THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT DEEP DIVE: analysis & easter eggs of Taylor Swift's latest album ☕️🪶
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
- Welcome to our first breakdown of The Tortured Poets Department by Taylor Swift!! Today I am diving deep into this album, the lyrical parallels, hidden references, easter eggs and metaphors in Fortnight, The Tortured Poets Department, My Boy Only Breaks His Favourite Toys, Down Bad, So Long London, But Daddy I Love Him, Fresh Out The Slammer and Florida!!! I love exploring Taylor's songwriting from an analytical perspective, squeezing the juice out of these tracks to find all the potential hidden meanings, and I can't wait to read all of your insights in the comments. Don't forget to enter the international TTPD giveaway!! Thank you guys for being as excited about music as I am 🥹
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An hour (and a half) long Ally Sheehan video! You have made my day. Would love to see an Anthology video too. 🇦🇺
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My name is bridget manzoor and my fave lyric is the whole of but daddy i love him, or the whole bit about vipers dressed in empaths clothing! love this video girl!!!
We need a part 2 to this!!
I'm not sure but I think my comment was automatically removed for including my IG handle 😅
Use it as "I want the Anthology video, pretty please" button 🔘
YES
pretty pretty please allyyyy
Please, please, please....
@@singingwithbeccaSabrina carpenter reference??
Yessss
I love watching her deep dives because they make me feel so much smarter even though I didn't do anything 😭😭
Omg same, and then I tell all my friends about it like it was me who said it first 😭😭
@@edithgissurardottir no cause frrr. I’ll tell them some random lore and feel like the biggest swiftie ever 😭😭
And then I take her analysis away and tell people at work like it’s my own original thoughts 💀 I’m sorry it’s just so good
I have an exam tomorrow but Ally is important!❤❤
@@tayluvofficial good luck!!
“Is it a wonder I broke? Let's hear one more joke, Then we could all just laugh until I cry”, is absolutely THE most devastating lyric ever written. As person who’s always been told that I’m sensitive and cant a joke that line still haunts me
ME TOO
oof yep I feel that
Ugh, I feel ya. Being an autistic man in a toxic hypermasculine culture with a love for banter and double entendres, can really take a toll on self-confidence and mental health. Paranoia is constant: are they just teasing lightheartedly, maliciously making fun, or being completely serious? Or just pretending to do so?
No wonder I broke, but joke away... or don't. Imposible to know.
Shout-out to my psychiatrist, he saved me from certain doom 😂
"it was legendary, it was momentary, it was unecessary, should've let it stay buried" really hits me like a train, especially the way she sings "let it stay buried", chills.
Same 😢
No I really like the second line: “oh what a valuent raw, what a bland goodbye, the coward claimed he was a lion.”
Reminds me of when I went back to a relationship I should not have returned to. Very real.
“In my defense I had none… for digging up the grave another time…”
@@username_creates6991 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼
I really like the line “a greater woman wouldn’t beg but I look to the sky said said please”
I don’t want to enter the giveaway i just wanted to say my fav line 😊
"you swore that you loved me, but where were the clues" actually gives me chills, because it reminds me of the bridge of Mastermind. It almost feels like Taylor has been so obsessed with little cryptic messages, that her fans expect from her, to the point that they have affected her personal life. She looks around waiting for a clue from her partner that she can decode, something to give her hope that the relationship isn't over, but the clue never comes.
WOAH
I think she’s just saying he said he loved her but never showed her. Never made an effort. Words mean nothing if there is no action behind it
@@whitneyhendrix8075 that too!
Love this!
Omg yes so long London is my favorite song in this album!!
"i hate it here so i will go to secret gardens in my mind" this song hit me so personally and devastatingly especially with the mention of "precocious child" and that being the start of this coping mechanism of detaching yourself from the now and going places in your head that you would much rather be. her mashup of this with the lakes (probably my other top favorite song) was a deeply personal blow
I tie it to “the lakes” as the secret garden
My favorite lyric from ttpd is "I would've died for your sins, instead I just died inside" from tsmwel basically the whole bridge. the first time I heard this lyric, I knew it was the best bridge to ever exist. It has so much emotion and beautiful lyricism. (Also, I would love the anthology deep dive would be amazing)
in so long london “and im just getting color back into my face, im just mad as hell cause i loved this place” gives me chills every time and it felt very targeted
“Dancing phantoms on the terrace, are they secondhand embarrassed that I can’t get out of bed, cause something counterfeit’s dead?” Crushed me so beautifully. I love how Taylor strings words together. As a writer, I would love to pick Taylor’s brain.
I'm still getting over a year long situationship that ended at Xmas, and that line gets me literally every time 💔
She used the "counterfeit" before, in Glitch:
I think there's been a glitch
Five seconds later, I'm fastening myself to you with a stitch
And I'm not even sorry
Nights are so starry, blood moonlit
It must be counterfeit
I think there's been a glitch
My favorite lyric in the entire album. Love it!
I find that line especially interesting because there's pretty famous photos out there of the (Harkness) ballerinas practicing on the terrace of Holiday House
I've never been in a relationship but loml destroyed me. I cried the whole time, that's my favorite lyric too.
"It was legendary, it was momentary, it was unecessary, should've let it stay buried"
From loml with the paralel from the 1:
" In my defense i have none, for digging up the grave another time".
From dreaming about "the one that got away" who had the potential of being the love of your life to just being crushed with the hard reality of this person that should've stayed in the past. It just breaks my heart💔
"Pick your poison, babe, cause I'm poison either way" is so depressing and yet i scream it so loud everytime in the end of that bridge.
this line reminds me of Dont Blame Me when she says "i once was poison ivy but now i am your daisy." it sounds like she thought she was loved and felt pretty with joe but having that relationship fail made her feel like poison again or unwanted
AN HOUR AND A HALF OF ALLY X THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT?!?! we are being FED!!! thank you ally!!!
"My beloved ghost and me sitting in a tree D-I-Y-N-G." Such a sad sentence. It gets me every time
me too
I feel so seen by the lyric "Once I fix me, he's gonna miss me" !!
"You sacrificed us to the gods of your bluest days" is my favourite lyric. The way she sings it makes me tear up every single time!
the fact that Taylor can come up with Easter eggs so quickly (Like the Story of us book) amazes me, people talk about how genius her lyrics are but she needs more recognition for constantly linking her new music back to her roots and acknowledging the history of her music.
true, agreed. but the US written on the book is more likely an Easter egg for her new song with Gracie Abrams called Us. she speaks about it briefly in that behind the scenes video of the music video.
it's probably an easy egg for both though, I mean, it can be for both if we want. especially bcuz the music video for story of us has papers flying around, right?
I think the Easter egg of Us was referencing her song with Gracie Abrams (or it could be both meanings, also possible)
I think it’s likely a reference to her collaboration with Gracie Abrams us. but she knew we would take it as a reference to the Story of Us, so it’s likely both but with the intent of dipping us into believing it was one thing but it’s actually the other
A lyric parallel I just discovered this week that blew my mind is between Fortnight and Paper Rings. Paper Rings says “I want your dreary mondays” which becomes Fortnight’s “All my mornings are mondays stuck in an endless February” and that’s just devastating to me.
Spotify said we can leave the christmas lights up till.... February
SOMEONE BODY FCKING SAID I HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT THIS CONNECTION SINCE THE FIRST TIME I HEARD FORTNIGHT
She quite literally ate her words in that relationship and that is so fucking sad to realize
ANTHOLOGY DEEP DIVE IS A NEED! there is so much in the second half, it needs to be discussed
„I tell you something bout my good name, it’s mine alone to disgrace“ is just such an iconic way of telling fans and/or the media to shut up. I love to scream it❤️
I screamed and got out of my bed and texted my gc just to say “ALLY POSTED IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS” 😭
AWWW tell the gc i say hi !!!!
@@AllySheehanofc 💞
" If long suffering propriety is what they want from me , they don't know how you've haunted me so stunningly" just the equally most romantic and melancholic line ever written.
"hoe" lmao
I choose you and me..... Religiously
@@lizzi7128 Chills!!! Literal chills!!
Can we appreciate how Ally never called Joe or Matty or Travis by their names? She called them muses. and i think that i really appreciated that
"who's gonna stop us from waltzing back into rekindled flames if we know the steps anyway" in loml hits so close to home for me and I just adore the imagery of 2 lovers slow dancing together
Ohh and the way she singsss it! Yess that ones amazing too!
my fav lyric has to be: “And I sound like an infant feeling like the very last drops of an ink pen” bc it’s sounds as amazing as it means
Oh no! That was mine and I was about to say it’s grossly underrated. So glad someone else was as moved by that as me. It spoke to my soul with how I’ve been feeling with some in law drama. Like I have nothing more to give and that ink pen line hit me hard.
Man yes! I can’t believe I forgot about it but damn that one is soo good!
can someone explain this one? i love how it sounds, but since english is not my first language, i didnt understand the meaning very well :(
I love the pen click 🖊 at the end of the line
@@u.nerdy_so it just clicked for me but she’s crying as shes writing down everything (so much she’s running out of ink) (writing the lyrics)
In summation: ‘And in one conversation I tore down the whole sky’. Tolerate it: ‘I made you my temple, my mural, my sky’ 8:27
Even statues crumble if their made to wait
“Rivulets descend my plastic smile” i think is a great lyric. I love the imagery of keeping your face perfectly pleasant, but the tears just bore down til you’re left with a permanent deformity. I swear im not traumatized 😂
You are the first person I’ve seen breakdown Fortnight in a way that fully grasps the lyrics and actually makes sense!!! Thank you!!!
“I’ll tell you something about my good name, it’s mine alone to disgrace” is my fav because I love that she is addressing that she is a grown woman who makes her own decisions and I love screaming it tbh
I thought I was the only one loving that one, it needs more talking about !!
Oh yeah that one is pretty damn good!
i can do it with a broken heart is definitely “he said he’d love me all his life” with that hyperventilating sounding singing with the upbeat sparkly sounding music in the background
Hard agree.
Calling her voice in that part “hyperventilating” just hurt me 🥲
"I'm just mad as hell cause I loved this place for so long, London." Just the agony in her voice, it resonates with my own sadness of losing beloved places and relationships. That song is my favorite on the album.
Thanks again for the new video, the song that gets me the most is "The Prphecy", the best line being "Spending my last coin so someone will tell me It'll be ok"
“My white knuckle dying grip. Holding tight to your quiet resentment…” is a line that drills into my soul. It hits so hard as a person who has had a lot of friends and partners who just would shut down if they didn’t like something or were upset by something. Trying to get that information out of them is like torture.
This line is sooooooo Tolerate it coded! 😢😢😢
Uuuuu yesss! Damn theres so many. I keep reading comments and like can we just qoute the whole album?
"I'll tell you something right now
I'd rather burn my whole life down
Than listen to one more second of all this bitching and moaning"
THAT gives me such a rush anytime it comes up! She's said things like this before, but not with this vibe... I love that she is getting bolder if that is even possible, and that just gives me the courage of doing it too! Loving the video ally!
The lyric I love the most is "If the glint in my eye traced the depths of your sigh down that passage in time back to the moment I crashed into you like so many wrecks do too impaired by my youth to know what to do". Also I love this video, Ally 🤍
“I’m lonely but I’m good, I’m bitter but I swear I’m fine, I’ll save all my romanticisms for my inner life” - what a perfect way to describe coping with feeling lonely. My inner monologue can relate to
“Don’t want money, just someone who wants my company, let it once be me” The Prophecy is one of my favorite songs on this album, but also one that I struggle to listen to without crying. As a 20 year old hopeless romantic who has never been in a relationship, I feel this song so deeply. Love you Ally!! 🤍
The line that just knocked the wind out of me the first time I heard it is "You didn't measure up to any measure of a man." What a lasting and devastating indictment. WOW! my jaw dropped.
I read it like the woman's rage at its peak made of desperation because she's really hurting. Trying to inflict the similar pain onto him, feel as humiliated as she feels, but also just make him feel anything, stay connected through that pain
“If all you want is grey for me, then it’s just white noise. Then it’s just my choice”. Love the color metaphors. ❤
"I was tame, I was gentle, till the circus life made me mean" My old friend group changed me into who i am today.
The rest is: "but don't you worry folks they took out all her teeth"......with what you wrote, and this above, sums up how I felt 11 years ago when I was ruthlessly attacked and had my life nearly destroyed by complete strangers who to this day pride themselves on being oh-so compassionate and empathetic even though they are petty, and mean fakes and pretenders. It took years, but I'm finally back and ready to go forward again older, and hopefully wiser.
i absolutely love “i was tame i was gentle till the circus life made me mean don’t you worry folks we took out all her teeth” there are just so many different ways it could be taken as and it’s a line i always feel the need to scream from my chest when i hear it 🫶🫶🫶 ilysm ally
"you said I abandoned the ship but I was going down with it" hits so personal that i don't know if it's my favorite lyric, but sure is on the top
my favourite lyrics from the album overall are from "I hate it here" but my favourite line from that song is "ill save all my romanticism for my inner life and get lost on purpose" the whole song is just so relatable and so underrated
Florida, as an American, I regularly hear/see it as a few places:
1) that "old people" go for retirement
2) criminals go to because it's easy to get out of the country, escape gov and get to places in the Caribbean. Especially if they have external banks and assets.
3) Florida Man incidents
4) More recently, Questionable Government oversight/overstepping
my favorite TTPD lyric is “ended with the slam of a door but she’s got the best stories you can be sure” 🥰 the bolter is amazing
As an American who literally just woke up, this is the best way to start my day
My favorite lyric is probably “are they second hand embarrassed that I can’t get out of bed cause something counterfeit is dead” it just is so sad and I love it 😢
53:02 that clip of the office is so funny when you compare it to but daddy i love him omg i’m dead 😭😭😭
“He was a hothouse flower to my outdoorsmen” 💔
Thank you for taking the time to put this together! Love all your deep dives!
This line hit me incredibly hard on like the 4th listen. I was like "OHHH what a beautiful way to describe incompatibility"
"cause love's never lost when perspective is earned" - peter
i mean need i say more, this lyric made me happy sob. its like every mistep leds to SOMETHING better, and its showing shes still learning by experience and shes had a better outcome due to previous relationships (trav trav)
i mean if we want a second one : "i changed into goddesses, villains, and fools, changed plans and lovers and outfits and rules" - COSOSOM
she literally apated her ENTIRE life in a way to mask her emotions. i literally love ALL of chloe or same or sophia or marcus.
I also love COSOSOM it seriously deserves more hype
this song is my favorite, it resonates so strongly
@@fRenChY_toAsTy LITERALLY! ITS MY FAVE ON THE ALBUM
Ohh yess! That one is soo good!
Thanks so much for this Ally, I always love your deep dives!
My favourite lyric from TTPD is: splendidly selfish, charmingly helpless, excellent fun til you get to know her' but honestly the whole of the bolter really speaks to me and the most recent break-up I went through, particularly, 'that's when she sees the littlest leaks down in the floorboards and she just knows, she must bolt' like that hit me.
Thanks for all of the time and effort you put into these videos! I appreciate your thoughtfulness and well rounded remarks. Always fun to hang out with you!😊
"you shit talked me under the table talking rings and talking cradles i wish i could un-recall how we almost had it all" hits so hard for me. Trying to forget how close you were to starting a life with this person and not being able to forget that you 'almost had it all'
Oh, what a valiant roar
What a bland goodbye
The coward claimed he was a lion
I'm combing through the braids of lies
"I'll never leave" ...
"Never mind"
Our field of dreams, engulfed in fire
Your arson's match your somber eyes
And I'll still see it until I die
You're the loss of my life
It's not the most poetic line, but as someone with chronic depression, I love manically singing "Cause I'm miserable! And nobody even knows!". I feel that.
Btw: I love your content so much, so thank you from a fellow Aussie for your insights. ❤
My favourite lyric is probably "if you wanted me dead you should've just said". This lyric is speaking to me in such a way that basically my past year felt like this and so I love it so much 🤍
In Clara bow "You look like Taylor Swift in this light we're loving it you've got edge she never did" because my great grandma passed recently and everyone says that we acted and looked simliar!!
LOVED this breakdown of the album! One of my favourite lyrics is “Feeling like the very last drops of an ink pen, a greater woman stays cool, but i howl like a wolf at the moon” i’m a the prophecy girlie 🥹
"You caged me and then you called me crazy
I am what I am 'cause you trained me”
Speaks to my soul ...
"I thought I was better safe than starry-eyed" has to be THE lyric I'm choosing 'cause it ruined my entire brain and I'm questioning my relationship ever since I heard it 🙃 it's been two months and i can't stop thinking about it
This might be a bit long but one of the things I like most about TTPD and the title itself is that it invites this idea of sophistication of her poetry and she allows us to think that in the first song but then by the second song of the album (the title track no less) she’s like no, nuh uh. She’s making fun of the whole concept itself. But then she continues to bare her soul out throughout the album, showing us she’s tortured but also having told us that she’s not a poet. And then this takes a full 180 with The Anthology because those ARE the most poetic, and crafted songs ever. So she just spun us around our heels with that. Probably my favourite thing about TTPD and the fact that that was specifically the title of the album.
100% agree. The whole album is against pretentiousness and romanticism. Whether it's poking fun at herself and her relationship in the title track, pointing out the audacity of the media or the fans presuming to know what's best for her based on gossip, or the dangers of romanticizing reality of the past. In any case, the album points out the problems with taking things too seriously and ignoring the simple truths of reality. Like, ignoring red flags in relationships for some imagined future, or fans ignoring the fact that celebrities are strangers that owe you nothing. I could go on and on but it's a background theme of the whole album. I love that she is in a phase where she is finally recognizing that simplicity and grounding yourself in reality is often the key to true happiness. The overly romantic tortured poet trope that she was so drawn to for years is a ride straight to misery. That's why her happiest tracks are about not overthinking things and enjoying simple joys of love.
My favorite lyric is most definitely “looking backwards might be the only way to move forward”
if that doesn’t sum up Taylor’s entire discography, career, moral compass, everything she’s ever done, idk what does. And I can’t help but feel like she’s moving past that philosophy and realizing that sometimes ruminating on the past is not the way the move forward, or that she’s done that enough to really finally heal and let go of it all now. Very healing!!
amen!!
Haven't even watched the video yet and I can already tell you I want one for the anthology! Love your deep drives, you make me feel smart when it's things I already noticed and yet I still learn more about her music from you!
Ally, thank you for unraveling all the layers of each lyric in such a light and fun way, you are awesome 🤍
hii ally thank you so much for this! i just need an anthology deep dive cause my absolute favorite lyric is from COSOSOM and is "could it be enough to just float in your orbit can we watch our phantoms like watching wild horses" i think it's just so beautifully poetic. Sending love from Italy!
“I cry a lot but I am so productive, it’s an art” it just represents my day to day corporate girly life😭 and also how we as humans can’t catch a break sometimes and we have to do all these things even if we are heartbroken, be that by a relationship a friendship or anything else, such a an amazing song 😭
The tortured poets department is a very important time stance in Taylors career. Some lyrics that stand out to me, is in the song, loml, where she sings “I’m the love of your life” at the beginning and middle of the song. But when she says “You’re the loss of my life”, is when I knew this was THE song. 😢
Thanks for another fab video Ally! 💜
fave lyric: "Stole my tortured heart, Left all these broken parts, Told me I'm better off, But I'm not"
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet, but on TikTok, a classical composer named Steve Hackman did a great react video where he isolated the two parts of the counterpoint at the very beginning of So Long London. The lower part of the counterpoint? It's Tolerate It. Totally blew my mind, and establishes an undeniable connection between those two songs. I've been thinking about it ever since. It's worth watching.
I love TTPD for a lot of reasons, but one of them is how radically TTPD has shifted my understanding of the songs on TS's last several albums. It's like we thought we knew what she was saying... but we didn't at all, and the puzzle pieces are starting to fall into place with TTPD. Favorite TTPD lyric? Impossible to choose, but maybe this because it's just so painfully sad.
Our field of dreams, engulfed in fire
Your arson's match your somber eyes
And I'll still see it until I die
You're the loss of my life
I’m obsessed with the way ur mind connects moments in pop culture/media 🙇🏼♀️ it’s so fun
“For a moment I knew cosmic love” is one of my favs ❤
my favorite lyrics (are from The Anthology lol) "your hologram stumbled into my apartment, hands in the hair of somebody in darkness, named Chloe, or Sam, or Sophia, or Marcus and I just watched it happen."
This whole song is just perfect to me honestly, and definitely my favorite from The Anthology portion.
My favorite lyric: "A greater woman stays cool, but I howl like a wolf at the moon" 🌙 🐺
“Could it be enough to just float in your orbit? Can we watch our phantoms like watching wild horses?” Floors me everytime 💙
Your best video yet Ally! Absolutely loved your insights ❤ can’t wait for part two! 🫶🏼
Its so hard to choose one lyric.. "Are they second hand embarrassed that I can't get out of bed cause something counterfeit is dead" is one of my favourite lyric ever.
My favorite lyric from the original album is “I’ll forget you but I’ll never forgive”
Omg I can't believe this is only part 1, sooo excited for part 2! I would LOVE to see the vid for the anthology!!! (No rush tho obvs💕)
"They say what doesn't kill you makes you aware. What happens if it becomes who you are?"
There are so many amazing lyrics tho....
Also "I'll build you a fort on some planet where they can all understand it"
ands "When they found a better planet, only the gentle survived"
Thank you for this analysis Ally!!
i love in peter when she says "tell me all that you'd learned, because love's never lost when perspective is earned" !!! that entire bridge is so devastating to me because she wanted to be with him so badly and he left to "find perspective" but didn't come back, and so she was heartbroken :( taylor is really a lyrical genius
My favourite lyrics are either “even statues crumble if they’re made to wait” or “you said normal girls were boring, but you were gone by the morning”
WOW Ally…that Intro!! SO GOOD! Cannot wait for Part 2 😊. So hard to choose a single line, but one I can relate to:
“But even statues crumble if they’re made to wait” In “The Prophecy”, I believe Taylor is referring not only to herself, crumbling on the inside after waiting for a proposal that never happened and also the statue of “Diana of Versailles” a statue in the Louvre in Paris. Diana was the Roman goddess of the hunt. Diana is sculpted, pulling a quiver/arrow with her right-hand but it is her left hand, which originally crumbled and had to be restored, which is thought to have held a bow. Tying back into “The Archer” and bringing us full circle because we know Taylor is The Archer, therefore Taylor is Diana, crumbling. Interestingly, Diana is also the Goddess of fertility and childbirth.
oh my god this!!! its also interesting that the bow and arrow seems to be an image / gesture type thing that's connecting taylor and travis??
There are so many stand-out lyrics on this album!!! But the progression of So Long, London including “How much sad did you think I had in me?” and “You swore that you loved me but where were the clues?” hit home as a people-pleasing oldest daughter so that’s my pick ❤️
The line that speaks the most to me is ‘I’m pissed off you let me give you all that youth for free’
Ps I love you ❤️❤️ love from the UK
Pps I was named after the fleetwood mac song rhiannon ❤️
Love this line as well! And omg what a name origin 🤌🏻
Yes 🙌🏽! That line hits hard for me too!
That one stings so bad. I’m in a 6 year relationship and if I broke up now I would be devistated because of the youth I would lose on the relationship but I wanted to kinda have a family by 30. If we broke up now, I would have to rush the next relationship because of my bilogical clock ticking and well my own expectations ticking
“I don’t cater to all these vipers dressed in empaths clothing” is just SO JAW DROPPING I love it
Yes!!
This was the best deep dive i have heard! I loved this ally😍
Wowzers I feel like you JUST hit 100k subs and now you’re almost at 200k?! love your work Ally, you deserve every single one!
thank you so much lovely!!! i feel incredibly blessed with this community
The worst thing that ever happen to me is having to go to a family event just whej ally posts a ttpd lecture.
Love you ally 🤍🪶
don't worry love you can catch up on lectures online later
Enthusiastically waving my hand for you to analyze The Anthology. I missed a lot of the clues on Tortured. Your analysis makes so much damn sense. Thank you for all your hard work, it shows.
Ally I hope you know are amazing these deep dives are!! I’m so blown away by your breakdowns of each song, lyric, note change, etc. This video is fantastic and thank you so so much for putting it together!!
“I don’t cater to all these vipers dressed in empath’s clothing” is SOOOO good. BDILH, is one of my favs- old TS style but in a brilliantly updated way. I’m here for all the female rage TTPD brought us. ❤❤❤
Same!! I really lean into the female rage on this album
Thank you soooo much for this opportunity Ally 😍. My favourite lyric of the album is from The Prophecy, when she says the line ‘don’t want money, just someone who wants my company’. It breaks my heart every time I hear it and it makes me sob to know that she went through this pain
"Just to do experiments on
Tell me I was the chosen one"
It's so beautifully said that she is being used, but he made her feel special because out of all the animals, he picked her
“Say it once again with feeling, how the death rattle breathing silenced as the soul was leaving, the deflation of our dreaming” is AMAZING of lyrics and the whole bridge of How Did it End? ❤
it’s too hard to choose a favorite lyric but I love So Long London and I love the lyric “I’m just mad as hell cause I loved this place for so long london” because It makes me think of how when you lose a relationship you aren’t always just losing the person you’re losing other people like their family and places that you went together. thank you so so much for this video it helps understand the album sooo much 🫶🫶
You turned me into an idea of sorts/ you needed my but you needed drugs more😭, the lyric always hits hard
I love the lyric “and you say I abandoned the ship but I was going down with it”
“Is it a wonder I broke let’s hear one more joke” so sad, vulnerable and relatable. So beautiful ❤
"and I'll forget you but I'll never forgive, the smallest man who ever lived." genuinely silences me every time I listen to it. as someone who had one of the worst senior years of high school, the motif that no, you do not actually have to forgive someone to move on stood out to me. once you go through a tough trauma either through family, religion, or a relationship, we are often taught to forgive and forget. this can make us want to force emotions such as forgiveness and kindness no matter what wrongdoing they have done to us. this line is such a good reminder that even though, especially as a woman, you never forgive someone, you can still be yourself and heal. this past winter, I hit the hardest rock bottom that I have ever felt. I found unhealthy coping mechanisms, and often masked what I was going through for either the comfort of others or myself. it felt so much easier to just pretend that I forgave the people who put me here. I had always been fed that I could only TRULY move on once I found "forgiveness" in my heart. this is SO untrue. months later, I still have my bad days, but they are more manageable. how? I did not forgive. I felt all of my emotions in their true form unabashedly. back to the song- I loved that she mentioned that he is so insignificant to her, so unforgivable, that she will NEVER forgive him... but she forgets about him due to this. she moved on, found her peace. but trust her... that peace did not come from him. she had to make her own peace. and that is what is so beautiful and haunting about this line. if you read this far thank you and you are worth it ♥♥