+1 I think Aaron Dessner wrote or at least co-wrote that about his son. Beautiful song. |
I hope she adds "But Daddy I Love Him" in her TTPD segment on the Eras tour. We are seeing her later this year, and I love this song. |
I wouldn’t read too much into that. Maybe Joe was a more stable relationship and she’s more at peace with how things ended. |
"Now you're in my backyard, turned into good neighbors" - Matty Healy moved to LA from London with a new girlfriend in the fall. "My husband is cheating, I wanna kill him." - Taylor and Matty have gotten pretend married in like a million songs by now: in their heads (About You, The 1975), with paper rings, with imaginary rings, and talked rings and cradles, and he moved the ring from her middle finger to the ring finger under the table, and they had the imaginary wedding in 'But Daddy I Love Him." |
Add me to the growing list of people coming around on this album. |
I am sure some of this is true. But also some of it probably isn't. Can she admit, I burned for this other man while I was with Joe for 6 years (and before, and after) and wrote dozens of songs about him in code? Good girl, role model Taylor? I used to think that she would never, but then TTPD came out, and now I am actually in awe of her bravery, her grand gesture in the name of love, and her IDGAF attitude. Because she loved Matty Healy, thinks he is worthy and wants the world to know. But why risk it now if she is truly over him? Because I don't think she is. |
It isn’t bravery. Just a narcissistic attitude that comes from the self centered lives of those who are rich and famous. Look at Ariana. She also had a do anything for love, IDGaF Attitude. It isn’t bravery cheating on your husband with another married man. Nor is singing about it. It isn’t risky for these ladies. People support them no matter what they do. |
I don't think she cheated on Joe. I think he probably knew about this at some point but stayed with her for the PR, and they had an agreement. Did people see them out and about in recent years, or ever really? Or were they "together" but living their separate lives? |
"Wait. Pretend (don't let go) Hold on and hope that we'll find our way back in the end." - About You 😭😭😭 |
This is The Tortured Poets Department, not the Long Suffering Propriety Department ;0 |
I think this one is very unspecific and not about one man particularly . It’s the brief love that you lost who went on to lead a normal happy life that you sometimes get glimpses of and you worry you’ll never have that. “Turned into good neighbhors/Your wife waters flowers. I want to kill her” while “my husband is cheating / I want to kill him.” Your relationship was so brief it almost might seem like it didn’t happen “but I touched you.” |
She is, which is why she can release this album now. The poem she wrote even says so. It’s over - she found a love that means she can finally let this one and all the other men in the past go. It’s a goodbye to so many eras . That’s why the anthology ends on The Manuscript. “The story’s not mine anymore.” The idea of “the one that got away” is not unique to Taylor. I’d say many people have that one person who, throughout life, acts like a hologram for all the lives and paths we didn’t live because of the ones who chose. They’re an idea more than anything but they’re in the background as the “what if” or the “in another life.” A fantasy more than anything. That’s Matty to her I think. |
It's her good name alone to ruin, and boy this album was successful. |
Maybe Matt Healy will cover, "we are never ever getting back together." LOL |