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THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY | My Personal Top 5
what would red's favourite song on ttpd be? (pt 2 of 3)
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 black dog
imgonnagetyouback
the albatross
chloe or sam or sophia or marcus
Speak Now vs Lover vs TTPD (round 2)
enchanted
cornelia street
how did it end?
Thinking about How Did It End? and how she BEGINS the song by actually telling us how it ended. They just weren’t a match. They contradicted each other. She couldn’t have what she wanted, and what she wanted wasn’t him.
She’s doing the Post Mortem analysis, performing an autopsy on the corpse of their entanglement, and these are the conclusions she finds. And no one believes her. No one understands.
The whole song everyone is asking “how did it end” when she’s already made it clear. It should be obvious. But they don’t want to see the reason.
It gets to the point I think she starts to doubt herself a little: why couldn’t I make it work? Why couldn’t I just buckle down and do it?
She starts the song mocking the incessant public infatuation with gossip, only to begin to doubt herself in the last chorus. And I think that’s the effect of public opinion. Cycling through self-acceptance and self-doubt because everyone is telling you you’re wrong. No matter how firmly you believe in yourself, being constantly scrutinized or subject to opinions is bound to make you doubt yourself.
She knew why they couldn’t work out. It’s obvious: they’re not compatible. But no one believes that two lovely, seemingly straight people couldn’t have a lovely, seemingly straight marriage/relationship. And so, after hearing this constantly, after feeling the pressure to conform, she begins to doubt herself.
Me (at 1 oh 5 am on April 19th): that was great but I don’t really get why it took her two years to write 17 songs-
Me (at 2am on April 19th): oh?????
Me (at 2:57am on April 19th): OHHHHHHHHHHH!
Speak Now vs Lover vs TTPD (round 1)
the story of us
cruel summer
who's afraid of little old me?
what would red's favourite song on the tortured poets department be? (out of the winners of previous polls)
my boy only breaks his favourite toys
the black dog
the manuscript
what would speak now's favourite song on ttpd be? (pt 3 of 3)
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
