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Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour Live

Filmed in front of 76,000 fans at the ANZ Stadium in Sydney, Australia, "The 1989 World Tour Live" captures Taylor Swift's entire performance while also mixing in behind-the-scene, rehearsal... Read all Filmed in front of 76,000 fans at the ANZ Stadium in Sydney, Australia, "The 1989 World Tour Live" captures Taylor Swift's entire performance while also mixing in behind-the-scene, rehearsal, and special guest footage from her 1989 Tour. Filmed in front of 76,000 fans at the ANZ Stadium in Sydney, Australia, "The 1989 World Tour Live" captures Taylor Swift's entire performance while also mixing in behind-the-scene, rehearsal, and special guest footage from her 1989 Tour.

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• Trivia Taylor kept this a secret the whole tour and decided to announce it the day after she finished the tour which was the 13 of December which was also her 26th birthday. It was a great surprise for the fans.
• Connections Featured in Taylor Swift: Reputation Stadium Tour (2018)
• Soundtracks Smelly Cat Performed by Taylor Swift and Lisa Kudrow .

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• December 20, 2015 (United States)
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The 1989 World Tour

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• 1 Xfinity Takes You to 1989
• 2.1 Promotional posters
• 4 Concert synopsis
• 6 Surprise songs
• 8 Tour dates

Xfinity Takes You to 1989 [ ]

Many videos surrounding The 1989 World Tour were released through Xfinity, and many sweepstakes for pit tickets during the tour. They released a behind the scenes video as well.

Behind the Scenes of The 1989 World Tour

Concert film [ ]

The 1989 World Tour Live is a concert film by Taylor Swift. It was released on December 20, 2015, exclusively via Apple Music. Directed by Jonas Åkerlund, the film follows the Sydney stop of Swift's fourth headlining concert tour, The 1989 World Tour. The show, which was attended by 75,980 fans, remains Swift's most attended concert to date.

Signs were displayed at the sold out Sydney concert on November 28, 2015, at ANZ Stadium which said "Today's events are being recorded and filmed for global streaming, and may also form part of a television program... for commercial and promotional purposes." Although there was no further information about what the filming was for at the time, there was speculation that it would form a DVD of the 1989 World Tour to be released once the tour concluded its run in Melbourne in late 2015. Later speculation involved an Apple Music Video launch, which was proved to be correct. Coincidentally, " All You Had to Do Was Stay " and " This Love " were added back into the show after having been left off the set list for several months. This makes the Sydney setlist identical to that of Tokyo when the tour premiered.

Taylor Swift - 1989 World Tour (Live 2015)

On December 13, 2015 — Swift's 26th birthday—she announced she had partnered with Apple Music to release a concert film entitled The 1989 World Tour Live in one weeks' time. It contains over two hours of concert, interview, and never-before seen backstage and rehearsal footage with some of the musical and surprise guests from previous shows. Celebrities making appearances in the film include Mick Jagger, Jason Derulo, Idina Menzel, Justin Timberlake, Wiz Khalifa, and Alanis Morissette. It was directed by Jonas Åkerlund. Clips from the film were later compiled for the music video for the seventh and final single from the album, " New Romantics ".

Promotional posters [ ]

The custom stage built for the 1989 Tour is one-of-a-kind. It was a classic catwalk shape that's 100 ft long but the center part could detach from the main catwalk. It a was semi-modular type design able to rise up and do a 360° turn, it permitted to get closer to fans, the technology was like a propeller system.

Concert synopsis [ ]

Set list [ ].

This set list is representative of the show on May 5, 2015, in Tokyo. It is not representative of all concerts for the duration of the tour.

• " Welcome to New York "
• " New Romantics "
• " Blank Space "
• " I Knew You Were Trouble "
• " I Wish You Would "
• " How You Get the Girl "
• " I Know Places "
• " All You Had to Do Was Stay "
• Surprise song
• " Love Story "
• " This Love "
• " Bad Blood "
• " We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together "
• " Enchanted " / " Wildest Dreams "
• " Out of the Woods "
• " Shake It Off "

Surprise songs [ ]

The following songs were performed by Swift after "All You Had To Do Was Stay". The song changed each night.

• " You Are In Love " - Tokyo, Sydney
• " Wonderland " - Las Vegas, Bossier City, Pittsburgh, Cologne
• " Holy Ground " - Dublin night two
• " You Belong With Me " - Second shows in East Rutherford, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Denver, Shanghai, Columbus and first shows in Singapore and Foxborough
• " Fifteen " - Chicago night one , Edmonton, Denver, St. Paul, Tampa, & Arlington, second shows in Toronto, Foxborough and Melbourne, third show in Los Angeles, and in Atlanta
• " Mean " - Chicago night two , Seattle, Los Angeles night five , Houston, St. Paul night two
• " Sparks Fly " - Vancouver
• " Fearless " - During the second show in Edmonton, the show in San Diego and the second show in Omaha
• " Should've Said No " - Santa Clara night one
• " Never Grow Up " - Santa Clara night two
• " Ronan " - Glendale night one
• " All Too Well " - Los Angeles night one
• " Red " - Columbus night one
• " Mine " - Brisbane
• " Long Live " - Melbourne night three

Gallery [ ]

Tour dates [ ].

• 1 List of Taylor Swift's ex-boyfriends
• 2 The Tortured Poets Department photoshoot
• 3 The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived

TAYLOR SWIFT 1989 World Tour DVD live in Sydney, Australia in Olympic Park at ANZ Stadium November 28, 2015

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Description: ‘1989 World Tour Live’ was directed by acclaimed filmmaker Jonas Akerlund . Filmed in front of over 76,000 fans at the ANZ Stadium in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on November 28, 2015, “The 1989 World Tour Live” captures Taylor Swift’s entire performance during her 7 month tour in 2015. The concert also includes vignettes by mixing in behind-the-scenes, rehearsal, and special guest footage from her 1989 Tour. Prior to the show, concertgoers were informed that it would be filmed for a commercial purpose.

1. Welcome To New York (00:00:48) 2. New Romantics (00:05:30) 3. Blank Space (00:11:10) 4. Jealous 5. Trap Queen 6. Let It Go 7. Good For You 8. Love Me Like You Do 9. Royals 10. I Can’t Feel My Face 11. I Knew You Were Trouble (00:20:21) 12. I Wish You Would (00:29:53) 13. How You Get The Girl (00:33:43) 14. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction 15. I Know Places (00:41:17) 16. I Don’t Wan’t to Miss A Thing 17. Livin La Vida Loca 18. You Say It Best When You Say Nothing At All 19. Bleeding Love 20. All You Had To Do Was Stay (00:48:21) 21. See You Again 22. You Are In Love (00:53:13) 23. Clean (01:03:13) 24. Dreams 25. You Oughta Know 26. Smelly Cat 27. All Of Me 28. Hot In Here 29. Goodbye Earl 30. Shut Up and Dance 31. Litte-Red Wagon 32. Love Story (01:12:01) 33. Style (01:20:02) 34. Worth It 35. This Love (01:25:35) 36. Bad Blood (01:31:29) 37. We Are Never Getting Back Together (01:35:46) 38. Doubt 39. Family Affair 40. Enchanted / Wildest Dreams (01:42:59) 41. Out Of The Woods (01:49:32) 42. Mirrors

43. Shake It Off (01:59:40) 44. Blank Space (Instrumental)

Total Running Time is 2 Hours 11 Minutes and 45 Seconds

3 reviews for TAYLOR SWIFT 1989 World Tour DVD live in Sydney, Australia in Olympic Park at ANZ Stadium November 28, 2015

Shari Murnane (verified owner) – October 3, 2023

This DVD of Taylor Swift’s 1989 tour is amazing! I am thrilled that I was able to purchase this on DVD. As an avid collector of Taylor Swift memorabilia and her discography, it means so much to me to be able to obtain physical copies of her performances. The DVD is crystal clear visuals and audio.

norman d bogert (verified owner) – January 13, 2024

Hello Swifties!! This is a dynamite DVD of the 1989 tour and it looks fantastic. The image is clear the sound is good and its the complete concert. You can’t find this DVD anywhere. This is definitely worth it. Easy to recommend.

Roberto Padilla (verified owner) – January 23, 2024

Hi this is Roberto I just purchased this DVD from musicvideoresource. It was in very good quality and it was very entertaining. The shipping and handling was very very fast quick quick. The concert was the original and it was not pirated this is very important to me. The concert was very entertaining. I have contacted musicvideoresource in the past and they always respond quickly.

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I Genuinely Can't Listen To Taylor Swift's "The Tortured Poets Department" The Same Way Again After Reading These 15 Facts

With 31 songs on The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology , it's Taylor Swift's longest album to date.

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1. First, Taylor Swift told fans at an Eras Tour concert in Tokyo that she'd been working on The Tortured Poets Department "for about two years." She added, "I kept working on it throughout the US tour, and when it was perfect, in my opinion — when it was good enough for you — I finished it."

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Taylor announced her 11th studio album after winning Best Pop Vocal Album for Midnights   at the 2024 Grammy Awards . Telling the crowd at the same Tokyo concert, she said she "had this plan" to announce the album if she was "lucky" enough to get on stage and accept an award, but only shared it with a few people, including Jack Antonoff . Her backup plan if she didn't win a Grammy Award that night was to announce the album at the Tokyo show.

2. When Taylor announced the title, The Tortured Poets Department , some debated the grammatical correctness of "Poets" instead of styling it "Poets'" or "Poet's." The title is styled like the 1989 movie Dead Poets Society , which starred Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles, who also appear in the music video for "Fortnight."

Fans also speculated that The Tortured Poets Department  was inspired by Joe Alwyn, Andrew Scott, and Paul Mescal's reported group chat name, "The Tortured Man Club."

3. The album cover for The Tortured Poets Department was shot by photographer Beth Garrabrant , who previously took photos for Folklore, Evermore, Red (Taylor's Version), Midnights , Speak Now (Taylor's Version) , and 1989 (Taylor's Version) .

For the TTPD  album cover, Taylor was styled by Joseph Cassell, and she reportedly wears YSL and The Row — Mary-Kate and Ashely Olsen's brand — on the cover. Lorrie Turk did Taylor's makeup, while Jemma Muradian did her hair.

4. With a total of 31 songs on The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology , it's Taylor's longest album . Previously, her longest album was Red (Taylor's Version) , which has 30 songs.

After releasing The Tortured Poets Department  at midnight ET on April 19, Taylor then dropped a surprise additional 15 songs that make up The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology .

5. The spoken voice heard in "I Can Do It with a Broken Heart" is producer Oli Jacobs, who produced several tracks on the album. Oli can be heard counting Taylor in, which is reminiscent of a click track that performers hear in their earpieces when performing live.

In an Instagram post about TTPD , Oli thanked Taylor, Jack, and Laura Sisk for working with him on the album, adding, "The greatest team anyone could ever ask to be a part of." Fans believe the click track-like sound on this one is in reference to Taylor's breakup with Joe Alwyn coinciding with her performing on the opening leg of the Eras Tour.

6. Taylor said that she wrote "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?" while "sitting at the piano in one of those moments when I felt bitter about just all the things we do to our artists as a society and as a culture." She wrote the song alone, too.

She added in the Amazon Music commentary for the track, "What do we do to our writers, and our artists, and our creatives? We put them through hell. We watch what they create, then we judge it. We love to watch artists in pain, often to the point where I think sometimes, as a society, we provoke that pain, and we just watch what happens."

7. For "Clara Bow," which is named after the famous silent film actor, Taylor explained that the track is "a commentary on what I've seen in the industry that I've been in over time." She added that the reason she name drops Clara Bow and Stevie Nicks in the song is a reference to her being told "you know, you remind us of" by various record labels when she was starting out.

Taylor continued, saying , "And that’s how we teach women to see themselves, as like you could be the new replacement for this woman who’s done something great before you. I picked women who have done great things in the past and have been these archetypes of greatness in the entertainment industry. Clara Bow was the first ‘it girl.’ Stevie Nicks is an icon and an incredible example for anyone who wants to write songs and make music."

8. Speaking about "Clara Bow," the actor's great-granddaughter said , "My family and I love the song and are thankful for Taylor connecting with Clara's legacy through her songwriting." Clara was an actor in the silent film era of the 1920s and was given the nickname "The It Girl." She's also considered the first Hollywood sex symbol.

Clara's other great-granddaughter also added , "It’s really remarkable for Clara to be back in the media attention, 100 years later. That’s a testament to her legacy. I hope this inspires the younger generation to learn about Clara's story and feel inspired by her perseverance."

9. In the Amazon Music commentary for "Florida!!!" (feat. Florence + the Machine), Taylor said that the inspiration for the track actually came from "always watching Dateline ." She added, "People have these crimes that they commit; where do they immediately skip town and go to? They go to Florida."

She continued, saying , "They try to reinvent themselves, have a new identity, blend in. I think when you go through a heartbreak, there’s a part of you that thinks, 'I want a new name. I want a new life. I don't want anyone to know where I've been or know me at all.'"

10. In the album's liner notes for "Florida!!!" (feat. Florence + the Machine), Emily Jean Stone, aka actor Emma Stone, is credited with "oddities" on the track. While it's unclear right now what "oddities" means, some fans have pointed out the similarities between Taylor's TTPD aesthetic and Emma's costumes in Poor Things .

This isn't the first time Emma has been linked to a song by Taylor. When Speak Now (Taylor's Version)  was released in 2023, the song "When Emma Falls in Love" was rumored to be about Emma. The duo have been friends since 2008.

11. Speaking about "Fortnight" featuring Post Malone, Taylor explained that this song "exhibits a lot of the common themes that run throughout the album. One of which being fatalism — longing, pining away, lost dreams."

"I think that it's a very fatalistic album in that there are lots of very dramatic lines about life or death," Taylor added . "'I love you, it's ruining my life.' These are very hyperbolic, dramatic things to say. It's that kind of album."

12. Stevie Nicks, who is mentioned in "Clara Bow," penned a poem for Taylor on Aug. 13, 2023, which is featured as the prologue in physical copies of the album. In Oct. 2023, Stevie talked about Taylor in an interview, saying, "I never don't tell the truth. And I think that's something that if Taylor Swift, who is my friend, if Taylor got anything from me, that's what she got."

Stevie continued, saying, "I don't ever lie in my songs — and if you broke up with me, I don't put I broke up with you. I tell the truth, always." Stevie and Taylor first crossed paths in 2010 when they performed at the Grammy Awards together, which Taylor reportedly called a "fairy tale and an honor."

13. Following the release of "The Black Dog," fans began to flock to a London pub named The Black Dog because of the lyrics: "And so I watch as you walk / Into some bar called The Black Dog." One video posted to the pub's TikTok has over 600,000 views and counting. They even posted a video joking that they are trying to figure out if Taylor is referring to Joe Alwyn or Matty Healy in the song.

Amy Crowley, who is the pub's marketing consultant, said , "To now get that sort of international level of recognition is surreal, but it's lots of fun. It's been a bit of a whirlwind, but we're enjoying it." Swifties also asked the bar if they would sell merch, and they've listened .

14. In the song "The Tortured Poets Department," Taylor sings, "I laughed in your face and said / 'You're not Dylan Thomas, I'm not Patti Smith / This ain't the Chelsea Hotel, we're modern idiots.'" And Patti posted her appreciation for being included in the song on her Instagram, writing , "This is saying I was moved to be mentioned in the company of the great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Thank you Taylor."

The Hotel Chelsea, which is mentioned in the song alongside Patti and Dylan, references the renowned hotel in Manhattan where both Dylan and Patti lived. Patti notably wrote about her time at the hotel in her book Just Kids .

15. And finally, The Tortured Poets Department is the first album in Spotify history to have more than 300 million streams in a single day on April 19, 2024.

On the same day, "Fortnight" (feat. Post Malone) also became Spotify's most-streamed song in a single day.

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Best Taylor Swift albums: We rated and ranked them all. Why our top pick really is 'The 1'

Taylor Swift released “The Tortured Poets Department” on April 19, 2024, an album Travis Kelce’s mom said is “probably her best work.”

Two hours after TTPD released, the biggest pop star in the universe surprise-released a second version — a two-record set subtitled “The Anthology” featuring 31 songs.

It quickly became the most-streamed album in a single day on Spotify on its way to becoming the first release to hit 1 billion streams in a single week.

And for the record, no, it did not take all seven days to get there.

That, my friends, is how you dominate the culture.

Thirty-one songs is a lot to digest. But now that we’ve been living with TTPD for a week, this is as good a time as any to reflect on Swift’s entire catalog, which started off strong with a self-titled effort released when she was just 16 that hit the Billboard album charts at No. 5 (the only time a Taylor Swift release has not secured the top spot on that chart).

The fact that Swift's 11th album has already broken streaming records tells you everything you need to know about how brilliantly she’s managed to retain the world’s interest in the course of those 11 albums while still finding time to re-record four early albums after a dispute over the ownership of her catalog.

All four “(Taylor’s Version)” re-recordings also topped the Billboard album charts, as anyone at all familiar with life in the 21st century could’ve guessed. And she’s still got two more to get through.

Taylor Swift albums ranked: How we did it

For this list, I've factored in the “(Taylor’s Version)” re-recordings of the albums — and how could you not factor in that new 10-minute version of “All Too Well” on “Red (Taylor’s Version)? — but didn’t break them out as separate items on the list because it would’ve felt ridiculous to do so.

I also considered all two hours of the 31-song version of TTPD because she wouldn’t have released it as a double album if we weren’t supposed to view it as a double album.

If you asked 10 Taylor Swift fans to compile a list of her best albums, you’d be looking at 10 very different lists. And that’s because we all have different things we look for in an album and things hit us differently at different times. I’m sure some of these rankings would change if I revisited this list a year from now. But for now, this feels right.

And for the record, I would highly recommend the album at the bottom of the list.

11. 'Taylor Swift' (2006)

There’s a song on the latest Olivia Rodrigo album that poses the question, “When am I gonna stop being great for my age and just start being good?”

I would imagine Taylor Swift was thinking “You don’t know the half of it,” having hit the streets at 16 with a self-titled album that sent two songs she’d written – “Our Song” and “Should’ve Said No” – to No. 1 on Billboard’s country chart while being embraced as displaying a level of talent well beyond her years.

But that’s only because she was great for her age, an overnight success who wrote or cowrote all 11 songs on her seven-times-platinum debut, including one she’d written for her high school talent show. And because she was young, she could speak to the teenage experience with an authenticity that can’t be faked.

It’s not all golden. At times, it feels a bit overly eager to please the suits at country radio. But the best songs show a promise she quickly fulfilled while holding up as great songs in their own right, from “Tim McGraw, a bittersweet reflection on the summer love that got away, to the first of several timeless classics about being stuck in the friend zone, the suitably heartbreaking “Teardrops on My Guitar.”

With “Taylor Swift,” she announced the arrival of a major talent in the making. And then she got better.

In the meantime, “Taylor Swift” spent 24 weeks atop Billboard’s country chart while earning Swift a Best New Artist Grammy nomination.

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10. 'Lover' (2019)

“Lover” captures Swift at her most effervescent, embracing her pop sensibilities with a practically euphoric sense of youthfulness at times. The sound is glossier than usual, drawing heavily on the ‘80s synth-pop vibe she first explored on “1989” with Panic! at the Disco's Brendon Urie guesting on lead single, "Me!."

“Cruel Summer” is as irrepressible a pop song as she’s ever written, despite the heartache she addresses in the lyrics. There’s a reason it became the album’s breakout single, topping Billboard’s Hot 100 (even if it took four years and its emergence as a highlight of the Eras Tour to get there).

In an interview with Vogue, Swift said she wrote this album as "a love letter to love, in all of its maddening, passionate, exciting, enchanting, horrific, tragic, wonderful glory."

And she manages to touch on all those shades of glory, clearly favoriting the more enchanting shades, before leaving the listener with “Daylight,” an unabashedly romantic if bittersweet ballad that finds her shaking off the vengefulness of “Reputation” with “I wanna be defined by the things that I love/ Not the things I hate,” a spoken-word performance that feels like her leaving a voicemail to herself.

Her final words are “You are what you love.” It’s a really sweet ending to a journey whose highlights range from the sugar-coated pop hooks of “Cruel Summer” to her soulful phrasing of the title track.

9. 'Fearless' (2008)

Swift was a few weeks shy of turning 19 when her second album hit the streets. And you could hear how much she’d grown in the two years since that first release, especially on “Fifteen,” where she looks back on the battle scars of young romance with a heartbroken chorus of “When you’re 15 and somebody tells you they love you, you’re gonna believe them.”

Her words cut even deeper when she hits the verse about her best friend Abigail giving “everything she had to a boy who changed his mind,” a line she follows with a totally believable “And we both cried.”

There’s a vulnerability to the delivery that underscores the heartache in all the right places, from “Fifteen” to the richly orchestrated “White Horse,” where she sings of pacing back and forth all this time “’cause I honestly believed in you.” And if other songs feel more like they were written by a teenager, the fact that those are the exceptions may be more to the point.

This album sent three singles to the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, including "You Belong with Me," which even now remains her most contagious pop song, casting Swift as a wallflower stuck on the bleachers while her dream date is off making time with the cheerleading captain.

“Fearless” picked up Album of the Year at the Country Music Association Awards, the Academy of Country Music Awards and the Grammys, where it also won Best Country Album.

8. 'The Tortured Poets Department' (2024)

It’s a lot to process, a sprawling double album that passes the two-hour mark as the 31st song, “The Manuscript,” is putting the album to bed with one last bittersweet reflection on a heartbreaking relationship.

It’s the song that ties it all together. On the bridge, she explains, “The professor said to write what you know.” Then she signs off with a verse about the album: “The only thing that's left is the manuscript/ One last souvenir from my trip to your shores/ Now and then I reread the manuscript/ But the story isn’t mine anymore.”

The 31-song manuscript is ours now. And it's an often fascinating journey.

The key to managing the sprawl of a double album is to change it up enough from track to track to keep things interesting. Swift’s collaborators here — primarily Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner — rarely rise to that challenge with an unexpected detour, the maddeningly upbeat electronica of “I Can Do it With a Broken Heart” being one welcome exception.

But the lyrics make it worth your while to hang in there as Swift finds inspiration where she often turns for inspiration — heartache, in this case the end of a six-year relationship with actor Joe Alwyn and a rumored rebound fling with boorish British rocker Matty Healy , cast as the “miracle move-on drug” whose effects were temporary; and love, in this case her relationship with Travis Kelce .

There’s even a song taking overprotective Swifties to task for thinking she’s too good to date the likes of Healy. “I’ll tell you something ‘bout my good name,” she sings in “But Daddy I Love Him,” a song whose title references “The Little Mermaid.” “It’s mine alone to disgrace/ I don’t cater to all these vipers dressed in empath’s clothing.”

Most of these lyrics are more likely auto-mythology than torn directly from the pages of a tear-stained diary, but you could say the same for almost any breakup album worth a second listen. And for all the undue grief she’s gotten for the album title, there are wonderful hints of self-awareness here, including this gem from the title track: “You’re not Dylan Thomas/ I’m not Patti Smith/ This ain’t the Chelsea Hotel/ We’re modern idiots.”

7. 'Reputation' (2017)

Swift was out for blood on “Reputation,” an album conceived in self-seclusion in reaction to the tabloid scrutiny that ramped up in the aftermath of "1989” and a very public feud with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian that boiled over after West released a song that infamously bragged, “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex. Why? I made that bitch famous.”

As she told the Guardian years later, “I was literally about to break.” In that interview, she talked about having adopted a “bit of a persona,” calling the edgier, hip-hop-inspired production “a complete defense mechanism.”

Working with Jack Antonoff, Max Martin and Shellback, the singer arrived at a much harder sound, surprising listeners with the heavily distorted low-end throb of an opening track called “Ready For It?”

By that point, we’d already met her new persona on the single she dropped in advance of the album’s release, “Look What You Made Me Do,” which features the outgoing message, “I'm sorry/ But the old Taylor can't come to the phone right now/ Why? Oh, 'cause she's dead.”

Dark Taylor proved a little much for some to handle. But a woman I work with told me this is in her Top 2 favorite Swift releases because of how it taps into female rage. "Look What You Made Me Do" topped Billboard's Hot 100, breaking sales and streaming records, while the album spent four weeks at U.S. No. 1.

6. “Speak Now” (2010)

By 20, Swift had experienced another huge artistic growth spurt, following “Fearless” with the even more compelling story songs and more assertive melodies of an album that crashes the gate with the effervescent country-pop of “Mine.”

Released as the album’s lead single, “Mine” finds her bracing herself for goodbye “’cause that’s all I’ve ever known” while “the best thing that’s ever been mine” assures her they won’t make the same mistakes her parents did.

And that was just the first of five Top 20 entries on the Billboard Hot 100 from “Speak Now,” including “Mean,” a song that’s meaner than the negative review that made her write it, and “Back to December,” a richly orchestrated breakup song that finds her wishing she could go back to the night she broke it off with someone.

“I'd go back in time and change it, but I can't,” she sings. “So if the chain is on your door, I understand.” It’s a moment guaranteed to leave a mark on many listeners. And there are other moments just as poignant.

On “Dear John,” a song inspired by her short-lived romance with December Boy John Mayer, she asks him, “Don’t you think 19’s too young to be played by your dark, twisted games when I love you so?” then answer her own question with “I should’ve known.” “Never Grow Up” is as beautiful a meditation on the pros and cons of growing as I have ever heard.

It’s not all weepers, though. The title track is sure to have you pulling for the girl who crashes someone else’s wedding and runs off with the groom.

Swift’s third album sold a million U.S. copies in a single week and spent six weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's album chart along the way to going six times platinum.

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5. “evermore” (2020).

A second surprise release of understated indie-folk laid to tape while the world was shut down for a global pandemic, arriving less than five months after "Folklore," "Evermore" is a suitably haunted affair.

Like “Folklore,” it features her working primarily with Aaron Dessner of the National, recording most songs at his Hudson Valley studio. Another member of the National, Dessner’s brother Bryce, contributes to the writing and production of a track recorded with the National called “Coney Island” that offsets the vulnerability of Swift’s delivery with the brooding gravitas of Matt Berninger’s gravelly baritone.

Swift has called the two releases sister albums, while reviewers heard this one as a sequel or companion piece. It’s all those things and more.

The title track features Bon Iver on vocals. The members of Haim show up on the noirish revenge song “No Body, No Crime.” Another highlight, “Gold Rush,” was co-written and produced by Antonoff, whose presence somewhere in the credits on a Swift release was pretty much a given by the time she got to “Evermore.”

It opens with “Willow,” a song she says she chose to set the tone because the music felt witchy and magical, which it does, at times like something Stevie Nicks would have contributed to “Rumours."

Other highlights range from “Champagne Problems,” a heartbreaking character sketch of a woman who turns down a marriage proposal as Christmas approaches and how “sometimes you just don’t know the answer ‘til someone’s on their knees and asks you,” to “’Tis the Damn Season,” a bittersweet tale of two former flames having a seasonal fling that they both know means more than that.

There’s this wonderfully written scene in the bridge where she sings of going back to L.A. to “wonder about the only soul who can tell which smiles I’m fakin’/ And the heart I know I’m breakin’ is my own / To leave the warmest bed I’ve ever known.”

The prevailing tone is sadness, which plays to her strengths as both a singer and a lyricist. She’s really good at making people feel the sadness in their soul. If this one doesn’t make you shed at least a few tears, chances are you’re heartless.

4. 'Midnights' (2022)

This concept album finds Swift returning to the glossy synth-pop stylings and self-referential lyrics she'd abandoned on those sister albums she recorded during the pandemic, telling “the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life,” as she revealed on Instagram.

It opens with “Lavender Haze,” a suitably hazy, hip-hop-flavored love song whose title is something she picked up from “Mad Men,” used in the ‘50s to describe the sensation of being in love. Of course, this being Taylor Swift, the lavender haze is threatened by the bothersome realities of being Taylor Swift in love.

She’s “under scrutiny,” feeling the pressure to get married because “the only kinda girl they see is a one-night or a wife” and she's having none of it.

On “Anti-Hero,” the biggest-selling song of 2022, she sings “I'll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror,” a line she follows with a self-effacing “It must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero.” But Swift had rarely stared directly in the mirror as exactingly as she does here. She even sings of “scheming like a criminal” to make the kids who didn’t want to play with her when she was little love her.

It’s that growing sense of self-awareness that makes “Midnights” such a fascinating listen. That and the production (Exhibit A in any case for ignoring the backlash that greeted her latest release and keeping Antonoff’s name on her shortlist of potential running mates).

“Midnights” set a new record for Spotify streams in a single day on the way to becoming the year's best-selling U.S. album and enjoying the largest vinyl sales week of the century so far. It also filled the Top 10 on the Hot 100 — the first time any act has occupied all 10 positions.

3. 'Red' (2012)

Hoping to experiment with sounds beyond the context of her country-leaning comfort zone, she enlisted the aid of several outside producers and songwriting partners, including Max Martin, Jeff Bhasker and Shellback.

It worked like a charm.

Lead single "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" became her first chart-topping entry on the Hot 100 for a reason. You can feel her swinging for the fences like the Reggie Jackson we all needed. The delivery was surprisingly playful for Swift, who brings her best Valley Girl voice to the table, especially coming out of that first chorus, where she follows “We are never ever ever getting back together” with “like, ever.”

The second hit single, “Begin Again,” isn’t nearly as playful, a heartfelt country ballad with an aching pedal-steel part that ends the album on a hopeful note with “I've been spending the last eight months thinking all love ever does is break and burn, and end/ But on a Wednesday in a café, I watched it begin again.”

The other hits are just as timeless. Max Martin and Shellback left their fingerprints all over “I Knew You Were Trouble,” a brilliant piece of popcraft that made her crossover dreams more apparent than ever. And “22” is everything it’s meant to be — a celebration built for rooftop parties that perfectly captures the essence of what it means to be exactly 22 (on a good night), Swift assuring us that “Everything will be alright if we just keep dancing like we’re 22.”

2. '1989' (2014)

The title refers to her birth year, apparently chosen to signify a symbolic artistic rebirth. And that’s exactly what it feels like, inspired in large part by the synth-pop of the 1980s with Max Martin serving as the album’s co-executive producer.

She’d been “going pop” from the beginning, recording an alternative version of “Teardrops on My Guitar,” the first crossover hit from her first album, without all the country embellishments. But even “Red,” for all its pop ambition, had retained its share of country sensibilities.

There’s no mistaking anything on “1989” for country. The opening track could not have done a better job of channeling the essence of the early ‘80s synth-pop revolution, right down to the digital handclaps.

“Blank Space” was a huge hit and the album’s most compelling track, an electro-pop anthem with state-of-the-art production and a brilliant performance from Swift, who navigates the lyrics with attitude, heartache and humor while playing the serial dater she’d clearly grown weary of being portrayed as in the media.

When “Blank Space” topped the Billboard Hot 100, it replaced another Swift song goofing on her public image — "Shake It Off," a contagious lead single that coyly sets the tone with “I stay out too late / Got nothin’ in my brain / That’s what people say / Mmm hmm / That’s what people say.” By the time the chorus hits, she’s promising to shake it off, but thankfully, she wrote a song about it first.

A third track from the album, "Bad Blood," topped the Hot 100 the following year while the electro-funk swagger of “Style” and the majestic hooks “Wildest Dreams” both cracked the Top 10.

It’s as perfect a pop album as she’s ever made. The Grammys named it Album of the Year, making Swift the first woman to win that honor twice.

1. 'Folklore' (2020)

The homespun indie-folk aesthetic, where the musical embodiment of cottagecore is filtered through a haze of dreamy trip-hop and folktronica embellishments, was arrived at by collaborating with producers Aaron Dessner and Jack Antonoff virtually while we were all adrift in COVID-19 quarantine.

Swift, who tracked the vocals in her L.A. home, has said she conceived of the album as "a collection of songs and stories that flowed like a stream of consciousness.”

The result was surprisingly rooted in fiction for an artist whose lyrics to that point had tended toward autobiography.

Those forays into fiction include a trilogy of songs she calls “the Teenage Love Triangle.”

The trilogy begins with “Cardigan,” the album’s lead single, which became her sixth release to top the Hot 100. It’s a bittersweet ballad sung from the perspective of a character named “Betty,” whose boyfriend has been “playing hide-and-seek” with someone else. “And when I felt like I was an old cardigan under someone’s bed, you put me and said I was your favorite,” she sings on the chorus.

“August” tells the tale of the affair from the perspective of the other woman. “August slipped away into a moment in time,” she sings. “’Cause you were never mine.”

The final chapter, “Betty,” is sung from the perspective of the boyfriend, James, who crashes Betty’s party, desperate for her to take him back. “I’m only 17, I don’t know anything,” he tells her. “But I know I miss you.”

It's the crowning achievement of an album packed with brilliant storytelling, from “The Last Great American Dynasty” to “Illicit Affairs” and “Mad Woman.”

Released without warning, “Folklore” offered Swifties a welcome distraction from the tedium of isolation. That made “The 1” the perfect way to start the album, greeting listeners with “I’m doing good, I’m on some new (expletive)/ Been saying ‘yes’ instead of ‘no’” while checking in and introducing her new sound.

“Folklore” spent eight weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's album chart and was the biggest-selling album of the year. It also picked up Album of the Year at the Grammys, making Swift the first woman to win that honor three times.

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Taylor Swift’s 'The Tortured Poets Department' album breaks Spotify streaming record

Taylor Swift is writing her way into the Spotify history books (her version) with "The Tortured Poets Department."

On Friday, Swift released her new album which became the first album in the streaming platform's history to garner over 300 million streams in a single day. The album also became the most-streamed album in a single day in 2024, according to a rep for Spotify.

The album's lead single “Fortnight," featuring rapper and genre-bending singer Post Malone , also made history and became the most-streamed song in a day. Swift also claims the top three albums most streamed albums in Spotify history with 2023's "Midnights" and " 1989 (Taylor's Version)."

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Swift is also now the most-streamed artist in a single day in Spotify history after the release of "The Tortured Poets Department" and its extended version "The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology," a 31-song collection of songs about coming of age, heartbreak, and the private pitfalls and peaks of her public life.

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The Eras Tour singer also makes reference to romance with current partner, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce , in and her longtime ex-boyfriend, the British actor Joe Alwyn . On "Tortured Poets," Swift continues to point her songwriting pen at rapper Kanye West, who is now known as Ye , and his ex-wife, reality TV star Kim Kardashian .

"I don't think you've changed much  and so I changed your name and any real defining clues ; And one day, your kid comes home singin' a song that only us two is gonna know is about you," Swift sings in "thanK you aIMee," which features Kim Kardashian's name spelled out in capital letters while the rest are lowercase.

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The song is an apparent reference to the daughter of Kardashian and Ye (formerly  Kanye West ), North West. Early last year, North West  posted a TikTok  featuring Kardashian, with the two dancing to "Shake It Off," from 2014's "1989."

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