

While Reputation holds a special place in my heart because its tour was the first time I saw Ms. Some people adore the album, others can’t stand it. Reputation is the dark horse of Taylor Swift lore. It’s a better debut than we could produce. Case in point: in “Stay Beautiful,” she croons, “Just a small town boy and girl / Living in the crazy world.” When you’re not sure if the song is Taylor Swift or Journey, the songwriting is probably not at its peak. In much of the album, the lyrics are simplistic. How do we get her to have the same “aha” moment around her reported use of fossil fuels? Thankfully, she’s since changed the lyric. “Picture to Burn,” while popular at the time it came out in 2006, also included a homophobic line that essentially amounted to calling your ex gay because he broke up with you.

Her debut album features one of my favorite Taylor Swift songs of all time, “Tim McGraw,” along with her first true radio hit, “Teardrops on My Guitar.” However, it also includes a few of the worst. On second thought, maybe this is setting up a bad reward mechanism. Also, because all of you were complaining. But after thinking more about it, it doesn’t feel fair not to include them as their own separate entities. It just didn’t feel fair, since it gives some of her albums double spots on the list, and the new records are still an unfinished project. In the original version of this article, I didn’t include the “Taylor’s Version” albums. I even made a post on Facebook in 2011 about wanting to become her because “she’s awesome.” How could anyone argue with such a concrete data point? So, as we approach her upcoming Eras Tour, here is the ranking of all 13 of Taylor Swift’s albums.* Still, we managed to create a list ranking all of Taylor Swift’s studio albums, including her newest release, Speak Now (Taylor’s Version).īefore you start coming for me for daring to put such a controversial ranking together, I’ve been a die-hard Taylor Swift fan since her hair was curly and her voice sounded more like Dolly Parton than Billie Eilish. And, well, have you ever been on the Internet? Taylor Swift’s fans are some of the most loyal and dedicated out there.
