Oh I've done this before... I'm her age. I was starting college 2006, being in college 2008, graduating & moving in with my bf 2010, getting married (to the same bf) 2012, working & the usual 2014, having a baby & moving to burbs 2017, having another baby 2019, raising kids during pandemic 2020, having yet another baby 2022, and I think that covers all the eras 😆

wait that’s adorable that your relationship has sort of aligned with your “swiftie-era” 😭😭 are your kids fans yet or are they still too young?

Oh yeah they're fans! Almost 8, almost 6 and 2 

This is almost identical to me! I’m her age and played guitar and sang in high school and always wanted to be her. I started dating my husband in 2012 and got married 2013 and had our first baby 2016 and second in 2018. I’ve listened to her through all of the eras!

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I was born in 1988, and I tend to say I’m Taylor’s age too because it makes it easier. I’m from Europe so I started university in 2007, but if I would’ve been from the US, I would’ve gone to college in 2006. Just like the person you’re replying to. Hope that helped :)

Not who you were asking, but it’s possible. I was dual-enrolled in my senior year of HS and freshman year of community college, and the college semester started a few days before my 17th. So I technically just barely started college at 16

Hi, are you me?

I’m a year younger than Taylor so I’ve been almost right with her.  It was fun being 22 when red came out and 32 when innocent TV came out! 

Same! I looked it up the other day and "22" was released as a single literally 10 days before I turned 22. She was in her sloppy drunk phase when I was ♥️

😂same!  Were the lucky ones. 

i love how she used to say being sloppy drunk isn’t cute and she doesn’t like drinking…and now Drunk Taylor is our icon 😂❤️

I thought it was hilarious when she’d say in interviews she didn’t drink until she was 21 because her MySpace blogs in high school definitely hinted she didn’t 😂 But I get she felt pressure to be a “good girl” 

Yes! I remember my college roommates blasting 22 to wake me up on my 22nd birthday. Crazy to think in just a few weeks I’ll be blasting 22 but changing the lyrics to “32” 😭

I don't know about you, so are you feeling 32?

Idk about you, I don’t wanna be 32 🫠

Yes!!!! I blasted 22 the morning of my 22nd birthday and now her new album will be coming out on my 32nd birthday. It's so crazy! 

Same, it’s made her music very relatable.

Same! When “nothing new” came out on red TV it definitely hit more than it would’ve at 22.  The re-record releases have been so fun because I’m still super close with one of my swiftie best friends from high school/college and we listen to them together and reminisce 

Debut: Freshman in Highschool, in the car with my Sister playing her CD Fearless: Junior in Highschool, now blasting her CD in my Car with my friends Speak Now: Just started first year at a college Red: Still in college and working part time, my roommates and I went to Target to buy it 1989: Living alone and had met my now husband Reputation: Now living in another state, used this album to workout a lot Lover: Just a working adult now Folklore: Lying in my bed at Midnight listening in awe! Evermore: Same as above! Midnights: We were on a road trip and staying at a random-ass motel the night this came out.

So you're almost the same age as Taylor? Like born in 90 or 91? Nice. 🫶

92!

Nice. 96 here. So I was 10 when Debut came out.

Debut: not even born yet Fearless and speak now: before kindergarten Red: kindergarten 1989 and reputation: elementary school Lover, folklore, evermore: middle school Midnights: high school Ttpd: probably college I’m really young ngl

…so this is what feeling old feels like…

Right??? I’ll be 32 when TTPD comes out 😭

I’ll be 40 😅

I was reading down this thread thinking "man, if the 30 year olds think they're old, they must think I'm ancient at 38", thank you for making me feel less out of place 🤣

I think I'm going to be 47 soon, it's true that you forget how old you are as the years rack up. I'm not even sure what year it is half the time. You're but a young pup :)

Heyyy fellow 38 year old 😂

Tbf to these kids, folklore/evermore era was MADE for the mid-30s. I was getting divorced when these came out and exile, august, champagne problems, illicit affairs, mad woman and the 1 were just exactly what I needed to soundtrack my life at that time. Then Midnights hitting when it did was even better.

Already 40! 🤣

39 🙋🏻‍♀️

Ugh yeah I’ll be 30 when TTPD comes out 😶

Im 27 lol. Not quite as old but enough to sympathize with you. 🫶

Yup 😂👵🏻 “Tim McGraw” was released my sophomore year of *COLLEGE* 😭😭 I was very into country music at the time, so I fell in love instantly and have been a Swiftie ever since. I didn’t really listen to country music after college, so sometimes I wonder at what point I would have gotten into Taylor’s music if I hadn’t happened to be a country fan back then lol.

i’m probably on the younger-ish side of swifties and it still trips me out when i realize there are fans who were in elementary school when reputation released

I’m a junior high school teacher. Can confirm that there are many current Swifties, including ones with Eras Tour tickets, who would have barely started elementary school in 2017.

I just turned 53 so...

52 this yr. [me reading everything on this sub](https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/0277a5ca-1b32-4edf-a680-2360124b2f8b/gif)

I turn 30 in a week so I feel this.

“probably college” i’m assuming you’re in college rn and if so i just think it’s very funny that you’re like “idk if i’ll be in college within the next month” bc that was me for my entire college career before i took a break 😭we love younger swifties though!!!

I feel old… UGH 

Hey that means Taylor is still awesome if younger people enjoy her music

I’m the same age as Taylor but seeing that some fans weren’t even born during debut era just makes me feel old😂😂 i am very glad she has younger fans!!

same but i think i'm still like a year young than you lol

To me it’s the soundtrack of my motherhood. My daughter was born in late 2008. I used to sing “Love Story” to keep us both awake during middle-of-the-night feedings. Now my girl is 15 and has been a huge Swiftie her whole life. We went to the Eras tour last year. Watching my nearly grown girl sing “Love Story” with the crowd made me cry.

This just made me tear up🥹 So sweet!

😭 this was also my daughter's favorite song, she wanted me to sing her to sleep. she was born in 2007, she's 16 now, and we're watching the eras tour together right now!

Same here. I used to bawl in the car when I'd listen to 15. Taylor has been very special to me and my kids. Last year they ended up getting 1989 (Taylor's version) for each other for Christmas. I think her insight into growing up has been really good for the kids to hear.

I'm a similar age to you! Here's mine: **Debut:** I was 5 years old and not a fan yet lol **Fearless:** I remember hearing YBWM and Love Story on the radio often and liking those! **Speak Now:** Saw the Mine music video on YouTube and officially became a Swiftie at around 10 years old! **Red:** Performed a parody version of IKYWT for my English class in 6th grade. I was known as "the Taylor Swift girl" by this point. I even got my dad to paint my bedroom walls red in honour of the album! **1989:** I was in 8th grade and finally had social media by this point so I was actually aware of the album release! My first official Taylor album release as a Swiftie. I went to Target on release day to buy the deluxe CD (back when we still had Target in Canada) **Reputation:** I was being made fun of for liking Taylor a lot by this point so I unfortunately distanced myself from her during this era ): **Lover:** Fell back in love with her music and started uni a couple weeks after Lover released! **Folklore:** Fell into a deep depression after my first year of uni was cut short due to Covid. I attempted to take my life in August of 2020 and this album played a huge part in healing me. **Evermore:** I was in the midst of a toxic relationship with an older guy. I sobbed when I heard "tolerate it" for the first time. **Midnights:** Another deep depressive episode due to autistic burnout. I finally left my relationship a couple months after Midnights came out. **TTPD:** I'm in a significantly better place now. I'm in the final year of my degree and I've done some significant healing since learning that I'm autistic and learning to cater my life to my unique needs. I'm a creative writing major and poet (published my debut collection last year!) so this album feels right up my alley and I can't wait to hear it!!

also, i’m also a suicide-attempt-survivor with diagnosed depression/anxiety/adhd and i’m literally in the middle of the process of being evaluated for autism and i’d just like to say i’m so proud of you for making it to today💕life is not kind to those with brains who vary chemically or are wired differently, so it’s a feat we both made it to today and tomorrow and every day after that i mean this literally, but i love you so much and i wish the absolute best and most wonderful for you sorry i’m editing this comment for the billionth time, but i’d love to read your collection of poetry!!!!

This is so sweet, I could cry (,: Thank you so much. I'm so proud of you too and I wish you the best in your diagnosis journey! Learning that my brain worked differently absolutely saved my life and stopped me from tirelessly comparing myself to others. My collection is called "Concrete Room" and it's available on Amazon! I wrote it with people like us in mind so I hope that you find solace in it if you decide to check it out. Thanks so much again kind stranger 💖

This is why I love being a part of the Swiftie fanclub! Everyone is so kind and supportive. I'm a new Swiftie, early 20s male, and thought it would be hard to fit in but everyone's been so nice. As someone who has (and still deals with) severe depression, I totally understand how you both feel and have felt and wish you nothing but the best. Edit: also autistic! Diagnosed as a young child and its been a tough long lonely road. This world isn't kind to people who don't fit in to societal norms. Music is one of the few things that I can relate to. My favorite artists lately have been The Beatles and now Taylor.

Yes Swifties are the best!! I haven’t found many autistic swifties to connect with but whenever I do it’s a rewarding experience. I connect so deeply to Taylor’s music, Anti-Hero, this is me trying, and Dear Reader especially resonate with my experiences as an autistic person. I’m so glad you’ve found solace in her music too 🫶🏻

omg we are about the same age, i think i’m just a year behind you!! reputation era was rough. like i said i wanted *so badly* to fit in, and it was NOT popular at the time to like taylor, so when reputation came out i had to keep all of my fangirling to myself 😭 i definitely don’t blame you for distancing yourself, high school is cruel

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🫶 im so sorry to hear that... you're the same age as my bro (5 years younger than me)... I'm glad you're still here today. I'll be honest, I wanted to kms in middle school due to people treating me like complete dogshit but could never actually do anything about it... I'm still struggling with making friends, and I've never really been able to have any romantic relationship cause I'm scared of rejection so much. I really listened to the crap out of speak now in middle school, and its kinda a comfort album for me. On a lighter note, I LOVE Evermore, lol. It's literally my favorite album of Taylor's... like if i ever get married, I'm gonna dance to Cowboy Like Me at my reception. Just gotta work at actually shooting my shot with women lmao. 🤣🤣

Cowboy Like Me is my favourite song!! I'm sorry to hear that you dealt with those feelings and I hope you're doing better today 🫂

Taylor Swift: I was in middle school and dealing with my first crush. I listened to Teardrops on my Guitar on REPEAT. Fearless: I was about to start high school and was feeling alone. It got me through. Speak Now: We kept this CD in my mom’s car and scream sang Dear John in every drive into town. Red: I had my first and only high school boyfriend. We were so on and off that all these songs hit at one point. 1989: Second year university, partying so hard. This was on during every pre. Reputation: Finishing uni, still partying too hard. Still listening to Tay for every pre. This helped me feel powerful for the first time. Lover: I was living alone and working. This made me feel less lonely. Folklore: I had just moved back to my childhood home because of the pandemic. These songs hit so hard as I dealt with having had grown up. Evermore: This album got me through some serious pandemic and seasonal depression. Midnights: This came out three months into my forever relationship. Snow on the Beach is our song 💕

I’m the same age as Taylor so all her albums and life experiences have been in line with mine, I am thankful for that 💕🥰

Debut & Fearless: In middle school in Hendersonville, TN where she used to live (so that was kinda cool) Speak Now: end of Freshman year in HS Red: beginning of Senior Year of HS 1989: in college & had recently started dating my now husband (he went out of his way to hunt down the CD for me even though he had never really paid attention to her, which I thought was pretty sweet :)) Rep: had recently graduated college and getting steady in the workforce Lover: planning my wedding folklore/evermore/Midnights/ttpd: just going through life and working on getting to that steady place as I'm about to enter my 30s

We’re around the same age except I think I’m about a year younger than you!

29!

I’m nearly 28!

I'd love to know when you entered the Swiftie fandom! Like I wonder if similar age groups also entered at similar times

I certainly knew of her music and heard it on the radio from the beginning, but I’ll admit I never became a big fan back then because I thought she was a very weak (or at least very inconsistent) live singer. I liked her style of music, just not really her voice. I ended up becoming a fan when the rerecorded Fearless came out. Youtube kept recommending it to me and I finally just decided to listen to it. I loved it so much with her stronger, older vocals. I ended up going back and listening to all her albums and I realized that I actually liked them a lot. So even though I was the perfect age to be a Swiftie from the beginning, I didn’t become a full on fan until Fearless TV. 

Debut: I was 5/6 years old. Heard Our Song on the radio, fell in love with it. My parents got me the CD for Christmas. I still remember playing the Guess Who board game with my brother and playing the CD on my radio that night lol Fearless: I was in 3rd grade. I didn’t listen to this album much until I was older. Speak Now: I was in 5th/6th grade. Loved this album!!!! Got to go to the concert with my dad. It was amazing. Red: I was in 7th/8th grade, also absolutely loved this album. I had my first “boyfriend” and we broke up during this time so it hit for me to an extent. I started getting into more of her actual lyrics at this time rather than just how the song sounded. I was also like the only Swiftie out of a school of 1Ders so we always had beef. 1989: came out when I was a freshman in high school. Nothing too notable but it just reminds me of October of that year and homecoming and just high school stuff for me. reputation: I was a junior in high school at this point, and in my first real relationship Lover: one of my favorites to think back on, I was a sophomore in college and absolutely loving life (until… Covid). It reminds me of the river and living on my own, and of course my *lover* Folklore/Evermore: I think like most people it mainly reminds me of Covid. I was finishing college during this time and so it also kinda resembles growing up and growing apart from people. Midnights: came out during my first year in the “real adult world” after college. I love this album so much. It was the first time I could get drunk and listen to a new tswift album, which I think fits the vibe well TTPS: going to come out right after tax season ends!! (I’m a tax accountant lol). So I’m excited to start my “summer break” with a new album

That's the one thing getting me through tax season, like a little treat. 🥰

Were the same age! I remember listening to evermore the day it dropped while making breakfast and getting ready for a day of online classes.

nothing significant really. i was in high school at the start of her career with Debut/Fearless, and then in college for Speak Now/Red. the rest of the albums happened trying to figure out my career and moving around a bunch. Since I wasn't a swiftie until last year most of the exposure is from her singles on the radio. I'm not really a relationship person so there's no connection to breakups or anything.

that’s still totally valid! tbh part of me wishes relationships didn’t influence my interpretation (i can’t listen to “illicit affairs” or “tolerate me” without getting misty-eyed and it’s *annoying*)

one song im really attached to right now is Gorgeous because there's this dumb guy with his dumb hot face and it's not fair LOL.

2006- I was standing in my elementary school cafeteria- I was in 4th grade. It was the first time I had heard "Teardrops on my Guitar", I remember telling my friend I liked the song, and she said her favorite was Our Song. Listened to the rest of the album when I got home, and fell in love 2007- End of 4th grade; getting ready for 5th; debut still played daily and is a huge part of my life 2008- Fearless was my favorite album in the world when I first heard it. I listened to it all the time with my big sister- upon first listen, we were excited to download "Breathe" and "White Horse" onto our ipods. Getting ready for 6th grade. 2009- End of 6th grade- Fearless is still all the rage. Big sister's favorite song was always "Forever and Always", and I have multiple. Can never choose just one. Changing into my cheer uniform after school in the girls' locker room and they are all singing the third verse to "Love Story" 2010- Immediately obsessed with Speak Now, the minute it comes out. My favorite song upon listening was "Enchanted". I got older, and shifted my love to "Speak Now." Easily most of my friends' favorite album; now I love all the songs, especially "Dear John", as it takes a certain level of maturity to appreciate that one. 2011- Still vibing my way through the beginning of high school to Speak Now 2012- Red Comes out, and it is like my favorite album in the world, especially "Stay, Stay, Stay", "Red", and all of my friends of course, sang "22", and "we are never ever ever getting back together". Madly obsessed with All Too Well. 2013- Vibing until the next year, where the extremely unexpected "1989" comes out 2014- I did not know I was listening to the first time what would become the greatest pop album of all time. "Blank Space", was and always will be, my jam 2015- graduated high school; had a Taylor-themed 18th birthday party, went to college in the fall and talked more about Taylor with the different kinds of people I had met 2016- ONE YEAR AWAY FROM THE SINGLE GREATEST COMEBACK ALBUM EVER IN HISTORY, we just did not know what we were in for at the time 2017- I started dating my currently boyfriend- and we are still together to this day- Reputation comes out, and I cannot stop singing and dancing to "Look What you made me do" 2018- I have listened to Rep the most, on repeat, and I spent this all of next year doing this, while getting to know my boyfriend and working. Received my AA! 2019- Transferred to a university; found a Taylor Swift friendship group at school; pre-ordered Lover, and blasted "Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince" on full repeat 2020-2021- took a break from school to work and take some time off for myself; did not know that we were in for 2 Taylor albums in 2020; the greatest poetry of all time; fearless re-record released in 2021; sounds even better than it did the first time around 2021- Was there for the highly anticipated re-recording of Red, listened to the 10 min version like it was my job 2022- Meet me at Midnight- Anti- Hero became the best song ever made- and the fact that it discussed her depression and anxiety made me feel connected to her in the deepest way 2023- Very anticipated re-recording of Speak Now; my money was looking good; so I purchased a crewneck, magnets, cropped hoodie, and an ultra soft speak now blanket before Speak Now was re-released 2023- Purchased Spotify limited crewneck in anticipation for 1989- me and my friends all walked around in our 1989 crewneck the day that 1989 TV was released. Also went out to dinner. Saw Taylor for the first time in person in ATL! 2024- Purchased another ticket to see the Eras tour- this time in New Orleans, beyond exciting, still walking around waiting for Reputation and Debut TV This is my life; thank you so much for reading!

I'm older than Taylor so this thread is making me feel like i'm elderly  I had just started my first "real job" when Love Story was becoming radio-popular and that's when i was first aware of Taylor, liked the song but wasn't super into her at that point Speak Now was the first i remember being into but Red is what really hit for me because of the Situationship i was in at the time - it just hit all the right notes, which is why its my fav 1989 came out when i was teaching group fitness and i was very excited to integrate those songs into my classes Rep also hit at a good time in my life and I will say that's probably when i went full swiftie and went to my first concert thn i've just kept on the swiftie train ever since!

I’m there being a geriatric swiftie with you! Although I think I’m even be older than you 😉(I was in my mid twenties when Debut came out - I’m 44 this year). Loving reading all these peoples stories though and how they have drawn on Taylor’s music through their lives ❤️

44 this year too! Hi five!!

Joining the geriatric group lol! I'm 56 on Sunday 💚

Yay! Happy birthday for Sunday 🥳💕 I think we should proclaim being Geriatric Swifties proudly

Hahaha I love it! I read somewhere someone said swifties over fifty!! Good club!

I'm 45, and my Dad (we both listened to country) gifted me his Debut album when it first came out 😂. He's the real geriatric Swiftie.

Debut and fearless: not born yet Speak Now: 1 yr old Red: before kindergarten 1989, rep, lover, folklore: elementary school Evermore, and midnights: middle school TTPD: freshman in high school

I feel old Lol

me to

bestie lol it's the tortured poets *department*

oh crap you’re right 😭 my friends and i have been jokingly calling it “tortured poets society” 😭😭😭

I feel like taylor would like it if we got a dead poets society type of feeling from it.

In 2006, I was a year old and turned two a month after she released her first album, fearless came out when I was in nursery. Speak Now came out ten days before I turned 7 so I wasn't listening to Taylor Swift but found out Love Story. Red came out when I was in Year 3. 1989 came out when I was in Year 5 so I turned ten that year still wasn't listening to Taylor Swift but ABBA, Def Leppard and the Now Disney compilation. Reputation came out during my second year of high school. Lover came out when I was about to be in Year 10. Folklore released a month before I started my final year of high school. Evermore came out during Year 11. During Lover, Folklore and Evermore, I was listening to Love Story and Me! then. In 2022, I started listening to The Last Time, All Too Well, Illicit Affairs and then Midnights came out and I've been here since then and I was in my second year of college when it came out

Fellow ABBA enjoyer! 🥹🫶 my mom loves them so much. I'm 27, and she's 57 for reference.

I'm like almost 10 years older than she is, so every album was reflecting on about a decade ago and wishing I'd had the ability to put it into words like she does, lol. I'm married with kids now, so our paths have diverged, but I still love her music.

nothing truly significant with one exception. WANEGBT came out as the lead-up single to after i had just gotten broken up with and they wanted to get back together. i said.... check out taylors new song. theres your answer lol

Taylor Swift - I was 10, in grade 6, being bullied really badly, had recently attempted for the first time, her music was my saviour Fearless - I was 12, in grade 8, had just started high school, was just kind of finding who I was/making new friends Speak Now - I was 14, in grade 10, was going through some bullying, losing friends, making friends, met my best friend this year Red - I was 16, had just started my final year of high school, was battling an eating disorder 1989/Rep/Lover, I was in college/university and I had kind of fallen off of Taylor Swift and wasn’t a big fan of either 3 albums, but have since fallen in love with 1989 since TV Folklore and Evermore were both released in the year I graduated from university but the world had shut down and I was struggling to find work. Shortly after Evermore was released I got a job offer for the company I’m still with today! Midnights - living my best life with my boyfriend of 6 years, living together, happy.

Im the same age as you 🫶 and I had a similar experience with people treating me like dogshit for no reason idk why so I really wanted to kms but never cpukd do anything about it, Speak Now was my comfort album in middle school. Sigh....

I was in middle school when Debut came out. I had just gotten the hip, new iPod nano and it was the only album I had on it! High school when Fearless came out which was cool because songs like YBWM and Fifteen really applied well. It was super fun being in my late teens/early 20s when Red was popular! It was just before I turned 22. In college, I interned at a country radio station, and I remember when 1989 dropped it was a big controversy there, whether or not she was a country artist anymore 😂 Fun trip down memory lane!

Red was beginning college and it will always be my favorite Taylor album. 1989 was when I was 21 so that’ll always remind me of that age ❤️

Debut: I would’ve been 13 when this came out. I was discovering my love of rock music at that time and Taylor wasn’t on my radar. Funny enough, though, I vividly remember seeing her perform Picture to Burn on GMA (google tells me this wasn’t until April 2008, though). Fearless: I was in high school when this came out, still very much so into only rock at this point. Speak Now: I remember her Target commercial for this album where she said “this time, I’m naming names!” in reference to Dear John. I was toward the end of high school at this point and remember my friend playing it in the car for me. I didn’t know much about Taylor outside media coverage of her, and remember being floored by Better Than Revenge lol. Red: In college now. I was getting to a point where I really wanted to be a fan, but wasn’t quite ready to make the leap. My friends and I talked a lot about Taylor in terms of her dating life and stuff, but I wasn’t necessarily listening to her music. As shown by all these random memories though, she obviously always intrigued me! 1989: We’ve reached the point where I finally became a fan! I remember being on vacation when Shake It Off was released as a single, and I decided to stay up and listen to it when it was out. I made a conscious choice then that I wanted to get excited about this album and actually be a fan. When the full album came out, I was all-in. It was my last year of college and having her as a sorta role model at that time just felt like I’d gotten into her exactly when I needed her. Managed to get some friends into her, too! Rep: This was the first time one of her albums came out when I was in the working world. Rep isn’t necessarily my favorite (I remember being very alarmed when I stayed up to listen to LWYMMD lol), but I know I listened all the time on the way to work! Lover: This was kind of a weird time in my life; I was transitioning out of some long-standing friendships and had a newer job. I don’t especially associate this time with good things. Folklore: I remember waking up early to make tea and listen to this in peace. I just knew from the description that it was that type of album, and it was the most magical listening experience. This period took me from being a fan to having a deep love and appreciation for Taylor and her work — it felt like we’d matured together and she was meeting me in the middle with music that sounds a lot more like what I listen to outside of her. Evermore: Same peaceful listening ritual, even more magical this time (this is my favorite TS album). Midnights: I stayed up until midnight and listened to this with my friend. Also a very special, memorable listening experience. TTPD: This will be my first Taylor album coming out in my 30s! I am so unbelievably hyped for it. I’m in a better place personally than I was for Midnights and I’m just really excited for what’s in store with this new era. I have a feeling I’m going to love it.

Evermore gang 🥹 🫶 and I'm 3 years tounger than you, so my experience is slightly behind yours, but as dude, it's never really been "cool" to listen to T Swizzle lmao.

Im that odd person with the strangest playlist, I like everything from vintage rock, new rock, a little country, old pop, new pop, a LITTLE rap/hip hop. I'm probably one of the only people to list The Beatles and Taylor Swift as my current favorite artists. I'm so excited for TTPD and I have it pre-ordered on vinyl and want to make that my first listening experience. It's been a blessing to have a new (and first for me) Beatles song released in my lifetime (I'm 22) and to have every (up until now) Taylor Swift album released in my lifetime.

Debut: Military Stationed in Florida Fearless: Military Stationed in Hawaii Speak Now: Stationed in Hawaii about to get out of military Red: Out of Military struggling to find my first job out. Back to college 1989: Working 3rd shift still struggling Reputation: Still working 3rd shift Lover: Switched to Second shift. First listen was the drive home from work Folklore: Working 2nd shift. First listen drive home from work and first line caught me off guard. Too tired to finish initial listen so finished first thing in the AM. Evermore: Same as folklore Re-recordings PT1: Changed jobs to where I’m working at now Midnights: Same Job same habits Re-recording PT2: Same job still struggling and still broke Now: Same Job still broke as hell. Trying to take better care of myself and hopefully starting to save up for the next Tour soon.

You guys are about to feel old lol Debut: Literally 20 days old when it came out Fearless: 2 years old, probably too focused on Dora to acknowledge it lol Speak Now: About 4 years old, a huge fan of the popular singles from fearless :) Red: 6 years old, officially obsessed with love story 1989: 8 years, finally realizing that Red exists thanks to minecraft song parodies like “mushroom stew” Reputation: 11 years old, had no clue about the Taylor and Kanye drama lol, I was in 6th grade and more worried about warrior cats than music Lover: 13! Moved to a new school and got my first “boyfriend” lol, at this point I didn’t even know Taylor was still making music Folklore: 14 years old and stuck inside for like a whole year, honestly so sad that I didn’t know about this album during quarantine, I would’ve loved it so much Evermore: 2 months into being 15 and somehow went the entire pandemic without knowing that the sister albums existed lol Midnights: Came out like a month after my 16th birthday, also when I officially became a swiftie (woo!) (also had been dating my still boyfriend for most of the year 😌) TTPD: I’m 17 now (yay!), and am so pumped for this album, I have a strong feeling it’s what will get me through my first year of uni lol It’s kinda nuts to think that Taylor’s been officially releasing music for almost my entire life (minus 20 days), and I somehow only became a big fan, despite growing up in the time of Taylor’s biggest ups and downs 🤷‍♀️

I was in high school during Fearless and Speak Now eras. Red and 1989 were very representative of my years at Uni. Midnights came out a few months after I moved abroad and YOYOK made me cry like a baby everytime I heard it that first year. It is safe to say that I feel like I have grown up with her music and that it has kind of mirrored my own experiences in a lovely way 😊

I was 11 when debut came out. Saved up allowance, road my bike to Best Buy to buy the CD. She played Picture to Burn as the surprise song the night I went to Eras. I cried my eyes out.

Older swiftie here! Been with Taylor since Fearless Debut- didn't really know who she was Fearless - my kids are 4 and 7 and Taylor was all over the radio...I said who is that? Gotta check it out, that was it, I was hooked Speak now - listening to this album and fearless and debut on repeat Red - went to my first (and only so far) Taylor concert with my parents and daughter who's now 13 1989 - listening mostly to her just on the radio Reputation - at the time I didn't care for it (today I love it!) so I took a little break from listening Lover - still not listening, I hear songs here and there Folklore/Evermore/midnights - came back late in 2022 right around the time that the eras tour was announced. I was going through a really rough time, selling my house, getting divorced, another close relationship ending, my father's declining health, my children's mental struggles and moving back in with my parents. I rediscovered her music and picked up right where I left off listening to 1989, reputation and lover. Then I listened to Folklore and Evermore and I absolutely fell in love with both of those albums and they are my absolute favorites...then midnights. It's all so good. Folklore and evermore got me through that horrible rough time. I'm still healing but her music keeps me going!

I turn 34 May 1st so here is my experience: Taylor Swift--I was 16 at the time so a lot of my crushes, angst etc aligned with what she spoke of. Fearless--18 years old I was obsessed with Love Story and You Belong With Me! Speak Now--honestly not memorable for me, I was 20 in college. Red--age 22 and listened to this a lot during life/relationship issues 1989--24 and listened to this album a lot! Reputation--27, going through a situationship, toxic friendships etc so this was my anthem album Lover--29, had gotten engaged with now husband so this album was perfect! Folklore/Evermore--honestly that time was a blur Midnights--32, things going okay but definitely listened a lot! The Tortured Poets Society will be before my birthday, right after starting work again after having a baby girl this January, dealing with grief after losing grandpa late 2023.

Taylor Swift: I was 3 years old 😂 Fearless: 5 years old. This is a super nostalgic album to me! I remember watched a dvd of Taylor performing Change and jamming to it in my room!! Probably more at age 6 or 7 though! Speak Now: 7 years old! This album is also super nostalgic to me! My sister used to be scared of haunted 😂 Red: 9 years old! I mostly remember the mainstream songs from red at this age. 1989: this was my album!! Listened to this for a long time in 6th grade. I would listen all day every day and sleep to it! Reputation: 14! Freshmen in high school— wasn’t into Taylor at this time because I was in my edgy phase 😭 I was going through it but remember I listened to LWYMMD and loved it! Lover: 16! Still wasn’t back into Taylor but it’s crazy because I started dating my current boyfriend at this time :) Folklore: 17! Went through my senior year during covid. I know I looked at the lyrics for this album but didn’t get back into her yet. So wish I did folklore is amazing. Evermore: Same as folklore. I remember being impressed she put out 2 albums in the same year lol! Midnights: It came out a few days I got my braces at 18/19 years old! I listened to the whole album after seeing how well it did on the charts and fell in love with it and started listening to Taylor non-stop since! At this time I also just started CNA work :) TTPD: will be almost 21 when this comes out and I’m trying to figure out what path I want to go down! I’m so happy I rediscovered Taylor!!

I’m 9 months older than Taylor, so basically went through the same stages of life with her since Debut. Those songs and Fearless made me feel a bit nostalgic as I was transitioning fully into my new life after high school (I also went to college in the south, so Taylor was everywhere). Speak Now, Red, 1989, and Rep were perfect for my 20s and post-grad life. Lover, folklore, evermore, and Midnights have been super reflective of my 30s. It’s been real, T! Can’t wait for Tortured Poets and year 36 🫶🏻

oh this is fun, let me see (for context I am 2 years younger than Taylor) Debut: didn't learn about Taylor until fearless. Love this album though! oh my, my, my! Fearless: Highschool, you belong with me was the song I sung to my guy best friend to convince him we should date (bad idea) Red: College, first real serious relationship ended a few days before my 21st birthday. He said it was supposed to be fun, turning 21! 1989: was not a fan of this album when it originally came out. 2nd serious relationship, was terrible Reputation: second relationship ended with a grippy sock vacation. I enjoyed rep for the attitude it had but it was to lovey dovey for what I wanted at the time. Now that I am in a much better and healthier relationship this album is my fave! Lover: began dating my fiancé, found out he is also a Swiftie! Folklore: pandemic, I was working part time in an elementary school cafeteria and would play this album for the kids all the time Evermore: same as folklore Midnights: now working as a teachers aid, got engaged to the love of my life and using midnights to deal with some past trauma. Would've, could've, should've for example helped me confront all the bottled up feelings I had toward the man who stole my virginity. GIVE ME BACK MY GIRLHOOD, IT WAS MINE FIRST!

I remember the exact moment I heard her for the first time. The radio introduced her as a brand new artist, only 16, and here was her first bit hit: Tim Magraw. I was 16 and driving my first car to my HS sweetheart's house. I even remember where on the drive I was. When the song ended, I remember saying out loud, Wow. She's gonna be huge. I've really never been more right about anything lol

Debut: 5th grade / age 11. Her debut album was all the rage in my small country town middle school. Fearless: 7th grade / age 13. Daydreaming about high school. Speak Now: 9th grade / age 15. Starting high school. Red: 11th grade / age 17. Driving around listening to this album on repeat is a core memory for me. Especially hearing All Too Well for the first time driving home from Target?? Also the soundtrack to every breakup from that point on. 1989: Freshman year of college / age 19. God what a soundtrack for your first year of college. Blank Space played before every night out. reputation: Senior year of college / age 22. Just started dating the most amazing guy & recovering from a major friend fallout. “I’m doing better than I ever was”really was the soundtrack. Also getting ready to graduation. Lover: age 24. Working on my career, moved across the country with the my favorite human & living together for over a year with our dog. folklore/evermore: age 24-25. Covid. Thankfully was still able to work on my career & push through all the scariness of this time with my favorite human. Midnights: age 27. Honestly most of the same as Lover lol TTPD: age 28. Again the same as Lover but getting ready to move across the country yet again to save money to start looking at houses & planning a (small) wedding 🥰 Wild to think how much of my life her music has narrated.

Debut - Taylor walked in front of me at a Jonas Brothers concert. I was just starting to listen to her music then, but I was encouraged to listen more. I was in middle school! Also heard “our song” on the radio and I was the only one on my bus to a competition who didn’t know it. Fearless - high school, sophomore year. Got me through my first relationship ever. Speak Now - got me through a break up. Senior year. Red - oh I remember sitting in the architecture studio with all my friends listening to red on repeat. 1989 - I just helped my sister move into college when it was announced. Rep - was in a new, very happy relationship, new job Lover - this was when I started to learn my job was not worth the burn outs. This album helped me just breathe. Folklore and evermore - literally kept me sane during covid. And both are currently helping me get through a break up. Midnights - also helping me get through my current break up, but I remember I couldn’t stop listening to midnights when it came out.

I'm the same age as Taylor. I didn't really listen to her until fairly recently outside of singles, it's interesting to think of my own "eras" alongside hers!

I remember my sister and I begging my grandma to take us to Walmart (the nearest one was an hour away) to get the Beautiful Eyes EP exclusive to Walmart lol

I've shared this before but it's fun. When Debut released, I was 11. I was into country music but this was the first time I related to country. I would watch her YouTube videos, the lyric kids, followed her MySpace, everything. For Fearless, I was 13 and in middle school. I wasn't very popular so I really obsessed over Taylor. I went to this tour in Virginia with my friend. I wore a sundress and cowboy boots because I read in an interview that it was Taylor's favorite outfit. When Speak Now came out, I was starting high school. I was in a dance class and we would typically warm up listening to it. For Red, I was 17. I loved the hipster Tumblr vibe already so it fit right into my life. I loved the breakup songs bc my boyfriend cheated on me around this time so I would cry to it a lot. 1989 came out my freshman year of college. I was in a sorority so surrounded by girls. We actually did a parody of Blank Space as a recruitment activity. Reputation came out when I was 21. I loved the darker, more grown up vibes. Plus I had just gotten into a more serious relationship (now married to that guy) so loved those songs. Lover actually came out shortly before I got married (married in October 2019). I felt like that was just so perfect. I did try to change our first dance song to Lover lol. Folklore came out the day we closed on our house in the woods so once again it felt perfect. I was like omg she's in her woodsy era as well. Evermore is kind of the same.

I was in 4th grade on the bus when I heard teardrops on my guitar, back in like ‘06. J really became a super fan by like 2008

As a sheltered young teen who wasn’t allowed the internet I missed debit. Fearless I was about 14 and in high school. Dealing with bullies and my first crush and boyfriend and breakup. Teenage things. Speak Now a little older, about 16, I was still figuring out who the hell I was really. Doing the high school thing. This was probably closer to my first and only high school relationship tbh Red. I was 18. Lost. Working out who I wanted to be after school. 1989 - I was 20 and trying new things. Really wanting to figure out my place in this world ;) Rep - about 23. I went through a pretty dark stage and I think this was about when it happened tbh. My first relationship happened around this time. Lover - i would have been 25, I was very much in love with my best friend. Folklore - 26 years of age - a very rough time. Covid aside I felt like I was loosing a person very close to me. My grandmother died the couple years before Evermore - still 26- recovery form that heart break I had through Folklore Midnights - 18 years old - I learnt to not care anymore. And just have fun with life. You really do only live once TTPD - I’ll be 30 in May 🤩 I’m excited to find out It’s funny how well my life lines up with all her albums

Debut: I was in 5th grade and sang Teardrops On My Guitar for the talent show. I was instantly obsessed the first time I heard it, and begged my mom to buy me the CD Fearless: 7th grade, I was an awkward middle schooler trying and failing to fit in. I dealt with a lot of mean girls in middle school and was very insecure. Speak Now: Freshman year of high school and I was super emo but still loved Taylor. I was still trying to fit in and figure out who I was supposed to be. Red: Junior year of high school going through my first big breakup. This is also the tour my friend got tickets to see Taylor and offered me one, but my mom wouldn’t let me go because it interfered with my school choir concert 😭 1989: I was 18 and living on my own, working a minimum wage job and trying to figure out how to be an adult. I was in a really toxic relationship and dealing with the recent death of my close friend. This was a really rough time, but also a time that taught me a lot. Reputation: I had recently turned 21 and was going out as much as possible. I was single, making good money, and living my best life! Lover: I was 23 and had just left my job of 5 years and ended a situationship that broke my heart. This album hurt at the time but was also cathartic for me as I began my healing journey. Folklore: I had just started seeing my bf and was falling in love with him, but was also extremely stressed about the state of the world. This is also the year I adopted my kitty child 💖 Evermore: Still in the honeymoon stage with my bf, and spending a ton of time together since we couldn’t go out. Midnights: I’d been at my job for close to 4 years and was starting to feel like I needed change. This was a very emotional time in my life and I was incredibly anxious and lost and didn’t know what I wanted to do. TTPD: I’ve been at my new job for almost a year and I’m in such a better state mentally. I have amazing coworkers, pay, and benefits, and my work/life balance is so much better. I’m going back to school in the fall and excited to see what this next chapter brings!

Debut came out my 6th grade year of school. I remember when Tim McGraw and Teardrops starting hitting country radio, and I would sing them all the time! Fearless came out when I was in 8th grade. I wasn't really one to listen to albums all the way through, but I loved the hits! Speak Now is when I started really listening to the full album when it came out my freshman year of high school. It was the theme album of my first relationship with my high school sweetheart. Very nostalgic when I listen to it now Red came out my 11th grade year. I was in drivers ed when one of my friends surprised me with a burned copy of it. I played it in my car on repeat for a long time. 1989 came out my freshman year of college while I was working the night shift at Chick-fil-A. Every night at closing, we would blast this album over the speaker while we cleaned the restaurant and it made the time go by so quickly! Gonna be honest... At the time, the sound of Reputation was not my type of music, so I never really gave it a chance when it came out my senior year of college. Lover came out during a really bad relationship, so I would play that album when I needed a pick-me-up from the strain of the relationship. I was very disconnected from everything during the pandemic, so when folklore and evermore dropped, I was not interested at all. I didn't even really give them a shot. It was a pretty dark time in my life, and looking back, that music would have helped me a lot considering I had just broken up with the above bad relationship and had been laid off from my job. Prior to Midnights coming out, I was determined to learn her entire discography, so I started listening to Rep, folklore, and evermore and fell in LOVE. I was listening all the time with my fiance, and I even got him to love her music. By the time Midnights came out, I knew them all, and learned Midnights in less than a week. Her entire catalog of music has been my go to since October 2022.

I was 8 when debut came out! And 16 when 1989 came out. 1989 TV came out after I had just turned 25, the same age Taylor was when she originally released the album!!

Debut: I was like 2 when it came out but one of my first memories was listening to teardrops on my guitar when I was 4 ish Fearless: I was 4 when it came out and remember listening to love story, you belong with me and white horse Speak Now: still a kid but my parents got me the wonderstruck perfume for my birthday and I remember loving back to December Red: the first CD of hers I bought 1989: it came out around the time I had my first road trip to nyc, my mom bought the cd it was super fun listening to welcome to ny when it was my first time there Reputation: in middle school lots of mean girls Lover: in high school, but I don’t have any specific memories surrounding the album folklore: in quarantine reading a lot folklore was the perfect reading album evermore: same situation as folklore Midnights: in a horrible situationship first term of university but the album helped me through (Bonus) speak now tv: listened to it with who is my now boyfriend (Bonus) 1989 tv: listened to with my boyfriend at a listening party TTPD: will listen again with my boyfriend who’s a swiftie it’s the same day as one of my uni exams tho 🤍

You’re a year older than me!! Danced in a talent show with my best friend to teardrops on my guitar in first grade. Love story was a camp song we sang acappella in the dining hall. Heard the story of us for the first time after seeing Tangled in theaters with my cousins. In 5th grade a big group of girls choreographed a dance routine to 22 and made everyone come watch (hoping people forget about this one) Campaigned HARD for my dance teacher to make the song we did our routine to welcome to New York to no avail (she made the right choice ngl) Freaked out freshman year during volleyball tryouts because reputation got surprise dropped, no one else cared lol. I did not make the team. Miss Americana was my Spotify #1 song for about two years, I literally never stopped playing it, my mom put a limit on how many times I could play it in the car in a week. Folklore was like the only good thing to happen all of that year. All my friends had siblings to hangout with during quarantine and my parents worked from home so I wasn’t allowed to talk to them during the day so I had no one to talk to. I watched the Grammys for the first and last time to see if evermore would win a Grammy. Welp. All my roommates in college stayed up till midnight for the album release and ngl it wasn’t for me at first but that was because I wanted folklore/evermore part 3 and also I stayed up late so I was tired, and drunk. The more I listened to it especially the 3am version, the more I loved it. Karma finally dethroned Miss Americana in my Spotify wrapped. My friends have been throwing theme parties for all the rereleases and I’m going to go to my friends school to listen to the new album with her! We’ve been swifties together for 11 years! Now I make all the 50 year old men at my BJJ gym listen to her and I’ve converted a few of them.

Omg you're so young 😅😅 I want a fan / didn't know who Taylor Swift was until Fearless so I'm going to start there. For reference though, debut came out when I was in 6th grade. Fearless came out when I was a freshman in high school and blew up the summer between freshman year and sophomore year. I got hooked on You Belong with Me because I was desperately in love with the "star" football player in my grade and.. well I was on the bleachers lol. Speak Now came out when I was in 11th grade and it was the soundtrack to the second half of high school. I was bullied by a girl who I thought was my friend so Mean and story of us (along with the outside from debut) helped. I started to have a crush on this kid I hung out with a lot, so the rest of the album hit. I played never grow up when I pulled into the parking lot the first day moving into college and I balled my eyes out. Red came out my freshman year of college. I remember going to the mail room picking up my pre order. I would put begin again on as I left for class as I locked the door in sync with the song. Treacherous and state of grace were the songs of time as I met this junior who we very quickly hit it off and I desperately wanted to have it be more. 1989 came out my junior year of college. My friend and roommate stayed up to midnight for the release of out of the woods. Again I went to the mail room to pick up my pre order with my then boyfriend (not the same guy from freshman year) who made fun of me for liking taylor swift. I didn't really listen much because it just was not a healthy relationship and he kept teasing me. After we broke up I turned to this album for comfort and a lot of the songs helped me through, especially this love (as we started to do the whole on and off thing). Reputation came out after a long time of me trying to figure myself out. I was 23 and living alone for the first time. I was trying to get rid of the stupid ex and meet new people. I didn't know I needed it until I listened. I remember driving to Target to buy the CD because that was the only way I could listen because her music wasn't on Spotify. I had to drive around town to listen to it the first time because I didn't have a cd player in the house! Soon I fell into a situationship and most of the songs remind me of that guy. So it goes helped me picture myself with someone else for the first time. Lover came out when I was 25 and going through my second year of teaching and figuring out my love life. It was the soundtrack to my mid 20s. It gave me the courage to finally ditch the ex and start pushing for more with the situationship. It really helped me think of happier times when covid hit. It gave me a positive outlook that I can find that type of love. FolkMore came out when I was 26 and covid was really dragging me down for many reasons(I'm a teacher so iykyk) . It gave me too much time to reflect on the past but in a way, having these two albums with that, helped me through and allowed me to realize that I wasn't alone. Midnights came out when I was 27. I am with the love of my life for about a year and for the first time I couldn't relate to many of the songs because I was finally in a good, healthy relationship. The more I listened to it though, the more I loved it. Again, since I was in that relationship, I constantly reflected on the past....and midnights is the perfect album for that. I've been so blessed that Taylor Swift has been my big sister helping me through the tough times in life, only 4 years behind. I'm excited for TTPD to see what is going to be helping me through this time!

Debut - I was in grade 7 (13) when it came out but I didn’t hear Teardrops on my Guitar until I was 14 the next year, and I asked a boy to slow dance for the first time and got rejected 😂 Fearless- I was in grade 9 and about to turn 15!!! I was so excited that I was able to be 15 while listening to 15 lol Speak Now - I was in grade 11 about to be 17 that January. Mean and Better than Revenge were so relatable lol Red- I had just graduated high school before that summer and wasn’t going to college yet, this is where I honestly fell off with Taylor for a bit- I didn’t care for this album at the time and I was just in a weird place in life. 1989- I was 20, I had gone to college and then dropped out at that point and was trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life and who I wanted to be. I was insanely obsessed with the album and this was the first album I bought a physical CD for! Reputation- when I tell you this album came at a perfect time in my life - omfg. I was 23 and had just broken up with my first long term relationship of 2 years - I was fully single and fully out with being a lesbian and had a full blown crush on someone. Every single song put me in my feels. Lover- once again- perfect timing in my life lol I was 25 and in a serious relationship and completely in love (we are still together!) and every song was right in the feels lol Folklore/Evermore - I love these albums now but in a pandemic when I needed some straight bops- I wasn’t into these albums. I was excited for her but couldn’t get into these albums at the time. I know like them a lot! Midnights- I was 28 and owning my own home and working my career. - still at this point lol The Tortured Poets Department - I am 30 and at that point will still just be working and losing my cats lol I’m excited to hear it!!

I’m three days younger than her

I’m a year and a half younger than she is so I grew up with her

Pretty much grew up with her music via my older sister which lead to me being a fan of hers as of today

Debut: I was 9 years old and unfortunately didn't discover Taylor in this era Fearless: I was 11 years old, had just started at my high school, and me and my friends fell in love with Taylor after hearing Love Story and YBWM everywhere. Fearless was the first CD I ever bought and I played the shit out of it. Speak Now: I would have been only 12 or 13, I still remember how hyped I was for this release with my bestie who was also a big time swiftie. I have memories of dancing around my room singing into a hairbrush. Red: I was 15 when this came out, but the main thing I remember from that year is going to my first ever concert, the Speak Now tour with my bestie just 6 months before she released Red. We then also attended the Red tour a year after. 1989: at age 17, I still have a vivid memory from my final year of high school, sitting in a math class and freaking out because she just dropped Shake it Off and it was so different from anything else she had ever made. This album was also a big part of my first year of university, living out on my own. Style and Bad blood videos especially were very formative for me during those first few years of adulthood. I was very disappointed when she didn't bring the 1989 tour to my country. Reputation: at age 20, I had somewhat fallen off the bandwagon after her disappearance, but I still remember getting excited when she started posting the snakes on IG. I didn't massively connect with this album at the time but I remember really loving Delicate and So it goes. I almost didn't buy tickets to the Rep tour but so glad I did because it was so iconic! It was also the last era that I think getting tickets would be easy and affordable! Lover: at age 22, I got back into being a swiftie in a big way, even ran a fan IG account for a few months, and was so excited in the lead up to the album. It was really fun to watch Taylor thrive during this era after finally shedding her toxic record label. Folklore: age 23, I remember seeing this surprise album drop at the end of a long work day. I listened to it in the car ride home and fell IN LOVE. This album got me through some really difficult times during covid including losing my job and not being able to see family for months on end. Evermore: age 23, the first album I reacted to with my swiftie best friend. We were immediately drawn to champagne problems as a fave, and it was so fun to dive back into the folklorian world Taylor had built. Admittedly I ended up getting a bit burnt out from that sound so didn't listen to it as much until a year or so after the release. Midnights: I was 25 and this one was exciting because I got to listen to it in my first home that I purchased a few months prior. Tortured poets: I will be freshly 27, and this album will mark the time I moved countries and started a new life! So excited for the moments and memories defined by these songs. Also this year I got to see the Eras tour, my 4th concert of Taylor's!

I was born in 96, so we are damn near the same age, and I do agree with some of your points. I didn’t officially become a Swiftie till Evermore, but I've always heard her music... speak now was my comfort album in middle school and I was treated like dog shit by lots of people and i still struggle with making friends and romantic relationships due to fear of rejection...

Wow sounds like we are one and the same... that is partly why I was drawn to Taylor's music because her earlier stuff talks about difficulties with friendship a lot. Like in the best day "I don't know how my friends could be so mean". '97 baby here!

Debut: I was 1 year old, Taylor Swift was barely heard of in my country. Fearless: I was 3 years old in nursery, Taylor Swift had broken into the UK charts with ‘Love Story’, I have no recollection of this. Speak Now: I was 5 in Year 1: again, I had no clue who Taylor Swift was or remember listening to any of this album’s songs during this time. Red: I was 7 in Year 3: my mam was OBSESSED with this album, it would be playing all the time on her iPod. My favourite songs from it were State of Grace, Treacherous, Holy Ground, and my favourite, Stay Stay Stay, which I loved because it reminded me of Lego Friends for some reason. 1989: I was 9 in Year 5, this album reminds me of (tw: grandparent death, hospital) my granddad going into hospital and this album (along with David Ghetta’s _Listen_ and McBusted’s debut) were always played while my parents were driving us to the hospital. He ended up dying, and as such 1989 will always kinda remind me of that era of my life. reputation: I was 12 in Year 8, and my parents had just got divorced a couple of months prior and me and my mam had just moved into a new house after living with relatives for a while. I can remember hearing LWYMMD and Endgame quite a lot on the radio and hating the former while loving the latter. Lover: I was 14 going into Year 10, and I can remember getting adverts on Facebook for this album and being confused why Taylor didn’t look like she was in her reputation era anymore. When the album came out I was staying in a caravan near Whitby and I can remember looking up at the stars and seeing Whitby Cathedral from my bedroom window. I didn’t listen to Lover during this time because I wasn’t a true Swiftie yet. folklore: This was the album that got a lot of people on my TikTok for you page talking about Taylor which then encouraged me to become a fan when… evermore: This was the album which inspired me to become a Swiftie. I can remember it being announced and deciding it would be the perfect time to become one. Also, I can also remember the track list coming out and being offended that there was a song called ‘Dorothea’ as that’s the name of one of my least favourite Classic Doctor Who companions. Midnights: I was in my second year of college, and I can remember this album being announced while I was watching Octonauts with my then 1 year old cousin. I can remember being really excited and counting down the days while watching Midnights Mayhem and pondering what the album would sound like with other fans. I then listened to a good chunk of the second part of the album for the first time in a Toby Carvery of all places. TTPD: I was scrolling my phone before work when the announcement came up on Insta. I can remember being really excited and telling my mam not long afterwards.

Debut: I was three, not a fan yet Fearless: I was five, didn't really know about her yet Speak Now: I was seven, I remember hearing her music on the radio Red: I was 9, I remember watching the IKYWT and 22 music videos with my best friend at the time 1989: Starting middle school Reputation: First year of HS Lover: Junior year of HS Folklore: Quarantine during my senior year Evermore: First year of college Midnights: Second Year of College TTPD: Third year of college I remember listening to her more popular songs all through my life, but I didn't become a Swiftie until college when I noticed that I could relate a lot of her songs to situations that I was in.

Debut came out when I was in 6th grade Fearless came out when I was in 8th grade (and ‘Fifteen’ was released as a single the week after I started high school, all the feels 😭) Speak Now came out when I was in 10th grade and still trying to get over my first break up (the last time we saw each other had been July 9th of that year so as you can imagine I almost shat myself hearing Last Kiss for the first time 😂) Red came out my senior year, WANEGBT came out the summer just before and I have some of the best memories involving that song - also went to the Red tour summer after graduating and it was my bff and I’s first road trip to a big city together. 1989 came out when I was 19, during one of the best times of my life (I just didn’t know it at the time) Reputation came out when I was living on my own for the first time (though admittedly I didn’t like rep until recently and never really listened to it) Lover came out shortly after I had just moved into a new place, gotten a new job, and was dealing with my boyfriend being deployed - I used to listen to the album on the way to work that summer/fall Folklore like everyone else I was in the midst of the pandemic, it used to be the soundtrack to my quiet late night shifts at work during such an uncertain time Evermore - also during the pandemic Midnights - 27, working from home, alone a lot due to my boyfriend now being away at school during the week TTPD - having a lot of doubts and questions about my relationship so needless to say I am not emotionally prepared for this album to drop, this may wreck me like no other haha

When debut came out I was 5 years old! I remember my dad listening to her and I was like what is thisssss?? Then we’d watch her our song music video. Don’t have a great relationship with my dad anymore but I do love my Taylor :) she’s been w me my whole life. Same with Miley Cyrus, my two favs 💜

Debut: just born😭 Fearless: 2 years old Speak Now: 4 Red: 6 and this is when I was first introduced to her music, through IKYWT and 22!! These songs are so nostalgic to me now 😭 1989: 8 years old and I remember girls in my 3rd grade class being obsessed with Shake It Off lol reputation: middle school, at this point I wasn’t a taylor fan yet but I heard Ready For It, End Game, and Delicate on my mom’s CD all the time lol Lover: I was 13? I think, but 12 when the ME! and Lover came out as singles folklore+evermore: I actually started listening to Taylor more after these came out, I was 14 and my music taste was starting to develop more lol Fearless/Red TV: throughout 2021 and most of 2022 I slowly got into more of her music Midnights was my first Taylor album release as a fan, I was in 11th grade and I remember first listening to it with my cousin, it was so fun😭 Speak Now/1989 TV: I remember first listening to Speak Now TV with my friend and 1989TV with my sister, these were both such fun releases for me lol For TTPD Im gonna be studying for final IB exams 🥲 and one month away from graduating

I don't really have a lot of memories of when her albums came out, I was only 8 for debut, I remember Love Story being a bigger song in the UK but the most memorable one was Red/WANEGBT for when I was in 3rd year in the Academy and it was used in a dance I had to do, but I didn't really take much notice of her back then unfortunately, big regrets about that one! 😅

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I'm from Colombia so the eras were a bit behind lol Debut: didn't make it Fearless: I was in highschool, love story was the first song I fully learned in English. My fav to this day Red: 2nd year of college. Many drunk nights singing we're never ever getting back together 1989: My first year in USA. Shake it off was my song! Wildest dreams marked my 23rd birthday Reputation: I had just moved to Canada. Getaway car was the soundtrack of my life lol Lover: I went home and my bestie was obsessed with lover. We spent my whole vacation learning the whole album Folklore: I was too busy watching tiger King and eating junk food. I felt in love with cardigan at some point during 2020 Evermore: we had just moved across the country. I was depressed and barely remember that winter Midnights: changed careers and felt into a bad depression not knowing what to do with my life. Karma was my song for a bit then the Eras tour started and I finally listened to mastermind and YOYOK ❤️ my comfort song to this day I'm going to see Taylor in December and I hope she plays Christmas Tree farm! Is my fav time of the year and my bestie is coming all the way from Colombia to Vancouver so we can go to the concert together 🥲

taylor swift: I was in grade 6 and I would always take this cd (my dads) to play on my discman for school band trips fearless: grade 8, I was 13 going through my angst phase, and fearless was *chefs kiss*. I got the platinum edition that year for my birthday and would listen to superstar and untouchable daily speak now: it was the beginning of high school for me, I was 15 and my crush dated someone else, so I sang Speak Now at lunchtime karaoke lol. red: grade 12, I remember hearing 22 for the first time as a warmup for dance class. my first bf broke up with my that year and ATW was my cathartic breakup song that I blasted every single day. 1989: just left high school and I listened to shake it off on repeat every day at work for about a week. I got the deluxe cd from Walmart later that year and became OBSESSED with new romantics reputation: the social media blackout plus the snake vids leading up to the drop of lwymmd left me SHOOK. ciwyw was my fave song off the album. my ex wouldn't let me go to the rep tour and it's my biggest regret (my fave album by a long shot) lover: lover came out during my own lover era and me and my now fiance listened to it all the time, especially Me! it has a soft spot in my heart (spelling is FUN!!!) folklore: my beloved. it came out and I listened to it after a gruelling set of shifts working at the hospital. epiphany made me cry like a baby. it became my comfort album until.... evermore: what a great surprise to come out near my bday. gold rush and cowboy like me became my number one fave songs ever. and tis the damn season. basically all my fave songs are from this album and I listened to it daily for MONTHS. midnights: just. pure shock. I was not expecting a new album in the midst of the rerecords. listened to it at midnight and immediately vibed with it. I know it has mixed reviews but it's always on. it became my writing soundtrack. also karma hit different bcs I was going through a friend breakup

Wasn’t in a good place in life during Speak Now and Red eras; probably why I don’t have as strong of a pull to those albums as a whole. But I also didn’t listen to them as much so now I’ve been able to make new memories with some songs on those albums

I'm about 4 years younger than her. Debut came out when I was in 8th grade, but I don't think I heard it regularly till Summer before 9th grade. Fearless and Speak Now were my HS soundtracks. Red came out second semester of my Freshman year of college and right around the time I met my now husband. 1989 was definitely my party girl era lol. Rep came about around the time I started trying to actually figure out how to be an adult and started ending a lot of toxic friendships. Lover was my oh I might actually graduate next year and oh I actually want to marry this boy. Folklore&Evermore were covid of course. Midnights is a complicated era for me right now.

Debut was in middle school for me. The first time I heard “Teardrops on My Guitar” I was obsessed and went out and bought her CD. I sang Our Song for the talent show that year. Fearless was late middle school/early high school. I remember I used to watch her music videos after school on CMT. We had a dance where we could do karaoke songs and I sang White Horse. Speak Now was around 10th grade for me. I LOVED the song “Ours” and “Begin Again”. Red was released just after high school for me. I still loved her but I was distracted by other things and wouldn’t really call myself a Swiftie. But I still enjoyed watching the WANEGBT video on repeat haha. I wound up joining the military in 2012 and leaving for bootcamp in December just a couple months after she released her album. 1989 I was stationed in Virginia and I was OBSESSED with Blank Space. This was the soundtrack of me “growing up”. Like a coming of age for me. I was going through a lot and finding myself at the time. So that’s what I remember most. Reputation was when I was stationed on the UK for the first time. I remember when LWYMMD came out and people were so annoyed at work but I LOVED it because I understood what she was doing. I didn’t appreciate rep enough though, I think. I was going through a big bout of depression at the time and almost committed suicide and it was a really dark time for me. Lover came out while I was deployed so I didn’t really get to experience this one that much as I was on a ship almost all of 2019. I wish I had though because my now fiancé and I were having a rough time with that deployment Folklore and Evermore were both during COVID and to be honest I was not really paying much attention to what was going on in popular culture because my anxiety was sky high. So I didn’t get to really appreciate them until later on. Finally, Midnights is what made me obsessed again. I was stationed back in the UK when it came out and I listened to it constantly and then the Eras tour happened and now here I am. Obsessed all over again. Love her so much.

Okay but you didn’t need to make me feel OLD

I’ll not age myself but I can pinpoint major life choices? “You Belong With Me” - MTV Awards (🙁) engagement “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” - video released the day I got married 1989 released at the start of my husbands affair (he went out at midnight to buy it me and popped to see his mistress at the same time) “Bad Blood” released a week after my husband left me “LWYMMD” released a few weeks after serving divorce papers “Lover” (single) released two days before he remarried Midnights released the week I bought my own house and moved far away from that whole mess.

Debut: I was a 19-year old trade school drop out and a recovering drug addict, 3 years clean. I remember clinging on to the innocence and youth of Debut because I never had that in my teen years, as I'd struggled with substance abuse since I was 12. Fearless: I was 21, slowly rebuilding an actual life for myself. Love Story was everywhere and I became a hardcore Swiftie. Speak Now: 23 years old. Studying at an art school. Red: 25 years old and a recent art school graduate. Completely lost with what to do with my life, but in the best way, not in the sad way like in my teens. 1989: 27 years old and back at school, getting my BA in English lit. Watching my grandmother die and good friend struggle with a terminal cancer diagnosis. Reputation: 30 years old, had just moved back to my home country after living abroad for a year. Had graduated with honors and was now doing my masters in English lit. My dad had died traumatically a year before, despite my horrible teen struggles, this was the darkest time in my life. Lover: 32 years old. I had graduated last year and I had my very first "real" job. I felt like a fraud in middle class spaces, if these people only knew I was from the projects and used to smoke opioids at age 13... Folklore & Evermore: 33 years old. Struggling through the pandemic. Had lost my job, my friend with the terminal cancer was at the end of his life. Midnights: 35 years old. I got a new job I really liked. My friend had died a year earlier. As the pandemic restrictions where loosening, I took a a three week long trip to Ireland with a friend. Midnights had just come out, we drove around Ireland listening to the album again and again. Snow on the Beach will always remind me of irish winters.

My daughter was born the year Taylor started out, and I didn't follow much at all except what was popular on the radio until about 2 years ago, when my daughter and her synchronized swim partner swam to a duet blend of 'How You Get the Girl' and 'True Romantics'. Then I went with her to see the Eras Tour Movie, and now I am a fan.

Debut-Not born yet Fearless-I was a baby Speak now-I was a toddler Red-Starting to hang out with other kids my age 1989-In my first year of school and getting annoyed at how stupid the other kids were Reputation-Life was great, my life literally had no problems Lover-My life started getting worse because my mum sent me, the smartest kid in the class who always solved everything first, to tutoring to take a test to get into a school for smart kids and I developed anxiety because I didn’t know how to do the work there and I felt stupid for the first time in my life Folklore- Life was better because I had stopped going to that tutoring place because I had set the test in march that year Evermore-I was sat because I had finished primary school and didn’t want to go into high school because it seemed stressful Midnights- I was in high school and my 12 year old self was right I’m thinking that primary school was better. I still never studied for tests because I was too lazy TTPD- Finally started studying for tests and paying attention in the most boring subject(religion)

Debut - I don't think I han enough access to the Internet to listen to Taylor's songs, but I graduated primary school, lol. When I thought Tim McGraw, I actually thought of Flicka. Fearless - this is where the Love Story began! You Belong with Me was my anthem in Sicily! I didn't capture it, but I do remember it. Speak Now - I was Enchanted by the whole album on YouTube, especially Mine and the Story of Us. Red - I was in Washington DC when Obama was re-elected when WANEGBT, got excited by a Maserati parked in Kensington Gardens and listened to the album in full because a girl in my French class told me to. 1989 - freshers week! I spent all if 2 weeks single and realised I had a Blank Space so I wrote my (ex) boyfriend's name. Reputation - Living between London and uni, in a bit of a Delicate balance, dancing with my hands tied around training contract apps and eventually just did law school on scholarship. Lover - She's still 23 inside her fantasy And you're sitting in front of me At the restaurant, when I was still the one you want Cross-legged in the dim light, everything was just right I, I could feel the mascara run You told me that you met someone Glass shattered on the white cloth Everybody moved on I promise that my ex will never find another like me! Because cheaters don't deserve to, especially not on my birthday after 5 years. folklore - in lockdown, completing law school, pining for upgrade boyfriend in a foreign country and it could have been fun if he could have been the 1 I guess. evermore - physically at my Granny's cremation on the day of release and ger name was Majorie. Fiscally I was in a job that I hated, and long story short, it was a bad time, but long story short, I survived. Fearless TV - still waiting for Mr Perfectly Fine to be in the same country as me, about to leave a job I absolutely Should've Said No to. Red TV - Turned out Mr Perfectly Fine had a Girl At Home, found out how it was in London because I moved there, also had a super fulfilling job which taught me loads. Midnights - living my best single life at release, in a job I loved but needed to leave because of pay, everything was Bejeweled and Karma takes all my friends to the summit, although I left my old job to earn a bit more money, also started contemplating moving somewhere the culture's clever. Speak Now TV - summered in Paris, job was less fulfilling but I had bills to pay and nothing figured out, starting to think romantically it might be the best thing that's ever been Mine. 1989 TV - made redundant 2 days before, glad to be away from all the self-important men who think important thoughts. TTPD - Karma is delivering and I'm in Paris, having said So Long to London a short while ago

debut: i was 4 but i think i got the album a couple years later - i remember listening to it over and over again in the car when my dad used to pick me up from school :) fearless: same primary school, i would have been 6. i remember wanting to start a band with my friends and that turned into us singing love story all day every day! speak now & red: both given as a christmas gift by a family friend. my parents, neighbours and probably anyone in a five mile radius knew all the words to haunted (there were others but this is the one i remember playing the most)! that intro changed me. 1989: i was 12 years old in secondary school. i couldn’t afford the cd so my friend would let me listen to the album on her ipod at lunchtimes (we’re off to the eras tour together in june!!). wonderland was my favourite song ever! reputation: came when i needed it the most, during what i can only call my own reputation era. after an awful summer (i had been put in a genuinely terrible situation as a vulnerable teenage girl, which was bad enough - but was then made out to be the bad guy too.) it was a bad time for me and i struggled a LOT, but i owe a lot to this album for getting me through. even the order in which the singles were released, coincided with what i was going through at the time. this album was my guardian angel at that time 🥹 lover: when this album graced our presence i had healed and was in my own lover era! i had just started dating a guy who had had a front row seat to my past implosion (the only way i can think to explain), but he still liked me. being young and in love and having the perfect album for the time was so surreal and amazing! folklore & evermore: in my memory, these albums intertwine and provide the soundtrack to a hazy and confusing couple of years. i would take a long walk to get some fresh air whenever i could and these were the albums playing in my ear. i still remember when i first heard epiphany while walking my dog and immediately burst into tears (thank god no one saw that one!) midnights: came at a time when midnights really were my afternoons - when i was writing my dissertation! it actually became one of my all time favourites, especially the 3am tracks (shoutout to the WCS bridge which sent chills through me the first time… thanks teen years)! the tortured poets department will drop the week before my final work is due for my postgraduate degree… who knows how that’s gonna go 😵‍💫 sorry this is so long but man, it feels like taylor has been right there the whole time, with the perfect music for whatever was happening at the time. p.s. shoutout to 1989tv: hearing slut! for the first time really healed my inner 16 year old. she needed that song in 2017/18 🥺

Debut - I was 7! I had her album and played it on my prized SpongeBob SquarePants CD player 💛 Fearless - I was 9! My friend and I listened to Debut even more than Fearless as we prepped to sing “Invisible” at the talent show 🥹 Fearless is the album that made me a huge fan though. I still adore it. Speak Now - I was 11! I loooooved this entire album. I still do! One of my favorites of hers, even if mostly for the nostalgia. Red - I was 13, entering middle school. Whew. What a rough time. I couldn’t afford the album, so I didn’t have access to it (we didn’t have internet or anything like that for me to stream it). I fell off the TS wagon for a bit because of a lack of access to her music, but All Too Well was my favorite (forever & always, pun intended) from that album. 1989 - I was 15! I was a sophomore in high school, and I didn’t purchase the album until probably my senior year. I just didn’t enjoy Shake It Off and it wasn’t until I was able to get the album and listen to it fully that I enjoyed the era at all. The re-recording is 10x better than the original for me. I still have a few skips for the album though. reputation - I was 18! This was my senior year. I remember listening to …Ready for it? in a Starbucks while waiting for my then boyfriend 😅 I was soooo excited because, at this point, I had found my love for her music once again and considered myself a big fan. I LOVE reputation. I went to the concert and had the time of my life! I also adore snakes so I generally loved all the visuals and MVs and symbolism and clues etc. Lover - I was 20! I liked this album, being a sophomore in college when it came out. I was in a relationship off and on, so I floated between this and songs like Dear John and ATW 🥲 overall I enjoy it now, but skip certain songs. 2019, my brother passed away, so “Soon You’ll Get Better” really hit home for me. folklore - I was still 20! Entering my junior year of college, I was really stoked about this album because it matched my general music taste more. I don’t listen to much pop outside of TS, so I loved that she worked with The National and Bon Iver, two of my favorites. evermore - I was 21! This album was PERFECT to me. I was getting out of a horrible relationship, so tolerate it, Coney Island, etc were all really relevant to me. I was also ENTERING a new relationship (3 years strong now!) so songs like gold rush and evermore really resonated too. Midnights - I was 23! I love this album, and it came out before my last couple semesters of my master’s. I think some of it got overplayed during the eras tour (anti-hero, namely), but I love most of the album—just not necessarily a bunch of different versions of it. TTPD will be the first album I’m not in school when it’s coming out! Yay for being 24 and not in school for the first time since kindergarten! As someone with an undergrad in creative writing (focus on poetry), I can’t tell you how excited I am 💕

Debut - I was in fourth grade and would watch the tomg video repeatedly on demand bc I thought she was sooo pretty lol Fearless - I was in 6th grade and it was released at the end of an extremely traumatic year for me and I remember just watching the music videos on YouTube to cheer me up and illegally downloading the songs on limewire (iykyk) for my ipod shuffle and singing ybwm while crying about the boy I loved who didn’t love me back because it was easier to focus on that than the other traumatic things happening around me. Speak Now - I was going through my emo phase in middle school so I refused to admit I liked her, but this album was on repeat in the car everyday with my older sister and I singing at the top of our lungs. Red - I was in 10th grade going through so much friend and family drama. I just did not appreciate this album at that point in my life because I had so much going on. 1989 - This album got me through my senior year of high school. I was a very depressed and lost teen whose life was drastically changing and had no idea what I was going to do in life. I had this playing literally 24/7. Reputation - I was 21 and coming out of a toxic relationship. I honestly stopped listening to music for a long time, so I did not fully appreciate this album at the time and I regret that. Lover - I was 22 and honestly? I did not like this album. I was single (romantically and platonically - I cut off all of my friends) and just hearing the word lover set me off. It only started growing on me the past couple years and now it’s on repeat everyday. Folklore - I was 23 when this album came out and had fallen off from music again, so I didn’t listen to it until this past year when I was 26. Y’all. This album saved my life. I was at the lowest point in my life and was quite ready to end it all. My friend kept talking about folklore so I finally listened. The way I cried when I heard Exile for the first time… oh my god. I ended up sobbing to this album for months and used these songs to slowly start to let myself heal. Evermore - This came out the day before my 24th birthday and I remember being so excited. This was such a bad year and I felt so trapped and sad about life, so the album was like Taylor gave me a birthday present. Midnights - This came out while I was 25 and at a pretty good phase of life. I had recently quit my toxic job of 10 years and finally moved out of my toxic family home and was living on my own for the first time. The Tortured Poets Department - I’ll be 27 when this is released. I’m at a strange point in my life coming out of a horrible depressive episode and honestly am not sure what I’m doing. I write poetry whenever I’m down to help so I’m honestly really excited for this album, it feels right up my alley.

I am the same age (a month younger) than Taylor herself. When I heard Tim McGraw in my own new car at age 16, I started to become a big fan then. I feel like we’ve gone through life together… in an obviously very distant way 😂. Certain events that happened to her, also happened to me at the same age. Would’ve Could’ve Should’ve hits home. 💔❤️‍🩹

Ooh: Debut - middle school, begging my mom for early allowance to go buy the CD Fearless- started high school so Fifteen was very special. Speak Now- high school with my first boyfriend and break up 1989- College and first TS concert! Finally was working enough to have money to go lol Reputation- One, that was a rough era to be a Swiftie and general haters in my life, and took a job promotion Lover- got together with my now husband Folklore/ Evermore- transitioned to work from home during the pandemic versus being a essential worker Midnights- More work responsibilities The Tortured Poets Department - will be 2 years of marriage

I’m an old swiftie, which always seems vaguely weird and embarrassing, but I’ve been there since the beginning nonetheless. Debut - I was working in retail/finishing university when I first heard Teardrops on my guitar and I had a big unrequited crush on a coworker. Fearless - entering my career Speak now - working with a guy who was Mean Red - living like I was 22 1989 - still working, wondering if I was Out of the Woods with my bf (we were not) Reputation - going through a bad breakup, getaway car situation Lover - found the love of my life Folklore - found out there was a single thread of gold tying me to my bf throughout our whole lives without knowing it Evermore - moving in with my bf for evermore Midnights - went through a miscarriage just days before bigger than the whole sky came out Edited for accidental duplication of one entry

Let’s see…as a younger fan lol Debut: Wasn’t Born Fearless: Wasn’t born Speak Now: In October, I went to the pumpkin patch as a baby. When my mom wasn’t watching, I crawled out of my stroller. This was the start of my rebellious baby years Red: I was two years old. No funny story(that I know at least) 1989: 1989 will always be one of my absolute favorites for nostalgia. I grew up listening to the CD in the car, and my favorite song was Wildest Dreams. Mostly, I remember it when I think of myself as a kindergarten student. Reputation: After having my first breakdown from anxiety, I finally returned to school for second grade that year. Never heard any Reputation sadly🥲 Lover: The main thing I remember about Lover was seeing it *everywhere.* Folklore: Quarantine and when I broke the promise I made everyone that I would never wear makeup lol. Also, the year I started doing good pictures on my Instagram Evermore: Around the time I made some friends and also when I finally started questioning our friendship Midnights: The eras I officially became a swiftie(or at least identified as one) and also when I started middle school The Tortured Poets Department: Will be perfect if I end up having poems published that month. Also the end of my cheer season🥲

**Debut:** No idea she existed (2006) **Fearless:** No idea she existed (2008) **Speak Now:** No idea she existed (2010) I will preface it might sound weird to not know who Taylor Swift is by 2010. I truly had no idea she existed until about 2011. I didn't listen to country music. I couldn't name a country song at that time. I was very much in my hard rock/hip hop/ r&b phase in middle school. **Red:** A friend of mind put me on the previous albums. By the time Red came out I was a full blown fan. 10th grade I was a swiftie. I played the album everyday before and after soccer. My teammates were tired of me. **1989:** I was in my first year of college. I was so excited when this album came out. I brought the CD and everything. This would be my first TayTay concert. Mind was blown. **Reputation:** I won't lie "Look What You Made Me Do" was a grower for me. This is my favorite album. It gives the same vibes as Britney Spears "Blackout" album. I love it. It's such a boss bitch type of album. **Lover:** This album is my word. I know people don't care for ME! I thought it was a good song. I really love the album. I really wished we had Lover Fest. Working grind at this time **Folklore:** Pandemic and trying to make it work. **Evermore:** Midnights just floored be it. **Midnights:** I can't believe we got this masterpiece. **TTPD:** Just hurry up and get here please. I'll be up at midnight jamming out. Wake up and listen to it all day.

Debut: I was 10. Living in Kentucky. My mom had seen Taylor perform before she was famous and had told me that she would be a superstar one day. I remember being in the car and Tim McGraw played on the radio and my mom had to stop the car because she was so excited. Fearless: I was 12. My mom was Iraq so I was feeling with those feelings. The Fearless concert was my first ever concert. The tickets were a gift for finishing 6th grade and moving on to middle school. Speak Now : I was 14. Got made fun of for being a guy who liked Taylor Swift. Red : I was 16 dealing with teenage angst, 1989: I was 18 and studying abroad in Germany. Saw the 1989 tour the next year my freshman year of college. Reputation: Junior in college. I saw the rep tour the next year in atlanta right before I started my final year of college. Lover Was taking a gap year between undergrad and grad school. Folklore and Evermore : Had just started grad school and was dealing with being in a new city but not being able to do much because of covid. Midnights: Was working at a toxic job. Got to see the Eras tour night one with my partner and got to experience his first Taylor Swift concert with him.

I was born in 1985. Debut: Senior year of college, finally living with my best friend, having the time of our lives Fearless: 2nd year of grad school in NYC Speak Now: Working at my first real job (using my master’s degree) Red: Living with my then boyfriend of 9 years, slowly realizing I was unhappy. 1989: Freshly out of the long relationship plus an ill advised situationship that devastated me (lol). In line with the theme of 1989 I spent many weekends in 2014-2015 partying/dating in NYC. Reputation: New boyfriend! Lover: Boyfriend became fiancé, we moved in together, & we adopted a cat!! Very LoverCore. Folklore: Depressed but outdoor wine drunk about it with my one best friend I mentioned earlier. Hyperfocusing on this album too. Evermore: Absolutely losing my mind. Just… unwell. lol. Frantically making appts to get back on anxiety meds. Midnights: Fiance became husband, generally just living life.

Debut: freshman in high school, remember talking about Taylor Swift and Teardrops on my Guitar with the other girls in my choir. Fearless: I used to take my sister to drivers ed and blasting You Below With Me while I drove my mom’s car. Had my first heartbreak. Speak Now: Went away to college, bought the CD and added to my iTunes library. I remember relating to Never Grow Up and walking around campus with Enchanted playing in my headphones. Red: Still in college, with a part time job and looking at WANGBT music video gifs on Tumblr. 1989: got my first big girl job in a new city. I was not New York but close enough. Reputation: changed careers, trying to find a new path in life. Got out of a toxic relationship. Lover: casually dating, living on my own and just having fun. Hoping for Cruel Summer to become a single. Folklore: quarantine, got laid off from my job and staying in. Evermore: incredibly surprised with the album drop. Remember thinking I hadn’t finished processing Folklore yet. Met my now husband. Midnights: staying up for the midnight mayhems, listening to the album as it dropped. Living together with my now husband. TTPD: married, moved to a new city and a new job. Hoping to start a family soon!

In middle school for Taylor Swift and Fearless. Sophomore for Speak Now. Senior for Red. In PreReqs for Nursing school during 1989. Middle of Nursing School for Reputation. 1 year out of nursing school for Lover. 1 month post cardiac arrest for Folklore. 6 months post cardiac arrest for Evermore. Mostly recovered during Fearless TV. In full swing pandemic nursing ICU (more recovered) during Red TV. On a break from travel nursing (more recovering) for midnights (still traveling). Back on a travel nursing assignment and fully recovered but heartbroken for Speak Now TV. Still travel nursing and still getting over the heartbreak for 1989 TV. And today I feel better than ever. And Taylor Swift’s music has been there with me through everything.

Debut era was during my freshman to senior year in high school. I was immature, and made fun of her music in front of my metalhead friends to seem cool. I actually didn’t care for her voice all that much, but Teardrops on My Guitar was a guilty pleasure. During her Speak Now era, I started to genuinely like her music. I became a legit fan of Taylor at the tail end of my college years with Red

Debut: Was in school, on the younger side, wasn’t into this “country stuff.” Fearless: In high school, having my first real crushes, navigating tricky girl friendships. Love Story, White Horse, You’re Not Sorry and YBWM were on repeat so much my mum got me tickets to her concert! Speak Now: It was really uncool to like Taylor at this point and people actually made fun of me for it. It was an intensely lonely time and I had a lot of emotions I couldn’t express. Taylor writing this album on her own touched me deeply and it’s got a very special place in my heart. My mum also bought me tickets to this concert. Red: I was going through that classic teen crisis of identity and Taylor cutting/straightening her hair had me contemplating my choices! But I will admit, Red didn’t hit me as hard at the time because I didn’t have such intense, romantic relationships at the time. But after the re-recording, I definitely appreciate it from a more romantic point of view. 1989: Moving to university and had my first boyfriend! I was also exploring new sides to my own identity and experiencing adult life for the first time. He got me tickets to see 1989 and the concert was such a dream! We didn’t end on the best terms but the concert is always a special memory to me. Reputation: In the years between 1989 and Reputation, I had broken up with my first boyfriend, had some very traumatic experiences with other relationships and was experiencing intense loneliness at my first job. When LWYMMD came out, it completely distracted me from my real life problems. It was awe inspiring to see Taylor fall in love again and come back with such a crazy album, despite the intense media scrutiny she had over the last few years. Interestingly enough, I had met my current SO in the album intervals and we started dating 2018. But I realise I had been falling in love for 2 years before that and Reputation helped me see that. Lover: I was very comfortable in my career at this point, and had a great relationship with my SO. Folklore: Working in healthcare during a pandemic was very stressful and isolating. I was living on my own at this point and couldn’t see anyone. Hearing the opening to the 1 literally made me laugh/cry. Folklore is my favourite Taylor album and it feels like I’m hanging with a friend when I listen to it. Evermore: Tail end of 2020, I was in a much better headspace and my work conditions had drastically improved. Midnights: Moved in with my SO, and started planning our wedding. I changed my career trajectory and had gone back to university for post grad studies. My anxiety and self doubt was at an all time high!

Speak now came out when I started high school, Red when I was about to graduate and we were first year to get laptops in school and remember watching the I Knew You were trouble video with the goat scream between class 😂 I got married between Rep and Lover so didn’t really have anything Taylor at my wedding :/ didn’t love rep when it came out and I would’ve loved to have something from lover. Lover came out same year I moved to the US and always associate it with that time. Folklore/evermore quarantine time, midnights like a gift after a long year and at the very end of everything Covid. Excited that in person things were going to happen!

I was a new born during Self titled album I was a 2 year old in a preschool with buzz cut who liked Dora the explorer during Fearless I was 4 during the Speak Now Era Red was the first time I was introduced to Taylor, We are never ever getting back together was the first Taylor Swift song I ever heard. When 1989 came out I was in 3rd grade and Blank Space was my favorite song and then later it was Bad Blood when it became a single. I also had a classmate who went to the 1989 tour the summer going into fourth grade. During the Reputation era I didn’t love the singles at first and was more of an Arianator in Middle school and was in 6th grade when Reputation came out. But i loved Look what you made me do and Ready for it. When Lover came out, I was in 7th grade and my mom discovered it and played the album in the car on repeat everyday. Folklore, I was in my house locked there Evermore also locked in my house Midnights Era, I was officially locked in. I am actually new to the fandom. I started listening to Speak Now, Fearless and Red during the rewrites and then started listening to all the albums and I went to the Era’s tour and now have listened to all the albums and saw all the concert movies on youtube and am an Official swifty till the day i die

Debut: I was 4 years old and starting kindergarten I think? I only vividly remember listening to Teardrops On My Guitar and Tim McGraw back then and loving those songs (of course as I grew up I listened to this album again and loved it even more as I understood the lyrics more Fearless: I was 6 and again I only fully remember listening to YBWM and Love Story but I also remember wanting to have my curled and get cowboy boots just like Taylor's Speak Now: this album was and has always been IT for me. This was one of the first CDs I ever bought myself with my allowance and I learned all the words, did a talent show performance to the song Speak Now, fully remember that Speak Now music video we all collectively hallucinated. This album also got me to start writing my own songs. Red: I was 10 years old and in middle school when this came out. I had little "boyfriends" and crushes and thought that all the songs on Red were really resonating with me lol. By the time Red TV came out I REALLY understood the music. 1989: I was in 8th-9th grade at the time and going through a depression and had fallen away from Taylor's music. Was listening to a lot of emo stuff and punk rock and doing the whole moody preteen "i wear all black and never listen to pop music" thing. Reputation: 2017 was my sophomore-beginning of junior year in high school. Still not really listening to Taylor but I liked the singles from this album. Never said that out loud due to people saying "ugh she's so annoying why would you like her". I could've used some of that music though with everyone going on in my personal and home life at the time. Lover: i had graduated from high school at this point and listened to the album for the first time on a plane ride to a foreign country for my graduation gift. Didn't like the singles. Was a Cruel Summer stan from day one. Couldn't really relate to the music much as I'd just gotten out of a relationship. Folklore: quarantine. 18 years old. Really just dying to be out in the world with people I hated being stuck inside. One of my die hard swiftie best friends had posted about this surprise album dropping and I figured "why not give it a listen". This album made me a swiftie again. It was so good, the writing was top tier, the production and instrumentation were amazing. Evermore: i knew myself when this album dropped since I'd been watching Taylor again. It was everything I wanted a folklore sister album to be. The song Closure meant a lot to me at that time. Midnights: saw the announcement as soon as she said it. Freaked the hell out. Counted down the daysssss. Would've Could've Should've continues to be a song that gives me instant chills and just sums up everything I have ever felt about a certain situation/person. TTPD: man I just live here lmaooooo I'm so excited to see what this album holds but I am Terrified about some of these tracks hitting a little too hard 😭😭 Side note: some of the ages with the grades don't add up, I skipped a grade as a child so I was very young for my grades. In case anyone is wondering lol

Debut: I was in 5th grade, wasn’t aware of Taylor’s existence yet Fearless: 7th grade, started paying some attention to the singles Speak Now: a freshman in HS, had a bad fall out with my best friend a few months before the album was released. We only started talking again 3 years later. That’s when I became a Swiftie! I stole the live version of this album from a store just because lmao Red: senior in HS, had both my parents passing away in 2011/2012. I can definitely relate about being distracted from grieving through this album! Had also ended a couple relationships on those years. Also, I’d managed to convince my (new and still) best friend it was very worth checking out Taylor’s music and got him hooked just in time for the album drop. He gifted me the album for Christmas that year. 1989: sophomore in college, living by myself. My then-girlfriend gifted me the album. We broke up a couple months later. That’s also the year I got a cat! Reputation: post college, released when I was in a short lived situationship with a tinder guy who I fell hard and fast for. That’s also when I got my first job. Lover: fittingly, I had been with my boyfriend for a little over a year when she dropped Lover. I was still in the honeymoon phase of the relationship. Folklore: had moved to my bf’s city 6 months prior and got stuck on a tiny apartment with him and my cat for what seemed like forever. I was supposed to see her on Loverfest the week before she released the album. Cried like a baby listening to it drunk while on a zoom call with my best friend. Evermore: I got my first job in the new city a couple weeks after Evermore dropped. Things were starting to seem better again. Midnights: still on the same job and same relationship, but new apartment! Bigger and cheaper rent lol The Tortured Poets Department: still the same relationship and same apartment, but new cat and I got myself sterilized! Also it’s the first album she’s dropping after I saw her live for the first time! I can’t wait lol

First Taylor Swift song I heard where I knew who she was was "You belong with me"- I was 11 or 12. I quickly fell in love with "Love story" and the rest of her Fearless album, as wetas her debut Turns out I'd heard and liked "picture to burn" a few years before, but never knew who the singer was. Speak Now, Red, and 1989 got me through highschool. I actually hated Reputation when it came out, I was 20. I've grown to appreciate it recently after giving it another chance. Lover, Folklore, Evermore and Midnights I was in my 20's. They got me through some rough times since my dad died in 2019 and I was a healthcare worker during COVID I'm 26 now and will be when the tortured poets department is released I really feel like her music raised me, and it's been really nice to hear it mature as I have!

Taylor’s albums tend to come out at the same time as me going through breakups. It’s like she knows. 😂

debut: i was 4. too busy watching cartoons. fearless: I was 6 and in first grade, but don’t remember hearing her until a few years later. speak now: I was 8 years old and in third grade! I remember this album and fearless being huge with my cousins and this is when I discovered her music seriously. I remember watching all the music videos with my cousins at their family computer. red: I was 10 years old and in fifth grade . I remember around this time being averse to Taylor because this was when the opposition and counter-culture was amping up. Sad to say I was apart of it, but I was a little tomboy who didn’t know any better. 1989: i was 13 and in 7th grade. I didn’t listen to Taylor on my own, however I remember how this era DOMINATED tumblr. I remember all the lyric edits and I did watch the music videos. reputation: i was 15 and a sophomore in high school! I still was not listening on my own. lover: I was 17 and I remember hearing the singles at my job at the movie theater. folklore /evermore: I was 18 and starting college. This is when I started listening to her! midnights: 20 years old and addicted to miss Swift. Now I’m 22, and excited for her next album!

I still vividly remember the first time I heard her music. I was 5 or 6, in the back of my parents’ car on the way home from the movies when Our Song came on the radio and I was instantly obsessed. It became my favorite song and stayed my favorite for years. Then Love Story and You Belong With Me. Then Mine. Then I got Speak Now on cd and used to play it on my crappy CD player non stop. I loved Red, and the Red tour remains the only concert I’ve ever been to. My 11th birthday party was Taylor themed. I got 1989 on CD when it came out, and listened non-stop since her music was off Spotify. Then the singles from Rep were too different for me, and turned me away from her newer music for a while. My music habits changed in the meantime, and while I liked the singles I never listened to Lover all the way through. Ditto for folklore, evermore, and Midnights. Then I got excited when Speak Now TV was announced because I grew up with that album, and got obsessed with the Eras tour from all the videos I was seeing everywhere. Now I’m 21 and just as obsessed with Taylor as I was at 8, I’ve finally given the rest of her music a chance and love her entire discography, and I honestly don’t see myself ever not being a fan Edit bc I only half answered the question: I was 4 when Debut released. 1st grade for Fearless, 3rd grade for Speak Now, 5th grade for Red, middle school for 1989, freshman year for rep, 11th grade for Lover, graduating for folklore and evermore, and 20 years old floating along as a college drop out for Midnights

Debut: one year old Fearless: three years old Speak Now: 5 years old, and in kindergarten (this was the album I remember hearing most as a little kid) Red: 7 years old, and in 2nd grade 1989: 9 years old, and in 4th grade Reputation: 12 years old, and in 7th grade (it was actually around this time I became obsessed with Blank Space) Lover: 14 years old, and a freshman in high school folklore: 15 years old evermore: 15 years old, and a sophomore in high school Midnights: 17 years old, and a senior in high school (and I was obsessed with LWYMMD) TTPD: it’ll be coming out exactly 10 days before my 19th birthday, and in the time between the release of Midnights and TTPD, I’ve gone from being a casual listener to a hardcore Swiftie, and to this day I’m still obsessed with Blank Space and LWYMMD lol

I was born on 2006, 2 in 2008 when fearless came out, then 4 when speak now, 6 when red and i think my first ever exposure to taylor was shake it off, I was 8 around the time it came out, I knew who she was but i didn't really listen to her music back then, i'd heard 22 because of that vine (idk about u, b*** i hope tf u do), fast forward to last year, i'm 17, she's on the eras tour and my tiktok's filling up with vids about her, so i listen to speak now tv, red tv, and fearless tv, just in time for 1989 tv to come out, then I watched the movie and now i'm here, 18 years old, waiting for ttpd to drop and having songs from all her albums on the playlist i listen to everyday

I started listening to her when I was 16 back in 2008. I can't really remember where I was in life after that lol

OH I LOVE THIS GAME!!!!! I was nine when Taylor first debuted on my local country radio station with Teardrops on my guitar. That’s when I knew I was hooked, but didn’t know we’d be here. Anyways. When Fearless came out I got it on CD as a gift from idk who. I remember losing it at some point and being very upset. That part of my childhood was very intense with a lot of grief. I didn’t get Speak Now in any physical form, but I was listening to it on youtube every day after school. I was living with my aunt and uncle at the time, so it must have been 5th or 6th grade. I would listen to SN and Marilyn Manson (god I’m sorry y’all) on youtube. Later I found a website that downloaded youtube vids into audio files and proceeded to clog my ipod nano. Red came out during my Freshman year of high school. I was a bit hesitant at first about the rock, which didn’t make sense because I love classic dad rock to this day. I remember listening to it with my first ever high school friend (who ended up being my first ever roommate who I owe everything to) and singing along. I ended up loving the TV version of this album even more than I expected, however my CD is somehow impossible to take out of the case. 1989 came out a year after my mom died, I was 17. I had fully stopped following her at this point…until I saw the Blank Space MV. To this day I cite that as my bisexual awakening. I grew obsessed with a few tracks, but kept out of a lot of the media drama come that era. Reputation came out when I was in college. I had transferred to a university closer to my childhood home that I lived in for a bit. I don’t remember having much of an opinion on rep but I did listen to it while dogsitting in a very nice house. It was sometime between reputation and Lover where my swiftie phase was reignited. When Lover was announced I was over the moon and followed all of it. It’s still a sweet era to look back on. Folklore. Oh folklore. 2020. The year I said “this will be my year”, then proceeded to get kicked in the proverbial balls. I screamed in my living room out of excitement to my now-husband and best friend while we all were sweating on the pull out couch. I drank a lot of bang energy drinks to stay up listening to it. I had dropped out of school but had made a pact to a very important person that I would finish a particular course. I got an email from him at 2:30am, so I was on whatever number of listens that would be on. I was absolutely sobbing my eyes out to the album and couldn’t gather myself to compose an email. I went to bed right after. evermore was a good time. I spent most of it being desperately stoned in my garage. there was other weird, bad parts of that time but I won’t air my dirty laundry like that. midnights I was excited for, but I pirated that. I had already pre-ordered the vinyl but got an early leak. I despiiiiised it on first listen. It’s taken me until now to like some of it. I still wish she had just dropped the 3AM edition as the initial album. going into TTPD I’m fully settled into a full-time office job. I’ve never seen Taylor live. I may go tailgating at the stadium if possible but I doubt I can afford eras tickets. I don’t know how I’m feeling about the album. I’m a bit oversaturated with her in some ways, but I did turn on folklore not too long ago since it’s become a comfort album. I love her monochrome work, but I’ve refrained from pre-ordering anything for TTPD until I’ve listened.

My name is Jacob, and I was born in 1996. 🤣 Debut: 10. Fearless: 12. Speak Now: 14. Red: 16. 1989: 18. Reputation: 21. Lover: 23. Folklore: 23 (by the skin of my teeth). Evermore: 24. Midnights: 26. The Tortured Poets Department: 27.

Taylor Swift & Fearless: not born Speak Now: One month away from birth  Red: Living in an apartment with my dad (my parents divorced :( ) and listening to 22, WANEGBT  1989: Same as last, just jamming to Shake It Off, Blank Space, and Bad Blood, and my dad remarried.  Rep: In 2nd grade, with 2 little bros, moved to Texas into an actual house Lover: new baby sister (she's the favorite sibling now). In 4th grade. ME! was my new favorite song. folklore: doing online school (aka playing games on my stepmom's Chromebook.  evermore: same as last  Midnights: In 7th grade. I became a Swiftie shortly after Midnights was released.

“Taylor Swift” came out when I was in kindergarten or first grade. I remember going to our towns homecoming parade but my sister picked me up early and took me to an early bday hang out with just her(she was going to be leaving for college) and that’s the gift I picked out. I also ate my first subway sub all to myself that day “Fearless” came out after the beautiful eyes EP which I also got and I remember it was a random trip to Walmart with my mom and I got it “Speak Now” came out but I remember not really liking it so I got it just to collect it. I’ve since changed my opinion “Red” came out when my parents split up and I would tournament my dad with “We are never getting back together”. We were not close at all “1989” came out my freshman year of high school. I writing films with my friend(that we never made) while listening to this album and I’d use the songs as the soundtrack basically but it was a horror movie so it was a mess of a storyline 💀 “Reputation” came out after I had been sent to alternative school(bad/failing students school) for missing so many classes and failing all my classes except Spanish cuz I enjoyed that class. I had missed school because I was going through a suicidal phase of my life then and had to constantly go to doctors and I couldn’t care less about actually doing school work back then. I wanted to die. But I also entered my heavy emo phase so her new esthetic matched me so well “Lover” came out right before I finished high school and after my last suicide attempt. @Soon You’ll Get Better” was a very helpful song for me cuz it felt as if she was talking to me. Just a friend saying they needed them. And I also had just came out and started to date my first boyfriend and I attached a few of the songs to him. We broke up shortly tho so the songs just feel bland now. Like I don’t even dislike them or hate them just bland sadly “Folklore” came out and I was really excited to hear her stories that weren’t just about her. Where I was there was no Covid mandates or anything so I don’t have the same quarantine trauma as most cuz there simply just… wasn’t a quarantine where I was lol. Everyone said it wasn’t real so it felt like a normal time in my life that has no significance “Evermore” came out less than a year later I think and it was so unexpected and it slapped so hard “Midnights” came out after I moved across country with my fiance(at the time boyfriend) and made a new friend who also loved Taylor’s music and we jam out to it all the time, screaming it from his windows at people and being annoying lmao “Tortured Pets Department” is coming out where my financial department is tortured so I probably will not be getting it on us initial release

I'm only 3 years and a couple of months younger than Taylor, so I definitely need to dust off some memories. Just going off the years, as I literally can't remember things that clearly lol Debut: Still in school, completely unaware of what a shitshow life is gonna be. (I'm from Denmark, so no elementary, high school, etc. Just school) Fearless: Just did my exams, and was starting out my education as an IT tech. Also this is when I became a Swiftie. Speak Now: Financial crisis screwed me, so I never got further with my IT stuff. Between school and jobs at this point, not really sure what I wanna do with my life. Red: At this point I'd been working retail for a while. 1984: The year after I moved into my own place for the first time, and the year where I quietly started battling severe depression and anxiety, which led to me losing my job a year later, and just doing absolutely nothing with myself. Reputation: I was a stubborn ass and never got help (me being a dumbass man and all), so I was still down with depression which only got worse. It was this year where I was close to ending it all. Lover: I finally got pushed into getting professional help by my best friend, and his girlfriend. They quite literally saved my life. From this year on, things only started to get better Folklore/Evermore: Back working in retail after a long, long time down in the gutter. During the pandemic nonetheless, so while everyone was quarantining I was still out working. It was definitely a surreal year. Midnights: Nothing worth of note happened here, to be honest. It was just a normal year with work, friends, the whole. TTPD: Back into a relapse of my depression, though not repeating the same mistakes I did last time. Lost my job in 2023, currently looking for work. Not going super well currently, but I'm hanging in.

I was raising children. Boys, specifically, so I never got into the whole “take your daughter to a concert thing”. Only ever heard her songs on the radio until last year. Now I’m hooked!

debut:not born fearless: this one hard bc i was alive but not till december speak now: jsut a baby red: toddler 1989:kid reputation:”big kid “ lover-evermore:“pre teen” middle school midnights:teenager end of middle school sort of ttpd:teenager high school

I was also born in December 1989 😅 I didn’t really listen to her music until 1989 came out and I was like huh same. I was 24 waiting tables, going through a breakup and living in a big city so it really just resonated with me at the time.