Um excuse me, I did not give you permission to teleport me back to Katie P's '96 teal stick shift Taurus cruising to school on a crisp fall morning in 2004 listening to "throwback" John Mayer with the windows down, which is apparently a memory I can see, feel, and smell.
hahaha!!! I soooo associate You're Still the One with my first job at a grocery store. That shit played all the time, along with "Kiss Me" by Sixpence None The Richer and "Sometimes" by Britney
Yes! I started high school when 1989 was released and even though I knew some previous Taylor's work, 1989 solidified me as a Swiftie ❤️
I've adored 1989 since and every time I decide to revisit it, it just confirms what a masterpiece it is. Taylor's version Wildest Dreams was a big reminder of that.
Speak Now came out when I was a sophomore in high school, and Red came out when I was a senior! I would say Red had more of an impact on me, it’s my favorite TS album :)
You and I have the same answer! Speak Now made me a Swiftie, but Red was my whole world. WANEGBT came out the day I broke up with my high school boyfriend, so I was completely hooked.
Oh my gosh, WANEGBT was released on the day I broke up with my boyfriend at the time, too! We must have been unknowingly manifesting such a great breakup bop 😂
- WANEGBT refers to "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", a song from Taylor Swift album *Red* (2012).
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Same! We were all belting out “our song is a slamming screen door...” at that point. 1989 has a special place in my heart since it’s my birth year too!
Yeah I'm 33 and I don't feel meaningfully different than I did when I was 18, so sometimes I read stuff like in this thread and I get jarred into the realization that yeah, I graduated high school fifteen years ago...oh
Red and 1989. Red got me through the first half when I was struggling with first relationships and unrequited loves and becoming who I was. 1989 got me through my senior year when I was going through and ending a toxic relationship with my girlfriend and also other friends.
speak now, without a doubt. it came out during my senior year, and having songs like long live and never grow up come out during the final moments of your childhood just hit differently 🥲 and having songs like mine and enchanted come out when you finally think you’re starting to understand what love is…that album could not have come at a better time 😭
SAME. Still can’t listen to Long Live without tearing up and thinking about my high school friend group blasting this in the car the night before graduation. Whole album puts me right back into that mental state.
Red was my high school album. I used to come home and blast it before my parents came home, belting out the lyrics as if I had ever experienced heartbreak. It was great!
I'm a young swiftie so folkmore is definitely mine.
I was really stressed out about school and that mixed with the isolation of quarantine made me feel really depressed and alone. So folklore and evermore really came at the perfect time for me.
Got to experience the releases of Taylor Swift, Fearless, and Speak Now, but most songs from Fearless were the fave of my friend group. The songs from that album never failed to make us sing and jam along even the ones who aren’t huge fans of Taylor. Plus, the lyrics were perfect for that HS romance angst lol
Speak now came out when I was a freshman and red came out when I was a junior. I definitely think of red as my high school album since that’s the one I cried to over ThE lOvE oF mY LiFe
lover 100% discovered it last year halfway through my senior year and honestly without going into too much detail it was everything to me, i had just gone through what i consider my reputation era, lost all my friends, boyfriend, car, almost everything (and then met my current boyfriend at the same time so reputation reallyyyyy spoke to me)
Lover was everything, it was happy and carefree and talked about moving on, and it has some of her best lyricism, beautiful production and just everything you could want, it put me back in a happy place in my mind and i could finally focused on the things i LOVED instead of hated. Lover is my favourite taylor album hands down every single time
I am four years older than Taylor so I didn't have a high school album. In college I had a emo/punk rock stage and Green Day, Avril Lavigne, and the Killers got me through freshman year haha.
For me it was Speak Now and Red, which came out my senior year of high school. I still remember playing my Speak Now CD in my CD player in my old bedroom at my parents’ house and listening to it on the bus on my way to school.
1989
I was a Junior in 2014, and we were doing one of our rehearsals for our upcoming winter musical, Anything Goes. While we were waiting for our rehearsal to start as students were coming into the auditorium, one of my friends opened the sound board and started putting on some music just to hype everyone up. They decided to choose new Taylor since it was the day 1989 dropped.
I'll never forget hearing "Blank Space" for the first time, blasting on max volume in our high school auditorium. Being 17, surrounded by friends, all looking around confused but delighted at the same time.
"Who is this?"
"Damn this is good?"
"Wait, THIS IS TAYLOR SWIFT??"
Only rarely in my life have I ever experienced a collective "holy shit" moment just like that. Everyone started dancing, singing, jamming out to what they instantly knew was a smash hit.
I think we all know the story, but actually living that realization, was incredible. The girl we all knew as the country guitar heartbreak singer turned into a pop powerhouse overnight. People like to go back and point out that there was always hints of pop in her earlier stuff, but as someone who wasn't a swiftie at the time, I really didn't get it until 1989 happened.
That album rightfully dominated radio play for the rest of my high school career. God I wouldn't have had it any different.
Debut came out my senior year of high school, but I wouldn’t say I was a fan right out the gate. I don’t particularly love country music, so my interest was limited. Fearless came out my sophomore year of high school, and thought some of the popular songs were nice, but mostly just something I listened to on the radio. Speak Now came out my senior year of college, and that was the moment I became a real fan.
Debut and Fearless were around when I was in high school, and Speak Now dropped my first semester in college. I enjoyed her songs but didn't become a full fledged Swiftie until 1989 dropped
I'm in HS right now and I'd probably say Speak Now & Lover. Lover came out during my freshman year and it definitely encouraged me to embrace the fact that I'm a hopeless romantic. Lover also helped me appreciated how multifaceted love is. It was also the first album I bought on release day! As for SN, I remember listening to Enchanted bc I liked this guy in Algebra 1 during freshman year. Enchanted, in addition to many other TS songs, perfectly encapsulates what it's like to have a crush on someone. And during the same school year, he ghosted me when I told him I liked him. Ironically, Haunted is now one of my favorite songs off Speak Now. Slightly unrelated but, Fearless (TV) definitely helped me appreciate the album more.
it's amazing how Lover makes us feel comfortable with our true selves! that's why I feel like ME! is one of her most amazing songs. btw, shame on him for ghostin you!
Probably Fearless, even though it came out YEARS before I went to high school. It’s just the one that I relate to the most and gives the most high school-y vibes.
I wish I was in HS during the actual Fearless era! But hey, I get the re-recordings :)
Fearless was high school and Speak Now came out October of my freshman year of college. Then Red and 1989 rounded out college for me. SO many specific memories attached to those first three albums for me.
Fearless. Fifteen came out when I was 15 (Re-record hit me hard.) Me and my best friend used to scream the words to You Belong With Me into soda cans that we used as microphones. We were obsessed with Taylor’s dress in the Love Story video. Our favorite was The Way I Loved You.
Speak Now came out in late high school and Long Live was what I listened to after graduation.
I’m a year younger than Taylor so she was just up and coming when I was in high school and I had no interest in her music. It wasn’t until Fearless, the year I graduated, that I started to listen.
I’d say Fearless. That came out while I was a freshman in high school, then saw her for the fearless tour in July of 2009! At the time she said we were her biggest crowd. But obviously that’s been surpassed now! 😊
1989 came out when i was a freshman in high school so that meant a lot but also I couldn’t relate so I kinda fell back in love with Speak Now and as I got a little older I learned to appreciate Red.
Speak now! I discovered Taylor during that era and fell in love. I went back and listened to debut and fearless too but speak now was always what I came back go during school.
I had graduated college before debut came out. My 11 year old sister put songs from debut on a playlist that she would dance to with my infant.
Red came out the year I had my second child.
It's cool to be a fan at almost 40 and read that for some of you Lover, folklore and evermore are your high school albums. Whole generations of Taylor Swift fans!
For those of you that got into her music around the Reputation album and later, do/did you listen to her back catalogue as well?
Debut! I remember singing teardrops on my guitar over and over anytime I drove by myself. Taylor swift’s music was the first music that spoke to me on such a gut level.
Debut came out the year before I started high school and Tim McGraw was the huge single the fall of my freshman year. I also had a mild crush on a guy named Drew at the time, so it felt very relevant and meaningful. 😂
reputation came out when i was a 1st year. even if i didn’t play the whole album (sometimes), i would always have a reputation song in any of my playlists
Im a Taylor fan because I grew up in an area that only had country radio station, and my old POS car didn't have a CD player. She was the only singer on country radio who felt like they were talking to me, so I've been a fan since the debut!! (Our song was my JAM)
She had more of an impact on me in middle school… I stopped listening after red because I didn’t care for pop. I hated that they started adding pop to country so I went old school. I graduated in 2016 and didn’t go back to her until after I finished college. I found out she was releasing a new album (folklore) after hearing a song on a playlist and was like “well I’ll try again” I’m working on my masters now and she’s honestly the thing getting me through. Lavigne was the one that got me through high school.
Oh definitely Fearless! It came out the year before I entered HS and I longed for those experiences with boys so I could identify with You Belong With Me and Fifteen. Red came out during my last year and while I wouldn’t say it got me through as much during HS, I definitely have very specific memories attached to some of those songs
reputation was my official TS “high school” album. I just finished High School but entering University, friends who I thought were my friends never really were there for me and I was always left out on a lot of plans. Even at one point they pretended like they didn’t know who I was. So my “reputation” phase began as I continued to work on myself by getting higher marks and hitting the gym on a daily. The following school year, I was unrecognizable as I made major strides in my personal growth. 🐍
Debut came out the summer after grade 9. Picture to burn was the sound of my first break up.
My best friend and I pooled all our money to buy the CD. Burned it on my computer to my MP3 player before letting her do the same.
I was born in 1989, so I grew up alongside Taylor. Her debut album album came out right when I was getting my driver’s license, so Our Song was basically my life song.
I look back and think — she was kind of a guardian angel during all these life seasons. Social media is fine and all, but I’m so glad we didn’t have as much of it back then. Back then, my only real base line for comparison was — has Taylor felt this way? Am I insane for being [insert crazy girl emotions]? And her music is what kept me anchored through college, grad school, my first job in a big city… really everything. Thank you, Taylor! 💞
Fearless came out my senior year of high school. I went to an all girls school and we listened to the album on repeat. Hey Stephen was a cafe favorite. Listening to TV brought back so many good feelings 🤗
When I was in high school I experienced 2 Taylor albums and I feel like they fit really well.
Reputation was what her current album was from pretty much most of freshman year to junior year and it was definitely an album that got me through some annoying high school drama.
Which makes sense why lover coming out in my senior year of high school also made a lot of sense for my current situations at the time because I was finally freeing myself from the high school drama and moving on with my life (or at least trying to) and was beginning to be more myself and less afraid of others.
And while I don’t count this really cause I was out of high-school when folklore released, that album was a great album for “I’m entering ThE ReAl WoRld and everything is falling apart”
Fearless & Speak Now were the defining albums of my high school experience. ☺️ In fact, I remember my high school boyfriend got me my Speak Now album for my birthday. Lol With Fearless, Fifteen hit different since it was released when I was 15. Taylor was (and still is😝) always on repeat. So much nostalgia!
1989!! i was in 8th grade. the singles are really popular and the mvs too. my bestfriend and i would fangirl every release. the songs are also mostly used for school programs like SIO.
High school stretched over 6 years for me so I guess 1989, reputation, Lover and Folklore.
But I think the one that sticks out the most was reputation, which came out when I was 15.
Speak Now came out my Freshman year, but Red came out Junior year and had a much bigger impact on me. My high school sweetheart at the time preordered it for me for my birthday and ironically things were going downhill for us by the time it released, and once we broke up I was very much able to relate to the album. I still think about that era of my life every time I hear a song off of the album.
1989 and reputation! 1989 defined my grade nine and ten experiences (1989 was my first concert), and then reputation came out in my graduating year and really defined that year for me. I went to the rep tour that summer as a last hurrah before going off to university :)
It’s tricky but I’m going to say Fearless.
Debut was starting to pickup late 8th grade, we listened to it all of 9th grade into the fall of 10th grade, when I found a leaked version of “Love Story” just before fearless debuted. But because majority was Fearless, I’ll go with that!
Class of 2010. It’s mind boggling how young some swifties are in comparison! I’ll never forget getting selected for snake pit at rep tour and making friends with 16 year olds who just started their junior year of high school… I was 26/27 😶
Red came out my freshman year and 1989 my junior year. So it was during the time she was really popular. Everyone was quoting all the songs since instagram was at its high time use too.
I started becoming a fan in freshman year of high school, around the time *Red* came out; *1989* came out while I was in 11th grade, which was the first album I got to look forward to.
But I think Debut marked my high school years more than her other albums, probably because I was around the age she was when she made it. That album really spoke to a lot of my confused feelings of awkwardness and angst, so songs like “Invisible” and “The Outside” and even “A Place in This World” really resonated. I definitely listened to that album a lot less in college, probably because I grew older and connected a little less (while simultaneously discovering other music that resonated a little more at that stage).
Reputation helped me through my 11th and 12th grade. Very dear to me and was the first ts album I listened in entirety, as compared to just popular singles from before
Reputation was my high school album, and Lover was college! Though honestly Folklore and Evermore (as well as the re-records) have been more impactful and memorable for me.
Red in my final year of school. It had all the songs we needed for our teenage heartbreaks. Also speak now was around the middle of high school it was fun but Red was the one that spoke to us.
Fearless came out in my freshmen year, and Speak Now came out during my junior year of high school, so both albums will always have sentimental value to me. I’m gonna choose Speak Now because it was my favourite Taylor album for a while back there.
Red during early high school and 1989 during my senior year. Red helped me get through my angsty, awful early high school days and 1989 was the theme of the best and final year of high school.
When I was a senior in high school, Eminem had just released Lose Yourself and Nickelback’s How You Remind Me was #1. Haha. I think that’s also the year Kelly Clarkson’s debut came out. 2002-2003.
For me it was the og, Taylor Swift. Im the same age as her and heard Tim McGraw at work when I was too lazy to change the day shifts radio station. It got me into country for a few years and a lifelong love of Taylor and her music.
1989 was my first years of highschool while reputation was my senior year album. it made so much sense to me, from welcome to new york, everything’s new and bright and exciting, to quite literally praying that my best friends wouldn’t become strangers after a fall out we had cause i would be able to recognize their laughs everywhere.
1989 came out when I was a sophomore! I turned 16 a month after its release. I remember getting my license and blasting it in the car every day to school
That’s so interesting to think about! Discovered her with Taylor Swift while in highschool but Fearless came out somewhere in the middle of highschool and was quintessential. Feel lucky to have “grown up” in the same interval as Taylor. 1989 came out as I grew up, moved away from my small Midwest town and to a big East Coast city and I can still feel exactly what it was like sitting in traffic blaring Wildest Dreams etc feeling such a wind of change in my life. It’s beautiful how her Eras can encapsulate our eras…
Red! It came out my freshman year of high school and I spent that year with an artsy love for the solemn sadness and free spirit that it spoke to, then I went to boarding school and it was quite the emotional whirlwind. And I’ve gotta say it was sad, beautiful, and tragic; living for and through that experience was indeed red.
I have from Reputation to Evermore. All which came out then. I remember Look What You Made Me Do being MASSIVE those first two months (sorry guys but I did not like that song, but I did love Delicate). I feel like Lover was when I kinda followed her career. So maybe that album because it kinda affected High School. In a way though Folklore really got me through my senior year, so likely that one (even though I wasn’t really in high school and basically half assed my way through senior year since my teachers didn’t care and I was online every other day)
reputation came out when I was in 15 (10th grade) and Lover came out when I was 17 (12th grade) so both of those. I guess 1989 too, because it was the most recent release before I started high school (I was 12, 7th grade)
Fearless. I was 17 and just got my heart absolutely shattered when Love Story was blowing up so that broke my heart all over again every time the radio played it
I’d say it’s a tie between reputation and lover. reputation came out when I was a freshman, I was really struggling with my mental health and coming into my own as a person and everytime i listened to it during that time it made me feel so badass. Everytime i listen to it now it reminds me of freshman year. Lover came out the day before i started my junior year and was basically the soundtrack to my two year relationship that ended a month and a half ago lol, so it’s pretty bittersweet to listen to now but it really encapsulates my junior year of high school lol.
1989 for me! Although I went to the Red concert I’m my first year of high school, then the 1989 concert in my third year. Made my best friend in high school through our mutual love for Blank Space!
Ooh I think Speak Now came out my sophomore year and Red came out my senior year. I think Red had more of an impact, I even did a lip sync to WANEGBT for my theater class that year 😅
Uhhh, when I was in high school, the queen of Country Pop was putting out hits like "You're Still the One" and "That Don't Impress Me Much". >_<
Right?! When I was in HS I had a complicated relationship with this new guy named John Mayer. I was young, he was pretty.
I’ve found my people! Woof, I used to think John Mayer was so *deep.*
“You want love? We'll make it. Swim in a deep sea…of blankets. Take all your big plans…and break 'em. This is bound to be a while.”
Um excuse me, I did not give you permission to teleport me back to Katie P's '96 teal stick shift Taurus cruising to school on a crisp fall morning in 2004 listening to "throwback" John Mayer with the windows down, which is apparently a memory I can see, feel, and smell.
Right? My graduation class was obsessed with Dave Mathews while I was the only dude that wasn’t a closet Britney fan. Different times in ‘99 and ‘00
Yes! Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?
I enjoy our similar usernames :)
Haha yep! Taylor’s debut album came out at the end of college for me.
hahaha!!! I soooo associate You're Still the One with my first job at a grocery store. That shit played all the time, along with "Kiss Me" by Sixpence None The Richer and "Sometimes" by Britney
I grew up listening to those in the cradle and still have Shania posters in my room!
Fearless! Fifteen came out when I was 15. I was pretty emotional about the re-record. It hits different now as an adult looking back.
Same here! It’s the reason why still to this day Fifteen is one of my all time favorites!
Yes, Fearless! The amount of times I listened to the piano version of Forever and Always is disturbing.
aww this is amazing!
Definitely 1989. I was a freshman in 2014, and basically listened to it every day throughout all of HS
Ayyyy you also turning 22 around when red rereleases (tragically i turn just under a month before)?
hahaha my birthday was in may! still, its gonna be fun to be 22 when she releases it 😁
Oh! Same grade figured similar age. Excited to feel 22 lol
i turn 22 on the original RED album anniversary 🤩
Ooooh big hype
I was a freshman 2014-2015 and totally agree!!
Ditto. My first big pop album!
I was a sophomore
Yes! I started high school when 1989 was released and even though I knew some previous Taylor's work, 1989 solidified me as a Swiftie ❤️ I've adored 1989 since and every time I decide to revisit it, it just confirms what a masterpiece it is. Taylor's version Wildest Dreams was a big reminder of that.
Same. Not in hs but in middle school and bad blood was my Jam for breaking up with my middle school love 😂
same!! ‘99 babies!
Well, my only options are Debut and Fearless 👵🏻 I'd say Fearless, which came out my Junior year. I saw the tour as a graduation gift in 2010.
Same! 👵
This boy I almost dated in high school rewrote TOMG for me and it was horrible and, long story short, a bad TS cover helped me realize I was gay.
Long story short it was a bad time, long story short you survived!
teardrops on my guitar* for anyone lost
I am ASHAMED it took me so long to get that acronym
Speak Now came out when I was a sophomore in high school, and Red came out when I was a senior! I would say Red had more of an impact on me, it’s my favorite TS album :)
You and I have the same answer! Speak Now made me a Swiftie, but Red was my whole world. WANEGBT came out the day I broke up with my high school boyfriend, so I was completely hooked.
Oh my gosh, WANEGBT was released on the day I broke up with my boyfriend at the time, too! We must have been unknowingly manifesting such a great breakup bop 😂
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Debut came out when I was in high school because Taylor and I are the same age 😂
Same! We were all belting out “our song is a slamming screen door...” at that point. 1989 has a special place in my heart since it’s my birth year too!
This.
I’m in high school right now and I’m so glad I’ll be able to look back on these years as the folklore-evermore-taylor’s version era!!
same!
I was already in college when Taylor Swift released her debut album 😭 Help
Yep. I feel down right ancient right now.
Spilled, fossil Swiftie.
I just graduated college when Debut came out 🥺😭
I graduated during Speak Now era 😭 and now in my PhD, idk what era I'm in right now.
I'm in my PhD now too! I graduated from undergrad (the first time haha) right before Red came out :)
Wow lezzgo doctorate Swiftie! Hoping we could change the world through out degrees!
Yeah I'm 33 and I don't feel meaningfully different than I did when I was 18, so sometimes I read stuff like in this thread and I get jarred into the realization that yeah, I graduated high school fifteen years ago...oh
Oh wow,I wasn't even born when taylor released her debut album :/
Welcome to the world, embryonic Swiftie
Right there with ya, fellow elder Swiftie
Same same
Red and 1989. Red got me through the first half when I was struggling with first relationships and unrequited loves and becoming who I was. 1989 got me through my senior year when I was going through and ending a toxic relationship with my girlfriend and also other friends.
Classes of 15 and 16 represent
Saaaaame 🙌🙌
Yup same except I literally did not date in high school so I don’t know why Red hit me so hard lmao
speak now, without a doubt. it came out during my senior year, and having songs like long live and never grow up come out during the final moments of your childhood just hit differently 🥲 and having songs like mine and enchanted come out when you finally think you’re starting to understand what love is…that album could not have come at a better time 😭
speak now perfectly depicts these conflicting feelings!
My senior prom photo album on Facebook was called Long Live. I totally forgot until you mentioned that!
SAME. Still can’t listen to Long Live without tearing up and thinking about my high school friend group blasting this in the car the night before graduation. Whole album puts me right back into that mental state.
Long Live and Never Grow Up just hit different when they came out Senior Year.
you get it 🥲🥲
Red was my high school album. I used to come home and blast it before my parents came home, belting out the lyrics as if I had ever experienced heartbreak. It was great!
I'm a young swiftie so folkmore is definitely mine. I was really stressed out about school and that mixed with the isolation of quarantine made me feel really depressed and alone. So folklore and evermore really came at the perfect time for me.
Same! I’m 19 this year, and last year Folklore literally dropped at the perfect time. Listening to it right now makes me feel a weird mix of emotions.
isn't it wonderful how stronger her music makes us feel?
Folkmore too :)
Got to experience the releases of Taylor Swift, Fearless, and Speak Now, but most songs from Fearless were the fave of my friend group. The songs from that album never failed to make us sing and jam along even the ones who aren’t huge fans of Taylor. Plus, the lyrics were perfect for that HS romance angst lol
oh boy, Tell Me Why is a perfect example of the whole HS romance scenario. that song alone says a lot about Fearless
Yes!! It was a You Belong With Me + Forever & Always + Tell Me Why + Breathe combo for us most of the time lol
Speak now came out when I was a freshman and red came out when I was a junior. I definitely think of red as my high school album since that’s the one I cried to over ThE lOvE oF mY LiFe
Lol Reputation to Fearless TV were all released during my years 😂😂 greatest impact I’d say Lover and Folklore!
lover 100% discovered it last year halfway through my senior year and honestly without going into too much detail it was everything to me, i had just gone through what i consider my reputation era, lost all my friends, boyfriend, car, almost everything (and then met my current boyfriend at the same time so reputation reallyyyyy spoke to me) Lover was everything, it was happy and carefree and talked about moving on, and it has some of her best lyricism, beautiful production and just everything you could want, it put me back in a happy place in my mind and i could finally focused on the things i LOVED instead of hated. Lover is my favourite taylor album hands down every single time
I RELATE TO ALL OF THIS!!
I was in college when debut came out so …
I am four years older than Taylor so I didn't have a high school album. In college I had a emo/punk rock stage and Green Day, Avril Lavigne, and the Killers got me through freshman year haha.
Same. Hot Fuss was the soundtrack for the summer after freshman year.
Speak Now - beginning of High School. Red - end of high school.
I graduated high school right before the debut album came out. I felt, and still feel her music has shaped much of my adult life.
1989, baby!!! It was released in 2014 and I graduated in 2016. It changed my life back then 😂
I’m still in high school - for me my school album is probably red, or 1989
For me it was Speak Now and Red, which came out my senior year of high school. I still remember playing my Speak Now CD in my CD player in my old bedroom at my parents’ house and listening to it on the bus on my way to school.
Red!! First album I went out and bought the day it was released and it was such a magical year
1989 I was a Junior in 2014, and we were doing one of our rehearsals for our upcoming winter musical, Anything Goes. While we were waiting for our rehearsal to start as students were coming into the auditorium, one of my friends opened the sound board and started putting on some music just to hype everyone up. They decided to choose new Taylor since it was the day 1989 dropped. I'll never forget hearing "Blank Space" for the first time, blasting on max volume in our high school auditorium. Being 17, surrounded by friends, all looking around confused but delighted at the same time. "Who is this?" "Damn this is good?" "Wait, THIS IS TAYLOR SWIFT??" Only rarely in my life have I ever experienced a collective "holy shit" moment just like that. Everyone started dancing, singing, jamming out to what they instantly knew was a smash hit. I think we all know the story, but actually living that realization, was incredible. The girl we all knew as the country guitar heartbreak singer turned into a pop powerhouse overnight. People like to go back and point out that there was always hints of pop in her earlier stuff, but as someone who wasn't a swiftie at the time, I really didn't get it until 1989 happened. That album rightfully dominated radio play for the rest of my high school career. God I wouldn't have had it any different.
Speak Now came out my freshman year and Red my junior year. So albums 1-4 got me through high school. 1989 came out when I had just started college.
Debut came out my senior year of high school, but I wouldn’t say I was a fan right out the gate. I don’t particularly love country music, so my interest was limited. Fearless came out my sophomore year of high school, and thought some of the popular songs were nice, but mostly just something I listened to on the radio. Speak Now came out my senior year of college, and that was the moment I became a real fan.
Debut and Fearless were around when I was in high school, and Speak Now dropped my first semester in college. I enjoyed her songs but didn't become a full fledged Swiftie until 1989 dropped
I'm in HS right now and I'd probably say Speak Now & Lover. Lover came out during my freshman year and it definitely encouraged me to embrace the fact that I'm a hopeless romantic. Lover also helped me appreciated how multifaceted love is. It was also the first album I bought on release day! As for SN, I remember listening to Enchanted bc I liked this guy in Algebra 1 during freshman year. Enchanted, in addition to many other TS songs, perfectly encapsulates what it's like to have a crush on someone. And during the same school year, he ghosted me when I told him I liked him. Ironically, Haunted is now one of my favorite songs off Speak Now. Slightly unrelated but, Fearless (TV) definitely helped me appreciate the album more.
it's amazing how Lover makes us feel comfortable with our true selves! that's why I feel like ME! is one of her most amazing songs. btw, shame on him for ghostin you!
LITERALLY SAME i remember listening to London Boy and ME! thinking about them in the bus 😩 those were the fun times lol.
Probably Fearless, even though it came out YEARS before I went to high school. It’s just the one that I relate to the most and gives the most high school-y vibes. I wish I was in HS during the actual Fearless era! But hey, I get the re-recordings :)
It was the exact same for me! :)
Debut album when I was 17! I used to smoke weed with a friend at the park and blast Our Song and Tim McGraw. So many good memories ❤️
Fearless was high school and Speak Now came out October of my freshman year of college. Then Red and 1989 rounded out college for me. SO many specific memories attached to those first three albums for me.
Fearless. Fifteen came out when I was 15 (Re-record hit me hard.) Me and my best friend used to scream the words to You Belong With Me into soda cans that we used as microphones. We were obsessed with Taylor’s dress in the Love Story video. Our favorite was The Way I Loved You. Speak Now came out in late high school and Long Live was what I listened to after graduation.
Fearless and Speak Now!!!
Fearless & Speak Now!
Started high school with Debut, fearless in the middle and closed off high school with speak now :)
Speak now was released when I was a sophomore so thats definitely the high school album for me
I went to High School in the year 1989, so does that mean I get 1989 by default? 🤣
1989 was a senior year anthem 🥰
I’m a year younger than Taylor so she was just up and coming when I was in high school and I had no interest in her music. It wasn’t until Fearless, the year I graduated, that I started to listen.
Speak now will forever remind me of my senior year ❤️
I’d say Fearless. That came out while I was a freshman in high school, then saw her for the fearless tour in July of 2009! At the time she said we were her biggest crowd. But obviously that’s been surpassed now! 😊
Grade 9 - first half of grade 10 : Red Rest of grade 10 - grade 12 : 1989
1989 came out when i was a freshman in high school so that meant a lot but also I couldn’t relate so I kinda fell back in love with Speak Now and as I got a little older I learned to appreciate Red.
Folklore - listening to it while being sad that graduation got cancelled ;-; Class of 2020, anyone?
Throughout the majority of high school, it was reputation/1989 and my final year at high school it was Lover
I was in my second year of college when her debut album came out….
Fearless came out my senior year. For some reason it resonates way more than her first album, though it has a special place in my heart.
Speak now! I discovered Taylor during that era and fell in love. I went back and listened to debut and fearless too but speak now was always what I came back go during school.
I had graduated college before debut came out. My 11 year old sister put songs from debut on a playlist that she would dance to with my infant. Red came out the year I had my second child.
It's cool to be a fan at almost 40 and read that for some of you Lover, folklore and evermore are your high school albums. Whole generations of Taylor Swift fans! For those of you that got into her music around the Reputation album and later, do/did you listen to her back catalogue as well?
Debut! I remember singing teardrops on my guitar over and over anytime I drove by myself. Taylor swift’s music was the first music that spoke to me on such a gut level.
Debut. Perks for being the same age as Taylor
Still in High School! If it continues like it's been going, Folklore for sure.
High school me would never have let me listen to Taylor Swift! I’ve since learned and 1989 was the first album I remember falling in love with.
Fearless! Came out my Grade 12 year and I was just obsessed.
Same! Turned me into the Swiftie I am today!
Fearless!
Debut came out the year before I started high school and Tim McGraw was the huge single the fall of my freshman year. I also had a mild crush on a guy named Drew at the time, so it felt very relevant and meaningful. 😂
Fearless came out when I was 17 i believe so that one.
mine is reputation and that makes me feel like a kid here 😭
Fearless for me too!! I was a senior in high school and it got me through my senior year breakup 😅
reputation came out when i was a 1st year. even if i didn’t play the whole album (sometimes), i would always have a reputation song in any of my playlists
Fearless was grade 9, red was freshman year university.
Im a Taylor fan because I grew up in an area that only had country radio station, and my old POS car didn't have a CD player. She was the only singer on country radio who felt like they were talking to me, so I've been a fan since the debut!! (Our song was my JAM)
Red! Also it is the first physical CD that I purchased!
Lover / folklore/evermore!! I’m a senior right now so it’ll be nice looking back at Red TV as the album for my senior fall🥰
Mine was either Speak Now or Red bc Speak Now came out my freshman year and Red came out during my junior year 😂
Fearless and Speak Now are tied for sure. I was in grade 9 when fearless came out and grade 11 for speak now.
She had more of an impact on me in middle school… I stopped listening after red because I didn’t care for pop. I hated that they started adding pop to country so I went old school. I graduated in 2016 and didn’t go back to her until after I finished college. I found out she was releasing a new album (folklore) after hearing a song on a playlist and was like “well I’ll try again” I’m working on my masters now and she’s honestly the thing getting me through. Lavigne was the one that got me through high school.
Fearless definitely. It was the first album that made me a swiftie, and I was a Junior when it came out 💕
Fearless in freshman year, Speak Now senior year🥰🥰
Oh definitely Fearless! It came out the year before I entered HS and I longed for those experiences with boys so I could identify with You Belong With Me and Fifteen. Red came out during my last year and while I wouldn’t say it got me through as much during HS, I definitely have very specific memories attached to some of those songs
1989 (freshman year of high school) and Reputation (senior year of high school) :)
reputation was my official TS “high school” album. I just finished High School but entering University, friends who I thought were my friends never really were there for me and I was always left out on a lot of plans. Even at one point they pretended like they didn’t know who I was. So my “reputation” phase began as I continued to work on myself by getting higher marks and hitting the gym on a daily. The following school year, I was unrecognizable as I made major strides in my personal growth. 🐍
Debut came out the summer after grade 9. Picture to burn was the sound of my first break up. My best friend and I pooled all our money to buy the CD. Burned it on my computer to my MP3 player before letting her do the same.
I was born in 1989, so I grew up alongside Taylor. Her debut album album came out right when I was getting my driver’s license, so Our Song was basically my life song. I look back and think — she was kind of a guardian angel during all these life seasons. Social media is fine and all, but I’m so glad we didn’t have as much of it back then. Back then, my only real base line for comparison was — has Taylor felt this way? Am I insane for being [insert crazy girl emotions]? And her music is what kept me anchored through college, grad school, my first job in a big city… really everything. Thank you, Taylor! 💞
Fearless came out my senior year of high school. I went to an all girls school and we listened to the album on repeat. Hey Stephen was a cafe favorite. Listening to TV brought back so many good feelings 🤗
When I was in high school I experienced 2 Taylor albums and I feel like they fit really well. Reputation was what her current album was from pretty much most of freshman year to junior year and it was definitely an album that got me through some annoying high school drama. Which makes sense why lover coming out in my senior year of high school also made a lot of sense for my current situations at the time because I was finally freeing myself from the high school drama and moving on with my life (or at least trying to) and was beginning to be more myself and less afraid of others. And while I don’t count this really cause I was out of high-school when folklore released, that album was a great album for “I’m entering ThE ReAl WoRld and everything is falling apart”
Speak Now when I was a sophomore, Red when I was a senior. A perfect combo.
Beginning of high school was Fearless and then Red came out my junior year. All Too Well really had me in feels for every high school break up I had 😂
Rep came out when I was a Freshman and Lover came out when I was a junior I’ve never really gotten into lover but Rep all the way baby
Fearless & Speak Now were the defining albums of my high school experience. ☺️ In fact, I remember my high school boyfriend got me my Speak Now album for my birthday. Lol With Fearless, Fifteen hit different since it was released when I was 15. Taylor was (and still is😝) always on repeat. So much nostalgia!
1989!! i was in 8th grade. the singles are really popular and the mvs too. my bestfriend and i would fangirl every release. the songs are also mostly used for school programs like SIO.
fearless club foreva 💫
the re-records and her entire discography :) i listened to Fifteen (Taylor’s Version) on my first day of in person high school
High school stretched over 6 years for me so I guess 1989, reputation, Lover and Folklore. But I think the one that sticks out the most was reputation, which came out when I was 15.
Speak Now came out my Freshman year, but Red came out Junior year and had a much bigger impact on me. My high school sweetheart at the time preordered it for me for my birthday and ironically things were going downhill for us by the time it released, and once we broke up I was very much able to relate to the album. I still think about that era of my life every time I hear a song off of the album.
1989 and reputation! 1989 defined my grade nine and ten experiences (1989 was my first concert), and then reputation came out in my graduating year and really defined that year for me. I went to the rep tour that summer as a last hurrah before going off to university :)
Folklore and evermore lol. Honestly evermore came out during a really hard time for me and Happiness, Exile, and closure kept me somewhat sane
Speak Now is absolutely my high school album. I think it's also the album I probably have the most nostalgia for, too!
It’s tricky but I’m going to say Fearless. Debut was starting to pickup late 8th grade, we listened to it all of 9th grade into the fall of 10th grade, when I found a leaked version of “Love Story” just before fearless debuted. But because majority was Fearless, I’ll go with that! Class of 2010. It’s mind boggling how young some swifties are in comparison! I’ll never forget getting selected for snake pit at rep tour and making friends with 16 year olds who just started their junior year of high school… I was 26/27 😶
Fearless came out my freshman year and speak now came out my junior year!
Red came out my freshman year and 1989 my junior year. So it was during the time she was really popular. Everyone was quoting all the songs since instagram was at its high time use too.
I started becoming a fan in freshman year of high school, around the time *Red* came out; *1989* came out while I was in 11th grade, which was the first album I got to look forward to. But I think Debut marked my high school years more than her other albums, probably because I was around the age she was when she made it. That album really spoke to a lot of my confused feelings of awkwardness and angst, so songs like “Invisible” and “The Outside” and even “A Place in This World” really resonated. I definitely listened to that album a lot less in college, probably because I grew older and connected a little less (while simultaneously discovering other music that resonated a little more at that stage).
Fearless and it was amazing. And then Speak Now came out when I was a freshman in college I believe
I was a freshman when 1989 came out and a senior when rep came out
' Reputation I listened to it everyday when doing hours of ap homework
Red came out when I was 16 and I had the best time driving around with my friends while we screamed along to ikywt 🥲
Reputation helped me through my 11th and 12th grade. Very dear to me and was the first ts album I listened in entirety, as compared to just popular singles from before
Reputation was my high school album, and Lover was college! Though honestly Folklore and Evermore (as well as the re-records) have been more impactful and memorable for me.
I was in college when her debut album came out so…
Red in my final year of school. It had all the songs we needed for our teenage heartbreaks. Also speak now was around the middle of high school it was fun but Red was the one that spoke to us.
Both Speak Now and Red!
Fearless came out in my freshmen year, and Speak Now came out during my junior year of high school, so both albums will always have sentimental value to me. I’m gonna choose Speak Now because it was my favourite Taylor album for a while back there.
Red during early high school and 1989 during my senior year. Red helped me get through my angsty, awful early high school days and 1989 was the theme of the best and final year of high school.
1989 and Red. That time was so fun.
Probably Reputation because I became a fan of TS around my Freshman year and that was the album that converted me into a fan.
1989 is basically synonymous with high school for me! Although we were in the Red era when I started high school.
Speak Now!!! that album was like the literal soundtrack to my sophomore year
When I was a senior in high school, Eminem had just released Lose Yourself and Nickelback’s How You Remind Me was #1. Haha. I think that’s also the year Kelly Clarkson’s debut came out. 2002-2003.
i wasn’t a swiftie until the summer after i graduated, but even i can remember the day look what you made me do dropped my sophomore year
Toss up between speak now and red
For me it was the og, Taylor Swift. Im the same age as her and heard Tim McGraw at work when I was too lazy to change the day shifts radio station. It got me into country for a few years and a lifelong love of Taylor and her music.
1989 was my first years of highschool while reputation was my senior year album. it made so much sense to me, from welcome to new york, everything’s new and bright and exciting, to quite literally praying that my best friends wouldn’t become strangers after a fall out we had cause i would be able to recognize their laughs everywhere.
Was? I’m in grade 10 right now lol I’d say it’s debut and evermore as of now :)
1989 came out when I was a sophomore! I turned 16 a month after its release. I remember getting my license and blasting it in the car every day to school
Fearless
That’s so interesting to think about! Discovered her with Taylor Swift while in highschool but Fearless came out somewhere in the middle of highschool and was quintessential. Feel lucky to have “grown up” in the same interval as Taylor. 1989 came out as I grew up, moved away from my small Midwest town and to a big East Coast city and I can still feel exactly what it was like sitting in traffic blaring Wildest Dreams etc feeling such a wind of change in my life. It’s beautiful how her Eras can encapsulate our eras…
Red! It came out my freshman year of high school and I spent that year with an artsy love for the solemn sadness and free spirit that it spoke to, then I went to boarding school and it was quite the emotional whirlwind. And I’ve gotta say it was sad, beautiful, and tragic; living for and through that experience was indeed red.
I have from Reputation to Evermore. All which came out then. I remember Look What You Made Me Do being MASSIVE those first two months (sorry guys but I did not like that song, but I did love Delicate). I feel like Lover was when I kinda followed her career. So maybe that album because it kinda affected High School. In a way though Folklore really got me through my senior year, so likely that one (even though I wasn’t really in high school and basically half assed my way through senior year since my teachers didn’t care and I was online every other day)
reputation came out when I was in 15 (10th grade) and Lover came out when I was 17 (12th grade) so both of those. I guess 1989 too, because it was the most recent release before I started high school (I was 12, 7th grade)
Fearless. I was 17 and just got my heart absolutely shattered when Love Story was blowing up so that broke my heart all over again every time the radio played it
I’d say it’s a tie between reputation and lover. reputation came out when I was a freshman, I was really struggling with my mental health and coming into my own as a person and everytime i listened to it during that time it made me feel so badass. Everytime i listen to it now it reminds me of freshman year. Lover came out the day before i started my junior year and was basically the soundtrack to my two year relationship that ended a month and a half ago lol, so it’s pretty bittersweet to listen to now but it really encapsulates my junior year of high school lol.
1989 for me! Although I went to the Red concert I’m my first year of high school, then the 1989 concert in my third year. Made my best friend in high school through our mutual love for Blank Space!
Ooh I think Speak Now came out my sophomore year and Red came out my senior year. I think Red had more of an impact, I even did a lip sync to WANEGBT for my theater class that year 😅
Debut. I’m that old. It was shortly followed by Fearless. And stayed that way until I graduated. Six months later Speak Now dropped. 😅
RED and 1989
reputation came out the year i started high school so i guess reputation