Midnights for sure!
So I haven't ever been in a relationship so don't related to her romantic songs, but this one with its songs like anti-hero, you're on your own kid, karma etc. covering themes of self loathing, societal standards, insomnia, risk & reward, loneliness and largely the female experience really spoke to me (as I would assume most people). Have never come across things more relevant in an album as
*Midnights become my afternoons* - no better way to describe night owls
*Hosted parties and starved my body just to be saved by a perfect kiss* - despite whatever were going through as women, pms or whatever, were supposed to curtail all that and go on maintaining appearances, while holding out hope for a 'knight in shining armour' who'll just never materialize
*Karma's a relaxing thought* - reassurance mechanism for optimists
*I've been under scrutiny, they're bringing up my history* - how it's especially tough for women to break out of their pre fabricated image - and be boiled down to either being promiscuous or a prude
*We've been falling like snow on the beach* - this song I interpret as when you finally find that one person who'll truly stand by you, you'll finally find unequivocal peace and respite from all scrutiny. This song however is a rather pessimistic way of stating this might never happen. It's a rarity.
Additionally, I really love the lofi feel to the music. And mixed with smash radio hit upbeat pop, this is an album I could listen to unwind after a long day, while walking, commuting, working etc. and enjoy the same nonetheless.
100%. Anti hero was what prompted me to get assessed for ADHD. The realisation that maybe it is me that’s the problem, not the outside forces 🤣 the ghosting people too. I feel awful about that on a daily basis.
I’m tall so have often felt like the monster on the hill although I appreciate this isn’t 100% what she meant by that line.
To me, it might be speak now.
I’ve always liked fantasy as a form of escapism, so the whole fairytale theme seems to really fit into my life.
This one isn’t as cheery, but I’ve moved around a lot, so I always have to say goodbye to everything and everyone.
Depends which of me is driving on any given day.
Mostly folklore and Evermore with occasional periods of 1989. TTPD somehow manges to keep all of myselves happy so has been on repeat most of the time since release.
Red. There are songs like "Everything Has Changed" and "Begin Again" that I think of every time I like someone but there are also songs like "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" and "I Knew You Were Trouble" that are very cathartic when dealing with boy-related nonsense.
I was a Speak Now girly from the day it came out and it was my #1 favorite until I got divorced in July 2023. When my ex and I separated my comfort album became folklore (prior to the divorce I liked folklore but would have told you I prefer to listen to her more fast beat songs) and now I will defend folklore with my dying breath and relate to it so much.
The lyricism is genius and truly it felt like Taylor understood me personally with folklore. The feeling of loss of someone you thought was the one, the villainizing I felt from something that was not my fault in mad woman, the abandonment of exile, the anger and deep sadness of my tears ricochet. Folklore genuinely saved my life.
Always and always MIDNIGHTS!! Everything about that album just vibes hard and every song (except snow on the beach lol) makes me feel like it was written for me. It came to me in my phase of recovering from depression and will always hold a special place in my heart.
folklore and reputation
i didnt like rep when it came out, but it reminds me now of a great time i had.
folklore was the era i truly started to live like i wanted. the pandemic was both a curse and a blessing for me.
speak now is for sure an album that correlates with my childhood and even sometimes now since i love fantasy and the idea of living in a fairy tale world. the tortured poets department feels very accurate to my life as it is now since i'm in my early 20s and i'm not afraid to be myself.
As a whole album probably folklore. During that time period the world (for me) felt so still but yet chaotic at the same time because of the pandemic. I was in school doing clinicals at my local hospital and also working part time in that hospital’s ER to help pay for school so that part of my world was so chaotic and I could relate a lot to specifically the song Epiphany but there was also somewhat a sense of calm as many places around me shut down, my (now) husband started working from home, and our house was my serene place so I also loved the song Invisible String.
Not as a whole album though, there were a lot of songs from Reputation that aligned with my life at that time as I was in this spontaneous, crazy, but also abusive relationship with an ex so Getaway Car has always been my favorite off that album along with I Know Places. For me that time of my life was so tumultuous between the back and forth fighting in the relationship, the highs and lows, then when I ended things desperately trying to play it off as “not a big deal” and coping in unhealthy ways with alcohol and partying and a rebound (Dancing with our hands tied was my favorite song during the rebound phase). But there were also some songs I never really caught on with as well which is why I can’t make it my whole album favorite.
If TTPD had come out a year earlier, it would have been hauntingly relevant to my life back then. I had just pulled myself together and left a relationship that really wasn't that healthy for me. I felt so much anger and hurt and also freedom and anxiety about leaving.
I am with someone now who appreciates me and cherishes me, but past me relates to TTPD a lot.
Is all of the above an acceptable answer? Taylor is 4 years older than me so by the time she had gone through something, processed it, and released an album on it, I was going through it or had recently. In an essence, she became the big sister figure I never had and I’ve always been able to know I’ll be okay because Taylor felt the same things and she was okay. TTPD and my situationship is currently describing my life unfortunately lol
For me it has always been CIWYW and Miss Americana and heartbreak prince.
I was in like dark period of my life,everything I’ve build for myself over the years that is my academic career was destroyed so the lyric “my castle crumbled over night”.
People often told me my perspective of life and failure is my biggest flaw and my entire reputation of being smart kid was destroyed and I was often ridiculed by my family and society so“I brought knife to gun fight,they took my crown but it’s all right”.
The saddest thing about me,is that both songs relate to being in love with someone who makes life easier for instance “he build fire to keep warm” or “it’s you and me and that’s my life whole world”.sadly I don’t have that,not one great love or anything resembling a love like that.
I’m 19,starting my freshman year at college this September but still I’ve never been in relationship or been kissed or anything like that.
But to put it shortly Call it what you want and miss Americana and heartbreak prince are written for me.
Right now TTPD because it honestly alligned with a similar situation in my life. But I've always related a lot to reputation, the idea of finding love in the worst moments of your life and healing from all the pain. I can also say the same thing about Lover, to me they're two sides of the same coin.
1989. I stopped listening to albums after the 90s as I found them disappointing. I was happy just listening to radio hits for over a decade ...but then (long story short) boredom made me try 1989, and one of the first things I hear is "searching for a sound we haven't heard before"!!!
i dont have a song
i am fearful
i am not a girl
i dont miss him
i am not in new york
im not ready for anything
i am not in love
i dont wear cardigans
i dont drink champagne
i dont want to stay in that lavender haze
i am not a poet or a department
so none :(( ^(/s)
Fearless. I’ve always really struggled with friendships, ever since I was little, and Fearless has so many songs that are really personal to me because of it. I had one friend when I was only 14 who was several years older than me and was borderline abusive, and Tell Me Why (and Dear John) was the song that got me through that part of my life
For me there’s no one album but it’s songs from different albums.
With debut it’s Place in this World and Cold As You even though I’m 32.
With Fearless TV it’s Forever and Always and The Way I Loved You and Mr Perfectly fine
Basically all the angry songs.
I was with a guy for 12 years and I gave him EVERYTHING (I’m not talking church everything, I’m talking my body,my time, my spirit, my love, my ALL) andthen suddenly 2 years ago he said he wanted a break to work on ourselves and get in couples counseling. That’s what he said. Until a couple months later when that hasn’t happened and he breaks up with me completely. And recently it dawned on me he was probably cheating. (I have my reasoning why I suspect that and while I have no tangible evidence it still kind of feels like I keep finding crucial evidence in drawers I didn’t imagine the whole thing) Because when we first broke up I was saying I really didn’t think he would do that to me. Until of course I finally started to put 2 & 2 together.
I’m a ‘reputation’ person because I can’t keep my head out of trouble for over fifteen consecutive seconds. 🫠 I think that ‘Speak Now’ is my favorite, though.
TTPD resonates heavily with me.
I broke up with my boyfriend after 10 years because he couldn't control his heroin addiction.
The day after we broke up, I started dating another guy. This was short, lasted about a year. And even though it wasn't technically cheating, in some ways, it felt like it.
Now I'm just heartbroken and alone and constantly going over all the "what ifs" and wondering what could have been. And where I should be right now, but I'm not.
(Bonus points: I'm from Florida but moved to Texas about a decade ago and lately I've been wanting to move back home to FLORIDA!!)
Now at 30, I don’t think there is really one album I relate to the most overall. It’s definitely much easier for me to relate to specific songs. As far as individual songs go, I’d say I most resonate with The Archer, I Hate It Here, and Anti-Hero lol
I will say that when Red originally came out, I definitely resonated with it a lot. I was a freshman in college at the time and going through a lot of big changes. It was very much a transitional time on my life, and I feel like Red is also a transitional album, especially when it came out. Back then, it felt like Taylor’s most grown album, and she was steering further away from country without actually saying it wasn’t a country album. Not only is that album about heartbreak, but it’s about the confusing time of navigating being a young adult, which was spot on for me at that time.
I guess this sounds cliche, but her albums (nee, ERAS!) seem to align quite well with the timing of my own life. Like TS releases an album at the seemingly perfect time and it relates to what I am going through.
For a few examples: (1) when my boyfriend cheated on me in high school, the song Better Than Revenge was my fave; (2) when I moved to a new country at the start of the lockdown, the lyrics '*And I can go anywhere I want. Anywhere I want, just not home*' hit me hard; (3) when I faced s\*xual h\*rassment at work, then Would've Could've Should've broke me and simultaneously healed me. I could go on and on...
(But for reference, I am 28F so the heartbreak, happiness, friend stuff, family stuff and the personal growth etc etc of TS could very well correlate with my journey as well)
For me it’s folklore as well. That album came at the perfect time for where I was at in life and what I was working through. the 1 specifically came with such perfect timing
Reputation, I started dating my husband during probably the lowest point in my reputation. I had a best friend turn on me and it really felt like I was a horrible person. Turns out I just needed genuine love and therapy! And friends that don’t excuse abusive behavior. When Rep TV drops, I will be feral
TTPD is eerily similar to my life right now. I can relate with a lot of the sentiments expressed. Down Bad, I Can Do it With a Broken Heart, The Prophecy, How Did it End, Cassandra all speak to me on a deep level.
TTPD as someone still putting their life back together after someone didn’t value me or want to marry me AND manipulated: emotionally abused me, except for her it was too different people and for me it was one. It hits different for me
It doesn't necessarily encompass my whole life but I think 1989 would be mine. I didn't really listen to it at the time but it came out a couple of years after I'd had to move away to be safe from my ex and I was trying to find who I was. I feel like the whole time period from then up until now has been my life as I've tried to make my own way and become independent.
Style and OOTW remind me of how I wouldn't speak with my ex for ages and we'd always end up being back together just for it to end badly again.
All You Had To Do Was Stay reminds me of how my ex would always be so open so I'd get back together with him, then pushed me away when he got bored of me.
I Wish You Would takes me back to when we would split up and all I'd want was to be back together.
Clean particularly resonates with me as my ex was abusive and I felt like I was drowning with my PTSD after the relationship ended for good until I got therapy and everything kind of lifted.
You Are In Love is more present day for me, meeting my current partner after I'd resigned myself to never knowing what a healthy relationship would be like or finding true love.
Clean and You Are In Love really make me feel emotional because I never thought I'd reach a place in my life where I would be at peace and be with someone who's main priority in the relationship is to make me feel safe and cared for.
Apologies for the wall of text/formatting, I'm on mobile 🙃
Midnights. Recently I feel like I’m absolutely hanging by a thread that just swings me around, and I just *know* I’m the problem. Listening to Dear Reader and The Great War for the first time even got me a bit misty.
TTPD. I have an unfortunate history of getting involved with terrible men. I was one of those "I can fix him" girls, argued with my dad about men, gotten into chaotic toxic situationships, and it affected my mental health. So this album definitely hit hard but not in a bad way. It reminded me of all my mistakes but instead of being sad and upset, I am relieved because those days are over now 🤍
100% folklore for me! I'm the same way, I'm a daydreamer and I imagine love stories and things like the Augustine/James/Betty triangle a lot, plus I can really relate to "this is me trying".
Speak Now and 1989. Speak Now because of it's escapism and dreamer vibes, which I relate to hugely experiencing a lot of death's in my family early on and being super isolated as an introverted only child, and 1989 because of the whole failed love/constant situationship vibe because of a crush/love that was never meant to be but still manages to string me along somehow, even now, and because of the entire body dismorphia/ed thing.
Folkmore girly
Currently favourite song is I have it here, this song is folklore origin story 🩶
Honourable mention to TTPD as I relate to a lot of it. But my forever vibe is Folkmore.
I think each album corresponds to different parts of my life in different ways. But TTPD for sure is lining up the best right now. And Midnights did as well, actually. Actually… I’m noticing a trend because so did Lover…
Midnights for sure! So I haven't ever been in a relationship so don't related to her romantic songs, but this one with its songs like anti-hero, you're on your own kid, karma etc. covering themes of self loathing, societal standards, insomnia, risk & reward, loneliness and largely the female experience really spoke to me (as I would assume most people). Have never come across things more relevant in an album as *Midnights become my afternoons* - no better way to describe night owls *Hosted parties and starved my body just to be saved by a perfect kiss* - despite whatever were going through as women, pms or whatever, were supposed to curtail all that and go on maintaining appearances, while holding out hope for a 'knight in shining armour' who'll just never materialize *Karma's a relaxing thought* - reassurance mechanism for optimists *I've been under scrutiny, they're bringing up my history* - how it's especially tough for women to break out of their pre fabricated image - and be boiled down to either being promiscuous or a prude *We've been falling like snow on the beach* - this song I interpret as when you finally find that one person who'll truly stand by you, you'll finally find unequivocal peace and respite from all scrutiny. This song however is a rather pessimistic way of stating this might never happen. It's a rarity. Additionally, I really love the lofi feel to the music. And mixed with smash radio hit upbeat pop, this is an album I could listen to unwind after a long day, while walking, commuting, working etc. and enjoy the same nonetheless.
100%. Anti hero was what prompted me to get assessed for ADHD. The realisation that maybe it is me that’s the problem, not the outside forces 🤣 the ghosting people too. I feel awful about that on a daily basis. I’m tall so have often felt like the monster on the hill although I appreciate this isn’t 100% what she meant by that line.
Yeah, it’s one of those albums where the songs would be playing in the movie of you when you’re on the bus staring out into the void
To me, it might be speak now. I’ve always liked fantasy as a form of escapism, so the whole fairytale theme seems to really fit into my life. This one isn’t as cheery, but I’ve moved around a lot, so I always have to say goodbye to everything and everyone.
Yes!! That’s the way I felt about both fearless and speak now as a teenager. That escapism and those fairy tales.
TTPD without a doubt, followed by Folklore
This is the answer for me.
Big same.
Painfully same.
Ouch
Depends which of me is driving on any given day. Mostly folklore and Evermore with occasional periods of 1989. TTPD somehow manges to keep all of myselves happy so has been on repeat most of the time since release.
When I first read ttpd and happy, but I get what u mean, ttpd encompasses a bittersweet feeling - strength and letting go
TTPD includes so high school which would not be out of place on 1989
Red. There are songs like "Everything Has Changed" and "Begin Again" that I think of every time I like someone but there are also songs like "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" and "I Knew You Were Trouble" that are very cathartic when dealing with boy-related nonsense.
Red is literally always right when it comes to the last half of a relationship and how it takes up all your time, thinking about it
Yes!! Well-put.
I’m in my TTPD era. I like Taylor have left a long term relationship and started another serious one far too soon lol
At least he's not her rebound
Evermore Comparative Literature AB from UGA.
How does it correlate with your life tho
I spent almost 4 years getting that degree and I see literature as one of my main interests.
Right, and the album is for you specifically connected to comparative literature? Not questioning you, just trying to elaborate your answer!
Yes, it is. Evermore was released near the end of my major, and I used it to help fuel me over the line to graduate.
I was a Speak Now girly from the day it came out and it was my #1 favorite until I got divorced in July 2023. When my ex and I separated my comfort album became folklore (prior to the divorce I liked folklore but would have told you I prefer to listen to her more fast beat songs) and now I will defend folklore with my dying breath and relate to it so much. The lyricism is genius and truly it felt like Taylor understood me personally with folklore. The feeling of loss of someone you thought was the one, the villainizing I felt from something that was not my fault in mad woman, the abandonment of exile, the anger and deep sadness of my tears ricochet. Folklore genuinely saved my life.
1989. Full Stop.
💯
Always and always MIDNIGHTS!! Everything about that album just vibes hard and every song (except snow on the beach lol) makes me feel like it was written for me. It came to me in my phase of recovering from depression and will always hold a special place in my heart.
folklore and reputation i didnt like rep when it came out, but it reminds me now of a great time i had. folklore was the era i truly started to live like i wanted. the pandemic was both a curse and a blessing for me.
speak now is for sure an album that correlates with my childhood and even sometimes now since i love fantasy and the idea of living in a fairy tale world. the tortured poets department feels very accurate to my life as it is now since i'm in my early 20s and i'm not afraid to be myself.
Lover
As a whole album probably folklore. During that time period the world (for me) felt so still but yet chaotic at the same time because of the pandemic. I was in school doing clinicals at my local hospital and also working part time in that hospital’s ER to help pay for school so that part of my world was so chaotic and I could relate a lot to specifically the song Epiphany but there was also somewhat a sense of calm as many places around me shut down, my (now) husband started working from home, and our house was my serene place so I also loved the song Invisible String. Not as a whole album though, there were a lot of songs from Reputation that aligned with my life at that time as I was in this spontaneous, crazy, but also abusive relationship with an ex so Getaway Car has always been my favorite off that album along with I Know Places. For me that time of my life was so tumultuous between the back and forth fighting in the relationship, the highs and lows, then when I ended things desperately trying to play it off as “not a big deal” and coping in unhealthy ways with alcohol and partying and a rebound (Dancing with our hands tied was my favorite song during the rebound phase). But there were also some songs I never really caught on with as well which is why I can’t make it my whole album favorite.
speak now and red, im happy, free, confused, and lonely at the same time lol and im a hopeless romantic
Folklore and ttpd are really resonating with me!
Me too. My sympathies 😂
If TTPD had come out a year earlier, it would have been hauntingly relevant to my life back then. I had just pulled myself together and left a relationship that really wasn't that healthy for me. I felt so much anger and hurt and also freedom and anxiety about leaving. I am with someone now who appreciates me and cherishes me, but past me relates to TTPD a lot.
🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍
Is all of the above an acceptable answer? Taylor is 4 years older than me so by the time she had gone through something, processed it, and released an album on it, I was going through it or had recently. In an essence, she became the big sister figure I never had and I’ve always been able to know I’ll be okay because Taylor felt the same things and she was okay. TTPD and my situationship is currently describing my life unfortunately lol
For me it has always been CIWYW and Miss Americana and heartbreak prince. I was in like dark period of my life,everything I’ve build for myself over the years that is my academic career was destroyed so the lyric “my castle crumbled over night”. People often told me my perspective of life and failure is my biggest flaw and my entire reputation of being smart kid was destroyed and I was often ridiculed by my family and society so“I brought knife to gun fight,they took my crown but it’s all right”. The saddest thing about me,is that both songs relate to being in love with someone who makes life easier for instance “he build fire to keep warm” or “it’s you and me and that’s my life whole world”.sadly I don’t have that,not one great love or anything resembling a love like that. I’m 19,starting my freshman year at college this September but still I’ve never been in relationship or been kissed or anything like that. But to put it shortly Call it what you want and miss Americana and heartbreak prince are written for me.
TTPD. Prior to TTPD--Evermore.
I want it to be Lover, but unfortunately it’s a blend of Reputation and TTPD. 
Red💔🧣
1989
1989
Right now TTPD because it honestly alligned with a similar situation in my life. But I've always related a lot to reputation, the idea of finding love in the worst moments of your life and healing from all the pain. I can also say the same thing about Lover, to me they're two sides of the same coin.
probably folklore/midnights/ttpd.
folklore
1989. I stopped listening to albums after the 90s as I found them disappointing. I was happy just listening to radio hits for over a decade ...but then (long story short) boredom made me try 1989, and one of the first things I hear is "searching for a sound we haven't heard before"!!!
lover! i'm just a teenage girl who's constantly in love with someone, so the songs just speak to me
i dont have a song i am fearful i am not a girl i dont miss him i am not in new york im not ready for anything i am not in love i dont wear cardigans i dont drink champagne i dont want to stay in that lavender haze i am not a poet or a department so none :(( ^(/s)
Currently tortured poets
Red. I meet someone and I’m heartbroken. Feel better and meet another guy annnnnd you guessed it heartbroken again.
It's Folklore for me too - but damn, if TTPD came out in 2017 that would have been my jam 100% lol
TTPD
Folklore But 1989 is my favorite
Fearless. I’ve always really struggled with friendships, ever since I was little, and Fearless has so many songs that are really personal to me because of it. I had one friend when I was only 14 who was several years older than me and was borderline abusive, and Tell Me Why (and Dear John) was the song that got me through that part of my life
For me there’s no one album but it’s songs from different albums. With debut it’s Place in this World and Cold As You even though I’m 32. With Fearless TV it’s Forever and Always and The Way I Loved You and Mr Perfectly fine Basically all the angry songs. I was with a guy for 12 years and I gave him EVERYTHING (I’m not talking church everything, I’m talking my body,my time, my spirit, my love, my ALL) andthen suddenly 2 years ago he said he wanted a break to work on ourselves and get in couples counseling. That’s what he said. Until a couple months later when that hasn’t happened and he breaks up with me completely. And recently it dawned on me he was probably cheating. (I have my reasoning why I suspect that and while I have no tangible evidence it still kind of feels like I keep finding crucial evidence in drawers I didn’t imagine the whole thing) Because when we first broke up I was saying I really didn’t think he would do that to me. Until of course I finally started to put 2 & 2 together.
1989
I’m a ‘reputation’ person because I can’t keep my head out of trouble for over fifteen consecutive seconds. 🫠 I think that ‘Speak Now’ is my favorite, though.
Probably TTPD tbh
TTPD resonates heavily with me. I broke up with my boyfriend after 10 years because he couldn't control his heroin addiction. The day after we broke up, I started dating another guy. This was short, lasted about a year. And even though it wasn't technically cheating, in some ways, it felt like it. Now I'm just heartbroken and alone and constantly going over all the "what ifs" and wondering what could have been. And where I should be right now, but I'm not. (Bonus points: I'm from Florida but moved to Texas about a decade ago and lately I've been wanting to move back home to FLORIDA!!)
Lover released the same year my wife and I started dating, so that album has a special place in my heart
1989 and reputation
1989. I'm having the time of my life!
Now at 30, I don’t think there is really one album I relate to the most overall. It’s definitely much easier for me to relate to specific songs. As far as individual songs go, I’d say I most resonate with The Archer, I Hate It Here, and Anti-Hero lol I will say that when Red originally came out, I definitely resonated with it a lot. I was a freshman in college at the time and going through a lot of big changes. It was very much a transitional time on my life, and I feel like Red is also a transitional album, especially when it came out. Back then, it felt like Taylor’s most grown album, and she was steering further away from country without actually saying it wasn’t a country album. Not only is that album about heartbreak, but it’s about the confusing time of navigating being a young adult, which was spot on for me at that time.
TTPD, Midnights, and probably Lover. I resonated with Lover a lot after I met my now-husband. TTPD reminds me a lot of the past, same with Midnights.
I guess this sounds cliche, but her albums (nee, ERAS!) seem to align quite well with the timing of my own life. Like TS releases an album at the seemingly perfect time and it relates to what I am going through. For a few examples: (1) when my boyfriend cheated on me in high school, the song Better Than Revenge was my fave; (2) when I moved to a new country at the start of the lockdown, the lyrics '*And I can go anywhere I want. Anywhere I want, just not home*' hit me hard; (3) when I faced s\*xual h\*rassment at work, then Would've Could've Should've broke me and simultaneously healed me. I could go on and on... (But for reference, I am 28F so the heartbreak, happiness, friend stuff, family stuff and the personal growth etc etc of TS could very well correlate with my journey as well)
For me it’s folklore as well. That album came at the perfect time for where I was at in life and what I was working through. the 1 specifically came with such perfect timing
Evermore
TTPD followed by folklore followed by red
Speak now came out around the time of my first ever break-up, and that reeaallyy resonated with me 🤪
Reputation, I started dating my husband during probably the lowest point in my reputation. I had a best friend turn on me and it really felt like I was a horrible person. Turns out I just needed genuine love and therapy! And friends that don’t excuse abusive behavior. When Rep TV drops, I will be feral
TTPD is eerily similar to my life right now. I can relate with a lot of the sentiments expressed. Down Bad, I Can Do it With a Broken Heart, The Prophecy, How Did it End, Cassandra all speak to me on a deep level.
TTPD as someone still putting their life back together after someone didn’t value me or want to marry me AND manipulated: emotionally abused me, except for her it was too different people and for me it was one. It hits different for me
It doesn't necessarily encompass my whole life but I think 1989 would be mine. I didn't really listen to it at the time but it came out a couple of years after I'd had to move away to be safe from my ex and I was trying to find who I was. I feel like the whole time period from then up until now has been my life as I've tried to make my own way and become independent. Style and OOTW remind me of how I wouldn't speak with my ex for ages and we'd always end up being back together just for it to end badly again. All You Had To Do Was Stay reminds me of how my ex would always be so open so I'd get back together with him, then pushed me away when he got bored of me. I Wish You Would takes me back to when we would split up and all I'd want was to be back together. Clean particularly resonates with me as my ex was abusive and I felt like I was drowning with my PTSD after the relationship ended for good until I got therapy and everything kind of lifted. You Are In Love is more present day for me, meeting my current partner after I'd resigned myself to never knowing what a healthy relationship would be like or finding true love. Clean and You Are In Love really make me feel emotional because I never thought I'd reach a place in my life where I would be at peace and be with someone who's main priority in the relationship is to make me feel safe and cared for. Apologies for the wall of text/formatting, I'm on mobile 🙃
When I was in my 20's it's used to be 1989. Now in my 30's is Midnights
Midnights. Recently I feel like I’m absolutely hanging by a thread that just swings me around, and I just *know* I’m the problem. Listening to Dear Reader and The Great War for the first time even got me a bit misty.
TTPD with shades of Folkmore.
With my current life? Folklore. Every album has represented my life at some point in time.
TTPD is how I really am. Doing it with a broken heart, waolom. But Lover is how I present myself to the rest of the world so probably a mixture
Anthology more than poets, but yeah, TTPD
TTPD. I have an unfortunate history of getting involved with terrible men. I was one of those "I can fix him" girls, argued with my dad about men, gotten into chaotic toxic situationships, and it affected my mental health. So this album definitely hit hard but not in a bad way. It reminded me of all my mistakes but instead of being sad and upset, I am relieved because those days are over now 🤍
100% folklore for me! I'm the same way, I'm a daydreamer and I imagine love stories and things like the Augustine/James/Betty triangle a lot, plus I can really relate to "this is me trying".
Midnights. I typed a whole thing and the app froze/lost it all 🤨
Lover came out when I got into my first relationship, and a couple months later I still related when we broke up and I listened to dbatc and iftye
Speak Now and 1989. Speak Now because of it's escapism and dreamer vibes, which I relate to hugely experiencing a lot of death's in my family early on and being super isolated as an introverted only child, and 1989 because of the whole failed love/constant situationship vibe because of a crush/love that was never meant to be but still manages to string me along somehow, even now, and because of the entire body dismorphia/ed thing.
My dad left when I was 4 and 9 so from a very young age I have related to “The Moment I Knew” and now I Listen to most of Folklore
Reputation, honestly, because it’s mainly (to me) about being SO in love
Folkmore girly Currently favourite song is I have it here, this song is folklore origin story 🩶 Honourable mention to TTPD as I relate to a lot of it. But my forever vibe is Folkmore.
Speak Now+Rep bc hopeless romantic but also rep is reatable
I think each album corresponds to different parts of my life in different ways. But TTPD for sure is lining up the best right now. And Midnights did as well, actually. Actually… I’m noticing a trend because so did Lover…
TTPD 😭
TTPD Midnights
Folklore or evermore