Published on 5 September 2024
Taylor Swift has established herself as a leading singer-songwriter, musician and producer and such a leading heavyweight within the music industry that she has taken full control of her career to release a stylishly varied and expanded influence of different sonic flavoured The Tortured Poets Department.
There are a host of major players but the two who stand out are once again Post Malone giving a helping hand on vocals in Fortnight, which sets the tone of a degree of misery and drowning sorrows in the bottle, and Florence Welch from Florence and the Machine in the sunshine state of Florida!
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Placed on track two The Tortured Poets Department further sets this sense of doom and gloom and danger to filter and slowly seep into the lyrical theme and this new shift in music style, orchestral chamber composition.
This is a clever song My Boy Only Breaks His Favourite Toys, that leaves it open to both child or man, however that's what men usually do and then go to work to spend their hard-earned money on replacing their toys.
Following that theme of the opposite sex, or of a similar relationship I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can), and something many women or from similar relationships try so hard to fix their partner, but unfortunately, in a lot of cases it doesn't end so well.
Seeking approval from father is the oblivious angle in But Daddy I Love Him, however it is vitally important for a woman's father to be on board with her daughter's wish of who she sees fit to be together in their lives.
Keeping with the theme of relationship Loml, which may be confusing, but it is an acknowledgement for Love of My Life, pulling on those heart strings tenderly, and one wishes all the best, especially for the other person to hopefully reciprocate, which is how these things work.
Two kickass tracks Down Bad and Guilty as Sin takes the mittens off and like her furry cats extends her claws to whip and slash her mark within her life!
So Long London we hope not, but if we've got to part ways with one of the finest capital cities in the world then we'll wait for your return.
Extending and expanding that theme of being absorbed into being real and probably authentic within one's reputational life is Fresh Out the Slammer!
With the crop of the troublesome trio a viewpoint of saying, "I'm so bad or scary after all" in Who's Afraid of Little Old Me? does sound like a Mafia line in those mobster films.
I Can Do It with a Broken Heart shows resistance and persistence, which is something lots of people need to navigate with the hardship of life.
I would like to see The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived or is that being in jest or teasing the anatomy of a man who thinks they are all powerful but compensating that because of being small?
Depending on your viewpoint The Alchemy could refer to turning metals into gold or curing diseases or prolonging life for better things or wanting to last forever, especially if you are doing things that you like or cherish.
Anyone who knows American historical movie facts will see the last track on the standard version of the album Clara Bow, who was a famous and successful actress in the silent 1920s period in Hollywood, which seeing both her and Taylor Swift side-by-side they look quite similar and Taylor Swift draws parallels between both of their lives especially in the spotlight, which is part of the territory of being a global pop princess.
The Anthology is the double album version of The Tortured Poets Department features another whooping 15-tracks, which shows how hardworking Taylor Swift is, being that she is in the prime of her career, so milk it as fast and as long as this tidal wave is going to go for.
However, on close inspection of this batch of songs it is more assertive than the timid standard or the first side of this double album version.
Ever heard of the recent phrase of 'technology will make you guilty', well this song nails it - The Black Dog, cannot get no more caught that your love is watching you in real time go to another lovers house, while the love is now having a mental breakdown in reflecting and piercing together the incidents of her love stopping taking showers together or seeing each other naked or making love.
Wouldn't think sweet Taylor Swift would be seeking revenge, which could be about a former bad playing lover or some rival in life in I'm Gonna Get You Back.
Getting in a more folky mood is the well-crafted and well written song The Albatross, referring to how the devil sees you as an angel and starts the song on the Anthology part of this very long-playing album.
Is this song a mystery to who did it, Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus? No, but quite near as it's about friends and lovers who say the wrong thing at the time and did the wrong thing by not gesturing or saying those four-troublesome words - love! Yes, cannot win, but can always seem to be wrong.
This track enters the realm of orchestra and gothic haunting of How Did It End? Interesting, how you can rush into a relationship and then soon later it all falls apart, and not to mention the failed marriage probably at least a few years later. However, this song doesn't end with failure of one relationship or marriage but keeps happening, resulting in pain, misery, upset, annoyance and broken hearts along the way.
What better way to remember those innocent formative years, where the knocks and setbacks of life haven't quite happened because of being in the So High School environment.
A nice and simple melody in this fast paced while the lyrics in this song I Hate It Here fall of off the tongue, and of growing up in a nice either mid-sized or small town, where everyone knows everyone's secret, but for the restless youth there is not the randomness of busting streets and noisy motorbikes and cars.
Highlighting bullying is the theme in Thank you Aimee, with looking at this period at school and youth as something that makes the person stronger than weaker, which means to survive rather than being a victim.
Being a voyeur is the theme of I Look in People's Windows, though far from being creepy, but envisaging what it would be like to gather amongst the crowds within these homes, or what people would say.
The Prophecy goes into the realms of spirituality and wanting to extend oneself into interacting with people just on a human level and being so famous for this simple and necessary human interaction, is what is not achievable or extremely possible, so rewriting some spiritual or divine law is this possible.
Keeping into the space of being so well known and having to live life separately to what most of us take for granted is what Cassandra resonates with but removing her by venomous bites of spilling blood.
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Being glorious in longing for Peter, and the joining of this relationship that grew apart due to the space and separation of time.
People are people and not all perfect in both within the physical form or attitude and circumstances, but at least her father loved her in this quite often harsh song The Bolter.
This is a clever song as you don't know whether it is about the bird Robin, or a person navigating life and all of the barriers and all of the disappointments we endure throughout life.
Leaving this song until last sends out a message of being final and going over the scene of life in The Manuscript.
If we've never heard Taylor Swift's songs and music then this album will change your mind as the songs are not only well crafted and while some of the lyrical lines do not rhyme Taylor Swift makes them be stitched together and often with a somewhat pause between words and sentences injecting suspense and a more appreciation of the lyrical theme, context and content.
No wonder Taylor Swift has grown into a truly talented superstar, and it is her time of glowing in the spotlight.
You will not be disappointed by this album The Tortured Poets Department.
The Tortured Poets Department Booklet +Poster Album CD
The Tortured Poets Department The Black Dog Album CD
The Tortured Poets Department The Bolter Album CD
The Tortured Poets Department The Albatross Album CD
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The Tortured Poets Department signed CDs
The Tortured Poets Department signed CDs
The Tortured Poets Department signed CDs
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