[THE ERAS BRACKET]

A competition of Taylor Swift's entire discography done entirely using polls.

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Welcome to The Eras Bracket!

This year’s bracket has concluded. Next year’s season will start around February 2025.

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The Eras Bracket is a Taylor Swift competition pitting all of her songs against each other in a series of Tumblr polls to see which song is deemed her best.

Here's how it works:

Out of all of Taylor's songs in her discography, 40 random songs are picked from a random number generator. They will face off against each other in 20 polls, and the songs that lose are eliminated. Then, the songs that won will go on, and 20 more songs will be generated and they'll all face off. Then, the process will repeat until we have very few songs remaining.

Keep in mind that since Taylor's discography is very, very huge, this will probably last a while.

Each poll will last for a day.

What qualifies as an Eras Bracket competitor?

Any song of Taylor's that is officially released; so, from all 11 of her albums, including vault songs from Taylor's Version albums. Songs that are officially released through other means like EPs ("I Heart ?" for example) are counted. Other songs that Taylor is a part of that either features her heavily or she's a co-writer on, like "Two Is Better than One" and "Best Days Of Your Life" are also counted. But songs like "You'll Always Find Your Way Back Home" that are on soundtracks but AREN'T performed by Taylor will not be counted.

Unreleased songs ("Permanent Marker", "Battle (Let's Go)", etc), are not counted and will not be in the bracket. Only officially released songs will be partaking in the competition.

Baby, let the games begin.

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i may have skipped this year but with the life of a showgirl on the horizon, trust that i will not be skipping next year 🫡

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there is 0 new material this year for the bracket and it seems taylor is on break. do we..

skip the bracket for this year and wait until next year (new music likely then?)

do the bracket this year knowing that there won’t be any new songs added

Voting ended onMay 12, 2025

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Round 18 (and season 2!) Endgame Update

well… there goes another season. the second year of the eras bracket is over! which is an insane feat. i’ve done this for 2 years and i will for sure be doing this next year in 2025.

the winner for season 2 is…

Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve

while i was very surprised that cruel summer got eliminated, it did win last year so i’m glad another song got its moment. this song made it to the very last round in season 1, but got beaten by cruel summer! it now joins cruel summer as a winner of the eras bracket :)

thank you all so much for the support. i queue these matchups to release all at once at 6 pm and whenever they’re released my notifications always blow up abt i get 100+ notes. it makes my day seeing you all care so much about these silly little matchups!! i’m so glad i waited until april to include ttpd, but i will be doing this next february-ish like i did with season 1 (unless something comes up, of course…).

here’s the link to this years google sheet if you want to see all rounds and matchups over this season!

if you want more from me, you can always follow my main blog, @youareinlovetv for whatever i’m posting there.

again, a huge thank you to everyone for the support and… see you next year!!

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convinced Taylor saw Would've Could've Should've winning @the-eras-bracket today

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Round 18, Matchup 1

THE FINAL ROUND

Would've, Could've, Should've V.S. my tears ricochet

Would've, Could've, Should've

my tears ricochet

Voting ended onJun 7, 2024

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Round 17 Endgame Update

this is it. in 2 hours, the final round will commence

may the best song win ;)

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Round 17, Matchup 1

THE SEMI-FINALS

Would've, Could've, Should've V.S. Cruel Summer V.S. my tears ricochet

Would've, Could've, Should've

Cruel Summer

my tears ricochet

Voting ended onJun 5, 2024

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Round 16 Endgame Update

only 2 more rounds after this... then we're done!! it's crazy how far we've come.

rip to right where you left me and ivy. next round, there will be a three-way matchup between the remaining songs! one song will be eliminated. the remaining two songs will battle in the final round!!!

be ready for tonight's semi-final round at 6 PM EST...!

[summerineras]

Today is ALBUM ANALYSIS DAY! Post your thoughts and analysis on the lyrics, production, album and era of Taylor’s debut album using the tag #summer in eras!

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Round 16, Matchup 2

ivy V.S. Cruel Summer V.S. my tears ricochet

ivy

Cruel Summer

my tears ricochet

Voting ended onJun 3, 2024

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Round 16, Matchup 1

right where you left me V.S. Would've, Could've, Should've

right where you left me

Would've, Could've, Should've

Voting ended onJun 3, 2024

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Round 15 Endgame Bracket

will forever hold a grudge against yall bc you voted out ENCHANTED. HELLO??????????????

round 16 coming tomorrow @ 6 PM EST

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the drafts for this blog are so funny it's just me messing up the polls and having to start over

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Round 15, Matchup 2

Would've, Could've, Should've V.S. All Too Well

Would've, Could've, Should've

All Too Well

Voting ended onJun 1, 2024

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Round 15, Matchup 1

right where you left me V.S. Death By A Thousand Cuts

right where you left me

Death By A Thousand Cuts

Voting ended onJun 1, 2024

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Round 15, Matchup 4

Long Live V.S. Cruel Summer V.S. my tears ricochet

Long Live

Cruel Summer

my tears ricochet

Voting ended onJun 1, 2024