500 Greatest Albums Podcast: Taylor Swift on How ‘Red’ Changed Everything For Her

I've been putting off listening to this because I knew it would make me cry, which leads to headaches, but here I am, crying like a fucking baby listening to this group of people who love Tay Tay like I do, having an informed, insightful and loving conversation about her. I feel a sisterly love for her.

I love watching her shine and nerd out and try things and grow. I think people hate on her so much because her audience is generally women, specifically young women. But I am a woman and we are one year apart and I've been listening to her since 2011. We basically grew up together, yaknow?

Tier Ranking Evermore Album by Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift - "ivy"

Taylor Swift - "closure"

Miley Cyrus - Bad Karma (ft. Joan Jett)

Mariah the Scientist - "Reminders"

Carly Rae Jepson ft. Bleachers - "Comeback"

I'm the keeper of that beat
And the fire under your feet

Carly Rae Jepson - "Now I Don’t Hate California After All"

Fiona Apple - "Ladies"

"This album is a lot of not letting men pit us against each other or keep us separate from each other so they can control the message. I remember my grandmother used to talk about my grandfather and his mistress. And his mistress actually was his wife for the rest of his life. They were married for 50 years. But to her, she was always mad at this mistress. And it was always like, “Man, she didn’t do it. Our grandfather did it. Your husband cheated on you. She just fell in love with some guy. Then they were together forever afterwards and had a family. Be mad at the right person, don’t feel mad at the wrong person.” Later on in life, I’m with a guy. I found out he’s seeing some other woman. I meet that other woman — I’m nice to that other woman. She didn’t do it. She didn’t cheat on me."



And the figure and the form and the revolving door that keeps
Turning out more and more good women like you
Yet another woman to whom I won't get through

Ladies, ladies, ladies, ladies, take it easy
When he leaves me, please be my guest
To whatever I mighta left in his kitchen cupboards
In the back of his bathroom cabinets

Fiona Apple - "Heavy Balloon"

In the middle of the day, it's like the sun
But the Saharan one, staring me down
Forcing all forms of life inside of me to retreat underground
It grows relentless like the teeth of a rat
It's just got to keep on gnawing at me
And it constricts like a boa on a hose, nothing flows
So the pressure grows instead of the seed

People like us get so heavy and so lost sometimes
So lost and so heavy that the bottom is the only place we can find
You get dragged down, down to the same spot enough times in a row
The bottom begins to feel like the only safe place that you know
But you know what?

I spread like strawberries (I spread like strawberries)
I climb like peas and beans (I climb like peas and beans)
I've been sucking it in so long
That I'm busting at the seams

Fiona Apple - "Newspaper"

I too used to want him to be proud of me
And then I just wanted him to make amends
I wonder what lies he's telling you about me
To make sure that we'll never be friends

Jessie Reyez - "I Do"

This video and song are both masterpieces on their own... then you put them together?? My proverbial wig has long been snatched and torched. I stand here agasp, bald.

Alanis Morissette - "Reasons I Drink"

And these are the reasons I don't even think I would quit
And these are the reasons I can't even see straight
And these are the ones whom I know it so deeply affects
And I am left wondering how I would I function without it

Hayley Williams - "Cinnamon"

kesha - "Potato Song (Cuz I Want To)"

"I used to think my Gucci bag meant my shit was together
But now I see growin' up's a game that I don't wanna play, oh no

I'm over adulthood
I'm throwin' all my big girl panties
In the garbage can, 'cause I can

I'll be out ridin' my pony until it's time for candy
And I'll be naked because I want to
What would you do if you could do
Anything in the world that you wanted to?
What makes you happy? Do what you wanna do

Go grow some potatoes
And flowers, then go make sandcastles
Then go eat some cake, 'cause you want to"

Lana del Rey - "Norman Fucking Rockwell"

Harry Styles - "Sunflower no. 6"