What If Taylor Swift Had Gone A Different Route

    T.S. 1989

    Dan Meth
    by Dan Meth

    BuzzFeed Staff

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    Taylor Swift's new album cover features a discolored Polaroid with "T.S. 1989" written on it.

    Big Machine Records / Via Wikipedia

    T.S. being her initials, 1989 being the year she was born.

    What other images could you put into that frame that would sense? What were other T.S. things happening in 1989? Hmmm..

    1. Tiananmen Square

    Jeff Widener/Associated Press

    The Beijing student demonstrations in the spring of 1989 that resulted in a military crackdown. The arrests and death toll of the massacre is estimated to be in the hundreds and possibly thousands.

    2. The Simpsons

    Fox / Via Wikipedia

    The show premiered on December 17, 1989. Four days after the true premier of Taylor Swift.

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    3. Tori Spelling

    Columbia

    She had a small role in Troop Beverly Hills that year.

    4. Tony Stark

    Marvel Comics

    ...also known as Iron Man, who became paralyzed that year and started drinking heavily. 1989 was a bad year for Tony Stark.

    5. Tupac Shakur

    Koch

    1989 was the year Tupac recorded his first songs before joining Digital Underground.

    6. Teaspoons

    People used them in 1989.

    7. Tom Selleck

    Warner Bros.

    Her Alibi came out that year. No one remembers that movie.

    8. Tilda Swinton

    Don Boyd

    Swinton's acting career was just getting underway. This is a still from War Requiem.

    9. Telly Savalas

    Players International

    During this time, the former TV detective was a spokesman for Player's Club International, a service offering discounted casino hotel deals. Who loves ya, baby?

    10. Terence Stamp

    20th Century Fox

    Remember that western Young Guns? He was in that.

    11. Talia Shire

    Buena Vista Pictures

    In between Godfather and Rocky sequels, Shire appeared in New York Stories.

    12. T. S. Eliot

    One of the major poets of the century had been dead for a quarter century in 1989, but if anyone deserves to be in a list of T.S. people it's him.

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