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She maintains if you don’t want a song written about you don’t do bad things.

@JacobRestituto

Ай бұрын

LOL

@To_Fun

Ай бұрын

THAT IS SO TRUE 🤣🤷🏻‍♂️

@kelli8923

Ай бұрын

Came here to say this. And THAT is what should be the takeaway. Maybe if all people were called out for their damaging behavior it would lessen. Doubtful but one can hope.

@MarilynVatican

29 күн бұрын

LITERALLY THIS. Just ask Taylor Lautner.... *ahem* yeah just don't be a Bee-otch and you're good. The bar is sooooo low.. but men continue to berate the idea that she only writes songs about men saying horrible things.... maybe just DON'T BE HORRIBLE??? 🤯

@lindalawson7600

28 күн бұрын

It’s actually bigger than just romantic relationships. If people knew they would face public exposure when treating others badly it may stop even generational mental injury…

What Taylor has done for girls and women is make it ok for us to say out loud “that hurt” without feeling ashamed.

Imagine it’s about a jerk who hurt your daughter….. you’d luv the lyrics

Most underrated lyric on the whole album: *slip through the bars*

@aasthasharma8392

Ай бұрын

Rightttt... When it's preceeded by you deserve prison but you wont get time

@rturney6376

Ай бұрын

Brilliant ❤

@itsmehi691

Ай бұрын

Damn ❤

@hugomendoza5665

Ай бұрын

I also find two more meanings; slip through bars like going drinking like if he has a drinking problem, but also showing up in the song, 'bars' like lyrics.

@lisapulieri8587

29 күн бұрын

Another meaning of "slip through the bars" could be Xanax pills. Just a thought

One THING ABOUT OUR QUEEN. WHEN SHE BREATHS before the begining , We need to be mentally prepared😔. And guess what ??? I’m not😭 as always…

@swiftlyme13

17 күн бұрын

Realll

To me the pacing of the album is reminiscent of the non-linear stages of healing- the highs and lows, the manic/depressive episodes

@melissad807

Ай бұрын

At least that's my very rough, untested theory lol 😆 I need to give it some more straight through listens

@enlightenedapple

16 күн бұрын

Spot on!

Something that I realized about the loml -> I Can Do It With A Broken Heart -> The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived production run: loml is representing the end of the relationship, the production reflects the sadness over the loss. The relationship ended while she was on tour, so you immediately go from loml to ICDIWABH, a song about performing on stage while being broken inside, and it literally sounds like being on stage. The sound resembles Bejeweled from Midnights, and Midnights is the last set she performs on stage during Eras Tour. So then the switch to TSMWEL... is her leaving the show and going back to the hotel where she's alone with her thoughts and her anger is building as she's thinking about it. The production takes you on the emotional rollercoaster she was experiencing at the time.

@nancybillings7485

Ай бұрын

That is exactly what I was thinking. Taylor writes her songs so that people can feel like they are reading her diary. This album was written during a turbulent time - a break-up followed by a rebounding relationship, followed by the start of a mega-tour, and then a new love interest. If the songs feel like they are kind of "all over the place," then that's how Taylor was feeling. I would imagine her feelings were yanking her around a lot. I like listening to the music and following that emotional journey.

@taralovesdiamondart

23 күн бұрын

Exactly, I can't even start to listen to a new Taylor Swift album on Shuffle until I've had a few weeks to absorb the flow of the album, because the order of the tracks often tells a story or adds to the overall story she's trying to tell.

my new fave kind of reaction: men faces to the line “you don’t mesure up in any mesure of a man” 😂😂😂

I can picture her performing this whole album with a live orchestra. It’s such amazing art.

@capthamme4883

25 күн бұрын

not you pretty much manifesting this 😭😭

She didn't even give us info we didn't already know about him, the only new info was her feelings and perspective

Love that you focus on the music and not the who/what/when. Her art is amazing and something to enjoy and feel and appreciate. We don't need to know or speculate, just be happy we get to have all this poetry and music and artistic expression in the aftermath.

"the were you sent by someone" part i think is a take of her getting super close to the mic and the audio peaked. love that they left in an imperfect take, it just adds to the tension of that part

I believe the arrangement of songs is representative of the stages of grief.

@MarilynVatican

29 күн бұрын

wowwww... no but fr. If you analyze the stages of grief, they don't "make sense" to standard/typical every day thinking.. that's an incredible take

Also-ran refers to someone who didn’t place in a race. They “also-ran” but weren’t important in the context of who won the race.

@taralovesdiamondart

23 күн бұрын

Yes. I think the origin of the phrase is from horse racing. You have the winner, the runner-up and second runner-up and the rest of the field are the also-rans.

I appreciate you discussing the technical musical components to the song. It’s cool to get to learn about that. And you said it well about the lyrics-they just keep coming at you and there’s no room to breathe. This is definitely a tough song to take.

She doesn't put out half the things her exes do, I'm sure 😅 I don't understand how people even think that. She only gives us glimpses

@MarilynVatican

29 күн бұрын

LITERALLY THIS. Just ask Taylor Lautner.... ahem yeah just don't be a Bee-otch and you're good. The bar is sooooo low.. but men continue to berate the idea that she only writes songs about men saying horrible things.... maybe just DON'T BE HORRIBLE???

@lkcullen1918

Күн бұрын

Even matty himself said (in regards to the songs about him) he was "relieved" when the album came out because "it could have been worse"

Taylor’s X Tweet on 4/19 “The Tortured Poets Department. An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time - one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure. This period of the author’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up. There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed. And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted. This writer is of the firm belief that our tears become holy in the form of ink on a page. Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it. And then all that’s left behind is the tortured poetry.”

I think that in between al the pain and hurt she had to fake beeing suuuper happy because she was on tour... and that is how she representen that in the album

These songs are about two different men. One is Joe Alwyn (So Long London) the other guy is Matty Healy. Most of the songs including this one are about Matty from the band 1975. I won’t say anymore because you say you don’t care but when you know what’s been happening with her and why she wrote the songs they mean so much more and are more understood and impactful!

It’s brutal. One of my favorite songs of hers of all time. I can’t wait for you to get to Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus and How Did It End. Haunting. And my favorite lyrics are in How Did it End.

This album is chronological.

@bmcdonough

28 күн бұрын

No because their are Joe and Matty songs after the alchemy. Unless you mean each single album is chronological?

@bmcdonough

28 күн бұрын

…wait no That can’t be right either cause I could do it with a broken heart comes before this song, it’s be the other way around to be chronological. And ttpd is before so long London…. Def not chronological

So this album is very contextual. I think the order is on purpose. At this time, Taylor was doing the Eras tour while going through a LTR breakup, then a love bomber who had her feeling and acting crazy (she said some things on stage like she has never been so happy and everything makes sense in her life when she was being love bombed) and then the guy ghosts her and she still goes on stage several times a week to perform all of her love and heartbreak songs. So she experienced the loss of her life, then there is the was tour song ICDIWABH, then the smallest man where she feels all the anger and depression afterwards.

Hearing your thoughts on the music helps me listen to the different instruments and tones and changes. I love Taylor's music for the message, emotion and art. She is amazing in the way she puts the music and lyrics together. Thank you for helping me hear the music and understand how it all comes together.

The smallest man who ever lived and loml aren't about the same person, that's why they are separated. Loml is about someone she still cares for and feels haunted by, the smallest man who ever lived is angry and much more brutal.

@SybillT

Ай бұрын

They are absolutely about the same person.

@Shady_Belle

Ай бұрын

I agree @sadematsavirta - I don't understand people who think they're about the same person. It seems completely unrealistic and unlikely that she'd release a song like loml about someone who she also thinks is the smallest man who ever lived. And it's clear loml is about an actor, and she's mentioned before that they loved watching old movies together

@Shady_Belle

Ай бұрын

I honestly also think Taylor might even feel a bit offended that people have the audacity to minimise a 6 year relationship like this. The breakdown of their relationship was coming for a very long time it seems, sometimes it takes a very long time to break up and it must have been a huge loss to go through.

@KMCB12

Ай бұрын

@@Shady_Belle I actually think the whole point is that loml could be about either man. That's a big part of so much of the album: as Taylor said it was out of the oven and into the microwave. It was in too many ways the same relationship with many of the same issues and they both burned her but one burned her slowly over six years and one quickly over a few weeks. The key of course is that SHE never said the subject of loml is the love of HER life. She says she was told that SHE was the love of THEIR life. And she was TOLD by THEM that they thought they were the love of hers. But she never says they were the love of her life. She says they were the loss of her life. And in this instance they both were. Because it's not about the individual man that was the "loss" it's about the life and the story they BOTH sold her. They both said they were the love of her life and that she was the love of theirs and that they would marry her and have kids with her and neither followed through. The dangling of those promises and then yanking them away was the loss of her life.

@jennabshire4428

Ай бұрын

She and Matty Healy go back to 2014. This song is about him and what he did to her. His drug use and his cruelty to her. The mean things he said about her publicly.

Thanks for the great content. I'm new to the channel, but I'm enjoying the videos. To answer your question about the structure of the album, I think "loml" was a bsllard describing her biggest heartbreak the loss of her life and showed how heartbroken she was during the start of the eras tour. Which is the peek of her intire career. So the hyper pop-pyness of "I can do it woth a broken heart" is meant to be almost fake happy production to show what the pretend happy she forced on stage during the eras tour. To me this song is the moment she gies home into bed, when the chaos is over and she's quietly feeling heartbreak and betrayal again. Hope that makes sense. Thanks again. Keep up the great content.

@JacobRestituto

Ай бұрын

WOW. that's interesting insigh!

@mizzmarzie2912

Ай бұрын

@@JacobRestituto It might be wrong but I did like the theory. I enjoy how the production of each song and even the placement of the songs feeds into the narrative she's trying to tell... or I could just be wrong 😅

The structure of the album is based on the stages of grief so it's not done like it would normally be on a traditionally album. If that makes sense Shock Denial Anger Bargaining Depression Testing Acceptance

i loved your question about the structure of the album and the placement of those three specific songs. it can seem so chaotic at first glance, but as an artist, you're right that it must be very deliberate. my interpretation is that as her sound changes from the Midnight synth into the more emotional ballads, life interrupts, performances must go on. She has to show her brightest smile. Thus, I Can Do It With A Broken Heart. I feel that this entire album was her summary of grappling with depression along with a perhaps toxic relationship while needing to put on that mask at a moments notice.

To me - the structure is a flash pan relationship and breakup. It’s erratic, irrational, passionate.

Is interesting, you talking about the structure. I felt like it is messaging based, as opposed to sound. Like, with this song since the subject of her ex that had addiction, and for her he was everything a man should NOT be ….. then she follows it up with “the alchemy”, which is about Travis Kelce, and everything she believes a man SHOULD be. And then she also makes the line about heroin which plays off of the smallest man that ever lived, given that her ex his addiction was heroin. So these two songs fit perfectly together because it gave that stark contrast of this is where I was, but this is where I am now.

.maybe it’s not about any specific person, but it’s universal. I can think of lots of people who are just like that. If the shoe fits, wear it.

This song is my first love from this album

Every song is my favorite depending on my mood lol. Great reaction!!!

I Can Do It With A Broken Heart happens to be track 13 I think, and that's her favorite number, so my guess is that she did that on purpose, so you're probably right about the placement of the songs making less sense without additional context! 'Also-ran' is like what happens when an article says 'Amal Clooney and her husband' haha. The man treated her like an accessory, not someone as important as they are.

There are two different guys she’s written about and these were written at different times.

Hearing this a month out; did someone explain “also ran” to him”? It’s a horse racing reference: winner, place, show and also ran in other words, last place.

You need to react to this song live!!!!

With I can do it with a broken heart, she was giving us a bit of a break between heartache🤣

The sequencing is intentional. LOML (breakup), I Can Do It With A Broken Heart (touring heartbroken), Smallest Man Who Ever Lived (rebound with MH), The Alchemy (new love)

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I think she did it in that order because I Can Do It with a Broken Heart is perfect for her lucky number 13 and she didn’t want to give Matty that honor 😂

@Blabbertok says the song is about her former manager who was involved in selling her songs to Scooter

It's funny you said 'run on sentence' and that there's no breath. There were two deliberate breaths, one as the song started and one before it picked up. She's a fucking genius!

Assuming the reason this and LOML are not together on the album is they are about different men

I think she put the songs somewhat in chronological order on the first album of the two

I am not the best at all the lore, but I do know she’s very specific about where she places songs and why. May not make sense to us.

It's the stages of grief

The second half of the song would sound so good live if it was more halftime drum/arena rock-ish production similar to the second half of "Happier than Ever" by Billie Eilish or even like Illicit Affairs in the Eras Tour

It might have been pills. But earlier in Fortnight she references taking the 'the miracle move on drug' ... another person. So here in The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived, him trying to buy pills from friends of friends could be him trying to cheat with someone and it got back to her through the gossip chain. She's not actually all that literal.

@laramorrison5973

Ай бұрын

I think it is literal in the scenario, Matty Healy has been a recovering drug addict and relapsed etc for a long time.

@user-to2sc3cm6m

Ай бұрын

@@laramorrison5973 Could be. But again, she isn't always that literal and honestly rarely puts on blast *exactly* what happens in that sort of straightforward way. I think the idea of pills and MH is an easy line that checks out/sounds about right. But she usually doesn't just come right out with it. So many are skeptical. Plus not many people believe that would make TS dump someone. She doesn't seem to be into anything but weed, but she likes a good project of a man. It's her downfall.

Listen to the anthology from Manuscript backwards…

Different producers

This song makes nuggets out of my chicken heart

Thank you! Please just know my ex is to blame. Tony and I never actually separated and my ex did everything he could to destroy. Trust me I probably should have died multiple times like catwoman with 9 lives

The reason might be 13 is her lucky number so she puts a song about herself at track 13. There might be other reasons too but this is my theory.

Not slow but reserved.

I don’t think that she is talking about the same guy from LOML

I don't think this song is about any guy she has dated. I think it about Scoot the guy from the big machine records. The bridge matches with him perfectly and everything else it is a metaphor.

@capthamme4883

25 күн бұрын

Oh my god this is a devastating approach. 😭😭😭😭

I think the reason loml and smallest man were not together is because they were about 2 different guys.

Hi Jacob! If you wanna listen some new music/artist I recommend Azahriah to you! He’s a hungarian singer/producer and VERY talented, sing in hungarian and english as well. He is also very popular in Hungary (sold out stadium concert 3 nights) Pls react to four moods or cipoe! It’s a little bit different but you won’t regret it! 🤗

An "also-ran" means loser (they treated her like a loser).

This song is hyperbole but its about betrayal ... Scott Birchetta

@katistrophic17

29 күн бұрын

@carlapsalms2334 I read that as Scott Bitchetta and now I refuse to think it's any different 😂

Not me having Taylor on my wall, stabbed with pushpins.....

Also-ran is another word for unsuccessful, someone who fails to win, a loser

also ran /has been. Its matty healy of the 1975 she knew him before, but after the end of her 6 year relationship she asked their mutual producer to reach out to him, they had a couple week rebound with a lot of protest from fans because of his problematic behavior he ghosted her and it really hurt her

@JacobRestituto

Ай бұрын

Hmm lol where’d you get all that info from

You need to listen to the lyrics man! Your not listening to the song. Your listening to the music… your missing 70% of the song.

@hannahthehoneybee

Ай бұрын

Totally agree, yet the music is part of the song! The lyrics relate to the music and vice versa. And u can only rly appreciate the dialogue between the lyrics and music once youve listened a few times. She really is a genius!

@Exhausted_Emily

Ай бұрын

This is exactly the reason I just don't even bother sharing songs I like with my boyfriend. He only cares about the music and the beat. And I am a lyric queen. Every lyric goes right over his head. And I'm just like, HOW ARE YOU MISSING ALL THIS PERECTION?? 😭

Actually, it sounds political to me.

This album is so bad. Taylor really needs to cut ties with Jack and actually maybe evolve as an artist. They must have hit a creative mental block or something because this stuff is so derivative and as a producer myself I can tell they are just running out of ideas. Its such a mess. This didn’t even have the same care that Midnights did and I didn’t even think that album was great. Constantly reusing pitch patterns, vocal effects, cadences, and song concepts, and somehow making it worse than her previous efforts. Its incredible how derivative this is. And wow these lyrics are shallow. Olivia has evolved more in 3 years than Taylor has in 15! I’m not a huge fan of pop in general, but man this album was especially bad. Somehow worse than most of her others. Does she have to evolve? No. She’ll get sales anyway and her fans will eat anything she throws at them.

@Bea56601

Ай бұрын

So it sounds like you’re not a fan of her regardless..? Or you’re not a fan of Jack? Either way it’s whatever 🤷‍♀️

@DonovanGG__

Ай бұрын

@@Bea56601 you liked your own comment lil bro

@lovethatnyancat

Ай бұрын

And obviously if an artist doesn't "evolve" then anything that they put out after their first album which defined their sound is automatically invalid. Seems legit

@DonovanGG__

Ай бұрын

@@lovethatnyancat bro she has been doing the same 💩for 20 years now💀

@SanAntoneRose

Ай бұрын

A Taylor hater hating Taylor. Next….

Are you doing the second album too?

I appreciate that you arent speculating on who these songs are about. 🤍🩶🖤

@altsam9

Ай бұрын

Because he doesn't know anything about it and doesn't care. He's a musician and he's reacting and reviewing the songs from a musician perspective. That's it.

@juliag283

Ай бұрын

@@altsam9 that's why I'm watching. I can 🤡 with friends. These types of reactions always make me smile. Storytelling and the sonic feedback is refreshing.

@JacobRestituto

Ай бұрын

glad to hear you're enjoying it!

Google is my friend at times in lyrics: also-ran /ˈɔːlsəʊran,ˈɒlsəʊran/ noun a loser in a race or other contest, especially by a large margin. "the line between champions and also-rans" INFORMAL an undistinguished or unsuccessful person or thing.

@JacobRestituto

Ай бұрын

oh wow othanks