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Hi divas! Seen some comments asking for this and it's here....the unedited version will come in the next few days, I have to focus on getting part 2 edited and doing the pod first :)

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REACTION: Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department .... THIS TURKEY IS DELICIOUS! 🤍 Part 1 🤍

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Comments

Bon

Thank you so much🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

star

thank youuuuuuuuuuu

Lauren

GAGAGAGAGAGAGAG madeline’s next 🤭

chappell roan

i was found dead in a ditch last night A FREAKING DOUBLE ALBUM 😭😭😭 thank god i didn’t buy any of the bonus track CD’s yet lol just finished the youtube reaction, when you post the unedited please add it as a video and not a youtube link cause those never load for me and i NEED to see the full reaction 😔

Renata Faustina

I DIED DEAD with the "is this whole FUCKING record about Matty Healy?!" ooooooooh WHAT A RIDE... my life will depend on you this month to please decode just a bit of this never ending lore.

Summer Nicole

I was literally dying last night waiting for your reaction video!!

V

A tale of a rat and a turkey. The swiftologist is swift as usual (yes I’m a broken soldier)

Kikki

Yesssss

Autumn

Ahhh I was waiting for this 🤭 thank you!!!

seal ੈ♡‧

i loved your who’s afraid of little old me reaction, when i heard it i was like i need to see zach’s face NOW

Sally Ho

That is swift af boi.

TiffK83

So fun! So fun! Thank you!!

Ana GdeS

Feeling so validated after watching your reaction.

Leslie M

We need to talk about the Kim of it all

Jane Porter

Thank you so much, so excited for the content to come :)

Denise Taylor

I so cannot wait to see your video. I am hoping to leave my client soon, so I can grab Chipotle and listen…. Because omg… the numerous times my jaw hit the floor and I haven’t had time to finish the 2nd album. Mamma had to go to bed and get SOME sleep for today… but O.M.G. ….. been listening to So Long, London and Cassandra on repeat while driving. I am just ksgrifj3846,7839:?;747@@ 🤪

lyrium

lost it when you called it the ratty album after song 1, ur a true professional

T

....And our lives were forever changed

Lain Pierce

Your opening reaction is EXACTLY who I was at 1AM last night!

V

Cassandra was wild. Also thanK you aIMee????????

Burtasaurusrex11

The tattooed golden retriever line confuses me. Does Joe have tattoos? Or was she being metaphorical.

Colby Giles

Pretty sure it’s about matty healy

Leonardo

HOUSE DOWN BOOTSSSS

Burtasaurusrex11

Yeah, has to be. As badly as folks want a roast, this album (at least the original release, haven't listened to delux yet) is very Matty centered.

Burtasaurusrex11

Yeah it has to be. The wedding ring line threw me off, but when I revisited and listened again it makes sense in the Matty context.

Burtasaurusrex11

But Daddy I Love Him was Taylor fully trolling and scolding us. Lmao I love it.

Paula Rahn

I think I was just about as excited for your reaction as I was for TTPD!!!

Jade

“This is in Parseltongue” im dying 😂

Sarah Smith

I claimed Clara Bow & have no regrets 🩶

Jessa Jayne

Clara bow made me cry but I was a little drunk by then your girl was messy boots by the second album

Celina

I never had so much fun watching I reaction!! I laughed and cried sooooo hard! thank you Zach <3

diya

WE ARE BEING FED

Becca

Was anyone else cackling at all the American football references on The Alchemy?! Team, touchdown, winning streak, league, trophy!!! 😂😂✋

Lisa Emerson

But Daddy I love him is about Matty Healey

Lisa Emerson

100% about everyones talk about Matty Healey.

Sara Macc

your reaction to Who's afraid of little old me is the cutest thing ever <3 this made me so happy

McKenzie Yates

There's a lot to love here, but I think this album further proves that she needs to diversify her collaborations outside of Jack. All love and hand hearts tho <3

maryna

in "about you", which is said to be about taylor, matty sings that they got married in their their heads, so i'm getting matty vibes here. a question about the "golden retriever" line: english is not my first language, but could "tattooed" just mean having a registration number tattooed on your ear or something, as dogs often have? that way, the line would be less literal. also, it would give the impression that taylor is the dog's owner/that the person in the song is kind of "tamed" or domesticated. not sure if that makes any sense? i just love this song. it gives classic 80s movie everybody has seen a million times or something like that. i'm obsessed!

Emily J

My question- how does Charlie puth feel about this? I need his reaction

Ari

Loved this, my first video as a Patreon member! My initial standouts were TTPD, Down Bad, But Daddy I Love Him, and Who's Afraid of Little Old Me. Looking forward to your thoughts on the other part/album!

Lisa Emerson

MATTY fucked her up for a moment in time. She's her it but I love the content we got from his moment

McKenzie Yates

the way she confirmed things about herself that the swiftologist and lizard have been saying for forever is the real gag here

Burtasaurusrex11

Yesss the vibes of this song are immaculate. I hadn't thought of that in terms of a dog. In the US that's a bit less common, but they do get a line or dot tattooed on them to show they've been fixed. Or maybe tattooed is just referencing a sense of permenance "like a tattooed kiss".

McKenzie Yates

the way she basically said "what career?" to Charlie via a back-handed compliment is truly unhinged

Shannon

Omg yes, I absolutely cracked up that. Honestly find it kinda cheesy and cringe but oh well, it’s funny 😂

McKenzie Yates

one last yap from me: Charlie's been clinging to relevancy like Taylor on that piano in the Cardigan MV so I am sure he appreciates the shout-out.

Camille Field

This reaction is giving me as much joy as listening to the album(s) for the first time hahaha. Also I 100% clocked that "But Daddy I Love Him" is like Love Story, part II.

Tyler

I felt like the second album completely washed over me, it was an overload. I need to go back later and listen again freshly

Sarah

Omg 💀

Mi ✨

I cannot believe we got a primarily ratty album… I thought we were cooking a turkey but instead she skinned a rat. I am gagged. But the album is so good and the second drop still has me shell shocked … and roasting Kim too… I need 3-5 weeks to process what had happened to me in the span of listening to this for the first time. What a ride.

Lily Lewis

joe didn't have the type writer- it was Matty. I wish it was the turkey, but the rat got the cheese of this album fmlll

Celina

Broke out in full tears because it was so funny and than the overwhelming feeling of being blessed living in the same time as Taylor Swift 😭

Cassandra Blalock

I waited up for hours just to hear this hot take. Tysm! I live for your perspective. This album slayed me. Not to use a football reference but seems topical…she left it all on the field for sure

Ivan Cervera

Why does the first line of ttpd remind me of “u took my sadness out of context at the mariners apartment complext”

Becca

Very true...but it was hilarious 😂 I like how it was subtle but also completely not 😂

EverNora

I missed unhinged Taylor so much!! I needed your reaction to this and it did not disappoint.

Kylee

Down Bad truther 🖖 BEST/WEIRDEST song I’ve ever heard. I NEED IT. But Daddy I love Him was my dark horse Matty of it all…..GIRL. I knew it. 🥲 I’ve listened to it more times than I can count at this point, and I’ve broken down (happy/sad/relief tears) every time she goes off at the climax. They said Speak Up now, she said I’m having his baby 🤫 I know we haven’t officially gotten to this point, but I have a note on So High School. So I’m exactly 2 years apart in age from Taylor (also born in Dec), and so we would have been in high school at the same time. Let me tell you, the references are heavy. She literally captured what it felt like to be in high school when we were that age, even down to the music. She references American Pie in the song, and it makes sense. This song could have been on that soundtrack, or any teen rom com at the time; but even before I heard that lyric, my initial impression was ‘oh, this would have been on the Varsity Blues soundtrack.’ I can’t tell you the joyous nostalgia this song brings me.

Kylee

💀

Andrea

who’s afraid of little old me is the most unhinged thing she’s ever written, a masterpiece tbh

Cayla Daniels

I just need a safe place to process But Daddy I Love Him. As someone that was raised extremely Christian, got married and divorced young, then re-married the complete and total opposite of what anybody expected (10 years going strong)…I just feel so seen by this song. I literally do not care about the MH angle. This is Love Story grown up and I’m here for it. It’s so layered and nuanced, and I think something so many can relate to.

Kylee

Ok, one more random note. So, I started dating a guy around the same time she started dating Joe, and we broke up in 2022. When you’ve been with someone for that long, and then suddenly you’re in your thirties and that person is no longer your end game, lines like ‘And I’m pissed off you let me give you all that youth for free’ hit different. 😭

Jessa Jayne

I’m writing an article about But Daddy I love him and speakupnow bc she firmly slapped us all on the wrist

Lain Pierce

I am a brand new Swiftie and this is my first album drop. Because of going down the lore rabbit hole, I had specific expectations of this album that are not materializing. If this is 2 hours of Matt Healy is the love of my life, I cannot stay on earth.

Sophie Kimble

Guilty as sin down bad 🖤🤍🖤🤍

Amanda

This whole album has me gobsmacked!! And I haven't even listened to the 2nd part of it yet 🤣

maryna

same! i only listened to the black dog more than once, that's it. it's too much! 😱

Krie

I need more!!! Social media is making me crazy. I have to stop fighting with crazy ppl

Joseph Michael

Love the lyrical journey. Still processing the record. Going to listen to Part Deux on the way home from work. So far I LOVE 4-5 songs and the rest are ok.

Betty O

I think she and Matty had a strong attraction years ago and finally acted on it after Jover. There was something real there, obviously. Also, writing so many songs about MH is bound to get to Joe, so there's that- it bothered him when he first heard about them I remember.

Shannon

Absolute divas, both of them 🙌🏼

V

If I was Kim and I saw the title ThanK you aIMee I would actually be so afraid. I’m serious. That is zodiac killer behavior. It’s giving the letter Jack the Ripper wrote to the cops

Lain Pierce

That is what is hooking me into the album.

BrieAnna Older

Tell me why I had no idea that Ratty Healy was going to be playing such a big role here. Hate him... but the beats are good.

Kylee

It’s crazy that she talks about Kim’s kids because I actually had this thought recently with the tour. If you think about who Kim’s kids are, the privileges they have, then you know that they probably were wondering why they weren’t able to attend the biggest concert of all time… I could care less about the Kardashians, but I need to know how they address/talk about the most famous woman in that household, and why they don’t have access.

Kylee

Down Bad Truther 🖖 👽

Andrea

no fr i would be scared for my life 💀

Kylee

This is such a relatable sentiment for those of us who have dated the bad boy, or the person that family/friends didn’t approve of….been there! 😅

Melody P

These songs make me hurt so much for Taylor :(

Melody P

I don't care what people think of Travis, I'm just so glad he's bringing her joy after the pain of her past relationships.

Edi

Currently 5am in Australia & I can’t sleep due to chronic illness. This is the best surprise early drop

Tspd7

we needed a glitter pen song in that album. and we got 2!

GW

This is my favourite Taylor album in years, I think I’ve listened to it five times fully and it’s instantly become my favourite album behind fearless

GW

I’m actually so buzzing by this album, it’s exactly what I’ve always wanted her to make

Krystal Salazar

I was so excited for this reaction I screeched when it popped up on YT! I can't wait for part 2.

Kylee

If ‘All my mornings are Mondays stuck in an endless February’ isn’t the most relatable line…Shakespeare who?

Emily M

im GAGGED. she totally wrote ‘but daddy I love him’ at the same time as giving that whole speech about how she’s the happiest she’s ever been it’s the same level of delusion LMAO

dmarie

Is Taylor in her mentally ill era??

LH

love this video to pieces! I agree with most of these interpretations 100,but to me it feels like she really put Joe mostly to rest on the last two or three albums, and this is a cathartic remark on a renaissance of a life. She tore everything down and opened her heart back up. That kind of time can feel absolutely technicolor and messy. Can’t wait for more reactions!

V

Florida!!! Is my Shake it Off. Shake it off walked so Florida!!! Could run. Story is shake it off but with a little sprinkle of zodiac killer fleeing the crime scene to Florida to eat key lime pie and live their best life

Kylee

Welfare check on our Lady Lizard? 🦎😁

Lewis

Absolutely! Where is our LIZARD?!?! Did you survive ‘But Daddy I Love Him’?! 😭😭😭

Zabeth Pratt

Can't wait for part 2, reranking of the songs, and reaction to the music videos. I have a feeling deep diving in to this album is going to be quite an adventure!

speedyceviche

eyes on swiftologist, now i just need eyes on the lizard to be sure we all survived

Tspd7

before listening i got myself so anxious over the album that the first like 5 songs i did not register a single thing, like generally no thoughts. and then i got drunk and loosened up, and now im breaking my silence saying NO SKIPs.

Tyler

Why is nobody talking about the me he he in the background in the last 30 seconds of Fortnight, I thought I was insane I needed friends to confirm

dmarie

loml… when you said being conned… forever is the sweetest con!! Maybe her and Joe were both cowboys

Kylee

YESSSSS I caught that too! I completely forgot about that after listening to the rest of the album.

Stav

So much to dissect. So much content. 2 am album ended me.

Kylee

I need to know if Chester survived But Daddy I Love Him! Also I need to know if she breaks down crying every time she hears ‘I’ll tell you something right now’ because I still haven’t been able to finish this damn song with dry eyes. My girl Madeline knows what’s up 😭😆

Kelly Prang

Golden retrievers are like the typical "perfect" dog- super friendly, good with kids, not super loud barkers, etc. I think Taylor is contrasting his appearance (tattoed) with what she seems to think his nature is (sweet, loyal, friendly- like a golden retriever) I am not saying that Matty is those things, but he may act that way around Taylor?

Epponnee-Rae

Some of the vibe feels very Twin Peaks. I love it!!

sam

someone said the “I’m so miserable, and no one even knows!” in I Can Do It With A Broken Heart has the same tone and inflection as “I’m Taylor, and welcome to the eras tour!” and I can’t unsee it.

Katieelyssa

Yessss I was wondering how we get to see her reactions too! I can’t remember haha

Colleen O'Regan

I was so excited to hear your review of this album! I listened to all 31 and made a more compact playlist of my top 13 for right now. It's a lot to sift through. I rarely comment. I'm just enjoying the brand new songs with everyone else.

Joan Chan

My TTPD experience wasn’t complete until I had the Swiftologist reaction! I cackled with glee at so many parts of this video!!

Kylee

She needs a little more time to process, we are thinking reactions will be posted tomorrow, I believe here? Can someone confirm?

V

Imgonnagetyouback had the same double meaning and wordplay as get him back! By Olivia. Great minds think alike, that makes me wish they were friends. I’m gagged by Taylor feeling some type of way about Olivia bc I feel like it’s just demons, it’s not like Olivia is any real threat to Taylor

sienna🕊

loved ur reaction, im at the edge of my seat waiting to hear madeline’s thoughts as well lol

Ann thea

Who’s afraid of little old me? Is such a good song! I can picture Taylor like a phantom leaving the gallows to terrorize her haters in the industry. Like a horror film 👻( giving me scooter vibes)

V

Oh and the end of Clara Bow which clearly referenced Olivia, reminded me of the ending of Lacy by the latter. It felt hopeful, like Taylor was admitting why Olivia bothers her, and complementing her that her future is bright. When Taylor had written imgonnagethimback (I’m sure she wrote hers first) and heard get him back! By Olivia that must’ve been endearing to her in some way. I’m hoping for a reconciliation

Kelly Prang

For some reason she really sounds like Miley as Hannah Montana when she says-" I'm miserable- and no one even knows it. Try and come for my job"

V

Even the “you’ve got edge she never did” could also be a double meaning of Taylor saying that to Olivia after she wanted credit for her songs, that actually you’re okay and you’ve got something I didn’t, you’re your own person and I didn’t mean to take away from that.

My Name Is Jose

Hi yall, im new here. Where can I join the discord?

Hugh Gatchell

You need to connect patreon to your discord account. Then it will show up automatically.

Kelly

It’s giving “every morning I glared at you with storms in my eyes” !!

Brandilyn Binstock

I find it odd that taylor’s song “imgonnagetyouback” has the same theme as Olivia’s “I’m gonna get him back”. Does anyone have insight on this? Both are a play on the dichotomy of getting someone back.

Stav

Among lyrics, and all the tortured poetry we have to discuss, I'm DYING to talk about the Fortnight music video - ZACH WE MUST DISCUSS I GOTTA HEAR FROM YOU AND MADELINE ON IT

Jocelyn

Can’t wait for the unedited!!

Starbuck1234!

Zach what an album and what a reaction. Clara Bow was my pick, loved the ending as it ended “you look like Taylor Swift, you have an edge she never did” … hello? And, I also love the line I think from who’s afraid of little old me (I could be wrong) about they say I’ll sue you if you walk on my lawn, because I’m evil and a beast. Hello? And, I loved how she called out the critics and fair-weather fans and basically said “it’s my life, my choices, and stay out of my personal life”.

dmarie

So for Clara Bow, did anyone else feel this way. I felt that Taylor was saying fame is horrible, and when she tells Olivia or whoever at the end that the future is dazzling, she is saying it sarcastically, like they will tell you the future is great you’re so much like X famous past legend, but Taylor is saying, yeah, it’s not true, it’s hell on Earth. Kind of warning the new stars.

dmarie

I thought the line about the future being dazzling was sarcastic and disenchanted

Tasha

Reddit is going mad re-thinking a bunch of FolkMore songs in the light of the Rat revelations (The 1, Cardigan, Illicit Affairs Gold Rush, Ivy, RWYLM are all getting mentions). Would love a video with your thoughts on this.

Michael Keller

Disagree on February being the worst month of the year. At least from my perspective living in the midwest in the US, the worst month is January, no contest. I fucking HATE January.

maryna

my instant reaction to this album is overwhelmingly positive. songs such as but daddy i love him and who's afraid of little old me are so well written and executed. the smallest man who ever lived is the most concerned i have been for her in terms of mental health. but will the contents of the songs stand the test of time? most of it does not stand on its own and is only understandable for someone who follows her life. which - unlike what we on here think- not everybody does. without the context of her life a song such as who's afraid of little old me is just not understandable. so i'm a bit worried about that. and on the other hand i think that context-free taylor is dead. there cannot be a context-free taylor because of her stardom and the things happening to hear because of it. this is kind of scary, i think. maybe i'm being overdramatic right now and i have not sat with ttpd for long enough, but it feels like taylor is truly "trapped" in her stardom.

Sandra

the way it only took Zach 5 seconds to realize this album was mainly about rat boy and it took Madeline 3 business days LOL my favorite

Aleesha Hunter

It’s such a joy to watch you in these reaction videos Zack - I know it’s A LOT on your end, but please know how grateful I am that you do it! 🫶

Tracy Erin

Defer to the Swiftologist's remarks about Taylor's best work coming from times like these.

maryna

i find this so, so weird as well...

LILA

the way you and Madeline both said 'this isn't a joke, this is my life.' that is a main feeling for this album

LILA

she said she needed 3 business days to process after all lmao

Lain Pierce

Oh I agree that the work is good. I was just looking for something specific. I'm over myself now.

Brandilyn Binstock

I find is so bizarre that this happened. Sometimes I notice Taylor being inspired by others a little too closely. Her poem during the eras tour is a shade of what LDR has in the beginning and end of her Ride music video. Also her karma music video with ice spice has similar theme and aesthetic to Doja’s music video for kiss me more. I feel like Taylor’s other content is so original, she doesn’t need those mimics. Throw it out.

Jelousyje

The prophecy is such a revealing song to me about her currently state of mind, why she needs to be in a relationship so bad. wich in my opinion always leads to her accepting the first man that shows her the bare minimum of affection

CyrusNomadix

MBOBHFT sounds awfully like "Team" by Lorde I hear some CIWYW before the first verse of So Long, London. She's never dating a Brit again

Cynthia

I just relistened to Zack's Matty recap Zack recently posted and WOW-- I cannot wait for Zack and Madeline to dive into TTPD-- and Madeline's Lizard Review of the album is absolutely mind blowing too. Madeline really nails it when she discusses that Matty is a really good writer, a bad boy, an artist, a musician and many women are passionately attracted to very edgy men (especially another artist ) ...because it is triggering and unleashes parts of ourselves that maybe we rarely feel.... can't wait for more analyses by the snakes!!!!

Starbuck1234!

One more question for you snakes to think about. I really think most of this part 1 is about matty, even the opening track. Even, imo, loml. Momentary (her relationship with Joe was not momentary), go from one kiss to getting married (it took joe 6 yrs), what’s going to stop us from waltzing into old flames (Matty is an old flame), make-love quick schemes (took Joe 6 yrs), loml a million times (Matty love-bombed her). Anyway, imo most of these songs are about Matty, do you think the best way to diss the turkey is to make him think you are writing an entire breakup album about the 6yr relationship but really the turkey got next to nothing, and its all about how heartbroken she is about Matty instead?? lol. I think thats a bigger insult than any tea she could have written about the turkey.

Jessa Jayne

So my non swifty husband was in the room with me watching this and has started saying nope up good up good whenever I’m getting sad.

Hannah Landry

Who’s afraid of little old me is my psycho song. It’s living in every waking thought of my days and I’ll never be the same again. And down bad really does hit at the gym

BananaCassandra

I thought the same thing! Thinking, Joe’s had to listen to how many songs about Matty to get to one song that’s maybe about him?! 😂

Mia

When she sings the line "If you know it in one glimpse, it's legendary" in loml it sounds so much like white horse 🥹 my heart cried

Julia Scott

This is much fun watching in March 2026!

Hanna

Rewatching this for the 2 year anniversary!

Muni

Ok, watching your reaction is extremely validating for me because when I first listened to this album, I also thought it was mostly about Joe. Then later that day, I went on the internet and felt embarrassed

Summer Kelly

Rewatching to feel something

Summer Kelly

Holy shit your reaction to but daddy I love him was everything 😂😂😂 I hope I get a gagged Swiftologist reaction soon 🥲🥲🥲 we’re in a drought