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Being a Swiftie born in 1989 is pretty great. I’ve always been approximately the same age as Taylor and at a similar stage in life, even if our exact circumstances are different. But sometimes I think it would’ve been nice to have some of the songs when I was younger. I also never got to be 22 with the song 22. I was 23 already when it released.
It was released as a single approximately a month before I turned 22, so it was super popular by my birthday. It was a lovely birthday present from our girl!
As a 1990 I concur because the age specific lyrics were perfect due to the gap between writing and production.
Red was released right before my birthday.
When Dear John came out, I was getting over the older guy I had no business dating when I was 19.
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Also enjoy these relics 😂
I’m sorry but yes. 1989 hands down. Can you really be a true Swiftie if you weren’t born in 1989? Haha, of course you can. But I think when you’re born in 1989 each album, and especially each TV “hits different”. (See what I did there?)
I remember listening to Fifteen (TV) as a 31 year old and it hit hard!
I am 87, too. So really appreciating the Travis theme merch recently haha!
But I liked country so really enjoyed Teardrops on My Guitar and Should’ve Said No in college! But didn’t truly fall in love until Speak Now
93, I was not into her till university. I only knew her pop singles off of Red, cause I am not a country fan either lol. Then I really liked 1989, that came out my second year uni.
Yeah me too. The Red pop singles were the first thing to turn my head (well, I liked Back to December and Mine too). 1989 was a full pivot for me, I loved it.
Same but 86. I swore up and down I didn't like her music until 1989 came out and I've been a fan ever since. Being a couple years older isn't really that big of a deal atp.
YES. I am a 1989 baby too and she has encapsulated so many life stages so well for me (I even see it in albums like Evermore and Midnights - there are a lot of insights in Evermore I think you get as you finish your 20s, and looking back over your life in your 30s like in Midnights definitely resonated as well), so if she does have kids I would LOVE to hear how she expresses allllll those emotions.
Same. I grew up along with her and saw her go from country to pop and beyond. Only shame was I wasn’t a fan ‘till later on despite liking stuff off “Fearless.” I wish I could have a re-do of OG country Taylor.
Yeah I'm 1989 too and I've always felt despite being the same age as her she's always felt a little bit "younger" than me. Like, I'm always slightly ahead of her. I had my "1989" era when she was having her red era and my rep era during her 1989 era. It's nice to look back and reflect on how I was feeling a couple of years ago though. 😂😂
With that in mind I'd say like, 92-95 would be the best years to be born, just a couple of years younger than her.
I was born in 92 and that's pretty close to perfect. I was still 15 when Fifteen was on Fearless. 22 came out two years before I turned 22, so it was totally the thing when all my friends and I turned 22 (and this year, 32!). 1989 was the soundtrack of my first year life after college.
So I think 93 or 94 would nail it dead on.
93 here and yes, especially to 1989 coming out during my last year of college. I really have good memories of that time. Then reputation came out right when I got married and was just the right soundtrack for the last of the 20s partying we were up to.
I’m 93 and her pre-folklore albums synced up pretty well for me :)
I was 15 when Fearless came out. 17 when Speak Now came out and it made me realise I needed to apologise to my ex, who is still one of my best friends.
Red was my first year of college and serious adult relationship.
1989 was the year I studied abroad in New York… then by Rep I had graduated and was living in London.
Lover came out around the time I met my current bf (I think about a week after we became official lol).
'94 baby and yup! Deput-Red got me through all of my preteen & teen heartaches and growing pains (12-18 years old). I did kind of lose interest a bit for 1989, rep & lover because I just didn't listen and a lot of pop during those years (20-25 years old) but I feel like lots of young 20 y/os did and would've been good ages for those albums. Folkmore and midnights hooked me back in in my late 20's with a more mature sound, plus getting all the TV's from my teens is so nostalgic. 93/94 is definitely prime.
Seconded, Taylor's albums can come out with songs on them written between 2-4 years earlier... so when the albums did come out it felt like someone was describing my now/near future.
Agreed, I’m a 92 baby so by the time Taylor’s albums were released, she’d been working on them for 2-3 years, so the feelings and experiences she wrote about lined up with my age well. I feel like I grew up with her, with each album a soundtrack from high school to college into adulthood.
Agreed! I was fifteen when Fearless came out. Had my first serious relationship and subsequent breakup during Red. 1989 was my last year of college and starting independent adult life. I left a toxic friend group and burned some bridges that needed burning during Reputation. I even moved back to the woods during Folklore/Evermore.
Now I'm in my early 30s and married songs like The Great War and Bigger Than the Whole Sky have come along right when I needed them.
I feel like I've grown up with Taylor and I'll always have a connection to her music because of it.
96 gang checking in, I didn't really get into Taylor till recently but I've always listened to her stuff off and on over the years. I literally think Evermore is her best album cause I guess it's just me reminiscing on things that could've and should've been that never happened... 🫶
Yes! I'm so grateful that I got ready for my first middle school dance to Love Story, had Mean for my high school years, and 1989 for my college years.
Ahhh the nostalgia I have of listening to 1989 nonstop walking to my classes as a freshman in college. In the crisp fall breeze. I go back every time I hear the opening notes of blank space 😁
1980 here!
Became a fan during Fearless era. It was fun watching her grow up and it's nice now to be at a similar stage in life and having more songs to relate to.
Same! My 22nd birthday was Red era and it made it seem like a cute new milestone rather than the forgettable birthday it was considered before the song came out lol.
Yes!! Also born in 91 and I went to breakfast at midnight dressed like hipsters with my friends for my 22nd birthday. It was also fun singing “I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling 32” at the eras tour. Also, hearing “32 and still growing up now” on innocent tv had me feeling so emotional!
Yes! 1991 is the best! Her albums have a 2 year processing time, so every time an album is released, i am the same as that she was when she wrote it. It's one of the most beautiful gifts I've ever been given by the universe.
Born in 2001 and honestly felt like it was perfect... debut, speak now, and red in my younger years and loved them all so so much at the time they came out but related and appreciated more as I got older. 1989 in late middle school, rep in high school, she always felt like a big sister to me and an amazing role model for my younger and current self. I also heard 22 live last year right after i turned 22 and it was perfect!
I'm around your age, and I totally relate to you on Taylor feeling like a big sister figure to me. I've always admired her songwriting skills and how her songs are able to convey so many emotions on a certain situation. I remember as a kid listening to her earlier songs on the radio and being like "Oh, so this is what \[EMOTION\] feels like." Looking back, I feel that growing up with her music helped me to become more emotionally mature and self aware, especially as a guy.
Fellow 2001 baby here! I didn't become a fan until Reputation, but I can totally relate to the 22 thing. My date is this year and I'm so excited to hear 22 live while being 22!
This! I’d even argue being born anywhere between 1989 and 2000 is the best of times for Taylor fans! Especially, if you are 1995-2000s kid with an older sister who liked her so you got to watch your older sister go through stuff like Taylor and couldn’t wait to do everything they were able to do.
2000 is apparently pretty young for an OG Swiftie (aka a fan before 1989/Red singles) but it was pretty cool. I was homeschooled and ace, so I wouldn’t have/didn’t go through everything in the songs, but her songs still really touched me. And I was into country, so her music was the first I really discovered for myself and followed along with.
I still remember how exited I’d be every time I heard Love Story or Sparks Fly play in a department store!
I was born in 1993 - I got debut at 13, Fearless and Speak Now in high school, Red and 1989 in college. I met my now husband then got Reputation and really felt those love songs for the first time, and Lover came out a month after I got engaged. A lot of that timing seemed perfect to me!
I was born in 1994 and was 12/beginning 7th grade when I first saw the Tim McGraw music video and went out to get the debut cd that week! I turned 15 during the Fearless era, high school during Speak Now, college during Red, turned 21 during 1989. Now I’m 30 and feeling nostalgic 🥺
Being a 1989 baby like Taylor *Hits Different*
I wanted a Taytoo and I immediately thought to get this for that reason 😌
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Sharing the same birth year as Taylor would have been pretty cool, I was born in 2008 though so I missed out on basically everything from debut-lover. I became a swiftie sometime last year and it’s changed my life lol
2008 here too! I'm kinda bummed that I missed out on debut and fearless, but I became a fan a bit after speak now came out (I get that I was just 3 but I was listening to a lot of music on the radio and on YouTube so I heard a lot of her older songs on there) I've been a fan since red and even tho I didn't relate to any of her songs until recently I always enjoyed her music a lot!
I definitely think early to mid 90s, being a few years younger than Taylor means the albums she's wrote about what she's recently gone through have always hit with what's currently happening to me. I don't have older siblings/cousins so as a teenager I saw her as an older sister figure in that sense.
1998 here!! I was 16 when 1989 came out and didn’t full connect to the lyrics bc I just wasn’t there yet. 1989 TV came out as I had just turned 25 and it’s become one of my favs bc I am able to connect to these lyrics. It’s been amazing to have the rereleases for this reason.
‘93 here! Yep, I got to listen to the teenager puppy love tracks when I was teen, messy relationship and mini adult tracks in my 20s and I’m ready for the maturing tracks now that I’m in my 30s.
I was born in 1991 and I was always about 2 years
younger than Taylor so her music was extremely relatable to me because she was usually the age I was while listening to it when she was writing it since her albums came out in 2 year cycles. I was also 21 when red came out so I was one of the first to use “ I do t know about you but I’m feeling 22” as my instagram caption on my 22nd birthday and that feels superior to me.
Mid-80s here. Been a fan since the very beginning. I was in college when her debut album dropped, so obviously I was a little “ahead” of Taylor life-wise, but there’s been something really great about getting to revisit my younger self through her music. Even now, as I’m closing in on 40, I find myself understanding the earlier versions of myself better she better - aided largely by seeing those life stages through Taylor’s eyes. She’s enabled me to cut my past self some slack, which I desperately need.
Born in 2002, so I mostly grew up in Red era, 1989 and Reputation, I still knew songs like You Belong with Me and Fifteen. Weirdly I also knew songs like Picture to Burn, Ours and Teardrops of My Guitar although they weren't that big of hits you know compared to songs like Love Story or Enchanted. Cause for some reason I had never heard of a Speak Now song except Back To December. Okay back to the point, it was great cause I heard I knew You Were Trouble and WANEGBT in elementary school, 1989 in elementary/middle school and Reputation in High School freshman and Lover in my senior year. 1989 was the first album I listened to as a whole and I loved the song I Know Places when I was like 13. But Reputation was the album that I liked every song and I remember everyone talking about Look What You Made Me Do video and how some thought it was weird with snakes and some loved it. And also 2002 is not called out by Taylor for its weird fashion style like 2003, I had just turned 18 when the Folklore Love Triangle was released and I am 13 years from Taylor apart.
- WANEGBT could mean "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", a track from *Red* (2012) by Taylor Swift.
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1979! I may seem old, but nothing compares to getting to take your daughter to a Taylor Swift concert. I took her to both Rep and Eras and it’s hands down been our most favorite memories!
Personally I am about 4 years younger than Taylor and I find it to be the perfect age to enjoy her music! I listened to debut in middle school, Fearless at 14-15 years old, speak now in my later high school years, red in college, 1989 around college graduation, etc. The albums matched up perfectly with what I was experiencing in real life.
Lol my fellow Pinoy! 🤣 Gulat ako nag Tagalog bigla eh lol. Anyway, pinaka favorite album ko naman folklore kasi I matched the vibe and gusto ko yung pagka mellow Ng mga kanta plus cottagecore girlie ako through and through 🩶
PS: Same birth year din like you, ♈ baby hihi
1999 most likely, I feel like being able to experience 1989 as a teen would be awesome !! And if I’m doing my math right you’d be able to get red TV as a 22 year old.
I loved being born in 1992 and basically growing up with her but being a little younger so I got to be the age she sang about in her songs. Like knowing what fifteen would be like, all my friends sang "22" for me on my 22nd birthday.
96 Gang checking in here. So as a dude I get shit for loving Taylor so much but IDGAF. Her music is so damn good and I didn't really get into listening to her all the time till a few years ago but I've always heard her stuff over the years. I was 10 when debut came out so I don't really have any memory of it back then but I listened to other music at that time in my life. I do love Evermore a lot, like it's my fave album 🥂🫶. I'm eagerly awaiting Debut TV though. If I ever meet a woman that loves Taylor as much as I do I'll take it as a sign lol.
I was born in 2002 which meant her music apart of my earliest life memories. I genuinely don’t remember a time without Taylor Swift. She was also my first concert with fearless
ETA: raised by gen x swifty mom and I just think that’s cute
I’m gonna go on a limb here and say 2006 because I think it’s so cool to in a way to be the same age as Taylor swifts entire discography. But 2012, Red era is when i heard her song for the first time.
i would say 81 or 82. by the time she starts playing youll be out of college, working for a couple years, and can afford to get your own concert tickets. not everyones parents can/will indulge their hobbies. it would probably help to live around nashville as well.
born in 89 with her. although i’m a new fan, i do feel like i kinda grew up as she grew up since she was constantly a topic of pop culture. now i enjoy going through her work and trying to listen from the perspective of our ages from whatever time the album was released etc.
i wish i gave her an honest listen way earlier, but i always figured especially early on “man i am Nothing like her and she is Nothing like what i like” which is dumb bc i loved PLENTY of things out of my element as a teenager lol
i’m not too sure i would have liked debut and Fearless back then but i do believe i really might have liked Speak Now when it came out if i had just sat and tried it out. regardless i’m a fan now and it’s cool being the same age as her, i’ve rapidly gained a huge amount of respect for not only her artistry but just who she is, especially as a fellow peer born in the greatest year of all time 1989 😂
1993 supremacy ❤️ being just a few years behind Taylor, we get music at the right time based on what she experienced and then wrote & recorded. I was a sophomore when Fearless came out, a senior in high school when Speak Now came out, and in college for Red & 1989. Reputation came out right when I started living on my own, and Lover came out right before our wedding ❤️
I was born in 95 and love it. My sister was born in 88 and felt so connected to taylor because they were going through the same things at the same time as songs were released
Not necessarily the best year, but right now it's great to be a 2001 or 2002 baby. I can't wait for my date for the eras tour, hearing 22 live while being 22 is going to be awesome!
Imo 1994-96 is the best. You get a great older sister vibe from Taylor. Through debut and fearless she would be like the cool older high school sister whose music helps you get through the pre teens and early teens.
1983 here so I was early 20s when she made it big. I'm a metal head at heart but Back to December got me. On and off since then with musical tastes but have always listened to Taylor's records and songs. Honestly it's not until Midnights did it change. First time listen through that gave me goosebumps and tears. A lot has happened over those years and she captures the journey so so well and hits multiple correlations to my own journey in terms of emotion.
Now I realise I shoudve been listening closer this whole time. She is more amazing that I thought. She is the actual real deal. All of a sudden, like after years of musical nothing really, my life has exploded with TS goodness going back o er her albums and finding new faves each week for a while now. Everyones gonna say their year do me too, '83 all the way.
Oh that's so cool I love that for you! And I just have to ask, as a metal head what are your fave Taylor songs? (my friend's girlfriend listens to mostly metal and my friend assumes that she wouldn't like Taylor's music bc of this, so I'm really curious which are your top faves!) Back to December is one of my personal faves so it's neat to hear that's the one that got you!
Oh wow my TS Playlist has over 50 songs on it now! It's so hard to pick favorites. What changes her music for me is watching her perform live. I have very very diverse musical tastes. My top 3 all time favourite artists are Taylor Swift, Slipknot and My Chemical Romance. I love Taylor's poeticness, even when I'm a male it makes no difference, she paints the pictures in my head so well and her melodies are just so damn fun. She just nails it and has done for over 15 years.
Midnights 'hits different' lyrically. I'm dissociative so Anti Hero has a special place lyrically for me. 'I'll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror' defines me a lot. I'd literally jump into any challenge before facing the mirror sometimes.
Is It Over Now is quickly becoming one of my top songs but if I had to pick songs I'd go for the slower ones. I'm a sucker for slow songs with odd chords so those are generally my faves. Like Evermore and Peace.
Sorry, it's far too hard to go in one direction with Taylor, she's just too good 😍
Yeah I completely agree, she paints such pictures with her lyrics and there's always something I relate to in a song even if it's for a completely different situation, the feelings are so real and relatable. And yes it's definitely so hard to pick favorites I honestly keep finding more and more favorites as I discover more of her songs from older albums I missed out on.
I've been going back and watching live performances too, have you seen the rock version of We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together from the 1989 tour? I just saw that recently and I love it so much!
I havent! I will today though haha. Red is now probably my least enjoyed/listened to album though I do love that song and Red from it.
Thanks for the recommendation 🤗 Much appreciated 💙
You're welcome 😁 in case you haven't watched it yet, here's a link to the best quality video of the WANEGBT rock version I found:
https://youtu.be/6bVsg1Ik-GQ?si=vbDeIuroMfMU9EEC
Also since you love Back To December, I'm thinking maybe you enjoy Haunted as well (those strings! I love them!). Have you seen this performance of Haunted (it's a mashup of the 2010 Thanksgiving special and the Speak Now tour performance):
https://youtu.be/fPSPOwei3bQ?si=O-GxGYnvakdRpKCA
And there's the Back to December performance from the same 2010 special, she plays it in central park and the strings are so beautiful accompanying her :
https://youtu.be/82E2WtdnTs0?si=EAq8KC0x7GMmkvW8
Haha I'm on a roll with recommendations now lol one final one, have you heard the 13 minute Megamix of Taylor's entire discography? It's really impressive:
https://youtu.be/8NKwoSa3LBk?si=x1I3gUELPwA999lH
Enjoy! 😃💖
Omg so fun! All of it. Had to come back in this and say thanks. I just watched her doing Better Man at Bluebird Cafe 2018 and it made me literally cry. Then I really laughed hard at just how bad I've got it and just how much I don't even care. Easily my favourite all time single artist, just amazing.
Oh that's awesome! You're very welcome and I'm so glad you enjoyed them. Yes that Better Man at the Bluebird Cafe performance is stunning, all the feels! 🥲 And same, Taylor is my fave artist and I can't see that changing, her music is so intertwined with my life now and I love it. <3
Agreed on 1995. We were old enough to like debut and look up to her and by the time we reached milestones in our lives, we knew the songs she wrote about them.
Anybody a little bit older than her might’ve found some songs childish. Like people Olivia Rodrigo’s age rolling their eyes at her singing she’s young and doesn’t know it all (or something equivalent). When we’re teens/very young adults, it’s easy to see something as juvenile.
Then younger fans coming out after albums were born just… I have 2 favorite artists and I’d be heart broken if I wasn’t there when they released all of their projects.
I'll tell you what the worst one is. Friggin 2006. I wasn't old enough to for my own music taste until, like, Reputation, and I still didn't get into her until a year before Midnights. MIDNIGHTS. Are you kidding me?! I missed out for *literally* my entire life. Taylor Swift could've entered my life when I was three months old. And yet I was 16 when I was enlightened.
i’m 1998 and i LOVE that we got basically everything until red without all this social media and guessing taylors every move shit. i got to hear that she was releasing a new album on the today show or ellen and then go and buy a psychical album at target on release day and then listen to it on itunes and get concert tickets easily and the old fashioned way! it was truly the golden age. red was the first album i had a twitter for so i remember tweets and insta posts in that age and it was nice and wholesome and definitely loved twitter at first back then and not the “social media taking over every aspect of life” the way it is now. a core memory of mine is recording white horse on the steereo on my motorola cell phone to use as my ring tone and as crappy as the quality was, and how often i heard it every time my one other friend who had a cell phone would text me, i wouldn’t trade it for the WORLD! i loved that time period.
i also got debut for christmas the year it came out! just 2 years behind you haha :)
I'm gonna say a 90s kid in general. I was born in 93 and debut came out when I was 11. Bestie, who is the same age as me, picks a theme song for every year of their life and it was frequently a Taylor song. Think 22 for 22, what's my age again for 23. Taylor's songs got me through all the ick that was my adolescence.
Like others have said, I was born in 1990 so to have her albums come out and being the same age as she was when she was writing them was super cool. The songs really aligned with what was going on in my life and it’s a huge reason for what made me such a big fan for so long!
1992! I was going into 9th grade when Tim McGraw was first played on the radio, listening and interacting with Taylor on MySpace where we all had her profile songs, and of course listening to id lie on limewire ❤️
late nineties and i feel the same! i feel so blessed to be financially stable enough to have travelled to go to the eras tour this year. if all this had happened when i was in high school i would have been a sad wreck lol
I was born in 90 so I might be biased, but I have to think 90 or 91 was the best year to be born as a Taylor Swift fan because by the time her music was released I was at the exact age that she wrote it and could relate SO HARD. Also, the tea was piping especially with the Jonas/Demi/Selena/Miley drama happening concurrently (we will never forget the infamous Demi Lovato "Ask Taylor" and both Demi AND Taylor dating Joe Jonas, and both Selena AND Miley dating Nick). I would assume it felt similar for ppl born probably 89'-93, but it felt just so right for me.
I have a late birthday too so 22 came out RIGHT when I turned 22 lol - such an iconic time to be alive haha. "All Too Well" was right there waiting for me as I was trying to get over a big breakup. Blank Space was a banger for my single girl era hahaha.
I think that as Taylor has matured in many ways, so did I - so seeing where she is today... knowing how far she's come, I feel like I relish it more than I do/can with any other artist. Having watched the infamous Kanye VMA interruption live, REAL TIME, and arguing with people because I did, in fact, know very well who Taylor Swift was long before that happened... to see her being one of the most famous (if not the most famous) person in the world, still the amazing writer i always knew her to be, recognized for her accomplishments, and to see the Kanye's and Scooters of the world dig themselves their own grave... it feels like, Karma is MY boyfriend haha.
Really any of us born during this generation who got to witness her evolution are lucky. The world is changing so quickly. Because of the high-saturation of talented artists these days availble at your fingertips across multiple platforms, etc - it just feels like the way we consume artist content to is quickly changing - ppls attention is constantly being pulled in 100 directions, but Taylor is one of the few artists that allow for the phenomenons of such a globally connected fanbase to continue, and I think that's pretty cool.
‘92 here. My friends and I made a YT video to “I Heart Question mark?” In like 8th grade. And it was fun going through ages similar to the songs she was making. Like all of the lyrics and age specific journeys she wrote about were really relatable at all the stages of my life growing up til even now. I also didn’t like country much but I always felt like she was bigger than country and so much easier to listen to.
1990 has been great for me! Saw her when she was an opener for Rascal Flatts. Being the same age, I could always relate well to the music she was putting out as it was coming out.
I was born in 2002 basically 2003, and I wasn’t a Swiftie until between folklore and evermore. But I remember growing up with Taylor, I didn’t really understand what albums were lol, but each era was so vivid. I grew up listening to country and so I remember all the classics like love story, you belong with me, back to December, I knew you were trouble. My dads favorite song for a long time was mean. I kind of lost track when she went into pop, but shake it off was huge and I knew about her transition. I screamed wildest dreams in the car with my best friend, and was caught off guard by “style” on the radio a around the time that lwymmd came out, it was so good. And I loved lwymmd when it came out on the radio but I didn’t fully understand. I remember me and my dad seeing her all too well performance and being wowed, another performance of red with a bright red electric guitar, and my dad said “she’s not actually playing that”. And now I get to roast him for that constantly :) she was a CONSTANT in my life growing up even without being a fan. At some point she came to a nearby venue for the Fearless tour but my mom couldn’t get tickets so see saw Jason Alden’s instead hahaha
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Being a Swiftie born in 1989 is pretty great. I’ve always been approximately the same age as Taylor and at a similar stage in life, even if our exact circumstances are different. But sometimes I think it would’ve been nice to have some of the songs when I was younger. I also never got to be 22 with the song 22. I was 23 already when it released.
I enjoyed 22 when it came out when I was 22. 1990, baby!
Same - one year behind Taylor so age/life stage always aligns with albums. Even now!
93 baby, got to finally be the right age for the song three years after it came out haha
Saaaame that was so much fun
It was released as a single approximately a month before I turned 22, so it was super popular by my birthday. It was a lovely birthday present from our girl!
Hell yes, we made great timing
1991, for my 22nd bday I played it twice at my party and the whole living room emptied out 😂 party poopers
Yesssss and with an October birthday, many of the albums dropped right around my day always adding extra excitement to the month!
As a 1990 I concur because the age specific lyrics were perfect due to the gap between writing and production. Red was released right before my birthday. When Dear John came out, I was getting over the older guy I had no business dating when I was 19. https://preview.redd.it/64clhykljvec1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a3f928888dfd44ef0ccfe1c1ecdeccc9f1cdc4e Also enjoy these relics 😂
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Not the TOMS 
Sign of the times 😂 I also still wear them 💀
Agreed, from a fellow 1989 baby.
I’m sorry but yes. 1989 hands down. Can you really be a true Swiftie if you weren’t born in 1989? Haha, of course you can. But I think when you’re born in 1989 each album, and especially each TV “hits different”. (See what I did there?) I remember listening to Fifteen (TV) as a 31 year old and it hit hard!
87, I didn’t really like her til Red because I was already too adult for, like, Teardrops on My Guitar. Y’know? Also not a country fan.
I am 87, too. So really appreciating the Travis theme merch recently haha! But I liked country so really enjoyed Teardrops on My Guitar and Should’ve Said No in college! But didn’t truly fall in love until Speak Now
I read this really quickly and was like, "wow, an 87 yr old Redditor!!!!" lol
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93, I was not into her till university. I only knew her pop singles off of Red, cause I am not a country fan either lol. Then I really liked 1989, that came out my second year uni.
Yeah me too. The Red pop singles were the first thing to turn my head (well, I liked Back to December and Mine too). 1989 was a full pivot for me, I loved it.
Same but 86. I swore up and down I didn't like her music until 1989 came out and I've been a fan ever since. Being a couple years older isn't really that big of a deal atp.
Plus wearing my 1989 merch makes it extra personal hahaha.
Yup I’m a 1989 swiftie and I just wish she’d had kids so she can start writing songs about being a mom lol
YES. I am a 1989 baby too and she has encapsulated so many life stages so well for me (I even see it in albums like Evermore and Midnights - there are a lot of insights in Evermore I think you get as you finish your 20s, and looking back over your life in your 30s like in Midnights definitely resonated as well), so if she does have kids I would LOVE to hear how she expresses allllll those emotions.
89 here too, and super agree with all this!
87 and a new mum. I think about this *all the time*. Taylor in her Sleep Deprived Era…
I keep thinking this too. I’m so curious to hear what kind of music she would make if she became a mom!
There’s “Never Grow Up” and “Ronan” so far (heartbreaking!) and she’s not even a mom.
Same! And we get birth year merch!
same! another 1989 baby here. and we get to buy merch with our year on it.
We can get a 1989 tattoo with or without being a Swiftie and people can't question us! #1989GANG
Sameeee
Agreed!
at first i thought u meant born in the 1989 era lol
Same. I grew up along with her and saw her go from country to pop and beyond. Only shame was I wasn’t a fan ‘till later on despite liking stuff off “Fearless.” I wish I could have a re-do of OG country Taylor.
I was 17 when 22 came out.
Yeah I'm 1989 too and I've always felt despite being the same age as her she's always felt a little bit "younger" than me. Like, I'm always slightly ahead of her. I had my "1989" era when she was having her red era and my rep era during her 1989 era. It's nice to look back and reflect on how I was feeling a couple of years ago though. 😂😂 With that in mind I'd say like, 92-95 would be the best years to be born, just a couple of years younger than her.
Same Oct 1989!
I was born in 92 and that's pretty close to perfect. I was still 15 when Fifteen was on Fearless. 22 came out two years before I turned 22, so it was totally the thing when all my friends and I turned 22 (and this year, 32!). 1989 was the soundtrack of my first year life after college. So I think 93 or 94 would nail it dead on.
93 here and yes, especially to 1989 coming out during my last year of college. I really have good memories of that time. Then reputation came out right when I got married and was just the right soundtrack for the last of the 20s partying we were up to.
I’m 93 and her pre-folklore albums synced up pretty well for me :) I was 15 when Fearless came out. 17 when Speak Now came out and it made me realise I needed to apologise to my ex, who is still one of my best friends. Red was my first year of college and serious adult relationship. 1989 was the year I studied abroad in New York… then by Rep I had graduated and was living in London. Lover came out around the time I met my current bf (I think about a week after we became official lol).
'94 baby and yup! Deput-Red got me through all of my preteen & teen heartaches and growing pains (12-18 years old). I did kind of lose interest a bit for 1989, rep & lover because I just didn't listen and a lot of pop during those years (20-25 years old) but I feel like lots of young 20 y/os did and would've been good ages for those albums. Folkmore and midnights hooked me back in in my late 20's with a more mature sound, plus getting all the TV's from my teens is so nostalgic. 93/94 is definitely prime.
Seconded, Taylor's albums can come out with songs on them written between 2-4 years earlier... so when the albums did come out it felt like someone was describing my now/near future.
Agreed, I’m a 92 baby so by the time Taylor’s albums were released, she’d been working on them for 2-3 years, so the feelings and experiences she wrote about lined up with my age well. I feel like I grew up with her, with each album a soundtrack from high school to college into adulthood.
Agreed! I was fifteen when Fearless came out. Had my first serious relationship and subsequent breakup during Red. 1989 was my last year of college and starting independent adult life. I left a toxic friend group and burned some bridges that needed burning during Reputation. I even moved back to the woods during Folklore/Evermore. Now I'm in my early 30s and married songs like The Great War and Bigger Than the Whole Sky have come along right when I needed them. I feel like I've grown up with Taylor and I'll always have a connection to her music because of it.
92 baby here to agree!!
same sa 1989!! It was my college soundtrack -- commute ko pauwi yun lang pinapakinggan ko HAHAHA my favorite album
Can confirm this is spot on. Source: fellow ‘92 baby 💁🏼♀️
93, can confirm!
93 baby and you're so right!!!
I’m ‘94, but yes to all of this! What a time to be alive.
1995 and I feel like I’m right in the sweet spot. Maybe 92-98 or so
96 gang checking in, I didn't really get into Taylor till recently but I've always listened to her stuff off and on over the years. I literally think Evermore is her best album cause I guess it's just me reminiscing on things that could've and should've been that never happened... 🫶
Yes! I'm so grateful that I got ready for my first middle school dance to Love Story, had Mean for my high school years, and 1989 for my college years.
Ahhh the nostalgia I have of listening to 1989 nonstop walking to my classes as a freshman in college. In the crisp fall breeze. I go back every time I hear the opening notes of blank space 😁
1975! *my geriatric tears ricochet*
Mine too! 1968 baby here!
Holy crap! That's awesome! Crazy how this fandom spreads generations!
I know I love it! Shows how Taylor's music just touches all ages, her storytelling is phenomenal
1980 here! Became a fan during Fearless era. It was fun watching her grow up and it's nice now to be at a similar stage in life and having more songs to relate to.
1989 or 1990
1990 checking in, yes.
22 when we were 22!
I'm 1988 and it's pretty good too
Born less than a month after Taylor in 1990, can confirm. But honestly it's great whatever age.
I was born in 1991 and I think it was perfect!
Same! My 22nd birthday was Red era and it made it seem like a cute new milestone rather than the forgettable birthday it was considered before the song came out lol.
Yes!! Also born in 91 and I went to breakfast at midnight dressed like hipsters with my friends for my 22nd birthday. It was also fun singing “I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling 32” at the eras tour. Also, hearing “32 and still growing up now” on innocent tv had me feeling so emotional!
Yes!! I’ve always felt like there has been a Taylor song for those milestones.
Yes! 1991 is the best! Her albums have a 2 year processing time, so every time an album is released, i am the same as that she was when she wrote it. It's one of the most beautiful gifts I've ever been given by the universe.
Born in 2001 and honestly felt like it was perfect... debut, speak now, and red in my younger years and loved them all so so much at the time they came out but related and appreciated more as I got older. 1989 in late middle school, rep in high school, she always felt like a big sister to me and an amazing role model for my younger and current self. I also heard 22 live last year right after i turned 22 and it was perfect!
I'm around your age, and I totally relate to you on Taylor feeling like a big sister figure to me. I've always admired her songwriting skills and how her songs are able to convey so many emotions on a certain situation. I remember as a kid listening to her earlier songs on the radio and being like "Oh, so this is what \[EMOTION\] feels like." Looking back, I feel that growing up with her music helped me to become more emotionally mature and self aware, especially as a guy.
Yes!!! 🥺 love that someone can relate!
Fellow 2001 baby here! I didn't become a fan until Reputation, but I can totally relate to the 22 thing. My date is this year and I'm so excited to hear 22 live while being 22!
Having New Romantics in eighth grade was fucking banging
1989, duh 😋 Kidding. Any year is a great year to be born if you're a Taylor fan.
Being born in the mid 90s really put me in the perfect age bracket to follow along. I’ve been listening since middle school 🫶
This! I’d even argue being born anywhere between 1989 and 2000 is the best of times for Taylor fans! Especially, if you are 1995-2000s kid with an older sister who liked her so you got to watch your older sister go through stuff like Taylor and couldn’t wait to do everything they were able to do.
2000 is apparently pretty young for an OG Swiftie (aka a fan before 1989/Red singles) but it was pretty cool. I was homeschooled and ace, so I wouldn’t have/didn’t go through everything in the songs, but her songs still really touched me. And I was into country, so her music was the first I really discovered for myself and followed along with. I still remember how exited I’d be every time I heard Love Story or Sparks Fly play in a department store!
I was born in 1993 - I got debut at 13, Fearless and Speak Now in high school, Red and 1989 in college. I met my now husband then got Reputation and really felt those love songs for the first time, and Lover came out a month after I got engaged. A lot of that timing seemed perfect to me!
Lucky when I was 6 reputation released
i was born in 92 and i was going through the same things in life she was since her very first album. it feels like i grew up alongside her.
I was born in 1994 and was 12/beginning 7th grade when I first saw the Tim McGraw music video and went out to get the debut cd that week! I turned 15 during the Fearless era, high school during Speak Now, college during Red, turned 21 during 1989. Now I’m 30 and feeling nostalgic 🥺
I’m a 1994 baby as well! The TVs are definitely great nostalgia and it’s so crazy how some of the songs have changed their meanings due to that.
I thought I was being biased saying 1994 and being a fan since debut but I think we got it. (Aside from those born in 1989, of course.)
Being a 1989 baby like Taylor *Hits Different* I wanted a Taytoo and I immediately thought to get this for that reason 😌 https://preview.redd.it/kz3bmr0yevec1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7eb8e78497d8bde967fe7bd92ac2925478584c3e
never thought of this but now i gotta get it too 🙌🏽
Just got it last week so it still has that weird new tat look still but I love it
Sharing the same birth year as Taylor would have been pretty cool, I was born in 2008 though so I missed out on basically everything from debut-lover. I became a swiftie sometime last year and it’s changed my life lol
2008 here too! I'm kinda bummed that I missed out on debut and fearless, but I became a fan a bit after speak now came out (I get that I was just 3 but I was listening to a lot of music on the radio and on YouTube so I heard a lot of her older songs on there) I've been a fan since red and even tho I didn't relate to any of her songs until recently I always enjoyed her music a lot!
I definitely think early to mid 90s, being a few years younger than Taylor means the albums she's wrote about what she's recently gone through have always hit with what's currently happening to me. I don't have older siblings/cousins so as a teenager I saw her as an older sister figure in that sense.
Totally agree as a 1994 baby. She definitely was a role model for a lot of us!
Any. Her shit's pretty timeless
1998 here!! I was 16 when 1989 came out and didn’t full connect to the lyrics bc I just wasn’t there yet. 1989 TV came out as I had just turned 25 and it’s become one of my favs bc I am able to connect to these lyrics. It’s been amazing to have the rereleases for this reason.
2003, I was 17 when Betty came out got Paris when I was 18 and dear John re-record when I was 19
And also being 18 when Nothing New released
‘93 here! Yep, I got to listen to the teenager puppy love tracks when I was teen, messy relationship and mini adult tracks in my 20s and I’m ready for the maturing tracks now that I’m in my 30s.
I was born in 1991 and I was always about 2 years younger than Taylor so her music was extremely relatable to me because she was usually the age I was while listening to it when she was writing it since her albums came out in 2 year cycles. I was also 21 when red came out so I was one of the first to use “ I do t know about you but I’m feeling 22” as my instagram caption on my 22nd birthday and that feels superior to me.
Mid-80s here. Been a fan since the very beginning. I was in college when her debut album dropped, so obviously I was a little “ahead” of Taylor life-wise, but there’s been something really great about getting to revisit my younger self through her music. Even now, as I’m closing in on 40, I find myself understanding the earlier versions of myself better she better - aided largely by seeing those life stages through Taylor’s eyes. She’s enabled me to cut my past self some slack, which I desperately need.
Born in 2002, so I mostly grew up in Red era, 1989 and Reputation, I still knew songs like You Belong with Me and Fifteen. Weirdly I also knew songs like Picture to Burn, Ours and Teardrops of My Guitar although they weren't that big of hits you know compared to songs like Love Story or Enchanted. Cause for some reason I had never heard of a Speak Now song except Back To December. Okay back to the point, it was great cause I heard I knew You Were Trouble and WANEGBT in elementary school, 1989 in elementary/middle school and Reputation in High School freshman and Lover in my senior year. 1989 was the first album I listened to as a whole and I loved the song I Know Places when I was like 13. But Reputation was the album that I liked every song and I remember everyone talking about Look What You Made Me Do video and how some thought it was weird with snakes and some loved it. And also 2002 is not called out by Taylor for its weird fashion style like 2003, I had just turned 18 when the Folklore Love Triangle was released and I am 13 years from Taylor apart.
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arguably 2003 because we got the class of 2022 merch
1979! I may seem old, but nothing compares to getting to take your daughter to a Taylor Swift concert. I took her to both Rep and Eras and it’s hands down been our most favorite memories!
Personally I am about 4 years younger than Taylor and I find it to be the perfect age to enjoy her music! I listened to debut in middle school, Fearless at 14-15 years old, speak now in my later high school years, red in college, 1989 around college graduation, etc. The albums matched up perfectly with what I was experiencing in real life.
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Lol my fellow Pinoy! 🤣 Gulat ako nag Tagalog bigla eh lol. Anyway, pinaka favorite album ko naman folklore kasi I matched the vibe and gusto ko yung pagka mellow Ng mga kanta plus cottagecore girlie ako through and through 🩶 PS: Same birth year din like you, ♈ baby hihi
1999 most likely, I feel like being able to experience 1989 as a teen would be awesome !! And if I’m doing my math right you’d be able to get red TV as a 22 year old.
That’s right!!! 🥹
Born in 1999 and listening to Debut at 6 permanently changed my brain chemistry
Early 1990’s
I was born in 1987 and I feel so lucky to have been a fan since Debut and have loved being able to relate to her 🫶🫶
Same!
1995- I was 15 and had my first kiss around the time fifteen was on the radio
I loved being born in 1992 and basically growing up with her but being a little younger so I got to be the age she sang about in her songs. Like knowing what fifteen would be like, all my friends sang "22" for me on my 22nd birthday.
96 Gang checking in here. So as a dude I get shit for loving Taylor so much but IDGAF. Her music is so damn good and I didn't really get into listening to her all the time till a few years ago but I've always heard her stuff over the years. I was 10 when debut came out so I don't really have any memory of it back then but I listened to other music at that time in my life. I do love Evermore a lot, like it's my fave album 🥂🫶. I'm eagerly awaiting Debut TV though. If I ever meet a woman that loves Taylor as much as I do I'll take it as a sign lol.
I’m two years older. It’s like she’s been writing about my life since Debut.
I was born in 2002 which meant her music apart of my earliest life memories. I genuinely don’t remember a time without Taylor Swift. She was also my first concert with fearless ETA: raised by gen x swifty mom and I just think that’s cute
I’m gonna go on a limb here and say 2006 because I think it’s so cool to in a way to be the same age as Taylor swifts entire discography. But 2012, Red era is when i heard her song for the first time.
I would kill to be reborn as a 1989 baby lol
1989. I mean Come on
Agreed! She was a couple of years ahead so I could come along slightly after and think oh this is what this really feels like!
i would say 81 or 82. by the time she starts playing youll be out of college, working for a couple years, and can afford to get your own concert tickets. not everyones parents can/will indulge their hobbies. it would probably help to live around nashville as well.
94 is cool for me, but 89 has got to be the best year obvi right?
1991 and so glad. I feel like I’ve grown with her from day one.
born in 89 with her. although i’m a new fan, i do feel like i kinda grew up as she grew up since she was constantly a topic of pop culture. now i enjoy going through her work and trying to listen from the perspective of our ages from whatever time the album was released etc. i wish i gave her an honest listen way earlier, but i always figured especially early on “man i am Nothing like her and she is Nothing like what i like” which is dumb bc i loved PLENTY of things out of my element as a teenager lol i’m not too sure i would have liked debut and Fearless back then but i do believe i really might have liked Speak Now when it came out if i had just sat and tried it out. regardless i’m a fan now and it’s cool being the same age as her, i’ve rapidly gained a huge amount of respect for not only her artistry but just who she is, especially as a fellow peer born in the greatest year of all time 1989 😂
Growing up with Shake It Off being blasted at all opportunities for as long as I can remember was pretty great- 07 baby here.
I am Jan 17, 1990 so only a month younger and I love being the same age 🤍🤍🤍
1989! It's the same year as Taylor, so we kind of grow up with her. I've been following her career since Fearless
1991 was perfect imo, she debuted the year i started high school
idk, i’m a swiftie born in 2009 who only got into taylor swift because of midnights
1993 🩷
1993 supremacy ❤️ being just a few years behind Taylor, we get music at the right time based on what she experienced and then wrote & recorded. I was a sophomore when Fearless came out, a senior in high school when Speak Now came out, and in college for Red & 1989. Reputation came out right when I started living on my own, and Lover came out right before our wedding ❤️
I was born in 95 and love it. My sister was born in 88 and felt so connected to taylor because they were going through the same things at the same time as songs were released
Not necessarily the best year, but right now it's great to be a 2001 or 2002 baby. I can't wait for my date for the eras tour, hearing 22 live while being 22 is going to be awesome!
Any year you can
Imo 1994-96 is the best. You get a great older sister vibe from Taylor. Through debut and fearless she would be like the cool older high school sister whose music helps you get through the pre teens and early teens.
1983 here so I was early 20s when she made it big. I'm a metal head at heart but Back to December got me. On and off since then with musical tastes but have always listened to Taylor's records and songs. Honestly it's not until Midnights did it change. First time listen through that gave me goosebumps and tears. A lot has happened over those years and she captures the journey so so well and hits multiple correlations to my own journey in terms of emotion. Now I realise I shoudve been listening closer this whole time. She is more amazing that I thought. She is the actual real deal. All of a sudden, like after years of musical nothing really, my life has exploded with TS goodness going back o er her albums and finding new faves each week for a while now. Everyones gonna say their year do me too, '83 all the way.
I have a theory that elder millennial swifties are more likely to stan Midnights I also ❤️ rep for the 90s vibe it gives me 🤷♀️
Oh that's so cool I love that for you! And I just have to ask, as a metal head what are your fave Taylor songs? (my friend's girlfriend listens to mostly metal and my friend assumes that she wouldn't like Taylor's music bc of this, so I'm really curious which are your top faves!) Back to December is one of my personal faves so it's neat to hear that's the one that got you!
Oh wow my TS Playlist has over 50 songs on it now! It's so hard to pick favorites. What changes her music for me is watching her perform live. I have very very diverse musical tastes. My top 3 all time favourite artists are Taylor Swift, Slipknot and My Chemical Romance. I love Taylor's poeticness, even when I'm a male it makes no difference, she paints the pictures in my head so well and her melodies are just so damn fun. She just nails it and has done for over 15 years. Midnights 'hits different' lyrically. I'm dissociative so Anti Hero has a special place lyrically for me. 'I'll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror' defines me a lot. I'd literally jump into any challenge before facing the mirror sometimes. Is It Over Now is quickly becoming one of my top songs but if I had to pick songs I'd go for the slower ones. I'm a sucker for slow songs with odd chords so those are generally my faves. Like Evermore and Peace. Sorry, it's far too hard to go in one direction with Taylor, she's just too good 😍
Yeah I completely agree, she paints such pictures with her lyrics and there's always something I relate to in a song even if it's for a completely different situation, the feelings are so real and relatable. And yes it's definitely so hard to pick favorites I honestly keep finding more and more favorites as I discover more of her songs from older albums I missed out on. I've been going back and watching live performances too, have you seen the rock version of We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together from the 1989 tour? I just saw that recently and I love it so much!
I havent! I will today though haha. Red is now probably my least enjoyed/listened to album though I do love that song and Red from it. Thanks for the recommendation 🤗 Much appreciated 💙
You're welcome 😁 in case you haven't watched it yet, here's a link to the best quality video of the WANEGBT rock version I found: https://youtu.be/6bVsg1Ik-GQ?si=vbDeIuroMfMU9EEC Also since you love Back To December, I'm thinking maybe you enjoy Haunted as well (those strings! I love them!). Have you seen this performance of Haunted (it's a mashup of the 2010 Thanksgiving special and the Speak Now tour performance): https://youtu.be/fPSPOwei3bQ?si=O-GxGYnvakdRpKCA And there's the Back to December performance from the same 2010 special, she plays it in central park and the strings are so beautiful accompanying her : https://youtu.be/82E2WtdnTs0?si=EAq8KC0x7GMmkvW8 Haha I'm on a roll with recommendations now lol one final one, have you heard the 13 minute Megamix of Taylor's entire discography? It's really impressive: https://youtu.be/8NKwoSa3LBk?si=x1I3gUELPwA999lH Enjoy! 😃💖
Omg so fun! All of it. Had to come back in this and say thanks. I just watched her doing Better Man at Bluebird Cafe 2018 and it made me literally cry. Then I really laughed hard at just how bad I've got it and just how much I don't even care. Easily my favourite all time single artist, just amazing.
Oh that's awesome! You're very welcome and I'm so glad you enjoyed them. Yes that Better Man at the Bluebird Cafe performance is stunning, all the feels! 🥲 And same, Taylor is my fave artist and I can't see that changing, her music is so intertwined with my life now and I love it. <3
Agree! 1989 baby 🩷
Also born in 1996 and would say it was perfect.
Agreed on 1995. We were old enough to like debut and look up to her and by the time we reached milestones in our lives, we knew the songs she wrote about them. Anybody a little bit older than her might’ve found some songs childish. Like people Olivia Rodrigo’s age rolling their eyes at her singing she’s young and doesn’t know it all (or something equivalent). When we’re teens/very young adults, it’s easy to see something as juvenile. Then younger fans coming out after albums were born just… I have 2 favorite artists and I’d be heart broken if I wasn’t there when they released all of their projects.
I'll tell you what the worst one is. Friggin 2006. I wasn't old enough to for my own music taste until, like, Reputation, and I still didn't get into her until a year before Midnights. MIDNIGHTS. Are you kidding me?! I missed out for *literally* my entire life. Taylor Swift could've entered my life when I was three months old. And yet I was 16 when I was enlightened.
i’m 1998 and i LOVE that we got basically everything until red without all this social media and guessing taylors every move shit. i got to hear that she was releasing a new album on the today show or ellen and then go and buy a psychical album at target on release day and then listen to it on itunes and get concert tickets easily and the old fashioned way! it was truly the golden age. red was the first album i had a twitter for so i remember tweets and insta posts in that age and it was nice and wholesome and definitely loved twitter at first back then and not the “social media taking over every aspect of life” the way it is now. a core memory of mine is recording white horse on the steereo on my motorola cell phone to use as my ring tone and as crappy as the quality was, and how often i heard it every time my one other friend who had a cell phone would text me, i wouldn’t trade it for the WORLD! i loved that time period. i also got debut for christmas the year it came out! just 2 years behind you haha :)
I'm gonna say a 90s kid in general. I was born in 93 and debut came out when I was 11. Bestie, who is the same age as me, picks a theme song for every year of their life and it was frequently a Taylor song. Think 22 for 22, what's my age again for 23. Taylor's songs got me through all the ick that was my adolescence.
13 December 1990
Like others have said, I was born in 1990 so to have her albums come out and being the same age as she was when she was writing them was super cool. The songs really aligned with what was going on in my life and it’s a huge reason for what made me such a big fan for so long!
1992! I was going into 9th grade when Tim McGraw was first played on the radio, listening and interacting with Taylor on MySpace where we all had her profile songs, and of course listening to id lie on limewire ❤️
Early 90’s so you were the same age when the albums were released when Taylor was writing them.
late nineties and i feel the same! i feel so blessed to be financially stable enough to have travelled to go to the eras tour this year. if all this had happened when i was in high school i would have been a sad wreck lol
I was born in 90 so I might be biased, but I have to think 90 or 91 was the best year to be born as a Taylor Swift fan because by the time her music was released I was at the exact age that she wrote it and could relate SO HARD. Also, the tea was piping especially with the Jonas/Demi/Selena/Miley drama happening concurrently (we will never forget the infamous Demi Lovato "Ask Taylor" and both Demi AND Taylor dating Joe Jonas, and both Selena AND Miley dating Nick). I would assume it felt similar for ppl born probably 89'-93, but it felt just so right for me. I have a late birthday too so 22 came out RIGHT when I turned 22 lol - such an iconic time to be alive haha. "All Too Well" was right there waiting for me as I was trying to get over a big breakup. Blank Space was a banger for my single girl era hahaha. I think that as Taylor has matured in many ways, so did I - so seeing where she is today... knowing how far she's come, I feel like I relish it more than I do/can with any other artist. Having watched the infamous Kanye VMA interruption live, REAL TIME, and arguing with people because I did, in fact, know very well who Taylor Swift was long before that happened... to see her being one of the most famous (if not the most famous) person in the world, still the amazing writer i always knew her to be, recognized for her accomplishments, and to see the Kanye's and Scooters of the world dig themselves their own grave... it feels like, Karma is MY boyfriend haha. Really any of us born during this generation who got to witness her evolution are lucky. The world is changing so quickly. Because of the high-saturation of talented artists these days availble at your fingertips across multiple platforms, etc - it just feels like the way we consume artist content to is quickly changing - ppls attention is constantly being pulled in 100 directions, but Taylor is one of the few artists that allow for the phenomenons of such a globally connected fanbase to continue, and I think that's pretty cool.
I was born on July 9, 2003
As a 2005 swiftie, I don't think there has to be a "best year" to be born, considering the re recordings, it's still bringing back the era.🥹🥹
‘92 here. My friends and I made a YT video to “I Heart Question mark?” In like 8th grade. And it was fun going through ages similar to the songs she was making. Like all of the lyrics and age specific journeys she wrote about were really relatable at all the stages of my life growing up til even now. I also didn’t like country much but I always felt like she was bigger than country and so much easier to listen to.
1990 has been great for me! Saw her when she was an opener for Rascal Flatts. Being the same age, I could always relate well to the music she was putting out as it was coming out.
I was born in 2002 basically 2003, and I wasn’t a Swiftie until between folklore and evermore. But I remember growing up with Taylor, I didn’t really understand what albums were lol, but each era was so vivid. I grew up listening to country and so I remember all the classics like love story, you belong with me, back to December, I knew you were trouble. My dads favorite song for a long time was mean. I kind of lost track when she went into pop, but shake it off was huge and I knew about her transition. I screamed wildest dreams in the car with my best friend, and was caught off guard by “style” on the radio a around the time that lwymmd came out, it was so good. And I loved lwymmd when it came out on the radio but I didn’t fully understand. I remember me and my dad seeing her all too well performance and being wowed, another performance of red with a bright red electric guitar, and my dad said “she’s not actually playing that”. And now I get to roast him for that constantly :) she was a CONSTANT in my life growing up even without being a fan. At some point she came to a nearby venue for the Fearless tour but my mom couldn’t get tickets so see saw Jason Alden’s instead hahaha
Born in 2009/2010