Taylor Swift is detailing the deeper meaning behind some of the songs on her latest album 'The Tortured Poets Department.' She offered fans a track-by-track experience for the songs "Fortnight," "My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys," "Clara Bow" and more.
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00:00Taylor Swift is now detailing the deeper meaning behind some of the songs off her latest album,
00:04The Tortured Poets Department. Swift offered a track-by-track experience for some of the
00:09songs including Fortnite, featuring Post Malone, which also happens to be the album's first single,
00:14noting, "...I always imagined that it took place in this American town,
00:17where this American dream you thought would happen to you didn't. Florida,
00:20featuring Florence and the Machine, saying,
00:22People have these crimes that they commit. Where do they immediately skip town and go to?
00:27Who's Afraid of Little Old Me, which she said she wrote alone at the piano,
00:30"...in one of those moments when I felt sort of bitter about all the things we do to our
00:34artists as a society and as a culture." My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys,
00:38where she speaks of being somebody's favorite toy until they break you and they don't want
00:41to play with you anymore, which is how a lot of us are in relationships where we are so valued
00:46by a person in the beginning and then all of a sudden they break us. And Clara Bow,
00:50where she recalls being at record labels where executives would compare her to previous artists,
00:54but they'd kind of say something disparaging about her, where you're this,
00:58you're so much better in this way or that way. And that's kind of how we teach women to see
01:01themselves, as like you could be the new replacement for this woman who's done
01:05something great before you. The track-by-track experience is offered on Amazon Music.
01:10Swift has called the album an anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions,
01:14and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time,
01:17one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure. After dropping her album at
01:21midnight last Friday, Swift later surprised fans by releasing a secret double album expansion at 2
01:27a.m. with 15 extra songs for the album. For more on the track-by-track experience, head to THR.com.
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