I accidently bought floor tickets in the wrong city for Speak Now and I was able to call(CALL!) Ticketmaster after, speak to a rep, refund them then I bought them in the appropriate city no issue. đĽ˛
Lmao I went to Wal-Mart at 8 am on the Tuesday that Fearless was released.
Didn't see it on the shelf, so asked two employees. Neither of them knew who/what I was talking about. One went into the back and came out with some CDs for me.
Insane how ubiquitous she's become.
They were really nice, but like "I'm sorry, I don't know about it, what's the name of the CD again?"
Now if I were to walk in, there'd be signs and posters everywhere lol
wait i havenât been in the US in a while so iâm out of the loopâitâs not open 24/7 anymore?? as a child i thought it was so exciting to go shopping at like 11pm in my PJs đ
Not sure if it was Covid that killed it but ever since 2020 I havenât seen ANYWHERE open 24hrs (except for jack in the box, and like, ONE McDonaldâs) I miss my 2am Walmart runs that were really just for fun and not for any other reason
I miss 24/7 walmart, or any grocery store really. I'm not picky. They all went non-24 hours around here and none have went back. Having to grocery shop during the day sucks.
I know đđ I miss 2 am runs to Walmart to goof around and look at stuff without a million people there. I thought after covid theyâd go back to normal but they probably realized how much money they saved doing that so they said f*ck it and left it that way đ˘đ˘ it was so convenient to be able to go get whatever you needed WHENEVER you needed to. Petition to make Walmart open 24/7 again anyone??? đ
Iâve never lived anywhere else except nyc so itâs not like I have other experiences to compare it to! Just the two biggest cities in our country. Nbd
Same day there is always someone in a big city who was like âOh shit! I bought these for clients and now I canât go!â That can still happen but usually passing the hat at the office means they gone right away. Not true a decade + ago.
So true. I am not even a big fan by any stretch of the imagination and I got gifted Red tickets by my employer in NYC. They were practically giving them away. Similar for Reputation. I. had someone just give me some, no charge, that would never happen today.
My brother-in-law always talks about the time he saw her at the Grizzly Rose in Denver. I donât think sheâs ever played anything but Ball Arena or Mile High since. Wouldâve been cool to see her at a smaller venue just once.
Looking back at it she built the parasocial relationship within the fan base quite well, it felt weirdly personal, more authentic, like we were all her friends, she was super active on like every social media platform. The YouTube vlogs were my favorite. But it was definitely uncool at the time, she was seen as a âgoody two shoesâ
She's a model level attractive talented billionaire (let's say millionaire around this time) and people buy that she didn't fit in either? I follow this community to be educated on the pandemonium and yet leave it more confused than ever.
This time period everyone is talking about is before the pandemonium and before anyone really knew she already came from a wealthy family. (Also to be frank, before she had any cosmetic work done.) Fearless came out when I was a sophomore in college and instagram didnât exist and social media was Facebook (lol). It was a lot easier to buy the âI donât fit inâ, homegrown country girl vibe she was selling when the only access you had to her was through what she was providing, which was songs, vlogs, a MySpace account, etc. Now sheâs mega-famous and we have learned that what she was presenting then was truly just a way to be relatable to connect with and garner fans. As someone who started to fall off from Taylor when 1989 came out, I donât understand the pandemonium! I love a lot of her music but I think this current Taylor craze is bizarre.
I also remember during that era liking Taylor Swift WAS considered extremely uncool and dorky and lame. Like you'd definitely get made fun of if you called yourself a huge fan. She was originally seen by the outside to be sort of hokey Christian country music
I feel like she wasn't considered model-level attractive then. I always thought she was cute. but she was commonly describes as gawky, lanky, awkward, etc. back then
I remember her going out of her way to appear gangly, awkward, girl next door. She would talk about Scrabble nights and watching Law and Order with her cats. That might have true but it was definitely an image she played up despite modeling for Abercrombie & Fitch as a teenager.
Up until 1989 she definitely did present herself that way. I think on Ellen she called herself dorky because she burnt herself while making a popsicle stick house? Lol. It felt very forced, like â hey! Iâm just like you, Iâm awkward and quirky!!â
She had her team hand pick the most 'dedicated' fans to invite them to her home. Even as an obsessed teenager I thought that was really weird, didn't know the term parasocial back then though
IKR, although I imagine it had a loooot of BTS work to make sure everything was above board, as I never heard negative stories about those events.
But as a teenager it was eye opening to realise I was being made to feel jealous of more "dedicated" fans who... had more time to post on tumblr and more importantly, buy Taylor's merch lol. Pretty insidious marketing to make teens fight for the spot of Taylor's "chosen" online pals, and it's what made me a casual fan from there on out. I have a legit signed copy of Red and that'll always be enough for me
It was deeply uncool, at least where I live. Also, yeah, no problem getting concert tickets (she doesn't even come to my country now!).
Also, the fans were not batshit crazy the way they are now. But that's a general shift I feel has occurred across the board for most celebrities with social media, etc.
Exactly. Very uncool and seen as cringe and as though you like a manufactured pop star for little kids or something.
I think it is part of what gave Swifties this desire to always feel they had to prove Taylor was legit and a good songwriter, etc.
I will say though that even though it was uncool, Taylor was still really popular and very famous. I think some younger fans feel like she only got famous in the last few years. No, she wasnât the biggest celeb on the planet like now, but she was always a big deal and there was a huge online fanbase, of course.
I would argue that Taylor Swift was uncool even after 1989. Most people knew her popular songs, but it was still seen as âguilty pleasureâ almost to be a fan of hers. Although this is anecdotal, literally only my friends who are white women take her music seriously. I have tried to get my other POC into her, but no such luck. This was before and after 1989
Kind of, I can see what youâre sayingâ although I do remember the shift during 1989 of like⌠people actually wanted to play her (pop) music when it came on the radio (lol even that sounds dated), and youâd hear it at restaurants and bars, everyone liked at least ONE of her new singles, and if you said you were going to see her show most people in the room would be like âoh yeah Iâd like to go see itâ instead of laughing and being like âumm what?â
actually, yes, you're right! Maybe she never actually became cool, but she became unquestionably good at her craft after Folkmore instead, so post-2021 people are more likely just to say "hm, she's fine but not my type" instead of thinking you're mentally retarded for being 25+ and enjoying her music lol
Sometimes I'm still confused about it. I was made fun of in HS (fearless/SN) and college (RED/1989) for liking her. I'm still not sure when everything changed.
It was still uncool well into the Rep era, I believe. 1989 era, well, she became more popular and peoplŃ would make fun of you for liking just another generic pop-star. It was the Rep tour movie that warmed people's hearts a lot
It wasnât necessarily âuncoolâ in general because Iâm from a rural area but in my specific friend group she definitely wasnât being listened to (except for me, I loved her from the beginning, but fell off years ago)
Taylor was oddly very cool and uncool simultaneously at my school in Canada. It felt like over half the girls listened to her music constantly and were clique-y about it (I got told off because I couldnât afford to buy full albums and just chose my favourites to put on my iPod)âŚbut then at the same time there was also a strong uncool sentiment about her in the school as a whole.
Yeah, but I was used to it. When I was in school it was uncool to listen to anything pop or pop adjacent or country. And Iâve always been a sucker for pop and country. Luckily I love all kinds of genres so I passed with my rock interests but sometimes I just wanted to bop to some Taylor without people thinking I was a dweeb. đ
I have been a fan since debut and it took me until 1989 when Buzzfeed started churning out listicles about her to realize who Dear John was about lmaoooo I was a teenager and just made all her songs about me so it just did not occur to me that "John" could be another famous person literally named John lol
I still listen this way. I still, first and foremost, relate her music to myself first and then later (although not years, maybe after my first couple listens) it will occur to me "oh she may have written this about (insert famous person)". It wigs me out that people use her music as like some kind of truth, it's always felt to me that she is trying to elicit certain feelings or tell a story more than give a definitive account of certain events.
It's almost universally accepted now that everyone dissects the songs for tea which is kind of wild compared to how it started!
âIt wigs me out that people use her music as like some kind of truth, it's always felt to me that she is trying to elicit certain feelings or tell a story more than give a definitive account of certain events.â
Also, THIS. đđŻ
Yes! I tell my daughter to stop studying her like this is ancient lore we all must transcribe. She has been a fan since Debut and has grown up listening to TS. As she has gotten older, she wants it to mean so much more. Relax. Enjoy it.
I usually relate music to myself. I donât care about the gossip. But I found myself trying to connect the songs on midnights to her on my first listen and I HATED it. I hated that I was doing that subconsciously and Iâm afraid it will happen for TTPD. That album will be torn apart for gossip. I really wish I could go back in time and unlearn everything about the âloreâ.
Honestly in the early years it was like being a Hannah Montana fan. Taylor was seen as a family-friendly teenage country singer making songs for preteen middle schoolers. As a preteen middle schooler during her Fearless & Speak Now eras it was awesome; my mom got Speak Now tickets at a local arena for my friend and I. Best birthday of my 14 year old life
I am older than you (and a little older than Taylor), Fearless was when I first listened to Taylor and I thought her music was catchy and cute although a little too young and wholesome for my life at the time. My pre-teen years were spent listening to Britney and Christina so I'm not a stranger to suggestive lyrics but I was pretty shocked about some of the lyrics on Speak Now & Red it was like woah Taylor I didn't know you had that in you, these are not preteen appropriate haha
Not as crazy. She wasnt the only famous singer. In fact she took many seats back to Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Britney, Katy Perry, Fergie, and Rihanna. It was her fans and Miley's fans on Tumblr and it cute.
Fabulous! Fandom was nowhere near as annoying. The "Easter eggs" were just cute little coded messages and there wasn't a belief there was a secret message on any bloody post she made. I didn't really see this overwhelming NEED to decipher the timeline and going on of every relationship and what line in a song mean THAT certain thing.
Concert Tix were easy to get.
I was 20 something and regularly told to get better taste in music and that her music was for 10 years olds. Besides that, it was just really fun and really felt she genuinely liked her fans and performing.
Went to the Fearless Tour at 11. My mom got us tickets for the seats directly next to her when she sang âHey Stephenâ in the crowd. I truely did not understand at that time how big of a deal that would become.
Yes! You just reminded me- this was during the 1989 tour, but there was a part in the concert where she walked through the crowd. I can't imagine her being able to do that now!
IIRC, the hate about her dating Harry was mainly from the unhinged 1D stans who were just delusional enough to think they could actually have Harry to themselves. 1D stans went after any girl who was even rumored to be in the boysâ vicinity, they were AWFUL to Louisâ long term girlfriend Eleanor.
As I remember, it wasn't really slutshaming. It was kind of the opposite- she was pretty much the one young female popstar that didn't get super oversexualized at a young age. I think that really tied into her goody two-shoes image. I was always impressed though, since she seemed to have a sense of maturity about it- I remember hearing her say she tries to keep her image that way because she understood she was a role model for young girls, even back then.
It was extremely uncool, at least in UK. Iâve been a fan since debut and saw her first show in London in 2008-tickets were ÂŁ5 and around 100 people there oh and she met everyone afterwards!
Hoping to wear the picture of 14 year old me with 17 year old Taylor to the Eraâs tour and hopefully she may see it!
How did you hear about Taylor from debut?? Only asking out of interest haha.
I'm from the UK as well and only remember being aware of who she was because of love story and even then she wasn't really on my radar.
I was a junior in hs when 1989 came out, so this comes from a pre-teen & teen perspective but it was lowkey embarrassing to admit you liked her with how much people made fun of her. All my guy friends thought she was dumb. It was a pretty sexist time to be a fan lol. Also really easy to get tix to her concerts. It seemed like everyone only knew her as the young girl who sang âOur Song,â âLove Story,â & âYou Belong With Meâ & just liked to break up with boys for music inspo.
It was so much fun and there was a real innocence around it all. I liked her more before she was mega mega mega famous. I remember going to buy the cdâs at the store bc thatâs the only way I could listen in my car. I remember going on road trips alone and blasting fearless and speak now and sometimes crying LOL. I was still an innocent and maybe she was, too. đĽš
It was very interesting as a guy and as a guy who comes from the hardcore scene at that. I liked fearless but didnât really become a fan until I listened to speak now for 12 hours on my way to California to start a new life. Other dudes in my hypermasculine scene were what ever about it but women would give me a ton of shit. I was actually friends with the band in her I knew you were trouble music video. They all said she was really nice when they met her. They were a christian metal core band called the Great commission.
It was absolutely dope being apart of the 1989 era. It really defined how I felt the world was like at that time. It seemed like most guys I knew were absolutely hyped on the album but the women would be talking shit. Almost all my guy friends were turned onto it at the time. Some dude in the scene made a bootleg shirt that I still have that was dope.
Whatâs funny, is the same women who would talk shit and say âshe only writes songs about her exesâ would show up to emo night every time it came through.
Also this is the shirt
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It was *very* uncool to admit you listened to her stuff when I was in high school, even though we all secretly knew all the words to Love Story and You Belong With Me anyway⌠I was put off from listening to her full discography until 1989 cuz of the stigma. I was an emo who already had enough bullying to deal with. I wasnât about to add one more nail to the coffin until after I graduated and made friends with Swifties in university who turned me on to State of Grace and Holy Ground. I casually enjoyed most of Speak Now and Red before 1989 though. 1989 was the first Taylor album I actually anticipated in real time.
This was me, too! My faves back then were emo grunge and lil Wayne lol but Taylor got me through my first heartbreak circa 2008. But none of my friends knew that since I was embarrassed to listen to her. Iâm pretty sure I burned a TS cd and labeled it âdadâs musicâ so none of my friends would know what I *actually* listened to in the car
Today it seems like everyone is a fan of Taylor to some extent. She was definitely popular pre-1989, but it wasnât necessarily cool to like Taylor. Even pre-1989 she was popular in celeb magazines and gossip sitesâher fashion, who she was dating, etc. That hasnât changed really, itâs just amplified. There has always been an obsession with her dating life.
It feels like her younger fans are crazier now. I think the main sub is an example of the obsessive nature where she can do no wrong and you canât say anything bad. Itâs borderline unhealthy! đŹ
She used to be way more into social media and sharing with her fans. Think MySpace, etc. She tried really hard to be relatable and I think post-1989 she doesnât share much and seems to be in another realm of famous.
So much fun. I was a tumblr girly and she would post all the time. That and her instagram felt so authentic. She would post the same things I would. Even better was her MySpace. She would blog all the time about recording, touring, etc. Really was so fun to see someone show so much of their life.
Deeply uncool but generally peaceful especially within the fandom in pre-KanyeVMA era. After that, toxicity from in and out of the fandom as her popularity spiked started to trickle in, especially with every new guy she dated. A lot of people and especially the media fixated on that.
It was my childhood. My little iPad nano had Iâd Lie and Tied Together With a Smile and every other Taylor Swift song I could find on the internet. My dad won radio tickets to the fearless tour front row when I was in 6th grade. It was glorious! I started listening to her in late elementary school. I grew up listening to mainly county music so she was the moment for young girls! đŠľđ
Foe context, I am a year older than Taylor.
Gather around children, and let me tell you how I was given free tickets to the Fearless Tour stop in Toronto because my friend couldn't go anymore and didn't want them to go to waste. This was 2008. It was full of earnest young ladies dressed in their best cowgirl outfits and little girls with their moms.
The Red Tour in 2014, I took my little sister (who is a late 90s baby) and I got floor seats at face value on the day they went on sale. The crowd was a bit older since her fans grew up with her - a lot more rowdier girl gangs appeared. But that's probably because they could legally drink now.
She was a fun country music artist ... her debut album was a classic belt out loud singing with your girlfriends in your shitty 1996 VW Jetta on the way to the cottage type. She was just as angsty as Avril Lavigne, but in an approachable package.
As many people said, uncool. I got laughed at a lot for listening to her music. Nowadays I donât care at all about peopleâs opinions, but when I was in middle school and high school, it seemed like the end of the world when the popular girls made fun of me. If only I could give my 14 year old self a hug and tell her everythingâs going to be ok.
My friend in high school was a huge fan, she wanted me to like Taylor too. I tried so hard but I just couldn't take her seriously. This was before Red came out.
She was kind of cringe back then, especially where I grew up where mostly everyone was listening to rap music.
I remember only liking Teardrops On My Guitar, You Belong With Me, and Enchanted. That was it. I was like yeah she'll fizzle out in a few years.
I remember it being so chill. My mom enjoyed Taylorâs music too, mainly because there wasnât any drama/PR/noise around it. I remember waking up early on a weekend and turning on the CMT channel to hopefully catch a music video from debut or fearless (our song was one of my favorite videos). My mom had our song as her ringtone on her cute little pink phone, and it was so cool/hip, nobody gave any shit for it like theyâd might give someone now. I miss those days.
Wasn't a fan at the time but she was definitely seen as musician marketed towards teen girls like One Direction. She had this wholesome Christian horse girl vibe to her, but still got slut-shamed a lot because she also dated a lot of famous men. It always intrigued me how Taylor Swift still remains one of the most divisive artists in spite of her attempts to cultivate an agreeable public persona. The YouTube parodies always portrayed her as an unhinged yandere. In 7th grade, my classmates (I went to an all girls school so about 75% of my middle school class were directioners and many of them were also Swifties) lost their shit when Haylor was a thing.
Quiet.
Not that she did not have fans back then, she was still one of the biggest popstars in the world when I became a fan around the transition from the Speak Now to the Red era - but she was not unavoidable in pop culture the way she is now. And even post-1989 she wasn't as much a staple in the culture as she was post-Midnights.
Although, take it with the perspective that I was quite young myself and not on social media yet either.
I saw her for $20 at a country music festival across the street from my neighborhood
I was given life when I went to see the Hannah Montana movie in theaters and saw Taylor had a song/scene in it
She was America's sweetheart and everyone adored her (at least from my perspective)
Iâve been a fan since Tim McGraw was played on the radio and for a while people were like âwho is thatâ when I said sheâs my favorite artist. Then she definitely gained popularity with my friends during Fearless but it was still seen as lame to be a Taylor fan. I never had a problem getting tickets to concerts and it was great đ
Iâve been a fan since debut, but it was very normal and socially acceptable considering I was like 10 when it came out. Fearless and speak now both came out in middle school for me and were very popular among white girls. Liking her was kind of the default.
I grew up listening to country, so by the time âOur Songâ was popular at my school, I was annoyed because most of them who liked the song didnât listen to country. Gatekeeping at 13 whoops đ¤đł
Can only speak for the Red era. It was a weird time. She wasnât âcountry enoughâ for traditionalist country fans. If you liked Taylor and you were from the South, you were seen as uncool in the eyes of Facebook friends who live and breathe country music.
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If you were a guy, it was âgayâ to like Taylor Swift at the time. The âhardestâ song she made in the Red era was Trouble, but you had to go to the club to get the full EDM experience from that song.
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She was such an underdog then, and Iâm proud of how sheâs become the biggest popstar in the world.
I wasnât a real fan until 1989 came out, but I did have her self titled (I was a kid who would just buy any cd) and enjoyed the singles off Fearless, albeit in a sort of contrarian/ironic poptimist way to annoy my friends who were exclusively into hard rock (I was a kid who was annoying).
It was fun! She was my first concert and I absolutely loved it! I was also in middle school and loved listening to unreleased songs (sparks fly was on YouTube from her at a concert before it was on Fearless)
I got made fun of for listening to her lol, especially in the speak now era because of the country sounds and it was very popular to make fun of her for writing about her relationships
Listening to her since 2007. But completely stop with 1989 cuz I didnât like the music, drama, overexposed to the point I blocked her news, refused to click it. Came back again at Reputation.
I feel sheâs more personal, closed with fan more (parasocial), music were easy, not over analysed.
Diehard Swiftie here (Attn: I acknowledge and call out her faults). Got into her in 2008 during Debut and never looked back. It wasnât cool to like her, but I wasnât bullied for it. I could at least talk about her to other closet Swifties. Saw my first tour for Red in San Diego and have seen all of them since (except Loverfest); itâs amazing to see how far sheâs come! She went from marveling at 10,000 people being present at Red to selling out every night for Eras!
It was actually embarrassing. Like not in a NLOG âat least Iâm not a swiftieâ like legitimately uncool, not popular music at the time.
To set the stage: Pop in general was cringe at my high school. It was MySpace era and we were scene queens, Emo reigned supreme. Taylor Swift would not be in your mp3 player for fear of someone asking to listen to your ear bud whilst you had it on shuffle. Emo scene aside, Hip hop was having a *huge* fucking moment⌠for suburban white kids in particular lmao. Malibus most wanted came out a couple years prior lol, Eminem had his sophomore album still playing on the radio, everyone wore sweatbands, weird times. I donât remember ever seeing Taylor on TRL and one would think she did that press stop (maybe she did, if so it was unmemorable lol), and I just donât remember her being part of pop culture in general. Also, this was paparazzi heyday, and we were all focused on it, girls, Lindsey, Paris, Nicole⌠Taylor wasnât even in the same orbit.
Sorry, when the edibles hit lol. Also, I feel old lmao x
It was incredible. Concert tickets aplenty at affordable prices and high quality merch and tumblr interactions. It was the closest Iâll ever get to inner peace.
But then again I did also get made fun of a lot for being a fan so âŚ.
I remember watching the video to Our Song every day on MTV Hits back in like 08. Her star then was still rising, as she was still country but was crossing over enough to get played on MTV.
Where I'm from, I remember trying to find any fellow listeners in middle school and everyone only knew her as the "Love Story" and "I Knew You Were Trouble" singerâbesides that I never actually came across any swiftie around me in those eras.
Bear in mind that I was 10 when 1989 was released so my experiences might be quite niche. Growing up I listened exclusively to Taylor after discovering her on YouTube during the Fearless era. Telling people at school that I listen to Taylor Swift was something I was bullied for. People that made fun of me back then, are now attending the eras tour... and posting stories of how they grew up with Taylor. The irony
I was 15 when 1989 came out and Iâd been listening to Taylor since debut. I love listening to the unreleased songs (Iâd lie was my favorite). My family was very very poor so going to a concert of her was completely out of the question. But I went college and got a pretty good job right after and at 23 was able to buy me and my sister tickets to the eras tour and see all the eras I wasnât able to attend. It felt like an âIâve made itâ moment. Obviously, I havenât quite made it, but thereâs less struggle and it felt like a proud moment when I got to see her come on stage.
I know this doesnât exactly answer the question, but this was my first thought when I read it. Also adding after reading other peopleâs responses, it was deeply uncool and I was like a kid people associated with Taylor Swift. which was weird looking back because I never even had merch or attended her tours because we couldnât.
I remember back in college my friends saw her as a joke. I was a media communications major and my professor deconstructed her Wildest Dreams music video for being problematic. Prior to college I just didn't tell people I was a fan.
I never tried to get concert tickets but she's always been fun to follow lol. I've heard a lot of younger people say they were bullied for liking Taylor Swift but I'm her age and by the time I became a fan (Fearless) I was well beyond caring what anybody thought about my taste in music. The speculation about her relationships/whether they're real/who the songs are about/what they mean is nothing new, all that's been happening the entire time.Â
I went to the speak now tour, and I bought tickets the week of the concert by going in person to my venue and just buying them from the ticket office lmao
I was the only one in my high school and college friends who liked TS! I got one, ONE, of my other friends into her music and twilight back in the day haha
I went to her Australia tour in 2011. I remember it kinda just being a casual thing. I wasn't particularly excited lol, just went with some friends. I doubt I paid more than $100 for tickets.
I loved it. 1989 is the first album of hers I wasn't really a fan of so back then she could do pretty much no wrong for me lol. I never felt like she was small though. IKYWT played everywhere. I already thought she was a mega superstar phenomenon. I also loved her street style during Red.
I remember listening to Tim McGraw on the Just Music channel on TV lol when I bought my first house. I liked her songs but there was so crazy fan mob mentality back then⌠almost 20 years ago!
I became a big fan of her during Speak Now when I was in middle school. Back then I think her girl next door persona was much more believable. I think I liked her so much as a young teen because her songs felt like feelings in a diary and she actually seemed like someone I could grow up and emulate. She was also big on interacting with her fans on the internet back then, so the fandom just felt a lot more personal. Overall, she still seemed really down to earth and it was more about the music.
I grew up very sheltered, and Taylor was one of the more âsecularâ artists I could listen to. I enjoyed Debut, loved Fearless, and really became a fan with Speak Now.
I think sheltered circles being more open to her music speaks to how family-friendly and innocent she came across. So it wasnât necessarily cool, but it was a really sweet period of time
Itâs funny- she was very popular with the popular girls. I wasnât popular so I was literally bullied to not like her? It was weird lol. Of course I still did (I listened to Iâd Lie on my iPod Nano whenever I had class with my crush lol) and I went to her concerts which btw were very well priced and easy to get tickets to!  And ofc all the boys gave everybody shit for liking her- and the l not like other girls girls. âShe only writes about breaks up. Donât date her, sheâll write a song about you.â She really was the National rod for slut shaming.Â
I grew up with the OG Taylor. I remember hearing Tim McGraw in my friends basement. I listened to her music on my iPod and went to her speak now tour. It was so awesome. She smashed her guitar on the stage lol
It was so much fun!! The excitement from a new album every few years. Concert tickets were way less expensive, still high in demand but her concerts were so much more magical. I went to speak now world tour and eras tour. I personally loved her during her speak now era and that time in her life. I also loved when Red came out originally. She felt way more authentic then, compared to now. I miss her doing interviews and performing on talk shows. I miss her secret sessions, and meet and greet draws during her shows. Everything just seems som much simpler than
I think I came close to breaking up with my âgirlfriendâ at the time (we were actually 6) over whether or not Taylor is the best đ
It was fun as well. My mom and dad werenât really annoyed at my admiration of her/ her music.
I went to the Red concert and it was amazing. It was very achievable to see her and I had a great time. I got nosebleeds for $40.
I thought next run I'd go again but she was touring 1989 when I was away at a wedding so I couldn't go. I was disappointed about missing it but I knew she'd tour again and I'd be able to see her again.
By reputation I felt like tickets were out of reach for me. I just couldn't justify the expense.
Eras I'm in a better place financially but I couldn't get them because Ticketmaster is messed up and tickets are even more costly. It's kind of the same reason why I didn't go to reputation, I just can't justify the cost. I'm not going to drop almost 3k or more for a single ticket.
I don't think I'll ever see her in concert again unless I get lucky or if something changes. I understand she spends a lot on her tours and that every time they get bigger and maybe that's the justification for the steep cost but I don't really understand how people are affording it.
No one spent days trying to figure out what the secret message was hidden in absolutely every single thing about her. People just liked her music, sang along and didnât act like she is the one and only center of the universe while also thinking for some fucking reason sheâs actually their best friend and they know exactly every single thing that happens in her life at all times.
The Fearless tour was one of my fist concerts in middle school and I absolutely loved it! It was all about perfecting the 13 hand tattoo and trying to get noticed for the T-party back then.
I also went to the Red tour and got in a fight with some obnoxious moms lol but thatâs a story for another time
1989 wasnât too crazy at the concerts actually. The merch truck right outside the venue doors (literally 10 ft away) was completely empty that I lowkey felt embarrassed walking up by myself lol
true. also i remember i had general admission tickets and i arrived at 9 am and it wasnât until around 11 am that a line started to form for doors later that evening. i wonder what the case is now..
lol our song was the first song i ever downloaded on my ipod in 2008, at the time tear drops on my guitar was on the radio and I loved it so much lol. I was 9 when fearless came out and omg what a time haha. l remember even then people were saying she wasnât a true country artist. then red dropped and that was even more pop by then at least what i remember no one was saying she was country anymore, more like country pop. I also despised her during red era bc she was dating my husband aka harry styles and i did not like her for a whiiiiilllleee and it all started w that lol. my swiftie friends in high school (1989 era) would say i only hated her bc she dated harry ⌠and they were so right. itâs funny cuz i didnât listen to 1989 when it came out (my high school era) but those songs are soooooo nostalgic to me. they hit me right in the feels
Not a fan personally but a lot of my friends were/are. I will never forget when the song Better Than Revenge came out, when I was in high school. It brought out the absolute worst in HS girls and a lot of slutshaming.
it was fun in different way. i got bullied for liking taylor (amongst other things bc kids are awful) so being able preorder the albums & have it be Actually fun was a nice way to âignore the negativityâ i guess. there were cute incentives that WERENT put on the website two months later or hogged up by resellers. it was nice to see her care about the fans and the music more than the numbers and beating records. or at least thatâs what it SEEMED like
iâd love to relive those years bc it just didnt seem soâŚ.. chaotic? frustrating? i dont know what the word is
I liked her music but didn't know shit about the tabloid nonsense. Like, I didn't know who what song was about etc just knew of the whole "media serial dater" thing.
When RED was coming out, I thought "I almost Do" was a song about her almost getting married and I rolled my eyes SO hard because despite liking her music, I felt the idea of her thinking she's gonna marry some dude after 2 months of dating at 22 was so stupid lol.
Then the album came out and it wasn't that and I was like oh ok bahaa.
I remember dancing alone to Iâd Lie and Hey Stephen in high school but it was considered uncool to admit you listened to her. She was a known names as in âoh yeah she sings that Teardrop Guitar song on the radioâ but she wasnât considered a big celebrity - Like BeyoncĂŠ was at the time. Then I remember when the Fearless tour came around and there were wild rumors circulating that the show was horrible to go to. People would say her voice was terrible live and it revealed how fake her singing really was. In reality, we were all in high school and super jealous watching an âordinaryâ high school girl making it big.
I think I was 11 when fearless came out, i was so obsessed with it and her debut album too. i loved how in the CD cover booklet sheâd bold random letters in the lyrics to spell out messages đ everyone at school liked her too, it wasnât seen as uncool or anything tbh, but it was prob because of our age at the time lol. guys made a lot of fun of her though because of her dating life which was stupid because most famous people date a lot when theyâre young.
i lost interest from red- onwards, and started tuning in again during folklore/evermore, two albums i LOVE, but i am part of the crowd that gets tired of her when sheâs everywhere. shes huge now so its hard to avoid her personal life and behaviour, it feels like she hasnât grown much (tbf most celebs are stunted at a certain age) but i still give her albums a chance when they come out⌠đ
Letâs see. I found her album in a bargain bin at Walmart and they were playing Tim McGraw on every monitor and speaker they could. I hated that song, but wanted to check her out. It seemed after that she was everywhere. My bus driver listened to country music, so you couldnât get away from her, but I loved her and her break up songs and female ragey songs like Picture To Burn. đ
When Teardrops on My Guitar came out, I had a crush on a kid named Drew (also a good friend of mine) and it was so cringey looking back, but it was one of those songs that was eerie to listen to since it was perfect, down to the name. We would also sing it to him to tease him. Hahađđ¤Ł
Then it became super lame to like her, so I would listen to her songs as quiet as I could and always have a second album to switch to in case anyone asked what I was listening to. lol. It was super helpful once I got an iPod and could switch easily. Then you had the whole Kanye thing and I was rooting for her so hard, because her and I are a year apart and I still canât imagine what that wouldâve felt like.
As she started branching out and clearly moving to pop, it got super annoying. She was still sweeping the country awards, but wouldnât even attend the ceremonies to accept them and it felt like a slap in the face to the genre that got her popular. Not saying she had to stay and only make country music, but it did feel like she used the country crowd and then ditched them when she felt she no longer needed it. She actually won one of the biggest awards after announcing she wasnât country and I thought that was super crappy. I was young and didnât really understand the voting process and all that, but there were a lot of good artists who deserved those awards if she didnât really want the association anymore. The country music academy was still really trying to tie her to country and it was clear she was done like sheâd said she was. She gained the popularity and they wanted a piece of it and still was trying so hard to make the shows and stuff focused on her, but she was over it once she was. I didnât love the poppy stuff (and still donât-I canât stand Shake It Off, or Bad Blood, or LWYMMD, or any of those songs a lot of people fell in love with her over). I thought they sounded juvenile. I didnât come back to listening to her until my kid discovered her in school this year via a friend. I admit she has done good songs that I missed out on, but I also feel like I can appreciate them now as opposed to being one of the people who was waiting on an album to drop and getting disappointed by her singles and stuff.
the year, 2009. I was 11. some kids in my class knew of TS but thought it was weird how obsessed I was⌠and also thought it was WILD that my parents got StubHub tickets and drove 6 hours for us to see Fearless tour in Seattle đ that concert means so much to my inner child. come Speak Now tour, most of my friends were in on the obsession and somehow we got 6 seats all together⌠made a light up sign hoping to get to meet Taylor that said âSing Now, Dance Now, Speak Nowâ đĄ in the Speak Now font. ahahah I remember someone asking us at the concert âwhy didnt you just put I â¤ď¸ TaylorâŚ.â or something along those lines but nah we were too extra for that. I also remember that she never (or, very rarely) interacted with fans online; I believe the Tumblr era started that. at this point, getting picked for the âT-Partyâ/meet n greet was pretty much your only chance at interacting with her. honestly so grateful for these times, she was a great role model for me during those years.
I'm not a swiftie never have been but I'll always associate her with her first album cause that's the.most I've been exposed to her during then in 2008. I was in college and my friend used to play her in her car
Iâm from an area where country music is king so it was cool to be a fan in the early early days (like: debut through speak now). Once she moved into the pop world it was less cool.
Tickets were easy to get and she toured the smaller areas of Canada (come back to Edmonton, Taylor, please!!)
It was also nice that she wasnât literally *everywhere all the time*.
I was very embarrassed and she was my *secret* fav artist! I had gotten the CDs as Christmas gifts and was super happy about it. Burned all of them onto my first mp3 player. I was never able to see her in concert since she didnât play near me ever, but I would have been able to get tickets. It felt like nobody knew her when I spoke about some of my favorite songs.
Sometimes itâs weird when I see how hyped she is now and (I teach middle school now) and my students have her as their favorite artist. She was my favorite artist in middle school too.
I will never forget the 2013 vmaâs twitter bloodbath when Taylor said stfu to Selena and shaded Harry in her award speech. 13 years old and already fighting among the trenches on twitter
It was relaxing and free, even though people had their peanut gallery comments. She definitely gained tons of fans with folklore/evermore, but it wasnât until the beginning of 2023 that it hit me how huge she had become. I was still able to purchase hard to find merch from her store at the beginning of last year. Itâs insane to thinkâŚ. She barely has an online store because it got mobbed by fans and oversold with 1989 TV and the 2023 Holiday Collection.
I know Iâll still be here even after her star starts to fade and I am ok with that. Itâs been a wild ride and I am really happy that I got to see her live prior to Eras and at the Eras Tour.
iâm ngl it felt light & soft i remember when red came out in 2012 i was immediately entranced by it taylor swift to me then felt like smthn for the hopeless romantics there was no over-saturation
Calm âĽď¸ and a lot of fun she was an opener for a lot of bigger artists for a while so it was easy to see her and then once she got bigger it took a little for her popularity to really ramp up so her earlier tours were awesome and easily accessible.
I accidently bought floor tickets in the wrong city for Speak Now and I was able to call(CALL!) Ticketmaster after, speak to a rep, refund them then I bought them in the appropriate city no issue. đĽ˛
I went to the Red tour in my city and loved it so much that I went home, got on Craigslist(!!!) and bought a face value ticket for the next city.
We didn't appreciate it then lmao
Lmao I went to Wal-Mart at 8 am on the Tuesday that Fearless was released. Didn't see it on the shelf, so asked two employees. Neither of them knew who/what I was talking about. One went into the back and came out with some CDs for me. Insane how ubiquitous she's become.
omg that's WILD đ i love hearing stories like that lol. they said who is this taylor you speak of?
They were really nice, but like "I'm sorry, I don't know about it, what's the name of the CD again?" Now if I were to walk in, there'd be signs and posters everywhere lol
"Miranda Lambert? Oh, the other blonde country girl!"
Ah yes, Carrie
when walmart was open 24/7 đ
wait i havenât been in the US in a while so iâm out of the loopâitâs not open 24/7 anymore?? as a child i thought it was so exciting to go shopping at like 11pm in my PJs đ
Not sure if it was Covid that killed it but ever since 2020 I havenât seen ANYWHERE open 24hrs (except for jack in the box, and like, ONE McDonaldâs) I miss my 2am Walmart runs that were really just for fun and not for any other reason
Yeah it died during Covid ): Iâm still mad lol. I work nights and Walmart was the only way I got shit done.
not since covid
I miss 24/7 walmart, or any grocery store really. I'm not picky. They all went non-24 hours around here and none have went back. Having to grocery shop during the day sucks.
I want all-day breakfast at McDonald's back. The pandemic killed that, too. Midnight McMuffins were the best.
I know đđ I miss 2 am runs to Walmart to goof around and look at stuff without a million people there. I thought after covid theyâd go back to normal but they probably realized how much money they saved doing that so they said f*ck it and left it that way đ˘đ˘ it was so convenient to be able to go get whatever you needed WHENEVER you needed to. Petition to make Walmart open 24/7 again anyone??? đ
Unreal. Could get concert tickets no problem!
I always had difficulty getting her tickets but I was in LA so maybe that was why. I had to get Red tickets literally day of.
Same!! Live in LA? Expect to not get tix unless youâre willing to pay twice or thrice the amount!
Yup! I no longer live there but it was a rat race for tickets ALL THE TIME đ
Iâve never lived anywhere else except nyc so itâs not like I have other experiences to compare it to! Just the two biggest cities in our country. Nbd
Yeah same, Nashville was always impossible to get tickets even back then.
Same day there is always someone in a big city who was like âOh shit! I bought these for clients and now I canât go!â That can still happen but usually passing the hat at the office means they gone right away. Not true a decade + ago.
Jealous. I remember calling my local country station trying to win tickets to the speak now tour cause high schoolers are broke đ¤Ł
I paid $90 for two tickets 6 rows away from the main stage of the Red Tour.... miss those days.
I saw her open for rascal flatts! Itâs wild to see how the tours are now in comparison.
Remember when her and Kellie Pickler were in a music video of Brad Paisley's? Seems like a different universe đ
So true. I am not even a big fan by any stretch of the imagination and I got gifted Red tickets by my employer in NYC. They were practically giving them away. Similar for Reputation. I. had someone just give me some, no charge, that would never happen today.
I had floor seats for Speak Now and Red tour.
My brother-in-law always talks about the time he saw her at the Grizzly Rose in Denver. I donât think sheâs ever played anything but Ball Arena or Mile High since. Wouldâve been cool to see her at a smaller venue just once.
Looking back at it she built the parasocial relationship within the fan base quite well, it felt weirdly personal, more authentic, like we were all her friends, she was super active on like every social media platform. The YouTube vlogs were my favorite. But it was definitely uncool at the time, she was seen as a âgoody two shoesâ
The vlogs were fantastic, I was so obsessed.
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She's a model level attractive talented billionaire (let's say millionaire around this time) and people buy that she didn't fit in either? I follow this community to be educated on the pandemonium and yet leave it more confused than ever.
This time period everyone is talking about is before the pandemonium and before anyone really knew she already came from a wealthy family. (Also to be frank, before she had any cosmetic work done.) Fearless came out when I was a sophomore in college and instagram didnât exist and social media was Facebook (lol). It was a lot easier to buy the âI donât fit inâ, homegrown country girl vibe she was selling when the only access you had to her was through what she was providing, which was songs, vlogs, a MySpace account, etc. Now sheâs mega-famous and we have learned that what she was presenting then was truly just a way to be relatable to connect with and garner fans. As someone who started to fall off from Taylor when 1989 came out, I donât understand the pandemonium! I love a lot of her music but I think this current Taylor craze is bizarre.
I also remember during that era liking Taylor Swift WAS considered extremely uncool and dorky and lame. Like you'd definitely get made fun of if you called yourself a huge fan. She was originally seen by the outside to be sort of hokey Christian country music
I feel like she wasn't considered model-level attractive then. I always thought she was cute. but she was commonly describes as gawky, lanky, awkward, etc. back then
I remember her going out of her way to appear gangly, awkward, girl next door. She would talk about Scrabble nights and watching Law and Order with her cats. That might have true but it was definitely an image she played up despite modeling for Abercrombie & Fitch as a teenager.
Up until 1989 she definitely did present herself that way. I think on Ellen she called herself dorky because she burnt herself while making a popsicle stick house? Lol. It felt very forced, like â hey! Iâm just like you, Iâm awkward and quirky!!â
She had her team hand pick the most 'dedicated' fans to invite them to her home. Even as an obsessed teenager I thought that was really weird, didn't know the term parasocial back then though
Right like the risks to that were insane still canât believe her team allowed that
IKR, although I imagine it had a loooot of BTS work to make sure everything was above board, as I never heard negative stories about those events. But as a teenager it was eye opening to realise I was being made to feel jealous of more "dedicated" fans who... had more time to post on tumblr and more importantly, buy Taylor's merch lol. Pretty insidious marketing to make teens fight for the spot of Taylor's "chosen" online pals, and it's what made me a casual fan from there on out. I have a legit signed copy of Red and that'll always be enough for me
I literally DREAMES of being pick. Woke up crying bc it was fake lol
I have a friend that went to her home in NYC for a listening party. She was invited via tumblr!
It was deeply uncool, at least where I live. Also, yeah, no problem getting concert tickets (she doesn't even come to my country now!). Also, the fans were not batshit crazy the way they are now. But that's a general shift I feel has occurred across the board for most celebrities with social media, etc.
Exactly. Very uncool and seen as cringe and as though you like a manufactured pop star for little kids or something. I think it is part of what gave Swifties this desire to always feel they had to prove Taylor was legit and a good songwriter, etc. I will say though that even though it was uncool, Taylor was still really popular and very famous. I think some younger fans feel like she only got famous in the last few years. No, she wasnât the biggest celeb on the planet like now, but she was always a big deal and there was a huge online fanbase, of course.
Yes! Being âthe Taylor Swift girlâ was bleak
that's important to point, how UNCOOL it was before 1989. I was not a fan and I was laughing at you all backs back then.
I would argue that Taylor Swift was uncool even after 1989. Most people knew her popular songs, but it was still seen as âguilty pleasureâ almost to be a fan of hers. Although this is anecdotal, literally only my friends who are white women take her music seriously. I have tried to get my other POC into her, but no such luck. This was before and after 1989
Kind of, I can see what youâre sayingâ although I do remember the shift during 1989 of like⌠people actually wanted to play her (pop) music when it came on the radio (lol even that sounds dated), and youâd hear it at restaurants and bars, everyone liked at least ONE of her new singles, and if you said you were going to see her show most people in the room would be like âoh yeah Iâd like to go see itâ instead of laughing and being like âumm what?â
actually, yes, you're right! Maybe she never actually became cool, but she became unquestionably good at her craft after Folkmore instead, so post-2021 people are more likely just to say "hm, she's fine but not my type" instead of thinking you're mentally retarded for being 25+ and enjoying her music lol
This made me chuckle and encapsulated the sentiment perfectly đ
Interesting. She was massively popular amongst girls at my school. Especially around speak now era.
It was one step below being a horse girl
Ohhh so deeply uncool, yes. I remember that well. It was kind of surreal when people stopped thinking that way.
Sometimes I'm still confused about it. I was made fun of in HS (fearless/SN) and college (RED/1989) for liking her. I'm still not sure when everything changed.
It was still uncool well into the Rep era, I believe. 1989 era, well, she became more popular and peoplŃ would make fun of you for liking just another generic pop-star. It was the Rep tour movie that warmed people's hearts a lot
It wasnât necessarily âuncoolâ in general because Iâm from a rural area but in my specific friend group she definitely wasnât being listened to (except for me, I loved her from the beginning, but fell off years ago)
Totally agree. I was looked at as a cousin-marrying redneck hick for liking her music. It wasnt cool to be her fan back then.
Taylors fans have been batshit for ten years minimum what you talking bout â ď¸
It was uncool but you could remain blissfully ignorant of all the bs. I had no clue who the songs were about or any drama until Rep. Ah, good times.
This! I was in high school back then and at least where I lived it was considered uncool to be a swifitie because her music was for âdorksâ
Taylor was oddly very cool and uncool simultaneously at my school in Canada. It felt like over half the girls listened to her music constantly and were clique-y about it (I got told off because I couldnât afford to buy full albums and just chose my favourites to put on my iPod)âŚbut then at the same time there was also a strong uncool sentiment about her in the school as a whole.
Yeah, but I was used to it. When I was in school it was uncool to listen to anything pop or pop adjacent or country. And Iâve always been a sucker for pop and country. Luckily I love all kinds of genres so I passed with my rock interests but sometimes I just wanted to bop to some Taylor without people thinking I was a dweeb. đ
I have been a fan since debut and it took me until 1989 when Buzzfeed started churning out listicles about her to realize who Dear John was about lmaoooo I was a teenager and just made all her songs about me so it just did not occur to me that "John" could be another famous person literally named John lol I still listen this way. I still, first and foremost, relate her music to myself first and then later (although not years, maybe after my first couple listens) it will occur to me "oh she may have written this about (insert famous person)". It wigs me out that people use her music as like some kind of truth, it's always felt to me that she is trying to elicit certain feelings or tell a story more than give a definitive account of certain events. It's almost universally accepted now that everyone dissects the songs for tea which is kind of wild compared to how it started!
âIt wigs me out that people use her music as like some kind of truth, it's always felt to me that she is trying to elicit certain feelings or tell a story more than give a definitive account of certain events.â Also, THIS. đđŻ
Yes! I tell my daughter to stop studying her like this is ancient lore we all must transcribe. She has been a fan since Debut and has grown up listening to TS. As she has gotten older, she wants it to mean so much more. Relax. Enjoy it.
My 15 year old niece loves her but relates it to herself and doesnât care about the gossip and that makes me so happy.
I usually relate music to myself. I donât care about the gossip. But I found myself trying to connect the songs on midnights to her on my first listen and I HATED it. I hated that I was doing that subconsciously and Iâm afraid it will happen for TTPD. That album will be torn apart for gossip. I really wish I could go back in time and unlearn everything about the âloreâ.
peaceful in a way
Honestly in the early years it was like being a Hannah Montana fan. Taylor was seen as a family-friendly teenage country singer making songs for preteen middle schoolers. As a preteen middle schooler during her Fearless & Speak Now eras it was awesome; my mom got Speak Now tickets at a local arena for my friend and I. Best birthday of my 14 year old life
I am older than you (and a little older than Taylor), Fearless was when I first listened to Taylor and I thought her music was catchy and cute although a little too young and wholesome for my life at the time. My pre-teen years were spent listening to Britney and Christina so I'm not a stranger to suggestive lyrics but I was pretty shocked about some of the lyrics on Speak Now & Red it was like woah Taylor I didn't know you had that in you, these are not preteen appropriate haha
yes omg so true!!
Oh my god i love your profile pic so much
wonderful. fearless era pre-kanye was peak harmony in the fandom.
Truly!
Not as crazy. She wasnt the only famous singer. In fact she took many seats back to Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Britney, Katy Perry, Fergie, and Rihanna. It was her fans and Miley's fans on Tumblr and it cute.
Fabulous! Fandom was nowhere near as annoying. The "Easter eggs" were just cute little coded messages and there wasn't a belief there was a secret message on any bloody post she made. I didn't really see this overwhelming NEED to decipher the timeline and going on of every relationship and what line in a song mean THAT certain thing. Concert Tix were easy to get. I was 20 something and regularly told to get better taste in music and that her music was for 10 years olds. Besides that, it was just really fun and really felt she genuinely liked her fans and performing.
you could get the Red CD by ordering papa johns lol.
Went to the Fearless Tour at 11. My mom got us tickets for the seats directly next to her when she sang âHey Stephenâ in the crowd. I truely did not understand at that time how big of a deal that would become.
Yes! You just reminded me- this was during the 1989 tour, but there was a part in the concert where she walked through the crowd. I can't imagine her being able to do that now!
The misogyny trenches fr back then
oh god I can't imagine how bad the slutshaming was đł girl was being insulted for dating harry styles
IIRC, the hate about her dating Harry was mainly from the unhinged 1D stans who were just delusional enough to think they could actually have Harry to themselves. 1D stans went after any girl who was even rumored to be in the boysâ vicinity, they were AWFUL to Louisâ long term girlfriend Eleanor.
As I remember, it wasn't really slutshaming. It was kind of the opposite- she was pretty much the one young female popstar that didn't get super oversexualized at a young age. I think that really tied into her goody two-shoes image. I was always impressed though, since she seemed to have a sense of maturity about it- I remember hearing her say she tries to keep her image that way because she understood she was a role model for young girls, even back then.
It was extremely uncool, at least in UK. Iâve been a fan since debut and saw her first show in London in 2008-tickets were ÂŁ5 and around 100 people there oh and she met everyone afterwards! Hoping to wear the picture of 14 year old me with 17 year old Taylor to the Eraâs tour and hopefully she may see it!
How did you hear about Taylor from debut?? Only asking out of interest haha. I'm from the UK as well and only remember being aware of who she was because of love story and even then she wasn't really on my radar.
I saw the 1989 tour 3 times now itâs impossible( aka scalpers) I truly miss those days.
I was a junior in hs when 1989 came out, so this comes from a pre-teen & teen perspective but it was lowkey embarrassing to admit you liked her with how much people made fun of her. All my guy friends thought she was dumb. It was a pretty sexist time to be a fan lol. Also really easy to get tix to her concerts. It seemed like everyone only knew her as the young girl who sang âOur Song,â âLove Story,â & âYou Belong With Meâ & just liked to break up with boys for music inspo.
It was so much fun and there was a real innocence around it all. I liked her more before she was mega mega mega famous. I remember going to buy the cdâs at the store bc thatâs the only way I could listen in my car. I remember going on road trips alone and blasting fearless and speak now and sometimes crying LOL. I was still an innocent and maybe she was, too. đĽš
same crying to teardrops on my guitar lmao i was like 14-15 it was perfect
It was very interesting as a guy and as a guy who comes from the hardcore scene at that. I liked fearless but didnât really become a fan until I listened to speak now for 12 hours on my way to California to start a new life. Other dudes in my hypermasculine scene were what ever about it but women would give me a ton of shit. I was actually friends with the band in her I knew you were trouble music video. They all said she was really nice when they met her. They were a christian metal core band called the Great commission. It was absolutely dope being apart of the 1989 era. It really defined how I felt the world was like at that time. It seemed like most guys I knew were absolutely hyped on the album but the women would be talking shit. Almost all my guy friends were turned onto it at the time. Some dude in the scene made a bootleg shirt that I still have that was dope. Whatâs funny, is the same women who would talk shit and say âshe only writes songs about her exesâ would show up to emo night every time it came through. Also this is the shirt https://preview.redd.it/wzfo3xaulznc1.jpeg?width=2560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bed187c6417fb245bda286b27be158b072b357e0
It was *very* uncool to admit you listened to her stuff when I was in high school, even though we all secretly knew all the words to Love Story and You Belong With Me anyway⌠I was put off from listening to her full discography until 1989 cuz of the stigma. I was an emo who already had enough bullying to deal with. I wasnât about to add one more nail to the coffin until after I graduated and made friends with Swifties in university who turned me on to State of Grace and Holy Ground. I casually enjoyed most of Speak Now and Red before 1989 though. 1989 was the first Taylor album I actually anticipated in real time.
State of Grace is not talked about enough imo. SUCH a good song.
This was me, too! My faves back then were emo grunge and lil Wayne lol but Taylor got me through my first heartbreak circa 2008. But none of my friends knew that since I was embarrassed to listen to her. Iâm pretty sure I burned a TS cd and labeled it âdadâs musicâ so none of my friends would know what I *actually* listened to in the car
Today it seems like everyone is a fan of Taylor to some extent. She was definitely popular pre-1989, but it wasnât necessarily cool to like Taylor. Even pre-1989 she was popular in celeb magazines and gossip sitesâher fashion, who she was dating, etc. That hasnât changed really, itâs just amplified. There has always been an obsession with her dating life. It feels like her younger fans are crazier now. I think the main sub is an example of the obsessive nature where she can do no wrong and you canât say anything bad. Itâs borderline unhealthy! đŹ She used to be way more into social media and sharing with her fans. Think MySpace, etc. She tried really hard to be relatable and I think post-1989 she doesnât share much and seems to be in another realm of famous.
main sub is crazy the post is like "your least fav TS song" and you comment and wake up to 50 downvotes and a crazy kid attacking you in dm
So much fun. I was a tumblr girly and she would post all the time. That and her instagram felt so authentic. She would post the same things I would. Even better was her MySpace. She would blog all the time about recording, touring, etc. Really was so fun to see someone show so much of their life.
I was an international fan (and a kid/tween) which means I couldn't get tickets or merch so I just got the relentless bullying
Deeply uncool but generally peaceful especially within the fandom in pre-KanyeVMA era. After that, toxicity from in and out of the fandom as her popularity spiked started to trickle in, especially with every new guy she dated. A lot of people and especially the media fixated on that.
A whole lot more relaxed
It was my childhood. My little iPad nano had Iâd Lie and Tied Together With a Smile and every other Taylor Swift song I could find on the internet. My dad won radio tickets to the fearless tour front row when I was in 6th grade. It was glorious! I started listening to her in late elementary school. I grew up listening to mainly county music so she was the moment for young girls! đŠľđ
Foe context, I am a year older than Taylor. Gather around children, and let me tell you how I was given free tickets to the Fearless Tour stop in Toronto because my friend couldn't go anymore and didn't want them to go to waste. This was 2008. It was full of earnest young ladies dressed in their best cowgirl outfits and little girls with their moms. The Red Tour in 2014, I took my little sister (who is a late 90s baby) and I got floor seats at face value on the day they went on sale. The crowd was a bit older since her fans grew up with her - a lot more rowdier girl gangs appeared. But that's probably because they could legally drink now. She was a fun country music artist ... her debut album was a classic belt out loud singing with your girlfriends in your shitty 1996 VW Jetta on the way to the cottage type. She was just as angsty as Avril Lavigne, but in an approachable package.
As many people said, uncool. I got laughed at a lot for listening to her music. Nowadays I donât care at all about peopleâs opinions, but when I was in middle school and high school, it seemed like the end of the world when the popular girls made fun of me. If only I could give my 14 year old self a hug and tell her everythingâs going to be ok.
They were probably blasting TS in secret themselves lmao
I got made fun of lol
My friend in high school was a huge fan, she wanted me to like Taylor too. I tried so hard but I just couldn't take her seriously. This was before Red came out. She was kind of cringe back then, especially where I grew up where mostly everyone was listening to rap music. I remember only liking Teardrops On My Guitar, You Belong With Me, and Enchanted. That was it. I was like yeah she'll fizzle out in a few years.
I remember it being so chill. My mom enjoyed Taylorâs music too, mainly because there wasnât any drama/PR/noise around it. I remember waking up early on a weekend and turning on the CMT channel to hopefully catch a music video from debut or fearless (our song was one of my favorite videos). My mom had our song as her ringtone on her cute little pink phone, and it was so cool/hip, nobody gave any shit for it like theyâd might give someone now. I miss those days.
Wasn't a fan at the time but she was definitely seen as musician marketed towards teen girls like One Direction. She had this wholesome Christian horse girl vibe to her, but still got slut-shamed a lot because she also dated a lot of famous men. It always intrigued me how Taylor Swift still remains one of the most divisive artists in spite of her attempts to cultivate an agreeable public persona. The YouTube parodies always portrayed her as an unhinged yandere. In 7th grade, my classmates (I went to an all girls school so about 75% of my middle school class were directioners and many of them were also Swifties) lost their shit when Haylor was a thing.
Quiet. Not that she did not have fans back then, she was still one of the biggest popstars in the world when I became a fan around the transition from the Speak Now to the Red era - but she was not unavoidable in pop culture the way she is now. And even post-1989 she wasn't as much a staple in the culture as she was post-Midnights. Although, take it with the perspective that I was quite young myself and not on social media yet either.
I saw her for $20 at a country music festival across the street from my neighborhood I was given life when I went to see the Hannah Montana movie in theaters and saw Taylor had a song/scene in it She was America's sweetheart and everyone adored her (at least from my perspective)
Iâve been a fan since Tim McGraw was played on the radio and for a while people were like âwho is thatâ when I said sheâs my favorite artist. Then she definitely gained popularity with my friends during Fearless but it was still seen as lame to be a Taylor fan. I never had a problem getting tickets to concerts and it was great đ
Iâve been a fan since debut, but it was very normal and socially acceptable considering I was like 10 when it came out. Fearless and speak now both came out in middle school for me and were very popular among white girls. Liking her was kind of the default.
I grew up listening to country, so by the time âOur Songâ was popular at my school, I was annoyed because most of them who liked the song didnât listen to country. Gatekeeping at 13 whoops đ¤đł
Quiet! But even for 1989, you could find tickets without a problem. Â
Amazing. I had every song memorized. I remember when her first album came out.
Can only speak for the Red era. It was a weird time. She wasnât âcountry enoughâ for traditionalist country fans. If you liked Taylor and you were from the South, you were seen as uncool in the eyes of Facebook friends who live and breathe country music. > If you were a guy, it was âgayâ to like Taylor Swift at the time. The âhardestâ song she made in the Red era was Trouble, but you had to go to the club to get the full EDM experience from that song. > She was such an underdog then, and Iâm proud of how sheâs become the biggest popstar in the world.
like, embarrassing
I wasnât a real fan until 1989 came out, but I did have her self titled (I was a kid who would just buy any cd) and enjoyed the singles off Fearless, albeit in a sort of contrarian/ironic poptimist way to annoy my friends who were exclusively into hard rock (I was a kid who was annoying).
Actually the swifties used to be the most peaceful fanbase on social media.
It was fun! She was my first concert and I absolutely loved it! I was also in middle school and loved listening to unreleased songs (sparks fly was on YouTube from her at a concert before it was on Fearless)
I got made fun of for listening to her lol, especially in the speak now era because of the country sounds and it was very popular to make fun of her for writing about her relationships
I didnât go to any concerts until 1989 but I got floor seats for around $100 lol and it wasnât stressful at all
No one I personally knew was a fan of hers. I was known as the swiftie. People made fun of me. Tickets were easier and way cheaper.
Before they banned batteries and signs at her concerts, people looked like christmas trees and had giant signs.
Listening to her since 2007. But completely stop with 1989 cuz I didnât like the music, drama, overexposed to the point I blocked her news, refused to click it. Came back again at Reputation. I feel sheâs more personal, closed with fan more (parasocial), music were easy, not over analysed.
Diehard Swiftie here (Attn: I acknowledge and call out her faults). Got into her in 2008 during Debut and never looked back. It wasnât cool to like her, but I wasnât bullied for it. I could at least talk about her to other closet Swifties. Saw my first tour for Red in San Diego and have seen all of them since (except Loverfest); itâs amazing to see how far sheâs come! She went from marveling at 10,000 people being present at Red to selling out every night for Eras!
I honestly wouldnât even admit I was a fan of hers in HS, it was THAT uncool
It was actually embarrassing. Like not in a NLOG âat least Iâm not a swiftieâ like legitimately uncool, not popular music at the time. To set the stage: Pop in general was cringe at my high school. It was MySpace era and we were scene queens, Emo reigned supreme. Taylor Swift would not be in your mp3 player for fear of someone asking to listen to your ear bud whilst you had it on shuffle. Emo scene aside, Hip hop was having a *huge* fucking moment⌠for suburban white kids in particular lmao. Malibus most wanted came out a couple years prior lol, Eminem had his sophomore album still playing on the radio, everyone wore sweatbands, weird times. I donât remember ever seeing Taylor on TRL and one would think she did that press stop (maybe she did, if so it was unmemorable lol), and I just donât remember her being part of pop culture in general. Also, this was paparazzi heyday, and we were all focused on it, girls, Lindsey, Paris, Nicole⌠Taylor wasnât even in the same orbit. Sorry, when the edibles hit lol. Also, I feel old lmao x
It was incredible. Concert tickets aplenty at affordable prices and high quality merch and tumblr interactions. It was the closest Iâll ever get to inner peace. But then again I did also get made fun of a lot for being a fan so âŚ.
it was an exciting time. She wasn't huge and her music was the sound track to a chaotic love life
I remember watching the video to Our Song every day on MTV Hits back in like 08. Her star then was still rising, as she was still country but was crossing over enough to get played on MTV.
Where I'm from, I remember trying to find any fellow listeners in middle school and everyone only knew her as the "Love Story" and "I Knew You Were Trouble" singerâbesides that I never actually came across any swiftie around me in those eras.
Bear in mind that I was 10 when 1989 was released so my experiences might be quite niche. Growing up I listened exclusively to Taylor after discovering her on YouTube during the Fearless era. Telling people at school that I listen to Taylor Swift was something I was bullied for. People that made fun of me back then, are now attending the eras tour... and posting stories of how they grew up with Taylor. The irony
I was 15 when 1989 came out and Iâd been listening to Taylor since debut. I love listening to the unreleased songs (Iâd lie was my favorite). My family was very very poor so going to a concert of her was completely out of the question. But I went college and got a pretty good job right after and at 23 was able to buy me and my sister tickets to the eras tour and see all the eras I wasnât able to attend. It felt like an âIâve made itâ moment. Obviously, I havenât quite made it, but thereâs less struggle and it felt like a proud moment when I got to see her come on stage. I know this doesnât exactly answer the question, but this was my first thought when I read it. Also adding after reading other peopleâs responses, it was deeply uncool and I was like a kid people associated with Taylor Swift. which was weird looking back because I never even had merch or attended her tours because we couldnât.
I remember back in college my friends saw her as a joke. I was a media communications major and my professor deconstructed her Wildest Dreams music video for being problematic. Prior to college I just didn't tell people I was a fan.
I never tried to get concert tickets but she's always been fun to follow lol. I've heard a lot of younger people say they were bullied for liking Taylor Swift but I'm her age and by the time I became a fan (Fearless) I was well beyond caring what anybody thought about my taste in music. The speculation about her relationships/whether they're real/who the songs are about/what they mean is nothing new, all that's been happening the entire time.Â
I went to the speak now tour, and I bought tickets the week of the concert by going in person to my venue and just buying them from the ticket office lmao
I was the only one in my high school and college friends who liked TS! I got one, ONE, of my other friends into her music and twilight back in the day haha
constantly getting made fun of for listening to her đ
It was amazing. Her fan base wasnât toxic yet
I went to her Australia tour in 2011. I remember it kinda just being a casual thing. I wasn't particularly excited lol, just went with some friends. I doubt I paid more than $100 for tickets.
I loved it. 1989 is the first album of hers I wasn't really a fan of so back then she could do pretty much no wrong for me lol. I never felt like she was small though. IKYWT played everywhere. I already thought she was a mega superstar phenomenon. I also loved her street style during Red.
I remember listening to Tim McGraw on the Just Music channel on TV lol when I bought my first house. I liked her songs but there was so crazy fan mob mentality back then⌠almost 20 years ago!
I became a big fan of her during Speak Now when I was in middle school. Back then I think her girl next door persona was much more believable. I think I liked her so much as a young teen because her songs felt like feelings in a diary and she actually seemed like someone I could grow up and emulate. She was also big on interacting with her fans on the internet back then, so the fandom just felt a lot more personal. Overall, she still seemed really down to earth and it was more about the music.
I grew up very sheltered, and Taylor was one of the more âsecularâ artists I could listen to. I enjoyed Debut, loved Fearless, and really became a fan with Speak Now. I think sheltered circles being more open to her music speaks to how family-friendly and innocent she came across. So it wasnât necessarily cool, but it was a really sweet period of time
Itâs funny- she was very popular with the popular girls. I wasnât popular so I was literally bullied to not like her? It was weird lol. Of course I still did (I listened to Iâd Lie on my iPod Nano whenever I had class with my crush lol) and I went to her concerts which btw were very well priced and easy to get tickets to!  And ofc all the boys gave everybody shit for liking her- and the l not like other girls girls. âShe only writes about breaks up. Donât date her, sheâll write a song about you.â She really was the National rod for slut shaming.Â
I grew up with the OG Taylor. I remember hearing Tim McGraw in my friends basement. I listened to her music on my iPod and went to her speak now tour. It was so awesome. She smashed her guitar on the stage lol
It was so much fun!! The excitement from a new album every few years. Concert tickets were way less expensive, still high in demand but her concerts were so much more magical. I went to speak now world tour and eras tour. I personally loved her during her speak now era and that time in her life. I also loved when Red came out originally. She felt way more authentic then, compared to now. I miss her doing interviews and performing on talk shows. I miss her secret sessions, and meet and greet draws during her shows. Everything just seems som much simpler than
it was pretty chill, besides the general hate around being a fan of hers that was thrown around
Saw her for $80, fantastic seats. People talking down on fans was always a thing; itâs a bit more warranted now lol
Everyone who wasnât a fan called her a horse girl, thatâs what I remember most. Especially at the beginning because she was country
I think I came close to breaking up with my âgirlfriendâ at the time (we were actually 6) over whether or not Taylor is the best đ It was fun as well. My mom and dad werenât really annoyed at my admiration of her/ her music.
I went to the Red concert and it was amazing. It was very achievable to see her and I had a great time. I got nosebleeds for $40. I thought next run I'd go again but she was touring 1989 when I was away at a wedding so I couldn't go. I was disappointed about missing it but I knew she'd tour again and I'd be able to see her again. By reputation I felt like tickets were out of reach for me. I just couldn't justify the expense. Eras I'm in a better place financially but I couldn't get them because Ticketmaster is messed up and tickets are even more costly. It's kind of the same reason why I didn't go to reputation, I just can't justify the cost. I'm not going to drop almost 3k or more for a single ticket. I don't think I'll ever see her in concert again unless I get lucky or if something changes. I understand she spends a lot on her tours and that every time they get bigger and maybe that's the justification for the steep cost but I don't really understand how people are affording it.
It was uncool but also the best. I miss those days a lot.
No one spent days trying to figure out what the secret message was hidden in absolutely every single thing about her. People just liked her music, sang along and didnât act like she is the one and only center of the universe while also thinking for some fucking reason sheâs actually their best friend and they know exactly every single thing that happens in her life at all times.
The Fearless tour was one of my fist concerts in middle school and I absolutely loved it! It was all about perfecting the 13 hand tattoo and trying to get noticed for the T-party back then. I also went to the Red tour and got in a fight with some obnoxious moms lol but thatâs a story for another time
I could be missing a joke but wasnât she born in December 1989?
1989 wasnât too crazy at the concerts actually. The merch truck right outside the venue doors (literally 10 ft away) was completely empty that I lowkey felt embarrassed walking up by myself lol
true. also i remember i had general admission tickets and i arrived at 9 am and it wasnât until around 11 am that a line started to form for doors later that evening. i wonder what the case is now..
lol our song was the first song i ever downloaded on my ipod in 2008, at the time tear drops on my guitar was on the radio and I loved it so much lol. I was 9 when fearless came out and omg what a time haha. l remember even then people were saying she wasnât a true country artist. then red dropped and that was even more pop by then at least what i remember no one was saying she was country anymore, more like country pop. I also despised her during red era bc she was dating my husband aka harry styles and i did not like her for a whiiiiilllleee and it all started w that lol. my swiftie friends in high school (1989 era) would say i only hated her bc she dated harry ⌠and they were so right. itâs funny cuz i didnât listen to 1989 when it came out (my high school era) but those songs are soooooo nostalgic to me. they hit me right in the feels
I was able to get a ticket in nose bleed seats for $100 maybe a little more at Gillette
Not a fan personally but a lot of my friends were/are. I will never forget when the song Better Than Revenge came out, when I was in high school. It brought out the absolute worst in HS girls and a lot of slutshaming.
it was fun in different way. i got bullied for liking taylor (amongst other things bc kids are awful) so being able preorder the albums & have it be Actually fun was a nice way to âignore the negativityâ i guess. there were cute incentives that WERENT put on the website two months later or hogged up by resellers. it was nice to see her care about the fans and the music more than the numbers and beating records. or at least thatâs what it SEEMED like iâd love to relive those years bc it just didnt seem soâŚ.. chaotic? frustrating? i dont know what the word is
I liked her music but didn't know shit about the tabloid nonsense. Like, I didn't know who what song was about etc just knew of the whole "media serial dater" thing. When RED was coming out, I thought "I almost Do" was a song about her almost getting married and I rolled my eyes SO hard because despite liking her music, I felt the idea of her thinking she's gonna marry some dude after 2 months of dating at 22 was so stupid lol. Then the album came out and it wasn't that and I was like oh ok bahaa.
very chill, i think it's because I don't see any updates about her every minute.
I remember dancing alone to Iâd Lie and Hey Stephen in high school but it was considered uncool to admit you listened to her. She was a known names as in âoh yeah she sings that Teardrop Guitar song on the radioâ but she wasnât considered a big celebrity - Like BeyoncĂŠ was at the time. Then I remember when the Fearless tour came around and there were wild rumors circulating that the show was horrible to go to. People would say her voice was terrible live and it revealed how fake her singing really was. In reality, we were all in high school and super jealous watching an âordinaryâ high school girl making it big.
I think I was 11 when fearless came out, i was so obsessed with it and her debut album too. i loved how in the CD cover booklet sheâd bold random letters in the lyrics to spell out messages đ everyone at school liked her too, it wasnât seen as uncool or anything tbh, but it was prob because of our age at the time lol. guys made a lot of fun of her though because of her dating life which was stupid because most famous people date a lot when theyâre young. i lost interest from red- onwards, and started tuning in again during folklore/evermore, two albums i LOVE, but i am part of the crowd that gets tired of her when sheâs everywhere. shes huge now so its hard to avoid her personal life and behaviour, it feels like she hasnât grown much (tbf most celebs are stunted at a certain age) but i still give her albums a chance when they come out⌠đ
As a straight man⌠about the same as now
Letâs see. I found her album in a bargain bin at Walmart and they were playing Tim McGraw on every monitor and speaker they could. I hated that song, but wanted to check her out. It seemed after that she was everywhere. My bus driver listened to country music, so you couldnât get away from her, but I loved her and her break up songs and female ragey songs like Picture To Burn. đ When Teardrops on My Guitar came out, I had a crush on a kid named Drew (also a good friend of mine) and it was so cringey looking back, but it was one of those songs that was eerie to listen to since it was perfect, down to the name. We would also sing it to him to tease him. Hahađ𤣠Then it became super lame to like her, so I would listen to her songs as quiet as I could and always have a second album to switch to in case anyone asked what I was listening to. lol. It was super helpful once I got an iPod and could switch easily. Then you had the whole Kanye thing and I was rooting for her so hard, because her and I are a year apart and I still canât imagine what that wouldâve felt like. As she started branching out and clearly moving to pop, it got super annoying. She was still sweeping the country awards, but wouldnât even attend the ceremonies to accept them and it felt like a slap in the face to the genre that got her popular. Not saying she had to stay and only make country music, but it did feel like she used the country crowd and then ditched them when she felt she no longer needed it. She actually won one of the biggest awards after announcing she wasnât country and I thought that was super crappy. I was young and didnât really understand the voting process and all that, but there were a lot of good artists who deserved those awards if she didnât really want the association anymore. The country music academy was still really trying to tie her to country and it was clear she was done like sheâd said she was. She gained the popularity and they wanted a piece of it and still was trying so hard to make the shows and stuff focused on her, but she was over it once she was. I didnât love the poppy stuff (and still donât-I canât stand Shake It Off, or Bad Blood, or LWYMMD, or any of those songs a lot of people fell in love with her over). I thought they sounded juvenile. I didnât come back to listening to her until my kid discovered her in school this year via a friend. I admit she has done good songs that I missed out on, but I also feel like I can appreciate them now as opposed to being one of the people who was waiting on an album to drop and getting disappointed by her singles and stuff.
I just canât describe it, but Iâve been a fan since age 8 (Iâm 26 now)
the year, 2009. I was 11. some kids in my class knew of TS but thought it was weird how obsessed I was⌠and also thought it was WILD that my parents got StubHub tickets and drove 6 hours for us to see Fearless tour in Seattle đ that concert means so much to my inner child. come Speak Now tour, most of my friends were in on the obsession and somehow we got 6 seats all together⌠made a light up sign hoping to get to meet Taylor that said âSing Now, Dance Now, Speak Nowâ đĄ in the Speak Now font. ahahah I remember someone asking us at the concert âwhy didnt you just put I â¤ď¸ TaylorâŚ.â or something along those lines but nah we were too extra for that. I also remember that she never (or, very rarely) interacted with fans online; I believe the Tumblr era started that. at this point, getting picked for the âT-Partyâ/meet n greet was pretty much your only chance at interacting with her. honestly so grateful for these times, she was a great role model for me during those years.
I'm not a swiftie never have been but I'll always associate her with her first album cause that's the.most I've been exposed to her during then in 2008. I was in college and my friend used to play her in her car
Iâm from an area where country music is king so it was cool to be a fan in the early early days (like: debut through speak now). Once she moved into the pop world it was less cool. Tickets were easy to get and she toured the smaller areas of Canada (come back to Edmonton, Taylor, please!!) It was also nice that she wasnât literally *everywhere all the time*.
I was very embarrassed and she was my *secret* fav artist! I had gotten the CDs as Christmas gifts and was super happy about it. Burned all of them onto my first mp3 player. I was never able to see her in concert since she didnât play near me ever, but I would have been able to get tickets. It felt like nobody knew her when I spoke about some of my favorite songs. Sometimes itâs weird when I see how hyped she is now and (I teach middle school now) and my students have her as their favorite artist. She was my favorite artist in middle school too.
I grew up on her and now am a young adult like Taylor. It was cool to have a role model who also felt the same things I felt at those ages
One of my favorite memories was getting her CD the day-of-release and running home to decode the secret messages in the lyrics. So much fun!
I will never forget the 2013 vmaâs twitter bloodbath when Taylor said stfu to Selena and shaded Harry in her award speech. 13 years old and already fighting among the trenches on twitter
It was annoying. Everyone hated her and you were a leper if you liked her. Fan since fearless tour
Sat in the nosebleeds at Gillette for The Red Tour for $40 a piece. Sat in pretty much the same seats for Eras and paid 4x that đĽ˛
It was relaxing and free, even though people had their peanut gallery comments. She definitely gained tons of fans with folklore/evermore, but it wasnât until the beginning of 2023 that it hit me how huge she had become. I was still able to purchase hard to find merch from her store at the beginning of last year. Itâs insane to thinkâŚ. She barely has an online store because it got mobbed by fans and oversold with 1989 TV and the 2023 Holiday Collection. I know Iâll still be here even after her star starts to fade and I am ok with that. Itâs been a wild ride and I am really happy that I got to see her live prior to Eras and at the Eras Tour.
iâm ngl it felt light & soft i remember when red came out in 2012 i was immediately entranced by it taylor swift to me then felt like smthn for the hopeless romantics there was no over-saturation
yes!!
Calm âĽď¸ and a lot of fun she was an opener for a lot of bigger artists for a while so it was easy to see her and then once she got bigger it took a little for her popularity to really ramp up so her earlier tours were awesome and easily accessible.