What's your favorite Taylor Swift album?

[Astatine]

I would rank them the following way as of now:

1. Folklore
2. Red
3. Speak Now
4. 1989
5. Lover
6. Fearless
7. Reputation
8. Taylor Swift

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Folklore, although the country->pop transitional albums (Red and 1989) are also fantastic. Reputation is far and away the worst.

[Del Tachi]

Red
Taylor Swift
Reputation
1989
Fearless
Folklore
Speak Now
Lover

[Crumpets]

Fearless is mega high school nostalgia for me, so definitely that.

[Donerail]

1. Speak Now
2. Fearless
3. Red
4. Taylor Swift
5. Folklore
6. Lover
7. 1989
8. Reputation

Corollary: Artist formerly known as the Dixie Chicks put out a better Taylor Swift album this year than Taylor did.

[7,052,770]

1989 (normal)

[jaymichaud]

1) Speak Now
2) 1989
3) Red
4) Fearless
5) Rep
6) Lover
7) Folklore
Taylor Swift

[Lourdes]

Fearless
Folklore
Red
Speak Now
1989
Taylor Swift
Lover
Reputation

[morgankingsley]

The one Enchanted is on

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

The one Enchanted is on

"Enchanted" is on Speak Now, the one album she wrote entirely unassisted. It contains some of her best lyrics, which inevitably gives the impression that some of her later collaborators have spoiled the broth lyrics-wise despite the otherwise high overall quality of most of her subsequent albums. The massive gap in quality between the songs on Reputation that are cowritten with Jack Antonoff and those that are cowritten with Max Martin is especially suggestive, all the more so since 1989 being mostly cowritten with Martin didn't hamstring it in the same way for whatever reason.

[Del Tachi]

While it isn't my favorite, I have to come to the defense of Reputation after seeing how its faring in these rankings.  This is a blockbuster album, preceded by a satirical hit ("Look What You Made Me Do"), in which Taylor rejects her "girl next door" image for something more glamorously sophiscated.  The music shows the dark, edgy side of the pop mastermind + I love it because I'm a Kaylor conspiracy theorist

[Del Tachi]

While it isn't my favorite, I have to come to the defense of Reputation after seeing how its faring in these rankings.  This is a blockbuster album, preceded by a satirical hit ("Look What You Made Me Do"), in which Taylor rejects her "girl next door" image for something more glamorously sophisticated.  The music shows the dark, edgy side of the pop mastermind + I love it because I'm a Kaylor conspiracy theorist

[Coolface Sock #42069]

Fearless
Taylor Swift


Everything else

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

While it isn't my favorite, I have to come to the defense of Reputation after seeing how its faring in these rankings.  This is a blockbuster album, preceded by a satirical hit ("Look What You Made Me Do"), in which Taylor rejects her "girl next door" image for something more glamorously sophiscated.  The music shows the dark, edgy side of the pop mastermind + I love it because I'm a Kaylor conspiracy theorist

Kaylor or no Kaylor, Reputation just isn't (in my opinion) an album played to Swift's strengths as either a songwriter or a vocalist. Swift's relationship with what gets reductively called "black music" was always polite but strained at best, and much of what was on that album just made her sound like the 2010s equivalent of a lesser Dusty Springfield imitator. Besides, there are plenty of songs that can be interpreted in gay ways on the other albums.

[Donerail]

BUMP

RED (Taylor's Version) dropping November 19th with thirty (30) songs. This woman is a maniac.

[Ferguson97]

1989

[Green Line]

1989 and RED in second

[HillGoose]

Red, 1989, and Folklore are all contenders for best, but out of those 1989 is probably #1.

My personal rankings:

1. 1989
2. Folklore
3. Red
4. Speak Now
5. Fearless
6. Taylor Swift
7. Lover
8. Reputation

[ultraviolet]

1. Lover
Top songs: Cruel Summer, You Need to Calm Down, Cornelia Street, Death by a Thousand Cuts

Every song is good, great summer album, one of the few I play all the way through

2. evermore
champagne problems, ‘tis the damn season, no body no crime, long story short

I’ve been liking this less recently, probably because it feels too much like a winter album, but almost every song is good. coney island may be her worst song since Superstar though

3. Speak Now
The Story of Us, Haunted, Long Live

The Story of Us is my favorite TS song. She should do more pop rock

4. 1989
Style, Wonderland, Welcome to New York

There aren’t too many standouts from this but it’s great all around. Hopefully she surprise drops the Taylor’s Version of this during the summer, announcing Red 5 months early makes no sense.

5. folklore
the 1, the last great american dynasty, exile

Was kinda disappointed when this came out, but started appreciating it more after evermore came out. The first five songs are near perfection.

6. reputation
Look What You Made Me Do, Don’t Blame Me, I Did Something Bad, Call it What You Want, Getaway Car, Delicate

Definitely a strong album, it’s unfortunate that people here seem to dislike it. I assume it’s because they were turned off by LWYMMD, which I can understand even though I love it. Anyway, I love all the six songs listed, but the album is kinda hit or miss. Most of the songs I didn’t name above aren’t that great.

7. Red
Treacherous, All Too Well, Come Back…Be Here

So excited for 10 minute ATW and the ten (?!?!) other vault tracks

8. Fearless
Mr. Perfectly Fine, Hey Stephen, Forever & Always, You’re Not Sorry

The re-record made me appreciate this more, especially Hey Stephen and Forever & Always. Unfortunately The Best Day got a lot worse imo.

9. Debut
Teardrops on my Guitar

Idk I barely even listen to this one

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

It kind of blows my mind there are so many fans of her here on this overwhelmingly male forum.

[Lambsbread]

Folklore really made an impact on me and I should probably go back into her discography and catch up, but voted for Folklore

[Anna Komnene]

Folklore. It's been like a music box playing different songs in my head ever since I heard it.

[beesley]

1. 1989
2. Lover
3. Reputation

Not sure below that, except that Red is the worst.

[Mexican Wolf]

1989, because "Blank Space" and "Wildest Dreams" are great songs that I put on my "Bad Songs to Play at Weddings" Spotify playlist.

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

Her country music was better than her pop music.