swifties will remember everything Fearless is still to this day the most awarded country album of all time then we have track five there are still Easter eggs in that video we haven't found yet and that keeps me up at night I think about it a lot reputation is one of like the best comebacks of all time that's Taylor Swift no it's [Music] Becky [Music] hello guys welcome back to the channel it's Nina if you are new here welcome I'm so happy to have you and if you're not new thanks for coming back if this is the first video you're seeing from me hi nice to meet you I make videos about Taylor Swift and being a fan and music and all of that good stuff so if any of that appeals to you join the family we're all mad here I'm so excited to make this video I don't know why I haven't made a video like this yet because I love diving into the details of Taylor's lyrics her career her albums her songs everything theories the Easter eggs I know that over the past few years Taylor's Fame has risen to a level that is just brought in so many new people even though we're already 18 years into her music career there are constantly people that are discovering her music new and old and so I decided that I'm going to make the ultimate guide for becoming a Swifty everything that you need to know about her career the context the details the inside jokes because it is a lot and I feel like the Swifty fandom is an overwhelming one to join especially if you're just now joining us and I think it's important to say that it doesn't matter if you've only been here a year or if you've been here since the very beginning it doesn't make you any less of a fan for discovering Taylor's music later on in your life yeah I feel like sometimes this fandom can be a little judging a little like it's a club that not everyone's invited to but you know you're allowed to like whatever artist you want to and I am always so excited when somebody in my life texts me and tells me like oh my gosh like I really love Taylor's new album even if they haven't been a fan before so anyways just wanted to put that little disclaimer out here maybe you're not a fan maybe you're just someone who's trying to understand Taylor Swift a little bit better with you know she's in the news every single day maybe you're trying to learn more because your friend or your significant other as a huge fan and you just want to know more I'm here to bring you all the knowledge I've been a Taylor Swift fan since I was 9 or 10 years old when Fearless came out and I was just beginning to learn guitar a lot of the songs I was learning were from The Fearless album and so I'd always been a fan of her music but I wasn't the level of Swifty that I am now until I got into high school during kind of like the red 1989 era where it truly just became all consuming I just took it to a completely different level of being a fan and being like so dedicated to her songs music her as a person in general and also with the re-recordings I feel like there is a new generation that are getting to experience all of these Taylor Swift eras for the first time because she is re-releasing these albums it almost feels like new music to the younger generation so I think it's really cool I feel like a lot of artists don't get to revisit their work in that way and kind of like have the new generation see their you know previous work as something new something reinvented so anyways it's just like super cool and I have never seen anything like it before so anyways I wanted to break this video up into kind of three different parts I'm just going into a lot of detail here I'm going to be giving a brief overview of like the early life beginning of tayor like kind of like the basic facts about her life and then going into her career career and her music catalog going through each era and giving you the essential details and context for a lot of the inside jokes and a lot of like references people talk about and then I also just want to like go through all of the inside jokes that we have as swifties because people feel a little confused or left out sometimes when we're referencing certain things and hopefully I can give you a little bit more context to maybe some of the friendship bracelets that you got at the ARs tour so this is Swifty 101 how to become a Swifty and really just like all the info in one place cuz I know that you could probably look up all of this stuff on your own but I just wanted to make it simple and easy for you guys to know all the backstory and the details okay so getting into Taylor's early life she was bornn on December 13th 1989 all of those numbers are very important because they always come back each era in a different way obviously everybody knows that 13 is Taylor Swift's lucky number and I feel like before 13 was like seen as like a superstitious unlucky number but Taylor has like completely redefined the meaning of the number 13 you'll see everybody at the concerts wearing 13 on their hand and that's because in her early days Taylor would write a 13 on her hand for good luck for her live shows we have an artist at work uh my mom is the only one who's ever been entrusted to draw on my 13 um she hasn't done it since I think mid 2000 9 um so considering the time you've taken away from the craft you really just jumped right back in and excelling I did it yeah it's the 13th show of the reputation stadium tour so 13 will always come back she loves to make things add up to 13 with her release dates she just loves anything to do with that number so if anything ever adds up to 13 just know that most of the time it's on purpose because Taylor just like loves to incorporate that number into her life and then of course we have 1989 the year that she was born a number that is also important because that was her fifth album title and again Taylor likes to use that number in a lot of her marketing her release dates sometimes she would put things on her website merch store as $19.89 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again to skillshare for sponsoring this video it really keeps the channel going for me to come back every single week and hang out with you guys and talk about Taylor so yeah she was born on December 13th 1989 and she was born in Reading Pennsylvania which is a small town outside of Philadelphia so she's not originally from Nashville so she grew up in Pennsylvania on a Christmas tree farm with her parents Andrea Swift and Scott Swift and her one brother Austin Swift who is about 2 3 years younger than her later on her parents actually got a divorce but I actually didn't know that for the longest time because they're so amicable they're still a very strong family unit honestly obviously I think that's because of Taylor and her career they have truly learned to just get along even though they decided to not stay married they're still very good friends and they're always seen at Taylor shows they're at every single one they always kind of refer to themselves as a small family business because all of them are very involved in Taylor Swift's career and I think it's so great that her family is always there for her throughout her entire career so when Taylor was 11 she like begged her mom to take her on a vacation to Nashville to see where all of the country music stars get their start because she wanted to be a singer she has said that she watched I think a Faith Hill documentary that's when she got in her brain that Nashville is the place where dreams come true where she could start her career and become a real singer a real country music artist her mom did take her to Nashville and she drove down music row and she hopped out of the car and walked into all the record labels with her CD of cover songs that she sang from the chicks and Dolly Parton and other songs that she had just kind of like recorded demos of and she would ask them for a record deal they would politely Decline and just tell her that she needs to go home and really work on herself and work on her songwriting because that is the one thing thing that kind of sets you apart when becoming a new artist and being successful in the field you have to learn how to write songs so she received a guitar for Christmas and there's the cutest video of her that is on the internet where she opens the guitar and she's like so excited guar I am happy and I think she's probably around 9 or 10 in that video but she actually didn't learn how to play guitar until she was around 12 years old they had someone over were fixing their computer and he saw the guitar in the corner of her room and asked oh do you not how to play guitar and she said no and he said do you want to learn a few chords and so he taught her three chords and that night she wrote her very first song which was called lucky you and if you go look up the lyrics of that song you already know like oh my gosh this girl has a gift this is the first song she ever wrote and she's already like using metaphor and can come up with these catchy Melodies it's truly truly impressive for a 12-year-old when she was 13 her whole family decided to take the leap of faith and move all of them out to Nashville so that Taylor could pursue her country music career she lived and went to high school in the city of Hendersonville which is a little bit outside of Nashville but every day after school her mom would drive her to Music Row and she'd work with a bunch of songwriters and learn and grow and just get a lot of experience being in the writing room when she was 14 she signed a songwriting deal with Sony which is a huge label so she wrote songs for 2 years and when she was about 15 or 16 they told her they'd like to sign a development deal which means they would watch you for a few more years and you wouldn't be able to work on releasing any music and she knew in her heart that she was ready to create an album start her career and so she walked away from a huge record deal because she believed in herself she continued to write songs and work with people and then in 2005 she was playing a show at the Bluebird Cafe which is an iconic little live music Cafe in Nashville where a ton of country artists are discovered and that is an important little Swifty Landmark I actually got to visit the Bluebird Cafe when I went to the Nashville eras show they had a whole thing where you could sit in the Taylor Swift chair and see pictures of her when she performed there but anyways when she was performing at The Bluebird in 2005 she caught the eye of none other than Scott boretta which was her previous record label owner he didn't even have a label at the time he was going to start an independent label that would later become big machine and she was the first of a few artists that he had signed to his new label and another thing that people don't know is that Taylor's dad Scott invested in the label so he was a 3% owner of big machine at the beginning so he invested some of his own money into it which obviously kind of gave Taylor a leg up in start starting her music career but it wasn't without hard work that she kind of made it in the country music industry and thus began the 13-y yearlong relationship that she had with scab Bretta and the label which is very important context for why Taylor has embarked on this mission to regain ownership of her first six albums that were created while she was under this label because you know being 156 she obviously didn't have the experience and the knowledge that she does now to know that she was never going to be able to own the master recordings of all of the albums that were released under this label so that is something important that we will come back to when we get into the re-recording process okay so now I just want to go through the eras and kind of talk about Taylor's career key moments that are important to know as a Swifty so the Taylor Swift debut era began in 2006 she came out with her first lead single Tim mcra in June of 2006 the song ended up doing really well on country radio and she completed her first album and put out on October 24th 2006 her self-titled album a lot of swifties refer to this era this album as debut which obviously we know means like the first album the first step into the career but the album is actually called Taylor Swift so Taylor has been referring to it in the era's era as self-titled but if you hear people talking about the debut ERA this is what they're referring to it's just her debut album she released a few singles she came out with some music videos and our song was actually the song that made Taylor the youngest artist to single-handedly write and sing a hot country song's number one single she wrote that song all by herself when she was around 14 it ended up on her first album and it became a number one single she was kind of proving to the record label that yes I am ready to start this career and I will be successful and I think that is a theme throughout Taylor Swift's career always pushing the envelope always being the one person that believed in herself and believed that she could be successful even if other people didn't think she could so during the debut era she also released a holiday collection called the Taylor Swift holiday collection in 2007 that had six songs and two of them were original songs that she had written and the other four were covers of other Christmas songs still waiting for a new Christmas album so hopefully one day um and then she also came out with the beautiful eyes EP that I feel like goes a little bit unnoticed in the fandom but it's this orange cover it has some of the songs from debut on it just alternate kind of versions and then it also had two new songs on it iHeart question mark and beautiful eyes the title track of the EP that I believe Taylor most likely will include on her version of the debut album when she finishes out her re-recordings she toured a a lot during this era as an opening act for a lot of country artists Rascal Flats George Strait Brad Paisley Tim mcra even which is Iconic and she also won a lot of awards for being best new artist in the country realm from the CMAs which is a very prestigious award in the country music industry and the Horizon award goes to Taylor [Applause] [Music] slift I can't even believe believe that this is real and the fans you have changed my life this is definitely the highlight of my senior year all of that before she was 18 even and so when we get to 2008 this is really when Taylor becomes known in kind of like the mainstream media not just country music even though her first album is super super country she still had that like pop undertone to some of the songs so that brings brings us to Taylor's sophomore album Fearless this was truly kind of like her breakout album and I think she also looks back on it very fondly because this album really took her to the next level she was setting records that were unheard of in the country music industry this album was released on November 11th 2008 love story was her first single from this album and it like took off it was the first country song ever to reach number one on the mainstream top 40 the album spent 11 weeks at number one and fearless is still to this day the most awarded country album of all time and she was 18 and it has been almost 16 years like that is crazy so in 2009 she went on the Fearless tour which was her first headlining tour she won best female video at the VMAs in 2009 and this is also the infamous incident of a little Interruption that happened that would go on to be an issue for the next decade at the Grammys in 2010 she would win her first second third and fourth Grammy and the Grammy goes to Taylor Swift Nathan chman anday featured artist Kobe Kell this is the story we're going to be telling over and over again in 2010 how we got to win album of the year the Grammys thank you thank you thank you thank you the biggest one being album of the year for Fearless this was also the era that Taylor kind of dipped her toe into the acting and film industry for the first time she wrote two songs for the Hannah Montana movie crazier that we all know and love and she also wrote You'll Always Find Your Way Back Home which is performed by Miley Cyrus in the film which I feel like a lot of people don't know that Taylor wrote that song and fingers crossed it's going to be on debut Taylor's version but she did have a cameo in the movie and that was filmed in the summer of 2008 so I would kind of consider that more debut era Taylor Swift rather than Fearless Taylor was also featured in the movie Valentine's Day that came out in 2009 alongside her ex Taylor lner which is one of our favorite exes and she also wrote a song for that movie that plays kind of like at the end of the movie today was a fairy tale which ended up being put on Fearless the re-recorded version as one of the bonus tracks she was also featured on an episode of CSI and then she also made her SNL debut where she sang the iconic monologue song If you haven't seen that look it up we'll come back to it later and this brings us to speak now the speak now era was from 2010 to 2012 and usually kind of each era was like 2year time chunks until we get to reputation which is where she took a big break but she usually came out with albums every two years in the fall and speak now was released on October 25th 2010 this album was entirely self-written Taylor had no co-writers on speak now and that was very intentional she has sole songwriting credit on every single song with the exception of one of the target bonus tracks if this was a movie that had one co-writer on it other than that every single other song is just written by her if this was a movie was actually released as part of fearless so she kind of took that out of speak now Taylor's version so that that album could be entirely self-written the reason for this is that she received a lot of backlash during The Fearless era people saying she didn't pull her weight in the writing room like there's no way she's writing all of these songs like she's probably not helping at all with the songs after that I had a lot of people who would say oh she's an 18-year-old girl there's no way that she actually carried her weight in those writing sessions and that was a really harsh criticism I felt because you know there was no way I could prove them wrong other than to write my entire next record solo so that's what did basically she she took offense to that and she said okay I'm going to write this album entirely by myself so that you can't say that anymore with each era she is trying to prove people wrong just keep pushing the envelope I feel like this era was very much about Taylor putting her head down and working and proving that she deserved the success that she had she deserved to be where she was in her career she underwent extensive vocal training because people were criticizing her for her poor live performances and that is where the song Mean came from there was a reporter that wrote a really mean article about her when she I think she was performing a song from fearless and they wrote this terrible article and so what did she do she wrote a song about them and then it won a Grammy in 2011 she went on the speak now World Tour and from this she came out with a live album of the speak now concert that included also some covers that she had sang on the speak now tour it is one of the best live albums of all time it is so good I'm not biased at all from there we were moving into the red era in 2012 and this was like a huge step for Taylor towards pop when the red album came out in October 22 of 2012 that was on purpose obviously because the song 22 she saw an opening she took it she was facing a lot of pressure from her record label when she was writing the red album to make it more country but she kind of stood her ground a little bit and was like know I'm going to continue to make songs that I like and that I want to put on the album that I feel like belong on the album and I feel like she kind of half won the battle because half of the album is very pop and the other half has that like country production slash more storytelling vibe to it so all of this resulted in the beautiful chaotic Masterpiece that is the red album but it's like a good chaotic you know she was I remember her giving an interview being like you hear guitars and piano in one song and then the next song There's a dub step and a pop backing track and you know it's like that dance pop Vibe because red wasn't successful in like the award show area that she after red she kind of felt like kind of like a failure in a way and she always would say like it wasn't sonically cohesive everyone was like what do you mean sonically cohesive that doesn't make it a bad album it was sonically cohesive maybe they're right maybe I did not make the record of my career maybe I need to fix the problem which was that I have not been making sonically cohesive albums we'll come back to that in a minute but she went on the Red Tour for 2 years and it was the highest grossing Country tour of all time at that point which is funny that it's technically classified as a Country tour because I would not I would not call it a country tour there was a banjo but I wouldn't call it a country tour I feel like when people would ask me you know during that era oh like what genre is Taylor Swift is she country is she pop and in my brain I'm like it's just Taylor Swift there's no box that she can really be put into because she's doing something that not a lot of people had done at that point it's always like you either need to be country or you need to be pop you need to like choose a lane and she said I don't care red is the only tour that Taylor went on that doesn't have a tour movie or album or anything the fandom has never forgot it it is truly tragic there's videos and grainy people's phones from 2012 but there's not any high quality video besides like her music video that she came out with all the clips from the tour it's truly a crime and something that we still haven't let go of to this day and that is also a theme swifties will remember everything so a little bit before the red album came out Taylor released a song called Ronin and it was about a little boy who had died of cancer and Taylor would read his mom's blog and the mom didn't even know this her name is Maya Taylor was following along with his story and when he died she wrote this song using entries that Maya had written on the blog using her words to inspire this song when she released it all of the proceeds went towards awareness and Charities to fight cancer Taylor gave Maya co-writing credit on the song and Ronin was later re-released as part of the red Taylor's version album Taylor also wrote two songs for The Hunger Games soundtrack in 2012 we had safe and sound featuring the Civil War and eyes open safe and sound actually won a Grammy for Best song written for visual media which was technically her only Grammy that she won during the red era red sadly did not win a Grammy and it was truly tragic and that is a another little inside joke that red deserved a Grammy and when Taylor won a Grammy for the all tool short film in 2023 it was like Vindication it was a full circle moment that red finally got the Grammy that it deserved but she did do the most iconic amazing amazing performance of all to well on piano at the Grammys in 2014 so she was going to perform at the Grammys and the fans wanted her to play u well so bad even though it wasn't a single it was the first time she had performed a non single album track at an award show so that's how much we cared about ALU well and we saw what that turned into she did quite a few side quests in the red era she was featured on a song with Bo both of us and then she also was featured in a song with Tim mcra Highway Don't Care which is another really good song that I feel not enough people know about she was a voice actress in The Lorax movie she also had a small role in the movie The Giver in 2014 she was nominated for a Golden Globe at the 2014 Golden Globes for a song that she wrote with Jack antinoff it was the very first song they wrote together called Sweeter Than Fiction for a movie called one chance they did not win the Golden Globe but Taylor returned to re-record that song and put it on the 1989 Taylor's version album so that song is definitely more towards the 1989 era rather than the red era moving into Taylor's second breakthrough album 1989 and this era took place between 2014 and 2016 this was Taylor's debut into the pop industry officially I feel like Taylor had come out with pop songs but she never had a fully official pop album until 1989 and she said that when she lost album of the year at the Grammys for red she knew exactly what she wanted to do next she said she woke up in the middle of the night and she said the album is going to be a pop album it's going to be called 1989 and I'm going to make this shift whether my label wants me to or not because they pushed against her they said please just put like a few country songs on the album if it's not broken don't fix it and she said nope I'm doing what I want to do I believe in myself and I know that this is what where I need to go 4 in the morning I'm like it's called 1989 I've been making 80 CN pop I'm just going to do that I'm calling it a pop record I am not listening to anyone at my record label I'm starting tomorrow the album of course peaked at number one wildly successful bringing in brand new fans as well as appeasing the older fans I feel like some people like oh I like old tayor but I feel like during 1989 it was like the songwriting stayed the same but the production and the sound just changed it just became like super super popular this was also the Tumblr era and I feel like 1989 was the era that Taylor was most connected with the fandom directly online and also in person she would like post she would reblog posts all the time comment on stuff she would follow fans on Tumblr she followed hundreds if not thousands of people on Tumblr everybody felt so much closer to her because they had a chance of being noticed by her she also met a lot of fans during this era this is when the secret sessions began and in the weeks and months leading up to the release of 1989 she invited fans to all of her different houses and played them the album before it was out of course in her numerical style she had 89 fans per secret session and I think she had five secret sessions so she was meeting hundreds of people taking pictures playing them the album she baked them cookies I feel like that was her way of kind of really connecting with the fans even when she went on the 1989 tour which was huge I would say it was the era tour of that time because of how popular it was in the mainstream media everybody wanted to go the 1989 tour she was also meeting people before and after almost every single show of the 1989 tour which I think was really good for her and I really think she loves connecting with people but I feel like it also was very exhausting during the 1989 ERA this is when streaming took over and this is when Taylor took a stand against unfair compensation of artists and so she withheld putting 1989 on Apple music unless they compensated all artists for the free trial period that they were promoting because before the artists were not being paid from the free trial period when people signed up for Apple music and she also pulled her whole catalog from Spotify until they also agreed to Fair conditions for artists this was the beginning of Taylor's Legacy with changing the music industry and how it operated so the 1989 tour was the highest grossing tour of 2015 again that is going to be a theme here and she came out with the 1989 tour movie on Apple music at the end of the year she won her second Grammy for album of the year and she was the first female to win that award twice but that year in 2016 was the beginning of one of the hardest media cancellations that ever happened to Taylor and it was rough it was we were in the trenches out there defending Taylor when everybody turned against her and with the whole kimy drama essentially Kanye came out with this song with very degrading lyrics towards Taylor Kim Kay released a private phone call that she had recorded that was cut and spliced and made Taylor out to be the bad guy and she called her a snake and everyone said the Taylor Swift is over party she's a snake blah blah blah blah blah it was a very dark time time and not a very popular time to be a Swifty because everybody was so against her during that era and that is what made her go into hiding for a whole year this was the first time since she started her career that she did not release an album every 2 years she took an entire year to disappear and not be in the public eye because of how much criticism she was getting it was too much I feel like that was also the year that she also just kind of not threw in the towel but she didn't try to be perfect anymore because this is when she had bleachella we had the bleachella era where she went completely platinum blonde and she went to Coachella and she was just like doing whatever she wanted she was also dating Calvin Harris at the time they wrote this is what you came for together but originally when the song came out she was listed under a pseudonym Neil's soberg which is another inside joke that we joke about because it was just like the most random name she could have chosen and when she was asked why she chose that name she said those are two of the most popular names for Swedish males and nobody knew for a long time like that that was her but there was some drama that happened when Taylor revealed that she had co-written the song and Calvin Harris got really angry and had a little temper tantrum but like there was some Twitter beef but ultimately we just forgot that he existed after a while that is now a song that Taylor has played live before she played it on piano in the one performance that she gave in 2016 at the Formula 1 race and it was iconic also in 2016 it came out that Taylor had written better man that was performed by Little Big Town which was a country song that was super successful for them and again she didn't reveal it until a few months later because she wanted the song to speak for itself before she came out and said that she had written it which is kind of a theme here the last song she came out with in 2016 was the collab that she did with zann I don't want to live forever for the 50 Shades movie and that song also was wildly popular for a very long time and so in 2016 she underwent all this backlash bleach Jella like craziness happening she broke up with Calvin Harris dated Tom Heston like there was so much going on yet she still had three of the most popular songs of the year in three different genres EDM country pop and she dominated like it's literally crazy this takes us in the reputation era and this is when she started dating Joe and the tides turned a little bit for her when she announced reputation and broke the internet reputation came out on November 10th 2017 so 3 years after 1989 from 2016 to 2017 she wasn't really seen at all and this is where the karma Theory comes in which say what you will I am a Karma truther through and through there is a lot of evidence so if you haven't seen my karma video I will link it down below you can go check that out and see what the karma theory is all about but there was this theory that Taylor was working on another album in between 1989 and reputation it was never released and she had written music that just didn't see the light of day and all of that but ultimately she ended up writing reputation which was a complete 180 Rebrand crazy rising from the dead that happened in her career reputation is one of like the best comebacks of all time she took something that they used against her as a weapon and turned it into the best marketing plan of all time she said you're going to call me a snake let me put little diamonds and be jewels on it and sell it for $65 on my website let me put that on every piece of merch let me put that in my tour let me use that to make myself more successful literally she is a genius a genius a business woman and then the look what you made me do video came out which had me on the floor when that video came out all Jaws were dropped she completely smashed the Vivo 24-hour record for views it got 4 3 million views in 24 hours it was the beginning of the most chaotic Easter egg hunt because she has said in an interview before that there are still Easter eggs in that video we haven't found yet and that keeps me up at night I think about it a lot the reputation stadium tour became the highest grossing tour in US history she does it again nobody thought people were going to show up for the tour they thought she was going to have to cancel shows or downsize like they were saying like Stadium are you really sure about that and she said just you wait the fans truly showed up for her during that era and I feel like that was one of my favorite eras to live and be a part of because it truly felt like everybody was there for her everyone that was at the concert was there for her in the dark times of 2016 and the media backlash like we didn't go anywhere I don't think she's forgotten that either and that's why I'm so excited for reputation Taylor's version because feel like there's she's had something special planned the reputation tour movie was released to Netflix at the end of the year that she was touring and then sadly reputation did not win any Grammys but it did win a lot of other Awards during this era Taylor also was featured on the song babe that was performed by Sugarland Taylor had written this song during the red era and it just kind of like sat in the vault she reached out to Sugarland one day because she like wanted to see that song have a life and they they were so excited to record it they wanted her featured on the song and so that came out in 2018 and I had had that on repeat I loved that song so much even before it was re-recorded on red Taylor's version it was really cool during that era to see Taylor release songs as a songwriter and see them do well even though she was not the one performing the songs and now we are to the lover era we're almost too present here the lover era was so shortlived sadly and we all know why but this album came out in August August 23rd 2019 this was the first album she came out with that came out in the summer and it was also not her usual album cycle it was like much sooner than we were expecting and she came out with the lead single in April me of course when she came out with the single she didn't announce anything else about the album yet she just came out with the single you know we got into June and then she announced the title of the album and then you know bit by bit she's giving us more information about lover for the whole summer and that album was just like it was so fun it was completely my aesthetic butterflies pink glitter all the lovely things we love lover and this album was the beginning of a new era for Taylor in the music ownership realm she announced late 2018 that she was going to be leaving big machine and signing a new record deal with universal music group this was because going forward from reputation Taylor wanted to own all of the master recordings of all of the songs that she writes and big machine could not guarantee that they basically gave her a deal saying you can earn back each album by putting out another album but she won't own the master recordings of those ones so it was like truly a trap I think Taylor fought for years to own her music to have an opportunity to buy the music but for some reason Scott boretta just would not budge even after everything that she did for his label and his career he didn't feel like he owed her that much which is truly very sad so when she moved over to Universal Music Group they guaranteed that she would own every single song every Master recording and she would have kind of full creative control of anything that she did and that was like so exciting and so like such a hopeful thing for her so lover was the first album that was truly hers and I think that's why she kind of like holds it close to her but this era was also like the time that she had to struggle with her past with her past record there were so many issues and the others that were involved in the sale of her Masters which was truly tragic her Masters were sold from Scott Bretta to scooter braa we all know this for $300 million honestly looking back now you have to laugh because they made the biggest mistake of their life doing that because it's going to be worth a fraction of what she has made since then on all of her new albums and all of her new work and her re-recording ings and everything they really messed up they really didn't think she would go and re-record every single one of her six albums plus Vault songs plus extra bonus tracks but they should know her by now she is going to rise to the occasion and prove you wrong and scetta he knew better and so that's on him I did a full video on the process of the re-recordings the legal Parts like how Taylor went about the whole process so if you want to see that deep dive I will link that one down below I'll link all relevant videos down below if you guys want to see Taylor was also featured in the movie cats as bomb bomb ballerina bomb I don't even know how to pronounce her character's name but she co-wrote a Golden Globe nominated song with the producer Andrew Lloyd Weber called Beautiful ghost which is a beautiful song she also released her documentary Miss Americana at the beginning of 2020 that kind of followed her life through the past few years from beginning of reputation all the way through to the lover era her personal struggles her creative process it's a really good documentary I love getting like a glimpse into Taylor's you know behind the scenes so I really hope she comes out with something else like that about you know the re-recording process and the Aros tour and as we all know Taylor was supposed to embark on the lover Fest tour in the summer of 2020 but we all know why that didn't happen sadly I still think about it and I just I get sad because that would have been such a Moment For the Lover Fest which is why I think tlor Taylor gave lover its moment as the opening act of the era tour so moving on from that very soon after she started recording her Surprise eth album folklore which she started writing in April of 2020 and released it just a few months later in July 26th and I just remember the shock the overwhelming emotions of just having a Taylor Swift album not only announced but released on the same day it was announced she had been working with Aaron Des and Jack anof remotely during lockdown and everything obviously decided to just put it out because you couldn't do the normal album roll out the Press week you know the normal marketing that she would do if she was going to begin a new era and so she said I didn't want to overthink it so I just put it out again it truly like took the World by storm she stepped again out of her normal box and went towards more folk Style songs acousti storytelling she created this whole wood world that is folklore and Evermore it really appealed to the masses I think especially during this time everybody was going through a lot and this music was exactly what we needed during this time and then 5 months later she came out with Evermore on December 11th which was essentially a sister album a continuation of folklore diving deep into the fairy tale Forest Taylor created and those two albums are like for me they go together just because how they sound the story like everything about them is complimentary and I feel like sometimes people think like no like everyone needs to treat folklor and ever more equally and like there's the inside joke with the phandom that Taylor doesn't like Evermore as much as she likes folklore which is not true because I feel like she sees both of them on this level of like their complimentary albums and so the folklore everm more era was one that we all kind of just experienced at home in our own ways this is when Taylor began her journey to re-release all six of her first albums because in November of 2020 that was the official start where she was legally allowed to start re-recording her albums she got busy fast she whipped out Fearless so fast from November all the way until it came out it wasn't even 6 months before she was ready to release Fearless she announced it in February she released love story as kind of like the first re-recorded song which is truly symbolic because that song was like her true first breakout single the song that everybody fell in love with is a career defining song and so that was the first song she wanted to own again which was truly poetic in Full Circle and then following that in April of 2021 she came out with Fearless Taylor's version which included all the bonus tracks from Fearless Platinum Edition as well as today was a fairy tale and as well as six unreleased Vault songs that were supposed to be on the original Fearless album but they were cut from the album so that was how Taylor was going to get people to buy her her new version because she had something to add something else to offer with it and it's truly what the fans want it has been so much fun getting to hear these Vault tracks in November of 2021 she came out with red Taylor's version that had 30 songs on it including the 10minute version of all to well which had been an inside joke with the fandom for years ever since Taylor said to a fan I think a meet and greet during the 1989 tour they as Taylor where is the All Too Well 10 minute version that you said existed she said oh this song was 10 minutes but I had to pair it down to 5 and they asked her okay like where is the 10minute version and she said she joked she's like oh it's on a CD somewhere in my house like I don't even know I lost it ever since then nobody will let her forget that and everyone's like Taylor let me come clean your house I'll find it like I'll go through every one of your drawers to find the 10-minute Al to well because that's insane it's insane to put out a 10-minute song right and so for almost 10 years that song sat there and then on the re-recorded version she was really trying to give the fans what they wanted because we made all too well our favorite song and that was her favorite song on the album as well and even though it wasn't a single it became like our own little connecting song that was a huge deal for the Swifty fandom that 10 minute all to well came out other songs that were included in the red Vault were Ronin like I mentioned earlier better man and babe both songs that had been released under different artists before she went and re-recorded her own versions of and then as well as her other From the Vault tracks from the red era and then like I said she went on to win a Grammy for video of the year for the ell short film and red finally got its Grammy like it deserved and this brings us into the Midnight's era which is the era we're in until a month from today the day that I'm filming this it is March 19th and in 1 month we will be officially entering the tortured poets era so the album midnights was announced at the 2022 VMAs when Taylor won video of the Year for all to well short film this was totally unexpected I think a lot of people thought she would finish the re-recordings before she came out with a new album but Taylor she threw us for a loop here cuz we thought we were getting another announcement of a re-record and then she said brand new album and everybody lost their mind much like I did a few months ago as well when tortur poets was announced this era was so chaotic and so fun and I can't believe I'm talking about it in like the past tense because I feel like we're still in the Midnight's era the whole thing with like the midnights she everything she had a stay up all night for this album she came out with this series called Midnight's Mayhem with me on Tik Tok where she would crank this like bingo cage wheel thing she'd pick a ball out that had a number and then she would reveal the name of that track track and she at at the very end she released them like every hour from Midnight until like 3:00 or 4: in the morning and I was like losing so much sleep because of it but it was so fun it was truly so fun the whole release week and leadup to the album was just like she used to she appeared on a bunch of late night shows did interviews she had this whole week of fun planned for us and she even came out with three music videos for this album two of which came out in the first week that it was released and and then she was so chaotic that at 3:00 a.m. the day that the album was released she released more songs from the 300 a.m. Edition the amount of content that came out of the Midnight's era was like it was just so much fun and then she also had a bonus track on the target Edition hits different so that's like over 20 songs that came out with the Midnight's era and then there was the announcement of the era's tour cuz up until then we had no idea what she was going to do we knew that she was going to go on tour but we had no idea what she had in store and so when she announced the ARs tour I lost my mind because I assumed she was going to tour midnights just midnights on tour but I should have known better so she announced she would be touring all of them all every single album Midnight's became the closer of the AA tour like it was the grand finale she was giving it its moment and then she also came out with the late night edition of midnights where she had from The Vault you're losing me and then also Al the till the dawn edition of midnights which included the karma remix and the new version of snow on the beach and all that so overall having like the Midnight's era take us into this eras tour era was so much fun and the Perfect album to release before she went on tour because it did so well anti-hero broke so many records I think it was the longest single at number one on the billboard 100 it broke so many records streaming records everything Taylor is the most followed person on Spotify all of that and most recently Midnight's won album of the year at the Grammys 2024 her fourth win in this category I forgot to mention that folklore won album of the year how could I forget she was the first person to win album of the year four times in her entire career she is insane she also took the moment that she was on stage when she won uh best pop vocal album for midnights to announce that her 11th studio album the tortured poets Department would be released on April 19th we were so sure she was announcing reputation Tailor's version but again she threw us for a lube and she announced a brand new album during the ARs tour she returned to the re-recordings and in Nashville she announced that speaking now Taylor's version would be out July 7th that was super fun she got to release the album on the tour do a whole special thing for her the weekend that the album came out she added Long Live to the set list we had some amazing Vault tracks my favorite album like so special and then also on the very last night of the US tour I was there and it was one of the best nights of my life and so now here we are on the last night of the US leg of the aist tour in the eighth month of the year on the ninth day I think instead of just like telling you about it I think I'll just sort of show [Applause] you she announced that 1989 Taylor's version was coming out October 27th 2023 which was the same release date that the original album came out on October 27th 2014 and for 1989 it was super fun she came out with all of these variants and covers and just kind of like really celebrated that era she kind of rebranded 1989 as like a beach album rather than a city album but I feel like that was a little bit intentional to just give it like new life she's created this pattern where she had two re-recordings new album two re-recordings new album so I feel like after tortured poets she will return to finish the job and release reputation and debut so that is the entire overview of Taylor Swift's highlights and music career and now I'm going to get into some inside jokes that we we have in the fandom and provide a little bit of context to some things so like I started with the number 13 is a big one a big kind of thing to know about Taylor that she loves the number 13 that's why people are writing it on their hand at the concert and that's why that number is so important then we have track five and at first Taylor was doing this unknowingly putting the most emotional vulnerable song as the fifth track on the album was just by chance for the first five albums and then then she started doing it intentionally and so examples of track five we have cold as you White Horse Dear John all too well all you had to do was stay and so when someone pointed that out to Taylor she kind of took that and ran with it for the rest of the album so every time she comes out with a track five you know it's going to be deeply personal and very emotional and so following that we had delicate the Archer my tears Ricochet tolerate it you're on your own kid for tortured poets track five is going to be so long London and I just know it's going to kill me that is the deal with track five I'm not really going in any particular order I just wrote all of these things down that I could think of that was inside jokes the next thing we have is no it's Becky and this was a funny inside joke that happened on Tumblr during the 1989 era where there was this post going around on Tumblr it was this picture of Taylor Swift as like I think she might have been 13 in the picture and she's wearing a t and somebody's writing this is my friend Becky she died because she smoked marijuana or something and then somebody commented under it and said that's Taylor Swift and the person that made the post commented back and said no it's Becky and so Taylor her sense of humor she got a shirt made with the Tumblr font that said no it's Becky and so that just became a joke in the fandom and then she referred to herself as Crazy Aunt Becky and that that was like a little inside joke that happened happened that still carries on to this day so if you see that on a friendship bracelet that is where it's from next we have yes whale and that is just when Taylor went whale watching and there's a video of her and she yells yes whale when it comes out of the water whale whale look at it yes whale and so that is another thing swifties will comment they see something positive yes wh next we have five holes in the fence which is a failed Theory a great example of clowning that happened when we were waiting for her to announce the lover album she posted this picture where she's in the middle and there's five holes in the fence and everyone thought that meant there was five days it was a five-day countdown because Taylor is all about numbers and we thought we really had it five holes in the fence and when the 5 days were up nothing happened because it wasn't intentional and then Taylor saw that and when there was 5 days until lover came out she reposted it and said now there's five holes in the fence totally clowning us like I was talking about earlier we have the karma Theory so if you see Karma truther it's people like me that believe there was a lost era a stolen album a project called karma that never came out and I I just feel so strongly about this because when Taylor announced the track on midnights called karma she was laughing her butt off in the Midnight's Mayhem video because she knew how chaotic it was to come out with a song called karma when she knew there was this theory of a lost album called karma so I don't know she knows the theory exists so next we have the flower wall which we thought something was going to be announced because there was this whole thing like swifties we have a surprise for you and we're like oh what's going to happen we watched this live stream with this lady and it literally the surprise was a wall of flowers that said we never go out of style another clowning moment another little inside joke is the voice memos from the 1989 Deluxe Tracks it's just like we take these little on liners and we use them and also we put them on the bracelets so this one was so over the years so over the years a lot of people have asked me to sort of describe my songwriting process which is the first thing she says in one of those voice memos so a lot of people reference those voice memos a lot um home invasion this is one that came about during the filming of the look what you made me do video where she put out the behind the scenes of making the video there is a scene in the video where she is fighting it's Fearless Taylor and ring leader Red Tour Taylor fighting and of course in the video you like don't know what she's yelling but she is yelling something so to get that across she's yelling get out of my house in the behind the scenes video get out of my head I'm not sure where that came from I have no experience in home invasion but you know you just got to follow the Muse during the behind the scenes video she says I don't know where that came from I've never had any experience in home invasion so that's kind of where that comes from of course we have I think for me um and that is something that has been like an inside joke throughout the years every time Taylor is asked a question in an interview a lot of times she started with I think for me um so I'll give you a few examples of that I think for me I I I answer too many questions starting with I think for me um and it's been pointed out to me like and I need to work on it so I'm going to start that over when are we going to hear new music I think I think for me um I think for me I just think that for me I think for me um I think for me music I think for me I think for me of course we have one 123 let's go that is a chant that started at the reputation tour there was a girl who was recording she was just recording Taylor singing delicate and then in the pause this girl yelled 1 2 3 let's go [Music] 2 let's go she just came up with it and she posted it on Tumblr it went viral Taylor saw it and then at every show after that people started yelling that it has turned into something crazy I can't believe one person started that and now Taylor has 96,000 people at the ays tour chanting one 2 3 let's go so that's kind of the origination of that chant rip me I di dead is from an interview that she did with Graham Norton he was asking her about the secret sessions and how dramatic the swifties are on Tumblr everybody would just talk about dying because of how excited astounded everything about Taylor the secret sessions everything of course everyone's like oh my God rip me I'm dead blah blah blah so Taylor has the clip of that so the fans cuz the fans who go to do it they then of course want to blog about it because they've had this amazing experience borderline confusing on whether they had a good time or not so she said she would be playing her album for us let me tell you the noise that came out of my mouth was not human legit almost told Mama Swift to call me an ambulance cuz I wasn't going to make it I love them so much cuz they always talk about dying rest in peace me rip me I di dead that's where that comes from the term clowning as I have been using is when we think something's going to happen and we gather evidence for the thing that we think is going to happen and we talk a lot about the theory that we think is going to happen and then it doesn't happen so we are clowns because we were wrong there is so many memes that people have created that I've seen on Twitter of people turning Taylor S lyrics into clowning references my favorite is clown Alia street so whenever something doesn't happen that I think is going to happen I'm walking clown Alia Street sea urchins Taylor went on an interview with Ellen and said one of her most deepest fears is stepping on a sea urant It's the funniest clip you should look up that whole interview because it's really funny then we have the no belly button joke which came about because during the end of red start of 19 1989 Taylor wore a lot of high-waisted things so people started joking that Taylor Swift doesn't have a belly button because there was like not very many pictures on the internet showing Taylor Swift's midrift or something because she used to dress you know pretty modestly she was a teenager and it wasn't until she was like in her early 20s that she started wearing more like revealing clothing or whatever it just became a joke like Taylor S belly button doesn't exist and then one day she posted a picture with himim in Hawaii to Pro proed to everyone that she had a belly button so that one's funny we have Karen the pet snake that came on the eras tour which is a name that Taylor gave to the giant inflatable snake that would come up during look what you made me do on tour so if you ever see Karen that is referring to giant Cobra from the reputation tour my mind is alive is from the clip where Taylor had lasic surgery don't fall asleep eating a banana okay I'm not asleep my mind is alive her mom had recorded her after the surgery when she was all loopy she was like crying and saying really funny things and she was like holding a banana and it was just like really funny but Jimmy Fallon decided to air it on the show there's a clip where her mom's like don't go to sleep and she's like I'm not asleep my mind is alive that is something I have put on a friendship bracelet to trade at the AOS tour pegacorn in 2014 when she was promoting 1989 she went around on hallowen queen dressed up as a pegacorn a unicorn with wings and went to radio stations and did all of her interviews dressed up as a pegacorn so if you ever see like your friendly neighborhood pegacorn that was the caption for that picture and then she was on Jimmy Fallon where she did that uh skit with him like I forget what it's called like ew or something and she had a drawing of a pegacorn so that's where that comes from we have the monologue song from SNL that has the cheekiest lyrics and she throws shade at Kanye she talks about Joe Jonas she talks about Taylor lner from Twilight it's iconic you should go watch it the secret messages Taylor has always kind of done Easter eggs in different ways it's just gotten a lot more prominent over the years early on in her little album booklets where you know you have like the lyrics so it's like the front cover of your album you open it up it has the lyrics She would capitalize or lowercase certain letters and if you wrote them down and put them all together they would spell out a secret message for What the song is about and so the first five albums have secret messages when she went to reputation she started to do different things with Easter eggs but for the first five albums she had the secret messages in the album lyric booklet so you can go look those up you know online you don't have to like find them yourself but if you've never saw the secret messages you can go look at your little album booklet if you have the CD and decode them yourself so she's always had a fun way to keep us involved with what the songs are about Easter eggs of course if you see Easter egg that means a little reference hint clue breadcrumb Taylor has left in her lyrics music videos Instagram posts tweets anything that can be a little hint to what is coming in the future and there has been so many of them I have done lots and lots of videos Deep diving into all of the Easter eggs from a lot of the eras a lot of she's done a lot recently so you go check out those videos if you want to see more about the Easter eggs we have the secret sessions which Taylor did for 1989 reputation and love her and she hasn't done it since lockdown and everything so I don't know if she'll ever do Secret sessions again but Never Say Never um where she would DM fans have her team reach out to fans and invite them to classified locations that were her house and nobody was allowed to bring in their phones or anything it was super top secret so that her album wouldn't get leaked and she would have around a hundred people to listen to the album before it came out and she would you know meet all of them and take a picture with them yeah just like a really cool Fan Experience that she did that nobody else has done really anything similar to that so she was kind of like the first person to do that okay so hang with me I have a few more um I just had to change my battery cuz I've been talking for so long but we're on the home stretch I promise okay so next we have chai cookies Taylor Swift posted on Tumblr her chai cookie recipe somebody asked Taylor like she had posted a picture on her Instagram of the cookies that she made and someone's like Hey Taylor drop the recipe and that's what she did she came on Tumblr and she dropped this chai cookie recipe they are delicious I have made them so many times so if you see anyone talking about Taylor Swift's chai cookies you can go look that up on the internet and there is a tumblr post still out there with the chai cookie recipe that Taylor Swift made if you want me to do a deep dive into the Taylor Swift Tumblr era please let me know because that was one of my favorite eras to be online I also have a fan Tumblr account and Instagram that I was thinking about reacting to because it is literally the funniest thing ever to go through my old posts and everything um so let me know if you want me to revisit that era Blondie is a nickname that we have given Taylor and if you see people referring to her as Blondie blond cat lady that is Taylor we were we are referring to Wood Vil wood Vil is the fictional third album that we thought was coming after Evermore we thought folkore Evermore and woodveil woodveil would be like the third album in the little trilogy um because there was like a mistake that happened where they accidentally left the code name for everm more on the folklore cover something happened there I don't know I haven't been on too much of a deep dive of wood Veil because I wasn't sure that it existed and I wasn't I was I was thinking that it probably wasn't true but wood Veil is another joke woodveil truthers and Karma truthers are the then diagram is very similar then we have stars do you like them and that is when Taylor I think it was the lyric video for lover um Taylor drew some stars that were questionable and someone was like Taylor what is this and she responded with stars do you like them which is another little inside joke that people put on bracelets so if anything this is like a list of things you could put on friendship bracelets if you're going to the air store this year and then lastly we have Mard lyrics which is star Starbucks lovers I feel like I reference Starbucks lovers all the time and I keep getting corrected like do you know that's not really the lyric or like did you know the actual lyric is long list of EX lovers and I'm like I know like what do you not understand that I'm being ironic and like sarcastic about it so it is kind of funny to see people being like that's not the lyrics it's like yes we know Taylor even acknowledged this during the 1989 era she tweeted on Valentine's Day saying happy valentine kind Day to all the Starbucks lovers even though that's not the actual lyric so yeah Starbucks lovers my other favorite one is I wish you would where she says stand back where you stood and a lot of people got it confused and thought it said stand back wasted which I think is equally as funny we have from Cruel Summer I I didn't hear this one like this is a misheard lyric I got correct and I thought it was so funny when I found out a lot of people thought the lyric he looks up grinning like a devil people thought that she said he looks so pretty like a devil another really funny misheard lyric but anyways that's all of the inside jokes that I could think of when I was just sitting here like typing off the top of my head in the comments if you are a tried and true Swifty and I forgot an inside joke leave them all down below I'm sure I missed a few and if you're new Swifty welcome I'm so happy that you're here wanting to learn more about the Phantom and Taylor and just like this world that is so much fun I've had the best time this past year just like making friendship bracelets going to the ARs tour connecting with people just like truly being our TR s it's been so much fun thank you for watching if you've made it this far into the video I appreciate every single one of you if you like this video if it was helpful give it a thumbs up that helps me out and lets me know that you like what I'm doing here I hope you guys have a wonderful rest of your day night wherever you are and I'll see you guys in the next one bye [Music]