betty's garden

shae - 22 - toronto - taylor followed on Nov. 14 2014 💕🌈

[evermoredeluxe]

taylor and travis in singapore at the garden by the bay 🫶🥺🫶🥺

[atattookiss]

thinking way too many thoughts

[stumbleonhometomycats]

PILLLLLLLLED IM SO KILLAPILLED

[andyoucallmeupagain]

[CAR CRASH] [GLASS SHATTERING] ‘GOOD LORD!’ [GENERAL COMMOTION] [BABY CRYING] ‘WAAAAH WAAAAH’ [YELLING] [POLICE SIRENS] WEEWOO WEEWOO [HELICOPTERS] ‘WE’RE REPORTING LIVE-‘ [EXPLOSION] ‘MY LEG... MY LEG...’

[taylortruther]

"and so i was out of the oven into the microwave" pulls from the phrase "out of the frying pan into the fire," which describes jumping from one bad situation into a worse one (because you go from cooking in a pan to literally throwing it in the fire.) moving on from something that took its time (oven) straight into a situation that nuked it to get the same result, but faster, and worse.

[onlyyseedaylight]

me after listening to the most emotionally devastating song I have ever heard because an even more upsetting one is about to start

[tswiftupdatess]

Taylor Swift in the studio the day her and Jack Antonoff made 'Down Bad'

— June 29, 2023

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

jackantonoff: TTPD is here

my favorite work we have made together / made in the most wild unhinged moment. all the pain distilled in this album and all the laughter that came out of it. will hold those days in the studio forever as the most inspiring of my life. i adore this album and the way it came together. ttpd FOREVER

1- the day we made down bad

2- fots day

3- florida

4- laura sisk forever

5- black dog

6- electric lady

7- i love you taylor!

love you @sharp_stick / @olijacobs1 / @jack_m_manning / @electricladystudios / @aarondessner / @heyjonlow / @florence / @postmalone / @mikeyfreedomhart / @esmith109 / @zemaudu / @hutchdrums / @mriddles / @serbangheneamixes

from 1989 to TTPD (x)

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

I don’t have enough brain cells to understand who/what fortnight is about… the neighbor and husband references?

okay, so like taylor said, fortnight is sort of a prologue to the entire album. it references a lot of other songs (down bad, florida!!!, peter, guilty as sin?) there are a few different ways that it could be read, and i may not stick to this interpretation, but the below is where i landed.

fortnight sets the scene for the entire album and the events that are about to unfold by telling a story about an alternate reality about the future she was headed to in which she and joe ignore their problems, stay together, and build the life they're planning. she's in need of psychiatric help, she's drinking, she's depressed. but the other guy has re-entered her orbit. they're going to keep crossing paths. she feels insane. he's right there. she is insane. her husband cheats on her; she's enraged at him. the other guy is married to someone great; she's enraged at her too. she feels insane. she is insane, because she's fully consumed with the anger of following the bad path instead of taking the risk.

so at the end of the song, she decides she has to run for it. she has to move to america. she has to go to florida and start over. she has to buy the car and let him touch her instead of just daydreaming about it. because if she doesn't scratch the itch, if she doesn't see what happens, if she doesn't chase the guy that's been her "what else?" then well, how will she ever know? and the rest of the record is her realizing that maybe she wishes she hadn't.

[idsb]

I’m so struck by how Taylor has retold the story of 2016 so many times and I’m so many ways because as time passes and things happen and things change it reframes and reframes and reframes in her mind because the pain never goes away, the way it looks just changes with the light

[kissyoulikealover]

that post thats like taylor swift is for people who have never gotten over anything in their lives ever is so true because tortured poets is really like well okay yeah fuck joe but really fuck matty oh also fuck you kim kardashian and while we're here fuck jake gyllenhaal too

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

I know it’s not funny but why am I hysterically laughing right now at the thought of her contacting Travis just a couple months after the whole Matty thing when she was presumably still fucked up, and the way he talked about it on the WSJ interview “She told me exactly what was going on and how I got lucky enough to get her to reach out.” like just try imagining the text

“hey it’s taylor swift. so i’ve had the worst year of my life to-date and i’m literally cooked mentally (working on it) but my friends like you so i wanted to reach out. 😊”

[thelasttime]

this lyric did me in “don’t want money just someone who wants my company”

who wants to be a lonely (b)illionaire

[falklore]

Tbh theme like I feel like all of this started when she wrote midnights, I’ve always said that this album sounds unfinished to me, like it barely scratches the surface of something big going on deep inside and I think the wall finally broke and the tortured poets department came out with a full force… it just feels so freeing, it’s a very dark album but also cathartic. As she said herself: “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.”

[bleachellaz]

I think TTPD is so intentionally vague and then she’s like btw Kim k this isn’t over I hate you and your daughter is my biggest fan and you will never escape me and the consequences of what you’ve done, also my mother who wouldn’t hurt a fly also hates your guts, now back to me escaping into daydreams because I’m depressed

[tay-swifts]

TAYLOR SWIFT The Tortured Poets Department | Spotify's Canvas (2024)

[iknewyouweretroubletv]

feel like we should talk about the clara bow photos