TTPD Is About IWTV
TTPD is about IWTV
(Part Two)
This is a thread connecting Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles to Taylor Swift’s most recent album, The Tortured Poet’s Department. Part One will be linked at the bottom, if you want to start from the beginning.
3.) My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
Lestat is totally the one singing this song. His sad boys (Nicki and Louis) just love to break his little Ken doll heart, don’t they?
“Oh, here we go again, The voices in his head, called the rain to end our days of wild”
“My boy only breaks his favorite toys”
“And I'll tell you that he runs because he loves me, he loves me”
“Cause you should've seen him when he first got me”
“Cause he took me out of my box, stole my tortured heart, left all these broken parts”
4.) Down Bad
So this one could go SO MANY DIFFERENT ways. I’m choosing to give it to Claudia, though. I think the pouty, youthful feel of the song fits her perfectly. This is about her losing Charlie, her first love, and having to deal with how her life will never be the same now that she knows what she’s missing.
“For a moment, I was heavenstruck”
“Showed me that this world is bigger than us, then sent me back where I came from”
“Now I'm down bad, cryin' at the gym”
“Everything comes out teenage petulance”
“Fuck it if I can’t have him”
“I might just die, it would make no difference”
“Cause fuck it, I was in love”
Part One: https://www.tumblr.com/funtheysaid/749134183115456512/ttpd-is-about-iwtv
Part Three: https://www.tumblr.com/funtheysaid/749134541742030848/ttpd-is-about-iwtv
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TTPD is about IWTV
(Part Five)
This is a thread connecting Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles to Taylor Swift’s most recent album, The Tortured Poet’s Department. Part One will be linked at the bottom, if you want to start from the beginning.
9.) Guilty As Sin?
My headcanon for the tv show is that the Devil’s Minion chapter has already happened by the time Daniel goes to Dubai to meet with Louis and Armand again.
This song tells the story of someone fantasizing about their crush, envisioning a life with them, dreaming about touching them - dreams so vivid that the narrator starts to question their sanity and morality because the make-believe is starting to feel real to them.
Let me set the scene: Older Daniel sees Rashid for the first time, and his heart starts racing. That’s odd. He starts thinking about the young man, obsessively. At first, he tells himself it’s because Rashid is a piece of Louis’ puzzle that doesn’t quite fit. But truthfully, he’s entranced by the man with big brown eyes and dark curls. Then, Daniel starts to dream of him. Is he losing his mind?
Maybe.
Or maybe… Daniel and Armand have spent more time together than Daniel can remember? Memory, you sly devil, you.
“I'm seeing visions”
“Am I bad or mad or wise?”
“I keep recalling things we never did”
“Without ever touchin' his skin”
“How can I be guilty as sin?”
A special bonus: here’s a video of them with “Guilty As Sin?” playing in the background. This isn’t my edit - I just took this one from YouTube (which is great - go watch it!) and slapped the song on top. It’s surprising how well it actually fits.
10.) Who’s Afraid Of Little Old Me?
This is Lestat de Lioncourt in song form. Simple as that.
"Who's afraid of little old me?"
“Well, you should be”
“You should be”
“So tell me everything is not about me, but what if it is?”
“So I leap from the gallows and I levitate down your street, crash the party like a record scratch as I scream”
Part One: https://www.tumblr.com/funtheysaid/749134183115456512/ttpd-is-about-iwtv
Part Six: https://www.tumblr.com/funtheysaid/749135507724877824/ttpd-is-about-iwtv
TTPD is about IWTV
(Part Six)
This is a thread connecting Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles to Taylor Swift’s most recent album, The Tortured Poet’s Department. Part One will be linked at the bottom, if you want to start from the beginning.
11.) I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)
Loustat? Lesmand? Armaniel? This song could apply to all of them.
But, let’s dedicate this one to Loumand. My first instinct was to say that Louis would be the narrator of this song - needing to “fix” Armand’s gremlin, manipulative ways. But I actually think a more compelling take on this would be having Armand play the narrator, and Louis being the one in need of “fixing”.
Take, for instance, Louis’ mental breakdown after Claudia’s (and Lestat’s) death. He’s so numb and despondent that Armand starts acting increasingly more and more desperate to get his lover to feel something - to “fix” his depression.
Armand even admits to killing Claudia in an attempt to ignite something in Louis - to no avail, of course.
Armand then tells Louis that Lestat is actually alive in NOLA, hoping that’ll bring some light to Louis’ eyes. But, it doesn’t.
He continually tries to pull Louis from his anguished spiral, trying his best to “fix” Louis’ problems, but in the end he has to admit to himself that he can’t “fix” Louis.
You can also totally look at this through the lens of Louis thinking he can “fix” Armand - make him a better person, be his moral compass so to say.
“He had a halo of the highest grade, he just hadn’t met me yet”
“They shake their heads saying God help her when I tell ‘em he’s my man”
“I can fix him”
“No, really, I can”
“Woah, maybe I can’t”
12.) loml (aka loss of my life)
Nicki and Lestat, duh. I think Lestat would consider Nicki to be the greatest loss of his life. And so many of these lyrics fit them. The way Nicki grew to resent, and then hate Lestat is just so heartbreaking.
“If you know it in one glimpse, it's legendary”
“You said I'm the love of your life”
“When your impressionist paintings of heaven turned out to be fakes”
“Well, you took me to hell too”
“Our field of dreams engulfed in fire”
“Your arson's match, your somber eyes”
“You’re the loss of my life”
Part One: https://www.tumblr.com/funtheysaid/749134183115456512/ttpd-is-about-iwtv
Part Seven: https://www.tumblr.com/funtheysaid/749135905171832832/ttpd-is-about-iwtv
TTPD is about IWTV
(Part Seven)
This is a thread connecting Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles to Taylor Swift’s most recent album, The Tortured Poet’s Department. Part One will be linked at the bottom, if you want to start from the beginning.
13.) I Can Do It With A Broken Heart
This song legitimately applies to everyone. TVC is just a bunch of angsty, existential vampires who have to keep carrying on, despite all their trauma and heartache, bc they’re immortal.
But, I want to shout out Claudia, specifically, bc that girl HAS BEEN THROUGH SOME SHIT. She endures immortality despite the many misfortunes she’s had to face: losing Charlie, losing her chance to live a normal life, losing her adulthood, always feeling second-best, and of course, being brutally killed bc Armand is jealous and petty. (Still love you Armand… it’s okay, I can fix you - no really, I can).
“Cause I’m a real tough kid, I can handle my shit”
“Lights, camera, bitch smile, even when you wanna die”
“I’m so depressed I act like it’s my birthday everyday”
“I can hold my breath”
“I’ve been doing it since he left”
“I cry a lot but I am so productive, it’s an art”
“Cause I can do it with a broken heart”
14.) The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
This is the only song I actually feel guilty (as sin?) about assigning to someone. I’m going to look at it through the lens of how Lestat may have felt about Nicki after they broke up for good. Lestat turned him, and once Nicki was a vampire, he hated Lestat. And then Nicki’s true feelings came to light - how he resented Lestat’s capacity to endure, how he’d gone to Paris with Lestat in hopes that they both would fail.
I don’t think Lestat would feel this bitter for long, but it’s not crazy to think that he might’ve had a period of sulking after all he went through with Nicki.
“Was any of it true?”
“You gazing at me starry eyed”
“Who the fuck was that guy?”
“And I don't even want you back, I just want to know”
“If rusting my sparkling summer was the goal?”
“I would've died for your sins”
“Instead I just died inside”
“You kicked out the stage lights”
“But you're still performing”
“And I'll forget you but I'll never forgive”
“The smallest man who ever lived”
Part One: https://www.tumblr.com/funtheysaid/749134183115456512/ttpd-is-about-iwtv
Part Eight: https://www.tumblr.com/funtheysaid/749136105881862145/ttpd-is-about-iwtv
