It’s 1989 (goddesses), reputation (villains) and Lover (fools) because by the time folklore, evermore and Midnights came around, she didn’t even bother pretending she was running anymore. She just wanted him. She had dug up the grave.
Are you fucking kidding with Matty posting that song??? “I wish I’d stayed”???? “So I cry” “guilty feelings keep me fractured” “I watch you dance online” “your songs your words live on endless” make it stop. “I was scared” “you had a power like a lightning strike”
God I would be screaming crying throwing up if he was my ex and I had to hear him speak ever again. She probably wrote Guilty as Sin? after listening to a series of his interviews
“literature , paintings, movies they’re very suggestive they suggest how you should feel and music kind of commands you how to feel, if a film comes on from a time where you’re having a bad relationship you might be able to turn the film off before it affects you, but if a song
@FlossySwift
I don't know which country you're in but in Canada I signed up for pre-sale at both locations and asked 7 family members/friends to do the same and none of us were even chosen for the lottery to get in the queue. The only people I know directly who got tickets sold them for $
This is why I don’t get it when people are like how are you not over Taylor and Matty falling out, because idgaf what anyone says they are once in a lifetime musical soulmates. These two artists are cut from the same cloth and we’re still discovering how exactly with each record
If you really get The Tortured Poets Department, you know that Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus is the most important song on the album even if it’s not your favourite song
I did not realize how mean people on 1975 twitter could be until I made this account to let out my feelings about TTPD and how it connected 2 artists I’ve love for over a decade. Seeing what some say about each other has been so ???
Listening to Don’t Blame Me and… was this about Matty? Because who was saying this about Joe Alwyn:
“For you, I would cross the line
I would waste my time
I would lose my mind
They say, "She's gone too far this time"”
And sooo many themes in this one come back in TTPD.
Btw this is part of why Matty and Taylor was so impossible; he’s symbolic of the freedom she probably doesn’t believe she will ever get or deserve. To him, she’s the healed/peaceful life he doesn’t truly believe he will ever have or deserve. “You turned me into an idea of sorts”
“stalking, STALKING” then she gestures to herself. I wonder if the reason Taylor has this rep of activism only when it applies to herself is because the entire team of Taylor Swift TM is behind that strategy. sometimes I feel like Taylor is the creative director of her brand
“You deserve prison but you won’t get time. You’ll slide into inboxes and slip through the bars…”
GUYS. I thought inboxes and bars was a prison reference, but it’s him sliding into DMs/picking up girls at bars. She def wrote this after The Black Dog and him liking THAT photo??
@aarsylum
Charli wrote the song for SOPHIE. Matty posted a beautiful song with lyrics about longing and regret. Art takes on new meaning for different people. Why is everyone playing dumb by pretending they don’t know how this works? Also NO one is this means anything. It just HAPPENED.
"You're the one that I want, don't need another metaphor it's simple enough"
"I can summarize it for you, it's simple and it goes like this, I'm in love with you"
All jokes aside, this has reminded me since the beginning of how Matty has said he sees North England and the American South as analogous and that at its core The 1975’s music almost operates as country music parading as electronic pop
Not to be completely parasocial but I’ve always felt Matty faced the decision between two very different lives. The one with Taylor was the harder road. I wouldn’t be surprised if he felt some level of shame that he walked away, from what was uncomfortable but possibly greater
I don’t want to quote tweet specifics, but some tweets joyfully speculating on Taylor & Travis’ marital status are so repulsive. It’s just as gross as speculating on her pregnancy status. Please find another way to be excited for her.
Taylor has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever to fuxk up her fans and perform a mashup of Maroon x CoSoSoM and just repeat “if you have some kids with an internet starlet” like 6 times as an outro
@Stevensully99
I’d go so far as to say the way he is able to support her through being Taylor Swift(TM) balances out some of the things she maybe thought she wanted to nurture her as Taylor Swift (the person). And I think she’s learned she maybe needs that more than some other nice to haves.
"Get the matches, toss the ashes off the ledge"
"We were cleaning incense off your vinyl shelf because we lost track of time again"
Does anyone else have these connected in their head?
@nickyt3ller
I think this was a tongue in cheek reference to what happened between them the first time they were together (Aston Martin is very Blank Space)
What does it for me with the Joe timeline is
“Say you got somebody, I'll say, "I got someone too"”
@lostin75current
The first verse reads like this could have been a love song, not a loss song, and it would have been so epically beautiful. She started writing love of my life, and wound up writing loss of my life. :(
Matty crying while the crowd sings Robbers at Pryzm 2018. Apparently this was his first show after he'd gotten clean? He looks so healthy and grateful to be there.
@jakeperaltaass
Girl. She gets on stage every night and sings songs she wrote about him into radio silence. In the one moment he chooses to make an appearance he posts a song about apology and regret. If you want to sensationalize fact as folly, by all means. We’re just saying it happened.
Yeah, this man pined over her for 10 years and then got torn down to his molecules by everyone and their mother for weeks just to laugh about how none of it meant anything to him or bothered him at all.
I never have a bad thing to say about anyone but these disgusting, delusional fools who think a pop star can stop a genocide need to grow up and realize their delusion.
They say they care about people but they’re too immature to know what caring looks like.
@dieworkwear
I removed all my likes on this thread because somehow you thought including a suspected human-trafficker to make your point about fashion was a good idea, which to me says you LITERALLY think tailoring is more valuable than human life and autonomy.
@gracellandtoo
@aarsylum
Since that, people have called me schizophrenic, have asked me to get help. Asked me to go outside. Told me I should listen to more music. Told me I have no taste.
I'm so glad that I'm an adult who feels secure with their life off of Twitter.
I'm sorry but "bad was the blood of the song" was always one of her worst lyrics that felt so forced, and I get the same vibe from The Alchemy and So High School
Seeing people claim you don't care about a genocide you probably care deeply about sounds incredibly mentally damaging to me, and a valid reason to stay away. It's also about more than just that.
Dave Grohl undermining a woman’s talent and success was not on my 2024 bingo card, but here we are!
This is SO incredibly lame and embarrassing of you
@foofighters
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@wisterriagrow
I’m sure every costume is designed with this in mind. It also helps that she’s relatively small chested and probably doesn’t require vice-like support (not a criticism, she’s obviously stunning and if anything I am envious!!)
@midnightstrack2
Maybe that's where they went in Paris and realized they were in love and now they are reminiscing. It's their business and people heal in their own way.
I just realized that the reason I don’t care about her current bf is because I generally do not care about celeb relationships at allll. Taylor and Matty is probably the only exception?? Can’t wait to tell my boyfriend
🚨| Taylor Swift performs "imgonnagetyouback" from "THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT” as the first surprise song for Day 2 of ‘The Eras Tour’ in Amsterdam, Netherlands!
#TSTheErasTour
#AmsterdamTSTheErasTour
"I've never played live before"
June Carter and Johnny Cash by the time it’s all said and done
(She clearly already sees them as Stevie and Lindsey hence the invitation to Stevie for that message so also totally agree with this!)
sorry matty having had a majority of a taylor album written about him is huge but fots and guilty as sin being written about you is literally legacy cementing like i think people will look at taylor and matty the same way we look at stevie and lindsey in years to come
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#folklore
I just realized the trilogy songs are a, b, c.... and it fits the chronology of the story. august came before betty, and last came cardigan. Did I get it
@taylorswift13
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@mattysbff
Sorry I didn't mean to go off on you, I've just seen so many versions of this on my TL tonight with people acting like not saying Mattys name is a crime and I needed to let out my emotions
I think the key difference is Midnight Rain is from a time she didn’t want that life and gave it away but I look in people’s windows is from a time it was taken from her. Because of that they’re very different emotions for me, and Christmas symbolizes different things
I love this Midnight Rain parallel, because the hyperindependence of living a life totally for yourself can be absolutely intoxicating--but the very moment that your sureness in your path slips away, you are left with nothing but the loneliness you have worked so hard to repress.
@1989healy
Also the narratives at the time are now so clearly someone (Tree?) doing PR image management, trying to distance T from the “racist”/“homophobic”/“junkie” labels…. this isn’t the reason they broke up. They never had the chance to figure out if they were truly “compatible”.
There’s an entire faction of the internet crying over the fact that Matty only did this as an Eras opener with Phoebe Bridgers and didn’t have a chance to do it with Taylor because we know how fucking beautiful it would have been… lift Travis up without bringing other men down.
Once again…I can’t help but feel a phenomenal sense of pride.
None of the other bums Taylor has been with would ever be this prepared and poised in front of 90,000 people while wearing that costume..
A football man proving to the world that chivalry is not dead.. and you’re
I loved her music when she let herself be sad; I understand why philosophically she wanted to move away from that, but I think she needs to refund her balance of authenticity; who she is vs who she wants to be
There is no explanation for Dua Lipa having one of the biggest era’s in pop music history to flopping tragically. It’s definitely not the music since it’s miles better, something is suspicious