Taylor Swift’s Albums 2006-2020
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THERE’S THE MP3 TO THE LAKES GUYSSSSSS
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#mood
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I think something that I’ve always thought about Lover as an album was that it didn’t tug at me or penetrate my soul the way reputation did. I loved it for all that it was but something was missing. I heard parts of what I imagined Taylor could unleash in It’s Nice to Have a Friend, False God, Death By a Thousand Cuts and Daylight. I knew Taylor was holding back and now I know why.
folklore has imprinted on me. It’s my favorite thing she’s ever done. It’s honest and raw and her voice is amazing. Sonically and lyrically it’s her best work. It’s the Taylor Swift album I always had in the back of my mind and I can’t wait to love it forever.
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are any of us ready to talk about how intimate and close “give you my wild, give you a child, give you the silence that only comes when two people understand each other, family that I chose, now that I see your brother as my brother” is or are we not emotionally stable enough for that yet
This song genuinely makes me cry my heart out ugh THE VULNERABILITY I CAAANNNNTTTTTT
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Loving the amount of love Taylor is getting for releasing an indie album...... the world didn’t know it needed it so badly
“but i knew you’d linger like a tattoo kiss i knew you’d haunt all of my what-ifs”
“We met her at Saturday Night Live in 2014 when Lena Dunham was hosting. And then she came to see us play last summer in Prospect Park during this crazy torrential downpour. She was there with Antoni [Porowski] from Queer Eye. She talked a lot with my brother and me. That’s when we realized how much of a fan she was, and how lovely and down to earth. I don’t know that many people who have that sort of success, so it’s a nice feeling to realize they’re cool. That left a good impression. She got in touch again at the end of April. I got a text and it said, ‘Hey it’s Taylor. Would you ever be up for writing songs with me?’ I said, ‘Wow. Of course.’ It was a product of this time. Everything we had planned got cancelled. Everything she had planned got cancelled. It was a time when the ideas in the back of your head came to the front. That’s how it started.
— Aaron Dessner on how he began working with Taylor (x)
honestly i’ve actually really enjoyed taylor not being on tumblr this release day because my dash is literally just filled with excited posts, observations and edits and nobody is out here begging for taylor’s attention, we’re all just having a fun time and authentically enjoying the new album feeling
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I will meet @taylorswift
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so. august is mystery girl to james. betty is james to betty. and cardigan is betty to james.
august - maybe i was naive to think you actually wanted to be with me
betty - you hurt me but i knew you’d come back
james- i’m sorry i’m young and dumb
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“There was no outside influence at all. In fact, nobody knew, including her label, until hours before it was launched. For someone who’s been in this glaring spotlight for 15 years, it’s really liberating to have some privacy and work on her own terms. She deserves that. At times, if I wanted friends to play on the record, it was a little difficult because you can’t send a file with her vocals. But everyone was cool. At the end, I reached out to some wizards just to add bits, and that was nice. It was kind of fun: ‘What? Why can’t you tell me, Aaron?’ Then they start guessing. Everyone made a game out of it.”
— Aaron Dessner on Taylor’s choice to work in total secrecy (x)
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listening to my tears ricochet through the lens of taylor losing her masters gives me chills
I didn’t have it in myself to go with grace Calling them out when the news came out, telling her side of the story
And if I’m dead to you, why are you at the wake? Continuing to profit off of her work, promote it, pretending they are the bigger people You wear the same jewels that I gave you, As you bury me She WAS big machine. she helped build their fortune. they’d be nothing without her and her work And I can go anywhere I want. Anywhere I want, just not home She can take her music anywhere but it’s never going to be quite the same as the label that she grew up with
And when you can’t sleep at night (You hear my stolen lullabies) Stolen lullabies as in the music she wrote and they took….
And you’re tossing out blame, drunk on this pain. Crossing out the good years They had a good run, but when it all came crashing down, the label tried to make her look like the bad guy and they lost miserably
my heart hurts.
THATS WHAT I THOUGHT TOO AND ON SECOND LISTEN I WAS LIKE SHE SAYS BABE but that literally means nothing I PREFER THIS INTERPRETATION
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i’m curious, tag your top 3 off folklore
seven, invisible strings, this is me trying 🤍🖤🤍
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After a day of listening and pondering to it, I think folklore is the album that will stay will me as I grow up and grow old. One to listen to when I am sad, discouraged, silent. One I can cry to and one I can (slowly) dance to. I genuinely feel a sense of privilege everytime I hear it and for that I am truly grateful to Taylor Swift, thank you
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folklore is the twin to reputation, and connection to Songs Taylor Loves from 2017
When I first saw that she was dropping a new album, one that is black and white, and all lowercase, my reputation heart SCREECHED. It is impossible not to note the similarity of artwork to reputation based on those 2 things alone. To be fair, reputation has always been my favorite album PERIOD. And that era for me was everything I ever wanted. I was zoned in on absolutely everything, savoring every little thing she said and did. Right before she released reputation, she put out a playlist on Spotify called “Songs Taylor Loves” in the early fall of 2017 and I had that on repeat until the album dropped. I would argue that Taylor has been waiting to write folklore for YEARS, and she has known she’s been destined for this album after she broke the glass ceiling by winning her second AOTY Grammy by converting to pop with 1989. After her first genre switch I think she gained the confidence to know she is Taylor Fucking Swift and the only person who tells her what she can and cannot do is herself. I would also S P E C U L A T E that the concept of this alternative album would’ve actually been released right after 1989, BLEACHELLA. By bleaching her hair you KNOW that sets up PERFECTLY for the switch up to alternative. But due to 2016 she scrapped it and rewrote the most gorgeously brilliant album, reputation. The folklore album has DOZENS of Easter eggs from Songs Taylor Loves, and I will highlight them in a second. But the main point here is this 17 SONG ALBUM only took her since APRIL because she has most likely had lines and sounds and ideas SINCE 2017 OR EARLIER. And I think the fact that this album was pushed has made it a million times better (which I will also get into).
One thing you might notice when she released the playlist Songs Taylor Loves is that it is almost entirely ALTERNATIVE and SOFT—JUST LIKE FOLKLORE. The FIRST song is by The National, called Dark Side of the Gym (which parallel to a line in a folklore, “your favorite song was playing from the FAR SIDE OF THE GYM”). And the second song is Bad Reputation by Shawn Mendez, which is why I think this is a subtle clue as to how her alternative album should have been dropped, but she scrapped and safely returned to pop BECAUSE of her “bad reputation”. This is immediately why I was not surprised she co-wrote and produced a majority of the songs with Aaron Dessner, because she highlights 2 of The National’s songs, also Carin at the Liquor Store. So to get into a few Easter eggs here, she references “bloodstain” in cardigan, ALSO a song higher lighted in that playlist by Wrabel. She sings “kiss it better” in cardigan as well, a song in that very playlist by Rihanna. She features 2 songs by Riri, the other is Close To You, another soft and lyrical masterpiece—like folklore. The strings on Invisible Strings resemble “Making All Things New”. Then we get into the sound resemblance of the album on “We Don’t Deserve Love”, which is another incredibly slow and alternative song along with “Better”, “Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby”, “We Are Stars”, and god if I type every single song on that playlist that is alternative and soft I’ll be here all day. THE POINT IS the album references back to not only her own albums, especially reputation and Lover, but also that playlist very heavily as well. And I think since she wrote reputation, and then reminisced on everything from her childhood for Lover and to re-record her first 6 albums, she has wrote stories and tales based on her own muses and reflections of that past, which have all contributed to Taylor creating the STRONGEST alternative album. I think this album is so down to earth and so her, though she hasn’t really done anything like it.
All I can say is I am THANKFUL 2016 happened because not only did it produce reputation, the greatest pop album in existence, but also has subsequently built an EMPIRE of lyrical mastery and Easter egg galore for folklore. Truly a reflective and pallet cleansing masterpiece. I cannot rave enough, this era is the best yet and like a chameleon she seamlessly morphs into whatever genre she chooses. In her words from the reputation stadium tour, no matter what production she adds on top of her songs, we care the most about her melodic and lyrical talent. It doesn’t matter what genre she puts out, she is Taylor Fucking Swift and she can do whatever the fuck she wants. 🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤
NOT TO MENTION 8 (circle) ALSO ON THAT PLAYLIST BY BON IVER MY GOD HOW DID I FORGET TO WRITE THAT
folklore is the twin to reputation, and connection to Songs Taylor Loves from 2017
When I first saw that she was dropping a new album, one that is black and white, and all lowercase, my reputation heart SCREECHED. It is impossible not to note the similarity of artwork to reputation based on those 2 things alone. To be fair, reputation has always been my favorite album PERIOD. And that era for me was everything I ever wanted. I was zoned in on absolutely everything, savoring every little thing she said and did. Right before she released reputation, she put out a playlist on Spotify called “Songs Taylor Loves” in the early fall of 2017 and I had that on repeat until the album dropped. I would argue that Taylor has been waiting to write folklore for YEARS, and she has known she’s been destined for this album after she broke the glass ceiling by winning her second AOTY Grammy by converting to pop with 1989. After her first genre switch I think she gained the confidence to know she is Taylor Fucking Swift and the only person who tells her what she can and cannot do is herself. I would also S P E C U L A T E that the concept of this alternative album would’ve actually been released right after 1989, BLEACHELLA. By bleaching her hair you KNOW that sets up PERFECTLY for the switch up to alternative. But due to 2016 she scrapped it and rewrote the most gorgeously brilliant album, reputation. The folklore album has DOZENS of Easter eggs from Songs Taylor Loves, and I will highlight them in a second. But the main point here is this 17 SONG ALBUM only took her since APRIL because she has most likely had lines and sounds and ideas SINCE 2017 OR EARLIER. And I think the fact that this album was pushed has made it a million times better (which I will also get into).
One thing you might notice when she released the playlist Songs Taylor Loves is that it is almost entirely ALTERNATIVE and SOFT—JUST LIKE FOLKLORE. The FIRST song is by The National, called Dark Side of the Gym (which parallel to a line in a folklore, “your favorite song was playing from the FAR SIDE OF THE GYM”). And the second song is Bad Reputation by Shawn Mendez, which is why I think this is a subtle clue as to how her alternative album should have been dropped, but she scrapped and safely returned to pop BECAUSE of her “bad reputation”. This is immediately why I was not surprised she co-wrote and produced a majority of the songs with Aaron Dessner, because she highlights 2 of The National’s songs, also Carin at the Liquor Store. So to get into a few Easter eggs here, she references “bloodstain” in cardigan, ALSO a song higher lighted in that playlist by Wrabel. She sings “kiss it better” in cardigan as well, a song in that very playlist by Rihanna. She features 2 songs by Riri, the other is Close To You, another soft and lyrical masterpiece—like folklore. The strings on Invisible Strings resemble “Making All Things New”. Then we get into the sound resemblance of the album on “We Don’t Deserve Love”, which is another incredibly slow and alternative song along with “Better”, “Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby”, “We Are Stars”, and god if I type every single song on that playlist that is alternative and soft I’ll be here all day. THE POINT IS the album references back to not only her own albums, especially reputation and Lover, but also that playlist very heavily as well. And I think since she wrote reputation, and then reminisced on everything from her childhood for Lover and to re-record her first 6 albums, she has wrote stories and tales based on her own muses and reflections of that past, which have all contributed to Taylor creating the STRONGEST alternative album. I think this album is so down to earth and so her, though she hasn’t really done anything like it.
All I can say is I am THANKFUL 2016 happened because not only did it produce reputation, the greatest pop album in existence, but also has subsequently built an EMPIRE of lyrical mastery and Easter egg galore for folklore. Truly a reflective and pallet cleansing masterpiece. I cannot rave enough, this era is the best yet and like a chameleon she seamlessly morphs into whatever genre she chooses. In her words from the reputation stadium tour, no matter what production she adds on top of her songs, we care the most about her melodic and lyrical talent. It doesn’t matter what genre she puts out, she is Taylor Fucking Swift and she can do whatever the fuck she wants. 🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤