Is It Just Me Or The Songs On The Tortured Poets Department Sound The Same? It's Like They All Blend

Is it just me or the songs on The Tortured Poets Department sound the same? It's like they all blend together at some point....at first listen there is not one song stuck in my head. And this is coming from someone who genuinely enjoys her music ...Red is one of my faves. You could swap the songs from Midnights and TTPD and I wouldn't be able to tell. I think she should start working with a new producer. Although I stopped being a fan since the breakup, I was still looking forward to new music .... I was excited for what new sound she would explore but it was disappointing to hear the same old repetitive Jack Antonoff synth pop genre.

She probably needs a break .... all this hyper production in the past few years with so many albums and their multiple versions must have had an impact on her creativity and quality...also a lot of lyrics are just......eh I don't know the right words, but she can do better for an artist of her magnitude and caliber.

Also, I feel like the aesthetic for the album does not match the music...like the dark academia/old books thing doesn't really go with the songs for me. Again, they sound a lot like something from Midnights due to the production so probably that's why I feel like that.

Another thing, the album seems to be mostly about the 1975 dude, but the marketing pointed to Joe Alwyn which led to him being harassed by her fans and she did nothing. That was horrible of her. It's these kinds of things that led me to leave that fandom. Even Ariana put out a statement when she released her new album.

Overall, I expected a better album from her. She really needs to take a break. The overexposure and overproduction are not looking good.

The lack of consequences for Pen is just hilarious. I get that its fantasy but there's a limit to being unrealistic.

It seems to me the writers wrote themselves in a corner by having Pen write all that shit in the first 2 seasons to stir up drama and move the plot forward. Then they started scrambling when they had to make her look good for her own season.

Also why show us all that backstory with Cressida if that's the ending she was gonna get. Its the poorest writing I've seen.

What the fuck show?

If Cressida is a monster for publishing one little cue card worth of Whistledown that doesn’t even slander anyone, how much worse of a monster is Penelope, who has been releasing a double sided three columned sheet consistently for years at this point?

If Cressida is a monster with a feud with Eloise and her family when she hasn’t even written anything about Eloise or the Bridgerton’s (yet?) how much more is Penelope a monster for her very overt resentment of the Bridgerton’s (for being what? Prettier than her? More loving? As if the Bridgerton’s aren’t chock full of dysfunction) a resentment so strong that it bleed into her writing that consistently attacked the Bridgerton’s?

If Eloise has put her family in danger by inviting Cressida into her home, how much danger did she put them in by inviting Penelope into their home?

If Eloise should never have befriended Cressida - how much more should she have never befriended Penelope?

If Cressida is evil for pretending to be Lady Whistledown how much more is Penelope evil for BEING Whistledown?

It can’t be one rule for one and another rule for another?

What is this moral essentialism? Where when Cressida does something it is bad because she is bad and when Penelope does a worse thing for long it’s fine because Penelope is good?

Well I am sorry show but I don’t believe that some people are good and some people are bad - I think the morality of people’s actions is what defines their personal morality.

Why didn’t they have Eloise doing her speech about feeling upset and guilty about inviting a viper with a grudge in to her home, and make it about Penelope?

Because having her say it about Cressida feels fake

But having her say it about Penelope would have felt real - and would have been one of the desperately needed consequences for her.

the thing about the "um excuse me if you're as poor as you say you are why don't you just sell all your most treasured possessions" thing that people love to trot out as some kind of "gotcha" is that they do not acknowledge how fucking soul-crushing it is to be in a situation that is already destroying your mental health and then be forced to sell one of the few things in your life that still bring you joy

it really is insane how waking up early will grant you access to some of the most beautiful sights and sensations in the world that will make you want to live forever, but only if you overcome the gauntlet of a thousand razors that is getting out of bed early. truly one of life's little saw traps.

So, I recently watched The Midnight Club and I saw a lot of people say that they don't like Ilonka and I get it. She doesn't make the best of decisions, but she is also a dying teen who is just trying to make the best of it.

I never disliked Ilonka for making bad decisions. It actually made sense for someone in her position and there is no guarantee I would not have done the same.

But it did annoy me that she never faces any consequences for it. Like when Sandra strikes out with Spence she makes up for it with her story …we see that she actually feels bad about it but when Ilonka is reprimanded by Stanton for the right reasons she gets angry and initially it was understandable, but we never see her realizing that it was still wrong to take Anya down to the basement no matter how she felt about it. When Sandra admitted to that intercom prank, we see the other characters looking somewhat pissed though they warm back up to her later but with Ilonka when she tells them about the murder ritual with Julia Jayne they all seem unaffected by it. We never see her feeling bad for being unreasonably rude to Katherine, in the moment I understood her, but we should have seen her regretting lashing out and I know she apologizes to Kevin but what she said to Katherine did not sit right with me...coz Katherine seemed like a genuinely nice person. We never see Tim's reaction to the ritual either though it was implied that Stanton discussed it with him. He wouldn't have yelled at Ilonka but he would have still talked to her about it. She should have acknowledged that taking herself and her other sick friends to an unclean basement full of mold and whatnot (as Sandra tells her) was wrong.

So, I think a lot of people disliked Ilonka not for making bad decisions but because she never took accountability for it especially when the other characters did. I feel like that would have added depth to her character.... her realizing that though she was smart she was not always right. Maybe they would have dealt with that in season 2 but I don't know.

Also Fuck cults and fuck cultists for manipulating and taking advantage of vulnerable people.

I don't have a tiktok account. I don't have the app. I hate that shit, like the entire concept of it. I hate life-long beautiful and rich people posturing and desperate to be different when it looks like they live in a fucking show home. I hate the sped-up awful cover versions of decent songs in the background of every video. I hate the way it's normalized filming people in public or even in private through windows so you live your entire life with the paranoia of being filmed doing something totally innocuous like dancing at a club and posted online for the world to laugh at. I hate the filters that make you feel like shit about yourself. I hate the dances as much as I hate how much I don't have the lack of shame to do them. I hate the way children are continuously exploited for views. I hate the normalization of people in authority like teachers and doctors and nurses shaming the people who literally depend on them. I hate unfunny white men going on to make fun of women for every fucking thing women do with that damn towel on their head and trying to cover their own misogyny by saying "white women" as a pass. I hate the "reaction" stitches that accompany every fucking video as if anyone gives a shit that you're nodding into your coffee. I hate the way that all of life gets turned into a fucking aesthetic trend instead of being real with an actual personality. I hate the misinformation that gets spread. I hate the pathologization of normal human behaviors into mental disorders and the way people with legitimate disorders are getting appropriated by the clout-chasing attention whores that populate the app. Basically, I hate tiktok and what it's done to social media and honestly, living in a society in general.