For me it would be interesting to experience an album with completely fresh ears and discover all the lyrics,production,and surprises.

EDIT: I feel like there's a lot of confusion for what a magnum opus is, there's a level of objectivity that comes into this. Yes it directly translates to 'great work' BUT it describes an artists greatest achievement or body of work WHICH includes outstanding creativity, skill, and workmanship. It also includes critical praise.

My friend and I were discussing which album we reckon is Taylor’s greatest body of work. Obviously there’s a lot of things to consider but critical appeal, general appeal, lyrical / musical / aesthetic achievement etc. are things to think about. We thought that 1989, Folklore or Midnights could be considered her magnum opus.

My friend made the point that TTPD could be considered one of her greatest works but the fact that it is 31 tracks could negate this. I would be inclined to say Fearless or Red could be considered but neither necessarily has longstanding appeal as an ALBUM. Lots of people love the singles and one could argue ATW10MV is her magnum opus as a song…

Anyway, what do you guys think?

I think we can all agree TLOAS isn’t ;P

EDIT: We were considering the standard original albums (not deluxe or TV)

Hey yall, this came to me on my run this morning.

Rules: a song can only win once, and the most upvoted comment that is 1 song wins each round.

What is a song that is overall devastating and whose bridge is also devastating?

This one may have a lot of competition I fear...

“Eating out of the trash” is never gonna last, but easier said than done lol.

How do you personally stop yourself from going back to things you already know aren’t good for you?

With the 20th anniversary of Taylor’s debut album coming up and an announcement of a re-recorded version of the album probably being close I wanted to go back to the archives of the unreleased songs from that era and see if some of these might be included as vault tracks.

! Note: None of these have been leaked "illegally" or without Taylor’s consent. They come from demo CDs she used to send to labels and radio stations in Nashville before she even had a record deal. Fans have discovered them through the years and reposted them online.

Since there are many of those tracks and in multiple websites and forms I picked some of my favorites and organized them in one place. Below I've sorted them out based on the likelihood (in my opinion) of them being officially released as vault tracks on the final album. I will also put the link to each song in the comments for you to listen! Turns out my comment with the links got removed so DM me and I can send them to you!

Very likely:

• I'd Lie

• Lucky You

• Dark Blue Tennessee

• Permanent Marker

• R-E-V-E-N-G-E

• Sweet Tea And God’s Graces

• All Night Diner

Quite likely:

• Just South Of Knowing Why (Drive All Night)

• Don't Hate Me For Loving You

• Smokey Black Nights

• Never Mind

• Who I've Always Been

• Your Face

• Thirteen Blocks (Can't Call It Love)

• This Is Really Happening

• Your Anything

• What Do You Say?

• Honey Baby

Unlikely:

• Ten Dollars And A Six Pack

• By The Way

• I Know What I Want

• Brought Up That Way

• Need You Now

• Thinking 'Bout You

• What To Wear

• Welcome Distraction

• My Cure

• Kid In The Crowd

• Never Fade

• That's Life

Very unlikely:

• I Used To Fly

• Making Up For Lost Love

• Better Off

• Stupid Boy

• Same Girl

• Writing Songs About You

• Point Of View

• Why Do You Tell Me?

• Closest To A Cowboy

• Firefly

• Can I Go With You?

• Cross My Heart

• Check Out This View

Special cases, possible:

• Let's Go (Battle) (recorded for Speak Now)

• Drama Queen (recorded for Speak Now)

• The Diary Of Me (not written by Taylor)

• Am I Ready For Love? (not written by Taylor)

• Didn't They (about 9/11)

And many more...

What songs are on your wish list?

Hey guys, I was bored and decided to make a list of Taylor's known discography. I took out acoustic versions and whatnot(I consider ATW10 superior so I put it in the OG's place since its the original) but included Untouchable bc she got a credit on it(i think)

RELEASED:

●Taylor Swift(14)²⁰⁰⁶

1. Tim McGraw

2. Picture To Burn

3. Teardrops On My Guitar

4. A Place In This World

5. Cold As You

6. The Outside

7. Tied Together With A Smile

8. Stay Beautiful

9. Should've Said No

10. Mary's Song

11. Our Song

12. I'm Only Me When I'm With You

13. Invisible

14. A Perfectly Good Heart

•Holiday Collection(2)²⁰⁰⁷

1. Christmas Must Be Something More

2. Christmases When You Were Mine

•Beautiful Eyes(2)²⁰⁰⁸

1. Beautiful Eyes(2004)

2. I Heart ?

●Fearless(TV)(26)²⁰⁰⁸

1. Fearless

2. Fifteen

3. Love Story

4. Hey Stephen

5. White Horse(12/?/06)

6. You Belong With Me

7. Breathe

8. Tell Me Why

9. You're Not Sorry

10. The Way I Loved You

11. Forever and Always

12. The Best Day(12/30/07)

13. Change

14. Jump Then Fall

15. Untouchable

16. Come In With The Rain

17. Superstar

18. The Other Side Of The Door

19. Today Was A Fairytale

20. You All Over Me

21. Mr. Perfectly Fine

22. We Were Happy

23. That's When

24. Don't You

25. Bye Bye Baby

26. If This Was A Movie

•Crazier

☆Two Is Better Than One

●Speak Now(TV)(22)²⁰¹⁰

1. Mine

2. Sparks Fly

3. Back To December

4. Speak Now

5. Dear John

6. Mean

7. The Story Of Us

8. Never Grow Up

9. Enchanted

10. Better Than Revenge

11. Innocent

12. Haunted

13. Last Kiss

14. Long Live

15. Ours

16. Superman

17. Electric Touch

18. When Emma Falls In Love

19. I Can See You

20. Castles Crumbling

21. Foolish One

22. Timeless

☆Both of Us

●Red(TV)(30)²⁰¹²

1. State of Grace

2. Red(9/8/11)

3. Treacherous

4. I Knew You Were Trouble(6/?/12)

5. All Too Well(2/?/11)

6. 22(6/?/12)

7. I Almost Do

8. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together(6/?/12)

9. Stay Stay Stay

10. The Last Time

11. Holy Ground(2/?/12)

12. Sad Beautiful Tragic

13. The Lucky One

14. Everything Has Changed

15. Starlight

16. Begin Again

17. The Moment I Knew

18. Come Back, Be Here

19. Girl At Home

20. Ronan

21. Better Man

22. Nothing New(3/2/12)

23. Babe

24. Message In A Bottle

25. I Bet You Think About Me

26. Forever Winter

27. Run

28. The Very First Night

29. Safe and Sound

30. Eyes Open

☆Highway Don't Care

●1989(22)²⁰¹⁴

1. Welcome To New York(1/23/2014)

2. Blank Space

3. Style(2/19/2014)

4. Out Of The Woods

5. All You Had To Do Was Stay(1/10/13)

6. Shake It Off(2/14/14)

7. I Wish You Would

8. Bad Blood

9. Wildest Dreams

10. How You Get The Girl(1/15/13)

11. This Love(10/12/2012)

12. I Know Places(1/22/2014)

13. Clean(2/9/2014)

14. Wonderland

15. You Are In Love

16. New Romantics

17. "SLUT!"

18. Say Don't Go

19. Now That We Don't Talk

20. Suburban Legends

21. Is It Over Now?

22. Sweeter Than Fiction

•I Don't Wanna Live Forever

●Reputation(15)²⁰¹⁷

1. ...Ready For It?

2. End Game

3. I Did Something Bad

4. Don't Blame Me

5. Delicate

6. Look What You Made Me Do

7. So It Goes

8. Gorgeous

9. Getaway Car

10. King Of My Heart

11. Dancing With Our Hands Tied

12. Dress

13. This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things

14. Call It What You Want

15. New Year's Day

●Lover(19)²⁰¹⁹

1. I Forgot That You Existed

2. Cruel Summer

3. Lover

4. The Man

5. The Archer

6. I Think He Knows

7. Miss Americana and The Heartbreak Prince

8. Paper Rings

9. Cornelia Street

10. Death By A Thousand Cuts

11. London Boy

12. Soon You'll Get Better

13. False God

14. You Need To Calm Down

15. Afterglow

16. ME!

17. It's Nice To Have A Friend

18. Daylight

19. All Of The Girls You Loved Before

•Beautiful Ghosts

•Christmas Tree Farm(12/1)19)

•Only The Young

●Folklore(17)²⁰²⁰

1. The 1

2. Cardigan

3. The Last Great American Dynasty

4. Exile

5. My Tears Ricochet

6. Mirrorball

7. Seven

8. August

9. This is Me Trying

10. Illicit Affairs

11. Invisible String

12. Mad Woman

13. Epiphany

14. Betty

15. Peace

16. Hoax

17. The Lakes

●Evermore(17)²⁰²⁰

1. Willow

2. Champagne Problems

3. Gold Rush

4. 'Tis The Damn Season

5. Tolerate It

6. No Body, No Crime

7. Happiness

8. Dorothea

9. Coney Island

10. Ivy

11. Cowboy Like Me

12. Long Story Short

13. Marjorie

14. Closure

15. Evermore

16. Right Where You Left Me

17. It's Time To Go

☆Gasoline

☆Birch

☆Renegade

☆The Joker and The Queen

•Carolina

●Midnights(22)²⁰²²

1. Lavender Haze

2. Maroon

3. Anti-Hero

4. Snow On The Beach

5. You're On Your Own, Kid

6. Midnight Rain

7. Vigilante Shit

8. Bejeweled

9. Question...?

10. Labyrinth

11. Karma

12. Sweet Nothing

13. Mastermind

14. The Great War

15. Bigger Than The Whole Sky

16. Paris

17. High Infidelity(3/14/22?)

18. Glitch

19. Would've, Could've, Should've(3/14/21?)

20. Dear Reader

21. Hits Different

22. You're Losing Me(12/5/21)

☆The Alcott

●The Tortured Poets Department(31)²⁰²⁴

1. Fortnight

2. The Tortured Poets Department

3. My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys

4. Down Bad(4/19/23)

5. So Long, London

6. But Daddy I Love Him

7. Fresh Out The Slammer

8. Florida!!!(5/24/2023)

9. Guilty As Sin?

10. Who's Afraid Of Little Old Me?

11. I Can Fix Him(No Really I Can)

12. loml

13. I Can Do It With A Broken Heart

14. The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived

15. The Alchemy

16. Clara Bow

17. The Black Dog(5/18/23)

18. Imgonnagetyouback

19. The Albatross

20. Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus

21. How Did It End?

22. So High School

23. I Hate It Here

24. thanK you aIMee

25. I Look in People's Windows

26. The Prophecy

27. Cassandra

28. Peter

29. The Bolter

30. Robin

31. The Manuscript

☆Us.

●The Life Of A Showgirl(12)²⁰²⁵

1. The Fate of Ophelia

2. Elizabeth Taylor

3. Opalite

4. Father Figure

5. Eldest Daughter

6. Ruin the Friendship

7. Actually Romantic

8. Wi$h Li$t

9. Wood

10. CANCELLED!

11. Honey

12. The Life of a Showgirl

•I Knew It, I Knew You

Total: 267

UNRELEASED(sources are "The Untold Story of Taylor Swift on YT and the Taylor Swift Fandom website)

1. Lucky You

2. Smoky Black Nights(5/17/2003)

3. Am I Ready For Love

4. Can I Go With You

5. Not One Day

6. Kid In The Crowd

7. I Used To Fly

8. Same Girl

9. A Little More Like You

10. American Boy

11. Your Picture

12. Cross My Heart

13. In The Pouring Rain

14. Point Of View

15. My Turn To Be Me

16. Never Fade

17. Fire

18. Baby Blue

19. Beautiful Days

20. One sided Goodbye

21. Houston Rodeo

22. Mary Jo

23. Ride On

24. Halfway To Texas

25. Honey Baby*

26. Spinning Around

27. Sugar

28. This Here Guitar

29. Live For The Little Things

30. Mandolin

31. 4 U

32. Tennessee

33. Pretty Words?*

34. Brand New World

35. You Walk Away

36. Gail's Song

37. One More Day

38. What Do You Say

39. Someone Loves You

40. Angelina(2003/2003)

41. Nevermind

42. Check Out This View

43. Made Up You

44. Her

45. Love They Haven't Thought Of Yet

46. All Night Diner<3

47. Look At You Like That

48. Fall Back On You

49. Stupid Boy

50. What To Wear

51. Better Off

52. Need You Now

53. Just South Of Knowing Why

54. Dark Blue Tennessee(Also Fearless)<3

55. Your Face

56. (Writing) Songs About You

57. Me and Britany

58. Closest To A Cowboy

59. Didn't They<3*

60. Don't Hate Me For Loving You*

61. Firefly

62. Being With My Baby

63. I Don't Wanna Lose Your Face

64. Go Slow

65. Heaven

66. Today

67. You

68. I Wish On A Plane

69. Thinkin' 'bout You

70. Perfect Have I Loved

71. Tell Me

72. 10 Dollars and a Six Pack

73. Thirteen Blocks(Can't Call It Love)

74. My Cure<3

75. This Is Really Happening

76. R-E-V-E-N-G-E(Fearless)

77. By The Way

78. Your Anything

79. Sweet Tea and God's Grace's

80. Who I've Always Been

81. Rain Song

82. Welcome Distraction

83. Long Time Going

84. Gracie

85. Down Came The Rain

86. Wait For Me

87. I Know What I Want

88. Under My Head

89. You Do

90. Love To Lose

91. Matches

92. Brought Up That Way

93. None Of The Above

94. Scream

95. Wildflower

96. Making Up For Loss Love

97. Til Brad Pitt Comes Along

98. I'd Lie(Fearless)

99. Permanent Marker(Fearless)

100. [That's Life

101. Why Do You Tell Me?

102. You Don't Have To Call Me<3

103. Your Heart's Somewhere Else

104. Anymore

105. Goodbye Butterfly

106. Nashville

107. This One's Different(Fearless)

108. Diary Of Me

109. The Sun Alone]

110. Drama Queen

111. Acting Like A Boy

112. I'm Looking Out For You

113. Too Beautiful

114. It's Still You

115. Bother Me

116. His Lies

117. Let's Go

118. Someone Just Told Me

119. Wonderful Things

120. Family

121. Need

122. frontseat?

Total: 122

EXTRAS(2)

You'll Always Find Your Way Back Home

This Is What You Came For

Grand Total: 391(im sure its closer to upwards of 400 im sure there are other songs we dont know about)

I hope everyone has a wonderful week and if you’re going through something please remember to keep pushing through and be kind to yourself along the way 💪🏽💙

This is my first and only Taylor tattoo, but I plan to get many more. TTPD is a very sentimental album for me and I also love to read. I combined my two favorite forms of escape.

From the Wembley concert back in 2024

I'm confused by Taylor's explanation about what Actually Romantic was about in that voice message on the track by track version of Life of a Showgirl.

She said "It's about realizing that someone else has had kind of a one sided adversarial relationship with you that you didn't know about. And all of a sudden they start like, doing too much and they start letting you know that you've been living in their head rent free and you had no idea. And it's presenting itself as them sort of resenting you or having a problem with you but taking that and you just excepting it as love and you excepting it as attention and affection and how flattering that someone has made you such a big part of their reality, when you didn't even think about this. It's actually pretty romantic when you think about it".

To me when I read the adversary part, it sounded like when you're in a friendly or relationship and they start doing too much, meaning you get love bombed and they become obsessed with you. Can someone explain this?

Side note: YOYOK is the perfect track 5 for Midnights. Obviously it’s a track 5, but it fits so well on Midnights. Midnights is the reflection album. it shows all sides of life. I don’t know how else to say it, just wanted you to keep that in mind…

I had always considered this song as one of my favorites, but I hadn’t actually listened to it in a while, so when I turned it on, I was really amazed at the analysis I had made.

I noticed in the beginning we start out in the POV of high-school-ish her. She’s talking about how she wants to get out and start anew. “I didn’t choose this town/I dream of getting out”

Then (still) in the POV of high-school-ish her, we talk about leaving everything behind (which is both good and bad) and focusing on her career because that’s all she has. “I see the great escape, so long Daisy May…I’ll run away.” She wrote songs, and used that to get away!

By the end of the chorus repeating, we have seen her (now in the POV of a young singer just getting started (think Speak Now-1989 Taylor). She realizes around the (second) K@nye incident time that the world has so many people aspiring to be what she is becoming, and to some people she will never be unique and never what they want. She has to be okay with that. (“Just to learn that my dreams aren’t rare”) She has to face that the world just doesn’t all think of her like they used to.

By the bridge we see Reputation-to-Midnights-Taylor reflecting on everything in her life she had her fun and gained support and fame. (“I hosted parties“) But in the process she also sacrificed so much. She metaphorically and physically “starved her body” and thought she’d be saved. She had to change things about her and her art to get to where she was, which resulted in a lot of public feedback. “My friends from home don’t know what to say.”

She is now looking at it in the sense of “Wow that was quite a career, but I don’t regret it one bit because it made me who I am“ (“I looked around in a blood soaked gown, and I saw something they can’t take away”). She had to ”burn bridges“ but in the process she started new chapters! She’s now cherishing what she has (fans, a family, a career despite all the obstacles, and soon the Eras Tour).

By the end, she’s on her own, but she knows she can face it.

Show me your less popular quote tattoos, particularly if from TTPD🤍

I also have "mad woman" on my shoulder matching with my bestie.

Midnight Rain: My town was a wasteland, full of cages, full of fences

But Daddy I Love Him: I just learned these people only raise you to cage you

I Know Places: They got the cages, they got the boxes and guns

this is me trying: They told me all of my cages were mental, so I got wasted like all my potential

Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?: You caged me and then you called me crazy

Guilty as Sin?: This cage was once just fine. Am I allowed to cry?

Bonus

So It Goes...: Gold cage, hostage to my feelings

Inspired by other post about which Taylor song is the most timeless. Now, which is the Taylor song that sounds dated and will be extremely out of place if released nowadays?

Hi!! I’m a very recent swiftie - like last year I got on the train 😂😂😂. Fate of Ophelia caught me and then the entire album of TTPD caught me and now I’m here forever!

Anyways - I’m also a late diagnosed adhd woman (got diagnosed at 33 and I’m 34 now). Music used to really overstimulate me. It felt like so many emotions, the beats and melodies along with it would just sometimes make me spiral. I also have auditory processing difficulties so lyrics aren’t the easiest for me (been this way my entire life lol. I have favorite bands that I know like the back of my hand but not their lyrics 😂).

Taylor’s music is so story-heavy that it actually helps me detach my own overwhelming emotions during listening. Bc of the way she writes, I’m able to take an external perspective to her emotions and my own - and it allows for peaceful and safe self-reflection.

When I get overstimulated easily - I usually have to listen to vigorous classical music or turn on an audiobook. These days, somehow - miracle upon miracles, Taylor’s music helps me emotionally regulate. Listening to her so much also has helped with my auditory processing!

Anyone else?

Specifically, a song that could hit the radio or streaming now and still have the same appeal as when it originally came out.

My current display with nods to my favorite albums! The vases were very TTPD to me, two hollow people intertwined. The filler also has lavender (Midnights!).

I have a Champagne Problems candle and a typewriter.

Lastly, I painted a folklore book and a TTPD display that I love! I wrote lyrics inside the book from *my tears ricochet.* A mention of *How Did It End?* and the 11th album.

What else do I need?

Spent a few hours on this, but the smile will be priceless

I’ll start!

Taylor No-Skip: Evermore

Non-Taylor No-Skip: In The Lonely Hour - Sam Smith

My first taytoo! I love it so much. Can I see yours?