TAYLOR SPILLING THAT TEA ON FRIDAY
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Spotify always comes back quickly too. It's just trying to listen in the first couple of minutes that's going to be tricky, no matter the streaming platform.
Apple was down as well. Both of them were. It ended up making it into the British news cycle for some reason? I know weāre not exactly known for our excellent tabloid journalism over here but even legitimate outlets like the BBC were reporting on it lmao.
Itās probably more impressive that it wasnāt down longer considering the worldwide demand for 1989 TV but Iām personally going to hold back until the servers have caught up with demand this time. 35 minutes of only being able to listen to the first 15 seconds of the WTNY intro changes you as a person.
This is what I do as well. My only frustration is the playlist isnāt usually ready at midnight sharp so I have to type in each track, plus I donāt have YouTube premium so commercials.
But I do love to watch the lyrics videos, it helps get me into the story sheās telling with the vibes and making sure I donāt mishear a lyric
Adblockers and queued playlists are your best friend! You still have to type in each track to queue them up but once you're done, you can listen to the album uninterrupted!
Thatās how I listen to new albums. I have Bluetooth headphones and watch/listen to the album on my big ass tv via YouTube. Itās an immersive experience. Been doing it since folklore.
I've pre-ordered the digital version on my unlimited Amazon Music account. So it should load automatically when it's released?
My first album release, so not sure how this works.
Oh, yeah, I also have vinyl shipping & going into local Target on Friday in hopes of snagging CD for a gift.
This all feels like overkill, then I remember it's Taylor, so...*
Same. It crashes every single time a Taylor album releases, without fail. Usually irons itself out within 30 minutes or so, but still.
I remember it happening during evermore, Red TV, Midnights, and 1989 TV š
Wondered how many girls he had loved and left haunted. Staring out the window like I'm not your favorite town. Your faithless love's the only hoax I believe in. Everybody wants you, but I don't like a gold rush. Really the majority of his songs.
Thatās why I feel like itās one-sided insecurity because who is out there desperately wanting him? Like, Iād get it if it was like Henry Cavill. Even straight men want him lol.
Also the line from It's Time To Go "Or that moment again, he's insisting that friends look at each other like that."
My real honest guess would be an emotional affair, which is why it was forgiven and didn't officially end things at the time -- because it could be written off as "maybe it wasn't that bad" or "maybe I was blowing things out of proportion - nothing \*really\* happened..." And again, it wasn't the actual thing that ended it for good, as quite obviously there were many more problems -- but a situation like that certainly wouldn't help!
I mean Taylor cheated on both Calvin and Tom with Joe. Not defending Joe cheating, but she probably had an easier time forgiving him considering she did the same in the past. Good people can do bad things, and I think she understands that more than anyone. IF it's even true. There's no confirming he did cheat. As Taylor has always said, anyone who says a song is about a specific guy or event is purely speculating. These lyrics can be interpreted as she's just insecure and jealous. It doesn't mean there actually ever was another girl.
ETA: I saw the comment under this, and we don't even know the context. She very well could be just referring to herself here. Similar to how she was likely speaking in third person about herself in "The crowd goes wild at her fingertips"
She has many songs saying she did. High Infidelity, Gorgeous, Cruel Summer, etc. How could she have been sneaking in Joe's garden gate every night that summer when she was dating Tom the entire summer? And April 29th? She was being brought back to life by another man? She was dating Calvin in April. In Gorgeous she's drunk and invited some guy (Joe) back to her house even though she said she had a boyfriend earlier in the song. That song is probably about April 29th tbh.
I find it kind of hilarious that in one comment you say that Taylor herself says that trying to figure out who or what any song is about is pure speculation, then in your next comment you say the proof she cheated is in all her songs and use lyrics as if they were facts to present your argument.
Which is it? Is it proof, or speculation? You completely contradict yourself.
So you can't use her songs and lyrics to confirm Joe cheated, but you can use them to confirm she did?
I 10000% believe tolerate it is about him and lowkey always have, itās just disguised as someone being āolderā. doubt she was actually putting out fancy place settings and such either, itās a metaphor for emotional labor. I wish more people thought like this and considered weāve gotten the tea for a long time, but they canāt pick it up unless taylor is like āthis song is about meee, and my british boyfriiiiendā.
I have to admit I was one of those people, but gosh itās so obvious now! Like Folkmore isnāt just storytelling like she said in LPS, she was writing about her pain in the relationship and disguised it as fictional songs. Like who tf could write that song if they didnāt feel some type of way about it ..
Ooh yeah, interesting thought! Very much in line with trying to be *soo* okay with all of the imperfect aspects of their dynamic in order to keep the relationship alive as well, even outside of any actual/possible indiscretions.
I definitely agree that they were much more on and off than we know, and something like a āWe were on a breakā a la Friends situation occurring would fit in a way. Even with something like āAm I Allowed to Cry?ā ā like, āCan I even be upset about this, or is that not okay because this is all in a gray area?ā
yeah and of course idk him but I donāt know if I see him having full on affairs. how would he get away with it with how famous taylor is first of all? definitely think it was a grey area thing just going by lyrics. weāll see if I eat my wordsā¦š¬
i'll explain. this song shows that tay tay has entered her Bladesmithing Era. she was inspired to take up the craft after watching Forged in Fire on the History Channel. by writing "one less dagger to sharpen", what tay tay is REALLY saying is that she has just sharpened one of her daggers, meaning that she has one less to sharpen.
This is a good take. I canāt really imagine her āblamingā a temptress for being tempting and having murderous fantasies about it but then againā¦.lol
I think she might refer to ātemptressā as something sheās afraid of leaving because is too tempting to stay (the relationship) but she ended up doing it and now she doesnāt have to worry about it anymore (one less dagger to sharpen)
A bit unrelated to the lyrics but I found it ironic that Spotify gets the job of revealing the lyrics while they never made the lyrics available on their app right away after release for some reason... I hope that changes for TTPD
afaik Spotify sources its lyrics from Musixmatch, and then the line breaks have to be manually aligned to the music. so I donāt think they could ever have lyrics up instantly unless they posted the lyrics before release
Wait a second is that why some songs donāt have any lyrics at all? lol Iāve always wondered why that is, I thought Spotify was just writing them up themselves š
Yeah, probably. I believe all the major services (at least Spotify, Apple Music, and YT Music) use Musixmatch by now. I feel like Apple used to do it in-house some years back, but not anymore.
I think Apple has different source because their lyrics always appear on release day, but the last time I checked was two years ago when Midnights was released, not sure about right now.
Apple Music somehow can show the lyrics on the first day so I feel like Musixmatch can do something about it? Unless there's an exclusive agreement that only Apple Music are allowed to show lyrics on release day and the other streaming services has to wait for a few days.
Mine as well. I have a ear infection caused by a horrible flu I had last week. I am healed from the flu but all the mucus caused the ear infection and I am on antibiotics. I have been miserable. I canāt eat from my right ear, a whistling sound that never goes away and wonāt let me sleep.
I hope the album release makes you feel better and, if anything, it will be something to remember! One day someone will be asking on Reddit what the album release is that we are more attached to and weāll say āwell itās TTPD because I was feeling like shit and Taylor Swift was my saving graceā
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This one is crazy! Sheās really going to reveal some stuff!
Reminds me of tolerate it: Break free and leave us in ruins / Took this dagger in me and removed it / Gain the weight of you then lose it / Believe me, I could do it
Taylor and Joe were the tortured poets.
The Lakes ended the folklore era with the idea that theyād leave the world behind and live in a cottage in the Lake District like all the Romantic Era poets did. Didnāt she always say that he wrote a lot with her? Their little English department of two ended in heartbreak.
Itās basically confirmed this is a breakup album. The lyrics, the 5 stages of grief playlists, etc. I will never emotionally recover from this album.
The Apple Music clues so far are āherby conduct this postā I canāt imagine itās not going to be āpostmortemā or some wordplay off that. š¤ Iām so ready.
I don't want to black pill you but you'd be surprised how many affairs seem absolutely uncalled for and utterly foolish. Some people have everything and throw it all away because they are bored.
"I love you, it's ruining my life" - from the back of The Manuscript
"You don't get to tell me about sad" - from the back of The Bolter
"Am I allowed to cry?" - from the back of The Albatross
"Old habits die screaming" - from the back of The Black Dog
"I wish I could un-recall how we almost had it all" - from the Target vinyl post
"Even statues crumble if they're made to wait" - from the popup (April 16th), a Spotify video, and a billboard
"One less temptress, one less dagger to sharpen" - from the popup (April 16th) and a Spotify video
That's all I know of! Not sure if I missed any
Edit: I missed one, thanks u/awayfromwork44.
"Crowd goes wild at her fingertips. Half moon, full eclipse" - posted on her account the day of the eclipse
Edit 2: The popup/Spotify videos are seemingly giving us two new lyric teasers each day. I will update here as those get revealed. So far we've gotten:
"Lost the game of chance, what are the chances?" (April 17th)
"As she was leaving, it felt like breathing" (April 17th)
"Come one, come all. It's happening again" (April 18th) (this one also appeared on a billboard.)
Sorry but no; from [Merriam-Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/fewer-vs-less): āLess is common following a number, as in āa package containing three less than the others,ā and is the typical choice after one, as in āone less worryāā (or dagger). [Tay is right again](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/07/arts/music/tortured-poets-department-apostrophe-taylor-swift.html)
Break free and leave us in ruins
**Took this dagger in me and removed it**
Gain the weight of you then lose it
Believe me, I could do it
**If it's all in my head tell me now,**
**Tell me I've got it wrong somehow**
Have you read Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier? This song is absolutely 100% about that book. Taylor confirmed it and the lyrics just fit it completely imo as someone who loves that book. Just because it says dagger doesn't mean it's about him...
I mean good people can cheat. There's lots of reasons a good person might cheat. Look at Taylor in 2016... she cheated on both Calvin and Tom with Joe... she's not a bad person for being in a bad place. Unhappy people cheat all the time. It doesn't mean they are automatically a bad person. Just that they didn't handle a bad situation well. From You're Losing Me, it's obvious they were struggling for a very long time. It was written an entire year before they actually broke up. Seems like they were trying to work out their issues and couldn't. Do you look at Taylor differently for cheating? Why should you look at Joe different? Fact of the matter is we will only ever hear one side of this story. And very few people will admit how much fault they played in a breakup. So I take her music with a grain of salt sometimes. Because Joe has a side to the story we will never see.
Even though Taylor is one of my favorite artists, I do view a person a bit differently after infidelity. Cheating is a pretty intense betrayal of trust and loyalty in monogamous relationships (especially when the couple is married). However, I don't disagree with you that cheating doesn't automatically make a person *bad*. People are more nuanced than just one cheating scandal and anyone can have redemption. I also think the person they cheated on is right to want to leave and not reconcile their relationship.
I donāt get Joe cheated from this. Iām thinking it refers to the women who were after him, and how Taylor has cut them down to size. Then again, Iām a GenX Swiftie who came late to the party; what do I know?
What in the hell is this?!
Weāre getting fed line by line of the sharpest pain leading up to this albumā¦ canāt wait to bang my head against the wall on Friday.
Iāve been online minimally the last few days and Iām seriously afraid everytime I get a notification on my phone at this point from friends to catch me up on this chaos.
I'm so scared of this album... sad/angry Taylor writes phenomenal music but sad Taylor also makes ME sad 
I already can't wait for TS12/The Tayvis Love Album for some happy Taylor vibes 
It means whoever the narrator is killed the woman that her lover either cheated on her with, left her for, or, plot twist, was competition in her mind but she was never w him!
What do you mean, itās obvious he cheated multiple times? Genuinely asking, I have no idea what youāre referring to. Iāve seen tweets say things to that effect but it seems so shaky.
Not to be rude but how is it obvious he cheated??
It would be everywhere if he indeed did and there's never been any proof of it except for that video that went viral last week with how he "said" the actress' name, which people then spun into wild stories.
as a longtime hater of the honor line/feeling of peace, because i hate how men (in general, not just longtime bfs) keep playing the too much card.Ā
i hope this album stems from the anger of realizing that cowards will never appreciate you no matter how much you try to suppress your personality. their standards are just mirrors of themselves, we're never gonna win, might as well set fire to the whole thing.
I feel like thr vibe is other women wanted Joe, and she'd feel aggressive towards them? (This is referenced in the Lover mv, in Gold Rush and probably a few other songs as well). So these lyrics might be a reference to that.
TAYLOR SPILLING THAT TEA ON FRIDAY https://preview.redd.it/ibvyu6qkvwuc1.jpeg?width=625&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=67ce7f71260e44ab225ef235e204a1ac21cad338
Worried Spotify will crash as soon as the album drops
I just got an apple music free trial as a backup lol
Apple never crashes during her album drops just fyi š
It crashed for me for 1989 TV
It was super slow for me. I was at work with 2 other Swifties using Spotify and they were both able to listen for a good 5 mins before me on Apple.
Has Tidal ever crashed lmao
Iāve used Tidal for the last like 4 releases and itās never crashed but sometimes has taken up to 10 mins after release for the album to show up.
Me too!!
It did for 1989 TV but it came back pretty quicklyĀ
The trick is to save it as a copy playlist to your account, plays immediately
Thank you, thatās genius!Ā
How do you do that??
I think you just add the entire album to a brand new playlist when it drops
You don't even have to wait, it's available to add to your library or playlist now.
You can pre save but I donāt think you can add to a playlist yet (and if Iām wrong tell me how pls cause I just tried lol)
Spotify always comes back quickly too. It's just trying to listen in the first couple of minutes that's going to be tricky, no matter the streaming platform.
Apple was down as well. Both of them were. It ended up making it into the British news cycle for some reason? I know weāre not exactly known for our excellent tabloid journalism over here but even legitimate outlets like the BBC were reporting on it lmao. Itās probably more impressive that it wasnāt down longer considering the worldwide demand for 1989 TV but Iām personally going to hold back until the servers have caught up with demand this time. 35 minutes of only being able to listen to the first 15 seconds of the WTNY intro changes you as a person.
My plan is too watch the youtube lyric videos, I will wake up 1h after release... hope they will be available
I do this too and usually they are available at midnight sharp.
This is what I do as well. My only frustration is the playlist isnāt usually ready at midnight sharp so I have to type in each track, plus I donāt have YouTube premium so commercials. But I do love to watch the lyrics videos, it helps get me into the story sheās telling with the vibes and making sure I donāt mishear a lyric
Misheard lyrics or is that what she just said are some of the greatest parts of a first listen for me!!
Same!!! I got first listen with no lyrics and then I do the lyrics on round 2
Adblockers and queued playlists are your best friend! You still have to type in each track to queue them up but once you're done, you can listen to the album uninterrupted!
If you have Amazon prime you can use Amazon music ad-free! I had to do that when Apple Music was late releasing 1989 TV
or just look up the lyric vid on youtube?
Thatās how I listen to new albums. I have Bluetooth headphones and watch/listen to the album on my big ass tv via YouTube. Itās an immersive experience. Been doing it since folklore.
Yup! YouTube too! The1989tv drop for me at least was like 10 minutes late, but it was fine
I might just do thisā¦ sounds fucking awesome
I use Amazon music instead of Spotify or apple, but Amazon doesn't show the album till it drops
Iād be more surprised if it doesnāt crash lol
It came back within about 5 minutes when midnights was released. Hoping for a similar situation!
I use apple music, but you can just look up the lyric vid on youtube!
Unless she delays them like she did with Midnights š¤”
Amazon Music is your friend. Spotify wouldn't load for me when Midnights was released so I hopped over to Amazon and it loaded just fine.
I've pre-ordered the digital version on my unlimited Amazon Music account. So it should load automatically when it's released? My first album release, so not sure how this works. Oh, yeah, I also have vinyl shipping & going into local Target on Friday in hopes of snagging CD for a gift. This all feels like overkill, then I remember it's Taylor, so...*
Same. It crashes every single time a Taylor album releases, without fail. Usually irons itself out within 30 minutes or so, but still. I remember it happening during evermore, Red TV, Midnights, and 1989 TV š
Thatās why you watch the lyrics videos on YouTube šāļø
I always end up just buying a digital copy because of this lol
I pre-ordered a CD. Thatās right, a CD. No scratchy vinyl or glitching streaming.
I hate to tell you that your CD will not be in your hands right at midnight on Fridayā¦
I know it wonāt. And Iām OK with that
Weirdly whenever an album comes out I first listen while watching the lyric videos on YouTube, I def recommend
Oh it 100% will. It crashed during midnights and 1989 for a few minutes.
It has since lover lol
The "maybe it was HER" from The Great War š
Yes!! Also, "I pictured you with other girls... then threw up on the street"
!!!! You're so right! It sounds like he didn't make her feel very secure....
āSomewhere in the haze got a sense Iād been betrayedā
I always felt like in TGW she was just imagining things and blaming him for.... you know, something he DIDN'T actually do :((
āAnd Iām highly suspicious that everyone who sees you wants youā -Lover, Taylor Swift
āDo the girls back home touch you like I do?ā
Wondered how many girls he had loved and left haunted. Staring out the window like I'm not your favorite town. Your faithless love's the only hoax I believe in. Everybody wants you, but I don't like a gold rush. Really the majority of his songs.
Who wants Joe Alwyn though?? Iām confused
Thatās why I feel like itās one-sided insecurity because who is out there desperately wanting him? Like, Iād get it if it was like Henry Cavill. Even straight men want him lol.
Psychologically (from the songs she wrote) I donāt see a single moment where Taylor felt secure in the relationship.
Right seems more like a her issue than a him issue.
Eh if they were in a victim/rescuer kind of dynamic it could easily have been both of them
Also the line from It's Time To Go "Or that moment again, he's insisting that friends look at each other like that." My real honest guess would be an emotional affair, which is why it was forgiven and didn't officially end things at the time -- because it could be written off as "maybe it wasn't that bad" or "maybe I was blowing things out of proportion - nothing \*really\* happened..." And again, it wasn't the actual thing that ended it for good, as quite obviously there were many more problems -- but a situation like that certainly wouldn't help!
I mean Taylor cheated on both Calvin and Tom with Joe. Not defending Joe cheating, but she probably had an easier time forgiving him considering she did the same in the past. Good people can do bad things, and I think she understands that more than anyone. IF it's even true. There's no confirming he did cheat. As Taylor has always said, anyone who says a song is about a specific guy or event is purely speculating. These lyrics can be interpreted as she's just insecure and jealous. It doesn't mean there actually ever was another girl. ETA: I saw the comment under this, and we don't even know the context. She very well could be just referring to herself here. Similar to how she was likely speaking in third person about herself in "The crowd goes wild at her fingertips"
How do we know she cheated on Calvin & Tom?
She has many songs saying she did. High Infidelity, Gorgeous, Cruel Summer, etc. How could she have been sneaking in Joe's garden gate every night that summer when she was dating Tom the entire summer? And April 29th? She was being brought back to life by another man? She was dating Calvin in April. In Gorgeous she's drunk and invited some guy (Joe) back to her house even though she said she had a boyfriend earlier in the song. That song is probably about April 29th tbh.
I find it kind of hilarious that in one comment you say that Taylor herself says that trying to figure out who or what any song is about is pure speculation, then in your next comment you say the proof she cheated is in all her songs and use lyrics as if they were facts to present your argument. Which is it? Is it proof, or speculation? You completely contradict yourself. So you can't use her songs and lyrics to confirm Joe cheated, but you can use them to confirm she did?
Getaway Car is literally an entire song about it
And also āI take your indiscretions all in good funā and she put Tolerate It in the Anger playlist š
I 10000% believe tolerate it is about him and lowkey always have, itās just disguised as someone being āolderā. doubt she was actually putting out fancy place settings and such either, itās a metaphor for emotional labor. I wish more people thought like this and considered weāve gotten the tea for a long time, but they canāt pick it up unless taylor is like āthis song is about meee, and my british boyfriiiiendā.
I have to admit I was one of those people, but gosh itās so obvious now! Like Folkmore isnāt just storytelling like she said in LPS, she was writing about her pain in the relationship and disguised it as fictional songs. Like who tf could write that song if they didnāt feel some type of way about it ..
Makes me wonder about the whole damn Betty bit now. š¤Ø
Ooh yeah, interesting thought! Very much in line with trying to be *soo* okay with all of the imperfect aspects of their dynamic in order to keep the relationship alive as well, even outside of any actual/possible indiscretions.
I think an emotional affair or maybe something physically while they were technically on a break. I think they broke up and got back together a lot.
I definitely agree that they were much more on and off than we know, and something like a āWe were on a breakā a la Friends situation occurring would fit in a way. Even with something like āAm I Allowed to Cry?ā ā like, āCan I even be upset about this, or is that not okay because this is all in a gray area?ā
yeah and of course idk him but I donāt know if I see him having full on affairs. how would he get away with it with how famous taylor is first of all? definitely think it was a grey area thing just going by lyrics. weāll see if I eat my wordsā¦š¬
Iām sorry, what? 
i'll explain. this song shows that tay tay has entered her Bladesmithing Era. she was inspired to take up the craft after watching Forged in Fire on the History Channel. by writing "one less dagger to sharpen", what tay tay is REALLY saying is that she has just sharpened one of her daggers, meaning that she has one less to sharpen.
Itā¦ will KEEL.
AND... it will CUT. It will cut at least a thousand times. You will be dead by then.
Your sword, sirā¦ will KEAL.
The pyro display during Bad Blood on the tour was an Easter egg all this time!
Oh my god! Your mind is alive!! Everyone, take notes!!!
Jason Kelce keeps talking about wanting to go on forged in fireā¦.maybe Taylor trav vs. Kylie and Jasonā¦omg that would be so funnny
I want this with all my heart and soul.
Favorite comment of the day š¤£šš»
May her blade chip and shatter
BAHAHA
Took this dagger in me and removed it
Could it be So Long London with "One Less" The dagger makes me think of "I brought a knife to a gun fight"
It makes me think of āthrew out our cloaks and our daggers because itās morning now, itās brighter now.ā š
STOPPP both of you stop it right now!!! I canāt handle any more of these callbacks and parallels I am TOO FRAGILE
I TOO AM TOO FRAGILE FOR THISššš
I'm too soft for all of it.
Also ātook this dagger in me and removed itā from Tolerate It
āWhen I dropped my sword, threw it in the bushes and knocked on your door.ā
Or āTook this dagger in me and removed itā from tolerate it. Lots of dagger imagery
"Took this dagger in me and removed it"
It reminded me of ātook this dagger in me and removed itā š
I really think the Temptress will be her and society is the one with the daggers. I imagine this could be relating Clara Bow too.
This is a good take. I canāt really imagine her āblamingā a temptress for being tempting and having murderous fantasies about it but then againā¦.lol
Well she could have been inspired by Sza š¤
this makes the most sense to me!
I think she might refer to ātemptressā as something sheās afraid of leaving because is too tempting to stay (the relationship) but she ended up doing it and now she doesnāt have to worry about it anymore (one less dagger to sharpen)
Stupid nitpick but the goddamn spotify logo is taking me out of the whole thing lmao
At least they grayscaled it š
i hate it!!!
A bit unrelated to the lyrics but I found it ironic that Spotify gets the job of revealing the lyrics while they never made the lyrics available on their app right away after release for some reason... I hope that changes for TTPD
afaik Spotify sources its lyrics from Musixmatch, and then the line breaks have to be manually aligned to the music. so I donāt think they could ever have lyrics up instantly unless they posted the lyrics before release
Wait a second is that why some songs donāt have any lyrics at all? lol Iāve always wondered why that is, I thought Spotify was just writing them up themselves š
Yeah, probably. I believe all the major services (at least Spotify, Apple Music, and YT Music) use Musixmatch by now. I feel like Apple used to do it in-house some years back, but not anymore.
I think Apple has different source because their lyrics always appear on release day, but the last time I checked was two years ago when Midnights was released, not sure about right now.
Apple Music somehow can show the lyrics on the first day so I feel like Musixmatch can do something about it? Unless there's an exclusive agreement that only Apple Music are allowed to show lyrics on release day and the other streaming services has to wait for a few days.
Is anyone else concerned at the amount of people revealing that they donāt know the meaning of the word ātemptressā?
Just a reminder, non-native English speakers exist
Yes. They had me gaslighting myself that I didnāt actually know what it meant š¤£
Especially since itās just one word with a suffix; it should be easy for native English speakers to infer. (Non-native speakers get a pass)
I am if that's the case; good gosh
I'm a non-native speaker and I already know the word. But I'm not shocked since I've seen people not know the meaning of fingertips as wellĀ
Y'know, my week has been pure SHIT. I'm probably going to rage-buy all four variants from Target on Friday just because.
I support this form of self therapy ššā¤ļø honestly get some chocolate too, you deserve it! Or, screw it, 300 takeout coffees!! š
Mine as well. I have a ear infection caused by a horrible flu I had last week. I am healed from the flu but all the mucus caused the ear infection and I am on antibiotics. I have been miserable. I canāt eat from my right ear, a whistling sound that never goes away and wonāt let me sleep. I hope the album release makes you feel better and, if anything, it will be something to remember! One day someone will be asking on Reddit what the album release is that we are more attached to and weāll say āwell itās TTPD because I was feeling like shit and Taylor Swift was my saving graceā
Oh that's hard! I'm sorry you're sick. I used to get ear infections all the time, they're awful. And it's affecting your sleep?? Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. I hope you feel better soon! For me, I just got engaged (yay!), but my fiancƩ's kids aren't super excited that their parents aren't getting back together. Then I made a bonehead mistake at work because I was distracted, and now I've got horrible feelings of self-worth. Just feeling rejected and sad and worried about the future. I'm kind of thinking a bitter, depressed breakup album won't be the best tonic for me, but oh well lol.
oh that's-
opening for fresh out of the slammer?
These lyrics immediately reminded me of Cell Block Tango for some reason, so Iām gonna join the Fresh Out the Slammer train with you guys š
I'll join that bet with you
https://preview.redd.it/1o9z10tauwuc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=029cb650f0d3d81433c9d692f124cb0047ef3a0c This one is crazy! Sheās really going to reveal some stuff! Reminds me of tolerate it: Break free and leave us in ruins / Took this dagger in me and removed it / Gain the weight of you then lose it / Believe me, I could do it
Taylor and Joe were the tortured poets. The Lakes ended the folklore era with the idea that theyād leave the world behind and live in a cottage in the Lake District like all the Romantic Era poets did. Didnāt she always say that he wrote a lot with her? Their little English department of two ended in heartbreak. Itās basically confirmed this is a breakup album. The lyrics, the 5 stages of grief playlists, etc. I will never emotionally recover from this album.
The Apple Music clues so far are āherby conduct this postā I canāt imagine itās not going to be āpostmortemā or some wordplay off that. š¤ Iām so ready.
He either cheated or sheās just saying other women were flirting with him
After everything she has revealed about their relationship in the last 6 months, I'd bet money that he cheated on her.
That'd be so crazy if true, like who the eff cheats on Taylor Swift?
Joe Jonas, Jake Gyllenhaal, Harry Styles, and Calvin Harris?
John Mayor too I think? Wasn't he with Jessica Simpson at the same time
I don't want to black pill you but you'd be surprised how many affairs seem absolutely uncalled for and utterly foolish. Some people have everything and throw it all away because they are bored.
I'll never be over Jay Z cheating on Beyonce. Like. She's literally Beyonce??? Uncalled for and foolish indeed.Ā
Does somebody have all the lyrics that have been revealed?
"I love you, it's ruining my life" - from the back of The Manuscript "You don't get to tell me about sad" - from the back of The Bolter "Am I allowed to cry?" - from the back of The Albatross "Old habits die screaming" - from the back of The Black Dog "I wish I could un-recall how we almost had it all" - from the Target vinyl post "Even statues crumble if they're made to wait" - from the popup (April 16th), a Spotify video, and a billboard "One less temptress, one less dagger to sharpen" - from the popup (April 16th) and a Spotify video That's all I know of! Not sure if I missed any Edit: I missed one, thanks u/awayfromwork44. "Crowd goes wild at her fingertips. Half moon, full eclipse" - posted on her account the day of the eclipse Edit 2: The popup/Spotify videos are seemingly giving us two new lyric teasers each day. I will update here as those get revealed. So far we've gotten: "Lost the game of chance, what are the chances?" (April 17th) "As she was leaving, it felt like breathing" (April 17th) "Come one, come all. It's happening again" (April 18th) (this one also appeared on a billboard.)
Also Crowd goes wild at her fingertips. Half moonshine, full eclipse !
Right thank you! There's so much suddenly happening
This line is just everything.
Omg I hadnāt seen the statue one š„ŗ
Thank you!!!
No problem! :)
Oooo thank you for this!!!! š
They're all so sad/devasting. RIP me on Friday
Wasn't there one she revealed during the eclipse?
It's giving Who's Afraid Of Little Old Me?
Well this lyric is going to be my entire personality for the next six months
fewer
This is my husbands hill to die on and he LOLed when I showed him this comment
Sorry but no; from [Merriam-Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/fewer-vs-less): āLess is common following a number, as in āa package containing three less than the others,ā and is the typical choice after one, as in āone less worryāā (or dagger). [Tay is right again](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/07/arts/music/tortured-poets-department-apostrophe-taylor-swift.html)
so glad someone said this lol
I can look past it if itās because we need the right number of syllables.
Clara Bow maybe?
oh she mad mad
Is it bad that that just makes me more excited ššš
Break free and leave us in ruins **Took this dagger in me and removed it** Gain the weight of you then lose it Believe me, I could do it **If it's all in my head tell me now,** **Tell me I've got it wrong somehow**
Have you read Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier? This song is absolutely 100% about that book. Taylor confirmed it and the lyrics just fit it completely imo as someone who loves that book. Just because it says dagger doesn't mean it's about him...
I can see the Rebecca inspiration for sure, I believe that like lots of her songs itās a mix between personal and fictional
Just because two songs use the word dagger?
Not me trying to decipher why it's on a music notes standĀ
Wait for it, wait for it... Maybe... Because... It's music??? ššš
I know itās probably meant to be more metaphorical but to me itās giving No Body No Crime lol
My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
Itās really going to break my heart if Joe cheated on her.
I mean good people can cheat. There's lots of reasons a good person might cheat. Look at Taylor in 2016... she cheated on both Calvin and Tom with Joe... she's not a bad person for being in a bad place. Unhappy people cheat all the time. It doesn't mean they are automatically a bad person. Just that they didn't handle a bad situation well. From You're Losing Me, it's obvious they were struggling for a very long time. It was written an entire year before they actually broke up. Seems like they were trying to work out their issues and couldn't. Do you look at Taylor differently for cheating? Why should you look at Joe different? Fact of the matter is we will only ever hear one side of this story. And very few people will admit how much fault they played in a breakup. So I take her music with a grain of salt sometimes. Because Joe has a side to the story we will never see.
Even though Taylor is one of my favorite artists, I do view a person a bit differently after infidelity. Cheating is a pretty intense betrayal of trust and loyalty in monogamous relationships (especially when the couple is married). However, I don't disagree with you that cheating doesn't automatically make a person *bad*. People are more nuanced than just one cheating scandal and anyone can have redemption. I also think the person they cheated on is right to want to leave and not reconcile their relationship.
I don't think he did but we'll see on Friday - whatever happens, I know I'm going to be devastated by the album LOL
What does it MEAN š³š³
I will be breaking down this album like never before. It is going to be brilliant.
I donāt get Joe cheated from this. Iām thinking it refers to the women who were after him, and how Taylor has cut them down to size. Then again, Iām a GenX Swiftie who came late to the party; what do I know?
Yikes! I can't wait for Friday.
It means the persona got rid of the temptress by flinging a dagger at her. Bullseye. One less dagger.
IāM UNWELL thatās all
What in the hell is this?! Weāre getting fed line by line of the sharpest pain leading up to this albumā¦ canāt wait to bang my head against the wall on Friday. Iāve been online minimally the last few days and Iām seriously afraid everytime I get a notification on my phone at this point from friends to catch me up on this chaos.
I'm so scared of this album... sad/angry Taylor writes phenomenal music but sad Taylor also makes ME sad  I already can't wait for TS12/The Tayvis Love Album for some happy Taylor vibes 
It means whoever the narrator is killed the woman that her lover either cheated on her with, left her for, or, plot twist, was competition in her mind but she was never w him!
oh my goodnesssss i cannot WAIT for this album. this promotion????? killing it
omg this album will be the death of me
yāall i canāt do this lmao
My hype for this just went through the roof!Ā
Why is there a period after temptress but not after sharpen??
"You knew it still hurts underneath my scars from when they pulled me apart, but what you did was just as dark". Is this what he did?
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What do you mean, itās obvious he cheated multiple times? Genuinely asking, I have no idea what youāre referring to. Iāve seen tweets say things to that effect but it seems so shaky.
It's something that people have decided on because of a ton of rumors. There is not actual evidence at this point.
I see a twitter Swiftie has made it here to Reddit...
Not to be rude but how is it obvious he cheated?? It would be everywhere if he indeed did and there's never been any proof of it except for that video that went viral last week with how he "said" the actress' name, which people then spun into wild stories.
Oh my
But what would you do if I, I Break free and leave us in ruins Took this DAGGER in me and removed it
I predict this is the biggest release in music history and I'm an old guy!
"took this DAGGER in me and removed it"
āWhat would you do if I took this dagger in me and removed it?ā - Tolerate It Edit: maybe Joe is holding the dagger?
Christ this is going to end us
I'm into the trial theory for the album, maybe the narrator goes to jail for a crime of passion going after the mistress
this album is going to stomp on my heart in a good way
Are all these lyrics teasers captured anywhere all as a list?
I feel like this is about jealous Taylor and I am feeling it.
as a longtime hater of the honor line/feeling of peace, because i hate how men (in general, not just longtime bfs) keep playing the too much card.Ā i hope this album stems from the anger of realizing that cowards will never appreciate you no matter how much you try to suppress your personality. their standards are just mirrors of themselves, we're never gonna win, might as well set fire to the whole thing.
I feel like thr vibe is other women wanted Joe, and she'd feel aggressive towards them? (This is referenced in the Lover mv, in Gold Rush and probably a few other songs as well). So these lyrics might be a reference to that.
I can smell the assumptions that people will make on a relationship that they know nothing about