Honestly, if you were to do a video like this for each and every song I would watch them all gladly. I love your videos and your opinions on this song. You're amazing, Nena❤
agreed! I don’t know english so well to understand every hidden detail, so Nena’s videos helps so much! and also I see that she is a pro at lyrics and meanings.
I think a lot of her songs on TTPD are braided poetry. I looked it up and this is what Google tells me: “A braided piece is one that uses different strands - usually three separate story lines or topics, alternating topics sequentially between each of the three lines." She's been wearing the braids for this era and I feel like so many songs could be referencing multiple situations. I think you touched on that a bit too. I'd love to hear your breakdown of any/all of them. I think it is so interesting to hear what people are getting from her songs/poetry ☺
When I saw Taylor in the rain its like midnight rain reference, because, he is a sunshine so he is not so affected because he is under it, on the phone, also the rain reminds me of peace with the part of the rain always comes if you stay with me
When she says “I was a functioning alcoholic” it reminds me of the anti hero music video where she is constantly drinking and the bad side of her is pressuring her to drink
This is my interpretation of the fortnight music video. I think it represents the 3 relationships she refers to on the album with Joe, Matty and Travis. The first scene where she is chained to the bed in a wedding dress kinda gives that symbolism of her feeling trapped in the relationship she had with joe with all her unfulfilled dreams. Then she goes into the bathroom to clean her face and then the tattoos appear. To me that represents the real parts of herself she was hiding from Joe to please him. Her compromising on a lot of things that make her happy for him to be to feel at peace in the relationship. Then you have the scene in the office with post. I think he's supposed to represent matty before them getting together as he has the tattoos on him representing his flaws. Them typing on the typewriter exchanging energies kinda gives that twin flame vibe. Like them secretly writing songs about each other and only them know it's about the other person. Then the scene that she's running up to him is them reuniting after Joe. He is without tattoos. I think it refers to him promising to change. Then you see that instant switch up from her being happy with him to being angry at him because she realizes it was all a facade. Then the scene in the with the electrocution is definitely a direct correlation with down bad. Him doing experiments on her then "saving" her from himself by leaving her. Then you see her having the meltdown with everything burning into flames. Her expectations and dreams that she lost in loml. Then the scene with her on top of the phone booth. I wouldn't have thought he was travis if not for the fact that there is a friendship bracelet hanging in the phone booth. I think that is supposed represent him trying to reach out but her was in her feelings and trying to process everything. He also dressed like one of travis' game day fits during December. Then he comes out to reach out to her and she holds his hand. The zoom on the hands kinda confirm to me it's travis in that last scene. She is wearing a bracelet that is kinda similar to what travis wears and post is wearing a pinky ring. Travis usually wears pinky rings. He wore it to coachella and the charity event. I think it's meant to symbolize that he stood in the rain with herto comfort her. Accepted her because he wanted to be with her.
Your mention of her soaking in the rain atop the phone booth in the video made me think of the lyric in “The Black Dog” - “How my rain-soaked body was shaking” … Thanks Nena 🤍🩶
I had never thought of the song like this! the way i had interpreted the line "I touched you for only a fortnight" as her maybe saying that out of the whole relationship, there was only a small portion of which she felt truly close to him. But i love yours as well!
Regarding quiet treason, I attribute this to her 6 year relationship and her many mentions of her partner’s tendency to pull away from her. She never calls it passive aggressive but that’s my takeaway. Thank you, Nena for this well thought out deep dive. ❤️
Hi Nena can you do a lyric breakdown of the Black Dog because I would love to dive deeper into that song (and obviously it's your favourite and mine too)
Hello Nena, Thank you for your very intersting video! I wonder if you know a bit a The 1975's work, because there are plenty links with TTPD. For exemple, the Fortnight video is very close to the esthetic of "About you" video. That's the song in background when Matty Healy saif "I love you" on stage to Taylor. In this black an white video, you'll find, papers flying, a black dog crossing the screen, a mettalic crown,... Even in the lyrics of song written about Taylor, you will find links (like "they're speaking about the weather"). Here a list of 1975 songs that I presume is about Taylor. (Don't come after me if I'm wrong 😅): - "About You" - "Me &You Together Song" - "She’s American" - "change of heart" I think he referces mainly to her with "the face from a magazine" And to finish, is it possible that "Style" (and other songs?) was about Matty Healy? Maybe this could be the subject of another video? 🙂 In any case, that you for you work! Best wishes from Belgium.
I’d love to hear a breakdown of any of them honestly but the bolter or I look in peoples windows or the tortured poets department would be at the top of that list. Love your breakdowns 🫶🏼
Love your interpretation of the Tattoo scene, and you def inspired me. My thought is maybe she is trying to hide her tattoo to accommodate Joe, and she’s done with that or whatever. She faced her true self after the relationship
The last scene in the music video I believe is reference to Travis, reaching out to her grabbing her hand because they zoom into the bracelet on her wrist. And we know that their relationship started with a bracelet
Wow, what a detailed, informed, and smart take on this song. It didn't grab me out of the gate, but like so much of her work, it bores itself into your brain and then you need to hear it again and again. And an(other) intriguing video. It feels like all the black-and-white and the kind of steampunk goth imagery ("my new aesthetic") are signaling the imminent Reputation TV. Also, the whole laboratory scene evokes the 1935 classic horror film "Bride of Frankenstein", which would resonate with the themes of constructing a wife for someone who may be a monster, or more to the point, a blameless monster who doesn't mean to hurt people and is misunderstood and hounded to destruction. I love all the very helpful cross-referencing you do. You're really good at this, and such a pleasant presenter!
17:38 my interpretation here is like boring and miserable in an endless world of love.. Because Feb is famous for Valentines day which signifies Love, so im thinking it was the metaphor of and it could be what Taylor meant.. That she is somehow stuck in this miserable state, love wise, over and over that she badly wanted to move on with her life but it just couldn't happen, or sometimes she thinks she is but it's just short-lived... P.S I love this song analysis Nena.. Keep it up 🤍✨
The “my husband is cheating” lyric always made me think that even after all this time she still feels like her ex belongs to her because she thought they were going to be together forever. So he’s not actually “cheating” but seeing him be with his new wife makes Taylor feel like he is, if that makes sense.
I saw on another breakdown that there is a poet called Sylvia Plath who died in “the endless February” and there is A LOT of connections to her in the song and the music video! You should investigate and make a video on this, think you’d find it interesting 💖
around 2:11 I find it important not to read the "but I touched you" line NOT as just an abreviated repetition of the previous line, but a different thought: first line means more: i just touched you. Second line rather says: a) but I really went ahead this time and touched you (I hear you, Guilty as Sin!) and b) I left a mark on you, too, as in: I touched your soul.
I agree it’s about both of the muses. The beginning gives me more Joe vibes and later it gives more Matty vibes. I think several of the songs on this record are vague in a way that it could be about either of them and I think that’s intentional. I also think it interesting that up until Lover Taylor was a diaristic writer, but started writing fiction with folklore, but now seems to have mastered the blending of the two, like where at face value it seems like it could just be a story but it’s really a giant metaphor for something in her life.
Oh, you need to awknowledge New Romantics: "Please take my hand and Please take me dancing, and Please leave me stranded It's so romantic" being connected to "How dare you think it's romantic, Leaving me safe and stranded" in Down Bad! She connects the whole album to her work that she did until now. imho my guess is, that she'll end the eras tour only as soon as Rep+Debut TV are out. It's her best ad to announce them at the tour, as we've seen so far. She'll have her re recordings, TS11 and her biggest tour wrapped up and could chill down for a time and proceed on being a director, a guide or whatever she's into. I could think she'd announce Rep TV soon and it could come in Octobre, as she likes to torture us with long waiting times and a new drop every few days of variants, merch and such! And after that, she'd announce Debut, ofc only after Rep Sales cooled down and it hat its time to shine. She'd release it somewhere in '25 and will announce additional concerts. Once Tour is over, her life work will be "wrapped up" to a nice Anthology ( ;) ) of TS 11 + TV's. She'd have a fresh start to whatever she'd like. i see many interpretations throughout the album and as said connections to her whole disco + concerts + trivia and so on. oh oh, just listening the last ten minutes while I typed this comment above and immediately thought about this.. because you said in the MV Posty just watches while they're doing the treatment... Down Bad again, starts with "Did you really beam me up, In a cloud of sparkling dust, *Just to do experiments on?* Tell me I was the chosen one, Showed me that this world is bigger than us, Then sent me back where I came from". Okay, experiments are a huge part of alien lore, but it fits just so nicely!
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This song gave me a headache trying to analyze. But actually I think this might be about her still being (unhappy) with Joe and thinking about the situationship she had with Matty back in the day. And then seeing him more often and starting to catch feelings again but both of them are in a relationship. I don’t know. But I really enjoyed your video and hearing your perspective. Thank you ☺️❤️
i loved this breakdown!! i feel like it definitely has a bunch of double meanings throughout the song and after watching this it all makes so much more sense lol! i would love to hear a breakdown of the black dog or the smallest man who ever lived
Realizing that the line is “and for a fortnight there, we were forever” and not “and for a fortnight, there we were forever” makes the whooooole song make sense 😅 I was so confused 😂
Such an articulate person Nena! Really enjoyed this, watched every second and found your insights fascinating. Renewed my interest in this song. Thanks ❤
I'm really curious if she genuinely wanted to get married OR if she was attracted to the fairy tale/Disney princess idea of getting married and living happily ever after OR if finding "the one" and getting married was the only dream that girls of her generation were allowed to/taught to have OR a combination of all of the above... I'm 7 years younger than her, and when I was growing up, the idea of getting married and being a mother was so ingrained in my brain from a very young age by my family, the media, religion, etc. I almost wonder if the image of her being chained up in a wedding dress is linked to the part in Lavender Haze (also a track 1) that goes, "All they keep asking me / Is if I'm gonna be your bride / The only kinda girl they see / Is a one night or a wife." I imagine this imagery is her trying to break out of this pressure society puts on women to get married. I imagine she is trying to just be herself rather than what is expected of her.
Lavender haze to me has the same energy as women who say "marriage is just a piece of paper" when they really do want to get married cause deep inside they know their partners don't love them and doesn't want to commit to them but they don't want to admit it becauseof sunk cost fallacy. Especially when you consider the other lyrics. "Staring at the ceiling with you you don't ever say to much. You don't really read into my melancholia" like why doesn't your partner care for the reason that you are sad lol. And especially when you consider she has been saying she wanted to marry this man since rep lol Also I don't think the line necessarily means she doesn't want marriage. She just wants people to stop speculating on her relationships and love life. Imagine how hurtful it must have been for her to see all the tabloids writing about her and Joe secretly getting engaged when the reality is that he didn't want to marry her at all. But yeah I do have the fear that she may want to be married for the sake of it to show that she isn't the boy crazy woman they all think she is which she portrays in blank space. cause if you are that desperate that you saw a future with an unstable partner like matty who already has a history of treating women like crap then idk. But I'm going to take her word for it in the summation poem that she has realized her mistakes
I think the love you fase, you ruin my life was joe (bc a fortnigte when she see back on it is what it will feel like when she look back on them( matty is also in the song & the last part (on the top on the USA phone box is Travis) - that also fit with the other song about Travis
Another video nugget: the silhouette shot them lying side by side is reference to "her twin" in Down Bad. They are dressed identical! Also, Matty has a similar shot in one of his videos of him with himself (twins).
omg has it been a month? I have literally not listened to anything but Taylor for this whole month then. I played TTPD on repeat then relaxed with every other album on my All Taylor ♥ playlist on spotify. I can't believe its been an entire month.
My feeling about the song as a whole is it's about the break down of the American dream: a long term relationship that's failing, and a longing for a past fling when you felt passionate and in love. Another fortnight lost in America: the passion which is lost when you're in an unhappy long term relationship.
I don’t know why but after I watched Fortnight the second time, I felt like in the beginning there is a man (Postie) in the hospital. he lost the love of his life and went crazy and thought he was her, but then he cleaned his face and there are his tattoos. also in the middle of the music video when Taylor and Post look at each other, they are smiling and then Taylor stop to smile and Postie has a face like “i don’t understand”. I just had this vibe that he lost her and know remembering everything. and taylor in this vid is like his imagination and memory. sorry!! I don’t know! This is just my second impression! now I’ve watched it so many times, so I have new theory every time I watch it 😂 let me know if you felt the same way as me!
Same, Nena. I never took "fortnight" to mean a literal 2 week period. I'm glad someone else agree with me! 😊 Also, at first, I thought the "side profile" COULD be a U.K. map, but now I see that it IS her side profile, NOT the U.K.!! Silly me!! 😂
I feel like the line “your wife waters flowers, I want to kill her” is also about the fact that Taylor doesn’t live a “normal” life and she never will be able to. But her partner wanted a normal life and she couldn’t give that to him. So it’s like his next partner will be a “normal” woman who waters flowers and isn’t famous. That’s just kind of how I thought of that line 😊
In a want you back she says something like "am an Aston Martin you drove straight into the ditch" so maybe "buy the car you want but it won't start till I touch you" means - yeah pick the girl you want but you only function with me -
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I think that the psych ward is a metaphor for the music industry, and being taken away is her metaphor for being aged out or cancelled 🐍out of the music industry. We know that's been weighing on her mind for a while. In WAOLOM, when she says, "You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me from" I think the asylum is the music industry. We know that pre-Reputation, she was already starting to worry about how long she could ride this high of being one of, or even "the", most popular pop artists in the world, and after the Kimye controversy, she thought everything was over. In Mirrorball, she talks about being alone and ignored, but still trying to do her best to get loved and noticed for her sparkle -- after she's been taken away from that spotlight. I think 'I was supposed to be sent away But they forgot to come and get me' is talking about how basically, she's been prepared for people to get tired of her and send her away, but they haven't yet. I think TTPD has three main themes: Joe, Matty, and the music industry and the fallout from her success, and I think Fortnite is the opener to the album and the first single because it ties together all three of those themes. Like, being in the psych ward, bored, in bed, in her wedding dress, speaks both of the relationship with Joe and how she felt when the music industry was dictating what she could release/put on her albums/etc. But the ability to unlock her chains was in her own hands the whole time, and she releases the handcuffs, breaks up with Joe, and steps out of the mold the industry wanted to put her into. And still she doesn't get taken away.
Could someone super heart please tell me if they see her mouthing something other than "I wanna kill her" at 1:04 in the video? It looks like she's saying "I wanna kill it" or something? Anyone else see that it looks a little off?
The insane asylum… All I can think about when I see this image is champagne problems. “She would’ve made such a lovely bride what a shame she’s fucked in the head” 😭
1) you didn't mention about Clara Bow ref in this song 2) i think cheating husband is a code for Joe Alwyn's cheating. 3) the car ref can be of the rental car Matty Healy bought.
Thank you so much for this! It’s so nice to be here with other kind swifties. I get so upset when people judge Taylor and don’t take the time to understand her writing! It’s so amazing! She is unlike any other! 🫶🏻🤍👏🏻
The book with us on is an easter egg for her collab with gracie abram. I think the side profile might be gracie too like when she has a bun in her hair?
Honestly, if you were to do a video like this for each and every song I would watch them all gladly. I love your videos and your opinions on this song. You're amazing, Nena❤
agreed! I don’t know english so well to understand every hidden detail, so Nena’s videos helps so much! and also I see that she is a pro at lyrics and meanings.
100% agree!!
Yes, we need this!!
For real!!!! If you made it like a series of ttpd lyric breakdowns I would LOOSE MY MIND!!!
Same
I think a lot of her songs on TTPD are braided poetry. I looked it up and this is what Google tells me: “A braided piece is one that uses different strands - usually three separate story lines or topics, alternating topics sequentially between each of the three lines." She's been wearing the braids for this era and I feel like so many songs could be referencing multiple situations. I think you touched on that a bit too. I'd love to hear your breakdown of any/all of them. I think it is so interesting to hear what people are getting from her songs/poetry ☺
That is a catch. Think about Clara Bow, she mentions Clara, then Stevie and then herself.
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When I saw Taylor in the rain its like midnight rain reference, because, he is a sunshine so he is not so affected because he is under it, on the phone, also the rain reminds me of peace with the part of the rain always comes if you stay with me
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And “how you don’t miss me in the shower, and remember, how my rain soaked body was shaking”
When she says “I was a functioning alcoholic” it reminds me of the anti hero music video where she is constantly drinking and the bad side of her is pressuring her to drink
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@@NenaShelby the bed frame in the fortnight music video is the same bed frame from the you belong with me music video
This is my interpretation of the fortnight music video. I think it represents the 3 relationships she refers to on the album with Joe, Matty and Travis.
The first scene where she is chained to the bed in a wedding dress kinda gives that symbolism of her feeling trapped in the relationship she had with joe with all her unfulfilled dreams. Then she goes into the bathroom to clean her face and then the tattoos appear. To me that represents the real parts of herself she was hiding from Joe to please him. Her compromising on a lot of things that make her happy for him to be to feel at peace in the relationship.
Then you have the scene in the office with post. I think he's supposed to represent matty before them getting together as he has the tattoos on him representing his flaws. Them typing on the typewriter exchanging energies kinda gives that twin flame vibe. Like them secretly writing songs about each other and only them know it's about the other person. Then the scene that she's running up to him is them reuniting after Joe. He is without tattoos. I think it refers to him promising to change. Then you see that instant switch up from her being happy with him to being angry at him because she realizes it was all a facade. Then the scene in the with the electrocution is definitely a direct correlation with down bad. Him doing experiments on her then "saving" her from himself by leaving her.
Then you see her having the meltdown with everything burning into flames. Her expectations and dreams that she lost in loml. Then the scene with her on top of the phone booth. I wouldn't have thought he was travis if not for the fact that there is a friendship bracelet hanging in the phone booth. I think that is supposed represent him trying to reach out but her was in her feelings and trying to process everything. He also dressed like one of travis' game day fits during December. Then he comes out to reach out to her and she holds his hand. The zoom on the hands kinda confirm to me it's travis in that last scene. She is wearing a bracelet that is kinda similar to what travis wears and post is wearing a pinky ring. Travis usually wears pinky rings. He wore it to coachella and the charity event. I think it's meant to symbolize that he stood in the rain with herto comfort her. Accepted her because he wanted to be with her.
Damn good analysis!
Nice!
Great analysis.
Wow this is great! I love the idea of the tattoo’s being hidden parts of her!
Love this. Can’t think of it any other way now!
Your mention of her soaking in the rain atop the phone booth in the video made me think of the lyric in “The Black Dog” -
“How my rain-soaked body was shaking” … Thanks Nena 🤍🩶
Literally didn't think of that until now !
Also it rained at one of the Nashville shows (the ones matty attended). I think there is a connection.
OMG YES!! can’t believe i missed that 🫢
I just commented this under another comment 😅 I definitely think something happened in the rain!
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I had never thought of the song like this! the way i had interpreted the line "I touched you for only a fortnight" as her maybe saying that out of the whole relationship, there was only a small portion of which she felt truly close to him. But i love yours as well!
Regarding quiet treason, I attribute this to her 6 year relationship and her many mentions of her partner’s tendency to pull away from her. She never calls it passive aggressive but that’s my takeaway. Thank you, Nena for this well thought out deep dive. ❤️
I've thought similar about this song, but you put it way more eloquently than I ever could have! Love the parallels you found between other songs too.
I LIVE for this videos. I love love love how you analize everything. Literally if you were to do one per song I would watch them all
Hi Nena can you do a lyric breakdown of the Black Dog because I would love to dive deeper into that song (and obviously it's your favourite and mine too)
Hello Nena,
Thank you for your very intersting video!
I wonder if you know a bit a The 1975's work, because there are plenty links with TTPD.
For exemple, the Fortnight video is very close to the esthetic of "About you" video. That's the song in background when Matty Healy saif "I love you" on stage to Taylor.
In this black an white video, you'll find, papers flying, a black dog crossing the screen, a mettalic crown,...
Even in the lyrics of song written about Taylor, you will find links (like "they're speaking about the weather").
Here a list of 1975 songs that I presume is about Taylor. (Don't come after me if I'm wrong 😅):
- "About You"
- "Me &You Together Song"
- "She’s American"
- "change of heart"
I think he referces mainly to her with "the face from a magazine"
And to finish, is it possible that "Style" (and other songs?) was about Matty Healy?
Maybe this could be the subject of another video? 🙂
In any case, that you for you work!
Best wishes from Belgium.
They met after 1989 dropped. Style isn't about him lol😂
I’d love to hear a breakdown of any of them honestly but the bolter or I look in peoples windows or the tortured poets department would be at the top of that list. Love your breakdowns 🫶🏼
Wow, Nena, you’re so right. I’m only halfway through and the song already makes much more sense. Thank you!
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Love your interpretation of the Tattoo scene, and you def inspired me. My thought is maybe she is trying to hide her tattoo to accommodate Joe, and she’s done with that or whatever. She faced her true self after the relationship
The last scene in the music video I believe is reference to Travis, reaching out to her grabbing her hand because they zoom into the bracelet on her wrist. And we know that their relationship started with a bracelet
Also Postie has different clothes on than what he had in the phone booth. No leather but a sweater.
Wow, what a detailed, informed, and smart take on this song. It didn't grab me out of the gate, but like so much of her work, it bores itself into your brain and then you need to hear it again and again. And an(other) intriguing video. It feels like all the black-and-white and the kind of steampunk goth imagery ("my new aesthetic") are signaling the imminent Reputation TV. Also, the whole laboratory scene evokes the 1935 classic horror film "Bride of Frankenstein", which would resonate with the themes of constructing a wife for someone who may be a monster, or more to the point, a blameless monster who doesn't mean to hurt people and is misunderstood and hounded to destruction.
I love all the very helpful cross-referencing you do. You're really good at this, and such a pleasant presenter!
17:38 my interpretation here is like boring and miserable in an endless world of love.. Because Feb is famous for Valentines day which signifies Love, so im thinking it was the metaphor of and it could be what Taylor meant.. That she is somehow stuck in this miserable state, love wise, over and over that she badly wanted to move on with her life but it just couldn't happen, or sometimes she thinks she is but it's just short-lived...
P.S I love this song analysis Nena.. Keep it up 🤍✨
Omg I love your Breakdowns they are literally soooooooo good ❤
The “my husband is cheating” lyric always made me think that even after all this time she still feels like her ex belongs to her because she thought they were going to be together forever. So he’s not actually “cheating” but seeing him be with his new wife makes Taylor feel like he is, if that makes sense.
I loved this brakedown! Please do more of TTPD's songs! 🤍
I saw on another breakdown that there is a poet called Sylvia Plath who died in “the endless February” and there is A LOT of connections to her in the song and the music video!
You should investigate and make a video on this, think you’d find it interesting 💖
**She committed suicide
It feels illegal to be so early! Love you, Nena!
around 2:11 I find it important not to read the "but I touched you" line NOT as just an abreviated repetition of the previous line, but a different thought: first line means more: i just touched you. Second line rather says: a) but I really went ahead this time and touched you (I hear you, Guilty as Sin!) and b) I left a mark on you, too, as in: I touched your soul.
I agree it’s about both of the muses. The beginning gives me more Joe vibes and later it gives more Matty vibes. I think several of the songs on this record are vague in a way that it could be about either of them and I think that’s intentional. I also think it interesting that up until Lover Taylor was a diaristic writer, but started writing fiction with folklore, but now seems to have mastered the blending of the two, like where at face value it seems like it could just be a story but it’s really a giant metaphor for something in her life.
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Oh, you need to awknowledge New Romantics:
"Please take my hand and
Please take me dancing, and
Please leave me stranded
It's so romantic"
being connected to "How dare you think it's romantic, Leaving me safe and stranded" in Down Bad!
She connects the whole album to her work that she did until now.
imho my guess is, that she'll end the eras tour only as soon as Rep+Debut TV are out. It's her best ad to announce them at the tour, as we've seen so far.
She'll have her re recordings, TS11 and her biggest tour wrapped up and could chill down for a time and proceed on being a director, a guide or whatever she's into.
I could think she'd announce Rep TV soon and it could come in Octobre, as she likes to torture us with long waiting times and a new drop every few days of variants, merch and such!
And after that, she'd announce Debut, ofc only after Rep Sales cooled down and it hat its time to shine. She'd release it somewhere in '25 and will announce additional concerts. Once Tour is over, her life work will be "wrapped up" to a nice Anthology ( ;) ) of TS 11 + TV's. She'd have a fresh start to whatever she'd like.
i see many interpretations throughout the album and as said connections to her whole disco + concerts + trivia and so on.
oh oh, just listening the last ten minutes while I typed this comment above and immediately thought about this.. because you said in the MV Posty just watches while they're doing the treatment... Down Bad again, starts with "Did you really beam me up, In a cloud of sparkling dust, *Just to do experiments on?* Tell me I was the chosen one, Showed me that this world is bigger than us, Then sent me back where I came from". Okay, experiments are a huge part of alien lore, but it fits just so nicely!
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Could u do more breakdown videos?
Can you do more lyric breakdowns? 🤩 Really enjoy watching your content! 🙏🏻
Hey Nina! I have a request for you to teach (for guitar). Could you teach us how to play Untouchable (TV)? I have the chords down and what fret the capo needs to be on, but the strumming is confusing
Fret: 3
Chords (for the most part): Em, G (3,2,0,0,3,3) D, A
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This song gave me a headache trying to analyze. But actually I think this might be about her still being (unhappy) with Joe and thinking about the situationship she had with Matty back in the day. And then seeing him more often and starting to catch feelings again but both of them are in a relationship. I don’t know. But I really enjoyed your video and hearing your perspective. Thank you ☺️❤️
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I think Florida is a metaphor for Matty Healy. I think that when she is singing about Florida, she is talking about Matty.
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i loved this breakdown!! i feel like it definitely has a bunch of double meanings throughout the song and after watching this it all makes so much more sense lol! i would love to hear a breakdown of the black dog or the smallest man who ever lived
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I’m watching this a fortnight after you released it
Realizing that the line is “and for a fortnight there, we were forever” and not “and for a fortnight, there we were forever” makes the whooooole song make sense 😅 I was so confused 😂
ong love your lyric and breakdown videos
Such an articulate person Nena! Really enjoyed this, watched every second and found your insights fascinating. Renewed my interest in this song. Thanks ❤
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I wonder if that book with US written on it was an Easter egg for her collab with Gracie on her upcoming album. Track 5 is called Us 🙂
It probably was lol regardless I am SO ready for that collaboration
it definitely was!💛
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I love this , I totally missed some of these lyrics and I love your interpretations !
Love the sit down videos where u educate us📖🤝☁️✨️
I'm really curious if she genuinely wanted to get married OR if she was attracted to the fairy tale/Disney princess idea of getting married and living happily ever after OR if finding "the one" and getting married was the only dream that girls of her generation were allowed to/taught to have OR a combination of all of the above... I'm 7 years younger than her, and when I was growing up, the idea of getting married and being a mother was so ingrained in my brain from a very young age by my family, the media, religion, etc. I almost wonder if the image of her being chained up in a wedding dress is linked to the part in Lavender Haze (also a track 1) that goes, "All they keep asking me / Is if I'm gonna be your bride / The only kinda girl they see / Is a one night or a wife." I imagine this imagery is her trying to break out of this pressure society puts on women to get married. I imagine she is trying to just be herself rather than what is expected of her.
Lavender haze to me has the same energy as women who say "marriage is just a piece of paper" when they really do want to get married cause deep inside they know their partners don't love them and doesn't want to commit to them but they don't want to admit it becauseof sunk cost fallacy. Especially when you consider the other lyrics. "Staring at the ceiling with you you don't ever say to much. You don't really read into my melancholia" like why doesn't your partner care for the reason that you are sad lol. And especially when you consider she has been saying she wanted to marry this man since rep lol
Also I don't think the line necessarily means she doesn't want marriage. She just wants people to stop speculating on her relationships and love life. Imagine how hurtful it must have been for her to see all the tabloids writing about her and Joe secretly getting engaged when the reality is that he didn't want to marry her at all.
But yeah I do have the fear that she may want to be married for the sake of it to show that she isn't the boy crazy woman they all think she is which she portrays in blank space. cause if you are that desperate that you saw a future with an unstable partner like matty who already has a history of treating women like crap then idk. But I'm going to take her word for it in the summation poem that she has realized her mistakes
I think the love you fase, you ruin my life was joe (bc a fortnigte when she see back on it is what it will feel like when she look back on them( matty is also in the song & the last part (on the top on the USA phone box is Travis) - that also fit with the other song about Travis
Another video nugget: the silhouette shot them lying side by side is reference to "her twin" in Down Bad. They are dressed identical! Also, Matty has a similar shot in one of his videos of him with himself (twins).
So many nods to Matty in the music video!
omg has it been a month? I have literally not listened to anything but Taylor for this whole month then. I played TTPD on repeat then relaxed with every other album on my All Taylor ♥ playlist on spotify. I can't believe its been an entire month.
time flies 🥹🤍
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Nena where did u get that crewneck its so pretty i want one 😭😭
Omg I always love her vids
I need THAT for EVERY other song from TTPD. PLEASE.
I love your analysis!👍Please do another song! 🙏🏼
ooooooh i didn't really get this song before, but this breakdown made me love this song more
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My feeling about the song as a whole is it's about the break down of the American dream: a long term relationship that's failing, and a longing for a past fling when you felt passionate and in love. Another fortnight lost in America: the passion which is lost when you're in an unhappy long term relationship.
Have you heard the old song, Their Coming to Take Me Away? I thought of that song when you talked about that line 😁
Ooh can u do MBOBHFT? Also, THIRTEEN days ago!
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I don’t know why but after I watched Fortnight the second time, I felt like in the beginning there is a man (Postie) in the hospital. he lost the love of his life and went crazy and thought he was her, but then he cleaned his face and there are his tattoos. also in the middle of the music video when Taylor and Post look at each other, they are smiling and then Taylor stop to smile and Postie has a face like “i don’t understand”. I just had this vibe that he lost her and know remembering everything. and taylor in this vid is like his imagination and memory. sorry!!
I don’t know! This is just my second impression! now I’ve watched it so many times, so I have new theory every time I watch it 😂
let me know if you felt the same way as me!
Same, Nena. I never took "fortnight" to mean a literal 2 week period. I'm glad someone else agree with me! 😊 Also, at first, I thought the "side profile" COULD be a U.K. map, but now I see that it IS her side profile, NOT the U.K.!! Silly me!! 😂
29:19 let's just remember this is mastermind taylor, so yeah it's almost definitely purposeful
Can you please do a breakdown for robin and the manuscript
Where did you get your Taylor’s version cup?
I feel like the line “your wife waters flowers, I want to kill her” is also about the fact that Taylor doesn’t live a “normal” life and she never will be able to. But her partner wanted a normal life and she couldn’t give that to him. So it’s like his next partner will be a “normal” woman who waters flowers and isn’t famous. That’s just kind of how I thought of that line 😊
I was just thinking the same thing about fortnight yesterday!
Nena always on point
In a want you back she says something like "am an Aston Martin you drove straight into the ditch" so maybe "buy the car you want but it won't start till I touch you" means - yeah pick the girl you want but you only function with me -
Fortnight means two weeks and the number of TTPD was 2, which means that would have been the music video..
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Ikk this is nothing to do with the video but did you see the 22 hat N1 Lisbon?? IT WAS SO FREAKIN CUTEEE🥺
i did 🥹 i cry at every 22 hat video lol
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I think that the psych ward is a metaphor for the music industry, and being taken away is her metaphor for being aged out or cancelled 🐍out of the music industry. We know that's been weighing on her mind for a while. In WAOLOM, when she says, "You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me from" I think the asylum is the music industry.
We know that pre-Reputation, she was already starting to worry about how long she could ride this high of being one of, or even "the", most popular pop artists in the world, and after the Kimye controversy, she thought everything was over. In Mirrorball, she talks about being alone and ignored, but still trying to do her best to get loved and noticed for her sparkle -- after she's been taken away from that spotlight. I think 'I was supposed to be sent away But they forgot to come and get me' is talking about how basically, she's been prepared for people to get tired of her and send her away, but they haven't yet.
I think TTPD has three main themes: Joe, Matty, and the music industry and the fallout from her success, and I think Fortnite is the opener to the album and the first single because it ties together all three of those themes.
Like, being in the psych ward, bored, in bed, in her wedding dress, speaks both of the relationship with Joe and how she felt when the music industry was dictating what she could release/put on her albums/etc. But the ability to unlock her chains was in her own hands the whole time, and she releases the handcuffs, breaks up with Joe, and steps out of the mold the industry wanted to put her into. And still she doesn't get taken away.
I love this.
Could someone super heart please tell me if they see her mouthing something other than "I wanna kill her" at 1:04 in the video? It looks like she's saying "I wanna kill it" or something? Anyone else see that it looks a little off?
This was and INCREDIBLE breakdown… made so much sense! Can you do this with more songs please Nina? 🤍🫶✨
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The insane asylum… All I can think about when I see this image is champagne problems. “She would’ve made such a lovely bride what a shame she’s fucked in the head” 😭
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I was wondering if u got the but daddy I love him acoustic cd??? I did and omg I love it🤍🤍🤍
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1) you didn't mention about Clara Bow ref in this song
2) i think cheating husband is a code for Joe Alwyn's cheating.
3) the car ref can be of the rental car Matty Healy bought.
Thank you so much for this! It’s so nice to be here with other kind swifties. I get so upset when people judge Taylor and don’t take the time to understand her writing! It’s so amazing! She is unlike any other! 🫶🏻🤍👏🏻
Can you do But Daddy I Love Him? Its my favorite TTPD song 🤍
Okay but what mascara are you wearing ?!
Ask about the weather…
I had an ex bf that would ask me that question as a way of asking how my current relationship is going…
The book with us on is an easter egg for her collab with gracie abram. I think the side profile might be gracie too like when she has a bun in her hair?
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The Manuscript analysis pronto