#taylor swift album ranking

[benjinoff13]

[cumberbitchhhh]

i’m sorry but these are my absolutely disgustingly diabolical rankings of my top 5 albums. IM SORRY. also can we tell that i have RANGE when it comes to taylor’s songs. sad girl bops or girly pop anthems ONLY.

[nayeonline]

!! updated taylor album ranking !!

the blackpink ranking was a bit wild so I thought let’s do it again :)))) this is very much subject to change I’ll probably change my mind within thirty minutes of posting but whatever let’s gooooo

REPUTATION - this album is such a no skip album that once you start listening to it you legally have to listen to the whole thing. Easily her most iconic era, easily her best album cover, hits include ALL OF THEM.

FOLKLORE - this album saved lives like it’s that serious. THE ARTISTRY THE POETRY THE STORYTELLING. It’s also marauders coded which is automatically a slay :) hits include all of them again :)

EVERMORE - folklore but slightly less melancholy??? Tbh folklore and evermore are so close in how much I love them but folklore is so close to my heart lmao. This album also has my fave Taylor song EVER which is the wonderful, the life changing, the FLAWLESS ‘cowboy like me’ :))))

1989 - dare I say invented pop??? Career defining, pure hits. Style is actually the greatest pop song ever conceived like it’s factually gods gift to music and not liking it is a globally recognised illness :) the other songs are also earth shattering xx

LOVER - potentially my hottest take on this list but I FUCKING LOVE THIS ALBUM. she’s a little frustrating for me bc there are a couple skips but literally everything else is life changing??? Like hello, cruel summer, dbatc, cornelia street, FALSE GOD???

MIDNIGHTS - quintessential taylor. Lyrical slay, production slay, flawless execution. I may not really love anti hero but I LOVE yoyok, question, karma, sweet nothing, mastermind the Great War and of course Would’ve Could’ve Should’ve TO NAME A FEW

RED - she’s so underrated and for what??? Like this is a stacked track list and of course all too well TMV was a cultural reset

SPEAK NOW - ugh I’m going to get hate for this I can tell but HEAR ME OUT. She’s fun I love her but I LOVE THE OTHER ALBUMS MORE OK RELAX.

FEARLESS - (there is a big gap between speak now and fearless btw) if you love this album I understand, but I am simply not a country gyal

DEBUT - she was necessary but ngl I don’t really listen to her that much lol I’m not a country girl. Also I’m very much british so singing in a southern accent is a little grating lmao. Picture to burn is still a hit tho

[moonlightspencie]

okay i did my mathematical tay tay ranking and honestly? not super surprising with the exception of RED beating out 1989

[mandycantdecide]

thanks to @wllbyers​ for the tag <3

i distracted myself for a minute with this and yeah seems correct. tagging any swiftie that wants to do this <3

here’s the link for it

[taylorglows]

Updated Tay album ranking. What's yours?

[tangyangie]

hii i love ur writing smm<33 i hope you're doing well--- im a huge swiftie too, what's your ranking of all her albums??

ohhh my god this is hard but i can do this

so my rating system is that i basically give an 11 to my favorite song on the album, and everything else is either 10 or below.

1. MIDNIGHTS (10.05) 🌠

nothing will ever compare to how much i love midnights honestly. would've could've should've and the great war and maroon literally cannot be bested. glitch sweet nothing midnight rain i could go on!!!

2. 1989 (9.95) 🏙️

this was the album that started my swiftieness and the vaults made it even better. i love this album so much and the fact it's been themed as a beach album now is an absolute yes from me ALSO this love being my surprise song literally killed me it was the most magical bridge ever AKDJKSSK

3. folklore & evermore (9.94) 🧺

yes of course her indie albums are a tie... folklore was my fav at the start but evermore is a grower. evermore has amazing songs and i love it so much but folklore is a great album as a whole AGDHHSHE

4. REPUTATIOOON (9.93) 📰

honestly i feel like this should be higher but i was really only taking songs into account 💔 honestly i love the two sides of this album it makes me so happy but i can't wait for vaults also REP TV ANNOUNCEMENT NEW YEAR'S DAY PLEASE

5. speak now (9.86) 🎆

my fav country album of hers hands down ALSO foolish one literally changed my life idk i'm so glad for the vaults and this album has some of my favorite songs ever so 🤗🤗

6. L💖VEEERRR (9.84) 🍬

this album is literally a roller coaster... has afterglow which is my fav song ever and has false god which is also one of my favs and i love it so much sobs and if you don't love this album you hate fun and happiness and everything

7. RED (9.79) 🧣

this also is also a grower and it's SOO LONG and forever winter and all too well tmv literally have me in a chokehold there is not a day you won't find me humming these

8. FEARLESS (9.57) ⭐️

has some of her greatest songs ever and also FOREVER AND ALWAYS was my surprise song and i sobbed cause i was so happy i love this album so much also the vaults are so underrated?? like don't you is one of the best ones

9. Taylor Swift (9.50) 🎵

country taylor 🫶🫶 i love her yeehaw accent and she better bring it back for debut tv cause we know she can

[dragonpickle29]

I finally did the Taylor Swift album ranking spreadsheet. I was shocked at how low evermore is, until I realized that I never sat down and listened to the full album so I don't know a handful of songs. I was also surprised at how high rep is because I thought it was one of my least favorite but I really have been going back and enjoying it the last year or so, so I guess it's one of my favorites now. Right album, wrong time

[bellysbeach]

TAYLOR SWIFT ALBUM RANKING :)

1. SPEAK NOW

2. FOLKLORE

3. EVERMORE, LOVER } tie

4. FEARLESS

5. 1989

6. RED

7. REPUTATION

8. DEBUT

9. MIDNIGHTS

[booksimpsblog]

What I thought my Taylor Swift album ranking was:

1.Lover 6.Speak now

2.Reputation 7.Red

3.1989 8.Fearless

4.Midnights 9.Evermore

5.Folklore 10.Debut

vs.

How it actually is:

1.Lover 6.Speak now

2.Midnights 7.Folklore

3.Reputation 8.Fearless

4.1989 9.Evermore

5.Red 10.Debut

[justreputationnoexplanation]

CURRENT TS ALBUMS RANKING

I'll do a followup in a bit with explanations/ my own observations, but i want people's opinion without that first

[that-was-a-bit-stupid-of-you]

ttpd review: thoughts (and prayers)

cuz wtf was that. (also providing my two cents that no one gives a shit about)

Is the promotion in the room with us?

Not going to lie, this part pissed me off. As a post evermore release swiftie, the first album release I got was midnights. And while the promotion for midnights wasn't astoundingly genius, the track list release (midnights mayhem with me) was smart. Everyday, there would be chaos all over social media of taylor taking out a number and releasing the track name. The excitement over YOYOK was to die for. But after reaching peak fame, girlie just decided shit wasn't necessary anymore. Absolutely no promotion for ttpd, except a few lyrics that provided no context (or excitement) whatsoever. That, and the very non subtle "hinting" of some big reveal of what went down between her and joe, by making some playlists, that not only ruined the perspective of many of her fans and the relationship they had with her previous songs, but ALSO. THE ALBUM HAD BARELY ANYTHING ABOUT JOE. (Not that i personally care about what happened, but it was so unnecessary to center the ONLY promotion done around someone who was barely a part of the album). Swifties went on the internet to harass joe alwyn (and his female coworkers) who might as well be called a special mention on a matty healy album. Why even do all that then? We will never know.

Confusion?

taylor released 31 songs, and while a double album theory coming true would be a dream come true for any swiftie, it just... wasn't. Out of 31 songs, barely 10 stood out. Some of it just didn't make sense, in any way. "Why is this on the album?" "This sounds like a midnights vault track." "No issues, maybe this is just a skip. I'll listen to the next. Oh wait nvm. Um." Like girl what. It just feels like a giant vault album of synth pop music.

Also, it's called the tortured poets department. There is barely anything poetic or tortured about the album aesthetic. Except maybe it's torturing me, but I'm as much of a poet as she is, which basically means I'm not one.

The album just feels so different than the other albums, in the sense that they followed an aesthetic, a certain style of music and lyrics, and created some sort of story. This one just feels like she wrote many songs and put them all on an album, picked whatever track name seemed interesting enough as the album name, and called it a day. Some of the songs are gems, some create a confusion as to why they are on this album, and some just make you cringe- or atleast go "wtf". Which is fine, but if not even half the songs fall under the first category out of 30 songs, then it's a problem.

These were written by... taylor?

The lyrics omfg. I'm not going to be one of those ppl who go around saying that the lyrics sounded like an emo middle schooler (I've heard this take) BUT again, some songs have lyrics that make you question how taylor, someone who wrote the albums folklore and evermore, and many great songs like would've, could've, should've, story of us, all too well, fearless, white horse, dbatc, daylight, red... I could keep going tbh, produced...this.

It was very weird to listen to the words "tattooed golden retriever" from someone who wrote "handsome, you're a mansion with a view" (also who the FUCK is calling matty healy that??)

A very important part of taylor's music is how it is focused on the lyrics. The music itself isn't the most special, or different, in most of her songs, but what makes them (and her) special is her songwriting. However, from her songwriting going from commonly used phrases and idioms to make them tell a story, use a wide range of vocabulary, heavily using personification, allusion, transferred epithet, and a few other figures of speech that she uses in her songs to make elements such as colours, for example, tell a story, in a way it seemed effortless and fit perfectly, to this... now it feels like she's trying to do that, but that's it. She's TRYING, and it's not yielding results, and seems more like a try hard "poet" rather than... whatever she was going for. The songs are filled with self-satisfied "clever" metaphors that are being reused and recycled over and over. This is not what ppl meant when they asked you to be more environmentally friendly, taylor.

Final thoughts I guess?

While the songs are basically only an empty shell of something that taylor used to make, the album isn't all bad. Some of the songs do sound good and go well with taylor's voice (aaron dessner, the fucking legend you are) and are quite enjoyable, if not as memorable as her other songs.

There are songs such as the prophecy, clara bow, so long, london, loml, guilty as sin?, etc., that really do come through and honestly I really like them.

I do feel that the album can grow on people, but it's just... not the best. Like she says so much, and not to quote taylor swift, but genuinely the only thing in my head right now is "the more you say, the less I know".

Overall, the album is fine, but not in taylor swift standards. It's just... not bad, with some exceptions.

[new-york-no-shoes]

I’ve been doing the thing where I listen to Tay’s entire discography in order before TTPD’s release. I haven’t done it in SO long and it’s so eye opening ! Im also reranking the albums and ranking my top five and honorable mentions on each record as I go along. Should I post them?

[egardenofeden]

my top 10 albums of 2023!

tarot card design inspired by The Good Witch 🔮 watermark is my Instagram username

[futurealchemy]

ranking the songs on lover by taylor swift solely based off how varigo-coded they are imo. [PART THREE]

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