TTPD Tracklist Reaction + Analysis🤍 deeper meanings, British references & my predictions ✨

i’m back with my TTPD Tracklist Reaction + Analysis!!!

the tortured poets department is getting too long to type so for now it’s TTPD lol :) as soon as i saw taylor post this track list i RAN to research every single title to find the deeper meanings. there are so much funny british culture references, Gen Z internet slang and phrases that are just outright UNHINGED. i cannot wait for April 19🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍

these are just my predictions and opinions, so please feel free to share yours in the comments! but always be kind🫶

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[nienkesibum]

Note on The Alchemy: First she thought love was red, then she thought it was golden. But I think she is now realising she was trying to make gold out of something that just wasn't...

[anonymoustwig]

I just know there will be so many crazy parallels between rep + lover songs and TTPD songs. AH IM SO EXCITED!!! also "fresh out the slammer" is a parallel to "he can be my jailor burton to this taylor"

[nea.bug]

26:15 It’s giving ‘I broke my own heart cause you were too polite to do it’

[sadiexeilish]

“Goodbye, London boy.”
Now I know I am gonna be sobbing listening to So Long, London

[calebcolwell]

I think “but daddy I love him” will be the most revealing track out of all of these, I think the chorus will be listing off things he did and then justifying it with but daddy love him

[Violetshy]

I'm going to claim Fresh out the Slammer!

And another thing about Clara Bow- she was practically forced into early retirement in part because of her bad reputation and how obsessed people were about her love life. Eventually her mental health declined so much that she was institutionalized 😬

[Rielleinwonderland]

I feel like "who's afraid of little old me" could be the only song on ttpd that would talk about the masters issue. It sounds to me as if she's ironically referencing someone who believed that taking advantage of her/not seeing her as any kind of threat wouldn't have any real consequence and that she'd just shut up and accept her faith, but she hasn't. They weren't afraid of an artist who herself felt like she was at the end of her popularity because she was getting "too old" in the industry for people to still tolerate her (as she mentioned in miss americana) and so they did whatever they wished to and it came back for them

[swaraapednekar]

When I saw the title of the album I immediately thought Dead Poets Society but the aesthetics are completely different but the tracklist is also giving dark academia but THE AESTHETICS ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT

[Sassyglbeauty]

What is kinda crazy and that I LOVE is that Travis is legit at the top of his chosen profession. So many analysts, players, former players say that he is the Greatest Tight-end who’s ever played the game…. But, he so would and is ok with being Taylor’s boyfriend, or Mr Swift. Just look at this week, he’s getting ready to play one of the most important games of his life, and yet he’s having stupid reporters ask the absolute DUMBEST questions about Taylor Swift and he has not shown a BIT of annoyance (and I gotta admit, if it were me, I would be pissed by now)….

I think that’s why so many of us who’ve NEVER before cared an iota about a celeb relationship are invested in their relationship. They legit seem to have been made for each other! I think that for both of them, this is probably the healthiest dating relationship they’ve ever had.

Anyway! lol. I’m so excited for this album, the songs I can’t wait to hear most are Who’s afraid of little ol’ me…. And the smallest man in the world…. Also fortnight because, I’m dying to hear how her and Posty sound together! 🤍🖤🤍

Love your analysis!

[marbhoo]

At 21:14 the fact that you said You Should Be after "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me" is crazy now that we have the song! Nena's brain 🧠 😲🎉

[KatarzynaLasik]

Who's afraid of little old me --
The first thing I thought of was a well-known cinema classic, a film based on a controversial theater play called "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?" from 1966. In the film, the main roles of the old married couple were played by Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, to whom Tay already referred to on the album Reputation. I watched this movie so long ago that I don't remember much, except that the two mentioned above played a frustrated, long-term married couple. I think Taylor is referencing this film/play, among other things.

Regarding the motifs contained in the play, I am pasting an interesting quote from Wikipedia.

"Christopher Bigsby asserts that this play opposes the idea of a perfect American family and societal expectations as it "attacks the false optimism and myopic confidence of modern society". Albee takes a heavy-handed approach to displaying this contrast, making examples of every character and their expectations of the people around them."

[kirsteenalt]

"Take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die" I am so excited for this album, but I just know I am going to cry...

[LuLuJ]

I like that, if "But, daddy, I love him" references the little mermaid, she goes from giving her voice away to be with her lover to reclaiming her voice with "Clara Bow". I think that her whole thing with writing Folklore and Evermore as stories she created (which we all know she made up those stories to talk about her feelings towards certain things without the scrutiny from the media with gossip about her personal life) was because Joe didn't want to have their relationship's highs and lows to turn into gossip. So, when she broke up with him, the first thing she wanted was to be very public about her relationships (cause we know our girl loves to tell the whole word about the person she loves and show her admiration for them, and also she writes very intimately about her feelings and the things that she goes through). So by breaking up with Joe, she got to live her most geniune self. She went from silent movies to "talkie" cinema.
And, whilst I'm talking about the songs from the end of the album, I also think that the bonus track, The Manuscript, could be the song about her relationship with Travis, that the concept of the manuscript could be a metaphor for her beggining a new relationship, having this new blank page that she's still beggining to write on and the joy of this process of a new thing that she's creating with Travis. Like, Joe was a book that's already published and done with, Matty is an old notebook that she wrote around what was already written (footnotes on another story kind of way), but Travis is a new story she's beggining to tell. And, if my theory is somewhat right, that would be the perfect track to be a bonus track, because we know our girlie has liked to make the most raw and direct track into a bonus track (so it doesn't get as scrutinized by the media, because you can only listen to it if you buy a copy and most tabloids won't go through the hassle, and that rises the sales numbers), and also because that would be a happy song to give a new upbeat ending to the full version album.

[ronin]

Interesting how the first thing that you thought of with the title My Boy Only Breaks His Favourite Toys was that Cruel Summer line, for me it called back to "You put me on and said I was your favorite"

[Katechecoca]

About the track 15 alchemy, I saw a theory on tt that said that alchemy is a study of trying to turn steal into gold, which obviously is impossible, and Taylor spent a lot of her time telling that love is golden, like in daylight, so the song can be about her trying to turn something(their relationship) which wasn’t golden/perfect/good into something ideal and better and trying to save it

[bluebluebearrry]

I can do it with a broken heart also kinda reminds me of "and the heart I know i'm breaking is my own, to leave the warmest bed I've ever known", like she had to break up with joe leaving the warmest bed she's ever known, even though she understands that the heart she's breaking is actually her own, since she was the only one who really tried to fix their relationships and make things work

[silverauroraatmidnight]

I do think (as you said) that the songs are put chronologically as chapters of a book, from the downfall of the relationship until she completely moved on.

[Manuscripter]

Manuscript: what I thought it also could be referring to having your life planned out, scetching the timeline for your lives together, however, something abruptedly cuts the progress of your plan and it's never becoming reality, therefore staying hidden in a drawer as a manuscript that was never finished.

[alishaoliver]

the first thing i did when this tracklist came out was google clara bow. i came across this quote from clara herself, and i feel like it speaks very much to taylor, especially performing on the eras tour while heartbroken : "all the time the flapper is laughing and dancing, there's a feeling of tragedy underneath, she's unhappy and disillusioned, and that's what people sense."
it's giving the mirrorball taylor had to be to keep performing and shining for us while going through so much emotionally. she could do it with a broken heart, but we the fans, knew she wasn't happy. like the early performances of lover, i don't wanna live forever and most of all call it what you want (angry version). we saw it then, but a few minutes later she'd be holding up her fearless heart hands or dancing on stage to bejeweled. i haven't seen anyone talk about this quote yet, but it's all i've been able to think about honestly.

[mollyhayter]

When I first saw Guilty as Sin? I immediately thought of that line from Carolina "that I was guilty as sin and sleep in a liar's bed"