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

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

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

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.

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 👽

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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