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taylor swift shrine !



i knew taylor's music for a long time but i first started getting really into her music was at the start of the lover era. i also stayed up all night for the release of folklore, but i only became a die hard swiftie in 2022 ! i am top 3% of her listeners and my favourite album is speak now, which is what this shrine is themed after, as well as purple being taylor's fave colour :D i went to the eras tour in august 2024, it was the best night of my life !!! my surprise songs were i did something bad and my boy only breaks his favourite toys x coney island. my favourite taylor swift song is would've, could've, should've ! some of my other favourites are forever winter, haunted, cowboy like me and this is me trying.


taylor alison swift was born on december 13th, 1989 in west reading, pennsylvania. she was named after james taylor whom taylor's parents were big fans of. her mum also though that giving her a gender-neural name would help taylors business career. she spent her early years on a christmas tree farm and she spent her summers at her family's vacation home in stone harbor, new jersey, where she often performed acoustic songs at a local coffee shop. she wasn't the first musically gifted person in the family, as her grandmother marjorie was a professional opera singer. growing up taylor was a big fan of faith hill, shinia twain and the dixie chicks. after watching a documentary about faith hill, she became determined to pursue a country music career in nashville. at 11, taylor traveled to nashville to visit record labels and submit demo tapes of dolly parton and dixie chicks karaoke covers, but was unfortunetly rejected by all the labels. her first appearance in front of a large crowd was when she was 11 and sang the star-spangled banner before a philadelphia 76ers basketball game. when she was 12, she saw a 12-string guitar - twice the amount of strings on a regular guitar. she asked her parents if she could have one and they refused, saying that her fingers were too small and she'll have to wait until shes older. taylor rebeled and started playing the 12-string guitar 4 hours a day - 6 on weekends. she would get calluses on her fingers that would crack and bleed, but taylor just taped them up and kept on playing. it was the 2002 US open championships where she caught the eye of music manager dan dymtrow, who worked with artists such as britney spears, he saw similar potential in taylor and agreed to work with her. with dans help taylor managed to model for abercrombie & fitch and had an original song included on a maybelline compilation CD. after performing original songs at an RCA records showcase, 13 year old taylor was given an artist development deal and began to travel regularly to nashville with her mother. at 14 the swift family moved to hendersonville, about 15 miles outside nashville city center. while there she got the chance to work with established nashville songwriters on the famous music row such as troy verges, brett beavers, brett james, mac mcanally and the warren brothers. they began meeting for 2 hour writing sessions every tuesday afternoon after school. in may 2005 taylor was approached by sony/ATV tree music publishing for the opportunity to write for other artists. she already felt constrained by the RCA deal, which she felt was keeping her in the "development stage" for too long and didn't take the opportunity to renew it, deciding instead to accept sony's offer and became the youngest artist signed by sony at the age of 15. at an industry showcase taylor caught the attention of scott borchetta, a dreamworks records executive who was preparing to form an independent record label, big machine records. she was one of big machine's first signings. taylor then began working on her debut album with nathan chapman.

fun facts about taylor !

her lucky number is 13 ! in an interview, she said "i was born on the 13th, i turned 13 on friday the 13th, my first album went gold in 13 weeks. also, my first song that ever went number 1, it had a 13 second intro, i didn't even do that on purpose ! and every time i've ever won an award at an award show, i've either been seated in the 13th row, or row m, which is the 13th letter. and when i won the horizon award at the CMA awards, the producer came up to me when i was sound-checking and he said, 'alright, we're gonna go in 13 seconds !' there are so many numbers !"

she has 3 cats ! meredith, olivia and benjamin

until the release of 1989, she included a secret message for each song within the lyric booklet of each studio album

she is also an actress and has been in valentine's day (2010), the lorax (2012), all too well: the short film (2021) and more

shes a christian

her first song she wrote was called "lucky you"

when she was 14 she wrote a book called "a girl named girl". its about a mother who wanted a son instead of a daughter and it is currently unreleased

she can play the guitar, piano, ukulele, electric guitar and banjo


taylor's debut album, 'taylor swift' (mostly named by fans as debut) was released october 24, 2006 (in north america, elsewhere it was released on march 18, 2008). taylor either wrote or co-wrote all the album tracks. some of the co-writers were liz rose, robert ellis orrall, brian maher and angelo petraglia. the lead single, tim mcgraw, was released in june 2006, taylor and her mother helped promote the album by packaging and sending copies of the CD single to country radio stations. following tim mcgraw, 4 more singles were released throughout 2007 and 2008: teardrops on my guitar, our song, picture to burn and should've said no. all appeared on billboard's hot country songs, with our song and should've said no reaching number 1. our song made taylor the youngest person to single-handedly write and sing a hot country songs number 1 single ! taylor won multiple awards for debut. she was one of the recipients of the nashville songwriters association's songwriter/artist of the year in 2007, becoming the youngest person given the title. the album sold 40,000 copies in the first week.

the taylor swift holiday collection is a christmas special EP released october 14th, 2007. it was originally called "sounds of the season: the taylor swift holiday collection". taylor partnered with american retail company target, the EP only being sold in target stores across the US. on october 6th, 2009, the EP was re-released by target and made available to download on itunes, both making minor adjustments to its cover art and removing "sounds of the seasons" leaving it as just "the taylor swift holiday collection". the cover art is taken from the "teardrops on my guitar" music video. there are 2 original songs on the EP, "christmas must be something more" and "christmases when you were mine". the others are covers of famous christmas songs.

beautiful eyes is an EP released on july 15th, 2008 exclusively to walmart in the US and online. the EP peaked at number 9 on the US billboard 200 and atop billboard's top country albums chart. during the time taylor was working on her 2nd studio album, fearless, she got a number of emails from fans requesting for new material to be released, promting taylor to release beautiful eyes. she said "i thought this might tide them over till the new album comes out in the fall". taylor didn't want any misconceptions of beautiful eyes as her 2nd album so she partnered with the american retail company walmart to make the EP an exclusive release. it was made a limited release because taylor only allowed big machine records to manufacture a certain amount of copies of the EP. "i'm only letting my record company make a small amount of these. the last thing i want any of you to think is that we are putting out too many releases." she said.

taylor's 2nd studio album, released november 11, 2008 in the US and canada and elsewhere on march 9, 2009. she wrote most of the songs while touring in 2007-2008. the album was inspired by her teenage feelings, the lyrics exploring love and heartbreak using fairy tale-like motifs. 5 songs were released as singles, "love story", "white horse", "you belong with me", "fifteen" and the title track, "fearless". 2 of them, "love story" and "you belong with me", were commercially successful and set records on both country and pop radio. the album spent 11 weeks atop the billboard 200 in the US after debuting at number 1, was certified diamond by the recording industry association of america and received multi-platinum certifications in australia, canada, new zealand and the UK. fearless is also the most awarded album in the history of country music, winning album of the year at the 52nd annual grammy awards, the american music awards of 2009, the country music association awards and the academy of country music awards. taylor became the youngest artist in the history of the grammy awards to win the award at the age of 20.

a pivotal and infamous moment in her career was at the 2009 music awards. taylor had just won best female video for "you belong with me" and during her acceptance speech, kanye west interrupted, taking the mircophone from her and saying "yo taylor, i'm really happy for you. i'mma let you finish. but beyonce had one of the best videos of all time !". taylor and andrea were reportedly found crying backstage afterwards and kanye was later shamed into apologising. the incident made headlines and even president barack obama got involved, calling kanye a "jackass".

taylor's 3rd studio album, released on october 25, 2010. taylor wrote the album entirely herself within 2 years while touring. the album reflects on her transition from adolescence to adulthood. speak now is a loose concept album about the unsaid things taylor wanted to say to the subjects of her songs. the album has 6 singles, "mine", "back to december", "mean", "the story of us", "sparks fly" and "ours". it peaked atop the charts and received multi-platinum certifications in australia, canada, and new zealand. in the US, it sold 1 million copies within its first week, spent 6 weeks at number 1 on the billboard 200, and was certified 6-times platinum by the recording industry association of america. at the 54th annual grammy awards in 2012, speak now was nominated for best country album, and its 3rd single "mean" won best country song and best country solo performance.

in response to the kanye incident, taylor wrote the song "innocent", sympathising with him after the public outrage he received.

red is taylors 4th studio album, and was released on october 22, 2012. the title is the colour to which taylor associated with the emotions she was feeling, spanning from intense love, intense frustration, jealousy and confusion. there were 7 singles, "we are never ever getting back together", "begin again", "i knew you were trouble", "22", "red", "everything has changed" and "the last time". "we are never ever getting back together" peaked atop the US billboard hot 100, and "i knew you were trouble" reached the top ten in australasia and europe. the album topped the charts and received multi-platinum certifications in australia, canada, new zealand, and the UK. in the US, it made taylor the first artist since the beatles to have 3 albums each spend at least six weeks atop the billboard 200. the album was nominated for album of the year at the 2013 country music association awards and album of the year and best country album at the 2014 grammy awards.

1989 is taylors 5th studio album, and was released on october 27, 2014. the album title was named after taylor's birth year as a symbolic rebirth. there were 7 singles; "shake it off", "blank space", "bad blood", "style", "wildest dreams", "out of the woods" and "new romantics". the first five charted in the top 10 of the billboard hot 100. 1989 spent 11 weeks atop the billboard 200 and was certified nine-times platinum. the album has sold 14 million copies worldwide and received platinum certifications in many countries across europe, the americas, and asia-pacific. 1989 won album of the year and best pop vocal album at the 2016 grammy awards. while taylor had dapped in pop music for awhile, this time taylor wanted to reinvent herself completely as a mainstream pop star. after her previous album, "red" didn't win best album, taylor was devastated and worked hard to make an even better record. this was the era where digital streaming services were taking over physical album sales. taylor believed that music is art, and should be paid for. taylor refused to let 1989 be available on spotify saying that the service was damaging songwriters' royalties systems. she also withdrew her entire discography from spotify. taylor also withdrew 1989 from apple music persuading them to change their policy to pay artists better.