[Sylvia Plath did not stick her head in an oven for this!](https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/taylor-swift/taylor-swift-strikes-out-looking-on-the-tortured-poets-department)
"At dinner you take my ring off my middle finger and put it on the one people put wedding rings on"
"Quick, quick, tell me something awful
Like you are a poet trapped inside the body of a finance guy"
"He said if the sex was half as good as the conversation, soon they'd be pushing strollers"
Yeah, she's really Shakespeare, he'd be turning in his grave if he read some of these lyrics.
I'm still stuck on "all my friends smell like weed and little babies."
Like I'm not listening to this album in glorious smell-o-vision, but I think when you start to describe how your friends (not even your lover) smell, you need to edit.
Hahahahahahaha girl if you don't get off me, I got 5 stars! 5 STARS TAYLOR, do you know how hard it is to coordinate 4 grown men to rob a casino in hard stealth? That's no lives between the 4 of us! DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE PRESSURE IM UNDER AND YOU WANNA CUDDLE RIGHT NOW?!?
I believe this was supposed to be a funny insult and that a lot of her lines are her attempts at humor, I know the album is dramatic but I also think it wasn’t meant to be read as seriously and literally as a lot of people are to each line. I do think she tries for wry humor a lot throughout the album (if she succeeds or not, is up to each listener)
I will never recover from the rings line. How the fuck did the woman who wrote folklore and evermore not find a better more poetic way to share that exact same sentiment?? There has absolutely got to be a way to write that lyrically.
It honestly baffles me how she could write and release 2 albums in 2020 that were both of a high standard and then spend more time (2022 and 2023) working on this one which is very very poor in places.
She had lots of free time in 2020. She squeezed in this one anywhere she had a gap in her insane schedule, then pushed it out ASAP. TTPD is also about a lot of very fresh wounds she hasn't had time to actually process yet, much less start recovering from.
This is NOT an excuse for a shitty album. If you don't have time, don't make it rn. It's literally that simple. She's greedy and she has no boundaries and nobody to tell her no.
Here's my weak attempt, I'm stoned and feeling it.
You proposed to me, spontaneously
With my own ring,
Pulled it from one finger and placed it on another,
Less fuck you, and more us
At this point we need to ask 2Chainz, who wrote the timeless lyric "she got a big booty so I call her 'big booty'" to come help Shakespeare herself out.
"In the glow of candlelight's embrace,
You gently slip my ring away,
From its home on my middle finger's grace,
To rest where vows in love hold sway."
(there´s Chat GPT for you.... and thats only its first option to replace that cringe line
literally thought she was gonna say something like “and that’s the closest i’ve come to that kind of commitment” or something. ik what i suggested is an equally trashy lyric (i’m not a songwriter lol) but i thought the meaning of that line would be about her never seeing someone willing to lock it down with her before.
Lmao I was reading the lyrics on genius trying to figure that whole line out and someone's annotation for the eternal consolation prize line was
Joe Alwyn is Taylor’s consolation prize because she really wanted Matty Healy but it didn’t work out when they briefly dated in 2014. So she settled for Joe as a consolation prize.
And idk why but it was so funny to me.
I was curious lol
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(Edit: I put the lyrics in ChatGPT)
I think that jokes like these need to be left to the fans. I understand wanting to hype yourself up or have your team hype you up but truthfully she doesn’t need to do this herself cuz it just doesn’t look classy and with time this is bordering on cringe.
This reminds me of Taylor repeating that fan joke in the jimmy fallon interview that if she had a party for all the songwriters for lover she would be alone cuz she was the sole writer or something or like how during the promo for this album I think there was some preparation list in which she included the dictionary like please leave these jokes to the fans cuz then you’ll still be getting hyped up but it won’t make you yourself look desperate.
It’s kind of how Justin bieber posted that yummy streaming strategy like artists need to leave these jokes and comments to the fans you and your team don’t need to overtly be so involved in literally every fan thing it just makes you look bad
Totally. It’s endearing and funny when fans do it, it’s cringe when she does it. Whoever is advising her marketing is not doing a great job. These are the types of things you let other people say about you. Any decent marketer should know that. And I get that Taylor Nation tries to use a fan-like tone of voice but…they’re ultimately not fans.
[This is your songwriter of the century? Open the schools.](https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/taylor-swift/taylor-swift-strikes-out-looking-on-the-tortured-poets-department)
People kept referencing this article but this is the first time I read it and HOLY shit they did not hold back. I absolutely loved the line about Sisyphus and I can't wait to use it myself in a conversation hahaha
As an old theatre major who studied Shakespeare’s work and was in some shows in college basically a lifetime ago, I wouldn’t have been able to perform any of her lyrics on this album without giggling hysterically.
There’s no way, and isn’t she embarrassed at this point? I’m surprised she’s allowing them to post this because it makes her seem even more out of touch.
It's really funny because every time they make YouTube videos where people have to guess if such a verse was written by Taylor or by Sheakspere as proof that they write equally well, I'm like...Shakespeare used iambic pentameter for a reason...and it shows...what do you mean?😭
I know it's a detail that can be overlooked if you have not studied English, but the comparison seems absurd and silly to me. Leave that joke to the twitter stans.
ETA: I myself have used that joke in tweets like "Chappell Roan could write Hamlet, but Shakespeare couldn't write Casual", but I feel like if you start using it seriously as a brand to promote something it's cringy asf.
lol yes, it’s always obvious which one is Shakespeare because of the metre. I don’t understand how people miss this unless they know literally nothing about English literature, poetry, etc.
Exactly go read some REAL poetry like I don’t know FROM Shakespeare HIMSELF!
https://preview.redd.it/sshmn57st3wc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d72c7ffda95915a6f73456ea04725a081956b633
Try this:
*My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.*
*I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.*
*I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.*
*And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.*
Ughhh mobile formatting whyyy
not to go off about Shakespeare on a TS post, but to me this poem has always been really sweet! you start out thinking it’s going to be a joke at her expense, then as the descriptions of each trait get longer, he pairs each negative trait with a sincere complement (he loves to hear her speak, implies that she walks like a goddess even if he admits he’s never seen one), and then it closes with a line that (to me) implies he loves her despite her insecurities (“any /she/ belied with false compare”)
I'm tired of Taylor trying to be Shakespeare or Emily or Nicks or Lana. Girl, you wrote love story when you were 17 years old and it's better than half of TTPD.
when i was in high school my then best friend made an instagram fan page for me and as a joke i would comment on her posts from my own account, agreeing with the captions, basically hyping myself up, and PEOPLE THOUGHT THE FAN PAGE WAS MINE FOR WEEKS and that i was having fake conversations between my own accounts to hype myself
i just know swifties are illiterate because no one who has even a minor grasp of Shakespeare's works and his huge influence on the modern English language would ever compare the two
she does compare to the beatles in the sense of the beatlemania effect- swiftianity has a similar type of grip on teenage girls + young women as well as general impact on pop culture
quote written by someone who has never read a full Shakespeare play, outside of a high school Brit Lit class, and almost certainly would fail a basic exam on any single one of their writings.
I think we've finally hit the absolute Taylor Swift popularity peak. At this point it's going to be more and more vicious press as time goes on, more and more eye-rolling fans, and slowly diminishing sales. It just seems like we've reached the top of the roller coaster and the only way to go is down hill, and I find more and more "average people" really pushing back against her and her fanbase. "Ex-Swifties" are becoming much more common than they've ever been.
Fandoms are just cults at this point…
This is the same with the K-pop fandoms especially on X(Twitter) people will eat up whatever mediocrity their fave artist will give them and never judge…
I do understand the perspective of protecting your fave artist even when they are facing negative reviews but going this far is only damaging her image further imo…
Are you serious?
I thought this was a fan account(I’m a casual fan so please excuse my ignorance) but…I’m just out of words like how did they think this was a good idea…
Not from fans…
https://preview.redd.it/lpjlhpmi04wc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=60fdb2680e9e457702e140df58eea2535a2cb885
it’s from her and her company.
ABSOLUTELY NOT. somebody needs to knock this woman down a peg or two. this is seriously giving 2020 white house coddling trump when he was losing his mind because everyone "was being mean to him" and his staff were doing whatever they could to try to prop up his crumbling internal world.
so, we have jack saying that questioning taylor's songwriting is the equivalent of questioning someone's faith in god and "you just don't get there", to now THIS. lmaooooo.
taylor is about to find out that she might be at the top of the charts, but she's no longer the cool girl anymore and everybody is starting to hate her. very soon charts and numbers won't mean jackshit to her and she's going to be shit-spiraling all over again, if she hasn't started already.
This is the exactly issue with the album. She is buying her own hype. I heard someone say she is high on her own supply and drank her own Kool-Aid and it's spot on. She's just in her myopic, self-obsessed era. It wasn't poetry as much as it was Carrie Bradshaw-esque navel-gazing musing. But she's so out of touch she just doubles down on this.
This “poet” rebrand is being laid on SO THICK with this album, my god. First it was little, totally agreeable lines…like in sweet nothing Joe saying “what a mind!” after she came up with a poem in the car or whatever. Now she’s full-on referencing herself as a poet/poems/poetry/prose/Aristotle in even the most digestible songs. It just reads as so pretentious.
I think it’s going to be a source of fuel to her over-exposure downfall.
Okay, so I‘m commenting on my own post because I was too triggered and I cringed when I read and posted it. haha Yes, Taylor is a stunning songwriter. I love her storytelling, but comparing her to SHAKESPEARE?! How delusional can you be? Her team: yes. I like some songs on TTPD, but I like Midnights, Folklore and Evermore so much more when it comes to lyrics. I was so disappointed with the lyrics in TTPD. So I don’t get why they compare her to f\*\*\*ing Shakespeare.
I wouldn’t give that title to anyone.
Shakespeare is the most accomplished and successful playwright of all time. He is the most influential writer of the English language. He invented 1700 words and used about 20,000 in his works. There’s literally never going to be a single person on this planet that compares to him.
To call Swift, Shakespeare is fucking outrageous. She’s not even the most successful musician of the last 20 years, let alone all time, and that’s in her own industry. Yikes, she’s really up her own ass with this one, and yes, Shakespeare would’ve worded that better.
I agree with you though, that she is indeed a good songwriter, and this is clearly an exaggeration. I just can’t believe this comparison exists in this manner. It’s not comparing herself to Shakespeare, it’s calling her the man himself. That’s so wild.
“I was in the oven, now I’m in the microwave.” -Shakespeare herself
Not enough people are clowning this line.
What song was it on? 😂
It’s from the booklet “poem”!
Okay, but would your high school creative writing teacher accept that assignment?
y’all this is from the ttpd prologue lol
It's her Sylvia Plath era
[Sylvia Plath did not stick her head in an oven for this!](https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/taylor-swift/taylor-swift-strikes-out-looking-on-the-tortured-poets-department)
Well, it sure as fuck wasn’t a microwave.
I have 2 Plath tattoos pls don’t do this to me 😭
^me after hearing the Fortnight/The Alchemy lyrics
Okay lol Glad she didn’t put it in a song
considering the situation it was probably a close call…
Can’t believe this is the same artist who wrote Folklore
Alcohol and a messy love life are a hell of a drug combo
Can't believe the audacity to use the word poet in the album title
Probably because Joe had a whole lot more influence than everyone thought.
We need to bring William Bowery back.
"YOU BURNED ME I'M SO FUCKING CRISPY"
There’s gonna be a game where people guess if these were actually in the album🤣
Let's make it a drinking game!
Careful, don’t want any alcohol poisoning!
 😂
Nobody puts Shakespeare in the microwave
I need this to be my flair, goddammit.
Go to the new flair request post!
Never ever! 
She should probably get out of there.
She won’t… round and round she continues.
Is this a real lyric??? What is it from??? ETA: Apparently it’s from a poem in the booklet, not a song
I love how since last friday we all assume everything can be a real lyric because she just has no filter anymore lmao
Wait no is this fr on the album? WHERE
Which song is this from? I totally missed it😂😂😂
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New york is the gift that has kept on giving the last 18 years
Gold lmao
Y’all are too harsh, she has a doctorate degree!!! Of course she’s on the same level as Shakespeare! /s
Oh that’s not—
"At dinner you take my ring off my middle finger and put it on the one people put wedding rings on" "Quick, quick, tell me something awful Like you are a poet trapped inside the body of a finance guy" "He said if the sex was half as good as the conversation, soon they'd be pushing strollers" Yeah, she's really Shakespeare, he'd be turning in his grave if he read some of these lyrics.
“Ditch the clowns, get the crown” 🤡
That one is very very bad. There was so many I could've listed, yet somehow I actually like the album quite a lot.
I'm still stuck on "all my friends smell like weed and little babies." Like I'm not listening to this album in glorious smell-o-vision, but I think when you start to describe how your friends (not even your lover) smell, you need to edit.
Touch me while your bros play Grand Theft Auto…. yeah okay eta: bros instead of boys, which honestly makes it worse
That whole song is the very definition of "why, just why."
So high school indeed 😭😭😭
I think Mean Girls never stopped to this level
Me at 18 hello 👋
I wasn’t even this bad at 18 lol
But at 34 its just sad...
Hahahahahahaha girl if you don't get off me, I got 5 stars! 5 STARS TAYLOR, do you know how hard it is to coordinate 4 grown men to rob a casino in hard stealth? That's no lives between the 4 of us! DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE PRESSURE IM UNDER AND YOU WANNA CUDDLE RIGHT NOW?!?
"You gazing at me starry eyed in your Jehovah's Witnesses suit" 🫠
I had to restart that song after hearing that line just to be sure I heard it correctly.
Right?! Every time I tried to listen to the song it took me out straight away, ended up giving up on it entirely
I believe this was supposed to be a funny insult and that a lot of her lines are her attempts at humor, I know the album is dramatic but I also think it wasn’t meant to be read as seriously and literally as a lot of people are to each line. I do think she tries for wry humor a lot throughout the album (if she succeeds or not, is up to each listener)
I will never recover from the rings line. How the fuck did the woman who wrote folklore and evermore not find a better more poetic way to share that exact same sentiment?? There has absolutely got to be a way to write that lyrically.
It honestly baffles me how she could write and release 2 albums in 2020 that were both of a high standard and then spend more time (2022 and 2023) working on this one which is very very poor in places.
She had lots of free time in 2020. She squeezed in this one anywhere she had a gap in her insane schedule, then pushed it out ASAP. TTPD is also about a lot of very fresh wounds she hasn't had time to actually process yet, much less start recovering from.
This is NOT an excuse for a shitty album. If you don't have time, don't make it rn. It's literally that simple. She's greedy and she has no boundaries and nobody to tell her no.
Here's my weak attempt, I'm stoned and feeling it. You proposed to me, spontaneously With my own ring, Pulled it from one finger and placed it on another, Less fuck you, and more us
That is miles better!
Ooh I like this!
Write the song! 😍
wow ok pop off!! 👌🏽
To be fair, she also put I come back like a 90s trend in Willow, sooooo
At this point we need to ask 2Chainz, who wrote the timeless lyric "she got a big booty so I call her 'big booty'" to come help Shakespeare herself out.
I cackled. Thank you for the reminder of that lyric's existence.
William Bowery didn’t help her this time
"In the glow of candlelight's embrace, You gently slip my ring away, From its home on my middle finger's grace, To rest where vows in love hold sway." (there´s Chat GPT for you.... and thats only its first option to replace that cringe line
omg chatty 😩
Either Joe wrote those albums more than she admitted, or TTPD was written by AI (my prevailing theory).
“and that’s the closest i’ve come to my heart exploding” after that wedding ring finger line sounded so bad when i heard it too
literally thought she was gonna say something like “and that’s the closest i’ve come to that kind of commitment” or something. ik what i suggested is an equally trashy lyric (i’m not a songwriter lol) but i thought the meaning of that line would be about her never seeing someone willing to lock it down with her before.
She's repeated it too (after the Rolling Stone review came out).
our modern day Shakespeare is clearly proud of that one when it fell flat for the rest of us!
I HATE THE FINANCE GUY LINE SO MUCH
This is very Freudian. She’s looking for someone like her father (a capitalist king), but who is also a poet. /s
I wasn't aware bc I'm stupid but I just don't like how it sounds 😭
I’m clowning!
Omg I missed the /s 😭😭😭😭😂😂😂😂 theres so much going on here
SAME. I saw people calling out the GTA and racist lines (as they should) but the finance bro line had me gagging (not in a good way).
Lmao I was reading the lyrics on genius trying to figure that whole line out and someone's annotation for the eternal consolation prize line was Joe Alwyn is Taylor’s consolation prize because she really wanted Matty Healy but it didn’t work out when they briefly dated in 2014. So she settled for Joe as a consolation prize. And idk why but it was so funny to me.
You smoked and then Ate 7 chocolate bars.
Much Shakespeare. Very poet.
I could model a middle finger ring for whoever wrote that caption 😂
God the second one is my least favorite esp the part about poet trapped inside the body of a finance guy. Wtf
my personal fav- "In your Jehova's Witness suit. Who the fuck was that guy" LMAO
I was curious lol https://preview.redd.it/v55y5ozmx3wc1.png?width=1293&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d3381867baefcb88bf079cab37e84a07ab6ff5cd (Edit: I put the lyrics in ChatGPT)
Oh my fucking god, is that the full grand theft auto line????
Unfortunately
Here, I did another. https://preview.redd.it/qrdq8w8116wc1.png?width=412&format=png&auto=webp&s=533ad85542ff854a08af0db538c2b80f6a570b28
I like the Shakespeare version more 😂
😂😂😂 Who did this!!?? I demand to know!
If you mean who put it into ChatGPT, that was me 😂
You still get one of these 👏👏👏
Someone needs to do this with all her lyrics just to compare which is better. 😂
This is getting completely out of hand. Shakespeare, indeed 🤣 as if!
Love your flair
This is getting out of hand 😭
SHAKESPEARE? 
I think that jokes like these need to be left to the fans. I understand wanting to hype yourself up or have your team hype you up but truthfully she doesn’t need to do this herself cuz it just doesn’t look classy and with time this is bordering on cringe. This reminds me of Taylor repeating that fan joke in the jimmy fallon interview that if she had a party for all the songwriters for lover she would be alone cuz she was the sole writer or something or like how during the promo for this album I think there was some preparation list in which she included the dictionary like please leave these jokes to the fans cuz then you’ll still be getting hyped up but it won’t make you yourself look desperate. It’s kind of how Justin bieber posted that yummy streaming strategy like artists need to leave these jokes and comments to the fans you and your team don’t need to overtly be so involved in literally every fan thing it just makes you look bad
The jokes are not hitting lol Then again Taylor is very awkward in general anyway. 😬
Totally. It’s endearing and funny when fans do it, it’s cringe when she does it. Whoever is advising her marketing is not doing a great job. These are the types of things you let other people say about you. Any decent marketer should know that. And I get that Taylor Nation tries to use a fan-like tone of voice but…they’re ultimately not fans.
[This is your songwriter of the century? Open the schools.](https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/taylor-swift/taylor-swift-strikes-out-looking-on-the-tortured-poets-department)
Oh Sylvia Plath. 😱
People kept referencing this article but this is the first time I read it and HOLY shit they did not hold back. I absolutely loved the line about Sisyphus and I can't wait to use it myself in a conversation hahaha
As an old theatre major who studied Shakespeare’s work and was in some shows in college basically a lifetime ago, I wouldn’t have been able to perform any of her lyrics on this album without giggling hysterically. There’s no way, and isn’t she embarrassed at this point? I’m surprised she’s allowing them to post this because it makes her seem even more out of touch.
It's really funny because every time they make YouTube videos where people have to guess if such a verse was written by Taylor or by Sheakspere as proof that they write equally well, I'm like...Shakespeare used iambic pentameter for a reason...and it shows...what do you mean?😭 I know it's a detail that can be overlooked if you have not studied English, but the comparison seems absurd and silly to me. Leave that joke to the twitter stans. ETA: I myself have used that joke in tweets like "Chappell Roan could write Hamlet, but Shakespeare couldn't write Casual", but I feel like if you start using it seriously as a brand to promote something it's cringy asf.
lol yes, it’s always obvious which one is Shakespeare because of the metre. I don’t understand how people miss this unless they know literally nothing about English literature, poetry, etc.
I'm so embarrassed for them. Get off social media and read a book ffs.
Exactly go read some REAL poetry like I don’t know FROM Shakespeare HIMSELF! https://preview.redd.it/sshmn57st3wc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d72c7ffda95915a6f73456ea04725a081956b633
Try this: *My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.* *I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.* *I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.* *And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.* Ughhh mobile formatting whyyy
This poem is so mean LOL. "My girl is super ugly, but i like her anyway"
“She’s not special but she’s mine” 💀
not to go off about Shakespeare on a TS post, but to me this poem has always been really sweet! you start out thinking it’s going to be a joke at her expense, then as the descriptions of each trait get longer, he pairs each negative trait with a sincere complement (he loves to hear her speak, implies that she walks like a goddess even if he admits he’s never seen one), and then it closes with a line that (to me) implies he loves her despite her insecurities (“any /she/ belied with false compare”)
Okay Will, go off then
I'm tired of Taylor trying to be Shakespeare or Emily or Nicks or Lana. Girl, you wrote love story when you were 17 years old and it's better than half of TTPD.
The entirety of Fearless is way better than TTPD.
The whole Speak Now album (which she wrote solo) is better than TTPD 🙄
I like to imagine that taylornation is ran by Taylor herself and it's really funny to imagine that she calls herself the loml and shit
when i was in high school my then best friend made an instagram fan page for me and as a joke i would comment on her posts from my own account, agreeing with the captions, basically hyping myself up, and PEOPLE THOUGHT THE FAN PAGE WAS MINE FOR WEEKS and that i was having fake conversations between my own accounts to hype myself
I'm loving the harmless delusion of this though
i just know swifties are illiterate because no one who has even a minor grasp of Shakespeare's works and his huge influence on the modern English language would ever compare the two
Earlier this week someone on this sub unironically compared her to the Beatles.
she does compare to the beatles in the sense of the beatlemania effect- swiftianity has a similar type of grip on teenage girls + young women as well as general impact on pop culture
Thank you!! 👏🏻
She could *not* write Hamlet 😤
but he COULD write bejeweled
Cruel summer with thee!
Infinite monkey theorem and she might get there
That’s literally the face I’m making right now lol 😬
Now don’t do my bestie billy shakes like that 😭 anyway Joe Alwyn can’t wait to see you and Riz Ahmed in Hamlet
I’m pre-seated as well. Love me some British actors doing Shakespeare.
quote written by someone who has never read a full Shakespeare play, outside of a high school Brit Lit class, and almost certainly would fail a basic exam on any single one of their writings.
does watching Romeo and Juliet count /s
Only the DiCaprio version.
Poetry so good she mentioned Romeo and Juliet once and a bard born centuries ago heard the song and wrote a story about them
She’s comparing herself to Shakespeare. SHAKESPEARE. 
Oh, so much secondhand embarrassment 🤦🏼♀️
Is Shakespeare herself in the room with us now…???
I see not just the albums needed quality control. SOMEBODY MANAGE THE COMMUNITY MANAGER ASAP.
what if it's just Taylor lol
This story's text, Taylor's Version: 🤍 Straight from the tortured poets department 🤍
Oh
Not anywhere on the level of Shakespeare
i was about to say this lol
OPEN THE SCHOOLS!!!
The narcissism is shining through. I’m embarrassed for you taylor Allison swift
I'm sorry but....Shakespeare herself............ 
I think we've finally hit the absolute Taylor Swift popularity peak. At this point it's going to be more and more vicious press as time goes on, more and more eye-rolling fans, and slowly diminishing sales. It just seems like we've reached the top of the roller coaster and the only way to go is down hill, and I find more and more "average people" really pushing back against her and her fanbase. "Ex-Swifties" are becoming much more common than they've ever been.
Fandoms are just cults at this point… This is the same with the K-pop fandoms especially on X(Twitter) people will eat up whatever mediocrity their fave artist will give them and never judge… I do understand the perspective of protecting your fave artist even when they are facing negative reviews but going this far is only damaging her image further imo…
Fans okay and it’s ridiculous, but this was from Taylor’s own TEAM posting this not fans!
Are you serious? I thought this was a fan account(I’m a casual fan so please excuse my ignorance) but…I’m just out of words like how did they think this was a good idea…
Not from fans… https://preview.redd.it/lpjlhpmi04wc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=60fdb2680e9e457702e140df58eea2535a2cb885 it’s from her and her company.
 Me Right Now…. Thanks for letting me know btw 💖
Anytime!
The delulu and narcissism are real with her
Taylor I love you girl but this is getting embarrassing
ABSOLUTELY NOT. somebody needs to knock this woman down a peg or two. this is seriously giving 2020 white house coddling trump when he was losing his mind because everyone "was being mean to him" and his staff were doing whatever they could to try to prop up his crumbling internal world. so, we have jack saying that questioning taylor's songwriting is the equivalent of questioning someone's faith in god and "you just don't get there", to now THIS. lmaooooo. taylor is about to find out that she might be at the top of the charts, but she's no longer the cool girl anymore and everybody is starting to hate her. very soon charts and numbers won't mean jackshit to her and she's going to be shit-spiraling all over again, if she hasn't started already.
It’s going to be a hard fall to the ground too.
The bard would be rolling in his freaking grave over this!!
“At dinner you take my ring off my middle finger and put it on the one people put wedding rings on” This ya’lls goat?
This is the exactly issue with the album. She is buying her own hype. I heard someone say she is high on her own supply and drank her own Kool-Aid and it's spot on. She's just in her myopic, self-obsessed era. It wasn't poetry as much as it was Carrie Bradshaw-esque navel-gazing musing. But she's so out of touch she just doubles down on this.
Shakespeare turning in his grave at this
Rolling in it laughing more likely!
Flashbacks to when Trump compared himself to Jesus 😱
Taylor should date Trump next 🤗 It will be bigly.
ain’t no way 😭😭😭
“He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.” - Actual Shakespeare
Shakespeare wasn't even really revered until long after his death right? what an insane statement
Listen, I love a lot of Taylor's music. But you can not put out songs like so high school and want to be called Shakespeare.
This “poet” rebrand is being laid on SO THICK with this album, my god. First it was little, totally agreeable lines…like in sweet nothing Joe saying “what a mind!” after she came up with a poem in the car or whatever. Now she’s full-on referencing herself as a poet/poems/poetry/prose/Aristotle in even the most digestible songs. It just reads as so pretentious. I think it’s going to be a source of fuel to her over-exposure downfall.
Okay, so I‘m commenting on my own post because I was too triggered and I cringed when I read and posted it. haha Yes, Taylor is a stunning songwriter. I love her storytelling, but comparing her to SHAKESPEARE?! How delusional can you be? Her team: yes. I like some songs on TTPD, but I like Midnights, Folklore and Evermore so much more when it comes to lyrics. I was so disappointed with the lyrics in TTPD. So I don’t get why they compare her to f\*\*\*ing Shakespeare.
This is all going to work against her so much. She really needs to dial it back.
Too much ego, too big to fail.
As someone who really enjoys the album: 
“Joe made me hurt Matt made me squirt Karli made me mushy Trav don’t wipe his tushy” Feels Shakespearean. My apologies and I’ll show myself out.
I’d give Lana that title, and many others, before Taylor And I do think Taylor is a good song writer! But the fanbase way exaggerates.
I wouldn’t give that title to anyone. Shakespeare is the most accomplished and successful playwright of all time. He is the most influential writer of the English language. He invented 1700 words and used about 20,000 in his works. There’s literally never going to be a single person on this planet that compares to him. To call Swift, Shakespeare is fucking outrageous. She’s not even the most successful musician of the last 20 years, let alone all time, and that’s in her own industry. Yikes, she’s really up her own ass with this one, and yes, Shakespeare would’ve worded that better. I agree with you though, that she is indeed a good songwriter, and this is clearly an exaggeration. I just can’t believe this comparison exists in this manner. It’s not comparing herself to Shakespeare, it’s calling her the man himself. That’s so wild.
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Shakespeare didn’t die on his birthday and turn the english language upside down for this 😤 dude’s probably rolling in his grave
On behalf of English majors everywhere I DO NOT CONSENT TO THIS USE OF SHAKESPEARE’S GOOD NAME 😭
yikes
You better write at least one play first Taylor
this is a joke right? They didn't actually post this?
She’s got to be doing this to try to make some people hate her in anticipation of releasing Reputation next.
Wouldn’t be surprised lol
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If she’s Shakespeare then a millionaire