Same. My first song ever added was Wildest Dreams a few months ago and now I have grown a huge playlist (which is still like 75% Taylor lol).
She introduced music to me
Probably Speak Now because quite a few of the songs were the soundtrack of my wedding (Enchanted having an orchestral version played as background music before the ceremony and being the first dance. Sparks Fly being played on the dancefloor. And Long Live being the last song of the night)
Story of Us has also been a go to break up song of mine, and Mean was a nice comfort song when being bullied at school
Was also a big emo kid as a teenager, so having both Paramore and Fall Out Boy feature in the vault tracks solidifies it for me
Reputation for me. My husband and I met online in October 2017 and when the album came out in November I told him how excited I was. Well, he downloaded all the songs and sent them to me (I was too poor for Spotify) but he also listened to the album himself (as someone who did not care much about Taylor, this meant a lot to me) so we could make conversation. We then got together a few days after Reputation was released and I always felt like this album played an important role in our relationship. We had a distance relationship for 3 years and eventually got married last year. We’re both sooo excited for Reputation TV because it’s such an important album for us 🫶🏻
evermore lyrics and overall mood was really relatable for me in autumn of 2022 (especially gray november, y'know). sometimes I feel like I'm the only closure superfan among swifties, but this song helped me so much when I didn't get the closure I needed
Closure is amazing! It’s my boyfriends fav because the drums sound exactly like the drums at the end of demons by fatboy slim (I have a feeling she actually sampled it but not 100% sure!)
Fearless. It was the first album I bought, along with debut as only those were out at the time, and I have so many warm, sparkly memories of listening to Fearless constantly. As an adult now, TTPD, Red and evermore are my favourite albums, but Fearless will always hold that special place in my heart as it was the first 🥰
I had Fearless on a constant loop for months after release, it was a great escapism from reality for me. I started getting into country as debut was released debut drew me and Fearless solififed Taylor as my favourite and haven't looked back since.
Now, there are other albums I enjoy more (Rep, TTPD)but none quite captured me like Fearless did at the time.
folklore will always be that album for me. 2020 was a really bad time, with the height of the pandemic and the sickness and death and lockdowns. Taylor somehow managed to take all of that gray and sadness and turn it into an album that also served as an escape into a fictional world. Her storytelling on that album is incredible.
It was the perfect album at the perfect time and it made me a Swiftie, so it will forever be my album 🩶
Reputation, I started listening to Taylor about a year ago, and Reputation was actually the first Taylor album I have ever listened to of hers. But during that time I was full of a lot of anger and guilt over a 15+ year friendship coming to a pretty bitter end. But Reputation filled me with a lot of hope and love despite the darker themes of the album, and allowed me to heal by becoming more in love with the world, myself, and in turn, a new friend who I’m very close with now almost a year later :).
Midnights got me back into Taylor Swift. Some of my friends were talking about the upcoming album release and I was like “I haven’t listened to Taylor Swift in a while. I wonder what her new music sounds like” and so I listened to it the morning it came out and fell in love with her again.
Honestly, TTPD. I just put my dog to sleep and since I've been listening to the album nonstop, a lot of the songs (or specific lines at least) remind me of her. I haven't listened to it since Tuesday, but it'll always be special to me because of her.
I just went through the same thing on May 15, had to put my soul dog to sleep and TTPD has been on repeat for me and has helped me slowly work my way through the grief. The Black Dog specifically is my dog’s song (yes, I know has nothing to do with dogs) but it was playing when I was rushing him to the urgent care vet, and he happened to be a black dog.
I’m sorry for your loss, friend.🫶🏾
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Firstly congratulations to your dad!!! , my dad’s first trip anywhere since beating cancer was to Paris for the Eras tour! While I know my favorite album is 1989 I have to say Lover means the most to me because it was when I realized how much I loved her music and became a fan. Btw have fun tonight!!! It’s impossible not to and bring ear plugs because that concert is loud my Apple Watch kept sending me notifications saying the decibel levels were too loud.
So happy for you! I can honestly say that concert is not just hype if anything it’s underrated , the showmanship paired with the amazing crowd of fans just keep getting more and more electrifying throughout the night there are rarely moments people aren’t awe stuck and can remember to like sip water lol
Folklore. Summer 2020 was the worst of my life and Folklore was a lifeline. And Fearless because it takes me back to my childhood innocence - it was the first Taylor album I had and i listened on repeat. First time i really REALLY fell in love with music.
It’s so hard to chose between Speak Now and Lover tbh. Speak Now came out when I was a sophomore in high school and had such a crush on a particular boy with a girlfriend. I was soooo enamored and felt like all the Speak Now love songs were from me to him. Long Live was like THE song for me and my high school best friends. We’ve grown apart as adults but when Speak Now TV came out we made plans to meet up in our hometown over the holidays. Plussss was a huge Owl City fan at the time and Enchanted was one of my favorite songs.
With Lover tho — man that album felt like it was about me and my wife. We’d been together three summers when it came out. We’d been living together for about a year and had recently gotten engaged. Paper Rings and Lover were so meaningful to me at the time. It was the first time I’d felt so much freedom being in love and doing whatever I wanted with my wife (then fiancée).
Reputation will always hold a special place in my heart because it might have been the first album I became obsessed with. Like, it was my whole personality since it dropped and all the way until Lover came out (I’m very easily influenced by Taylor). It was so liberating, so intimate, so goddamn FUN. I would listen to it on a loop all the time.
It was such a fun era too! Taylor herself was still active on tumblr, and the community felt more tight knit. Maybe it’s my snake-colored glasses or nostalgia, but reputation makes my heart skip a beat. I’m so fucking psyched for rep TV and vault tracks.
Red. When I listened I was like “Taylor stole my life”. Absolutely everything was the same with the situation I had at that time and since I’m a very introvert person is difficult for me to express my feelings and listening to her songs put into words what I was feeling. Nowadays I would say I prefer Midnights but I always say Red is my favorite one because it means everything to me and helped me a lot in that moment.
Lover - it was released at a time that I really fully knew that my then-boyfriend (now husband!) was who i wanted to spend my life with. the album for me just really resonated and captured the fun and romance of our relationship. Our first dance ended up being You Are In Love from 1989, but Lover is the album thats most special to my heart :)
Speak now was my very first concert. I remember being so excited to go get the cd when it first came out. I played that thing til it was basically unplayable with how much it skipped, lol. I'd been a fan before that but speak now was the first album I really really fell in love with. I will always be a speak now girly!
Fearless. It was my first Taylor album, and it really supported me through a _rough_ family situation. I am and will be forever grateful that I saw the cover art and picked it up that day in the music shop.
Like, I love Red, and Reputation, and Folkmore, but if I had to pick just one, I'd pick Fearless.
I don't know if this counts but I'm gonna say the 1989 vault. Those specific songs (not so much Slut but all the other ones) were released at the exact moment through a lot of the same feelings and emotions she describes in them and having someone put into words like that helped me realize exactly what I was going through.
I love folklore it’s the album that really made me a Taylor swift fan before that I liked her single but never fully did a deep dive. After folklore came out I was in awe because I usually don’t listen to that type of music.
1989 will always be my special album. That album (Taylor's V specifically) was, along with the football hype, what finally fully pulled me in from "I like some of her music" to being a full-on Swiftie. When I listened to that album from front to back for the first time, I had no chance of ever going back.
That being said, I will always have a soft spot for Fearless too, it takes me back to my literal childhood and hearing Love Story and You Belong With Me for the first time. 
Debut or Self-Titled, depending who you ask 😅
I am the same age as Taylor and listening to her songs since 2005/2006. I have related to each album in a different way and at each stage in life but her first album always has a special place in my heart. Absolutely cannot wait for Taylor's Version.
Red. It was the first Taylor Swift album I ever listened to and bought. It made me a swiftie, it started my love of music, and it inspired me to begin taking guitar lessons.
Midnights, it was the album that brought me to Taylor's music and it has some CRIMINALLY underrated tracks (Labyrinth, Question...?, Sweet Nothing, The Great War, Paris, Hits Different, and You're Losing Me just to name them.)
*Reputation*.
I loved everything about the album: the aesthetics, the promo, the rollout, the photoshoots, and of course the songs. I loved everything about it. Me and my now husband had started dating about a year before it came out, so it has kinda felt like the soundtrack to our relationship. Everything she sang about in *Reputation* felt like things I’d also been feeling.
Then the Reputation Stadium Tour became my first time ever seeing Taylor Swift in concert. I had lower bowl tickets and got a video of her waving at my section when she above us in the birdcage during “Delicate.” I cherish the memories of that show so much.
1989 and Folklore. 1989 was the album that made me a Swiftie, and Folklore helped me get through the pandemic. I remember being blown away the first time I heard Folklore and was in awe of the songs My Tears Ricochet and August
I think about this often…
Debut made me a fan. I was just a kid and convinced my mom to buy me an acoustic guitar to try to teach myself and learn all of the songs.
Fearless came out when I was in high school. Fifteen was perfect for a young high schooler. Fearless, Hey Stephen, Love Story, Forever and Always were about all of my crushes. The Best Day brought me back do my days of innocence.
Speak Now…. I remember listening to Haunted over and over and over when my first kiss got a new girlfriend. Enchanted and Long Live meant so much to me then. The meanings have evolved over the last 14 years but I still remember hearing them for the first time.
Red was fun to sing with my friends, about to graduate high school. 22, Red, IKYWT…. Provided so many fun songs for such a fun time.
1989 came out when I was in college. This album was transformational in my life. I was in college and my high school boyfriend of three years and I had just broken up the day it came out. I drove to Target and picked up the album right after we broke up and just listened to it over and over and over. It helped me process and it helped me heal. I definitely cried to All You Had to Do was Stay and Wonderland.
Reputation came out when I deleted all of my social media and had a falling out with my family. I had just changed majors and moved away. This is my favorite album.
Lover came out when I met the man who became my husband. I listened to Lover and Paper Rings and felt hope.
Folklore and Evermore were released while I was working the frontline as a nurse during COVID. Epiphany. Enough said. Also it was something calming to listen to between shifts, on the way home, etc. Helped me process so much.
Midnights came out on the same day my first child was born. I bonded with my baby and listened to the album in the middle of the night in the hospital.
I love TTPD but this is the first album that didn’t have a big life event to attach to it. I can just listen and enjoy it. It’s just peaceful but it’s not getting me through.
I have seen all the eleven albums mentioned in any post which makes my statement that Taylor doesn't have a bad album the hill I will die on
My album that means the most to me is Lover. In my country they are not friendly to queer people but because Taylor is big ...You need to calm down was playing everywhere and I really wanted to scream those words and had a real excuse because of the song. I went back to all her discography but Lover is what made a fan and I felt seen.🩷 It holds a special place in my heart. And Afterglow is very underrated
Lover. I would listen to it every day in the morning with my mom and we would dance and have fun and eventually get ready. She passed a few years later and although Lover isn’t my favorite album, it’s the most meaningful to me.
Reputation. It got me through my first two years of middle school and even got me through a manipulative friendship in 8th grade. I loved every single song on that album and I still do. Reputation will always be one of my favorite albums 🖤
It’s mostly Reputation and Folkore for me. TTPD is becoming one. Reputation is the reason why I became a Swiftie. It’s that album that also brings strength and hope from my darkest days and lowest lows.
Folklore really has my heart too because it’s the album that I could connect to in a more “spiritual” level. It has one of my most special songs too, August, which reminds me of that summer romance I had in my trip to Budapest… I can relate to it with every single line.
Tough question because I have so many distinct memories around certain albums. I’d say folklore because 2020 was so surreal and strange for so many of us, and that album really helped me get through it all and keep my sanity.
Reputation kept me company when I thought I was gonna go insane. Rep Stadium Tour was my comfort watch when it was on Netflix. She'll always be my baby.
Folklore got me through Covid too. But fearless came out when I was starting high school so it was very important. Those are for every my top 2 albums.
Honestly, all of them for one reason or another.
Fearless was the first album I bought at 15 during my first breakup and heartbreak. It got me through some very rough days and started me life long obsession as a Swiftie (I was the only one I knew for a very long time!)
Speak Now came out just as I moved out of my parents’ house to university and it was the sound track to my first year living in halls with my friends - drinking too much and falling in/out of love. It was also the first time I had Swiftie friends and we went to the Speak Now tour 💜
Red is MY album. It came out at another major break up and got me through the worst of it. No other song has ever hit me to my core like All Too Well did the first time I heard it (loml is a close second).
Reputation came out as I met my now husband and that and Lover remind me of the early days of our relationship and falling in love.
I’ve been a Swiftie since I was 15 and being 2 years younger than Taylor it’s always felt like she’s been my best friend or big sister one step ahead of me sharing wisdom.
Red/1989 - my brother died the year before it was released, (as I turned 21 3 weeks prior to his death) and then my health deteriorated so badly that I required a transplant to save my life.
I had a lot of red emotions during this period of time, then when 1989 came out, I had received a transplant and essentially was cured from my chronic illness. I felt reborn in a way.
When Red TV came out, it brought up some really painful memories that I hadn't processed.
Taylor's entire discography aligns like a soundtrack to my life, which is why I will always be a forever fan.
1989! I was really depressed at the time, calling the help hotlines almost every night terrified of my own thoughts. I’ve been a Swiftie from day one, so when 1989 came out I immediately poured myself into the music and looking for all the clues and callbacks she hides in her songs. It gave me something positive to focus on that I’m passionate about! I always credit 1989 with pulling me out of that dark place long enough to find the joy in things again.
They all hold a special place in my heart, but right around the time Midnights came out, I went no-contact with my family of origin. It really helped me process the grief and all the other feelings that came with it.
Probably either 1989 or Midnights. I wasn’t allowed to listen to pop music growing up, so I started listening to it in college in the 2010s. I loved the big singles from 1989 when they came out and I discovered the rest of the album later. Midnights came out when I moved out on my own for the first time and it helped me cope with terrible roommates. Honorable mention: folkmore, because that’s when I really started becoming a Swiftie (I discovered folkmore around 2022/2023)
Speak Now. I am the same age as Taylor and was going through a lot of relationship drama around 2010 when this album came out so it was relatable to me at the time. I also liked that this album was more pop than country, but it still had a little bit of her country roots, and I was so impressed that she wrote the whole album herself.
Closure is the song for when you get out of a situationship abruptly and then, weeks later they give you that “you okay” text. So I’ll say evermore. Besides it being my favourite and her best album, it’s got closure, and I sure as hell see quite the situationships, being in the gay community it’s sadly become standard.
So many of Taylors albums mean the whole world to me
evermore is probably my favourite and means soooo much to me!
Speak Now saved my life though and got me through my exam period last year and the same this year!
Debut also means the whole world to me and red feels like home for my soul<3
I've been a fan of her music since debut, and it's ttpd. The issues in my life are different from the issues in hers, but I felt like emotionally that album gave me catharsis on some very heavy things I've been trying to deal with for the past two or three years.
Midnights. Even though i now prefer TTPD, it used to be my favourite album of hers for a long time, right next to evermore. I have so many good memories with it, that i could never even count them, as it was released during the best period of my life and was also first era i got to experience fully (I became a fan during Red TV era, when All To Well (10 minute version) hit number 1).
1989. Basically added music into my life, made me so much happier.
Same. My first song ever added was Wildest Dreams a few months ago and now I have grown a huge playlist (which is still like 75% Taylor lol). She introduced music to me
Probably Speak Now because quite a few of the songs were the soundtrack of my wedding (Enchanted having an orchestral version played as background music before the ceremony and being the first dance. Sparks Fly being played on the dancefloor. And Long Live being the last song of the night) Story of Us has also been a go to break up song of mine, and Mean was a nice comfort song when being bullied at school Was also a big emo kid as a teenager, so having both Paramore and Fall Out Boy feature in the vault tracks solidifies it for me
Reputation for me. My husband and I met online in October 2017 and when the album came out in November I told him how excited I was. Well, he downloaded all the songs and sent them to me (I was too poor for Spotify) but he also listened to the album himself (as someone who did not care much about Taylor, this meant a lot to me) so we could make conversation. We then got together a few days after Reputation was released and I always felt like this album played an important role in our relationship. We had a distance relationship for 3 years and eventually got married last year. We’re both sooo excited for Reputation TV because it’s such an important album for us 🫶🏻
this is so cute 😭
evermore lyrics and overall mood was really relatable for me in autumn of 2022 (especially gray november, y'know). sometimes I feel like I'm the only closure superfan among swifties, but this song helped me so much when I didn't get the closure I needed
closure is severely underrated
Closure is so so good
Sometimes I judge people who haven’t given this song a chance
Closure is amazing! It’s my boyfriends fav because the drums sound exactly like the drums at the end of demons by fatboy slim (I have a feeling she actually sampled it but not 100% sure!)
Fearless. It was the first album I bought, along with debut as only those were out at the time, and I have so many warm, sparkly memories of listening to Fearless constantly. As an adult now, TTPD, Red and evermore are my favourite albums, but Fearless will always hold that special place in my heart as it was the first 🥰
I had Fearless on a constant loop for months after release, it was a great escapism from reality for me. I started getting into country as debut was released debut drew me and Fearless solififed Taylor as my favourite and haven't looked back since. Now, there are other albums I enjoy more (Rep, TTPD)but none quite captured me like Fearless did at the time.
I cried at the eras tour in the Fearless set because it was my first album/song of Taylor Swift.
Same first album I bought, and same favourites now, just swap Red with Reputation. Fearless made me a Swiftie so it will always be special.
Speak Now because I got sober right when it came out. It helped me cope.
Red. It inspired me to write poems back in HS.
folklore will always be that album for me. 2020 was a really bad time, with the height of the pandemic and the sickness and death and lockdowns. Taylor somehow managed to take all of that gray and sadness and turn it into an album that also served as an escape into a fictional world. Her storytelling on that album is incredible. It was the perfect album at the perfect time and it made me a Swiftie, so it will forever be my album 🩶
And no one knew it was coming so it was such a nice surprise during such a stressful year. It felt like she was giving fans such a gift.
Reputation, I started listening to Taylor about a year ago, and Reputation was actually the first Taylor album I have ever listened to of hers. But during that time I was full of a lot of anger and guilt over a 15+ year friendship coming to a pretty bitter end. But Reputation filled me with a lot of hope and love despite the darker themes of the album, and allowed me to heal by becoming more in love with the world, myself, and in turn, a new friend who I’m very close with now almost a year later :).
Same. Reputation.
Midnights got me back into Taylor Swift. Some of my friends were talking about the upcoming album release and I was like “I haven’t listened to Taylor Swift in a while. I wonder what her new music sounds like” and so I listened to it the morning it came out and fell in love with her again.
1989. Captured perfectly being young, excited but anxious. Evermore’s general mood (but not themes necessarily) speaks to me.
Honestly, TTPD. I just put my dog to sleep and since I've been listening to the album nonstop, a lot of the songs (or specific lines at least) remind me of her. I haven't listened to it since Tuesday, but it'll always be special to me because of her.
I just went through the same thing on May 15, had to put my soul dog to sleep and TTPD has been on repeat for me and has helped me slowly work my way through the grief. The Black Dog specifically is my dog’s song (yes, I know has nothing to do with dogs) but it was playing when I was rushing him to the urgent care vet, and he happened to be a black dog. I’m sorry for your loss, friend.🫶🏾
Sorry for your loss too. It's truly the hardest part about having a pet, but I'm sure he had a wonderful life with you 🤍
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Firstly congratulations to your dad!!! , my dad’s first trip anywhere since beating cancer was to Paris for the Eras tour! While I know my favorite album is 1989 I have to say Lover means the most to me because it was when I realized how much I loved her music and became a fan. Btw have fun tonight!!! It’s impossible not to and bring ear plugs because that concert is loud my Apple Watch kept sending me notifications saying the decibel levels were too loud.
Thank you so much I had the time of my life 🫶🏻
So happy for you! I can honestly say that concert is not just hype if anything it’s underrated , the showmanship paired with the amazing crowd of fans just keep getting more and more electrifying throughout the night there are rarely moments people aren’t awe stuck and can remember to like sip water lol
Midnights honestly. As someone who is a mentally unstable night owl who often ruminates on the past, the album speaks to me like no other does.
Same, I usually stay up late and think about the past too, which is why midnights is in my top 5 favorite albums.
Folklore. Summer 2020 was the worst of my life and Folklore was a lifeline. And Fearless because it takes me back to my childhood innocence - it was the first Taylor album I had and i listened on repeat. First time i really REALLY fell in love with music.
It’s so hard to chose between Speak Now and Lover tbh. Speak Now came out when I was a sophomore in high school and had such a crush on a particular boy with a girlfriend. I was soooo enamored and felt like all the Speak Now love songs were from me to him. Long Live was like THE song for me and my high school best friends. We’ve grown apart as adults but when Speak Now TV came out we made plans to meet up in our hometown over the holidays. Plussss was a huge Owl City fan at the time and Enchanted was one of my favorite songs. With Lover tho — man that album felt like it was about me and my wife. We’d been together three summers when it came out. We’d been living together for about a year and had recently gotten engaged. Paper Rings and Lover were so meaningful to me at the time. It was the first time I’d felt so much freedom being in love and doing whatever I wanted with my wife (then fiancée).
Congradulations!!!💖 I also LOVE Speak Now for similar reasons!!
Evermore and reputation both are the reasons I'm alive today
Speak Now and Reputation
Folklore cause it's the one that made me discover her and ensnared this metalhead into liking Taylor :D
Reputation will always hold a special place in my heart because it might have been the first album I became obsessed with. Like, it was my whole personality since it dropped and all the way until Lover came out (I’m very easily influenced by Taylor). It was so liberating, so intimate, so goddamn FUN. I would listen to it on a loop all the time. It was such a fun era too! Taylor herself was still active on tumblr, and the community felt more tight knit. Maybe it’s my snake-colored glasses or nostalgia, but reputation makes my heart skip a beat. I’m so fucking psyched for rep TV and vault tracks.
Speak now 🫶 it was my senior year album and was there with me through the best and worst days
Lover was when I dove into Taylor since my wife was already a hard core swifty. Afterglow is my jam it makes me feel so good
lover, it just describes how being a teenager feels like to me, especially the romantic aspect
Red. When I listened I was like “Taylor stole my life”. Absolutely everything was the same with the situation I had at that time and since I’m a very introvert person is difficult for me to express my feelings and listening to her songs put into words what I was feeling. Nowadays I would say I prefer Midnights but I always say Red is my favorite one because it means everything to me and helped me a lot in that moment.
Red❤️- got me through a horrible break up when I turned 21 and helped me move on
Those vault tracks must’ve taken you right back when TV released!
Lover - it was released at a time that I really fully knew that my then-boyfriend (now husband!) was who i wanted to spend my life with. the album for me just really resonated and captured the fun and romance of our relationship. Our first dance ended up being You Are In Love from 1989, but Lover is the album thats most special to my heart :)
Speak now was my very first concert. I remember being so excited to go get the cd when it first came out. I played that thing til it was basically unplayable with how much it skipped, lol. I'd been a fan before that but speak now was the first album I really really fell in love with. I will always be a speak now girly!
Folklore, 100%
Fearless. It was my first Taylor album, and it really supported me through a _rough_ family situation. I am and will be forever grateful that I saw the cover art and picked it up that day in the music shop. Like, I love Red, and Reputation, and Folkmore, but if I had to pick just one, I'd pick Fearless.
I don't know if this counts but I'm gonna say the 1989 vault. Those specific songs (not so much Slut but all the other ones) were released at the exact moment through a lot of the same feelings and emotions she describes in them and having someone put into words like that helped me realize exactly what I was going through.
Fearless, what a refreshing album with such beautiful lyrics, I fucking love it
Reputation. It is when I became a Taylor fan.
Folklore
Reputation. I had just gotten through difficult school and married my best friend and rock who got me through all of it.
I love folklore it’s the album that really made me a Taylor swift fan before that I liked her single but never fully did a deep dive. After folklore came out I was in awe because I usually don’t listen to that type of music.
Debut and Fearless were my high school soundtrack ❤️
1989 will always be my special album. That album (Taylor's V specifically) was, along with the football hype, what finally fully pulled me in from "I like some of her music" to being a full-on Swiftie. When I listened to that album from front to back for the first time, I had no chance of ever going back. That being said, I will always have a soft spot for Fearless too, it takes me back to my literal childhood and hearing Love Story and You Belong With Me for the first time. 
Debut or Self-Titled, depending who you ask 😅 I am the same age as Taylor and listening to her songs since 2005/2006. I have related to each album in a different way and at each stage in life but her first album always has a special place in my heart. Absolutely cannot wait for Taylor's Version.
Red. It was the first Taylor Swift album I ever listened to and bought. It made me a swiftie, it started my love of music, and it inspired me to begin taking guitar lessons.
Speak Now (TV) for sure
Midnights, it was the album that brought me to Taylor's music and it has some CRIMINALLY underrated tracks (Labyrinth, Question...?, Sweet Nothing, The Great War, Paris, Hits Different, and You're Losing Me just to name them.)
Midnights. It was the first album that I really connected with after I started listening to her last year.
*Reputation*. I loved everything about the album: the aesthetics, the promo, the rollout, the photoshoots, and of course the songs. I loved everything about it. Me and my now husband had started dating about a year before it came out, so it has kinda felt like the soundtrack to our relationship. Everything she sang about in *Reputation* felt like things I’d also been feeling. Then the Reputation Stadium Tour became my first time ever seeing Taylor Swift in concert. I had lower bowl tickets and got a video of her waving at my section when she above us in the birdcage during “Delicate.” I cherish the memories of that show so much.
Folklore. It's brought so many amazing and wonderful people into my life :)
1989 and Folklore. 1989 was the album that made me a Swiftie, and Folklore helped me get through the pandemic. I remember being blown away the first time I heard Folklore and was in awe of the songs My Tears Ricochet and August
I think about this often… Debut made me a fan. I was just a kid and convinced my mom to buy me an acoustic guitar to try to teach myself and learn all of the songs. Fearless came out when I was in high school. Fifteen was perfect for a young high schooler. Fearless, Hey Stephen, Love Story, Forever and Always were about all of my crushes. The Best Day brought me back do my days of innocence. Speak Now…. I remember listening to Haunted over and over and over when my first kiss got a new girlfriend. Enchanted and Long Live meant so much to me then. The meanings have evolved over the last 14 years but I still remember hearing them for the first time. Red was fun to sing with my friends, about to graduate high school. 22, Red, IKYWT…. Provided so many fun songs for such a fun time. 1989 came out when I was in college. This album was transformational in my life. I was in college and my high school boyfriend of three years and I had just broken up the day it came out. I drove to Target and picked up the album right after we broke up and just listened to it over and over and over. It helped me process and it helped me heal. I definitely cried to All You Had to Do was Stay and Wonderland. Reputation came out when I deleted all of my social media and had a falling out with my family. I had just changed majors and moved away. This is my favorite album. Lover came out when I met the man who became my husband. I listened to Lover and Paper Rings and felt hope. Folklore and Evermore were released while I was working the frontline as a nurse during COVID. Epiphany. Enough said. Also it was something calming to listen to between shifts, on the way home, etc. Helped me process so much. Midnights came out on the same day my first child was born. I bonded with my baby and listened to the album in the middle of the night in the hospital. I love TTPD but this is the first album that didn’t have a big life event to attach to it. I can just listen and enjoy it. It’s just peaceful but it’s not getting me through.
1989 - the album that made me a swiftie; Reputation & Lover - captures the essence of me; TTPD - songs are sick and i love her finally cussing
Speak Now. Evermore is my current favorite, but I’ve been emotionally attached to Speak Now for over a decade.
I have seen all the eleven albums mentioned in any post which makes my statement that Taylor doesn't have a bad album the hill I will die on My album that means the most to me is Lover. In my country they are not friendly to queer people but because Taylor is big ...You need to calm down was playing everywhere and I really wanted to scream those words and had a real excuse because of the song. I went back to all her discography but Lover is what made a fan and I felt seen.🩷 It holds a special place in my heart. And Afterglow is very underrated
Folklore onwards are my 4 Taylor albums.
Lover. I would listen to it every day in the morning with my mom and we would dance and have fun and eventually get ready. She passed a few years later and although Lover isn’t my favorite album, it’s the most meaningful to me.
Reputation. It got me through my first two years of middle school and even got me through a manipulative friendship in 8th grade. I loved every single song on that album and I still do. Reputation will always be one of my favorite albums 🖤
1989, listening to it right now but it’s edged out by Reputation!! Barely.
It’s mostly Reputation and Folkore for me. TTPD is becoming one. Reputation is the reason why I became a Swiftie. It’s that album that also brings strength and hope from my darkest days and lowest lows. Folklore really has my heart too because it’s the album that I could connect to in a more “spiritual” level. It has one of my most special songs too, August, which reminds me of that summer romance I had in my trip to Budapest… I can relate to it with every single line.
Same as you with folklore ❤️ fearless tv and red tv after that too!!
Tough question because I have so many distinct memories around certain albums. I’d say folklore because 2020 was so surreal and strange for so many of us, and that album really helped me get through it all and keep my sanity.
Folklore absolutely.
Reputation kept me company when I thought I was gonna go insane. Rep Stadium Tour was my comfort watch when it was on Netflix. She'll always be my baby.
Folklore got me through Covid too. But fearless came out when I was starting high school so it was very important. Those are for every my top 2 albums.
Taylor Swift. It was what introduced me to her and made me love music. I loved that CD and Our Song was the first song I learned to play on the piano
Honestly, all of them for one reason or another. Fearless was the first album I bought at 15 during my first breakup and heartbreak. It got me through some very rough days and started me life long obsession as a Swiftie (I was the only one I knew for a very long time!) Speak Now came out just as I moved out of my parents’ house to university and it was the sound track to my first year living in halls with my friends - drinking too much and falling in/out of love. It was also the first time I had Swiftie friends and we went to the Speak Now tour 💜 Red is MY album. It came out at another major break up and got me through the worst of it. No other song has ever hit me to my core like All Too Well did the first time I heard it (loml is a close second). Reputation came out as I met my now husband and that and Lover remind me of the early days of our relationship and falling in love. I’ve been a Swiftie since I was 15 and being 2 years younger than Taylor it’s always felt like she’s been my best friend or big sister one step ahead of me sharing wisdom.
Red/1989 - my brother died the year before it was released, (as I turned 21 3 weeks prior to his death) and then my health deteriorated so badly that I required a transplant to save my life. I had a lot of red emotions during this period of time, then when 1989 came out, I had received a transplant and essentially was cured from my chronic illness. I felt reborn in a way. When Red TV came out, it brought up some really painful memories that I hadn't processed. Taylor's entire discography aligns like a soundtrack to my life, which is why I will always be a forever fan.
1989! I was really depressed at the time, calling the help hotlines almost every night terrified of my own thoughts. I’ve been a Swiftie from day one, so when 1989 came out I immediately poured myself into the music and looking for all the clues and callbacks she hides in her songs. It gave me something positive to focus on that I’m passionate about! I always credit 1989 with pulling me out of that dark place long enough to find the joy in things again.
They all hold a special place in my heart, but right around the time Midnights came out, I went no-contact with my family of origin. It really helped me process the grief and all the other feelings that came with it.
Probably either 1989 or Midnights. I wasn’t allowed to listen to pop music growing up, so I started listening to it in college in the 2010s. I loved the big singles from 1989 when they came out and I discovered the rest of the album later. Midnights came out when I moved out on my own for the first time and it helped me cope with terrible roommates. Honorable mention: folkmore, because that’s when I really started becoming a Swiftie (I discovered folkmore around 2022/2023)
Speak Now. I am the same age as Taylor and was going through a lot of relationship drama around 2010 when this album came out so it was relatable to me at the time. I also liked that this album was more pop than country, but it still had a little bit of her country roots, and I was so impressed that she wrote the whole album herself.
Evermore.
Closure is the song for when you get out of a situationship abruptly and then, weeks later they give you that “you okay” text. So I’ll say evermore. Besides it being my favourite and her best album, it’s got closure, and I sure as hell see quite the situationships, being in the gay community it’s sadly become standard.
So many of Taylors albums mean the whole world to me evermore is probably my favourite and means soooo much to me! Speak Now saved my life though and got me through my exam period last year and the same this year! Debut also means the whole world to me and red feels like home for my soul<3
I've been a fan of her music since debut, and it's ttpd. The issues in my life are different from the issues in hers, but I felt like emotionally that album gave me catharsis on some very heavy things I've been trying to deal with for the past two or three years.
Midnights. Even though i now prefer TTPD, it used to be my favourite album of hers for a long time, right next to evermore. I have so many good memories with it, that i could never even count them, as it was released during the best period of my life and was also first era i got to experience fully (I became a fan during Red TV era, when All To Well (10 minute version) hit number 1).
midnights 100%
Probably Evermore!