Mine is Glitch x Wi$h Li$t. They have a similar tempo & she takes the same pause before the chorus, then single phrase, then another pause and a little “mm”.

Which songs do you think could easily be mashups?

I love this album to the moon and to Saturn!! Finally made it to my fave Tay album so I had to do right by it with this frame! I can’t believe I only have 4 more albums to go!

Welcome to The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore Survivor! We will go through the deluxe version of Taylor's twelfth album and collectively rank it from worst to best!

The song eliminated in Round 8 of The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore SURVIVOR, with 210 of 565 votes (37.17%), is...

Honey

Remaining songs:

• The Fate of Ophelia 🏰
• Elizabeth Taylor 🎥
• Opalite 💎
• Father Figure 💼
• Ruin the Friendship 🎒
• Patient Zero 🍷
• Pink Clouding ☁️
• Babylon 🚞

If you don't know how this works, the rules are simple.

• Survivor is a game where you vote out your least favorite song on an album.
• At the end of a 24-hour voting period, the song with the most votes is eliminated.
• We do this day by day, track by track, until the best song remains.

VOTE HERE!!!

Songs Eliminated by Round

Second Place by Round

Reminder: you're voting for your least favorite of these songs, i.e., the one you want to eliminate. Voting will close on October 28 at 11:59 PM EST.

Hi guys! I’m back with day six of recreating Taylor Swifts albums. Today is reputation! This one was super tought for me to do because rep was such a unique album. I’m super excited to see what you guys come up with!

The concept of this game is that you have to recreate a Taylor Swift album using songs that are NOT from the album. You want to try and capture the overall vibe of the album by using any other songs from her discography.

For example, if you wanted to recreate Debut, you could use I knew It I Knew You, Fearless, etc. You couldn’t use any songs from debut.

So if you were to replace the 16 songs on reputation, which songs would you choose?

So I am so honored to be inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. I got the news and I was just kind of staring at the words. I was staring at Nashville. I was just like, “Wow, this is crazy.” And then I kind of zeroed in on a few words that have had a particularly intense impact on my life. The first one being “Nashville,” the second “songwriters.” And the last one, “fame.” I’d like to start with songwriters and expanding upon the impact that word has had on my life.

I started writing songs when I was a little kid and I knew from the time I wrote my first song that even if it couldn’t be my career, it would be my passion. It would be what I centered my entire life around. Nashville is the place that I went to in my middle school daydreams. It was the place where all the wisdom that I wished to acquire existed in one place. All the lessons that I wished to learn existed in this magical place for me. And it ended up being all of that and more. It ended up being everything.

Fame, that’s sort of a byproduct of my love for music. It’s kind of like songwriter plus Nashville equals fame. It’s why a lot of people know the words to my music, which is awesome. It’s also why there’s sort of like these daily random doses of chaos that just pop up in my life every once in a while, every couple of hours. That can be kind of weird, but I have tools in place in my mind that help me navigate that and get back to true north when life feels so bizarre.

Those tools are my memories and the memories that I visit most frequently when I need to return back to some semblance of remembering what normalcy is and why I do this. I think back to when I first got to Nashville and I started writing on Music Row. I was lucky enough to get a publishing deal with Sony Publishing when I was 14 and I just hit the ground running. I started writing every single day. I learned so much. I was like a sponge and I have really curly hair and it was yellow, so I kind of looked like a sponge too. But I learned by repetition. I think you truly learn a craft when you do it over and over and over and that is what the magnificent songwriters that work in this amazing town do. There is no music community like this music community. I know. I checked all the communities. There’s no one doing it.

I learned so much. I learned how to push through a creative block when you’re in the middle of a session. Are we going to tunnel under this? Are we going to burgle over it? I learned which ideas are worth fighting for, which ideas are worth letting go of and move on to the next one. I learned how to accommodate when your co-writer has a hangover or when they’re going to need to talk about their divorce for a really long time before we write anything. Because one thing that I did learn is that songwriters, although they possess the superhuman ability to understand and interpret the human condition and insane levels of empathy, they are just people too. And they are people who in a lot of ways raised me and guided me through my formative years.

One of the memories I revisit a lot on good days and bad because it just makes me feel cozy is that I used to write a lot in two favorite buildings. I had two favorite places that I loved to write the most. The first one being the Sony Fire Hall because you could hear the other writers through the walls and I just kind of liked to pretend that I was in the Brill Building. And then my most favorite was a place called Jody Williams Music, an independent publishing company that was located in a little craftsman house. Let’s say the year is like 2005 in this memory. My mom would pick me up from Hendersonville High School, drive me downtown and drop me off and I’d stamper in the front of Jody Williams Music and I’d say “Hi” to Catherine who worked at the front and sometimes her boyfriend Eric would be there visiting. Things have gone great for them. They’ve got a couple kids, married like 20 years now. His full name is Eric Church, just for clarity.

But then I’d run up the stairs and I would plop down on the couch in front of Liz Rose in this room that was painted red. And I’d be like, “Liz, this happened at school today. I’ve got a hook that I wanna like, you know, you got to write this thing.” And she’d get her notebook and we’d just write so fast. When we finished with the song, I kind of jog out the back of this house to the backyard where there was a garden shed. And in that garden shed was a one person studio where Jody Williams Music’s favorite demo producer, Nathan Chapman, was making demos.

I would run in and Nathan would play every single instrument on these demos and he interpreted my music so intuitively that later on I would fight for him to produce my entire first album. And it was our first album, both of us. And I am shocked and stunned to say that as of a couple days ago, that album is 20 years old. I’ve been very fortunate I’ve gotten to genre hop and travel the world and write with so many different people and in so many different ways. And the only reason that I’ve been able to have that kind of dexterity in my creative process is because of the fundamentals and the foundation that I learned here in Nashville. And I never forget that for a single second when I tell every single person I know about what we have here. And I’m so incredibly honored to be inducted into this sacred club, especially at this point in my life.

It’s not lost on me how crazy this is. I will cherish it forever because Nashville is the place that honed and polished the thing about myself and the thing about my life that I am the most proud of and the most passionate about. So to be here with you and to be getting to have this moment, I am truly grateful and it just feels like one of those amazing Nashville moments I’m going to revisit on a rainy day. Thank you so much.

Source: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-nashville-songwriters-hall-of-fame-speech-1235648096/

STC:

Taylor Swift officially became the youngest-ever member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame when she was formally inducted into the institution by Brad Paisley during an industry gala on Monday night in Nashville.
“This is somebody who has conquered the world and done it with songs,” Paisley said as he inducted the star. The country singer Swift’s rise in Music City. “All of us were like, ‘How is this teenager doing this? How is she so brilliant?’ And then she goes off and really put her feelings into something that is 100% hers, writes the Speak Now album all by herself,” he said. Paisley added: “It’s an amazing thing to watch her evolution from somebody who realized this all starts with a song, to take that exact thing and change the world with it.”
Swift was one of six inductees into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame this year, along with Texas troubadour Lyle Lovett, frequent Paisley collaborator Lee Thomas Miller, “Two Piña Coladas” writer Shawn Camp, “Hey! Baby” singer-songwriter Bruce Channel, and former member of Buddy Holly’s Crickets, J.I. Allison, who was inducted posthumously.
The ceremony, held at the Music City Center in downtown Nashville, also recognized George Strait with the Career Maker Award. All of the institution’s members in attendance, including Swift, stood on stage to recognize Strait.

While the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, founded in 1970, has a history of all-star induction events, this year’s was particularly high-profile due to the presence of Swift. The pop superstar was in attendance on Monday night and watched as Lainey Wilson sang a stripped down acoustic version of “Love Story.”
In her acceptance speech, Swift focused on the words “Nashville,” “songwriting,” and “fame” as she shared what it meant to receive the honor. The singer-songwriter reflected on her early days in the music business, and called Nashville “the place that I went to in my middle school daydream” and “the place where all the wisdom that I wished to acquire existed in one place.” She added, “I think you truly learn a craft when you do it over and over and over and that is what the magnificent songwriters that work in this amazing town do. There is no music community like this music community. I know. I checked all the communities. There’s no one doing it.” Swift finished her speech by emphasizing the importance of the moment. “I’m so incredibly honored to be inducted into this sacred club, especially at this point in my life.It’s not lost on me how crazy this is,” she said.

On October 27, 2024 Taylor Swift released her fifth studio álbum Marking one of the most significant shifts in her career, leaving behind her country roots to fully embrace pop

With anthems like “Blank Space” “Style” “Shake lt Off” “Wildest Dreams” and “Out of the Woods” 1989 bécame one of the most iconic albums of the 2010s.
The álbum won the Grammy for Álbum of the year and cemented one of the most unforgettable eras in modern pop
Twelve years later, we’re still living in our 1989 era.🩵

What's a situation talked about in one of Taylor's song that you haven't been through and you would really hate it to happen to you? Examples:

"The moment I knew because I don't want to realize that someone I love doesn't love me back in front of everyone".

"Would've Could've Should've because I don't want a toxic relationship to ever find me".

"Soon you'll get better because I love my mom" (this one's quite obvious).

Welcome to The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore Survivor! We will go through the deluxe version of Taylor's twelfth album and collectively rank it from worst to best!

The song eliminated in Round 7 of The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore SURVIVOR, with 128 of 400 votes (32%), is...

The Life of a Showgirl (feat. Sabrina Carpenter)

Remaining songs:

• The Fate of Ophelia 🏰
• Elizabeth Taylor 🎥
• Opalite 💎
• Father Figure 💼
• Ruin the Friendship 🎒
• Honey 🍯
• Patient Zero 🍷
• Pink Clouding ☁️
• Babylon 🚞

If you don't know how this works, the rules are simple.

• Survivor is a game where you vote out your least favorite song on an album.
• At the end of a 24-hour voting period, the song with the most votes is eliminated.
• We do this day by day, track by track, until the best song remains.

VOTE HERE!!!

Songs Eliminated by Round

Second Place by Round

Reminder: you're voting for your least favorite of these songs, i.e., the one you want to eliminate. Voting will close on October 27 at 11:59 PM EST.

It's me again, hi!

Just a little something before, during, or after both 1989s Anniversary depending on what time you're seeing this.

I almost named this one "New York" but... I think a other album fused with 1989 would fit that title... Plus "Cruel Summer" is exactly what the vibe I was going for making the tracklist.

Honorable mentions from the vault: Clean and Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince.

Enjoy!

Other people have already talked about how the "pink clouding" imagery seems like a callback to the cover of Lover, but when she sings "gray rocking where the arrow hit" it makes me think of "The Archer." It's the track five on her album of love songs, all about her insecurities that she'll sabotage the relationship and the cycles she's gone through previously with being the archer/prey. To me, "Pink Clouding" seems like it's about a relationship where the arrow she was worried about finally hit. Especially since she talks about being the one to leave and wondering how to say she's sorry. I don't necessarily thinks she sees herself as having "sabotaged" the relationship she sings about in "Pink Clouding," but it's maybe a relationship where the things she was worried about eventually did cause problems/the breakup.

Then, in "Pink Clouding," she sings, "And you were so good / That's why you haunt me like you should / And all my promises, promises...," which reminds me of "Maroon." "Maroon" is another song about a relationship that she might have been the one to end ("the rubies that I gave up"). She doesn't specifically use the word "haunted" in "Maroon," but it definitely seems like a song about a relationship that haunts her, to me, when I hear the bridge ("And I wake with your memory over me / That's a real fucking legacy").

I just think it's cool seeing the way she develops/plays with similar imagery and themes across different albums! Interested to hear if other people have been reminded of those songs when listening to "Pink Clouding."

First off, I want to apologize if this type of post isn’t allowed because while I think it relates to Taylor, it is not entirely about her. Before becoming a Swiftie, I was super into 5SOS and they quickly became my favorite band. While listening to Taylor, I realized a couple of songs had very similar themes that both artists have explored. This isn’t a new revelation or anything, many artists cover similar topics all the time, but there were certain lyrics that stood out to me to almost be a conversation between the two artists. 
I just want to add, that I know they are not actual response songs to each other, it was just something I noticed how similar these songs could be to each other. I also want to say that I am not dissecting muses or that Taylor and 5SOS have some secret connection, just noticing similar themes and lyrics used.  So with that said let’s get into the analysis.  

High Infidelity vs. Bad Omens

So this is probably the most explicit connection I have been able to make between the two songs. In High Infidelity Taylor sings to her lover that she is over the relationship and has been with somebody new. She expresses that they shouldn’t be surprised because the relationship has slowly been dying for some time now, at least from her perspective. Throughout the song she continually mentions that the two lovers have been having issues for quite some time and she finally found a way out by feeling enamoured with a new person. 

One of the lyrics she mentions that shows the relationship has been failing for a while is, “good husband, bad omen, dragged my feet right down the aisle”.  To me this shows that even at a wedding, a time that is supposed to inspire love, joy, and togetherness, is filled with distraught and even some contempt. While the lover is a “good husband” who may provide for Taylor in all the acceptable ways society deems appropriate, the husband does not actually care deeply about her or know how she truly feels. If he did, her feet wouldn’t be dragged down the aisle (whether that be him literally dragging her or her begrudgingly going through with the wedding). 
This lyric is also interesting to me because she specifically mentions the phrase bad omen. This is where the “response” song comes in. She mentions that the wedding and their subsequent marriage is failing because he couldn’t see the bad omen that she did not really care for him. Which becomes the main theme is 5 Seconds of Summer’s song Bad Omens. 

Throughout Bad Omens, the singer laments about the failing of his relationship. That he is noticing all the cracks and he is desperately trying to hold onto it because he does not want to let his lover go, even though it is abundantly clear that the lover no longer cares for him and is seeking out someone else. 

The lyrics that most interest me are from the chorus, “I died when you left that night for the thousandth time, ‘cause you love somebody else.” This line mimics a lot of what Taylor sings about in High Infidelity. It could be a direct response to the line, “do you really want to know where I was April 29th?” because of the woman leaving to be with her new beaux. But it also encaptures the entirety of what Taylor sings about in her song. The relationship is over, the woman seeks out a new lover, the previous one is surprised and hurt by learning they have been cheated on despite that this should not be new information to either member singing. 

Another connection between these two songs is in the second verse of Bad Omens. The narrator sings, “I kiss you on your neck, you were staring at the ceiling, I should’ve known right there and then you were a runaway.” This mirrors what the narrator in Taylor’s song has been saying. That she was never fully invested in the relationship and was going to leave the minute someone she could truly connect with came along. That not only was she a runaway, as 5SOS puts it, but that she felt she was dragged down the aisle, as mentioned before. The two songs are repeating the same sentiment over and over again, almost as if it is a conversation where one partner cannot hear the other. They go in circles, which is another theme in Bad Omens, where they are doomed to repeat this pattern of coming together, being cheated on, and fighting to hold onto the relationship. This is evident when  the Bad Omens chorus is also repeated as the bridge and when the narrator sings, “these bad omens, I look right through them.” Even though they see the bad omens, they see their partner falling in love with someone new, they are so deep in denial out of love for this individual or love of  social appearances according to High Infidelity, that they are ignoring the warning signs. Which again, is evident in both songs. Taylor sings in a way of disbelief that the other person is surprised when it seems so clear that this was the inevitable end. The warning signs were present from the beginning. 

Throughout the song there are different thematic parallels such as lust and regret. But these have been my main points in where I feel the true connections are clearest.  My initial analysis had me analyzing four song comparisons but since this first one ended up being so much longer than I thought it would. I hope you found this interesting and would like to hear the analysis for the other three songs sometime soon.   If you also listen to 5 Seconds of Summer and notice any comparisons or listen to other artists completely that you noticed had similar themes/topics with Taylor I would love to read your analysis!

I took the Platinum tracks and vault tracks and turned them into an album. This excludes Forever & Always (Piano Version) since it’s not a completely new song.

Untouchable
1:Superstar
2:Untouchable
3:Jump Then Fall
4:The Other Side Of The Door
5:Come In With The Rain
6:That’s When
7:We Were Happy
8:You All Over Me
9:Don’t You
10:Mr. Perfectly Fine
11:Bye Bye Baby

Section 1
SuperStar opens up on a love from afar. Untouchable continues that with its theme on unrequited love. Jump Then Fall is the leap of faith. The two are now together.

Section 2
The Other Side Of The Door brings us to our first conflict where the two have a fight. Taylor is screaming for him to leave while deep down, not actually wanting him to. After that fight, Taylor is left alone, hoping he’ll “come in with the rain.” That’s When continues this narrative. She’s waiting for him to come back. But, no matter how long she waited, he never came. She reflects on the relationship in We Were Happy

Section 3
You All Over Me is Taylor not being able to completely move on from him. This sets up Don’t You. She can’t move on, so if he comes back, it could lead to the same outcome, maybe something worse. Mr. Perfectly Fine and Bye Bye Baby is Taylor finally moving on in 2 different sounds. Mr. Perfectly Fine is the more angry/bitter part of moving on, while Bye Bye Baby comes down and is more softer and emotional

I envision the singles rollout like this:
(Pre-album Single)
Lead Single: You All Over Me

(With-album Single)
Second Single: Mr. Perfectly Fine

(Post-album Single)
Third Single: Jump Then Fall

I also did this with other albums, so I’ll probably post those too

Meet me at Midnight(s)! 😁

It was so difficult to narrow down all the incredible lyrics and visuals from this album to just 3, but I hope they represent the era well. I was very happy with how cohesive I was able to make these color-scheme-wise!

Next month is TTPD! Suggestions always welcome 🤗

The other day I posted a reputation cardigan concept, and it got a lot of praise! I decided to go ahead and try and put my debut vision to life. This concept was a lot harder to make since it was difficult to edit the colors of the folklore cardigan I was using. This made the cardigan appear as if it was glowing, or almost translucent, and I also couldn't make the shadows a normal color, so I hope y'all can look past that. Finding simple butterfly emrboidery was a struggle 😭

While I like my reputation cardigan and visualization better, I like my ideas for the debut cardigan more.

Both cardigans have a light green/mint base with teal accents. Details:

• Version 1 is inspired by the 1989 cardigan, where instead of having 5 seagulls on the back, instead there is one large butterfly, symbolizing her first album.
• Version 2 is inspired by the Fearless and lover cardigans, where instead of having stars/hearts across the front and back, there are butterflies flying everywhere.
• Both versions feature butterfly shaped buttons, inspired by the lover cardigan.

If I have the time, I may redesign the Fearless and Red cardgians, as I'm not too crazy about their designs. I hope y'all enjoy this one tho! 💚

I am currently relistening to both eras, and picking between them is a surprisingly hard battle for me.

Speak Now feels like a pretty messy transition visually and sonically (don't shade me for this!).

I get a little confused by the age aesthetic because it sounds both very mature and very young at the same time.

Her vocals on a few tracks even sound pretty different right before she settled into her signature adult voice.

Visually, looking at music videos like Back to December versus Mine, she almost looks like two completely different ages.

Sonically, the tracks jump around a lot too, probably because this was right around the time she was getting ready for Red and starting to wear her classic bangs.

Moving on to Red, I think it was fantastic. The era really helped shift her image into something older and more defined. It is amazing because we start seeing her experiment heavily with pop music on tracks like I Knew You Were Trouble. All Too Well is obviously a masterpiece, though honestly, I feel like Taylor's Version gave that track even better emotional depth, which makes the original feel like a tiny setback by comparison.

At the end of the day, I still love both of these albums and plan on buying CDs for both. Which one do you prefer, and how do you feel about how these two eras compare?

Welcome to The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore Survivor! We will go through the deluxe version of Taylor's twelfth album and collectively rank it from worst to best!

The song eliminated in Round 6 of The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore SURVIVOR, with 181 of 401 votes (45.14%), is...

Wi$h Li$t

Remaining songs:

• The Fate of Ophelia 🏰
• Elizabeth Taylor 🎥
• Opalite 💎
• Father Figure 💼
• Ruin the Friendship 🎒
• Honey 🍯
• The Life of a Showgirl (feat. Sabrina Carpenter) 💃🏼
• Patient Zero 🍷
• Pink Clouding ☁️
• Babylon 🚞

If you don't know how this works, the rules are simple.

• Survivor is a game where you vote out your least favorite song on an album.
• At the end of a 24-hour voting period, the song with the most votes is eliminated.
• We do this day by day, track by track, until the best song remains.

VOTE HERE!!!

Songs Eliminated by Round

Second Place by Round

Reminder: you're voting for your least favorite of these songs, i.e., the one you want to eliminate. Voting will close on October 26 at 11:59 PM EST.

Speak Now was released 16 years ago on this day (10/25)!

This is my second favorite Taylor Swift album behind Red, but I still love it! So many amazing songs from it! Crazy to think, if it was a person, it could legally drive!

What are your top three songs from the album? Mine are The Story of Us, Haunted, and Enchanted!

On Octuber 24, 2006 a young woman of just 16 released her first álbum, never imagining that she would end up becoming one of the most important artists in the history of music.

From the country sounds of “our song” and “teardrops on my guitar” to anthems like “love story,” “blank space,” and “cruel summer,” Taylor has accompanied millions of people through different stages of their lives.

Graphite on paper. I used Blackwings pencils and Fabriano paper, and I’m currently listening to debut 🦋

Welcome to The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore Survivor! We will go through the deluxe version of Taylor's twelfth album and collectively rank it from worst to best!

The song eliminated in Round 5 of The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore SURVIVOR, with 203 of 593 votes (34.23%), is...

Wood

Remaining songs:

• The Fate of Ophelia 🏰
• Elizabeth Taylor 🎥
• Opalite 💎
• Father Figure 💼
• Ruin the Friendship 🎒
• Wi$h Li$t 💸
• Honey 🍯
• The Life of a Showgirl (feat. Sabrina Carpenter) 💃🏼
• Patient Zero 🍷
• Pink Clouding ☁️
• Babylon 🚞

If you don't know how this works, the rules are simple.

• Survivor is a game where you vote out your least favorite song on an album.
• At the end of a 24-hour voting period, the song with the most votes is eliminated.
• We do this day by day, track by track, until the best song remains.

VOTE HERE!!!

Songs Eliminated by Round

Second Place by Round

Reminder: you're voting for your least favorite of these songs, i.e., the one you want to eliminate. Voting will close on October 25 at 11:59 PM EST.