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Throw A Taylor Swift Themed Party To See Which Era You Are

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The year was 2006, and a young aspiring country star named Taylor Swift entered the world of music with nothing but a guitar and some country attire. After years of performing in bars and venues in Nashville in hopes of getting a record deal, the singer-songwriter debuted her first and self-titled album, "Taylor Swift," at the mere age of 16. Soon enough, the young singer was opening for famous country acts like Rascal Flatts, Tim McGraw, and Faith Hill, all while having hits like "Teardrops on My Guitar" and "Tim McGraw" topping the charts.

Debut

With the release of her highly successful sophomore album "Fearless," the year 2008 had Taylor Swift beginning to emerge as a household name, with now-classic hits like "You Belong With Me" and "Love Story" quickly establishing the singer as a teenage country-pop icon. In fact, Swift even earned her first Album of the Year Grammy win for "Fearless," making history as the youngest-ever artist to claim the category at the age of 20 — until 18-year-old Billie Eilish broke her record in 2020.

Fearless

Following the success of "Fearless," Swift set out to further prove herself as a rising star, and more specifically, as a talented songwriter. Her 2010 album "Speak Now" was her first (and only) self-written album, written entirely by herself without the help of co-writers. As noted by Pitchfork, it was a truly personal and confessional album that focused on that transitional period between "adolescence and adulthood, innocence and understanding, country and pop."

Speak Now

Think of the "Red" era, and you'll probably think of red lipstick and black fedoras — and of course, Taylor Swift's straight hair and blunt bangs. With the release of her 2012 album "Red," the singer debuted a new, edgier style, swapping out her usual glittery gowns for high-waisted shorts, striped shirts, and vintage dresses — and also famously ditching her signature bouncy curls for sleek, straight locks.

Perhaps her most memorable and iconic era, "1989" marked Swift's first full-scale pop album, and had the singer taking over the music world as a worldwide mega-pop star, experiencing more commercial success than ever before. Few could escape the ubiquitous pop hits of "Shake It Off," "Blank Space," and "Style" from 2014 to 2015, and Swift's presence was felt pretty much everywhere: on the radio, at outings with her famous "BFF girl squad," and at countless award shows where she snagged the biggest awards of the night.

1989

Following the peak of her career in the "1989" era, Taylor Swift found herself in the midst of bad press and negative public scrutiny — and it all started, of course, with her infamous feud with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. After months of disappearing from the public eye, Swift made an iconic comeback in 2017 with her sixth studio album, "Reputation" — and needless to say, it was quite a different feel from any of her previous eras.

Reputation

Talk about a 180 from the "Reputation" era. Moving away from the dark and edgy style of her previous album, Swift ushered in her seventh era with the bright and cheery lead single "ME!," complete with a music video full of butterflies, rainbows, and colorful pastels. The noticeable shift in aesthetics also reflected the bright optimism of "Lover," signaling that the "old Taylor" perhaps wasn't dead, after all. "I've decided that in this life, I want to be defined by the things I love — not the things I hate, the things I'm afraid of, or the things that haunt me in the middle of the night," Swift wrote in the album's foreword (via PopSugar). "Those things may be my struggles, but they're not my identity."

Lover

During the peak of the coronavirus pandemic, Taylor Swift announced the beginning of her alternative pop-folk journey by teasing us with the promotional images of her eighth studio album, "Folklore." The woodsy photographs in cottage core aesthetics saw the country-pop star's rise as an indie folk star. The emotionally intense album woven around folk storytelling also saw Swift drawing inspiration from other indie folk artists like Phoebe Bridgers, Sufjan Steven, and Lana Del Rey. The album also served with some dream collaborations like with Bon Iver for "Exile." Set in a grey-blue imagescape, the autumn-themed album released in the summer of 2020 is full of self-introspection rooted in melancholy taking her reputation as a confessional pop musician to new heights.

Folklore

In December 2020, Taylor Swift made history by releasing the second album of her indie folk era, "Evermore" — the same year as "Folklore." With her ninth studio album, Swifties embraced the cottage core aesthetic and set out to solve the hidden puzzles in the album laden with mystical lyricism. Many parallels can be drawn between "Folklore" and "Evermore" and fans consider both albums part of one era. As noted by Teen Vogue, the music video for "Willow" can clearly be seen as a follow-up to that for "Cardigan" as both the videos begin and end in a wooden cabin.

Evermore

"Midnights," the 10th studio album is a collection of 13 songs Taylor Swift wrote on 13 different nights throughout her career and has elements of all the different eras. Listening to Midnights" is an experience of revisiting all her albums. In the note on the album, Taylor confessed that the album was "the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout \[her\] life" (via Entertainment Weekly). With "Snow On The Beach," this album also features a much-requested Taylor Swift-Lana Del Rey collaboration.

Midnights

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