Why It’s Era-Defining: “Haunted” is one of Swift’s deep cuts that’s most fiercely loved by longtime fans. Ideal Live Guest: Bringing out FKA twigs for a medley of this one and twigs’ similarly electric “Two Weeks” could make for a secret moment in a crowded room that no one present would easily forget. Most Taylor Lyric: “Say my name and everything just stops…” With a whispered and vulnerable ecstasy, Swift makes it clear to her Romeo that this time, her Yes can be assumed: “Only bought this dress so you could take it off.”
Why It’s Era-Defining: As confrontational as Reputation was in spots, the album’s real jaw-dropping moment came with “Dress,” the most explicitly seductive song to appear on a Taylor Swift LP to date. Taylor on Taylor: “ I just figure if guys don’t want me to write bad songs about them, then they shouldn’t do bad things.” (Bonus note: Swift would play that Hoda Kotb interview clip back in her Fearless tour days before stepping onstage to perform this one.) - RANIA ANIFTOS Most Taylor Lyric: “I hold onto the night you looked me in the eye and told me you loved me / Were you just kidding?” Given the Jonas Brothers mania back in 2009, a breakup song potentially about Joe Jonas was the talk of the town. Why It’s Era-Defining: The scathing ode to teenage heartbreak came amid Swift’s string of famous heartthrob boyfriends, whom she’d later write songs about. Only when it was released on streaming platforms did Swifties discover the cover was by a mysterious new band called Jack Leopards and the Dolphin Club, and produced by Jack Antonoff and one Nils Sjöberg. Most Taylor Lyric: “But I got smarter/ I got harder in the knick of time/ Honey, I rose up from the dead/ I do it all the time/ I’ve got a list of names/ And yours is in red, underlined”įun Fact: In 2020, an ominous cover of the song appeared out of thin air in the opening credits of an episode of Killing Eve. With help from a perfectly campy Right Said Fred interpolation, the superstar came back from the #TaylorSwiftIsOverParty stronger than ever and expertly yanked back the narrative that had been taken from her. 100 on this list - but you can bet every fan who calls themself a Swiftie remembers where they were when the music video for the Reputation lead single dropped. Why It’s Era-Defining: Sure, “Look What You Made Me Do” is polarizing - there’s a reason it’s No.
1 hit to date in its lead single “Anti-Hero.” For another, it comes after the longest road layoff of Swift’s illustrious touring career, with nearly five years - as well as six (!!) Swift full-length releases, and one global pandemic - having transpired since the Reputation Stadium Tour kicked off in May 2018.īut perhaps the biggest reason is that Swift now has a 17-year song catalog that’s the rival of any artist this century - and maybe even further back - which she plans on revisiting at length in the career-spanning tour. There’s a number of reasons for that: For one, it comes at the very peak of Swift’s popularity, with the superstar singer-songwriter just experiencing the best first-week numbers of her career for last October’s Midnights album, and spawning her longest-running Billboard Hot 100 No. Taylor Swift‘s upcoming 52-date The Eras Tour, set to finally launch this Friday (March 17), is quite simply one of the most-anticipated (and most in-demand) tours in the history of American popular music.
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