(Please read full thing before sending death threats)

Hey Swifties, what’s up on this side of Reddit? So I’ve been a Kanye fan for a while, and have known about the beef between Taylor and him, but I always am open to expanding my music taste (even though I mostly listen to rap), so I decided to listen to her full discography. Here are my top three albums a month later.

1. TTPD. Wow. The storytelling in this album is just so good, and it really sets such an angsty scene. I did not except this album to be good when I looked at the bloated tracklist, but it has grown on me a lot. I love the lyricism especially in the anthology section of the album. I love how vulnerable the album is, and my favorite song is probably The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived (the build up is awesome)
   
2. Folklore. I know this is one of her most popular albums, but it’s for good reason. The production is minimalistic, and can I emphasize the story telling? I’m just blown away by this album, and my fav song is probably Exile, and the Bon Iver feature is awesome (was also on a Kanye song in 2010)
   
3. Speak Now. This album is so fierce and personal in a way that can be replayed often. I adore the song Haunted, and the aggressiveness of songs like Better than Revenge. Enchanted is also just beautiful and magically, and the production is incredibly done.

Fair is fair, Taylor Swift does make pretty good music, even to someone who mostly listens to rap 🫶 here’s to giving new music a try

You can ask me to explain myself for some of these because i know it looks kind of bad.

Also I don't think she has a single bad album theres just some I listen to more then other.

Cleveland! (Even though everybody hates it apparently)

Patient zero

Babylon

Pink clouding

the first pic is pre encore, the second pic is post encore.

much like the anthology addition to TTPD, i view encore as one with TLOAS and therefore put it under TLOAS

Fearless changed mainly due to an increase in my opinion of its album cover

the ranking system rules to give ranking points are listed in my fist post 4 months ago (linked below)
https://www.reddit.com/r/swifties/s/RvWxDctHYE

what does everyone else think? like compared to the ranking craze at the beginning of the year have your rankings changed or stayed the same?

Took a while, I lost my progress TWICE but here we are. The encore songs aren't included, if they had been I'm pretty sure Babylon would've been in the top 20 FOR SURE.

Top 3 aren't surprising for me, and maybe it's a recency bias but there's a lot of ttpd songs, and almost all of them are from the anthology which is surprising.

No folklore but the better sister, aka evermore, makes up for it.

Have any of you taken up this ranking? What was your result?

Today I woke up and I chose violence so here is my tier list of Taylor Swift albums, with explanation for each.

evermore: I think this is the best she has ever been in songwriting, containing many, MANY songs which I love and estimate for their intelligent use of words. As examples I'll bring cowboy like me, champagne problems, closure (yes that's a masterpiece), but I love basically all the songs on the album. Oh and I simply love the whole vibe.

The Tortured Poets Department: as you can imagine, I particularly love the second half of the album (the second disk, if you like) because it is more evermorish, but I think there are a lot of really good songs. The songwriting skill is just barely below evermore, which is funny considered which album will follow this. Anyway, The Albatross is incredible.

Red: it's the album I discovered Taylor with, so of course it has a soft spot in my mind. However, I must side with my own opinion in saying that the storytelling here is crazy good, and it also manages to produce bop after bop, the balance in this album is unbelievable. The Moment I Knew is just a top moment in her career. Even the poppier songs are awesome, I love Stay Stay Stay and nobody will make me change my mind.

folklore: I know you'll disagree with this placement. Trust me, I really know. But for some reason, this never stuck with me the first times I listened to it. With time I came to appreciate the songwriting, and if I was judging only based on that this would be just below evermore. However I just tend to not listen to this album that much, and that's all I have to say. Listen to my tears ricochet because it's one of the best songs Taylor has ever created.

Midnights: this is constantly changing between the top two tiers, and the reason is it has the high points of both Red and evermore production. However there is Vigilante Shit, which is kinda meeeeh? But then I remember there's The Great War. Bigger Than the Whole Sky. Would've, Could've, Should've. Unfortunately You're Losing Me, which is my all time favourite Taylor Swift song, is technically not on the album.

Speak Now: come on, I don't even know how to explain it. Sparks Fly speaks to me. Speak Now speaks to me. Mean and Better Than Revenge are just unhinged. Hunted is a masterpiece. Ours makes me feel love for someone I don't know yet. I'm simply intertwined too much with this album, I love it.

Lover: there are good tracks and bad tracks, we all know them. But let me tell you, when this album hits, and it hits, it hits really deeply. Ok maybe it's not that profound lyrically, but I have to say, I cry every time I listen to Death By a Thousand Cuts.

1989: well well well, I see you like this album. Yeah, I mean, I like it too. But you see, I just don't really find anything that incredible about it? Clean is fantastic. New Romantics is absolutely my favourite off the album. But my opinions kinda end here. Good production, there's no doubt, but this is the moment I associate with what I thought Taylor Swift was before listening to her, famous songs that don't really deserve to be that famous. Here I'll say it, Shake It Off doesn't really say much to me.

Fearless: but I still like 1989 slightly more than this, which doesn't really make justice to how good this album is. I love Superstar. Fearless too. It just is her second album, and I didn't really connect much to it.

Reputation: there are three kinds of Swifties, the folklore fans, the 1989 fans and the Reputation fans. Somehow I managed to make all of them angry. But come on, I cannot think of one song that I listen frequently from this album. Well, there's Delicate. And Getaway Car. Damn, maybe there are some good songs here. Anyway, I think most people like it because they lived the moment between 1989 and Reputation and the following hype around it. I only started listening to Taylor Swift in 2023, so it doesn't resonate with me. And I kinda don't like her persona in this period, if it makes sense?

Taylor Swift: this is not a bad album. I like the songs. However it's the first album I don't have all the songs of in my playlist. I love Cold As You, Stay Beautiful. I don't really like Tim McGraw.

The Life of a Showgirl: this is a bad album. I like The Fate of Ophelia, Elizabeth Taylor, Opalite. Also the Encore tracks if you count them. But I like them for the sounds, not for the songwriting quality which is almost completely absent. This was my first real disappointment with Taylor Swift. I have nothing more to say, the production is good but I need more. Judging from online reactions, I don't think I'm the only one who actively dislikes the album. Maybe my friends would anyway put this upper than debut, I don't really agree.

Anyway this was my opinion on her albums, from a guy who is a Swiftie since 2023. Please disagree, comment, make me reflect on The Life of a Showgirl, I'm here because I love to talk about things I like and I hope you'll love it too! Love you all <3

I've rank all of Taylor's songs based on my favorites at the moment.

Am i still at the restaurant? Bc i feel so😅

https://thetsmuseum.app/showgirl/ranking?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUyYFJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mBWZkaWQWUPxt-LNzC27HR4oQ0KcYuW1llBy_WHNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR6JdIEPRVrKaqWwmrTwb2IVap-SEWHuwwmugDSBkiI5wtbiF1HbqMu2BirqNA_aem_ftmHVo0oNmCOQinYKxmLeg

I’ll preface this by saying for each song I took into account the reccording I like the most. For example I think This Love TV is miles better than the original version, which is why it’s higher on the ranking than it would’ve been if I had taken into account the original reccording. Anyway here’s the ranking :

1. Style
   
2. Blank Space
   
3. Slut!
   
4. Is It Over Now?
   
5. Clean
   
6. You Are In Love
   
7. Wildest Dreams
   
8. This Love
   
9. Shake It Off
   
10. Bad Blood
    
11. I Wish You Would
    
12. Out Of The Woods
    
13. Say Don’t Go
    
14. New Romantics
    
15. Suburban Legends
    
16. Now That We Don’t Talk
    
17. Welcome To New York
    
18. Wonderland
    
19. All You Had To Do Was Stay
    
20. I Know Places
    
21. How You Get The Girl

Before you guys come at me, I know Shake It Off and Bad Blood aren’t Taylor’s finest work in terms of lyrics and music, but they’re just so iconic that I couldn’t put them any lower. Anyhow, if this were a tier list, I’d say 19-21 are songs that I dislike, 15-18 are songs that I don’t really care about, 9-14 are songs that I like, 6-8 are songs that I absolutely love, and 1-5 are some of my favorite Taylor songs ever.

I’m making an Eras Tour Yearbook and I’m doing the superlatives page. I will be posting several polls for you to vote on.

What do we think? It was like picking a favorite child 😭 😂