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Taylor Swift - THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT pt 1 | Full Album Reaction

I can't believe how long this video is

This is not including the surprise Anthology drop. Planning on filming that this weekend. Still haven't gone to bed, but so worth it :)

Taylor Swift - THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT pt 1 | Full Album Reaction

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back for my monthly rewatch 🤍

emmy

Tattooed German Shepherd 😉😂

Foxy_Tatty

Can I just say Michael that YOU are truly the tattooed golden retriever! Love you big time. Thank you for all you do and all you are 💛

Abbi Crawford

Ever since this album came out I’ve been listening to “I can do it with a broken heart” every morning on my ride to work. It is truly the depression anthem for me

Miranda Caprio

I think “I can do it with a broken heart” in about Joe and she had to go out on the Eras Tour right after that breakup.

Will Mason

I’ve been watching your Taylor reactions since folklore and I gotta say I’ve really enjoyed watching your journey into full fandom. And I just knew your sad-boy heart would love this album. Can’t wait to watch part 2! 🖤

tamala623

Loved this whole video. Cant wait to watch part two next

Teresa Salas

I think The Alchemy is also about her relationship with the fans who get her. She’s gone back to her raw roots on this album because she knows she can now. The anthology feels like a cosmic shift in her career, I’m almost scared of what she’s going to do next!

Rachel Bea

Hi Micheal, I found your reaction on YT via Ally. Before you even played the first track I knew I wanted to see the Patreon video, so I signed up and just watched. This is my first video of yours and I am already such a fan. I’m a new-ish Swiftie and an even newer watcher of reactions, I had no idea watching reactions could have such a profound impact on my love of music. Thank you for sharing your reactions, emotions, and thoughts!

Rachel Bea

Fun Fact: Guilty As Sin, Blue Nile is a group and they sing Downtown Lights which is Matty Healy’s favorite group which he has said in an interview.

JoAnn Burrage

Florida, Taylor explained it on iHeart, she said on crime shows when someone kills someone they always run to Florida. So she is saying when you go through a bad relationship, run away to Florida to escape.

JoAnn Burrage

The song TTPD when it says you smoked and ate seven bars of chocolate, The 1975 have a song called Chocolate

JoAnn Burrage

You are most welcome, I have loved each and every reaction and I can’t hear a new album without running to your vid when it comes out 🫶🏻✨

Cara M

♥️💞🩶

Michael Beveraggi

This is sooooo understandable

Michael Beveraggi

SO LONG AGO THANK YOU FOR THE LOYALTY CARA

Michael Beveraggi

Absolute pain

Michael Beveraggi

I’ll never stop just because of this kind of kindness, thank you Gabrie! 🫶

Michael Beveraggi

I have been watching you from your very first Taylor vid and this made me so happy to watch and listen along with you! I could watch you break down TS albums forever 🫶🏻✨

Cara M

That lyric video is incredibly made

Cara M

I’ll never forget the ATW pen throw. Iconic 🖋️🖊️❤️‍🔥✒️✏️

Cara M

In The Alchemy when she say "he jokes that it's heroine but this time with an e" It is a play on the fact that Matty did a bunch of drugs while they had their situationship (i.e. "you tried to buy some pills from a friend of friends of mine" from The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived) so heroin without the e like the drug. With the e he is saying she is a heroine (i.e. a female hero)

Katherine Hilts

🧡🧡🧡

CGoerlich

I finally got to go RSD shopping today, looking for leftovers. Saw a Carrie picture disc and thought of you!

Julie B

I think I'm finally ready to say something. I'm enjoying the album. It's not my favorite, but there's so much going on that it takes time! I haven't even wanted to watch any other reactions yet because I am still processing. I so appreciate your in-depth analysis! I'll have to send you a Patti Smith request sometime.

Julie B

This album went down the same way as folklore. My brain couldn't comprehend anything on the first listen and I was overwhelmed. I had to slow down and digest it over the course of Friday. A day later I was screaming the lyrics in the car and it's been on repeat ever since. Her song writing abilities are otherworldly.

Melanie C

Thank you for explaining this,lol I was honestly confused XD

Lisa Reid (Sophrishea)

I should I came here originally for BTS content, but watching Michael's reactions got me into TSwift, and now im experiencing my first Taylor comeback :D

Lisa Reid (Sophrishea)

Agree!

Lisa Reid (Sophrishea)

I love how on Daddy I love him it has her country sound from her younger self and title is pleading to a father figure but the actual lyrics are F off I am a grown woman not a child who needs your permission or approval.

KareBear

no bc the way she put Eras tour clips as the Spotify video for "I can do it with a broken heart"... showing us how she was extremely miserable while still performing her heart out and smiling for her fans.. that's sad shit man... makes the song hit that much more... She really was grinning and hitting her marks while dying inside in front of us... wow

Maleen

I love your reactions so much but especially when it’s a Taylor album. I can always count on you to understand the complexity of emotions and feelings she conveys even though you might not know all the drama. Thank you so much for making this and PLEASE never stop 🫶🏼doing reviews you introduced me to so much already and I’ve watched this review like 4 times already lol

gabrie

im so glad i saw you in YT subscribed so i can hear your full reaction without edits 💙💕 love your reaction!!

nugoof

I just want to scream SHES TALKING ABOUT MATTY !!!

Jillian Stamatelos

In BDILH, I think you’re spot on- she’s referring to her fans as daddy when some of them got on their high horse about her relationships Pretty much saying stay in your lane, I love him and if I want to ruin my good name it’s my choice. Also, I don’t know if you watched the music video, but it ties back to Dear Reader with “burn all the files, desert all your past lives” - so in fortnight and this song both referencing Florida I think that’s relating to deserting your past lives.. I interpreted Clara Bow as what was said to the next artist- so did they tell Stevie Nicks she looked like Clara Bow and compared them, then told Taylor she looked like Stevie Nicks and compared them, and then the last verse is what will be told to the next star comparing them to Taylor? I haven’t really dived into this song much.. Just joined your Patreon today to watch your Taylor reactions! I love how in depth you 🫶

Kerri

Downloaded Patreon just to join and watch this 🤭. I’ve been watching you forever over on YouTube , but I finally had to come over. I love this album so much 🫶🏻 I’m so glad you enjoyed it too!!!

Regan Cook

Finally got to watching this and loved your reaction! I'll probably have more to say later, but it's like 2:30 in the morning. 😂 BUT I will say when watching ur reaction—it makes me really want a mashup (even though the sounds are totally different) of I Can Do It With a Broken Heart and Cry Pretty (Carrie) bc both songs represent going out there and perform while dealing with something heartbreaking on the inside that no one knows about. 😢

CGoerlich

Also in loml when she mentions the field of dreams and the cowardly lion she’s mentioning movies after calling him a cinephile which is just brilliant writing!

Jennifer Cash

Thankkk youuuu friend!

Michael Beveraggi

ahhh the legendary moment that was ATW, I’ll never forget. I’ve never heard anyone put it like you do in regards to the soap opera comparison, thank you for being here Allyson! ♥️

Michael Beveraggi

🥹<— my literal face reading this tysm Megan ♥️♥️

Michael Beveraggi

Zara!

Michael Beveraggi

Lmao I write a lot I swear

Michael Beveraggi

Lmao @ certifiable. TRULY

Michael Beveraggi

A TRUE OG 🤍🤍

Michael Beveraggi

Thank you!! 🫶🫶

Michael Beveraggi

These are such great catches that never even crossed my mind!

Michael Beveraggi

Thanks for always being so kind and faithful Jared! You’re a real one!

Michael Beveraggi

I don’t go here but I might get into the album after watching michaels reaction.. I do have one thing to say: the open collared shirt with the flowers showing off the tats 👀… such a good look! it suits your personality and aesthetic so well 🥰

Yeontan™️

Florida!!! is one of my absolute favorites actually

Orangeskies

Im pretty sure But Daddy I Love Him is about when her fans didn't approve of her dating Matty Healy but that could be a reach. Maybe people's opinion on her and Travis Kelce? Either fits the context though.

Orangeskies

You reaction to the Charlie Puth line in the title track had me laughing so hard 😂 we really had the same reaction to that

Orangeskies

I love that you got this out so quickly but still took the time to edit in the pen throws. The dedication 🤌 And she deserves it. ✍️ Listening to your reactions on my second listen is becoming a ritual. You help me fathom some things I missed and I love how you take it all in line by line but also as an overall story. You react to songs like its a soap opera and it makes them so fresh and exciting (I STILL go back and watch you react to ATW all the time).

Allyson Quick

I agree completely!

Valerie Schmoyer

If there's one reactor I can count on to really comprehend a tswift album on first listen, it's you Mike. You deserve way more credit for how good you are at this. Thanks for spending so much time on this, can't wait for the second half 🩷

💙 Megan 💙

I really loved 'Florida!!!' I'm Australian, so I don't know Flordia at all except for Americans in media dissing it. But I didn't feel like this song romanticised Florida at all. For me it sounded like she was using Florida as a metaphor for the place you go to enact self sabotage (potentially even self-harm) and dissociate from all the disappointments of your real life. It's not healthy, it isnt thriving, it isnt some romantic escapism but rather "Fuck me Up, Florida". For me the chorus felt like Florida was beating me over the head. And the sound of the song was very echoing and resonant and kind of felt like being trapped in a crashing wave. Really druggy and dissociative and dark. Also, I'm so obsessed with 'But Daddy I Love Him', it's already brought me to tears multiple times. As a queer woman brought up in conservative Christianity, this song felt like it was about proudly claiming the life you know you need for yourself even though you were brought up by people who would hate you and judge you and be cruel to you for living that life. It was a celebration of refusing to let the community you grew up in that was oppressive and hateful dictate how you seek joy and love. It was honestly so healing and for me it felt so clear that it was about what it feels like to grow up in religious circles.

Bethany Wilson

3 hours? Slayful.

Christopher Haessig

The 1,2,3,4 is for sure on purpose to sound like her in ears. Its what she hears so she can hit her marks, which she says in the song. How she hits her marks.

fivebyfive

I knew you would get this album 🥹 it’s so much to digest but I will happily listen to this album for eternity! Taylor said that Florida!!! Was inspired by the fact that she watches Dateline a lot and people always run away to Florida to hide or start a new life, which is why the song is about wanting to go there and start over

Viviana Trujillo

where did you get that shirt?! I love it so much!

Sydney Bryant

Why do you have so many pens nearby 😭

Vanessa Vincent

yaay thanks for this,made my weekend!! its so much better on the second and third listen too

Danika Rae

Matty also had issues with heroin back in the day, so it is a dig at him as well as meaning the above from Travis

Danika Rae

3 hours??? this is like Christmas

Bee

We got a lot of Matty Healy songs on this album which shocked me. But all of them so so so good

Renee Parker

LOML bridge using movie references bc he’s a cinephile

Emma Nelson

Thanks for the reaction!!! Looking forward to part 2!

Tiffany

The attention you give basically every line in a song is why your reactions will always be the ones I look forward to the most! 🫶 I adored this album so I’m glad to see you had such a great time with it too and I’m obvs super excited to see how you feel about the second half!

Kelsie Brake

It makes me so giddy when I see you throw pens in the air for any of Taylors albums 🫶😄

Alycia Ortiz

1:43:00 Double album drop announcement reaction ❤️😆

Jana Fuller

Since I live in a different time zone I didn’t stay awake for the album drop and just decided to listen to it when I woke up. But then I woke up to the best surprise ever with the double album new , 15 new tracks like are you kidding me😭 anyways, this is my second listen watching this and i still can’t pick a favorite, I have multiple ones because she really outdid herself with this album! The second half nearly broke me apart ngl 😅

Bangtan is life

your face when you saw about the double album 💀 that was exactly me when i woke up in the middle of the night and checked my phone and saw the news. I literally yelped, threw my phone and was like "I cant DO this right now" and attempted to sleep a little bit more lmao. she is certifiable and I love her.

Jackie

The very start of so long London sounds just like call it what you want from Rep to me.

Paige Peasley

Fav line so far 45 minutes and 3 songs in- “What’s Taylor’s touch like that it’s too hot? Well nothing that an all-time great tight end can’t handle 😏” 😂

Melissa Ryan

Omg 3 hours!!! I’m so excited let me get my snacks ready❤️

deya R19

my fave taylor reactor!!! was unsure about some of the songs but after watching you've convinced me - this album is a major slay

kamryn

Your reaction to the double album drop was amazing I’m so happy it was on camera 😆😂😆❤️

Jana Fuller

I have been here since folklore reaction and always your reaction is my favorite!! 🤍🫶🏻 can’t wait for part 2!!!!!

Zainab Alqallaf ✨

i just want to say i LOVE how astute you are with what each song is lyrically depicting - so impressive especially since you said you don't keep up with the personal life of taylor you're still able to get what she was trying to say without even knowing the background, good job!

niccala

I’m just gonna comment under my own name as I go 😂 I was honestly shocked this morning that it was so much about Matty- I expected it to be about Joe- but taking into account their past, it makes complete sense!

Melissa Ryan

Now I have to talk about Clara Bow bc OH my god. That last bit. People think this is a letter from Taylor to Sabrina Carpenter giving her advice. Obviously don't know for sure if that's true but it definitely works as a letter to any young girl in almost any field. First it's Clara Bow the very first woman to be called a slut essentially at such a big scale, then Stevie Nicks who got the same shit from the media, then Taylor herself showing this trend just keeps happening. When I first heard it, I even heard it as someone talking to her and saying "you look like the taylor swift that WE always wanted not what you ever wanted to look like so we're happy with you now that you've got more edge" and that makes it even more heartbreaking to me because that's another thing women deal with is being told to dress for everyone else not for you.

Charlie

I'm not even done with the video but I HAVE to say on I Can Do It With A Broken Heart I LOVEEEEE the "one, two, three, four" countdown that sounds like the voice on a click track in a performer's in ear monitor!!!! Idk if that was her intention but on a track about her being able to perform the highest grossing tour in the world night after night while being broken hearted (and writing this album at the same time), it feels like such a cool little detail for her to add. Also, I love Florida!!! it was exactly what I wanted from a Florence feature song. I think it's awesome and I think they sound so good together. Florence's music is very metaphorical usually so the cheating husbands and killing men and using Florida as the escape plan didn't phase me very much it seemed very normal lol. One of my favorites on the album!

Charlie

i was watching another reaction and stopped it to come here. I love the way you care so much about the lyrics and i love that you went so in depth. a 3 hour video is exactly what I need. This has already jumped to my number 2 fav album behind Rep after only a few listens. I can't wait ot see what you think of The Anthology

Jared

Thank you for clearing that up Fae!

Michael Beveraggi

love you for this

Michael Beveraggi

heroine - heroin with an E 😂 I kind of hate that it took me this long to get it 🥲

Marissa Franco

So so excited to get to it :)

Michael Beveraggi

Omg Mads I hope your interview went well!!

Michael Beveraggi

Of course Xue! Enjoy!

Michael Beveraggi

♥️♥️♥️

Michael Beveraggi

That’s such a great point Samantha! This album def needed that safe space

Michael Beveraggi

That’s an amazing point Katie! I’d 100% need a teleprompter

Michael Beveraggi

🫶

Michael Beveraggi

Love you back Simon!

Michael Beveraggi

So ready for this! And even more excited for part 2! Part 2 was the better half and I LOVED part 1!

Melissa Ryan

See, I think this one will be a grower for me. I can appreciate the amazing bars but none of the songs hit me yet. But to be clear, I didn’t fw folklore on the first 2-3 listens and now it’s in my top 3 albums of her discography LMAO so I’m sure I’ll get there

Mikayla

"heroin, but this time with an e" from the alchemy is heroine (a female version of hero/a woman highly admired for her achievements and/or qualities) so she's saying that he jokes that their winning streak is because of taylor, who's a heroine in his eyes

Fae

I loved loved loved this album ❤️ when we (me and my teenager) listenen to it this morning before School we found a lot of semilarities with all the previous albums.

Ida Lisby

Long day for matty

Jenny

First listen so many of these songs screamed that guy from a certain band named after a year haha. Like almost all of them 😅

Ashley O

actually crazy how most of this album is abt fuckass matty healy 😭 like girl we have known that’s the smallest man who ever lived for a while lmao

jk jk

I was waiting for this!!

Dani May

there are far more songs about matty healy on this album than anyone expected lol

McKenna DeFranco

I’ll say his name for you- matty

Deirdre Harney

I shrieked when I saw how long this video is!! I'm sooo excited! It's almost bedtime for me though, I've been up for ages omg, but I can't wait to watch this tomorrow 😍

Vera

Also, to add. It doesn’t change her sound up very much from midnights, but I think she was in such a raw place emotionally, there needed to be a safe place to process all the emotions and Jack and Aaron are a safe space for her.

Samantha Tingle

Yessss!!! I’ve been refreshing waiting!

Ashley O

I agree so much this is her best work lyrically and that's saying something...

Portia Crain

I was trying not to overhype this album in my head, and saw a lot of critical opinions post leaks. For the few songs I was a bit uncertain, but I have fallen in love with this album so quickly, and upon a second listen I think these will be some of my favorites in her discography. I feel like this is as raw and emotionally messy as she has ever been and I mean that in the best possible way. And the vocals on so many songs blew my mind.

Stephanie Orman

you got to this so quick!!! so excited to see your thoughts on this!!! honestly i love this album but i think the anthology edition is even BETTER so cannot wait to see you react to that one!

cara

I love the writing on this album... mY two favorite songs are "my boy only breaks his favorite toys" and but "daddy I love him" like I said the writing is out of this world!!!

Portia Crain

oh, i don't think you understand how perfect the timing of this is! I'm so excited! I haven't listened yet bc I'm on the East Coast and had an interview I just finished minutes ago, so I had to be responsible this morning and prep for it - it's been killing me! Excited to listen along with you

Mads

I reeeeally like Florida!!! but otherwise this album was sonically soooo underwhelming to me. I’m sure you’ll love some of the writing though! Some great lyrics. I just need Jack Antonoff to take a break 🫢😭

Storm

thanks for putting this up so soon!!!

Xue Lynn

THREE HOURS!? oh i am locked in

McKenna DeFranco

lets go!!!

Giu Bressani

I’m so happy!!! Impressive to get this up this fast. This album won’t be for everyone, but it’s what she needed to process the hardest years of her life and losing what she thought was her chance at marriage and babies (until Travis) However, there are amazing songs on it and it’s woven together like only Taylor knows how to do. Her lyricism in this one is some of her best work! This album makes me feel sad for how low she got, while smiling for everyone else. The ERAs tour may have saved her from a truly dark path. The anthology has the hits on it, but there were no skips for me on either one.

Samantha Tingle

It’s gonna take me a minuteeee to fully comprehend and memorize these lyrics. How the hell does she remember all these?!? She is simply unreal and we are all blessed to be able to live on this earth during the same lifetime as Taylor

Katie Jandrain

AHHH!!!

heather

i’m so excited for your thoughts on this!!

gabrie

I KNOW YOURE GOING TO EAT THIS WRITING UP KING

Lucille

Over 3 hours??? I love you

Simon Falk

i loved it

emmy

Ahhhh

Jana Fuller

This album ain’t it, I’m scared 😐

Erica


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