My TTPD Predictions!

Well my friends. We are a little more than a week away from getting to hear The Tortured Poets Department for the very first time! I don't know about you all, but I am SO excited. The months that we get new Taylor albums are always so exciting. There's just so much anticipation, so much unknown, and entering a new Era both in terms of Taylor's music, but also ourselves as well. I definitely associate her albums with different stages of my life, and this album will be no different.

Originally when she first announced the album, I was really curious to know if she was going to give this one more of a jazzy feel to it. She hasn't really done a jazz album before, and the vibes from the photos made me think that it could match well! But recently I've been seeing on my Twitter (or X, whatever, it's always gonna be called Twitter to me 😅) timeline that this album is reportedly going to sound a lot like Taylor's upbeat songs in Red, more specifically Holy Ground and State of Grace??? Either way, I am so excited.

Based off of Taylor’s recent playlist releases, this album certainly looks like it’s going to be leaning into the grieving process of falling out of love, and the stages of grief (quick, someone send this album to Wanda Maximoff!!). The song list looks a lot like it’ll be a mix of diss tracks, sad revelation songs, songs about denial, and also coming to terms with the end of a relationship you thought was the one. I am particularly interested in loml (the only song written in all lowercase letters on the album) and if it even stands for “Love Of My Life” or if Taylor will give it a completely new meaning. Also The Alchemy is certainly a song I’ve been thinking about as well. I was seeing some other ideas on Twitter explaining that Taylor states that she “once believed love would be black and white, but it’s golden” in Lover, and alchemy is the process of turning materials into gold, referencing that Taylor IS the alchemist and was turning their love, which seems maybe one sided, into a relationship she wanted to hold on to.

Anywho, whenever I guess that a song will be upbeat, it always ends up being slow, and if I guessed it’s going to be a sad ballad, it always ends up being the hard rock songs. The fact that we are in this period of guessing is always so funny to me. A week from now, we will know exactly what all of these songs will sound like!

I am also SUPER curious on if the double album theory is true. If it is, I believe she might drop TTPD during Midnight Eastern Time here, and then at midnight Pacific she may drop another album? Sort of how she dropped The Til Dawn edition of Midnights in the same night? And I so so so hope she releases a music video for a song too! My guess is maybe for Fresh Out The Slammer?

If I were to pick two songs to claim going in blind, right now it would probably be The Alchemy and I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can), but honestly, my picks usually change after I hear the album for the first time! So I’m really curious to see which ones I end up liking. It’s always the ones I don’t think I’ll like the most that I end up falling in love with!

Overall, I’m so pumped to see where this album takes us. See you in the next era, swifties 🤭