Swiftly Spoken

Now Taylor Swift has wrapped up the first leg of The Eras Tour, we take a look back at every detail of the first North American dates. To recap these last six months of shows we go over the set changes, new outfits, guests and surprises Taylor has announced along the way. We also take the opportunity to discuss not just the upcoming LATAM dates, but the 2024 International legs of The Eras Tour. Co...

On the last stop of The Eras Tour North American Leg in LA, California, Taylor Swift announced her next rerecording, 1989 (Taylor’s Version)! We react to the night’s surprises, including her new blue tour outfits and the reveal of her fourth overall Taylor’s Version project. We then discuss the cover and aesthetics this new/old era has brought about as well as break down all of the album editions...

In this episode we break down the most prominent Easter Eggs and details present in the only current music video from the Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) era, the star-studded I Can See You. Directed by Taylor Swift and featuring Presley Cash, Joey King and Taylor Lautner, all major players in the original Speak Now era, it follows the group as they break Taylor out of the vault, metaphorically allow...

We finally reveal all of our thoughts about Speak Now (Taylor's Version) including what we really thought about Taylor's third recreated album, our opinions on the Better Than Revenge lyric change, and the infamous Last Kiss shaky breath. We go over which songs have grown on us and which may have been completely changed throughout the rerecording process. Then we breakdown and discuss the From The...

Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) finally arrives this week! To celebrate we are concluding our Speak Now stories series by exploring the final few songs written for the album. In this episode we go over the nostalgia of Back to December and comment on the recent snippet released; talk about the incredible Dear John performance and Taylor’s “warning”; talk about Mine which was the original lead single...

With under a month to go and the Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) Vault Tracks having been revealed, we continue our exploration into how Taylor wrote Speak Now by discussing the backstory, inspiration and details surrounding another five songs from the album. This batch includes two songs written about key events that occurred at award shows, the infamous Kanye West VMA incident which spawned Innocen...

This week we’re taking a brief pause from our Speak Now Taylor’s Version content to react and break down the two new editions of Midnights! From the differences between the Til Dawn Edition and the Late Night Edition to their new designs, availability and which tracks they include. We talk about our preferences regarding the More Lana version of Snow on the Beach as well as the Karma remix featuri...

Now that Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) is under two months away, we are finally getting back to our Speak Now Stories series, in which we explore the possible moments that may have inspired Taylor Swift’s most diaristic and detailed album. In this first part we look into what seems to be the first thematic batch of songs made for the album which include explanations and analysis of Haunted, Better...

After one of the most chaotic weekends of The Eras Tour we finally get together to discuss Taylor Swift's announcement of Speak Now (Taylor's Version) her next rerecording project to be released on July 7th! We chat about our initial reactions to how the album was revealed, the cover and the tracks that will seemingly be included. We then go through which Vault Tracks we would like to see make the...

This episode we finally get around to discussing the many Taylor tracks we've gotten over the last month, either through official releases or by means of leaks spreading like wildfire around the internet. While some of the songs had been rumoured for years (Drama Queen), others we only found out about recently (All of the Girls You Loved Before and Need), one already had its own Taylor's V...

From what we've seen from The Eras Tour, Taylor Swift has dedicated a specific acoustic segment in which she plays surprise songs from her vast discography. Every night she selects two tracks to play, one on guitar and the other on piano. We recap the fourteen surprise songs we've got at this point, which include fan favourites like Sad, Beautiful, Tragic, the debut performance of Snow on...

This week we discuss our initial reactions to Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour after having seen her amazing performances in Glendale, Arizona for opening weekend. After counting down for ten weeks and making our guesses as to which songs she might play from each era, we react to the three hour long setlist and everything we got right and wrong in terms of the 44 songs played, the (lack of) mashup...

This week we welcome back our slightly longer form content to all platforms as we discuss our final thoughts and predictions for Taylor’s upcoming tour, which starts this friday!! Ahead of opening night for The Eras Tour we speak about what songs from Midnights we think might make the cut, our predictions as to costumes and looks, remixes she may want to add to the lineup and mashups between songs...

As the 2023 Grammys draw closer we look into Taylor's tricky history with the Song of the Year Grammy Award. Although she's been nominated a record amount of six times for this songwriting prize, she hasn't won for any of her previous tracks, which included You Belong With Me, Blank Space, Shake It Off, Lover and Cardigan. This year she has been nominated for All Too Well (Ten Minute Version) in t...

Our final episode includes the complete recap of Taylor's performances, appearances, awards, records broken and music releases of 2022. Though the year started off slow with The Joker and The Queen Ed Sheeran Remix, after receiving her honorary doctorate from NYU Taylor Swift began to release droplets including This Love (Taylor's Version) and Carolina. She continued on with her promotion of All T...

Now that we’ve listened to Taylor Swift’s tenth studio album Midnights over the last month and a half we decided to challenge ourselves by trying to place every single Midnights standard, 3AM edition and deluxe version tracks onto one of her other nine albums. We go through her albums in chronological order and speak about the difficulties in finding sounds that could fit on the likes of her debut...

Taylor announced her first tour in five years earlier this month which aims to celebrate her entire career and discography, including her new releases that have gone untoured as well as her earlier music that has gained a second wave of popularity due to her steady release of Taylor's Versions. The excitement for the shows revealed for the first leg of The Eras Tour in the USA was soon brought to...

Along with the standard edition of Midnights, Taylor Swift surprise-dropped another seven songs that make up the 3am tracks, expanding deeper into midnight thoughts. They brought with them the return of Aaron Dessner and a lot of metaphorical lyricism that showcases some of Taylor’s finest work. In this episode we go through them track by track, as well as talk about Hits Different and the two Tar...

Emergency episode alert! Ever since the release of Midnights Taylor Swift has been hinting, not so subtly, that Speak Now is up next in terms of rerecordings. The Bejeweled MV was our first taste of Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) Easter Eggs and The Eras Tour announcement also seems to be filled with references to the album. With that in mind we decided to release this episode we recorded this summe...

After Taylor Swift's release of her long awaited tenth studio album, Midnights, last October 21st, we sat down to give our initial thoughts and reactions to the entire thirteen tracks included on the standard album. We go track by track from Lavender Haze to Mastermind discussing how our feelings towards the songs have changed over the last few days, revealing our favourite lyrics, drawing paralle...

This week we discuss Mary Siroky's Consequence of Sound article titled "Taylor Swift in 10 Songs", which comprises a list of ten essential songs that, according to the author, act as a gateway into Taylor's discography. We loved the choices so much that we decided to each expand upon this list by compiling our own ten recommendations we'd give to new fans looking to get into Taylor before Midnight...

To celebrate Taylor’s recent honour at the NSAI awards where she was named Songwriter-Artist of the decade, we look back at a handful of songs throughout her career that suffered lyric changes. Thanks to demo recordings, handwritten draft lyrics and making of the song videos posted by Taylor herself we’ve been lucky enough to see how song lyrics have changed and evolved from their original forms t...

In this episode we go over all the hidden details about Midnights we know so far, including lyrical content, length of the album and the general aesthetic of the era, that may point to the sound of her new project. Although all we have for now are details from Taylor's official store, a portion of the photoshoot and a couple of appearances they are much more revealing than they seem. We also take...

After the surprise announcement Taylor gave on Sunday night at the VMAs we got together for an emergency episode in which we react to the exciting news of a new album being released on October 21st. We chat about Taylor's style and looks at the award ceremony, her record breaking wins for Best Long Form Video, Video of the Year and Best Direction, and then of course theorise about Midnights. From...

This week we are joined by our very first guest, Madeeha, to celebrate Lover's anniversary by chatting about her experience at the Lover Secret Sessions. Back in 2019 a few weeks before the official Lover release, Taylor Swift hosted a series of listening parties in which groups of lucky fans got to hear the entire album, listen to her explanations track by track and then briefly meet her. Taylor...