Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024) Album • Page 48

You can easily split it up into the two halves if that works better for you. Stick with the standard album for now and then spend time with the second half whenever you want.

 

I’m still absorbing the first album, I listened to the second but I’m just gonna stick to the first until it’s been played enough, the second album isn’t going anywhere

 

If the songs weren’t actually good, this argument would be a lot more valid.

 

What is the KIM capitalized in the song title and lyrics supposed to mean?

 

I'm guessing it's about Kim Kardashian?

 

I mean, I get the fatigue, I really do. I, too, wonder if the better career move would have been to take a break after the last year she's had. But like, there was never NOT going to be an album cataloging the end of the biggest relationship in her life. Writing songs has always been how she processed events in her life. That doesn't become any more or less of a "marketing machine" thing now that she's at a hitherto-unprecedented level of fame. It's just the artist she is and has always been.

There have always been artists like this. Springsteen wrote so, so, so many songs back in the '70s and '80s. A lot of them ended up on a box set called Tracks, but they could have easily been shaped into albums of their own. And it makes sense that Taylor, as the modern torchbearer for that kind of classicist "prolific singer-songwriter" concept, would eventually try the double album, as so many artists of her level of dominance have done over the decades.

 

I will never complain about prolificity from artists I love, especially when the songs are this good.

 

I'll take as much music as I can from any artist; just wish she allowed this music to cook in the oven a bit longer, before releasing to the world.

 

Honestly, I think the second half is my favorite.

 

The nice thing about this one is that, from what I can tell so far, "disc 2" has a pretty different feel than disc 1. Way more Dessner than Antonoff. Makes it easier than if it's just a bunch of stuff that all sounds alike, or even something like the Beyonce record, which is meticulously put together to be listened to in one sitting but just lasts for 80 minutes.

 

I'm glad I got to spend a day-plus totally immersed in the first album, because it's going to make digesting the second one less overwhelming.

 

Yeah the two halves feel connected enough to make sense as part of the same album and explore similar themes and ideas but sound different enough to not become redundant musically and extent the sonic pallete.

Having listened to full thing a few times now although it takes a while I'm pretty happy to listen to the entire thing at once. Honestly there's less weak moments for me across 31 songs here than most, if not all, of her other albums.

 

I said this to Garrett already, but my first blush impression to this is that it seems like disc one is the late-night album and disc two is the early-morning album, and it all just ends up feeling like one long, sleepless night.

 

Really like “Fortnight”

 

The quality remains the same level almost the entire time. There’s no instant “yeah, should’ve cut this” for me (except maybe Fortnight or Down Bad, but that’s a taste thing; they’re sonically great).

 

It’s funny, I’ve spent the last 6?ish months tired of her for basically the first time since getting into her with 1989, and that went away like 10 second into hearing first song. News cycle oversaturation or not, the music is as fun as ever

 

HAHAHAHA YES

 

I wasn't sure about "Down Bad" on first listen but man has it grown on me a ton. But yeah I agree, I at least really like every song on here.

 

Only real misstep to me is the title track lyrics, the Charlie puth line is real clunky for track 2 imo

 

Wow

so high school!!!!

 

I just can’t take anything about that song being serious when it’s about Matt Healy and a three week relationship. Literally one of those things where knowing who it’s about absolutely ruins it.

 

I see a lot of people complaining about that section of the song but it works perfectly for me when she's calling them both idiots lol. Not that I dislike Charlie Puth or anything but it just feels like a funny dorky detail.

 

I feel like a lot of this album alludes to them potentially having feelings for each other for a lot longer than that and how even though the actual relationship was short it seems to have affected her in a deep way. It makes sense to me, when I first met my wife we broke up after like a month and it was honestly the worst thing that had ever happened to me. Its not just the month long relationship you're mourning, it's the potential future you've built up in your head which based on other lyrics on here, sounds like might have happened.

But yeah I can definitely relate to the sentiment of that song lol.

 

I think the general "issue" I have with this amount of music is that, especially when working with familiar collaborators, you can really hear the songwriting formulas, exercises, habits, etc. that she finds useful coming up over and over again. That's true of any artist who is writing as much as she has over the past many years and the songs are still good. This is also not a real complaint in any way haha.