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Tortured Poets Anthology Reaction (Patreon)

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2024-04-20 12:27:43
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2026-06

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Part 2 …. Enjoy !!

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REACTION: Taylor Swift - Tortured Poets Department, The Anthology ... EVERMORE THE RE-UP? 🤍Part 2🤍

this is PART TWO of my tortured poets departmnet resction!!! In this video I’m listening to the 15 trscks on ‘The Anthology’ surprise dropped after the standsrd edition! make sure to check out part 1 first…. And head over to the patreon for an unedited version of this and all my reactions! TTPD REACTION PART 1: https://youtu.be/pc1YJ7ftfWQ my other videos you need to watch as a primer: https://youtu.be/7F9OVIF1t38?si=nU03fBpQlTn8h-Fc https://youtu.be/dK6fMj_VaY0?si=ZHnH74VkVm4uBLMz https://youtu.be/RYv-GyePdgI?si=vY5Pnlg9sJ1wznu_ https://youtu.be/y0SCSxFRcr8?si=osuX8g_mLBxo9WRW https://youtu.be/aGqSHUttD18?si=6NIhXxpbp5M_MYqw Don't be a stranger! 📸 INSTAGRAM: https://bit.ly/3RKOF5u 💻 TWITCH: https://shorturl.at/fxW39 📹 TIKTOK: https://shorturl.at/buzG3 💰 PATREON: https://shorturl.at/uILT3 🎙️ MY TAYLOR SWIFT PODCAST: https://spoti.fi/3U1pu06 📸 PODCAST INSTAGRAM: https://bit.ly/3QDNt2x 💌 EMAIL: zachary@fwbtalent.com

Comments

Yasmin

YESSSSSSS

Christine

I LOVE the Anthology more than the original album'!

Ann thea

I am so excited! The ablum itself is amazing but sharing it with people through discussions about the art adds so much more to the experience. Plus the humour is so delicious 🦃🐀Thank you!

Megan 🫶🏻

YASSS FINALLY BOOTS ON THE GROUND REACTION

V

Zach I worship the ground you walk on!

Abby

I hate it here is so special to me too… one of my faves

LH

You want a Maserati ? You better WORK bi$h!

Joan Chan

Zachary you have such a talent for analysis - the fact that these are your immediate first reactions and you’re so thoughtfully articulating on themes is incredible and such a pleasure to watch!

Forty2times

Comparing herself to Cassandra of Troy was both melodramatic and gloriously poetic 💋

Mi ✨

Zack 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 thank you for your service! The line about the turkey on the farm is a definite highlight for me 😂 I personally loved both parts of the album for different reasons (and it almost feels like two different albums to me), but it really was so much material all at once, I felt like I had whiplash after listening all the way through yesterday… it took me like 5 hours with looking at lyrics and pauses, I need a vacation after this. It almost feels like a portion of The Anthology was what Aaron and Taylor were working on prior to Midnights maybe? (we know the album had a different direction and basically became a completely different thing in the span of two weeks in December 2021). Because it feels like it should come between Evermore and Midnights just in terms of storytelling and production. I’ll probably feel differently though once I’ve had time to really comprehend what these songs are and have listened to them enough. Anyways, I am just gagged, seated, fed and need a lot of time to digest and analyse everything that she has dumped on us.

Roxy

Is anyone else worried about the hospital references and nods to death?

The Black Dog

Zach, please, oh please, god please, you have to do what you promised. Witness retrospective. I am not hater of Katy Perry but I have been dying to hear deep and insightful analysis on how one of the biggest pop superstars drove into oblivion. Only you can do justice. When you have time. 🙏

Sydney Shepard

As the Lizard said....Mr. Desner, oh I'm ready to give you a big old kiss with tongue because the work that he and Taylor did on this album should be in a museum

Syd

Personally, I interpret Robin to be about healing her inner child. Going through the biggest breakup of her life straight to the wake-up call, the hangover of a “miracle make-up” drug was earth-shattering. She felt diminutive, powerless to her own bad decisions and impulses like a kid learning love all over again. The song feels to me like she is creating a space of gentleness for herself that no one else can provide, returning back to a far more realized and complete version of her former starry eyed self. Like the old therapy trick of conversing with your younger self from the sanctitude you’ve created for your past lives in the now. She is encouraging that pure presence to bravely make itself known again. Her capacity to love and create is ultimately her greatest strength, and has kept her safe in one way or another through everything, she is embracing its beautiful high highs and low lows, with a greater feeling of control over the outcome moving forward… “Way to go, Tiger.” The transition of that sentiment into The Manuscript, finally ending the chapters of the precocious kid who never fully grew up and unfurling a new legacy ; a story starring a more intentional, emotionally independent, at-peace inner character that born from the deepest hurts and most personal mistakes. No more barbed wire of Reputation, no more pseudo-psychosis of Lover, deeply veiled fiction of Folkmore, no confused sleepless Midnights. These two songs to me work in tandem, evoking the younger and the older selves, meeting up again for the first time in a while as a book is closed and you let the story sink in. (Didn’t mean for that to turn into a Ted Talk but I have feelings and am sleep deprived 😂)

Nik

I wonder if there’s a 🛴connection in Cassandra too. Especially with the rumors last year of him falling out with his clients like Bieber and Ariana (who stood by him during the masters situation)

Amy Versprille

Sad day to be named Amy! My daughter is Emma and gets a cute little love song and I get a song where Andrea wants me dead and Taylor is saying fuck me! I am dead! After all I have done Taylor!! 😂 ❤️💀

Leslie M

We're going to be unpacking this for months

Syd

Thank you! I’m glad it resonated with you! 🤍🤍🤍

T

And now we have to unpack ts 8,9, and 10 again as well....

Leslie M

An excellent day to be a sister of an Amy 😆

Lala

I don’t know if it’s just a millennial who went through an emo phase thing but I just took it as her being super dramatic. I’m the same age as Taylor and I notice a lot of us use phrases like wanting to die when it comes to the most minor inconveniences and we all loved hospital imagery in songs and poetry and AIM away messages. This felt a lot like that to me.

K

Definitely heard the Scooter reference! Seems even more potent in the light of everything that has happened with his artists in the last year.

caroline

Part of me really wishes Taylor’s imgonnagetyouback is giving Olivia Rodrigo a chance to claim royalties on get him back! but I know deep down it isn’t…

speedyceviche

That kinda makes sense, like its the dreamworld she escapes to when reality becomes too much... it seems it pretty much was where she lived all through folklore-evermore or the pandemic.

Pat

Peter is giving me Haylor vibes. Maybe they reconnected at some point after the breakup and he needed some growing up to do then they were gonna give it another shot. And she waited and it never happened and the fantasy's shelf life expired

Raphaëlle

And Cassandra following The Prophecy in the tracklist? Chef’s kiss 😘

Forty2times

I didn't put that together! Delicious

DAVIDxINFINITY

Wildest dreams AHHH 😭😭😭💀

Chas

I loved this album SO much more than the first album of TTPD. She really said, evermore 2.0 🥲🍁

Joey Caleb

this has been so fun 🤍🖤 grateful to have your videos

Joey Caleb

So excited to hear you and Madeline come together!

Jessa Jayne

I was scrolling to see if someone had mentioned who Cassandra is bc I don’t want to over post something already addressed

Stav

What an inredible analysis! Same! This was my interpretation too. The younger and older selves meeting up again for the first time as an integrated adult is the best way to end the tortured poets department.

Kylee

The funniest thing I’ve seen on tik tok were these two girls losing their shit when she says Sarahs and Hannahs and it’s captioned ‘best day of our lives hearing her say our names blah blah blah’ but in the context of the song….? I would not have been feeling the same if she said Kylee hahah I will say, they fit the description perfectly. Not to Swiftie stereotype, but these two are definitely clutching their pearls at the sight of ratty 💀

Heather

these reactions are almost as anticipated as the album itself for me lol

Olivia Donovan

I hate it here is my number one. It is so incredibly tragic and relatable

Christmasham

I'm autistic and 'I hate it here' screams autism. Feels so much like how I experience life.

Kylee

the fact that she could be addressing Kim without Kayne, is very poignant for me. I think as marginalized people, there is always this thing as women that make situations like this hurt even more, knowing that another woman participated. As a ‘woman,’ what Kim did was so fucked up, for reasons that I don’t think I even have to list here. It also feels like a bigger slight to Kayne that he’s so insignificant and incapable of rehabilitation that she doesn’t even need to waste her time with it 💀

Aleesha Hunter

Except I am now forced to second-guess if all my Harry vibes through the years are actually Matty vibes!!? 😱 I mean, not “Question…?” 😭

Zach V

I think it’s about Matty. He’s referred to himself as ‘Peter Pan ish’ before. Which means that cardigan is possibly about Matty as well.

Jelousyje

I agree to this so much, she literally says in suburban legends "when you told me we'd get back together"

Zach V

Ive seen people talking about question and The 1 possibly being about Matty. Someone said that they think the song is stylized with the number because the band is ‘the 1975’. And that she added it to the set because she was getting together with Matty.

maryna

looking forward to the next podcast episode! 😃

Lisaboo

Not one of my favourite songs about MATTY HEALY……no.

maryna

is it holy ground then? 😃

Aleesha Hunter

When even you are compelled to admit that there’s a time and place to miss the turkey and not just cook him 😂 well done Mz Swift! 😇

Nicky Lynch

Plus…link to Peter and Wendy reference on Cardigan does suggest Matty. But again, things can be composites of feelings from different times/relationships.

Nicky Lynch

I’m glad you liked black dog- I LOVED it. The standout for me from this album.

Joseph Michael

I just love this record. First listen I wasn’t sure but I think these songs are a treasure. The second record isn’t as strong as the first but still some great songs. Guilty as Sin and My Boy Breaks are my favorites. Also love Fortnight and TPD. Lyrics and imagery are very strong. Strong and mature record. ❤️

Zach V

Zach I would love to hear your opinion on the Matty of it all, again now that we have TTPD. She makes multiple references to other songs that could possibly be about him. Question, cardigan. Some people are even going as far to say that DWOHT and DBATC are about him too and that maybe she had written about their 2014 fling. Not that any of this is fact but I always love to hear your opinions!

Tasha

I saw on tumblr that FKA Twigs and Matty used to leave near Taylor and Joe during the pandemic. But that’s not on here

Tasha

This is it. Also Peter Losing Wendy from Cardigan. It appears that it was the rat who was the one who got away all along.

Starbuck1234!

Absolutely incredible, a phenomenal album and reaction. Instant F***ing classic! I have 2 topics for you & Madeline to think about: 1. Clara Bow. A song about the music industry and how they get the next “it” girl and Taylor’s career. Do you think that maybe they told Stevie that she looked like Clara Bow? And then maybe they told Taylor that she looked like Stevie Nicks in ‘75? And of course that would fit if the next “it” girl is told she looks like Taylor Swift,…. Dazzling. Do you think it’s possible that is the link here to Clara Bow and not that she had mental health issues? 2. Stevie Nicks appears (also in the LA pop up) to write the prequel to the album with an introductory poem. Taylor ends the album with a summation poem. Stevie’s poem is to Taylor and given to her Sept 13 2023 (same day as the VMA 2009). She writes that present day “he” (joe) looked into his past and was frightened of a life with Taylor. BUT, switches it, and says that Taylor’s FUTURE SELF will look back on this present day in tears. I believe she means a life of marriage and children which Taylor mentions a lot on this album. Stevie made the decision to not have a family. But it’s clear by this album something that Taylor was thinking about with Joe and Matty. How do you interpret this future self looking back at today phrase by Stevie to Taylor, and the “life I gave away” now means something a little different than in Midnight Rain when she was young and an entire life ahead of her. NOw, she said she can’t get that time back. How do you interpret that?

V

I’ve officially decided that my fave is The Albatross. Who would’ve thought? Not me

Erin S

“I Look In People’s Windows” sounds to me like Taylor cyberstalking people to see if other certain someone(s) are showing up in the pics… without her.

V

That thing about the 1 being stylized is insane. I can’t even begin to process. Forever changed the song for me

Aleesha Hunter

Currently daydreaming about the future eras show when rep tv is announced followed by Taylor launching into an acoustic “thanK you aIMee”!!! 🙌 🐍 🖤

WhiteWalker68

I'm wondering why The Prophecy starts with an echo from So High School, a Travis coded song. In So High School she uses what I think is one of Travis' descriptions of going strong into a relationship "Full throttle" (I think it's a direct Travis quote). Then, in a song after So High School in the tracklist (like maybe after she's thought about it some more, explored it) she starts The Prophecy with 'hand on the throttle/thought I caught lightning in a bottle/Oh, but it's gone again'. Coincidence? Or...are we getting the first hint of cracks? Taylor brings so much to a relationship, so much of herself, but also her reputation, her fame, her money, her lifestyle etc. Isn't that part of the the curse? That she really wants someone who 'likes me for me' not someone who likes her for what dating her can do for him. Is she maybe starting to think does this guy want something else from me? Maybe I'm drawing too long a bow on this (it's one line) but Taylor does love hiding little clues in plain sight. Any thoughts?

V

I hadn’t thought of those lyrics but makes sense! I’m actually so convinced that you’re right now, like why did she use that same word in both songs? And never before or since. I definitely raised my eyebrow a bit when I heard so high school again yesterday though. Just bc I was like… is it really a compliment to say that he knows how to ball and she’s more educated than him?😂 Like I get that it’s supposed to be cute, but I’ve listened to Taylor literally since debut so it did make me wonder. And the fact that if I was Travis and had been called immature for a long time by my dad and the media, and then my gf wrote a song about me called “so high school” about feeling like we were in HS, idk… I’d maybe sense trouble in paradise😅 especially bc she says I feel so high school when I look at you BUT look at you. That makes it sound not just like a compliment. But that’s just my take I could be totally wrong. I always doubted T&T would end up together, and I pray Taylor finds someone with all the passion she craves but who is truly passionate, not someone who pretends and turns it on and off like Matty.

Jede Král

I do think Travis probably inspired her to use "throttle" in this context so it's likely The Prophecy was written after she met him. But rather than an indication of some real trouble in their relationship, it might be just Taylor being anxious and wondering whether it really could work out for her this time around or if she's cursed in some way. I think the first line of The Prophecy more likely refers to one of her past relationships (Joe or Matty, whatever) into which she also went with her hand fully on the throttle thinking it was her "happy ending" and it wasn't. She's afraid of the same thing happening with Travis.

WhiteWalker68

I always got the impression Taylor was aware of the older meaning of "ball" which is to have sex. So saying 'you know how to ball' is a continuation of the 'no one's ever had me, not like you' line elsewhere in the song. It's all a big boost for his male ego - oh Trav you're such a man! Not a surprise - I'm guessing that fits really well with how he see's himself, and Taylor is brilliant at 'decoding' people. I agree though, that to say that a relationship is 'so High School' isn't always a compliment - I guess Taylor's talking about her feelings more than anything else. Being with Travis makes her feel like she felt back in High School, having to hide the more intimate moments of having a boyfriiend etc. The thrill & surprise of it all, after a boring long relationship and a heartbreaking short one. Travis is the anti-Joe & anti-Matty in so many ways.

V

Yeah I hadn’t thought of that! Maybe I look at it from too much of a Birds Eye view, as a spectator. Bc I just got the vibe that even if she is talking about her feelings, that it still felt a bit shady considering his history etc to name it so high school🤣🤣 but again could just be me projecting my thoughts onto it haha. Maybe it’s also that it was a stark contrast to some of her other more classically romantic love songs. Like how she wrote enchanted for Adam in owl city after talking to him once🤣 Maybe Travis wouldn’t want a song like Enchanted written about him🤣

Pat

Fair points for ratty and i will concede it's likely a case of amalgamuse. However i will leave these here: A natural scene stealer? I've heard great things, Peter But life was always easier on you Than it was on me You went to a party, l heard from everybody You part the crowd like the Red Sea, don't even get me started I'll pay the price, you won't

samsolace

I believe that this teasing happy song (so high school) is about how it feels to recover a piece of fun youth she thought was long gone. It doesn’t feel dire or dour or worried. I find myself trusting both of them to conduct themselves in a fun, loving, understanding way as that is all they’ve shown me. Taylor has asked us to bow out on another ttpd song, so I’m going to do that now while I go enjoy another long listen.