My favorite treasures this week have been the videos of the freshly drafted to the Buffalo Bills Keon Coleman during his press conference and getting toured around the stadium! This young man is a delight! I can’t wait for more of him this season ☺️
TTPD At first I thought I didn’t like it that much. The first few songs were all “meh” to me and sounded the same. Then we got to “so long, London” and it was everything I hoped it would be, and every song felt like it got better. Now when I re-listen I can’t even pick a favorite song or eliminate any that I don’t like. 😅 it has definitely grown on me.
And also that reel of the consequence of dancing to GIRLS is 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Erin - you and Jamie were on fire with your deep dive. 🔥 I laughed. I cheered. Have only dipped into one or 2 songs so far, but I've got 31 songs worth of yard work this weekend, so I'll get there.
No treasures. I'm busy. Exhausted. Like I had a legit sobbing, snot-faced meltdown this morning. Guess who needs a nap? 🙋♀️
TTPD is the first release I stayed up until midnight for (but not 2am, I have to sleep sometime!). It's a lot to take in - it took me several listens before I could form any coherent thoughts on it, but now I'm all in. Like Jackie said, it's such an excellent distillation of the grief process, which makes it an emotionally exhausting but also cathartic listen.
I also just really love the album. I Can Do It With a Broken Heart is probably the most relatable song I've ever heard, Florida!!! is such a good time, Who's Afraid of Little Old Me is my new favorite rage song. I'm glad that it's a double album because I like that it takes time to fully digest and sit with all the songs.
Erin, I resonate with your TTPD take on The Popcast about the album lyrically. It is so dense and devastating. We are all reading the lyrics anyway, why not release a beautiful (and expensive) coffee table book of poetry?
Taylor is telling us to get out of her business (we won't), but if we went back in time and she asked me, here's what I'd do... Release the 13 best songs from the anthology, no more double album, keep the rest for the book of poems, then put her 2-3 favorite poems to music. That's our deluxe album. She wants to break all the records, right? That will be an instant NY Times best seller.
I'm coming at this with a bias - I'm a 1989/Rep girly to my core - but even in my sad girl era, I won't be drawn to TTPD. That's what Folklore and Evermore are for. I wish I wasn't so wah wah about the sound of this album but maybe it really is too much content lately. Mid-way through TTPD, I found myself wanting to give up and listen to Cowboy Carter. If we are talking Grammys, unfortunately, I don't think TTPD stands a chance.
I am loving this week's round up! I am in a season of lots of professional busy-ness (did you know launching a business takes up a lot of time? especially when you still have another job? WHO KNEW) and trying to figure out how to still show up well for my kids, partner, and myriad other responsibilities without shriveling into a shell of a human. It's....going, folks. But it was a tiny joy yesterday when one of my patient's came into my office and immediately asked my thoughts on TTPTSD. I just adore the Swiftie community. In that vein, a group of friends and I went to Taylor trivia at a local bar and we took 4th out of 28 as Betty's Stupid Friends. We were obnoxious and loud and it was a lovely evening.
Looking forward to the comments - have a beautiful weekend, Swipes!
I’m probably in the minority of people who have not listened to TTPD. Honestly, I just wait for Jamie Golden and Erin to tell me which songs to listen to when it comes to Taylor 😜
- That consequence for boys disrespecting girls is absolutely going into my back pocket for my four boys.
- ERIN. I was not ready for the football player/step-dad moment. 😭 Grown men crying always, ALWAYS makes me cry.
Treasures:
🎤 I spoke at my church Tuesday night about Hagar and El Roi “The God Who Sees” and it has sparked a lot of conversations with friends about what deep friendship actually looks like.
🛍️ I got to go shopping by myself yesterday (gasp!) and found my new favorite thrift store. My best find was owl bookends - the owls are perched on books. They bring me so much joy.
Turd - I keep waking up in the middle of the night for 2-3 hours and then miss my morning alone time and feel off the rest of the day. It’s getting old.
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend before the chaos that is the month of May hits. ❤️
I loved this album immediately because I feel like it is a blend of 1989 sounds (more synthy pop) and then Folklore/Evermore. The more I listen to the lyrics, the more I love it.
As a 40+ year old suburban mom of 4, the overall reflectiveness of how these relationships seemed SO BIG (and they were) but in the grand scheme of things were just a Fortnight. When you have time and space from the heartbreak, you can see that there is a bigger picture at play, and it works together for good (The Manuscript). But the getting through it sucks and is painful and crazy/manic/high and low (The rest of the album). It brings back a lot of emotions I had after a really painful breakup in college but also gratefulness of how it did turn out better in the end - even though it was hard to see in the middle of it.
Is it ageist of me to say I feel like the younger generation may have trouble really loving this album? I think you have to have lived some life and seen the ups and downs (whether it's you or your friends) of life to fully grasp that the "fairytale" she sang about in Debut, Fearless, and Speak Now ends up being way more nuanced and maybe even tarnished by past hurts and scars but that doesn't mean the beauty of what's ahead isn't real or good or even deeper/more real because of what is behind.
I also really loved how she threw some temper tantrums (But Daddy I Love Him, Down Bad) and mentioned Travis (The Alchemy and So High School), and Clara Bow, Robin, and loml just rip me up. Beauty is a Beast.
I love the way that The Black Dog is on its own an incredible song that captivated me from the first listen AND to me seems to be a vignette of the whole album, starting off so soft with devastating lyrics, the punches of “old habits die screaming”, and a lyric switch the last time through. It’s beautiful and I love it. 🤍
🤍📖 My interpretation of the album (of which there are fifty million floating around but I’m trying to be confident in my own voice) is that she’s going through all the stages of grief (as evidenced by the Apple Music playlists narrating the five stages of grief, the debut and Reputation songs are conspicuously missing because the rerecordings haven’t been released yet), and all the crazy crap that people attempt to do and go through in their attempts to process that grief.
To quote her previous album: it’s me. Hi. I’m the problem, it’s me.
It’s her angriest album yet and it terrifies me…but it’s also meant to hold up a mirror to the kind of grief and rage many people are afraid to feel for fear that it will tarnish their sweet pop star image. Or in my case, their sweet church girl/good girl image.
I hated myself for a couple of days because Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me was the song I related to the most…but then I had to ask myself why…and that’s the point.
We can of course go through all the things we can do to healthily manage those giant feelings (a relationship with Jesus, counseling, real friendships), and that’s real for me too! But it’s challenging in that it challenges me personally to not look away from that. Especially when all I want to do is put on 1989 for the millionth time.
1. Current TTPD trifecta is: Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?, But Daddy I Love Him, Fortnight
2. Very excited about Shannon’s book, preordered with a quickness
3. Definitely need more Gabby Llewellyn poetry in my life
My favorite treasures this week have been the videos of the freshly drafted to the Buffalo Bills Keon Coleman during his press conference and getting toured around the stadium! This young man is a delight! I can’t wait for more of him this season ☺️
TTPD At first I thought I didn’t like it that much. The first few songs were all “meh” to me and sounded the same. Then we got to “so long, London” and it was everything I hoped it would be, and every song felt like it got better. Now when I re-listen I can’t even pick a favorite song or eliminate any that I don’t like. 😅 it has definitely grown on me.
And also that reel of the consequence of dancing to GIRLS is 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Erin - you and Jamie were on fire with your deep dive. 🔥 I laughed. I cheered. Have only dipped into one or 2 songs so far, but I've got 31 songs worth of yard work this weekend, so I'll get there.
No treasures. I'm busy. Exhausted. Like I had a legit sobbing, snot-faced meltdown this morning. Guess who needs a nap? 🙋♀️
Happy Friday, Swipes.
It doesn't matter how many times I see that football player talking to his dad, I will sob every time.
Already preordered Shannon’s book, I’m so excited!
THE LOVE LANGUAGE 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
TTPD is the first release I stayed up until midnight for (but not 2am, I have to sleep sometime!). It's a lot to take in - it took me several listens before I could form any coherent thoughts on it, but now I'm all in. Like Jackie said, it's such an excellent distillation of the grief process, which makes it an emotionally exhausting but also cathartic listen.
I also just really love the album. I Can Do It With a Broken Heart is probably the most relatable song I've ever heard, Florida!!! is such a good time, Who's Afraid of Little Old Me is my new favorite rage song. I'm glad that it's a double album because I like that it takes time to fully digest and sit with all the songs.
Erin, I resonate with your TTPD take on The Popcast about the album lyrically. It is so dense and devastating. We are all reading the lyrics anyway, why not release a beautiful (and expensive) coffee table book of poetry?
Taylor is telling us to get out of her business (we won't), but if we went back in time and she asked me, here's what I'd do... Release the 13 best songs from the anthology, no more double album, keep the rest for the book of poems, then put her 2-3 favorite poems to music. That's our deluxe album. She wants to break all the records, right? That will be an instant NY Times best seller.
I'm coming at this with a bias - I'm a 1989/Rep girly to my core - but even in my sad girl era, I won't be drawn to TTPD. That's what Folklore and Evermore are for. I wish I wasn't so wah wah about the sound of this album but maybe it really is too much content lately. Mid-way through TTPD, I found myself wanting to give up and listen to Cowboy Carter. If we are talking Grammys, unfortunately, I don't think TTPD stands a chance.
I am loving this week's round up! I am in a season of lots of professional busy-ness (did you know launching a business takes up a lot of time? especially when you still have another job? WHO KNEW) and trying to figure out how to still show up well for my kids, partner, and myriad other responsibilities without shriveling into a shell of a human. It's....going, folks. But it was a tiny joy yesterday when one of my patient's came into my office and immediately asked my thoughts on TTPTSD. I just adore the Swiftie community. In that vein, a group of friends and I went to Taylor trivia at a local bar and we took 4th out of 28 as Betty's Stupid Friends. We were obnoxious and loud and it was a lovely evening.
Looking forward to the comments - have a beautiful weekend, Swipes!
I haven't had time to listen through the full album. Does anyone want to share their faves?
I’m probably in the minority of people who have not listened to TTPD. Honestly, I just wait for Jamie Golden and Erin to tell me which songs to listen to when it comes to Taylor 😜
- That consequence for boys disrespecting girls is absolutely going into my back pocket for my four boys.
- ERIN. I was not ready for the football player/step-dad moment. 😭 Grown men crying always, ALWAYS makes me cry.
Treasures:
🎤 I spoke at my church Tuesday night about Hagar and El Roi “The God Who Sees” and it has sparked a lot of conversations with friends about what deep friendship actually looks like.
🛍️ I got to go shopping by myself yesterday (gasp!) and found my new favorite thrift store. My best find was owl bookends - the owls are perched on books. They bring me so much joy.
Turd - I keep waking up in the middle of the night for 2-3 hours and then miss my morning alone time and feel off the rest of the day. It’s getting old.
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend before the chaos that is the month of May hits. ❤️
I loved this album immediately because I feel like it is a blend of 1989 sounds (more synthy pop) and then Folklore/Evermore. The more I listen to the lyrics, the more I love it.
As a 40+ year old suburban mom of 4, the overall reflectiveness of how these relationships seemed SO BIG (and they were) but in the grand scheme of things were just a Fortnight. When you have time and space from the heartbreak, you can see that there is a bigger picture at play, and it works together for good (The Manuscript). But the getting through it sucks and is painful and crazy/manic/high and low (The rest of the album). It brings back a lot of emotions I had after a really painful breakup in college but also gratefulness of how it did turn out better in the end - even though it was hard to see in the middle of it.
Is it ageist of me to say I feel like the younger generation may have trouble really loving this album? I think you have to have lived some life and seen the ups and downs (whether it's you or your friends) of life to fully grasp that the "fairytale" she sang about in Debut, Fearless, and Speak Now ends up being way more nuanced and maybe even tarnished by past hurts and scars but that doesn't mean the beauty of what's ahead isn't real or good or even deeper/more real because of what is behind.
I also really loved how she threw some temper tantrums (But Daddy I Love Him, Down Bad) and mentioned Travis (The Alchemy and So High School), and Clara Bow, Robin, and loml just rip me up. Beauty is a Beast.
I think she has experienced religious trauma. Any insight?
I love the way that The Black Dog is on its own an incredible song that captivated me from the first listen AND to me seems to be a vignette of the whole album, starting off so soft with devastating lyrics, the punches of “old habits die screaming”, and a lyric switch the last time through. It’s beautiful and I love it. 🤍
🤍📖 My interpretation of the album (of which there are fifty million floating around but I’m trying to be confident in my own voice) is that she’s going through all the stages of grief (as evidenced by the Apple Music playlists narrating the five stages of grief, the debut and Reputation songs are conspicuously missing because the rerecordings haven’t been released yet), and all the crazy crap that people attempt to do and go through in their attempts to process that grief.
To quote her previous album: it’s me. Hi. I’m the problem, it’s me.
It’s her angriest album yet and it terrifies me…but it’s also meant to hold up a mirror to the kind of grief and rage many people are afraid to feel for fear that it will tarnish their sweet pop star image. Or in my case, their sweet church girl/good girl image.
I hated myself for a couple of days because Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me was the song I related to the most…but then I had to ask myself why…and that’s the point.
We can of course go through all the things we can do to healthily manage those giant feelings (a relationship with Jesus, counseling, real friendships), and that’s real for me too! But it’s challenging in that it challenges me personally to not look away from that. Especially when all I want to do is put on 1989 for the millionth time.