Participating in iHeartRadio’s radio show, Taylor Swift opened up about the inspiration behind her newly released album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’.
According to the singer, one of the main themes of the album The Tortured Poets Department is about fate, desire, and lost dreams.
“This is an album with a heavy element of “fate” and has a lot of lyrics about life or death. Although the lyrics are a bit excessive and extreme, it describes this album. Album is about embracing love and loss in a dramatic, artistic, tragic way,” Taylor shared.
She said the lead single Fortnight is a track that represents many of the main themes throughout the album. The song is set in “an American town where the American dream you thought would come true ended up not happening. You didn’t get your happy ending with the person you loved and now you have to live with it.” with that every day, wondering what it would be like if things were different.”
In this album, Taylor Swift uses many metaphors, notably in the two songs My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toy and Down Bad:
“This is a song about being someone’s favorite toy until they throw you away and don’t want to play with you anymore. Many of us are in a relationship that we initially hate important to our other half. Then suddenly, they destroy us or hate us in their mind. However, we still give ourselves the illusion that they will return to the way they were still loves us.”
Taylor Swift uses many metaphors in her new album.
The detective series Dateline was the inspiration for the song Florida!!!. In the movie, criminals often escape by going to Florida, changing their identities and integrating into the community there.
“I think when we go through a breakup in love, a part of us thinks ‘I want a new name, I want a new life, I don’t want anyone to know who I am, or where I go. “Basically, this is the starting point that created this song – about where you will go to renew yourself,” the singer born in 1989 shared.
In addition to romantic love songs, Taylor Swift also opened up about her musical career path in two songs, Who Is Afraid of Little Old Me? and Clara Bow.
For Who Is Afraid of Little Old Me?, Taylor Swift expressed her anger and bitterness about how society treats real artists:
“What have we done to writers, artists and creatives? We put them in difficult situations. We watch what they create, then judge it. We like to watch Artists suffer, so much so that I think sometimes, as a society, we evoke that pain and then just sit back and see what happens next.”
The female singer expressed anger about the way society treats artists.
Talking about the reason for choosing actress Clara Bow as the song’s title, Taylor said she wanted to express her respect to the great women of the past – those who were great prototypes in the entertainment industry. .