Taylor Swift's 'Fortnight' Music Video Reunites ‘Dead Poets Society’ Stars
Taylor Swift thinks immoderate things she'll ne'er say, but she's explaining The Tortured Poets Department anyway.
Days aft releasing her 11th workplace album, the "Fortnight" vocalist gave immoderate penetration into immoderate of her record's much convoluted tracks—including the aforementioned single, "Clara Bow" and "Florida!!!"—in Amazon Music-exclusive commentary.
Users of the streaming level tin declare, "I'm a subordinate of The Tortured Poets Department," connected their Amazon instrumentality and power connected the peculiar feature, during which Taylor provides her penetration connected 5 songs, including the medium opener featuring Post Malone.
"‘Fortnight' is simply a opus that exhibits a batch of the communal themes that tally passim this album," she explains. "One of which being fatalism—longing, pining away, mislaid dreams. It's a precise fatalistic medium successful that determination are tons of precise melodramatic lines astir beingness oregon death. ‘I emotion you, it's ruining my life.' These are precise hyperbolic, melodramatic things to say. It's that benignant of album."
Later, Taylor breaks down "My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys," a opus she produced with longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff. Taylor explains, arsenic the rubric suggests, the opus is astir "being somebody's favourite artifact until they interruption you and past don't privation to play with you anymore."
"Which is however a batch of america are successful relationships wherever we are truthful valued by a idiosyncratic successful the beginning, and past each of the sudden, they interruption america oregon they devalue america successful their mind," she adds. "We're inactive clinging connected to ‘No no, no. You should've seen them the archetypal clip they saw me. They'll travel backmost to that.'"
And the "Florida!!!" vocalist adjacent delved into her duet with Florence Welch, a opus that was really inspired by her emotion of Dateline.
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"People person these crimes that they commit; wherever bash they instantly skip municipality and spell to? They spell to Florida," Taylor posits. "They effort to reinvent themselves, person a caller identity, blend in. When you spell done a heartbreak, there's a portion of you that thinks, ‘I privation a caller name. I privation a caller life. I don't privation anyone to cognize wherever I've been oregon cognize maine astatine all.' And truthful that was the jumping disconnected point."
Other songs similar "Clara Bow" and "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me" research the difficulties that travel from beingness successful the nationalist eye.
As she says, Taylor wrote the second opus "alone, sitting astatine the soft successful 1 of those moments erstwhile I felt bitter astir conscionable each the things we bash to our artists arsenic a nine and arsenic a culture."
"There's a batch astir this peculiar conception connected The Tortured Poets Department," the 34-year-old continued. "What bash we bash to our writers, and our artists, and our creatives? We enactment them done hell. We ticker what they create, past we justice it. We emotion to ticker artists successful pain, often to the constituent wherever I deliberation sometimes arsenic a nine we provoke that symptom and we conscionable ticker what happens."
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And arsenic for wherefore she dedicated an full way to a 1920s movie star? Reflecting connected her astir 2 decades of stardom, Taylor calls the opus a commentary connected "what I've seen successful the manufacture that I've been successful implicit time."
Ultimately, the way is simply a connection to the women successful the manufacture who forged a way for younger artists.
"That's however we thatch women to spot themselves, arsenic like, you could beryllium the caller replacement for this pistillate who's done thing large earlier you," she added. "I picked women who person done large things successful the past and person been these archetypes of greatness successful the amusement industry. Clara Bow was the archetypal ‘it girl.' Stevie Nicks is an icon and an unthinkable illustration for anyone who wants to constitute songs and marque music."
But that's conscionable the opening of each the hidden meanings wrong the 14-time Grammy winner's caller album. Read connected for each of the annotations connected The Tortured Poets Department.
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