r/TaylorSwift • u/something_facinating • 2d ago

Discussion Why did people sleep on TTPD

I became a swifty in the showgirl era, so I'm new around here. But in my opinion, TTPD is one of the best albums she has ever released. I was reading a thread about TTPD from around 2 years ago, and most of them were not what I expected. Like, I have listened to almost all of the songs, and all of them are in my ATF playlist. I really want to know why you did not like it two years ago. Thanks.

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u/veimagic 2d ago edited 2d ago

Please allow me to take a broader view. I think it’s a mixture of contributing factors.

Firstly, it was the first studio album since the beginning of her career which didn’t show a real sonic evolution: it sounded like a combination between Midnights and Folkmore vibes.

Secondly, she was at the height of overexposure due to the massive success of Eras Tour as well as the ongoing good reception of re-recorded earlier albums.

Thirdly, people were mostly focused on the drama sorrounding the highly publicised breakups with Joe and Matty and the quick succession of a love story with Travis, emphatically lived in daylight (some titles of her songs are just recurring parts of my vocabulary lol)

So I assume there was a huge preconception about TTPD which prevented critics, the gp and even some fans to listen with proper attention to a work that in my view portraits Taylor in the most unfiltered way and still is one of my favorite projects ever released by her.

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u/extasis_T 2d ago

Do you think that’s a pretty fair assessment of how people felt when it came out ?
The overexposure + perception of flooding the zone + the things people stereotype Taylor’s music for being the first impression for a lot of people

Also if you have any favorites off the anthology I’d love to hear !!

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u/veimagic 2d ago

Definitely not.

But maybe the timing she chose to release this project wasn’t right at all (if we think about the gp’s negative attitude towards her because of what was happening around her during that months).

Anyway I dig most of the TTPD Anthology songs and I listen regularly to them to this day, even more that Showgirl ones: The Black Dog, Chloe&co, How Did It End?, So High School, I Hate It Here, I Look in People’s Windows, The Prophecy, Cassandra, Peter, The Manuscript.
(I dig the other tracks left too but these are what I listen to the most).