History Trivia / TaylorSwift

** The name and tracklist of Music/TheTorturedPoetsDepartment were leaked on TikTok about a week before the official announcement at the Grammys, but they were mostly dismissed by the Swiftie community. However, in the hours after the announcement the leak began to draw significant attention, forcing Swift to release the entire tracklist just a day later, in contrast to the slower rollout for Midnights. The standard edition of the album also leaked a day before the official release, although the Anthology tracks managed to remain under wraps until their release.

** Swift and Music/HarryStyles are known to have written some songs together that never saw the light of day.

** ''folklore'' and ''evermore'' have a few cowriting credit ("exile", "betty", "champange problems", "coney island", "evermore") by Swift's then-boyfriend Creator/JoeAlwyn under the pseudonym William Bowery. She even stated in ''Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions'' that Alwyn came up with the instruments and a huge chunk of the lyrics on both of the songs he was credited with on ''folklore''. She later revealed that quite a few of the promotional materials she released date back to ''reputation'' are pictures and videos taken by Joe. The lyric video for "exile" even features him. ''Midnights'' has one writing credit by him with the song "Sweet Nothing", a love song about the simple pleasures of a long-term relationship. Another case of a brutal Deconstruction as the three albums they created together became smash hits (with "exile" in particular became a smash hit radio single) and revitalized her career and fame, which ultimately may have been one of the reasons for their break up in April 2023.

* ActorAllusion: Not for Taylor herself, but in her TV spot for [=#TaylorSwiftNow=], Andy Samberg appears... and Taylor kicks him through a wall. On ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', Samberg's character Jake is mentioned to be a Taylor Swift fanboy, was once detained at a concert of hers, and apparently isn't allowed within a hundred feet of her.
-->'''Jake:''' But that was a misunderstanding. ''(dreamily)'' She's probably gonna write a song about me.

* WhyFandomsCantHaveNiceThings: After a WebVideo/MeatCanyon parody animation mocked swifties and Taylor herself, swifties then sent death threats to Papa Meat himself.

** ''folklore'' and ''evermore'' have a few cowriting credit ("exile", "betty", "champange problems", "coney island", "evermore") by Swift's then-boyfriend Creator/JoeAlwyn under the pseudonym William Bowery. She even stated in ''Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions'' that Alwyn came up with the instruments and a huge chunk of the lyrics on both of the songs he was credited with on ''folklore''. She later revealed that quite a few of the promotional materials she released date back to ''reputation'' are pictures and videos taken by Joe. The lyric video for "exile" even features him. ''Midnights'' has one writing credit by him with the song "Sweet Nothing", a love song about the simple pleasures of a long-term relationship. Another case of a brutal Deconstruction as the three albums they created together became smash hits (with "exile" in particular became a smash hit radio single) and revitalize her career and fame, which ultimately was one of the reason led to their break up in April 2023.

* SheAlsoDid: She also co-wrote Kellie Pickler's 2008 single "Best Days of Your Life", Music/BoysLikeGirls 2009 hit "Two Is Better Than One (also a feature vocal on some versions of the song), Music/MileyCyrus-as-Hannah Montana's 2009 single "You'll Always Find Your Way Back Home", Music/{{BOB}}'s 2012 hit "Both of Us" (also contributing a prominent vocal feature), Music/CalvinHarris and Music/{{Rihanna}}'s huge 2016 hit "This Is What You Came For", Music/LittleBigTown's 2017 hit "Better Man", and Music/{{Sugarland}}'s 2018 hit "Babe". "Best Days of Your Life", "This Is What You Came For" and "Babe" also feature her on backing vocals. She is also lead vocal and writer for the song "Renegade" as well as vocal for "Birch" as part of the band Big Red Machine as well as being the writer and feature vocal for "The Alcott" for Music/TheNational.

* CreatorBacklash:

* DoingItForTheArt: A [[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-reinvention-of-taylor-swift-116925/ Rolling Stones article]] revealed that the official announcement to switch from country to pop from ''1989'' onward was ''against'' her label's wish and was the direction she wanted to take her music in.

** ''folklore'' was classified as alternative and had zero promotion as Taylor only announced it on social media 16 hours before its release. The album still ended up to be the #1 best selling album of 2020.

** Similarly, she's not too proud of some of the lyrics in "Better Than Revenge", specifically those that veer into SlutShaming and insinuating that you can "steal" a person. Again, she chocks this up to immaturity. As of 2019, she and Joe Jonas have mended fences and now both laugh about the whole situation. The Taylor's Version re-recording changes the line "she's better known for the things that she does on the mattress" to "he was a moth to the flame, she was holding the matches".

* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: In "Love Story", Swift says "You were Romeo, I was a [[Literature/TheScarletLetter Scarlet Letter]]", which is, in the titular novel, a ''[[MedalOfDishonor badge of shame]]'' given for adultery. That said, it's entirely possible Swift is well aware of what happens in both ''Literature/TheScarletLetter'' and ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', causing the whole thing to fall under PoesLaw. Alternatively, it's possible that the "scarlet letter" refers to her parents' reaction to the boy she wanted to date, not herself.

* FranchiseZombie: ''Live from [[Creator/IHeartMedia Clear Channel]] Stripped 2008'' was recorded for an Internet performance during the promotional tour of ''Fearless'' and was released by Swift's old label Big Machine Record as an album without her permission in 2020. She openly denounced the album and called it "tasteless" and "shameless greed in the time of coronavirus".