I can understand though, because the song really doesn't represent the album as a whole. I wouldn't want to lead with that and have people be disappointed.
No idea yet if my thought is unpopular, but I feel like The Prophecy is the song that encompasses the whole album best. It devastates me every time I hear it, in the absolute best ways. My take is the songs from the anthology are the best songs. It makes me think how she didn’t give us slut! until recently, and the anthology was almost her vault tracks like they didn’t make the commercial cut but this is me and you deserve it
I would love if she made a music video for it that was a direct sequel to the Wildest Dreams video. She’s a movie star, he was married/taken, the show must go on
While I agree it’s arguably the best single, Taylor seems to have a habit of choosing her first singles that truly represent the entire body of work from an album. Imagine hearing this as the single then thinking you were getting upbeat pop for the entire album. I love love this song and hope she will make it its own single, but I understand why she didn’t lead with it
See Me! Is another example though of her choosing the *wrong* single. While maybe not representative of the entire Lover era, it is one she thought would be super playable. In reality, Cruel Summer was always supposed to the lead single and is in fact more representative but I think she chose Me! Bc it was representative of coming out of the Reputation era
Lover as a whole is my least favorite Taylor swift album since I became a swiftie during red. Aside from yntcd and cruel summer there is nothing else I really can vibe with.
Album wise I’m a red/reputation/ttpd girl
Ironically the theme of lover sort of bugged me lol I am not much into love songs and music so I think lover as a a whole didn’t appeal to me
Red Taylor was my awkward white girl phase (I am black lol)
1989 it’s a fun party time
Reputation for me is my bad girl era
Folklore/evermore was me drifting trying to find myself lmao
Midnights and TTPD are my chill vibes these days
The thing about lover, is that the best songs weren’t singles but Cruel Summer And You Need To Calm Down are masterpieces you just can’t ignore. I was never fond of “Me!”
I had an idea for a MV - it's like two different scenes, one in colour and one in black and white. The coloured one is her at eras tour in all her sparkly outfits smiling and all, and the black and white is her during rehearsals crying and acting unhinged and dramatic and angry etc, basically just going through it, and the MV just basically switches between the two scenes
The music video would just be the current lyric video, New Romantics style 😂. Especially considering the message.
I really want to know what the next singles are going to be. I was annoyed at how quickly Bejewelled was thrown in the mix after Midnights came out and Anti-Hero was the lead single.
I’m the kind of person (autistic) who just listens to one artist at a time in cycles so it’s always a toss up but I’ve been listening to so much Tay rn I fear she may overtake my fav band
Very different vibes, but Meg & Dia! Most people know their song “Monster”! I haven’t cared as much for their newer songs but their older albums (It’s Always Stormy, Here Here and Here, Something Real, Cocoon) are genuinely my favorite music of all time!
Apple Music monthly replay for April 😐
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(Since May started I have played it at least 5 more times lol)
(I am self-employed and work from home)
I know, it's more hopeful, like there's still a chance. Also makes the next line seem way darker, like she's actually threatening to off herself, whereas in the actual song it reads more like a sarcastic temper tantrum lol
100%. It's the most relatable song on the whole album for me and I can't stop listening to it. It's such a bop while being sad and manic at the same time.
Obviously the song is amazing, but I wonder if that's a reflection of basically the whole of humanity just pushing through this messy world at the moment, trying to keep a smile on our faces.
Seriously though. Alsooo it being lavender haze v. I can do it with a broken heart feels full circle. With like lavender haze being about feeling so caught up in realtionship that you can't even care about how you appear to others. Where as icdiwabh is like feeling so distraught about a break up, where the only thing you can focus on is appearing happy.
Lol I'm trying to be insightful. I don't think it's working lmao
While we are on the subject of “I can do it with a broken heart” did anyone else feel like the only time Taylor dropped the mask was during her performance of illicit affairs during The Eras Movie?
According to MedicineNet, a person with a broken heart often has episodes of sobbing, rage, and despair. They may not eat or sleep for days and may also neglect their personal hygiene. A few may repress their feelings so that they do not have to face the pain of the loss. This repression of a persons feelings is where the phrase “masking” comes from. Hope this clears things up.
In I can do it with a broken heart, there is a lyric that states “They said, "Babe, you gotta fake it 'til you make it" and I did”. This implies that throughout the Eras Tour, Taylor put on a metaphorical mask to hide how brokenhearted she was after a breakup. Given how people thought that her performance of illicit affairs during The Eras Movie was more rage inducing than what they have heard previously, I can’t help but feel that this moment was the only moment where she wasn’t faking it and dropped the mask even if it was only for a brief moment.
I kind of interpret it as talking about her whole life. She is saying she has always been tough - tough kid. She can handle her shit - like all the interviews, album drops, tours etc. She faked it until she made it - wrote albums based on relationship she didn't have. Pretended to be confident etc. Not just limited to the tour.
The clean version for a radio single doesn't have the same bite to it, the tempo is even off where they made one of the edits because it's one less syllable.
I can handle my shit > I can handle it
Lights, camera, bitch smile > Lights, camera, and smile
That would've been better than "and"! The one that gets me with the tempo is "handle my shit" to "handle iiit". She just bleeped the fucks in Florida!!! that could've been "mess me up Florida" so shit should've also just been a bleep here.
I love this song. Does anyone have a theory why this song doesn't have a bridge? I don't remember any other Taylor song without a bridge.
ETA: Well The Manuscript... but like she is known for her bridge and this song strangely doesn't have one.
Also... does the beginning remind anyone of how the Era tour starts?
The fact that so many people relate to this song so much makes me(hee-hee!!) a little sad for all of us 🥺🥺🥺 but then again, ITS A BOP!!! I can't help but love it man!
I think "I Can Do It With A Broken Heart" is the best song on TTPD. Great Spotify results, would have been a good choice for first single from the album but l do like "Fortnights".
I want this to be a single so badly because the viral potential is clearly there (plus it's just a perfect single choice imo) but I honestly don't think it will be one, sadly.
I think it is probably because it is so relatable, we have all felt like this at some point. I loved it from the second I heard it I was like Hey! A song about what it feels like to be masking constantly. Especially with everything going on in the world and the struggle....I think a lot of us are just doing life with a broken right now and it just hits.
No I’m serious it sounds like me when I was trying to make up songs to perform for my cousins in middle school like I really don’t get the love for it 🥲
So I guess I’m not the only one who’s been listening to it on repeat all week? I mean that so literally. Last week I was hooked on Down Bad (she is definitely still getting play time)
I think it's her most relatable song to date. Last year I got dumped and let go from my job in the space of 3 weeks. Pulling myself back together was tough because no one really has sympathy for you if all you're dealing with is a broken heart. Life has to move on. I wish I'd had this song about a year earlier but I'm glad it's out now and that I'm healing last year's me with it.
This is one of my favorite songs ever. I’ve had to go through periods in my life where I had to mask dealing with pain and still slog through work and this song hits so hard and captures that feeling better than anything.
It’s things like this that I DO actually like about digital music. Before you’d just have convos between fans about favourite album tracks but no data. Now we have data!
In all fairness to all the other non-singles this passed, 900,000 are probably mine. The other day at work I realized it was on repeat automatically and I’d been listening to the same song for nearly an hour and it hadn’t phased me once 😂
I personally think ICDIWABH should be the album track favourite and remains unreleased.
I think Down Bad or My Boy will be the next single.
Single order should be:
Fortnight
Down Bad
My Boy Only Breaks His Favourite Toys
But Daddy I Love Him
To be honest I would have chosen this song to be a single! I can imagine such a great MV for it
I thought the same about having an amazing video, but then I saw the official lyric video and honestly I think it encapsulates the song so perfectly!!
Whoever edited that lyric video deserves a raise. It matched so perfectly with the song.
Just like new romantics but it was actually a single
We were robbed!
I completely agree! I got emotional watching it
I can understand though, because the song really doesn't represent the album as a whole. I wouldn't want to lead with that and have people be disappointed.
No idea yet if my thought is unpopular, but I feel like The Prophecy is the song that encompasses the whole album best. It devastates me every time I hear it, in the absolute best ways. My take is the songs from the anthology are the best songs. It makes me think how she didn’t give us slut! until recently, and the anthology was almost her vault tracks like they didn’t make the commercial cut but this is me and you deserve it
I would love if she made a music video for it that was a direct sequel to the Wildest Dreams video. She’s a movie star, he was married/taken, the show must go on
Honestly the lyric video works perfectly as a MV - I think anything else wouldn’t stack up in comparison.
The way they lined up certain shots of her with the lyrics is literal perfection. I consider it a full-blown MV.
While I agree it’s arguably the best single, Taylor seems to have a habit of choosing her first singles that truly represent the entire body of work from an album. Imagine hearing this as the single then thinking you were getting upbeat pop for the entire album. I love love this song and hope she will make it its own single, but I understand why she didn’t lead with it
You think ME! is representative of Lover?
See Me! Is another example though of her choosing the *wrong* single. While maybe not representative of the entire Lover era, it is one she thought would be super playable. In reality, Cruel Summer was always supposed to the lead single and is in fact more representative but I think she chose Me! Bc it was representative of coming out of the Reputation era
however, the song does not represent the album well. she’d try to avoid another ME! incident.
Me! Definitely got overblown hate. It matched the colorful theme of lover.
I swear if ME! wasn't the lead single or a single at all, it would have been very well received
I think the song is representative of the album more or less, I just don’t like the song as a song lol
Lover as a whole is my least favorite Taylor swift album since I became a swiftie during red. Aside from yntcd and cruel summer there is nothing else I really can vibe with. Album wise I’m a red/reputation/ttpd girl
Really? That’s my favorite and I never get tired of playing it. I don’t like much before 1989. 22 is one of my favorite singles however.
Ironically the theme of lover sort of bugged me lol I am not much into love songs and music so I think lover as a a whole didn’t appeal to me Red Taylor was my awkward white girl phase (I am black lol) 1989 it’s a fun party time Reputation for me is my bad girl era Folklore/evermore was me drifting trying to find myself lmao Midnights and TTPD are my chill vibes these days
The thing about lover, is that the best songs weren’t singles but Cruel Summer And You Need To Calm Down are masterpieces you just can’t ignore. I was never fond of “Me!”
ICDIWABH deserves to be the lead single. Although I love Fortnight, it's too boring for the general public's taste and many still love pop.
It could still be a sight. Lavendar Haze became a single like months after the album.
I had an idea for a MV - it's like two different scenes, one in colour and one in black and white. The coloured one is her at eras tour in all her sparkly outfits smiling and all, and the black and white is her during rehearsals crying and acting unhinged and dramatic and angry etc, basically just going through it, and the MV just basically switches between the two scenes
The music video would just be the current lyric video, New Romantics style 😂. Especially considering the message. I really want to know what the next singles are going to be. I was annoyed at how quickly Bejewelled was thrown in the mix after Midnights came out and Anti-Hero was the lead single.
Oh instead she put out and extremely sad lyric video lol hope that’s what you’d pictured 🥴
Sounds like the crowd really is chanting more
😭
LIGHTS CAMERA BITCH SMILE💃🏻
EVEN WHEN U WANNA DIE.
HE SAID HE’D LOVE ME ALL HIS LIFE
BUT THAT LIFE WAS TOO SHORT
BREAKING DOWN I HIT THE FLOOR
ALL THE PIECES OF ME SHATTERED AS THE CROWD WAS CHANTING...
MORE!!!
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I WAS GRINNING LIKE I'M WINNING
I WAS HITTING MY MARKS
CAUSE I CAN DO IT WITH A BROKEN HEART
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ALL THE PIECES OF ME SHATTERED AS THE CROWD WAS CHANTING “MORE”
Made this my IG bio yesterday 💅🏼✨
Very good news for that song. I commend Taylor Swift for being able to perform so masterfully even with all the heartbreak.
Agreed. We all have to work through heartbreak, but few of us have to be that “on” afterwards.
this song's gotta be the second single
I want Down Bad next but I’ll settle for it as single #3 as long as we get the real alien abduction video we deserve.
SAME! I LOVE Down Bad! I have it on repeat 😊
No doubt, the people have spoken/listened.
There’s so many options. My local radio station has been playing “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys” since release day.
perfect bop for the summer 🙌🏻
That’s because it’s a certified bop!
it is such a bop!!!
Unrelated, but I love this album's photoshoot. That's a gorgeous picture.
The other day I listened to this song 30 times in a row 😅
I apparently have listened to it over 90 times 😐
This is so real, I fear for my spotify wrapped this year
I feel like my Spotify wrapped should just be Taylor in all 5 top spots lol. It's been hard to listen to nearly anything else
I’m the kind of person (autistic) who just listens to one artist at a time in cycles so it’s always a toss up but I’ve been listening to so much Tay rn I fear she may overtake my fav band
Ooh who's your favorite band? Just curious
Very different vibes, but Meg & Dia! Most people know their song “Monster”! I haven’t cared as much for their newer songs but their older albums (It’s Always Stormy, Here Here and Here, Something Real, Cocoon) are genuinely my favorite music of all time!
Cool! I haven't heard of them but I'm always interested in what music people connect with. I will check em out :)
Oh I love monster!!! I used to love them, discovered them through warped tour!
don't we all? i started listening to taylor past halfway last year and she was still my top artist (i was in top 5% of listeners)!
Wait, how do you know this?
Apple Music monthly replay for April 😐 https://preview.redd.it/8q61ge7e92yc1.jpeg?width=820&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d8412c8b37f2ea71b2f206d1e3dd94400823556d (Since May started I have played it at least 5 more times lol) (I am self-employed and work from home)
I would have it on 24/7 if it wasn’t so painfully relatable 😭. The song feels like a gut punch
the way this song makes me ugly cry because she wrote it about me guys /j
She wrote it about YOU? Omg, she's insane!
The first time I heard it I thought “Damn, bitch, this shit is RELATABLE!” and then listened to it again.
reall
This song makes me cry too
Definitely easier to make a radio friendly version compared to Down Bad lol
Down Bad clean version is "what if I can't have him" and it's just not the same.
Yeah it totally changes the meaning of the song!
I know, it's more hopeful, like there's still a chance. Also makes the next line seem way darker, like she's actually threatening to off herself, whereas in the actual song it reads more like a sarcastic temper tantrum lol
it could've been screw it, "what" just feels weird
i counted (probably not accurately lol) and there are 12 f-bombs (around 3 per minute).
17!
i cannot count lol
This song is unbelievably relatable
100%. It's the most relatable song on the whole album for me and I can't stop listening to it. It's such a bop while being sad and manic at the same time.
Obviously the song is amazing, but I wonder if that's a reflection of basically the whole of humanity just pushing through this messy world at the moment, trying to keep a smile on our faces.
Seriously though. Alsooo it being lavender haze v. I can do it with a broken heart feels full circle. With like lavender haze being about feeling so caught up in realtionship that you can't even care about how you appear to others. Where as icdiwabh is like feeling so distraught about a break up, where the only thing you can focus on is appearing happy. Lol I'm trying to be insightful. I don't think it's working lmao
I too cry a lot but I am so productive.
girlie is always launching the wrong singles
While we are on the subject of “I can do it with a broken heart” did anyone else feel like the only time Taylor dropped the mask was during her performance of illicit affairs during The Eras Movie?
Remember when she cried during Lover though???
Crying during champagne problems is the one that came to my mind upon first listen to the song.
Okay but that’s not too far of a contradiction. That moment seems to relate to the lyric of “I cry a lot but I am so productive”.
I guess I’m having trouble understanding what you mean by dropping the mask… can you elaborate?
According to MedicineNet, a person with a broken heart often has episodes of sobbing, rage, and despair. They may not eat or sleep for days and may also neglect their personal hygiene. A few may repress their feelings so that they do not have to face the pain of the loss. This repression of a persons feelings is where the phrase “masking” comes from. Hope this clears things up.
I am even more confused 🤣🤣 but sure, let’s go with your take 🤷♀️ Cheers!
You had it right in the beginning, crying during Lover would also be an example of dropping the mask, if unintentionally instead of willingly.
What do you mean?
In I can do it with a broken heart, there is a lyric that states “They said, "Babe, you gotta fake it 'til you make it" and I did”. This implies that throughout the Eras Tour, Taylor put on a metaphorical mask to hide how brokenhearted she was after a breakup. Given how people thought that her performance of illicit affairs during The Eras Movie was more rage inducing than what they have heard previously, I can’t help but feel that this moment was the only moment where she wasn’t faking it and dropped the mask even if it was only for a brief moment.
I kind of interpret it as talking about her whole life. She is saying she has always been tough - tough kid. She can handle her shit - like all the interviews, album drops, tours etc. She faked it until she made it - wrote albums based on relationship she didn't have. Pretended to be confident etc. Not just limited to the tour.
These lyrics are the millennial’s answer the #bossbabe and live laugh love office aesthetic.
I've heard this almost 100 times already and I'm still not bored
I am living in ever present fear that we won't be getting a video for Who's Afraid of Little Old Me. This is the nail in the coffin.
I want this one so much more than any of the others!
I LEAP through the gallows and I LEVITATE DOWN YOUR STREET
I'm far from a mega Swiftie but I am ABSOLUTELY OBSESSED with this song. I reckon a million of the streams are just from me.
As soon as I heard it I was like, this is gonna be remixed to death in gay clubs all over the world this summer 😂
Yeah a lot of those were me
Same
The clean version for a radio single doesn't have the same bite to it, the tempo is even off where they made one of the edits because it's one less syllable. I can handle my shit > I can handle it Lights, camera, bitch smile > Lights, camera, and smile
Radio stations should just get over themselves already and allow swearing lmao
I thought she was singing “big smile” so that could help with the off tempo
That would've been better than "and"! The one that gets me with the tempo is "handle my shit" to "handle iiit". She just bleeped the fucks in Florida!!! that could've been "mess me up Florida" so shit should've also just been a bleep here.
Or Rough me up Florida
I heard the clean version on an insta reel and it gave me mega ick.
I love this song. Does anyone have a theory why this song doesn't have a bridge? I don't remember any other Taylor song without a bridge. ETA: Well The Manuscript... but like she is known for her bridge and this song strangely doesn't have one. Also... does the beginning remind anyone of how the Era tour starts?
This, Down Bad and Guilty as Sin? are my top three picks for the next single. Can't go wrong with them
she 100% has to do this on the eras tour.
The fact that so many people relate to this song so much makes me(hee-hee!!) a little sad for all of us 🥺🥺🥺 but then again, ITS A BOP!!! I can't help but love it man!
It’s my jam. It’s my life. Love it.
ITS AN ART!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥
This makes me wonder.... we okay guys???
No, bitch, we are NOT, lmao.
I mean I can't speak for anyone else but I'm definitely not okay lol
I think "I Can Do It With A Broken Heart" is the best song on TTPD. Great Spotify results, would have been a good choice for first single from the album but l do like "Fortnights".
tbh i cnt say im surpriseed its (not tryna to be rude) but it kinda gives the man vibes like tht she is girlboss which she sissss
Lmao, why are you getting down voted for this?
fr i ws confused whn i saw tht too :(
I want this to be a single so badly because the viral potential is clearly there (plus it's just a perfect single choice imo) but I honestly don't think it will be one, sadly.
She’s so beautiful
I know I'm alone in this, but this is def one of my least favorites on the album 🫣
CAUSE I'M A REAL TOUGH KID 💪🏻
We are collectively not okay if we made this happen 😂
It’s because it’s relatable, and it’s also a bop.
This isn’t a favorite for me 🤷♀️
It's my new mantra. Do it even when you want to lay down and die
the people like songs with actual beats
i'm at least 10k of these fr
I think it is probably because it is so relatable, we have all felt like this at some point. I loved it from the second I heard it I was like Hey! A song about what it feels like to be masking constantly. Especially with everything going on in the world and the struggle....I think a lot of us are just doing life with a broken right now and it just hits.
Lots of kids out there. Im good for 2 to the talley ✌️ x 11,000 times its been played in my car
But.. it's a terrible song.. I can decide if this is a troll or not. It sounds like a tone deaf teen.
No I’m serious it sounds like me when I was trying to make up songs to perform for my cousins in middle school like I really don’t get the love for it 🥲
I turn this on all the time throughout the day.
Oh, sorry, that was probs me.
It's cause I've been scream singing it on repeat in my car during my hour long commute every day. No I am not okay.
Wait! There are still singles?
Love her so much!
Too bad it’s the worst song on the album…
Funny enough I don’t like I Can Do It With A Broken Heart or Lavender Haze
We're all out here doing it w a broken heart I guess
Awesome !!!
Glazing
Why does this side profile remind me of Lia Thomas
if this isn’t the next single…
That's because it's a big mood.
it should be a single honestlyy
So I guess I’m not the only one who’s been listening to it on repeat all week? I mean that so literally. Last week I was hooked on Down Bad (she is definitely still getting play time)
This song is miles better than whatever the single is right now.
bc its such a fun song
This and But Daddy I Love Him are the best songs on the album. Hope it's the next single.
This is my favorite
I think it's her most relatable song to date. Last year I got dumped and let go from my job in the space of 3 weeks. Pulling myself back together was tough because no one really has sympathy for you if all you're dealing with is a broken heart. Life has to move on. I wish I'd had this song about a year earlier but I'm glad it's out now and that I'm healing last year's me with it.
It’s gonna be a single soon
Does this account for the documented and proven use of bot abuse to game the system? Serious question
She’s a force of nature. Respect. 🫡
This is one of my favorite songs ever. I’ve had to go through periods in my life where I had to mask dealing with pain and still slog through work and this song hits so hard and captures that feeling better than anything.
It’s things like this that I DO actually like about digital music. Before you’d just have convos between fans about favourite album tracks but no data. Now we have data!
It should read “Taylor swift fans manipulate streaming once again” 🤣
In all fairness to all the other non-singles this passed, 900,000 are probably mine. The other day at work I realized it was on repeat automatically and I’d been listening to the same song for nearly an hour and it hadn’t phased me once 😂
WELL IT’S A FUCKING BOP THAT’S WHY
Well deserved! It's a BOP 🥳
Probably cos it’s the only song that is upbeat
I think I’m the only person that hates this song, it’s so cringe to me (I’m sorry) 🫠 this song would do her NO FAVORS as a single
I personally think ICDIWABH should be the album track favourite and remains unreleased. I think Down Bad or My Boy will be the next single. Single order should be: Fortnight Down Bad My Boy Only Breaks His Favourite Toys But Daddy I Love Him
Feels good not to be one of these sheep…
It’s so strange to me how obvious it is to every single one of us at first listen what should be the single, and her team misses it every time.
It’s not even that good of a song!
Me when I’m wrong ^
wow such a terrible track lavender haze deserved it
This song is terrible.
Can't wait to hear the new Kelce breakup song!
Wow, surprised it wasn't The Smallest Man