Taylor Swift has talked about the constant pressure to evolve and grow as an artist and with each album (most recently in the Miss Americana documentary). Imagine writing a song that fits an aesthetic so well that people literally thought this was written for The Secret Life of Pets 2. The Estate of Taylor Swift will collect royalties from cruise ships and children’s birthday parties for the rest of the millennium with this one. It’s definitely dramatic, but also a pleasure to see Taylor’s theatre kid energy popping out. I listened to this once because I like her, but I’m not going to ever listen to it again if I can help it. Idris Elba ( Cats: Highlights from the Motion Picture Soundtrack)

I cannot in good faith recommend this one for your holiday playlist. “Silent Night” was arranged in the weirdest key. There’s something just incredibly grating about the drawn-out vowels of “baaAAd blood,” and the extra stab of “really deep cuuUUt” that makes me wish the song hadn’t been released as a single, even with Kendrick’s verse. This is one of the most vague songs in Swift’s catalogue with an arbitrarily expensive music video budget that should have been used to make a bunch of remixes of “Clean” or something. Without further ado, here is every single Taylor Swift song, ranked. Assistant music editor Ellen Johnson also contributed blurbs. Our residential Swiftie, Jane Song, compiled and ranked every song in her discography-including cuts from her seven LPs, her takes on holiday classics, covers, duets and features on other artists’ songs, like John Mayer. She’s written about a bereaved mother and her son, a septuagenarian husband and wife and an eccentric multi-hyphenate musician, to name a few.įollowing the release of Swift’s new Netflix documentary Miss Americana, directed by Lana Wilson, we took on the nearly impossible task of ranking Swift’s every song.

She’s been accused in the past of only writing breakup songs, but combing through her entire body of work proves that she can write at least 50 different types of love and other types of songs, easily. While Swift’s own sensitivity may come at the expense of her well-being at times, her keen understanding of emotions help people understand feelings they can’t narrate themselves.

Some folks allow their enemies to live rent-free in their minds, but Taylor Swift uses hers to pay the rent. Taylor Swift’s decade of success can’t be a fluke.

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