#taylor swift discography

[pettydollie]

erm okay so im kinda getting into taylor swift so can someone explain who/what each album/era is about to me

#taylor swift #taylor swift lore #idk if it counts as lore wtv #swiftie #swifties #calling all swifties #swiftie nation #taylor #taylor swift albums #taylor swift eras #taylor swift discography

[lavendercaffeine]

songs that could save me from vecna? you mean taylor swift’s entire discography right?

#june thinks #juneberry #taylor swift #taylor swift discography #taylor swift lyrics #tswift #stranger things #stranger things 4 #st vecna #vecna's curse #vecna stranger things #st4 #by the way… #taylor swift is ts and stranger things is st #yeah idk

[ripmyfictionalfriends]

the amount of times the taylor swift song sorter has made me pick between superstar and superman has left me scarred bc i'd immediately forget how they sound but i listen to superman way more now and fearless tv stays 👌 but regardless i can't pick

#taylor swift sorter #taylor swift discography #taylor swift songs

[hotchbian]

#my faves are rly just the albums’ fan favourites 😭 #taylor swift #poll #taylor swift poll #taylor swift discography

[emwallas176]

Since Speak Now (TV) was just announced, I thought it might be relevant to bring this up. As a Taylor Swift fan, I’ve often heard the comment that Swift writes too much about her exes. Now, as a fan, I’ve always argued against this but without any real research or evidence, I’ve always been brushed off. Well, today I finally did the research, and I think some people might be surprised…

Disclaimers:

(Only including the studio albums 2-10 (TV replacing older versions + deluxe versions replacing standard versions) which is around 170 songs)

(Any additional singles, repeats, covers, and the debut album (Sorry, I’m not super familiar with this one) will not be included in this analysis)

(All of these numbers are either based on math I did myself or pulled from online sources, so the numbers might not always be exact, but the general estimates and trends should hold true)

[Song Subject Breakdown]

* Songs about Past Love:

TS = 58/170 songs = 34%

* Songs Current Love:

TS = 75/170 songs = 44%

* Songs NOT about Love:

TS = 37/170 songs = 22%

Therefore,

* Songs about Love (GEN):

TS = 133/170 songs = 78%

If you compare this to the average artist’s percent of songs that are written about Love (GEN) which (according to a scholarly article by journals.sagepub.com titled “What has America been singing about? Trends in themes in the U.S. top-40 songs: 1960–2010”) is around 67% it is true that Swift writes more songs about love than the average singer. However, this does not necessitate that Swift deserves her *reputation* for only writing songs about exes.

If you look at the breakdown above, you can see that Swift has many songs (37) that have nothing to do with romance and even more than that (75) that do not set out to talk ill about love or past relationships. The majority of Swift’s songs are full of positivity and compassion as well as fears and insecurities that have nothing to do with someone she used to date. Even the number of songs about her exes is inflated as I did not bother to discount songs she has already discussed in interviews to be fictional (including but not limited to: Blank Space, Betty, etc.).

I would love to provide further clarity about the average percentage that other artists have written about their exes, but unfortunately the media/internet is heavily saturated with speculation and discussion about Swift’s “disproportionately high” number of songs about exes and there is not much information about any other artists pertaining to this song category. So, the only information I have to go off of is about songs written about love in general, not specifically past relationships (“exes”).

With that, the data does show that Swift writes more about love/relationships than the average artist. Is this a bad thing? Certainly not. Does this mean that she writes more songs about her exes than the average artist? It’s hard to know for certain without exact numbers, but based on the general trend of percentages regarding other categories, it is reasonable to believe that she does. Then again, this is the AVERAGE. There are plenty of artists who write more or less songs about their exes than Swift.

The point is that the media has inflated this idea past what is either reasonable or fair to Swift. She is a talented artist who has written many great songs about varying subject matters. To make the assertion that Swift only ever writes songs about exes, is to discredit her diverse discography and song-writing capabilities. I know that a majority of people appreciate and genuinely enjoy Taylor Swift and her music — she would not be such a world-renowned success otherwise — but I just wanted to lay it all out there in case anyone was look for proof that she is much more than just “a girl who only writes songs about her exes”.

#taylor swit #discourse #speak now tv #Taylor swift discography #song subject breakdown #songwriting #@taylorswift #statistics #rambles by me #in case anyone cares

[burntblueberrywaffles]

YOU DONT UNDERSTAND I NEED TO BUY THE CD I NEED TO HOLD IT IN MY HANDS I NEED IT

#noah Kahan #we’ll all be here forever #Taylor swift #midnights #the full edition when 🥲🥲 #Lorde #solar power #i mean technically there’s vinyls of that one but fuck vinyls CD PLS LORDE #the amazing devil #ruin #the horror and the wild #love run #all of Maude Latour’s discography 🥲 #gracie abrams #this is what it feels like #minor #DO YOU SEE HOW LONG THIS FUXKING LIST IS MY SUFFERING IS ETERNAL #the jatp soundtrack 😔👊 #Julie and the phantoms #midnights 3am edition #meme #memes #blue makes memes #burntblueberrywaffles

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

It’s absolutely insane that Taylor has 37 songs in the top songs chart and four albums in the top ten albums chart on ITunes right now.

#taylor swift #and that’s out of 200 songs #she’s got nine that are displayed on the main page out of 36 #the way her discography is surging because of the tour and movie is wild

[jakeperalta]

unpopular opinion I guess but I think maybe not every surprise song choice or mashup is about joe or a hint at tortured poets....

#obviously not saying none of them are but idk i feel like there have to be other ways to explore the connections she's making #maybe she's always associated them with eachother. maybe she thought it would be a fun musical challenge to combine them #i know it's not inkeeping with being in easter egg hunting mode at all times but idk i think the main focus of the tour is still a #celebration of her discography and that includes surprise song choices #i just don't think the main purpose is to send out signals about what we should expect from the album #talking #taylor swift

[eclipsedsuns]

you knew it still hurts underneath my scars from when they pulled me apart, but what you did was just as dark

#i could connect hoax to every song in her discography #and that is a threat #hoaxposting #parallels #taylor swift parallels #web weaving #taylor swift #my tears ricochet #hoax #folklore #*hoax parallels

[lily-blue-blue-lily]

also rb and say if you agree with me on any of these!

(i am so sorry if any of your favourite songs are on here, this is just my opinion!)

(i might make another of these polls with my favourite songs so i dont seem too negative lol)

#taylor swift #i am pretty certain on which one will win this poll #because of how beloved it is #all i can say is i am sorry but it was very very overplayed at my old job #and i just associate it with being verbally abused by the rich parents of private school kids whilst i serve them avocado toast #anyways #this is this weeks poll that is like kicking a hornets nest #its just fun making swiftie polls lol #anyways ive been listening to a lot of tswift recently so i have opinions about more of her songs now #i still dont know her whole discography #but of the stuff i do know these are the ones i just cant stand and have to skip #again #i am sorry #also sorry to all my anti-taylor followers #i like her music #but im not gonna become more involved in the fanbase than the occasional poll #do not fear

[autumiaxx]

Cold was the steel of my axe to grind

For the boys that broke my heart

Now I send their babies presents

#brocedes #the fact that Lewis gives nicos daughters Christmas presents still haunts me #taylor swift wrote half her discography on them #she told me so #they devastate me so much #I think about them every second and just feel pain #they owe me so much therapy #invisible string is so brocedes coded #folklore is so brocedes coded #everything is so brocedes coded #lewis hamilton #nico rosberg

[gutslive]

taylor swift on memory

#her whole discography tbh #taylor swift #parallels #tsedit #taylor swift edit #quotes #on memory #*graphics

[foryouiwouldcrosstheline]

She's been telling us everything already. It's been a long time coming.

#taylor swift #the tortured poets department #ttpd #clara bow #death of a star in Taylor discography ✨

[sawthetruthinme]

i love when taylor writes about towns in her songs !! because usually the towns can be metaphors for something bigger... a life / an experience/ a person/.. oftentimes it feels like a stand in for taylor herself, where instead of saying “i” she says “my town” … etc. maybe i’ll elaborate with better logic in a longer post later but yeah . just contemplating on:

“my town was a wasteland” “it always leads to you and my hometown” “our whole town came and our mamas cried” “when my world wakes up today, you’ll be in another town” “this is a big world, that was a small town” “left a small town never looked back” “i’m shining like fireworks over your sad empty town” “we shouldn’t be in this town” “let’s get out of this town” “i’ll be there if you’re the toast of the town” “the only thing we share is this small town” “staring out the window like i’m not your favorite town” “maybe i stormed out of every single room in this town” “you were my town, now i’m in exile” “the loudest woman this town has ever seen” “you’re a flashback in a film reel on the one screen in my town” “the coastal town we wandered round had never seen a love as pure as it” “you got shiny friends since you left town” “the ladies lunching have their stories about when you passed through town” “i didn’t choose this town, i dream of getting out” “karma’s gonna track you down step by step from town to town” “you don’t live in my part of town” “rip the band aid off and skip town” etc. etc. etc.

#i could talk forever abt when she uses “MY town #and how much that possession means #and how exile is maybe the best example of this metaphor across her entire discography #anyways #text #lyrical parallels #taylor swift

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

Also thinking a lot about the 3am and associated tracks and how we know some of them were written way before what became the standard Midnights album (eg WCS, renegade on BRM,etc.) and if I remember correctly Aaron said they had been working on something completely different when Midnights came to fruition and… I have a feeling with TTPD it’s going to be even more obvious why those tracks were “quietly” released under the radar after the main album and that they may give us a taste of what’s to come and the themes therein… (also shameless plug for my spiralling over the 3am tracks the other week)

#gonna keep screaming that wcs is going to become a cornerstone of her discography #because even if ttpd isn’t about That incident #I think some of those feelings of pain and rage and trauma will #taylor swift #ts11 #the tortured poets department #uuuuuuuugh wait a minute someone else used to get the ‘tortured’ moniker too oh shit

[everlarksquell]

i’m trying to find one taylor swift song that would exactly fit everlark in the first book.

#i feel like half of her discography might fit #i mean there are a lot of options #but im trying to find a very specific one #maybe eyes open(? like it was made for the movie for a reason #but i want one specifically for their relationship #ugh its just that so many songs fit them that i can’t point one exclusively #the hunger games #everlark #katniss and peeta #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #thg #taylor swift