i can't believe taylor wrote the most suicidal album in her career and the saddest song yet in which she says she feels like she's locked in a asylum, in a cage, in a circus and her teeth were took off so she can't bite in defense and all y'all talk about is her exes
1) #TSTTPD is a piercingly vulnerable window into the 2022-2023 psyche of the biggest star in the world. It has some *really* good songs. I think it might be the most interesting lyrical product she’s ever put out. And it is, objectively, not her best album. Bear with me.
one thing about taylor she must make at least one song where jack puts an ass shaking synth melody over her devastating lyrics and i eat it up every single time.
The Tortured Poets Department. An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time - one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure. This period of the author’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up. There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed. And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted. This writer is of the firm belief that our tears become holy in the form of ink on a page. Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it.
And then all that’s left behind is the tortured poetry.
THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT is out now: https://t.co/PzuwWnatO7
I asked my best friend to marry me and she said yes. I am the happiest, best version of myself and it’s all because of you Brookie. I love you endlessly forever and ever and ever.
i just don’t think people get that our love for taylor goes so much deeper than her music. there’s never been a worry for me that she might secretly be a bad person. taylor is genuinely good to the bone and i fully believe that. i sound so sappy rn but i’m just so happy we live in the same time as her.
ROLLING UP THE WELCOME MAT (FOR GOOD). august eleven.
“it’s kinda scary opening a wound that time has mended”
…but this unexplainably transformative welcome mat had one last bit of rolling up to do 🤍
it’s most important that i articulate that this re-release is for you and you only. the added outro’s that we ended up screamsinging nightly on tour, the lyric changes along a healing journey, hearing you very loudly explain that the INTERLUDE NEEDS TO BE A FULL SONG KELSEA COME ON. plus, a new song to bring the story more up to date.
with this, comes a favor. from the deepest and purest part of my heart, i ask that you help this be ours and let the music simply be the music, not dig back into the experience that it was written about nearly a year ago. as a songwriter, producer, artist i’m proud and protective of this EP, and as a woman and human also proud and protective of the new, happy season of life i’m in.
my real hope is for us to continue growing, healing, and evolving together with acceptance and kindness (even when we unleash our inner fire breathing dragon singing the new versions of these songs). am i right? 😉 https://t.co/q2GCipxR0M