Relating to remedy, some individuals might select to go to skilled docs. For others, they take heed to brand-new Taylor Swift music.
On Friday, April 19, the Grammy winner launched her eleventh studio album titled The Tortured Poets Division. Whereas among the music and lyrics are targeted on previous loves like Matty Healy and Joe Alwyn, Swift’s newest physique of labor additionally explores psychological well being and the varied feelings one might face by the ups and downs of life.
Within the observe “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart,” Swift, 34, sings about unrequited love and the toll it might tackle one’s thoughts — particularly as they hit the stage each night time on a sold-out world tour as she did within the aftermath of her break up from Alwyn.
“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,” she sings. “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.”
Swift additionally explores the ache of being ghosted by a man (seemingly Healy) within the track “Down Bad.”
“Now I’m down bad, cryin’ at the gym / Everything comes out teenage petulance,” she sings. “F— it if I can’t have him / I might just die, it would make no difference.”
With heavy lyrics up for interpretation, some might marvel what Swift has shared about her personal psychological well being. Quickly after the double album’s launch, followers remembered an interview Swift did with Rolling Stone the place she mentioned her ideas on remedy.
“I’ve never been to therapy,” she advised the publication in September 2019. “I talk to my mom a lot, because my mom is the one who’s seen everything. God, it takes so long to download somebody on the last 29 years of my life, and my mom has seen it all. She knows exactly where I’m coming from. And we talk endlessly.”
Swift continued, “There were times when I used to have really, really, really bad days where we would just be on the phone for hours and hours and hours. I’d write something that I wanted to say, and instead of posting it, I’d just read it to her.”
In a separate interview with Rolling Stone from 2012, Swift reiterated she’s by no means been to remedy saying, “I just feel very sane.”
TTPD isn’t the primary time Swift has explored psychological well being matters. When “Red (Taylor’s Version)“ was released in 2021, some fans speculated her lyrics in “Forever Winter” had been about an expertise processing the dying of a buddy by suicide.
“If I was standing there in your apartment / I’d take that bomb in your head and disarm it,” she sings. “I’d say I love you even at your darkest and / Please don’t go.”
Within the 2020 album folklore, Swift additionally included highly effective imagery in “This Is Me Tryin” when she sings, “Pulled the car off the road to the lookout / Could’ve followed my fears all the way down.”
Simply days earlier than the discharge of TTPD, Swift partnered with Apple Music to unveil 5 unique playlists that includes songs from her discography that symbolize the levels of heartbreak: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Despair and Acceptance.
In keeping with Swift, the despair playlist, which is titled “Old Habits Die Screaming,” explores “the feelings of depression that often lace their way” by her catalog.
“In times like these, I’ll write a song because I feel lonely or hopeless. And writing a song feels like the only way to process that intensity of an emotion,” Swift continued. “And while these things are really, really hard to go through, I often feel like when I’m either listening to songs or writing songs that deal with this intensity of loss and hopelessness, usually that’s in the phase where I’m close to getting past that feeling.”