Why TTPD is Hollanov’s TS album: a song by song analysis:
(for context i assign every one of my fav ships a TS album)
- this song is a feels like the hollanov “breakup” in part 3/ episode 4
- “i took the miracle move-on drug it was temporary” shane trying with rose💔
- “i love you, it’s ruining my life” like that’s literally the plot of the book
The Tortured Poets Department:
- “who else decodes you? who’s gonna know hold you like me? who’s gonna know you, if not me?”
- “nobody. no-fuckin-body”
- “i scratch your head you fall asleep like a tattooed golden retriever”
- “i chose this cyclone with you”
- “everyone we know understands why it’s meant to be cuz we’re crazy, so tell me who’s else is gonna know me?”
- this is literally their song. for their “breakup”
- “did you really beam me up in a cloud of sparkling dust, just to do experiments on. tell me i was the chosen, showed me that this world is bigger than us.”
- “for a moment i knew cosmic love”
- chorus is alllll ilya like he’s down bad and crying at the gym
- “fuck it if i can’t have him” ilya vs “fuck it if i can’t have us” shane
- “i loved your hostile takeovers, encounters closer and closer, all your indecent exposure”
- “fuck it i was in love. so fuck you if i can’t have us” ARE YOU KIDDINGGG
- this literally evolves into their mindsets during TLG and it’s sickening
- this song is so fucking shane hollander i can’t even function (HR and TLG)
- “i just learned these people only raise you to cage you” talking ab ilya ill die
- “they slammed the door on my whole world, the one thing i wanted”
- the ENTIRE chorus talking about “i know it’s crazy but he’s the one I want”
- “he was crazy he was revelry, bedroom eyes like a remedy” well
- “ILL TELL YOU SOMETHING RIGHT NOW. ID RATHER BURN MY WHOLE LIFE DOWN. THEN LISTEN TO ONE MORE SECOND OF ALL THIS BITCHIN AND MOANIN” SHANE HOLLANDER
- “you ain’t gotta gray for me. me and my wild boy and all of this wild joy”
- “scandal does funny things to pride but brings lovers closer”
- “went to my parents and they came around”
- “even my daddy just loves him” im crine david loves his son ilya
- slammer could be a lot of things outside of taylor’s context: shane’s accident, ilyas whole family situation, shane feeling trapped by internalized homophobia, ilyas mental health decline in TLG
- “now pretty baby i’m runnin back home to you”
- “all those nights you kept me going”
- “now pretty baby im running to the house where you still wait up and that porch light gleams” okay cottage
- “wearing imaginary rings” TLG moment
- tampa. “one hell of a drug”
- “little did you know your home just a town your just a guest in” “little did you know your homes really only the town you’ll get arrested” so actually kill me
- “I NEED TO FORGET SO TAKE ME TO FLORIDA. IVE GOT SOME REGRETS ILL BURY THEM IN FLORIDA. TELL ME IM DESPICABLE SAY ITS UNFORGIVABLE. WHAT A CRASH WHAT RUSH. FUCK ME UP FLORIDA.” and they did
- this is so shane thinking about ilya before they ever even get together… “we’ve already done it in my head”
- “how i long for our trysts”
- “if its make believe why does it feel like a vow we’ll both uphold somehow…”
- “what if i roll the stone away? they’re gonna crucify me anyway WHAT IF THE WAY YOU HOLD ME IS ACTUALLY WHATS HOLY.”
- “if long suffering propriety is what they want from me, they don’t know how you’ve haunted me so stunningly. i choose you and me. religiously.” THIS IS SO TLG ARE YOU KIDDINGGGG
- “am i allowed to cry” yes shane hollander
Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me:
- honorable mention because this song is so Ilya coded bc his family sees him as worthless except for his money and they literally don’t treat him with any respect— which is why he acts out all the time. okay thank you for coming to my ted talk
- the first verse is so beautiful and so them
- “who’s gonna stop us from walking back into rekindled flames if we know the steps anyway” they come back to each other after rose + freak out
- “we were just kids babe”
- “i felt aglow. like this. never before and never since”
- “if you know it in once glance it’s legendary” ilya was hooked from the day he first met shane FUCK
- we’re not gonna talk about the rest of the song because… it’s not relevant to hollanov bc they live happily ever after okay
- i know this is rlly a Skip song but…idc
- “what if i told you im back? the hospital was a drag, worst sleep i ever had. i circled you on a map” yes shane
- “i haven’t come around in so long but now im coming back so strong”
- “cuz the sign on your heart said it’s still reserved for me”
- “these blokes warm the benches we been on a winning streak”
- “there was no chance trying to be the greatest in the league. where’s the trophy? he just comes running over to me”
- WHO ARE THEY TO FUCKING FIGHT THE ALCHEMY
- in a very dramatic sense this song is very Ilya and seeing him with rose at the club
- “i am someone who until recent events you shared your secrets with” like oh
- “and i never may open up the way i did for you”
- “i just don’t understand how you don’t miss me in the shower” he does
- “do you hate me?” ohhhh okay
- “you knew the price goin in… and i’ll tell you one thing honey i can tell when somebody still wants me, come clean”
- “standin at the bar like something’s funny” this is both ilya at the bar at the club and at the bar in florida because in both scenarios: SHANE IS GETTING HIM BACK.
- “small talk big love, act like i don’t care what you did”
- “whether im gonna flip you off or pull into the closet” GODDD
- I COULD FEEL IT COMIN HUMMIN IN THE WAY YOU MOVE. PUSH THE RESET BUTTON WE’RE BECOMIN SOMETHING NEW. SAY YOU GOT SOMEBODY ILL SAY I GOT SOMEONE TOO. EVEN IF ITS HANDCUFFED IM LEAVING HERE WITH YOU.
- “i told my friends i hate you, but i love you just the same” goodbye
okay that’s it for now i love being a queer swiftie
