History YMMV / TaylorSwift

*** "Joe Alwyn PLEASE FIGHT." / "Joe Alwyn PLEASE DO SOMETHING" / "Joe Alwyn PLEASE COME BACK"[labelnote:explanation]]Another variation of the meme after more details about their break up was released, especially by the track "You're Losing Me" as well as Taylor engage in a short-lived but highly publicized romance with [[Music/The1975 Matty Healy]] that fans heavily dislike due to his problematic past behaviors and comments.[[/labelnote]]

*** "Joe Alwyn PLEASE FIGHT.' / "Joe Alwyn PLEASE DO SOMETHING" / "Joe Alwyn PLEASE COME BACK"[labelnote:explanation]]Another variation of the meme after more details about their break up was released, especially by the track "You're Losing Me" as well as Taylor engage in a short-lived but highly publicized romance with [[Music/The1975 Matty Healy]] that fans heavily dislike due to his problematic past behaviors and comments.[[/labelnote]]

* "Fearless" has the lyrics "And I don't know why / But with you I'd dance in a storm /In my best dress / Fearless". During a few dates of her "Eras" tour in 2023, Taylor faced some extreme weather in outdoor venues - the show went on, so she did in fact end up dancing in high end dresses in the middle of storms.

** "this is me trying" is inspired by experience of an addict and / or person with mental illness and how they keep trying just to do very normal things.

* AngstAversion: Some Swift songs delve into some decidedly serious subject matter.

** ''folklore'': "epiphany" is about her grandfather's time in World War II and how it compares to the experience of frontline doctors and nurses during the pandemic.

* AudienceAlienatingEra: The late 2010s was not a good time for Swift's public image both as a celebrity and an artist, mainly due to her [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity inescapable publicity in the media]] in the wake of ''1989'' and its massive success. When ''reputation'' came out, many fans and critics were more than a little disappointed in its "trend-chasing" electronic/hip-hop inspired production and her focus on responding to the press and her personal rivals, which many at this point were just exhausted of hearing about. While still the best selling album of the year, its performance was a notable step-down from ''1989'', and it took until the album's fourth single (the much more personal and relatable "Delicate") for the album to produce a truly sustained hit. Some see the era as stretching further into 2019, with the middling reviews received for ''Lover'''s lead singles "ME!" and "You Need to Calm Down" and further diminished performance when compared to its predecessor. Swift's ''Miss Americana'' documentary even has her confess that she believes she is past her commercial peak as she entered into her 30s. The very next year, however, ''folklore'''s raving critical reception led to a reappraisal of Swift's entire discography and launched her right back to the peak of the pop music moutain.

* AngstAversion: Anyone new to the fandom would be warned that some songs should not be listened to on repeat because of their serious subject matters couple with her writing style would shatter you to millions of pieces:
** ''Taylor Swift'': "Tied Together With A Smile" for its very obvious description of eating disorders.
** ''Speak Now'': "Dear John" for its very disturbing description of gaslighting and power imbalance.

*** "Ronan" for its extremely sad origin and subject matter and being a charity single for the titular boy's family and cancer research.

** ''Lover'': "Soon You'll Get Better" is about Taylor's mother battle with cancer and how terrify she is if the worst happens.
** ''folklore'':
*** "epiphany" is about her grandfather time in World War I and how it compares to the experience of frontline doctors and nurses during the pandemic.
*** "this is me trying" is inspired by experience of an addict and mental illness and how they keep trying just to do very normal things.
** ''evermore'': "marjorie" is a GriefSong about her grandmother and how Taylor lost her grandmother before she can really appreciate what a great person she was.

*** "Bigger Than The Whole Sky" is about a loss of someone who is extremely important despite their short time together and how the narrator struggle to move on from this loss.
*** "Would've Could've Should've" is an intense song about the anger and grief about an extremely unhealthy relationship with an older man and how it still damage the narrator and kept her up at night.
* AudienceAlienatingEra: 2015-2017 was not a good time for Swift's public image both as a celebrity and an artist, mainly due to her [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity inescapable publicity in the media]] and a feeling as if her long string of singles from ''1989'' was just stalling until the next album. When the next album, ''reputation'', came out, many fans and critics were more than a little disappointed in it. Consensus said that is was largely a misstep since its narrative was about her life as a celebrity, taking away from one of her songwriting's greatest strengths: her relatability. While it did become the best-selling album that year, it was released during an era where physical album sales were at an all-time low[[note]]It was released at a perfect crossroads of [=CDs=] becoming obsolete while vinyl records, though rapidly increasing in popularity, hadn't quite reached its true boom a couple years later[[/note]], so the only album around that time being promoted as a physical release by a world-famous artist would top those sales, and it was a fraction of the sales of its predecessor. Some see the era as stretching into the the first half of 2019, with the middling reviews received for ''Lover'''s lead single "ME!", with a similar reception given to "You Need to Calm Down". While the rest of ''Lover'' was released to very positive reception, there wouldn't be a full agreement that she had stepped out of the era until the ''folklore''/''evermore'' era.

** "Ronan" for its extremely sad origin and subject matter and being a charity single for the titular boy's family and cancer research.

*** "Bigger Than The Whole Sky" is about a loss of someone who is extremely important despite their short time together and how the narrator struggle to move from this loss.

** "Ronan" is widely considered to be exempt from criticism, since it was written to raise money for cancer research, and was written about and named for a real child who died from it. The boy's mother is even credited as a cowriter because most of the lyrics are adapted from her blog. Due to the tragic reason it was written and the fact that all proceeds from the song and its rerecording goes to Ronan's mother, you either say you like the song or you say ''nothing''.

** On a more serious note, "Ronan" is widely considered to be exempt from criticism, since it was written to raise money for cancer research, and was written about and named for a real child who died from it. The boy's mother is even credited as a cowriter because most of the lyrics are adapted from her blog. Due to the tragic reason it was written and the fact that all proceeds from the song and its rerecording goes to Ronan's mother, the attitude towards the song in the fanbase is you say you like it or you say ''nothing''.

** In the "Bejeweled" music video she wear a disheveled hairstyle and no make up look as Cinderella before the makeover.

* HollywoodHomely: In the "You Belong With Me" video, she dons a pair of glasses and braids her hair in order to play the "ugly" girl.

*** (Taylor's Version)(From the Vault)(Elvira Remix)(Sad Autumn Girl Verions)(Recorded at Long Pond Studio)[[labelnote:Explanation]]That said, a lot of fans poke fun at her for the sheer ColonCancer on her track listing of ''Red (Taylor's Version)'', with gems like "All Too Well (Taylor's Version)(10 Minutes Version)(From the Vault)and its slower remix adding (Sad Autumn Girl Version)(Recorded at Long Pond Studio)[[/labelnote]]

** "All of the Girls" starts its life as a leak demo from ''Lover'', but the leak track's extreme popularity is probably the reason why she released as a bonus track and the song amassed an extremely high streaming count despite almost no promotion and not being on the Eras tour setlist.

** On a more serious note, "Ronan" is widely considered to be exempt from criticism, since it was written to raise money for cancer research, and was written about and named for a real child who died from it. The boy's mother is even credited as a cowriter because most of the lyrics are adapted from her blog. Due to the tragic reason it was written, the attitude towards the song in the fanbase is you say you like it or you say ''nothing''.

*** (Taylor's Version)(From the Vault)(Elvira Remix)[[labelnote:Explanation]]That said, a lot of fans poke fun at her for the sheer ColonCancer on her track listing of ''Red (Taylor's Version)'', with gems like "All Too Well (Taylor's Version)(10 Minutes Version)(From the Vault)[[/labelnote]]

** #drunktaylor. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFcJsuEo1vc This video of Taylor dancing to You Need To Calm Down]] became viral on Twitter, and the hashtag "#drunktaylor" instantly became a worldwide trend. She herself was even amazed of it becoming a meme. The thing is however, it's not clear if Taylor was really drunk or not, but what matters?

* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: The news of Taylor's break up with her long-term boyfriend and sometime collaborator Joe Alwyn in 2023 has caused many songs from her post-2017 catalogue received a major boost in streaming despite none of them are singles, have any promotions and the news was broke on a holiday weekend. Most of them are the songs most explicitly stated (or widely agreed) to be inspired by him ("Call It What You Want", "New Years Day", "King of My Heart", "Cornelia Street", "Daylight", "London Boy", "peace", "invisible string", "the lakes", "gold rush", "Sweet Nothing", "Paris", "The Great War", "Glitch") along with some notable BreakUpSong ("the 1", "hoax", "champagne problems", "happiness", "right where you left me")

* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: The news of Taylor's break up with her long-term boyfriend and sometime collaborator Joe Alwyn in 2023 has caused many songs from her post-2017 catalogue received a major boost in streaming despite none of them are singles, have any promotions and the news was broke on a holiday weekend. Most of them are the songs most explicitly stated (or widely agreed) to be inspired by him ("Call It What You Want", "New Years Day", "King of My Heart", "Cornelia Street", "Daylight", "London Boy", "peace", "invisible string", "the lakes", "gold rush", "Sweet Nothing", "Paris", "The Great War", "Glitch") along with some notable BreakUpSong ("the 1", "champagne problems", "happiness", "right where you left me")

** Joe Alwyn has became one after the reveal that he is William Bowery that has a huge role in creating beloved songs in ''folklore'' and ''evermore''. Fans were devastated when it was announced that they broke up, as evidenced by the amount of streaming gains the song she explicitly stated to be inspired about him suggested.

** Joe Alwyn can you fight? [[labelnote:explanation]]Her male / Sapphic fans will use this meme tongue in cheeks whenever she appears in a suggestive or just very beautiful outfit in a public outing.[[/labelnote]]

* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: The news of her break up with Taylor's long-term boyfriend and sometime collaborator Joe Alwyn in 2023 has caused many songs from her post-2017 catalogue received a major boost in streaming despite none of them are singles, have any promotions and the news was broke on a holiday weekend. Most of them are the songs most explicitly stated to be inspired by him ("Call It What You Want", "New Years Day", "King of My Heart", "Cornelia Street", "Daylight", "London Boy", "peace", "invisible string", "the lakes", "gold rush", "Sweet Nothing", "Paris", "The Great War", "Glitch") along with some notable BreakUpSong ("the 1", "champagne problems", "happiness", "right where you left me")

** Joe Alwyn has became one after the reveal that he is William Bowery that has a huge role in creating beloved songs in ''folklore'' and ''evermore''.

** Joe Alwyn (Pisces) [[labelnote:explanation]][[https://www.thecut.com/2018/09/joe-alwyn-says-words-about-taylor-swift.html From a gossip article]] that only refer to her boyfriend Joe Alwyn by his astronomy sign has been adapted into the fandom to refer to him because of how publicly private they were about their relationship. Even after his involvement as William Bowery led him to become a major EnsembleDarkhorse, some fans still call him this affectionately. Not help is that Taylor herself seems to obsess with astrology and constellation in her lyrics and music videos.[[/labelnote]]

* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: The news of her break up with Taylor's long-term boyfriend and sometime collaborator Joe Alwyn in 2023 has caused many songs from her post-2017 catalogue received a major boost in streaming despite none of them are singles, have any promotions and the news was broke on a holiday weekend. Most of them are the songs most explicitly stated to be inspired by him ("Cornelia Street", "Daylight", "London Boy", "peace", "invisible string", "the lakes", "Sweet Nothing", "Gold Rush", "New Years Day", "King of My Heart", "Paris", "The Great War", "Glitch") along with some notable BreakUpSong ("the 1", "champagne problems", "happiness", "right where you left me")