The Tortured Poets Department
I have many thoughts and feelings about this album just swirling around in my own mind; sporadically dropping messages across multiple chat groups and to multiple friends during random epiphanies throughout the day where my inner analytical nerd just needed to tell someone about it.
So, I figured I will just write this all down somewhere and whoever wants to read it, can. I will break down each song, yep - I'm doing all 31 songs, and share my analyses.
I say this now, but let's hope I don't run out of steam and stop at any point (spoiler alert from the future, I ran out of steam but I would like to come back and finish the rest one day). Haha. I'm also a bit rusty with writing. It's been a hot minute since I've actually had to write anything like this, but the critics have been getting this album so wrong that I needed to correct them as well as just getting out my own thoughts.
Maybe, this will end up just being a stream of consciousness. Who knows?
I'll link the post for each song I analyse below as I publish them, but before we get into it, I think it's important you read about the prologue Taylor wrote in the CD insert.
I also want to preface that as I get into it, I am going to take what Taylor said on her instagram post about these stories being ours now and I won't attribute it to anyone in particular, unless it's necessary to explore it, but mostly I'll just analyse and explore her storytelling and interpret it from that lens.
Fornight
The Tortured Poets Department
My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
Down Bad
So Long, London
But Daddy I Love Him
Fresh Out the Slammer
Florida!!!
Guilty as Sin?
Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?
I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)
loml
I Can Do It With A Broken Heart
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
The Alchemy
Clara Bow The Anthology
The Black Dog
imgonnagetyouback
The Albatross
Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus
How Did It End?
So High School
I Hate It Here
thanK you aIMee
I Look In People's Windows
The Prophecy
Cassandra
Peter
The Bolter
Robin
The Manuscript
