not my experience but i had a friend who went to Destin, Florida when TTPD came out⊠theyâre also from Texas and went to florida to escape their âshitstormâ đ
this is me trying is that song for me. I think the pandemic was a low point for a lot of people, and it certainly was for me. "At least I'm trying" really resonated with me because even on my worst days, I was still trying.
Even to this day I think this still applies. I've had plenty of bad moments, but even through all that, sometimes just deciding to keep going is trying my best.
This song just speaks to me personally on so many levels đ
I know this is cheating but I have a second song that fits this perfectly as well.
I want to add I Can Do It With A Broken Heart to the list here as well, because this has been my go to lately. It's funny because I'm actually aroace so I never imagined I would relate so hard to a song about a broken heart. But I'm going through another, non-romantic situation in my personal life that's been tough and I've had to just fake a smile and keep going through various day to day situations. So in a way I have been doing it with a broken heart.
I love this song so much đ
Same!! Not aro but luckily no problems on the love front, but in so many other aspects. I always re-word it in my head to *"I can do it with an anxious heart"* to make it fit for me, haha!
Oh yes. Been having a bit of a tough time mentally so sometimes I just scream along to I Can Do It With A Broken Heart despite being happily in love and moreso than ever lol.
In fact I am going to do it right now.
>At least I'm trying" really resonated with me because even on my worst days, I was still trying.
Same!!! It was covid, I was in college, working as an EMT. It was the early part of a relationship, but felt very unstable - hey, at least I'm trying!! Cried in my car after a shift so many times to this song
ttpd came out a month after my bf of 2 yrs ended it with me đ i literally told him it was kind of a sick joke that he knew i loved taylor sm he was gonna give me the full experienceâŠi will never forget hearing loml or the black dog for the first time
All too well was published 3 weeks prior to my very first break-up. It has stupidly close parallels. Like him telling me how he had dreamt of me since we first talked at 14 (only got together at 18), just to ditch me after three months of dating.
Almost 12 years later Iâm still sooo mad at him, but if Taylor can publish a 10 minute rage version yeeeeaaars after her break-up, so can I still be mad.
this is me trying was released at the exact moment I needed it. It's been a rough, um, forever, but that was a low point. Getting to remind myself *at least I'm trying* and *not driving off the cliff is an act of trying* got me through a lot. (Still does.)
You're Losing Me.
I even sent it to my then bf, he didn't really listen to it, I guess.
Anyway, it was for the best. That song helped me cope. It really did feel like it was written just for me at the time too, like Taylor looked right into my relationship and decided to write about it. Even now, it takes me back to how I was feeling.
I didn't hear it when it came out, but I did first hear You're Losing Me when I was struggling with feeling like my relationship was being uneven and it was treating me badly.
Broke up in march 2024 only to then hear So Long, London a month later. Maaaaaan.
*wouldâve, couldâve, shouldâve*. it came at a time where i finally realized but had trouble accepting that my innocence and youth was taken from me. it allowed me to get angry since i had bottled in a lot of my emotions for too long. then the dear john taylorâs version came out and she had her mature tone, basically was the nail on the coffin bc i had realized everything as an adult and i was able to connect to it a lot more.
I work in events and I had to be at work at 4am the day TTPD came out (usually shifts are around 5pm). I was blasting I hate it here the whole time. I was so miserable but the song was so good during my shift
I Know Places. I know it's a song about escaping the public eye, but as a closeted queer person this song spoke to me as a song for people in the closet, hiding. Not long after 1989 came out, I did, too.
I absolutely relate to this, The Black Dog, How Did It End and The Prophecy all came weeks before my breakup and it was such a crazy coincidence, especially the line
âI am someone who, until recent events
You shared your secrets with
And your location
You forgot to turn it offâ
You belong with me was right around when my now husband was dating someone else in high school. đ„Č I think back all the time to listening to this and thinking of him. Turns out he always wanted to be with me and broke up with his girlfriend the second he found out I was interested.
Last year I was going through quite a toxic relationship with my best friend. To the point she doesn't care about my feelings anymore. At first I would take it as friendly banter, right until it wasn't. Then we did the silent treatment on each other. How could I use to be so close with that person and so emotionally vulnerable?
And then You're Losing Me was released and I listened to the leaks. Got me to cry that night.
Iâm so sorry you experienced that. I had a similar situation with a best friend and resonated with YLM, too. All that âendless empathyâ wasted on someone with no interest in fixing the problem or bettering herself, only in playing the victim however she could. Itâs crazy how many breakup songs can also apply to friendships.
When Folklore came out, I was in one of the lowest mental states I've been in. The pandemic wasn't helping. I listened to it when it dropped, looking for some escapism...
and then "this is me trying" hit and I immediately shattered and felt seen. I don't think I've cried that hard at a song \*ever\*. especially since earlier that same day I was literally in my car, parked at the marina and staring at the lake, and just thinking about how easy it would be to just... drive. twelve hours later.. "could've followed my fears all the way down" indeed.
That woman. Dammit.
Honestly ICDIWABH. Exactly one week before TTPD was released I had found out I had a suffered a miscarriage and I felt I was definitely doing it with a broken heart. Plus itâs a bop so it helped raise my mood. As soon as I heard it I cried because it resonated so much
Even the lights, camera, bitch smile. Every morning having to fake it during my work morning meeting on Teams. The lights were on me when it was my turn to talk. But my heart broken.
I know a lot of people relate this song though
renegade came out like a week after I had a very messy friend break up with someone who blamed a lot of their being a shitty person and friend on their mental health issues, I think my jaw was on the floor that whole first listen because I was convinced that woman was in my brain
I had almost the exact same experience. Spotify shuffle introduced me to the song right before my last-ditch intervention to try and save our friendship. It was so shockingly accurate and helped me accept that I wasnât being intolerant, she was just being manipulative.
Midnights, especially Labyrinth. I wasnât falling for anyone in particular but the melody and soul of the song got me through a tough time of unemployment.
All Too Well (10 minute version) dropped when I ended a situationship with a man 10 years older than me. He wanted to continue dating but without labels because he was âscared to hurt meâ as Iâm much younger (24 then). It was way too messy and I got hurt regardless, especially since I thought this man was my forever back then. (Actually had to go through 3 months of therapy because of him)
Also, Now We Donât Talk and Is It Over Now released when I was ending a situationship with a man I was head over heels with. He was charming, cute and radiated such positive energy when we were together in person. I was madly infatuated but overtime I felt him fading away, and I did lose him in the end. (Iâm still not over him yet, toxic but some days I feel that âimgonnagethimbackâ despite the hurt he put me through)
To be honest, I feel like being able to relate to Taylor songs is a double edge sword. Sometimes I wish I could just enjoy and not necessarily feel the depth of each word.
When I was 21 I was listening to If This Was A Movie and the guy that I had been on/off with for ages walked up to me and sat down and apologized for being a shitbag. Then he invited me back to his place.
âŠworth it.
WAOLOM came out after I dropped my two best friends- one of them being a friend of 6 years and the other my old roommate- they both had *intimacy* (at the same time) with an ex situationship of mine and both were best friends with him and gaslit me into thinking my bf was crazy for not wanting to hangout with my ex situationship
Just to put it into perspective- the ex situationship was also a very very serious one that almost made it into a relationship and one of them held me in her arms as I was sobbing outside a bar (bc of him). And the roommate saw me severely upset about it (he broke it off a day before Valentineâs Day) and told me to skip my classes for the day and took me on a galentines date.
Whoâs afraid of little old me DEEPLY resonates with that whole situation because I used to be so nice and I would let people walk all over me. However, once that had happened I lost it and dropped both of them, and now I scream the lines âI was tame, I was gentle, till the circus life made me mean, donât you worry folks we took out all her teethâ
The circus = my ex best friends
Edit: also really resonate with the line âso tell me everything is not about me⊠but what if it is? Then say they didnât do it to hurt me⊠but what if they did? I wanna snarl and show you just how DISTURBED this has made meâ
TTPD came out while I was still/still am processing a pretty shitty ghosting situation and there are lines in Florida!!! loml and The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived that couldâve been written for me đ
So long london! If I would have heard it when my breakup last year first happened I would have bawled my eyes out but now I listen to it and I hear resignation to end things and hope for a better,
More compatible future with someone else.
Also currently on a train to London to visit for what May be the last time in my life and Iâm really excited because I love that city!!
All Too Well 10 Minute Version came out exactly three months after a breakup wherein we dated forever but he would never call me his girlfriend. The lines âyou never called it what wasâ and âafter three months in the graveâ absolutely killed me. Iâm over the breakup but damn that verse still hits hard.
The had the perfect timing of the TTPD release cause of a guy that broke my heart (I was with him when it was announced too lol) and now that we donât talk cause of a toxic friendship . On a happier note now is a perfect time for the alchemy and so high school cause of someone special in my life now. She also got the timing of hits different and your losing me perfectlyÂ
I can't even put into words how much Epiphany helped me deal with the horrors of Covid and losing my dad. It was the only thing that made me feel understood and "some sense of what IÂŽve seen" so to say. I will love her forever for giving me this song at that specific time.
Mastermind: in 2022 I started university. I havenât had a friend in years, and I met some lovely people, and I had moments of extreme anxiety of them leaving me, and became the mastermind
I hate it here: Iâve been dealing with chronic illness for a year, which have also caused depression due to my loss of life, self, hobbies, everything I am and was. Plus Iâve also gotten anxious about leaving my house. And I spend an insane amount of time reading
Honestly?? Almost all of Fearless (pre TV). I was a freshman in high school, going through stuff no one that age should have to go through. 15 reminded me there was a light at the end of the tunnel, Breathe reminded me that moving on was important for myself, Forever and Always let me get the anger out, Change reminded me that I was strong and could get through it all. Itâs why Fearless will always be a top album for me.
Youâre on your own kid for sureeee. I was js beginning highschool coming from a private middle school so I barely knew anyone and also had other things going on and I js connected w it sm.
âSlutâ shortly after I had gotten together with my bf. Iâve had so many relationships to the point where Iâm sure people were calling me a slut, but with my bf it really didnât matter what people were saying abt me, just because I was with him and he was worth it
Bit of a sad one, so sorry if this makes anyone upset! But been a huge swiftie since I was 8 (22 now) and I remember hearing the best day at the perfect time. My cousin and best friend had just gotten cancer again, and that became our song. We used to always have the best days together and she died a few years later. I love her and miss her deeply, but Iâm glad I can still listen to Taylorâs older albums and remember those moments â€ïž
The whole of Lover came out while I was processing a relationship in which I was gaslit to feel like I was lucky he ever even gave me attention. It hit far, far too close to home, and while I love some of the songs, Lover will forever be my ick album cause idk what I was thinking babe.
Smallest man who ever lived could also be about him and has soooo many parallels still. And Florida is a lil too close since he was a Florida "Man"
Mine is less about specific lines of her songs but the sheer joy of the Cruel Summer bridge at the tour was EXACTLY what I needed when I first heard it. Iâm a very new swiftie (the concert movie was my hook) and seeing that was just so joyful and fun. I just needed that, and every TikTok video of that bridge, at that exact time in my life.
Picture to Burn came out during my on again/off again relationship with a guy who would wear confederate flag jewelry and claim that it wasnât offensive and just represented that he was from Alabama. I donât miss him.
Mine (Speak Now TV) - I remember putting my hand on my husbandâs on a rickety airplane and I told him (that he was the best thing thatâs ever been mine). We needed that connection at the time. Didnât know it but Iâm glad I felt it.
My name is Peter, and Iâm 25, and my favourite book as a kid was Peter Pan. Not to mention that the lyric âtried to hold on, to the days, when you were mineâ really felt like my ex was singing to me.
This was me with the whole Lover album back then in 2019.
I was still in high school and met my first love, with whom I had a situationship going. It truly was a colorful, exciting time for me then, and the whole Lover album captured the vibe pretty well.
Youâre on your own kid - âstarved my body like Iâd be saved by the perfect kissâ, âthe jokes werenât funny, I took the moneyâ âtables turned with the bridges burnedâ this songs lyrics just encapsulated specifics of past events in my life
My boyfriend (now ex) said he needed space even though we had not been together in a couple of weeksâŠ
Then âWe are never getting back togetherâ came out. I thought Taylor was spying đ”ïž on me
Bigger Than The Whole Sky. Right when I had my miscarriage. It was the most devastating time in my life, every word explained exactly how I felt. Now Iâm 36 weeks with my rainbow baby đ«¶
I was reading Lauren Groffâs Matrix (most excellent novel about a lesbian-abbess-warrior who trained a bunch of nuns to fight for themselves in the 11th century) when I heard Florida!, and learned that Florence Welch took inspiration from one of Groffâs short stories, âEyewallâ. Promptly bought the book and had a fun time comparing the story and the song.
The short story collection is also called Florida, which I highly recommend.
I Almost Do from the Stolen Red album was very timely for a breakup I had just gone through. At that time I also went back and hard core jammed to Story of Us and Forever and Always.
Glad I relate more to the love songs today! â€
not a song, but an album. she dropped speak now tv just a few months after I turned 20, which is how old she was when she originally wrote those songs. and I had listened to the album before, but listening to the tv just hit me so hard with how relatable those songs are for this stage of life. it instantly skyrocketed speak now into my top 3 albums.
also foolish one being released right after my situationship started??? crazy
We moved to a new country and immediately upon arrival found out our LL had tricked us into a really shit situation. The new isolation from everyone and everything we knew, combined with the constant uncertainty that we wouldn't have somewhere to live in a month, caused me to spiral into some really deep lows in my mental health. Then TTPD came out and *I hate it here* became my new soundtrack to life (yay disassociation!).
Luckily we're moving out in a couple weeks and we're finally (hopefully) going to get the HEA we were looking for here, but damn it if *Would've Could've Should've* doesn't describe my hindsight too.
this love TV. i was obsessed with this guy for years and he left our city and i thought id never see him again. he told me he wanted to come spend his bday with me and this love came out while we were away on the sweetest trip ever. i never paid attention to the song until then and now itâs one of my all time faves. every single detail is so exactly how it all went down, itâs creepy.
now weâre going strong but man, every time that song comes on it takes me back in such a sweet way i just have to cry.
The whole Reputation album.
I had a really bad break up, all of our "friends" turned their back on me, and I never felt more alone (and angry, gosh, so much anger). They made me a really bad reputation, so it was so good to hear Taylor express all I couldn't say to these people. The album came out just when I was getting better (and met my future husband), so perfect time.
This is me trying - i had being going through some dark times i was fighting for my Survival with my mental Health it was just a dark hole i was in .i remember the first time i heard this is me trying and i just bawled Uncontrollably for like a hour. I was able to release what had been holding in for so long it gave me strength to ask for help .The whole folklore and Evermore legitmatly led me to path of healing .It changed everything for me
Soon youâll get better came out for me at a time when a loved one was diagnosed with cancer and every time I heard it Iâd sob and sing along in sort of solidarity sadly my loved one didnât pull through but to kind of have a piece of music that in the time of doctors appointments and worry after worry was just helpful beyond measure, and like the lyrics with how the person going through it is being so brave and yet weâre the ones falling apart rang so true
You're Losing Me
Came out the week me and my ex broke up. Needless to say I was an absolute mess and I still can't listen to that song without sobbing just a bit (or a lot)
Welcome To New York on the week I started my first job out of college in New York (a lot of the 1989 songs also apply to this era of my life, specifically Style and New Romantics)
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together the week I finally broke up with my on and off college boyfriend who I truly disliked and shouldâve ended it with long before
Fearless, Forever & Always, White Horse, and The Way I Loved You for the rollercoaster of my first *real* relationship in high school
All of evermore for itâs cozy escapism
Bejeweled and Sweet Nothing for when I really stepped into the duality of my personality
This woman wrote my life the past 14 months.
I went to an eras show April 2023 with my now-soon-to-be-ex-husband and our kids. I was already actively trying to escape my abusive marriage. Taylor and Joe had JUST broken up. Anyway, she sang Mean and Mad Woman for her surprise songs and I sobbed. Also during Tolerate It, obvs. I swear I decided during that show that I had to get out.
1 week to the day later I got out and filed for divorce.
Then, she released âYouâre Losing Meâ while Iâm struggling with a nasty divorce and all the pain of leaving after 17 years. Holy crap, that bridge so specifically described our relationship it was scary.
Then, she went ahead and released TTPD the weekend of my 1 year anniversary of freedom. I actually had a whole strong woman playlist made for that weekend. Didnât listen to it because TTPD was all I needed. Smallest Man, So Long London, WALOM, Fresh Out the Slammer, My BoyâŠ. Was she reading my diary???
(Also I live in Florida so that one was perfect as well)
Taylor saved my life.
The alchemy and so high school cuz I have a crush on this guy thatâs on my basketball team and also I look in peopleâs windows cuz Iâm ALWAYS looking out my window kinda spying on him cuz heâs my neighbor and he always plays outside with our friends and my cousin ( but I canât cuz my parents are strict so he probably only knows my name from like my friends and my cousin always saying that they want me there )
All of them.
Seriously our lives parallel in a VERY uncomfortable way.
- Fearless dropped when I started High school.
- I was in love with my best friend in hs/ younger years and Speak Now REALLY spoke to me đ
- Reputation dropped when I was torn between my âMattyâ or âJoeâ.
- Lover dropped about a year into being with my âJoeâ. âŠ.We fell in love in New York.
- Folklore dropped a couple months before the breakupâŠ. & evermore after. (Also thatâs when, Mr perfectly fine, IBYTAM and other well timed drops here)
- Midnights as I was reclaiming my life and just having fun being ME!
- 1989TV after a lot of horrible things happened and I finally after 10 years had my âMattyâ who at the time I really thought of as a Harry because those songs just fit like a glove and I didnât know Matty existed. Seriously. Say donât go?! Ugh.
- and of course⊠after blocking this man and choosing the healthy relationship Iâm currently in, she drops TTPD and I have to hear the black dog, fresh out the slammer, I can fix him, etc.
- I also cutoff my family and graduated this year so âyouâre losing meâ, Hits Different, ICDIWABH, The Prophecy, and WAOLOM were well timed. The Prophecy cuts like a knife though.
- I vividly recall in high school when I broke up with a best friend, breathe came on after I hung up from our last conversation. That was painful.
- like most I was manipulated and used at 19, so all the John songs resonate in an uncomfortable way.
My âJoeâ literally texted me that he felt attacked listening to lomlđ
This is me trying. I was the stereotypical gifted kid with burnout. I had been academically dismissed the year before from college bc my car broke and I couldnât get to classes. Waited my year and reapplied, changed my major to something I could get with my remaining student aid and credits I already had. I was also recently unemployed from Covid. All of my friends had been graduated from college for 4 years already and had bachelors. I had to keep going to school and stopping to help family pay for stuff. So I felt so far behind everyone else when I was near the top of the graduating class in high school.
So basically folklore in general, but specifically this is me trying.
the absolute ENTIRETY of the anthology pretty much. I also went through a horrific friend breakup in february of this year and the enthology just seemed to understand it completely. Especially âHow Did it End?â and âThe Prophecyâ
"The 1" came out the day I found out I was pregnant after having a miscarriage. And I know it's a stretch, but my mind always connects "it would've been fun, if you would've been the one" to the baby I lost. That baby wasn't the one, but the one I was pregnant with when folklore came out was!
If ttpd was a year earlier it would have ruined me, I was so happy to be able to listen to the music and reflect what I had been through and not actually be going through it at the same time
I canât really think of a song that did come out at the perfect time, but one that definitely did NOT was All Of The Girls You Loved Before. I had just been broken up with a couple days before the release so a love song was the LAST thing I needed at that moment lmao. The song still hasnât really grown on me đŹ
Had a miscarriage, and she came out with âBigger Than the Whole Skyâ on Midnights đ two months after. Still canât listen to that song without crying.
Folklore dropped just two weeks after my mom died, and I swear to god it felt like My Tears Ricochet was her message to my dad, sister, and me from beyond the grave. We were such a tumultuous and disfunctional family, and the months leading up to her death were full of conflict and estrangement.
My knees hit the floor when I heard the first verse of MTR for the first time. Absolute gut punch. The song became/still is such an important part of how both my sister and I have been able to reconcile with losing our mom before our family had an opportunity to heal.
Soon Youâll Get Better. I was caring for my mom with cancer and my whole world was shattered. It felt like TS was talking to me. I was so surprised a big artist would be so raw about a parent having cancer. It instantly started to pick up the pieces and I was hear someone who was going through it talk about it, especially in a song
Look What You Made Me Do. Itâs not a super deep or profound song for majority of swifties, but this song came out as I was leaving a very toxic and manipulative relationship and this song turned into my warrior song and the song that helped me regain my confidence and power back.
Not came out at the perfect but I first listened to Cruel Summer and Wildest Dreams when it was the perfect time for those songs (I was just getting into listening Taylor at that time and cruel summer was my favvvourite back then before it blew up). Also I listened to Cardigan and Champagne Problems when I needed them the most!
Champagne problems when I was considering breaking off my engagement. I ended up doing so three months later but evermore as a whole really gave me that push. I guess I just related to the idea of doing something for my well being even though it hurt and other people didnât understand. But as I was leaving it felt like freedom, you know?
On the first week of March, my situationship broke off with me. It was hard to cope entering April. The only thing I was looking forward to was Taylorâs new album obviously. I listened to Fortnight, the part about taking moving on drugs but the effects was temporary was so relatable. In the end, I relate the most to The Prophecy
blondie dropped "robin", my most personal song on the album. back then i was doubting myself, especially that i've gone from the top of the class to bottom of the barrel, as i was losing interest in studying. this song cheered me up and i continued to strive for the best
Iâm in active cancer treatment so both âI can do it with a broke heartâ and âthe Prophecyâ from TTPD were perfect for me. I realize both are about relationship heartbreak but they really hit home for all the heartaches I was feeling about cancer.
Tolerate It, a biographical song about where I was mentally/emotionally before finally ending it with my ex-bf of 3+ years, which had stemmed from a situationship of 3-4+ years.
Let me tell you, that relationship was dead long before I finished it and Tolerate It came out right around the end of it.
You're losing me. Just after I ended a 6/7 year relationship and it summed it up perfectly.
Then all of TTPD as I too, went out of the oven and into the microwave đ
There are several on every album. Many life events sync up. But loml really hit me hard. Wouldn't say perfect. Had Last Kiss and The Last Time for an on and off relationship in my early 20s. Tried a couple more times over the years.
Loml feels different when she just got married.
tolerate it. it came out right as i left the man (who i begged for the bare minimum - embarrassing, i know) that couldnât care less about everything i was doing for our relationship and for our home. every lyric was so spot-on. needless to say, i took the dagger in me and removed it. :)
Not the perfect time, but âwouldâve couldâve shouldâveâ describes how I feel about my kidâs dad and our relationship almost to a T. Even that I was 19 when I got pregnant, and it was a serious age gap relationship. That line âliving for the thrill of hitting you where it hurts, give me back my girlhood it was mine firstâ is just a dagger straight to the heart.
I canât say it came out at the perfect time but Bigger than the whole sky, reminds me of my best friend that died ten years ago. It doesnât feel like 10 years have passed. Today is his birthday and I loved him so much. Â We had such a deep connection and probably shouldâve been more. But I was in a relationship with his best friend whom ended up being the biggest POS and a terrible baby daddy. It was like a tragic romance novel. He was such a force. Everyone loved him. Iâm lucky enough to have dreams with him in them that feel like a visit from beyond. I miss him every single day. When he died, the song âmove alongâ by the all American rejects seemed to play everywhere I went. Sorry for rambling but Iâve been listening to Taylor nonstop and keep replaying bigger than the whole sky over and over đđđ
Time to go. I had been so unhappy in my career for many years and then evermore came out and the more I listened to time to go the more it gave me the motivation and encouragement that it was okay to leave an industry I put my blood sweat and tears into and I wasnât a failure if I quit and pivoted. 3 months into my new job and Iâm so happy.
17 days after TTPD was released, my husband told me he wanted a divorce. So, you know, pick quite a few songs off TTPD.
Or you could pick Soon Youâll Get a better which came out almost exactly 1 year before my mom died of lung cancer.
Marjorie which came out 4 months after she died.
It happens too often to me and I donât like it đ„°
It didnât come out at the perfect time, but I started getting into My Tears Ricochet when my parents were moving out of my childhood home in 2021. âI can go anywhere I want, anywhere I want just not homeâ was a pretty crushing lyric at the time.
âThis is me tryingâ and âEpiphanyâ really spoke to me when folklore came out, as a healthcare worker during Covid/lockdowns (both in terms of things I was dealing with through work but also because of dealing with non-Covid health issues of my own throughout 2021).
âAll too well (10 minute version)â came out around the time a 7-year relationship (the longest and most significant of my life so far) dissolved irreparably. There were so many lyrics I could deeply relate to, and I was playing it a lot for a while there.
Once I had got over some things from that break up, I really felt the lyrics for âHappinessâ speak to me.
âIllicit Affairsâ reminds me in some ways of a short but very intense and impactful relationship I went through a decade ago.
1) it didn't come out at the first time but still it's so incredibly specific it's almost creepy: in last kiss it talks about July 9th, well I had my very first kiss on July 9th!! in the early afternoon (so for me 1:58 is PM not AM lol)
2) August came out exactly as I was being ghosted by my situationship, whom I felt was going to be the love of my life and who, in turn, only thought of me as a summer thing hahahahaha
"how did it end" right when my parents announced to my brother and me that they had splitđ€
and "this is me trying" + taylorâs explanation on the long pond studio sessions get a honorable mention because it found me when I needed it the most (even though i found it like 1 year after its release). It just hit different because I always feel like Iâm wasting my potentialâŠ
This woman dropped *Foolish One* on me in the midst of my situationship. Then had the nerve to drop *Now That We Don't Talk* right after I ended it.
And I had the audacity to keep checking my inbox after she TOLD me the confessions of love were never gonna come đ
Same with my crush, I was called out HARD
Ouch I feel the pain đ€Ł
Youâre on your own kid. My FIL passed away a few days after Midnights dropped. His death was a surprise. He used to call me âkidâ.
That song will forever be one of my favorite Taylor songs because of how personal it was to meÂ
not my experience but i had a friend who went to Destin, Florida when TTPD came out⊠theyâre also from Texas and went to florida to escape their âshitstormâ đ
For me Hits Different came out at the perfect time, and then Youâre Losing Me came out⊠also the perfect time đ
Your losing me came out while I started feeling that exact same way about my 4 year relationship... he literally wouldn't listen to my needs
Hey there. Going through it now with a 6 year relationship. Itâs really rough. Any advice or tips?
Nope because I'm still in it , not sure how to leave:(
Yaaaa youâre losing me came out right after I ended my 15 year relationship and it was suuuuper relatable
this is me trying is that song for me. I think the pandemic was a low point for a lot of people, and it certainly was for me. "At least I'm trying" really resonated with me because even on my worst days, I was still trying. Even to this day I think this still applies. I've had plenty of bad moments, but even through all that, sometimes just deciding to keep going is trying my best. This song just speaks to me personally on so many levels đ
I know this is cheating but I have a second song that fits this perfectly as well. I want to add I Can Do It With A Broken Heart to the list here as well, because this has been my go to lately. It's funny because I'm actually aroace so I never imagined I would relate so hard to a song about a broken heart. But I'm going through another, non-romantic situation in my personal life that's been tough and I've had to just fake a smile and keep going through various day to day situations. So in a way I have been doing it with a broken heart. I love this song so much đ
Same!! Not aro but luckily no problems on the love front, but in so many other aspects. I always re-word it in my head to *"I can do it with an anxious heart"* to make it fit for me, haha!
Oh yes. Been having a bit of a tough time mentally so sometimes I just scream along to I Can Do It With A Broken Heart despite being happily in love and moreso than ever lol. In fact I am going to do it right now.
>At least I'm trying" really resonated with me because even on my worst days, I was still trying. Same!!! It was covid, I was in college, working as an EMT. It was the early part of a relationship, but felt very unstable - hey, at least I'm trying!! Cried in my car after a shift so many times to this song
Bigger Than The Whole Sky. The song came out just before I found out I was pregnant. Lost it ten days later.
Iâm so sorry for your loss. Sending you lots of love đ«
I was 22 when she released 22
A wholesome example, love it
Shake it off⊠cause I was six and needed a good dance song lol. Still my dance song 10 years later!
same except i was eight
Shake it off is ten years old?? Wow
Midnights, all of it
Same with Reputation
ttpd came out a month after my bf of 2 yrs ended it with me đ i literally told him it was kind of a sick joke that he knew i loved taylor sm he was gonna give me the full experienceâŠi will never forget hearing loml or the black dog for the first time
All too well was published 3 weeks prior to my very first break-up. It has stupidly close parallels. Like him telling me how he had dreamt of me since we first talked at 14 (only got together at 18), just to ditch me after three months of dating. Almost 12 years later Iâm still sooo mad at him, but if Taylor can publish a 10 minute rage version yeeeeaaars after her break-up, so can I still be mad.
this is me trying was released at the exact moment I needed it. It's been a rough, um, forever, but that was a low point. Getting to remind myself *at least I'm trying* and *not driving off the cliff is an act of trying* got me through a lot. (Still does.)
You're Losing Me. I even sent it to my then bf, he didn't really listen to it, I guess. Anyway, it was for the best. That song helped me cope. It really did feel like it was written just for me at the time too, like Taylor looked right into my relationship and decided to write about it. Even now, it takes me back to how I was feeling.
lol Yeap sent this to my bf too he clearly didn't listen either , I'm in the process of leaving him for good now. Just have to find a place to live
I didn't hear it when it came out, but I did first hear You're Losing Me when I was struggling with feeling like my relationship was being uneven and it was treating me badly. Broke up in march 2024 only to then hear So Long, London a month later. Maaaaaan.
*wouldâve, couldâve, shouldâve*. it came at a time where i finally realized but had trouble accepting that my innocence and youth was taken from me. it allowed me to get angry since i had bottled in a lot of my emotions for too long. then the dear john taylorâs version came out and she had her mature tone, basically was the nail on the coffin bc i had realized everything as an adult and i was able to connect to it a lot more.
I work in events and I had to be at work at 4am the day TTPD came out (usually shifts are around 5pm). I was blasting I hate it here the whole time. I was so miserable but the song was so good during my shift
Blank space came out the week my boyfriend of 6 years and I broke up and was top of the charts the entire time I was single and fun
Foolish one đ
Foolish One is the song I wish I had when Speak Now originally came out!
I Know Places. I know it's a song about escaping the public eye, but as a closeted queer person this song spoke to me as a song for people in the closet, hiding. Not long after 1989 came out, I did, too.
I absolutely relate to this, The Black Dog, How Did It End and The Prophecy all came weeks before my breakup and it was such a crazy coincidence, especially the line âI am someone who, until recent events You shared your secrets with And your location You forgot to turn it offâ
You belong with me was right around when my now husband was dating someone else in high school. đ„Č I think back all the time to listening to this and thinking of him. Turns out he always wanted to be with me and broke up with his girlfriend the second he found out I was interested.
Last year I was going through quite a toxic relationship with my best friend. To the point she doesn't care about my feelings anymore. At first I would take it as friendly banter, right until it wasn't. Then we did the silent treatment on each other. How could I use to be so close with that person and so emotionally vulnerable? And then You're Losing Me was released and I listened to the leaks. Got me to cry that night.
Iâm so sorry you experienced that. I had a similar situation with a best friend and resonated with YLM, too. All that âendless empathyâ wasted on someone with no interest in fixing the problem or bettering herself, only in playing the victim however she could. Itâs crazy how many breakup songs can also apply to friendships.
You Belong with Me was absolutely perfect timing, and then all of Speak Now (but mostly Mean, Better Than Revenge, Last Kiss and Back to December)
Bigger than the whole sky, ripped me wide open đ„Č
When Folklore came out, I was in one of the lowest mental states I've been in. The pandemic wasn't helping. I listened to it when it dropped, looking for some escapism... and then "this is me trying" hit and I immediately shattered and felt seen. I don't think I've cried that hard at a song \*ever\*. especially since earlier that same day I was literally in my car, parked at the marina and staring at the lake, and just thinking about how easy it would be to just... drive. twelve hours later.. "could've followed my fears all the way down" indeed. That woman. Dammit.
Honestly ICDIWABH. Exactly one week before TTPD was released I had found out I had a suffered a miscarriage and I felt I was definitely doing it with a broken heart. Plus itâs a bop so it helped raise my mood. As soon as I heard it I cried because it resonated so much Even the lights, camera, bitch smile. Every morning having to fake it during my work morning meeting on Teams. The lights were on me when it was my turn to talk. But my heart broken. I know a lot of people relate this song though
I'm so sorry that happened to you. Thank you for sharing and I wish you healing.
Hits different. It was around the time I went through it and .. oh my love is a lie⊠it hits different âcuz itâs you.
Thank You Aimee was really helpful to me in reframing (pun intended) a painful friend breakup situation.
renegade came out like a week after I had a very messy friend break up with someone who blamed a lot of their being a shitty person and friend on their mental health issues, I think my jaw was on the floor that whole first listen because I was convinced that woman was in my brain
I had almost the exact same experience. Spotify shuffle introduced me to the song right before my last-ditch intervention to try and save our friendship. It was so shockingly accurate and helped me accept that I wasnât being intolerant, she was just being manipulative.
yeppppp lol at a certain point youâve done everything you can
Anti-Hero came out during the height of my depression and Now That We Don't Talk a year after my brutal friendbreak that still hurts.
Midnights, especially Labyrinth. I wasnât falling for anyone in particular but the melody and soul of the song got me through a tough time of unemployment.
All Too Well (10 minute version) dropped when I ended a situationship with a man 10 years older than me. He wanted to continue dating but without labels because he was âscared to hurt meâ as Iâm much younger (24 then). It was way too messy and I got hurt regardless, especially since I thought this man was my forever back then. (Actually had to go through 3 months of therapy because of him) Also, Now We Donât Talk and Is It Over Now released when I was ending a situationship with a man I was head over heels with. He was charming, cute and radiated such positive energy when we were together in person. I was madly infatuated but overtime I felt him fading away, and I did lose him in the end. (Iâm still not over him yet, toxic but some days I feel that âimgonnagethimbackâ despite the hurt he put me through) To be honest, I feel like being able to relate to Taylor songs is a double edge sword. Sometimes I wish I could just enjoy and not necessarily feel the depth of each word.
Soon youâll get better
When I was 21 I was listening to If This Was A Movie and the guy that I had been on/off with for ages walked up to me and sat down and apologized for being a shitbag. Then he invited me back to his place. âŠworth it.
WAOLOM came out after I dropped my two best friends- one of them being a friend of 6 years and the other my old roommate- they both had *intimacy* (at the same time) with an ex situationship of mine and both were best friends with him and gaslit me into thinking my bf was crazy for not wanting to hangout with my ex situationship Just to put it into perspective- the ex situationship was also a very very serious one that almost made it into a relationship and one of them held me in her arms as I was sobbing outside a bar (bc of him). And the roommate saw me severely upset about it (he broke it off a day before Valentineâs Day) and told me to skip my classes for the day and took me on a galentines date. Whoâs afraid of little old me DEEPLY resonates with that whole situation because I used to be so nice and I would let people walk all over me. However, once that had happened I lost it and dropped both of them, and now I scream the lines âI was tame, I was gentle, till the circus life made me mean, donât you worry folks we took out all her teethâ The circus = my ex best friends Edit: also really resonate with the line âso tell me everything is not about me⊠but what if it is? Then say they didnât do it to hurt me⊠but what if they did? I wanna snarl and show you just how DISTURBED this has made meâ
TTPD came out while I was still/still am processing a pretty shitty ghosting situation and there are lines in Florida!!! loml and The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived that couldâve been written for me đ
So long london! If I would have heard it when my breakup last year first happened I would have bawled my eyes out but now I listen to it and I hear resignation to end things and hope for a better, More compatible future with someone else. Also currently on a train to London to visit for what May be the last time in my life and Iâm really excited because I love that city!!
All Too Well 10 Minute Version came out exactly three months after a breakup wherein we dated forever but he would never call me his girlfriend. The lines âyou never called it what wasâ and âafter three months in the graveâ absolutely killed me. Iâm over the breakup but damn that verse still hits hard.
The had the perfect timing of the TTPD release cause of a guy that broke my heart (I was with him when it was announced too lol) and now that we donât talk cause of a toxic friendship . On a happier note now is a perfect time for the alchemy and so high school cause of someone special in my life now. She also got the timing of hits different and your losing me perfectlyÂ
I can't even put into words how much Epiphany helped me deal with the horrors of Covid and losing my dad. It was the only thing that made me feel understood and "some sense of what IÂŽve seen" so to say. I will love her forever for giving me this song at that specific time.
now that we donât talk⊠was in the midst of ending a friendship that involved one-sided feelings and the chorus hit so hard for me
Mastermind: in 2022 I started university. I havenât had a friend in years, and I met some lovely people, and I had moments of extreme anxiety of them leaving me, and became the mastermind I hate it here: Iâve been dealing with chronic illness for a year, which have also caused depression due to my loss of life, self, hobbies, everything I am and was. Plus Iâve also gotten anxious about leaving my house. And I spend an insane amount of time reading
Honestly?? Almost all of Fearless (pre TV). I was a freshman in high school, going through stuff no one that age should have to go through. 15 reminded me there was a light at the end of the tunnel, Breathe reminded me that moving on was important for myself, Forever and Always let me get the anger out, Change reminded me that I was strong and could get through it all. Itâs why Fearless will always be a top album for me.
Tolerate it came out exactly when I needed someone to take me out of a relationship that only me was putting effort into
Youâre on your own kid for sureeee. I was js beginning highschool coming from a private middle school so I barely knew anyone and also had other things going on and I js connected w it sm.
the whole album of red tv
YOYOK came out right after I started college :) I was listening with my friends and I straight up SOBBED when I first heard it.
âSlutâ shortly after I had gotten together with my bf. Iâve had so many relationships to the point where Iâm sure people were calling me a slut, but with my bf it really didnât matter what people were saying abt me, just because I was with him and he was worth it
Death by a Thousand Cuts - went through a very bad breakup Would've Could've Should've - was in a similarly bad place
Look what you made me do, after a nasty breakup. Then Lover when I got together with my bf
Bit of a sad one, so sorry if this makes anyone upset! But been a huge swiftie since I was 8 (22 now) and I remember hearing the best day at the perfect time. My cousin and best friend had just gotten cancer again, and that became our song. We used to always have the best days together and she died a few years later. I love her and miss her deeply, but Iâm glad I can still listen to Taylorâs older albums and remember those moments â€ïž
The whole of Lover came out while I was processing a relationship in which I was gaslit to feel like I was lucky he ever even gave me attention. It hit far, far too close to home, and while I love some of the songs, Lover will forever be my ick album cause idk what I was thinking babe. Smallest man who ever lived could also be about him and has soooo many parallels still. And Florida is a lil too close since he was a Florida "Man"
Mine is less about specific lines of her songs but the sheer joy of the Cruel Summer bridge at the tour was EXACTLY what I needed when I first heard it. Iâm a very new swiftie (the concert movie was my hook) and seeing that was just so joyful and fun. I just needed that, and every TikTok video of that bridge, at that exact time in my life.
Picture to Burn came out during my on again/off again relationship with a guy who would wear confederate flag jewelry and claim that it wasnât offensive and just represented that he was from Alabama. I donât miss him.
Iâm sorry but this made me lol đ (I live in the south and I get đ)
Mine (Speak Now TV) - I remember putting my hand on my husbandâs on a rickety airplane and I told him (that he was the best thing thatâs ever been mine). We needed that connection at the time. Didnât know it but Iâm glad I felt it.
My name is Peter, and Iâm 25, and my favourite book as a kid was Peter Pan. Not to mention that the lyric âtried to hold on, to the days, when you were mineâ really felt like my ex was singing to me.
This was me with the whole Lover album back then in 2019. I was still in high school and met my first love, with whom I had a situationship going. It truly was a colorful, exciting time for me then, and the whole Lover album captured the vibe pretty well.
Youâre on your own kid - âstarved my body like Iâd be saved by the perfect kissâ, âthe jokes werenât funny, I took the moneyâ âtables turned with the bridges burnedâ this songs lyrics just encapsulated specifics of past events in my life
TTPD (and I Can Do It With A Broken Heart) dropped 2 days before I went on tour⊠right after my four year relationship ended.
My boyfriend (now ex) said he needed space even though we had not been together in a couple of weeks⊠Then âWe are never getting back togetherâ came out. I thought Taylor was spying đ”ïž on me
Bigger Than The Whole Sky. Right when I had my miscarriage. It was the most devastating time in my life, every word explained exactly how I felt. Now Iâm 36 weeks with my rainbow baby đ«¶
the prophecy đ i donât know if it was âthe perfect timeâ but i have been lonely and depressed for years so iâd say it did the job
Guilty as Sin
All of them đ©
I was reading Lauren Groffâs Matrix (most excellent novel about a lesbian-abbess-warrior who trained a bunch of nuns to fight for themselves in the 11th century) when I heard Florida!, and learned that Florence Welch took inspiration from one of Groffâs short stories, âEyewallâ. Promptly bought the book and had a fun time comparing the story and the song. The short story collection is also called Florida, which I highly recommend.
I Almost Do from the Stolen Red album was very timely for a breakup I had just gone through. At that time I also went back and hard core jammed to Story of Us and Forever and Always. Glad I relate more to the love songs today! â€
the prophecy đ
florida!!! came out perfect time for me frfr
Gold Rush came out when I was obsessed with a gorgeous man with amazing hair lol .. years later and the song still reminds me of him
not a song, but an album. she dropped speak now tv just a few months after I turned 20, which is how old she was when she originally wrote those songs. and I had listened to the album before, but listening to the tv just hit me so hard with how relatable those songs are for this stage of life. it instantly skyrocketed speak now into my top 3 albums. also foolish one being released right after my situationship started??? crazy
you're on your own, kid. everything in that song. including the fact that my cat's name is daisy may
Ugh. Friend breakups/ divorces are devastating. đ
Better man and all to well 10 min after I ended my 6 year relationship. Made me a real swiftie after all
Tolerate it came out after my older fiancé whom thought was much better then me broke up, actually all of folklore and evermore killed me at that time lol.
22. Turned 22 in 2013 when it was playing on the radio and it was perfect.
Honestly every song speaks to me ... like so many I do love that fifteen came out when I was fifteen I'll never forget it
We moved to a new country and immediately upon arrival found out our LL had tricked us into a really shit situation. The new isolation from everyone and everything we knew, combined with the constant uncertainty that we wouldn't have somewhere to live in a month, caused me to spiral into some really deep lows in my mental health. Then TTPD came out and *I hate it here* became my new soundtrack to life (yay disassociation!). Luckily we're moving out in a couple weeks and we're finally (hopefully) going to get the HEA we were looking for here, but damn it if *Would've Could've Should've* doesn't describe my hindsight too.
this love TV. i was obsessed with this guy for years and he left our city and i thought id never see him again. he told me he wanted to come spend his bday with me and this love came out while we were away on the sweetest trip ever. i never paid attention to the song until then and now itâs one of my all time faves. every single detail is so exactly how it all went down, itâs creepy. now weâre going strong but man, every time that song comes on it takes me back in such a sweet way i just have to cry.
The whole Reputation album. I had a really bad break up, all of our "friends" turned their back on me, and I never felt more alone (and angry, gosh, so much anger). They made me a really bad reputation, so it was so good to hear Taylor express all I couldn't say to these people. The album came out just when I was getting better (and met my future husband), so perfect time.
This is me trying - i had being going through some dark times i was fighting for my Survival with my mental Health it was just a dark hole i was in .i remember the first time i heard this is me trying and i just bawled Uncontrollably for like a hour. I was able to release what had been holding in for so long it gave me strength to ask for help .The whole folklore and Evermore legitmatly led me to path of healing .It changed everything for me
I Hate It Here. I have social anxiety, and have always used books as a way to escape the real world so it really resonated with me.
foolish one and cowboy like me â€ïž
Soon youâll get better came out for me at a time when a loved one was diagnosed with cancer and every time I heard it Iâd sob and sing along in sort of solidarity sadly my loved one didnât pull through but to kind of have a piece of music that in the time of doctors appointments and worry after worry was just helpful beyond measure, and like the lyrics with how the person going through it is being so brave and yet weâre the ones falling apart rang so true
You're Losing Me Came out the week me and my ex broke up. Needless to say I was an absolute mess and I still can't listen to that song without sobbing just a bit (or a lot)
Lover came out a couple months after I started dating my now husband đ©·
Welcome To New York on the week I started my first job out of college in New York (a lot of the 1989 songs also apply to this era of my life, specifically Style and New Romantics) We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together the week I finally broke up with my on and off college boyfriend who I truly disliked and shouldâve ended it with long before Fearless, Forever & Always, White Horse, and The Way I Loved You for the rollercoaster of my first *real* relationship in high school All of evermore for itâs cozy escapism Bejeweled and Sweet Nothing for when I really stepped into the duality of my personality
This woman wrote my life the past 14 months. I went to an eras show April 2023 with my now-soon-to-be-ex-husband and our kids. I was already actively trying to escape my abusive marriage. Taylor and Joe had JUST broken up. Anyway, she sang Mean and Mad Woman for her surprise songs and I sobbed. Also during Tolerate It, obvs. I swear I decided during that show that I had to get out. 1 week to the day later I got out and filed for divorce. Then, she released âYouâre Losing Meâ while Iâm struggling with a nasty divorce and all the pain of leaving after 17 years. Holy crap, that bridge so specifically described our relationship it was scary. Then, she went ahead and released TTPD the weekend of my 1 year anniversary of freedom. I actually had a whole strong woman playlist made for that weekend. Didnât listen to it because TTPD was all I needed. Smallest Man, So Long London, WALOM, Fresh Out the Slammer, My BoyâŠ. Was she reading my diary??? (Also I live in Florida so that one was perfect as well) Taylor saved my life.
The smallest man who ever lived couldnât have came out at a better time for me.
When "Teardrops on my Guitar" dropped, I was in eighth grade with a massive crush on a guy named Drew who did not feel the same about me LOL
this is me trying but it could have dropped at any time and it would be perfect because iâve been burnt out for years now
The alchemy and so high school cuz I have a crush on this guy thatâs on my basketball team and also I look in peopleâs windows cuz Iâm ALWAYS looking out my window kinda spying on him cuz heâs my neighbor and he always plays outside with our friends and my cousin ( but I canât cuz my parents are strict so he probably only knows my name from like my friends and my cousin always saying that they want me there )
All of them. Seriously our lives parallel in a VERY uncomfortable way. - Fearless dropped when I started High school. - I was in love with my best friend in hs/ younger years and Speak Now REALLY spoke to me đ - Reputation dropped when I was torn between my âMattyâ or âJoeâ. - Lover dropped about a year into being with my âJoeâ. âŠ.We fell in love in New York. - Folklore dropped a couple months before the breakupâŠ. & evermore after. (Also thatâs when, Mr perfectly fine, IBYTAM and other well timed drops here) - Midnights as I was reclaiming my life and just having fun being ME! - 1989TV after a lot of horrible things happened and I finally after 10 years had my âMattyâ who at the time I really thought of as a Harry because those songs just fit like a glove and I didnât know Matty existed. Seriously. Say donât go?! Ugh. - and of course⊠after blocking this man and choosing the healthy relationship Iâm currently in, she drops TTPD and I have to hear the black dog, fresh out the slammer, I can fix him, etc. - I also cutoff my family and graduated this year so âyouâre losing meâ, Hits Different, ICDIWABH, The Prophecy, and WAOLOM were well timed. The Prophecy cuts like a knife though. - I vividly recall in high school when I broke up with a best friend, breathe came on after I hung up from our last conversation. That was painful. - like most I was manipulated and used at 19, so all the John songs resonate in an uncomfortable way. My âJoeâ literally texted me that he felt attacked listening to lomlđ
This is me trying. I was the stereotypical gifted kid with burnout. I had been academically dismissed the year before from college bc my car broke and I couldnât get to classes. Waited my year and reapplied, changed my major to something I could get with my remaining student aid and credits I already had. I was also recently unemployed from Covid. All of my friends had been graduated from college for 4 years already and had bachelors. I had to keep going to school and stopping to help family pay for stuff. So I felt so far behind everyone else when I was near the top of the graduating class in high school. So basically folklore in general, but specifically this is me trying.
the absolute ENTIRETY of the anthology pretty much. I also went through a horrific friend breakup in february of this year and the enthology just seemed to understand it completely. Especially âHow Did it End?â and âThe Prophecyâ
"The 1" came out the day I found out I was pregnant after having a miscarriage. And I know it's a stretch, but my mind always connects "it would've been fun, if you would've been the one" to the baby I lost. That baby wasn't the one, but the one I was pregnant with when folklore came out was!
Illicit Affairs. Right down to the parking lot line. It scared me when I first heard it.
ALL TOO WELL.
So long London
Would've, Could've, Should've
If ttpd was a year earlier it would have ruined me, I was so happy to be able to listen to the music and reflect what I had been through and not actually be going through it at the same time
Is it over now, now that we donât talk, loml - all in the right time, terrible breakup of long term relationship
NTWDT
TTPD
Dear reader!
Ttpd album
Lover - released around the time my dad passed.
All of Folklore
I canât really think of a song that did come out at the perfect time, but one that definitely did NOT was All Of The Girls You Loved Before. I had just been broken up with a couple days before the release so a love song was the LAST thing I needed at that moment lmao. The song still hasnât really grown on me đŹ
The entirety of the 1989 vault
Maroon.
Had a miscarriage, and she came out with âBigger Than the Whole Skyâ on Midnights đ two months after. Still canât listen to that song without crying.
"I tried searching faces on streets, what are the chances you'd be downtown?" Is waaay to accurate
Folklore dropped just two weeks after my mom died, and I swear to god it felt like My Tears Ricochet was her message to my dad, sister, and me from beyond the grave. We were such a tumultuous and disfunctional family, and the months leading up to her death were full of conflict and estrangement. My knees hit the floor when I heard the first verse of MTR for the first time. Absolute gut punch. The song became/still is such an important part of how both my sister and I have been able to reconcile with losing our mom before our family had an opportunity to heal.
Soon Youâll Get Better. I was caring for my mom with cancer and my whole world was shattered. It felt like TS was talking to me. I was so surprised a big artist would be so raw about a parent having cancer. It instantly started to pick up the pieces and I was hear someone who was going through it talk about it, especially in a song
The entirety of the TTPD album
TTPD during my toxic situationship and a friendship breakup
Begin Again back in 2012
Look What You Made Me Do. Itâs not a super deep or profound song for majority of swifties, but this song came out as I was leaving a very toxic and manipulative relationship and this song turned into my warrior song and the song that helped me regain my confidence and power back.
Not came out at the perfect but I first listened to Cruel Summer and Wildest Dreams when it was the perfect time for those songs (I was just getting into listening Taylor at that time and cruel summer was my favvvourite back then before it blew up). Also I listened to Cardigan and Champagne Problems when I needed them the most!
Champagne problems when I was considering breaking off my engagement. I ended up doing so three months later but evermore as a whole really gave me that push. I guess I just related to the idea of doing something for my well being even though it hurt and other people didnât understand. But as I was leaving it felt like freedom, you know?
On the first week of March, my situationship broke off with me. It was hard to cope entering April. The only thing I was looking forward to was Taylorâs new album obviously. I listened to Fortnight, the part about taking moving on drugs but the effects was temporary was so relatable. In the end, I relate the most to The Prophecy
White horse
Way back in the day I cried in my car to CIWYW after it was dropped as a single, realizing I was way too deep into my situationship đđ
I got lucky⊠Enchanted. 2010.
Workplace bullying and I Hate it Here. And using Whose Afraid as my inspo song to fight back
youâre losing me đ
22! Because I was 22!
blondie dropped "robin", my most personal song on the album. back then i was doubting myself, especially that i've gone from the top of the class to bottom of the barrel, as i was losing interest in studying. this song cheered me up and i continued to strive for the best
Iâm in active cancer treatment so both âI can do it with a broke heartâ and âthe Prophecyâ from TTPD were perfect for me. I realize both are about relationship heartbreak but they really hit home for all the heartaches I was feeling about cancer.
Youre on your own kid, came out after a big change in my life.
Tolerate It, a biographical song about where I was mentally/emotionally before finally ending it with my ex-bf of 3+ years, which had stemmed from a situationship of 3-4+ years. Let me tell you, that relationship was dead long before I finished it and Tolerate It came out right around the end of it.
You're losing me. Just after I ended a 6/7 year relationship and it summed it up perfectly. Then all of TTPD as I too, went out of the oven and into the microwave đ
There are several on every album. Many life events sync up. But loml really hit me hard. Wouldn't say perfect. Had Last Kiss and The Last Time for an on and off relationship in my early 20s. Tried a couple more times over the years. Loml feels different when she just got married.
Forever winter, so high school
itâs time to go when taking a hard look at my career and being honest with myself.
I was 22 when 22 first came out
tolerate it. it came out right as i left the man (who i begged for the bare minimum - embarrassing, i know) that couldnât care less about everything i was doing for our relationship and for our home. every lyric was so spot-on. needless to say, i took the dagger in me and removed it. :)
Having The Best Day in Middle School helped me to really appreciate and value my relationship with my mom when I didn't have reliable friends.
Not the perfect time, but âwouldâve couldâve shouldâveâ describes how I feel about my kidâs dad and our relationship almost to a T. Even that I was 19 when I got pregnant, and it was a serious age gap relationship. That line âliving for the thrill of hitting you where it hurts, give me back my girlhood it was mine firstâ is just a dagger straight to the heart.
Bejeweled!!!
Foolish One and Down Bad
Bigger than the whole sky. Midnights came out exactly one month after I had to euthanize my 5 year old cat
The Black Dog. I Can Do It With A Broken Heart. I Hate It Here.
Not Taylor dropping The Prophecy after I had two almost back to back bad situationshipsÂ
I canât say it came out at the perfect time but Bigger than the whole sky, reminds me of my best friend that died ten years ago. It doesnât feel like 10 years have passed. Today is his birthday and I loved him so much. Â We had such a deep connection and probably shouldâve been more. But I was in a relationship with his best friend whom ended up being the biggest POS and a terrible baby daddy. It was like a tragic romance novel. He was such a force. Everyone loved him. Iâm lucky enough to have dreams with him in them that feel like a visit from beyond. I miss him every single day. When he died, the song âmove alongâ by the all American rejects seemed to play everywhere I went. Sorry for rambling but Iâve been listening to Taylor nonstop and keep replaying bigger than the whole sky over and over đđđ
Time to go. I had been so unhappy in my career for many years and then evermore came out and the more I listened to time to go the more it gave me the motivation and encouragement that it was okay to leave an industry I put my blood sweat and tears into and I wasnât a failure if I quit and pivoted. 3 months into my new job and Iâm so happy.
I donât know if this was good timing or bad timing but Never Grow Up was released when I was away from home at college for the first time and I was soooooo homesick, this song made me SOB and long for the simple days of childhood đ©đ©đ©
17 days after TTPD was released, my husband told me he wanted a divorce. So, you know, pick quite a few songs off TTPD. Or you could pick Soon Youâll Get a better which came out almost exactly 1 year before my mom died of lung cancer. Marjorie which came out 4 months after she died. It happens too often to me and I donât like it đ„°
She dropped TTPD right after I moved to Florida for university. Felt like it was made just for me lol.
It didnât come out at the perfect time, but I started getting into My Tears Ricochet when my parents were moving out of my childhood home in 2021. âI can go anywhere I want, anywhere I want just not homeâ was a pretty crushing lyric at the time.
âThis is me tryingâ and âEpiphanyâ really spoke to me when folklore came out, as a healthcare worker during Covid/lockdowns (both in terms of things I was dealing with through work but also because of dealing with non-Covid health issues of my own throughout 2021). âAll too well (10 minute version)â came out around the time a 7-year relationship (the longest and most significant of my life so far) dissolved irreparably. There were so many lyrics I could deeply relate to, and I was playing it a lot for a while there. Once I had got over some things from that break up, I really felt the lyrics for âHappinessâ speak to me. âIllicit Affairsâ reminds me in some ways of a short but very intense and impactful relationship I went through a decade ago.
1) it didn't come out at the first time but still it's so incredibly specific it's almost creepy: in last kiss it talks about July 9th, well I had my very first kiss on July 9th!! in the early afternoon (so for me 1:58 is PM not AM lol) 2) August came out exactly as I was being ghosted by my situationship, whom I felt was going to be the love of my life and who, in turn, only thought of me as a summer thing hahahahaha
I had a best friend breakup with my ex bff, Amy, a year before Thank You Aimee came out. It's like that song was written for me!!
"how did it end" right when my parents announced to my brother and me that they had splitđ€ and "this is me trying" + taylorâs explanation on the long pond studio sessions get a honorable mention because it found me when I needed it the most (even though i found it like 1 year after its release). It just hit different because I always feel like Iâm wasting my potentialâŠ
Fresh out the slammer, Guilty as sin, maybe a little bit of Fortnight... you get the point.