Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024) Album • Page 45

More “So High School” vibes please

 

Reminds me of Britney's If You Seek Amy

 

Holy shit, I was just listening to this on my way home thinking about how I'm really falling in love with this album and now there's a whole second half to hear!?

 

HOLY
SHIT
THANK YOU AIMEE

WOWEWEEEE

 

Cassandra is mad woman’s sibling

 

thought i would stay up til 2 to see what the announcement was then sleep and here i am wide awake w 15 minutes to go in the whole thing

 

peter is awesome

 

first take: the kelce songs clear the healy ones

so high school a jam

 

The Manuscript! …is there a memoir coming????????

 

"So I changed your name and any real defining clues"

*calls song thanK you aIMee*

Taylor got jokes

 

The second album is very good, but I think the first album clearly stands above. It has a clear through line and feels like a complete album. Second disc feels like good songs that don't fit with the first album, which is fine, but makes the second album feel a little less cohesive. I think the songs on disc 2 lack as many wow moments

 

negative take: she's done a lot/most of this already between the last 3 albums
positive take: 31 songs, nearly all of them good, incredible production, somehow managed to outdo herself on the surprise front, really feels like 2 cohesive albums not an album and a bunch of bonus tracks

I think if this had come after Lover it would be many people's favorite. I don't think it's quite as good as evermore, but a decent amount of that might just be that it feels like well tread ground for her at this point. there is some fantastic stuff here

glad I listened to the whole thing tn, that was fun

 

I get the feeling that this feels similar ground but to me it also feels like a perfect mix of what she's been doing on the last few albums. I might actually prefer the sound on here to any of those personally.

 

lot of moments especially on disc 2 that I'd describe as Midnights but more fun, so I get it

and there is definitely quite a bit of the "seriousness" of the two covid albums, too - can totally back the best of all worlds opinion if that's what you mean

 

I haven't even got to the second disc yet but that sounds good to me!

 

This whole thing is a snooze. These all feel like derivations of folklore/evermore/Midnights tracks

 

Just yesterday I was talking to a friend about how it feels like TS is reaching the saturation point by releasing so much music. Like, every 6 months we get either a new album or a rerecording with a bunch of vault tracks. And now I woke up to a whole second album lol. I'll try to listen with an open mind but it's getting overwhelming. I wish she'd follow Lorde's strategy of releasing an album every 5 years and disappearing from the public eye in the meantime (but she won't).

 

There’s a lot of great songs between all these! Can’t wait to see which ones grow on me after more listens. I can see this surpassing Midnights, Lover, and maybe tie with Folklore/Evermore for me.

 

Yeah but Taylor consistently releases a shit ton of great music so no reason to complain

 

Fortnight is clearly the best song on this whole thing

 

Has anyone else read the prologue from the liner notes? The only pic I've found is blurry, but here's the text. Certainly puts the album in a very different perspective and explains why there's a good chunk of Matty songs here. Kinda wish I'd read this before I heard the album, but I appreciate getting to listen again after reading this:

At this hearing
I stand before my fellow
members
of The Tortured Poets
Department
With a summary of my findings
A debrief, a detailed rewinding
For the purpose of warning
For the sake of reminding

As you might all
unfortunately recall
I had been struck with a case
of a restricted humanity
Which explains my plea
Here today
Of temporary I n s a n I t y

You see, the pendulum swings
Oh, the chaos it brings
Leads the caged beast to do
the most curious things

Lovers spend years denying
what’s ill fated
Resentment rotting away
galaxies we created

Stars placed and glued
meticulously by hand
next to the ceiling fan

Tried wishing on comets.
Tried dimming the shine.
Tried to orbit his planet.
Some stars never align.

And in one conversation
I tore down the whole sky.

Spring spring forth with
dazzling freedom hues
Then a crash from the skylight
bursting through
Something old,
someone hallowed
who told me he could
be brand new

And so I was out of the oven
and into the microwave
Out of the slammer and into
a tidal wave
How gallant to save the
empress from her gilded tower
Swinging a sword he could
barely lift
But loneliness struck at that
fateful hour
Low hanging fruit on
his wine stained lips

He never even scratched
the surface of me.

None of them did.

“In summation, it was not a
love affair!”
I screamed while bringing
my fists
to my coffee ringed desk
It was a mutual manic phase.
It was self harm.
It was house and then
cardiac arrest.

A smirk creeps on to this
poet’s face
Because it’s the worst
men that I write best

And so I enter into evidence
My tarnished coat of arms
My muses, acquired
like bruises
My talismans and charms
The tick, tick, tick, of
love bombs
My veins of pitch black ink

All’s fair in love and poetry
[/SPOILER}

 

I think I may have avoided a bit of the fatigue because I still haven't listened to any of the vault songs or even the 3am Midnight's stuff.

 

Absolutely ridiculously not true even a bit!!!

 

Wow this is great

 

Yeah not sure Fortnight would even make my top 10 on the first half.