Taylor Swift Explains Meanings of ‘Florida!!!,’ ‘Fortnight,’ & MORE From “TTPD” Album

circumstances did not lead you to where you thought you would be and you just want to escape from everything you've ever known is there a place you could go I'm always watching like dat line people you know have these crimes that they commit where do they immediately skip town and go to that they go to Florida Taylor Swift is breaking down her songs track by track the global Superstar broke down meanings and themes behind certain songs from her latest album The tortured poets Department which dropped April 19th including Florida fortnite clabo my boy only breaks his favorite toys and who's afraid of little old me while doing Amazon music's track by track the pop star began by explaining a bit about the first song on her album titled fortnite which she collaborated on with post Malone and is speculated to be about her rekindled romance with 1975 frontman Maddie Healey fortnite is a song that I think really exhibits a lot of the common themes that run throughout this album one of which being fatalism um longing pining away Lost Dreams you know I think that um it's a very fatalistic album in that there are lots of very dramatic lines about you know life or death and um I love you it's ruining my life like these are very hyperbolic um dramatic things to say but it's that kind of album it's about a you know dramatic artistic tragic kind of take on love and loss and for night I I've always imagined that it took place in this like American town where the American dream you thought would happen to you didn't right you ended up not with the person that you loved and now you have to just live with that every day wondering what would have been maybe seeing them out and and that's a that's a pretty tragic concept really so I was just writing from that persp perspective while breaking down Florida her collaboration with Florence and the Machine Taylor explains that she was inspired in part by dat line and how the state is a place where people like to escape I think I was coming up with this idea of like what happens when your life doesn't fit or your choices you've made catch up to you and there's just you're surrounded by these harsh consequences and judgment and and circumstances did not lead you to where you thought you would be and you just want to escape from everything you've ever known is there a place you could go I'm always watching like dat line people you know have these crimes that they commit where do they immediately skip town and go to that they go to Florida you know they like try to reinvent themselves have a new identity blend in and I think when you go through a heartbreak there's a part of you that thinks I want a new name I want a new life I don't want anyone to know where I've been or know me at all and so that was kind kind of what that was the jumping off point behind where would you go to reinvent yourself and blend in Florida the pop star also spoke about Clara B and how she wrote it as a commentary to the music and entertainment industry Clara B is a song that I wrote as sort of a commentary on just what I've seen in the industry that I've been in over time right like I used to sit um in record labels trying to get a record deal when I was a little kid and they'd say you know you remind us of and then they'd Name an artist and then they'd kind of say something disparaging about her and be like but you're but you're this you're so much better in this way or that way and that's how we kind of teach women to see themselves it's like you could be the new replacement for this woman who's done something great before you and um so I I had this idea that it's a conversation between the young woman sitting in the chair in front of the desk and the man in power or woman in power sitting behind the desk saying oh you remind us so much of a woman who came before you but don't worry you're better like we're we're going to make you the new her um so I picked women who have done great things in the past and have been sort of these archetypes of of greatness in the entertainment industry Clara Bo was the first it girl Stevie Nicks is an icon on you know an incredible example for anyone who wants to write songs and make music so I just thought it would be interesting to talk about how weird that feels if we really add up that that's what we do as a society while discussing my boy only breaks his favorite toys Taylor explained how it relates to relationships and denial my boy only breaks his favorite toys is a song I wrote alone and it's a metaphor of you know from the perspective of a child's toy being somebody's favorite toy until they break you and then don't want to play with you anymore which is you know how a lot of us are in relationships where we are so valued by a person in the beginning and then all of a sudden they break us or they or they you know devalue us in their mind and we're still Clinging On to no no no they you should have seen them the first time they saw me that they they'll come back to that they'll get back to that so it's kind of like a song about denial really so that you can live in this world where there's still hope for a toxic broken relationship the pop star also got candid about her single titled who's afraid of little old me so being in the public eye since I was a young teenager um there's a lot that that does to you know your perception of the world your perception of yourself the idea that the world has this this sense of ownership and and and not just a right but a they feel they have a responsibility ability to judge you and to critique you and to weigh in and you know that can really toy with you who's afraid of little old me was a song I wrote just alone sitting at the piano in one of those moments when I felt sort of bitter about um just all the things we do to our artists as a society and as a culture there's a lot about this particular concept on the tortured poets Department what do we do to our writers and our artists and our creatives we put them through hell we watch what they create then we judge it we we love to watch artists in pain often to the point where I think sometimes as a society we provoke that pain we just Watch What Happens so there's lines about you know feeling like I'm I've been in the circus you know those kind of metaphors or feeling like I'm sort of like a witch in a haunted house those some ways that I feel sometimes when I'm not able to kind of write the ship and cope with my normal coping mechanism so this song was just a very very true way that I feel sometimes and uh it's always good when you can be honest about those things [Music]

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Length: 7min 21sec (441 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 22 2024