies or they're partying and they smell like weed. So you're in between two stages of life

This is actually a Jack and Aaron produced album :)

Could not cut out those songs, at all. You do have to understand the concept of this album and look at the lyrics to get it, but those songs are integral to the album, and beautifully written. Loml is one of her best songs. I like the change of pace with the next song( it’s needed), but the sad ones are needed too.

After her breakup with Joe Alwyn after 7 years she dated Matty Healy for a short time. It ended after a few weeks of her concert start. Matty is lead for the band 1975. Most songs are about him. I think she had already gotten over joe. So long London is about Joe

Dude, FINALLY!!! 😂

You’d have to be void of “lyrics” to not envelop TTPD. Most beautiful songwriting, without question. You may have to listen a few times to grasp the lyrics.

Metaphors, but look it up. It's the asshole from the 1975, Matty Healy. The Alchemy is about Travis

My friends all smell like weed or little babies, I think it means that she’s at the age where she has some friends who are still partying and smoking and some are becoming parents and getting married

Can you react to Beyoncé “Cowboy Carter “, it’s the 2nd biggest female artist album of the year, so surprised you haven’t covered it yet. She’s releasing the official vinyl edition with updated cover art on June 28th so it would be the perfect time. It would also be interesting to see Twenty One Pilots “Clancy” reaction, another recent release this year.

Songs 1-4 Matty Healy from the band 1975, song 5 So Long London is Joe Alwyn (6 yr. relationship), on Taylor's Lover album she has a song called London Boy which is Joe.

i didnt love it at first, i kind of shared similar initial thoughts to many people where things sounded almost too cohesive in a sense regarding production, but after a few more listens, I find that I really like the majority of all 31 tracks. I think I’d say I even like it more than Midnights, mainly because I like how much more of an open, honest and vulnerable of an album it is. Kind of like she’s just putting it all out there for anyone that’s been wanting to figure out whatever she’s been feeling in her life, and cutting out a lot of the need for interpretation

You have to take in context with this album this was wrote in a period of two years .some things have changed.

Taylor Swift is talking about Joe Allen and down bad

The smallest man who ever lived where u said she was talking about prison time and personsl things is rumored to be about Matty Healy from the band 1975. Most of album is about him and London (her 6 yr relationship with Joe Alwyn) hope that helps. And yes there's a couple about Travis. The alchemy and the one u spoke about in the beginning "touch me while your bros play (I forget the game now) but the songs called so highschool in the anthology. Hope that helps #SWIFTIE and it's funny cause the ones u didn't like the slower ones are some of the ones the swifties love the most! But that is my opinion. U asked how people thought of those songs.

Honestly, I appreciate the timing of this reaction. I had ran out of reactions to watch 😂

It’s definitely a grower. The thing is most people listen to music once and they based their first impression whether they like it or not. Also, it is difficult to let people try listening to the same music more than once especially if the artist and the genre is not their cup of tea.

We can clearly distinguish Each and every Song of her's 🤷🏻‍♂️

40:40 And my friend smells like a little baby, which means that all her friends have babies. Thank you for your reactions, bro. I love it!

It's a 2 week relationship.

He didnt even pay attention 😩😩😩

She may have written the line about Charlie Puth a couple of years ago - she's been working on the album a long time.

Her ex of 6 years is form somewhere south of London.

I like the way Taylor breaks the fourth wall on this album, like “no im not”, “who uses the typewriters anyway”

When you're the biggest artist on the planet and have been consistantly for over 15yrs, you don't change shit!!! Why would you. Literally is "The Music Industry", no one even comes close, on top of that she's the 5th most powerful woman on earth. Yeah...... she needs to change it up.

Its not bad even the slightest. People just hate her coz apparently releases too much music. Ya hate her for doing her job i guess

Im not sure if you've done Reputation yet. It's actually my favorite album so I'd love to see you do Reputation😊

Amazing reaction ❤ album of the year for me!

Taylor never confirmed who her songs on this album are for, The Tortured Poets Department is definitely about Matty Healy though and I think My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys I’m not sure but seems like Matty by how brutal the lyrics were and he fucked her over while Joe is an ex we love. Down Bad is most likely about an alien she loved “They’ll say I’m nuts if I talk about the existence of you” “For a moment I knew cosmic love” “I’ll build you a fort on some planet” And the sounds added to the songs that give an outer space vibe. So Long, London is about Joe 100% the guy she dated for 6 years but he sadly didn’t wanna marry her :(. But Daddy I Love Him is about Matty Healy, she didn’t like that people would give her reasons why she shouldn’t be with him and she’s saying that it’s her choice and the end of the song might be about Travis, I think it is. Fresh Out The Slammer is about her leaving Joe for Matty. Guilty As Sin? Is about her being with Joe but also fantasizing about Matty. It sounds worrying and can sound like cheating but she says “without ever touching his skin, how can I be guilty as sin?” I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) is 100% about Matty because he’s such a fucked up guy who was showing interest in her then she says “Woah, maybe I can’t” at the end after she realizes he never really loved her. loml is about Joe, she dated him for 6 years and she says “You shit-talked me under the table, talking rings and talking cradles. I wish I could un-recall how we almost had it all” She wanted to marry him but he didn’t want to marry her. I Can Do It With a Broken Heart seems both about Joe and Matty, but mostly about Joe imo. “He said he’d love me all his life” is def for Joe and “I’m so obsessed with him but he avoids me” Could be for Joe since he stopped really showing her love but also Matty ghosted her. The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived is Matty 100000% Again, he ghosted her he really fucked her up. His response to the album was “we were never that serious” 🙄. The Alchemy is about Travis Kelce of course we love him 🫶🏻

TTPD is a moreb a grower album, more you listen it , more you like it, it take me a few more listen to fully enjoyed the album and I think that its because on this album she goes like verry deep on what she wants tells to the world .For me the first part of the album have most similitudes to Midnights and The Anthology more to Folklore but it’s a good combo .I love his sad songs like loml cause they are the best sad songs ever and are really well writings ,and makes me alyways cry .As you can see most of the songs talks about relationship that she had .One for a relashion ship of 6 years almost 7 , that guy is born on London ( So long , London talks about him and the after break up of their realationship ) , and one guy is a member of a group of 1975 group and the main singer . For doing simple this 2 relationships was pretty close on the time like she ending the story with the first guy to go for the second guy and break-up like very not long after being with him . Some song are talking too about his public life ( his fans , the music industry , the criticism, all the drama she came through(: But Daddy I Love Him,Who's afraid of little old me , Clara Blow and some somgs on the second part of the album I'm not going to spoil this ) ..For me TTPD is on my Top 1 and then Folklore with Evermore ( yes I put them together ) for the Top 2 and Réputation for my Top3 and Midnights for my Top 4 and 1989 for my top 5.

She just basically purged everything in her mind and heart that she’s been feeling and holding in for the last decade or so… she was quoted as saying something about this album closing the door on those past relationships that ended, she accepted that she had some responsibility in the breakups but that it’s in the past and she’s done. Also told the fans to leave these people that she’s singing about alone.

respectfully disagree with your take on loml, though I get it, your first impression with new songs is the busy production that grabs you, so I understand. to me loml and I Can Do It are the best of the album.

Wes, YOU said you thought some of the tracks were similar to songs on other albums.Would you "care to put your money where your mouth is" and say which songs and which they are similar to and WHY? I am not suggesting that you are wrong, but that it would be very instructive to get your opinion - and even helpful to Talylor should she read this

I think it's some of her greatest lyrics! It's hard to pick her best. But golden retriever (loyal, true, faithful, always come back). Love this album and the anthology!!! ❤🎶🎧

Ironic that a guy who doesn’t understand the golden retriever fascination is the only commentator I’ve seen to actually understand that lyric lol. Golden retriever guys are usually fun and happy go lucky. Taylor is saying she wants someone like that, but with Tattoos.

Midnights is my fave too! I just got the Love Potion Special Edition album…it’s so pretty! folklore is also my #2.

People who complain about the "childish" lyrics in So High School are completely missing the point! It's a high school child like feeling so of course the lyrics match

Yes, when you're in your mid-thirties, your friends all smell like weed or they are having babies. haha

I believe that some songs sounds similar to some of her other songs on purpose. Some songs on other albums are the beginning of a story and some of these songs on this album are the ending of that story. If that makes sense

“Everything comes out teenage petulance” is the key line to that song. It paints the mental picture perfectly and adds some humor to it. Great song.

Weed or little babies -> that point in your life where all your peers are either married and having babies or still partying and not interested in settling down, but you don’t belong in either group

Charlie puth gained a lot of traction after this album was released Prior to the release, his viewership and numbers and fanbase was much smaller

I can't believe you said that about her losing Travis. You're shallow and insensitive

Never overhype people like what we like so I guess is more the supporters than the hatters that’s all

It’s the meaning of each song .. we all can relate to what she’s saying .

I love how you sing along with the lyrics ❤️

Just admit you don’t like slow meaningful songs ..

been waiting for it!!

If you actually listened to loml without distraction and spent time to think about it and study the lyrics you'd realise its the best and deepest song on the album. This album is an album you need to lean forward and invest time to reap the rewards and enjoy how good it truly is.

You smoked then ate seven bars of chocolate