https://youtu.be/RQMz4JDbtmI?si=tnzLRMe2GT0yGFiM
While I do like the first single released from Taylor Swift's new album, "Fortnight" with Post Malone, for me the real beauty of this album settles in with the title track, "The Tortured Poets Department". "Settles in" is the perfect phrase to use. Taylor's lyrics float along softly on top of the melody in such a way that you could think it's going to be a gentle love song but in actuality it's about the agony of realizing you need to let go of someone to hold on to your sanity. That's not an easy thing to do. My favorite line is, "I chose this cyclone with you", because that's exactly what people do, while always thinking they'll come out the other side with the person with everything smoothed out but I don't know that that's ever happened.
I've always loved Taylor for the honesty and poetry of her lyrics. Some of her biggest inspirations in life are, in fact, poets. She's often spoken about her love for Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas, as has Patti Smith, and in this title track she brings the two together along with the place they each called home for significant periods of time (although never overlapping), Manhattan's famed Chelsea Hotel:
"And who's gonna hold you like me?
And who's gonna know you, if not me?
I laughed in your face and said,
"You're not Dylan Thomas,
I'm not Patti Smith,
This ain't the Chelsea Hotel,
We're modern idiots"
I've chosen this song to add to Citizens Of Boomtown's new section, BoomBox, this week, but really I recommend the whole album (as is the case with my 1st two additions to BoomBox, Jon Batiste & Hozier). For as much as "The Tortured Poets Department" eases in, by the time it reaches one of my other favorite tracks, "Who's Afraid Of Little Old Me?", Taylor's vocals hold nothing back. She's never been afraid to look at all of life's situations in the very most direct of ways & shout it out to the world. From leaving dead~ends to Beginning Again, you'll find everything here! Click on the link just beneath the picture up above to give the title track a listen!
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#TaylorSwift #BoomBox #TheTorturedPoetsDepartment
This was exactly the reason behind my thought of having Boombox... Thank you for shining a light on her new release (as if she needed it 🤣) and cherry picking those lyrics that stop you in your tracks. I'll admit, I'm not too familiar with her collection, but after one go around of Fortnight, I now get it. Thank you Jennifer 💙