Shoving everything else in Part 1 into this post to figure out my rankings! Is that even possible? Oh well.
Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)
My Boy Only Breaks his Favorite Toys
So Long, London
Fresh Out the Slammer
Florida!!!
I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)
I Can Do It With a Broken Heart
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
Clara Bow
Last on my list.. hmm..
I really don’t love Fortnight. I don’t know why it was selected for the first single? I feel like she (her team?) does a really bad just picking singles. I just don’t like the melody as much, I think. It’s a great song about her having a relationship with someone for two weeks and seeing him later, seeing his wife water flowers, and she wants to kill her. Makes me laugh. It’s not horrible at all, it’s just nothing something I feel called to. Although I listened to it again and oohhh, maybe I do feel called to it.
All my mornings are Mondays stuck in an endless February
I took the miracle move-on drug, the effects were temporary
And I love you, it’s ruining my life
Ahh, where is the miracle move-on drug? I wish they sold that. I would buy stock. But alas, while good, still not great for me.
I’m putting Clara Bow, second to last… It’s beautiful and if I was listening to a playlist on a plane ride, I would let it play but if I’m in a short car ride, it’s a skip. Great song about how the industry likes only the freshest and newest and it’s constantly cycling out.
There are a few mid-songs that I’ll just list out in no particular order. This makes me laugh to even write that, the fact that I could listen (and do listen!) to this album (or ALL her songs) on repeat is so far above any other artist so even calling them “mid” is silly… but anyway.
My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys – it’s really an amazing song, I just don’t gravitate toward the melody. But wow, how she calls out guys just dropping girls after they are tired of them! (Okay, girls do this to guys too… anyway)
My boy only breaks his favorite toys
I’m queen of sand castles he destroys
Ahh, the angst in this.
There was danger in the heat of my touch
He saw forever so he smashed it up
And the entire ending of the song… Took me out of my box, stole my heart, told me I’m better off… but I’m not. Oh Taylor. Broken parts… *sobs*
I felt more when we played pretend
Than with all the Kens
Cause he took me out of my box
Stole my tortured heart
Left all these broken parts
Told me I’m better off
But I’m not
I’m not
I’m not.
So Long, London
Again, not a huge favorite of the melody. And i’m just irritated this is Song 5! loml, Black Dog, or the Manuscript maybe should have been Song 5! But I love that she played it on Night 6 of London Eras Tour, and I love that Heathrow has it as a huge quote in their airport! How cool is that!
But it is a goodbye to Joe and the city she loved (“I’m just mad as hell cause I loved this place”). How Joe’s depression carried her down, how she tried to keep them upright, and she couldn’t do it. It is a really sad song. I just love a few of the other (sadder!) songs more!
Pulled him in tighter each time he was drifting away
My spine split from carrying us up the hill
Every breath feels like rarest air
When you’re not sure if he wants to be there
So how much sad did you think I had,
Did you think I had in me?
You swore that you loved me but where were the clues?
I died on the altar waiting for the proof
Ooh, and the way she switches out “You’ll find someone” to “I’ll find someone” to the ending line of “You’ll find someone”. Tragedy.
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
This is a tough one. I think it is universally acknowledged that this song got SO MUCH BETTER when we got to see her marching down the aisle in a soldier march when she added it to the tour. It is possibly the best bridge she’s created and the choreography is amazing.
I would’ve died for your sins
Instead, I just died inside
And you deserve prison, but you won’t get time
That song is SUCH a cut to Matty, it’s awesome. It’s just really slow and definitely not a “car song” for me.
Florida!!!
My kids LOVED Florida when it came out. They always put it on in the car and I just… didn’t love it. I wish I loved it. It has an amazing beat, Florence sounds great in it… it’s just lower on my list of listens.
Heading into a few that I really like a lot…
Fresh Out the Slammer
Velvety lyrics, unique, the beat changes… Fresh out of her relationship with Joe and into the fire with Matty.
Splintered back in winter, silent dinners, bitter
He was with her in dreams
Ouch.
All those nights you kept me going
Swirled you into all of my poems
I was reading a thread about it on Reddit that I loved… interpreting this song not just in her relationship change but singing “Pretty baby” to herself and not letting herself be small for any man again, and bejeweling herself and sticking up for herself. The ending doesn’t sound that way at all but it’s a nice thought.
I love this song though, it’s so creative!
I Can Fix Him (No, Really I Can)
Cowboy vibes, dreamy, seductive, and a total break-up song. I LOVE the ending line, she’s singing the whole time about she’s here for this guy, she can fix him, her skillset is perfect to be with him but whoa, nope, maybe she can’t fix him.
The imagery is amazing
The smoke cloud billows out his mouth
like a freight train through a small town
His hand so calloused from his pistol
Softly traces hearts on my face
So seductive. It’s short though!
I Can Do It With a Broken Heart
When I listed this out I realized I MISSED THIS SONG in my first review. I LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH. Big heart eyes!
But then when I really thought about it, I still don’t know where I would list it. Definitely above the named TTPD song… tied with Guilty as Sin? So I’m putting it last on this list… as in saving the best for last!
The way the guy in the background counts down the beat (one, two, three, four) and you can FEEL the strut in her, nevermind the fact the whole song on the Eras Tour is perfection.
I can show you lies (one, two, three, four)
‘Cause I’m a real tough kid, I can handle my shit
They said, “Babe, you gotta fake it ’til you make it” and I did
And these lines… so good!
I’m so depressed, I act like it’s my birthday every day
I’m so obsessed with him but he avoids me like the plague
I cry a lot but I am so productive, it’s an art
You know you’re good when you can even do it
With a broken heart
What an amazing song.
Out of Part 1 (main album), my Top 5…
loml (when I’m in a sad mood)
Alchemy
Down Bad
Broken Heart
…. ooh… Guilty as Sin probably my #5… but Daddy, I Love him is next!
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