TTPD Is About IWTV

TTPD is about IWTV

(Part Eight)

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.

15.) The Alchemy

Executive decision: This one is about Lestat and Louis finally getting their shit together and going back to each other.

“This happens once every few lifetimes”

“These chemicals hit me like white wine”

“What if I told you I'm back?”

“The hospital was a drag”

“Worst sleep that I ever had”

“These blokes warm the benches”

“We been on a winning streak”

“Cause the sign on your heart said it's still reserved for me”

“Honestly, who are we to fight the alchemy?”

16.) Clara Bow

This one is for all of ‘em. I like the idea of paralleling “fame” with being chosen to receive the Dark Gift. Just like a small town girl who never thought she’d see the big city, I think the vamps would never have imagined their lives to turn out the way they did.

The allegory of vampirism and fame is really interesting to me. Being chosen to receive a gift that so many desire and, yet, so few receive. A gift that feels more like a curse once you have it. Beauty and aesthetic being a cornerstone to your existence.

Are you seeing the vision?

Also, Lestat’s rockstar era fits nicely into the context of these lyrics as well.

“All your life, did you know you’d be picked like a rose”

“No one in my small town thought I'd see the lights of Manhattan”

“Promise to be dazzling”

“I'm not trying to exaggerate”

“But I think I might die if it happened, die if it happened to me”

"You look like Stevie Nicks in '75, the hair and lips”

“Crowd goes wild at her fingertips”

“You're the new god we're worshipping”

“It's hell on earth to be heavenly”

“... Dazzling”

Part One: https://www.tumblr.com/funtheysaid/749134183115456512/ttpd-is-about-iwtv

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fin.

😭 I love them your honor

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”

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(Part Eight) This is a thread connecting Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles to Taylor Swift’s most recent album, The Tortured Poet’s Depart

Is Louis’ hallucination of Lestat wearing the same outfit he wore when he fucked Louis for the first time after Louis fucked Armand for the first time???? Carol Cutshall the woman you are…..

i know bucks literal boyfriend walked in the room, but buck and eddie are the gayest part about this scene 

I would give my first born for merch like this !!! Or you know $60-100 same difference

enough time has went by i need amc to make their own iwtv jacket like this!!!