Character Assassination

Sarah Taylor.Florence.

[tswiftupdatess]

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce at the Knicks vs Cavaliers game. (May 23, 2026)

[queentaylorreigns]

I want to spend this wonderful life with you

[queentaylorreigns]

There smiles there hand holding the way there just so happy when they look at each other like they really love each other

[taylornation]

Bridges that reveal the full painting 🤌

Create your own Rant Bridge Playlist featuring the first tracks that come to mind and watch the full The New York Times interview honoring Taylor as one of the 30 Greatest Living American Songwriters at nytimes.com/taylorswift

[gaveyouigaveyoui]

I’m a firm believer that anything you feed your mind, it will internalize, anything you feed the internet it will attempt to kill; and I don’t want that for your dreams. 

[cozy-the-overlord]

Lyrics to Cardigan voice memo

I know a lot of people have posted the actual voice memo, but I haven’t seen just the lyrics anywhere, so I thought I’d post them for anyone who’d prefer to have them written. Bolded lyrics are the ones that differ from the final version.

Vintage tee, brand new phone

High heels on cobblestone

When you are young they assume you know nothing

Sequined smile, black lipstick

Sensual politics

When you are young they assume you know nothing

But I knew you

Dancing in your Levi’s 

Drunk under a streetlight, I

I knew you

Hand under my sweatshirt

Baby kiss it better, I

And when I felt like I was an old cardigan

Under someone’s bed

You put me on and said I was your favorite

A friend to all is a friend to none

Chase two girls, lose the 1

When you are young they assume you know nothing

But I knew you

Living in a gold age

Sneak into my birdcage, I

I knew you

Laughing like a damn fool

Breaking every damn rule, I

And when I felt like I was old cardigan

Under someone’s bed

You put me on and said I was your favorite.

And to kiss in cars and downtown bars

Was all we needed 

You drew stars around my scars

Now I’m bleeding

Now I’m bleeding

I knew you

Stepping on the last train

Marked me like a bloodstain, I

I knew you

Tried to change the ending

Peter leaving Wendy, I

I knew you

Dancing in your Levi’s

Drunk under a streetlight, I

I knew you, and when you are young they assume you know nothing

But I knew you’d linger like a stolen kiss

I knew you’d haunt all of my “what-ifs”

The smell of smoke would hang around this long

Cuz I knew everything when I was young

I knew I’d curse you for the longest time

I knew I’d wish you would’ve changed your mind

I knew you’d miss me once the moment died

I knew to love would be to lose my mind

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

Taylor Swift makes history as Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee: See the full class of 2026

The 2026 Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees were revealed on "CBS Mornings" on Wednesday. See the full list.

“CBS Mornings" exclusively revealed the star-studded roster of 2026 inductees to the Songwriters Hall of Fame, celebrating artists whose work has left a lasting mark on music history, with some making history themselves.

At 36 years old, Taylor Swift has become the youngest woman by nearly a decade to be bestowed with the honor. Swift is joining a long list of legends in the coveted Hall of Fame.

Here are this year's new inductees, many of whom have written the soundtrack to our lives.

2026 Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees

Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley

Christopher "Tricky" Stewart

Alanis Morissette

Terry Britten and Graham Lyle

Kenny Loggins

Walter Afanasieff

Taylor Swift

[excerpt]

Last but not least, there's Taylor Swift.

Since signing a publishing deal at 14 years old, Swift has gone on to land 69 songs in the Top 10. Thirteen of those - her favorite number - have hit No. 1 on the Billboard chart.

Swift's newest album, "The Life of a Showgirl," became Spotify's most streamed album in a single day in 2025.

In a 2019 interview with "CBS Sunday Morning," Swift said many of her songs are written overnight, when inspiration unexpectedly strikes

"It's usually in the middle of the night. Or if I'm trying to get to sleep and I can't and then I get an idea. And I'm, like, 'Well, I'm not tired anyway!' And then kind of wander over here," she told correspondent Tracy Smith, gesturing to her piano.

[dovebuffy92]

[tayloralison]

[What's something you'll not be doing in 10 years?] 2016 | Vogue

[darkbluetennessee]

been thinking a lot lately about how if you look for bad in the world, that's what you're going to find. if you have your "everyone is bad and evil and no one has good intentions" lenses on, everyone is gonna look bad and evil and ill-intentioned to you. and after watching the first two episodes of the doc it's just really crystallized for me how some people will only ever find the worst in taylor because that's all they're looking for, but in a time when this way of moving through the world is being normalized she continues to create spaces for joy. she stays vulnerable and open, knowing it will be twisted but choosing to share it anyway because presenting in good faith is the only way to keep people from seeing the world in snark and doom all the time.

[ofthemessyoumade]

say what you want about taylor but it is genuinely so rare to have someone in her position who cares that deeply. she could easily throw in the towel and do the bare minimum when it comes to her craft. but she never does. and I think that’s so admirable. it really speaks to who she is as a person.

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

Taylor doesn’t get enough credit for anything she does and the example she sets and that’s that

[corneliaavenue]

If Taylor's merch team was good, we would have hot pink "Boring Barbie" shirts

[gettinglost-upstate]

Yess I would buy that!

[tswiftupdatess]

Taylor Swift wrote a handwritten letter to sombr.

(October 18, 2025 | via sombr's TikTok)

[ts6track8]

So music and writing all together, I really can't picture my life without it.

[heystephen]

wild how that girl who made the original tiktok about taylors lightning bolt necklace being a nazi dog whistle came right out and said she was bullshitting and just wanted to go viral and make money. but the biggest morons on earth are gonna keep running w/ it huh

[hits-differently]

actually romantic