Taylor Swift on Songwriting

When I need songwriting help, I turn to Taylor Swift so I thought I'd make a blog of her words and advice. Plus some edits if I ever figure out how to make them.

[stillgotscars]

in honour of the 19-year anniversary of debut, put your top three tracks in the tags

[youreonyourownkid]

cannot believe taylor just gave better man and babe away to other artists when they fundamentally changed how i viewed red the album

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

in general, do you prefer taylor’s earlier or later work?

first half (debut-1989)

second half (rep-showgirl)

Voting ended onOct 24, 2025

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

when did you become a swiftie?

debut-speak now (2006-2011)

red era (2012-2013)

1989 era (2014-2015)

drought (2016-early 2017)

rep era (late 2017-early 2019)

lover era (mid-2019-early 2029)

during the pandemic (2020-2022)

from midnights (late 2022/early 2023)

eras tour (2023-2024)

post-eras/showgirl (late 2024-present)

Voting ended onOct 24, 2025

please answer BOTH polls and put your response in tags!

[songwritingswift]

Can we all remember that ‘tone deaf’ is ableist language and try to move away from using it? I know Taylor uses it in ‘CANCELLED!’ but that’s released now and won’t change. We can stop using it though.

[songwritingswift]

Does anyone have a photo like this one from the opening of The Eras Tour but where you can see Taylor, the block she’s standing on, and the parachute/shell cape/whatever we’re calling it right behind her? Like this one but, like, zoomed out? I’ve been thinking about it as a tattoo but can’t find a good reference picture (which is wild)… Please help me!

[evermorebytaylorswift]

taylor, in creating and performing the eras tour you treated every past version of yourself with the utmost kindness and generosity, lovingly paying homage to all the women you were before and embracing all the whimsy, drama, fearlessness, brokenness, and joy that has been your career. you embraced how messy, wild, and fun girlhood is. and in this journey, in this open expression of deep compassion for every scar and every wound and every mountain that’s brought you here, you healed something in all the young women who flocked to your tour. in watching you relive all the brightest and boldest, darkest and coldest moments of womanhood, i learned to love every past version of myself, too. i learned to talk to the little girl in me with softness. i learned to leave flowers for every woman i was before. i learned to embrace the complexity of the female experience. that’s a gift i’ll never be able to repay. i’m endlessly grateful for you and for the magic you made. thank you, thank you, thank you for the eras tour.

[torturedpoet18]

it annoys me so much how some swifties complain about not going to the eras tour for the 2nd or 3rd time like, "omg this girl went to the eras tour 4 times, and i only got to go 3 times!" it gets me so mad, because going to the eras tour ONCE is a gift.

do you agree?

yes

no

its more complicated than that (tags)

Voting ended onAug 9, 2024

[songwritingswift]

Head empty no thoughts

[likedaylighht]

Like idk maybe it’s just me but I’m truly a certified lover girl as a swiftie there really isn’t a thing in the world Taylor could do that I wouldn’t love I’d follow that woman to the ends of the earth

[nocompassnosign]

tell me your favorite title track before we get a new title track

[youllalwaysfindyourwaybackhome]

since its the last day of the midnights era - what are your top three songs from midnights, which music video is your favourite, and what's your favourite midnights performance on the tour?

[onawishingstar]

before ttpd comes out, what taylor album was a grower for you? one that you had to listen to a few times before you really loved it? mine was evermore

[songwritingswift]

When I woke up this morning, everyone was tweeting about how Ana died during the show, that her friends said she collapsed during the Lover set. Then Taylor posts about how she died before the show and now everyone is posting about how Ana died before the show. That’s what the radio here has since said too. Now two different versions of events are circulating.

[likeadevils]

tumblr swifties where are you going if this website shuts down

twitter

tiktok

instagram

reddit

discord

completely offline

somewhere else

Voting ended onNov 10, 2023

[loseyoutoloveme]

🩷 Taylena, 2008-present 🩵

[falsegod]

Taylor dancing to The Story of Us

[allamericansbitch]

#rip queen, gone but never forgotten #you were too powerful for some people