guilty as sin? - taylor swift
thinking at length about the parallel between “another summer, taking cover, rolling thunder” and “it’s alright, you were dancing through the lightning strikes”
guilty as sin? - taylor swift
At this hearing
I stand before my fellow members of the Tortured Poets Department
With a summary of my findings…..
HAPPY ONE YEAR OF TTPD | 4.19.24
THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT (2024)
I touched you for only a fortnight
I touched you
But I touched you
so long, london - taylor swift
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.
THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT — 19 April 2024
THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT | TAYLOR SWIFT | APRIL 19TH, 2024
All’s fair in love and poetry.
Cassandra and But Daddy I Love Him being two sides of the same coin
thinking about the pipeline from “once upon a time, the planets and the fates and all the stars aligned” in mastermind to “tried wishing on comets / tried dimming the shine / tried to orbit his planet / some stars never align” in the ttpd epilogue
i love the…. almost horror aspects of this album. all the references to ghosts and death…. and sonically, the unexpected shrieking in WAOLOM and the banging and screaming during “old habits die screaming” and even the way the tension subtly builds across the sixteen tracks and by the end you’re so stressed and shaken it’s like! losing your sense of self and feeling like you’ve become a monster is horror. and i’m sooooo glad she leaned into it
levitating down the street!!! being abducted by aliens and then spit back out!!! feeling like she was being watched and hunted!!!!! this shit is fucking SCARY!!!!!!!!! because losing yourself is SCARY. it IS a horror story.
the manuscript ending the album on the utter jawdrop moment that neither of the muses of the actual album were the first men to fuck her up with promises of marriage and babies, and that first heartbreak so long ago laid the scene for the woman she would become and the ways she would approach love and how we all watched her life like scenes in a show but she kept coming back to the manuscript of the first torrid affair that ruined her, to bookend an album about two love affairs that destroyed her utterly in almost the exact same way, because all her muses are acquired like bruises........ it's bone-chilling
i hate it here - taylor swift
la poeta torturada
