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[[File:Taylor-Swift-press-photo-2017.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Ooh, look what you made me do. (Taylor in 2017)]]
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'''Taylor Alison Swift''' (b. December 13th, 1989) is an insanely popular [[Country Music]]/crossover Pop singer-songwriter from Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. A child prodigy who found herself interested in poetry and music from an early age, Swift won a nationwide poetry contest at ''age nine'' with a poem called "Monster in my Closet", learned to play guitar from a computer repairman at 10, sang the national anthem at the U.S. Open in 2001 at the age of 11, and was signed by Sony/ATV at age 14. Swift broke into the Top 40 in 2006 with her debut single "[[Tim McGraw]]", and has since achieved widespread appeal and success both in the world of country music as well as mainstream pop. Of course, it was only a matter of time before she became every teen girl's hero and every teen boy's secret [[Celeb Crush]].▼
▲{{quote| ''"I'm not that complicated. My complications come out in my songs. All you have to do to be my friend is like me... and listen."''}}
She rose even more in popularity when [[Kanye West]] [[Award Snub|took the microphone away from her]] at the MTV VMAs and said [[
▲Taylor Alison Swift (b. December 13th, 1989) is an insanely popular [[Country Music]] singer-songwriter from Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. A child prodigy who found herself interested in poetry and music from an early age, Swift won a nationwide poetry contest at ''age nine'' with a poem called "Monster in my Closet", learned to play guitar from a computer repairman at 10, sang the national anthem at the U.S. Open in 2001 at the age of 11, and was signed by Sony/ATV at age 14. Swift broke into the Top 40 in 2006 with her debut single "[[Tim McGraw]]", and has since achieved widespread appeal and success both in the world of country music as well as mainstream pop. Of course, it was only a matter of time before she became every teen girl's hero and every teen boy's secret [[Celeb Crush]].
▲She rose even more in popularity when [[Kanye West]] [[Award Snub|took the microphone away from her]] at the MTV VMAs and said [[Beyonce]]'s video was [[Memetic Mutation|better than hers]]. She dated [[The Jonas Brothers|Joe Jonas]] and [[Taylor Lautner|that]] guy from ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' and [[Cory Monteith|that other guy from]] ''[[Glee]]''. She's been rumored to be dating John Mayer and Jake Gyllenhaal.
▲Three albums, two EPs and two tours into her career (and counting!), Swift has seen all three of her albums go to #1 on the country charts (and two of them at #1 on the mainstream charts), four #1 singles on the country charts, 42 songs charting in the Hot 100 (ten in the [[American Top 40|AT40]] with Ryan Seacrest), has won six Grammy awards, and all of her big hits have crossed over massively. She's been certified by Nielsen as the most commercially successful country artist in music history and almost singlehandedly made the independent Big Machine Records label prominent.
She also appeared in an episode of ''[[CSI]]'' as a murder victim, was the musical guest for two episodes of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' (a season 34 episode hosted by Neil Patrick Harris and a season 35 episode where she was both host and musical guest, becoming the second-youngest host/musical guest to appear on the show ([[Britney Spears]] was the first when she appeared on ''SNL'' on the show's 25th season) and was one of the [[All-Star Cast|many stars]] in the film ''[[Valentine's Day]]'', and had her first leading role as Audrey, the female lead in the film adaptation of the [[Dr. Seuss]] book ''[[The Lorax (film)|The Lorax]]''.
On October 31, 2022, she became the first musician ever to have songs in ''all ten'' of the top ten positions on the Billboard Hot 100 list.
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* ''[[Self-Titled Album|Taylor Swift]]'' (2006)
* ''[[Christmas Songs|Sounds of the Season]]'' (EP) (2007)
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* ''Fearless'' (2008)
* ''[[New Sound Album|Speak Now]]'' (2010)
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* ''[[New Sound Album|1989]]'' (2014)
* ''[[Darker and Edgier|reputation]]'' (2017)
* ''[[Lighter and Softer|Lover]]'' (2019)
Live albums:
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* ''CMT Crossroads: Taylor Swift & [[Def Leppard]]'' (2009)
* ''Speak Now World Tour Live'' (2011)
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* [[Absurdly Youthful Mother]]: Swift herself in the video for "Mine".
* [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male]]: Averted in "You Belong With Me". The evil, shallow [[Alpha Bitch]] shouts at, pushes around and cheats on her boyfriend, but this is in no way seen as acceptable.
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** The Monologue Song, as well.
* [[Advertised Extra]]: [[Colbie Caillat]] on "Breathe". It's supposed to be a duet, but Colbie's voice is really hard to hear; some might be surprised that she's on the track.
** Taylor herself on John Mayer's "Half of My Heart". She listed as featured but is really a glorified backup singer.
* [[Adorkable]]: [http://youtube.com/watch?v=skHsvM1NCyc And that's just the start.]
* [[Age Progression Song]]:
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* [[Best Served Cold]]:
** A few of her songs about breakups, but the best example [[Lampshade Hanging|according to her]] is "Picture to Burn".
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** Pretty much the entirety of ''Speak Now'', at least those that aren't "sorry". And half those apologies are "sorry for my revenge".
** An [[Captain Obvious|obvious]] example is "Better than Revenge".
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* [[Big "What?"]]:
** Likely to be the first word out of her mouth every single time she wins an award, if it's not 'Oh my God'. Even if it's her third or fourth award of the night. She'll usually have her [[Jaw Drop]] and have an [[Eye Take]] to go along with it.
** She also has an [[Adorkable]] look of shock and this trope on her face all the way through Speak Now Live concert. She's surprised she's so loved.
* [[Bishonen]]: "I'd Lie".
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* [[Blue Eyes]]
* [[Bowdlerise]]:
** "That's fine, I'll tell mine you're gay" in "Picture to Burn" was changed to "That's fine, you won't mind if I say" on some stations (the video uses the
** Some stations edited the lyrics to "Teardrops on My Guitar". They are changed from "so damn funny" to "just so funny."<ref> Strange, as most stations let "damn" slide.</ref>
* [[Braids of Action]]: Shown in her "You Belong With Me" and "The Story of Us" music videos.
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* [[Break Up Song]]: If you make a [[Drinking Game]] out of it, you ''will'' die.
* [[The Bro Code]]: [[Invoked]] in "Picture to Burn":
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There's nothing stopping me from going out with ''all'' of your best friends!"'' }}
* [[Broken Bird]]: She's this in "Mine".
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* [[The Cover Changes the Gender]]: When "Teardrops On My Guitar" was arraged as a duet for ''Crossroads'', the verse sung by Joe Elliot had "Drew talks to me" changed to "You talk to me".
** Swift's cover of "Drops of Jupiter" changes the subject of the song from a woman to a man.
* [[The Cover Changes the Meaning]]: Luna Halo's song "Untouchable" turns more towards the lust side of attraction. Taylor manages to turn it into a ballad about not being able to admit her love for someone while changing amazingly few of the lyrics on ''Fearless: Platinum Edition''. Nevertheless, the changes were still enough for Luna Halo to give Taylor [https://archive.is/20150428055711/http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/2009/11/24/nathan-barlowe-of-luna-halo-talks-about-taylor-swift-and-untouchable/ co-writing credit] for her version.
* [[Creator Breakdown]]: Just about all of her songs are based on [[Real Life]] scenarios, most of which were relationships with boyfriends or high school friends with whom she had parted ways. Lampshaded by Taylor Swift herself, who said, "If you listen to my albums, it’s like reading my diary."
* [[Crossover]]: In 2008, Swift appeared on an episode of ''CMT Crossroads'', backed by [[Def Leppard]]. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Awesomeness ensued.]]
* [[Cute Kitten]]:
** Swift has designed several greeting cards featuring kittens, including [https://web.archive.org/web/20110418182522/http://www.clintoncards.co.uk/product/CAA7862/ this one]. She's on record as saying "I feel like kitten cards make everything better, pretty much."
** And now we must note the kitten she went and [http://instagr.am/p/Sn8jP/ adopted,]{{Dead link}} further fulfilling the trope.
* [[The Cutie]]: Includes the aforementioned kitty.
* [[Cycle of Revenge]]: Discussed in "Mean." Taylor basically vows to stop the cycle.
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* [[Does Not Like Shoes]]: Yeah, she goes barefoot pretty often.
* [[Double Vision]]: The "You Belong With Me" video.
* [[Downer Ending]]: Surprisingly, Taylor ''doesn't'' resolve the conflict between her and her ex(?) by the end of the "The Story of Us" and "Back to December" videos. Considering the latter is about [[Taylor Lautner]] and the former is believed to be about John Mayer, these seem to have [[Reality Subtext]] to them.
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: ''Taylor Swift'' is much closer to traditional country music than the country-pop style Taylor adopted on her later albums. As of her 2011 tour, only one song ("Our Song") from her debut album is included in the setlist.
* [[Easily Forgiven]]: Not her, but [[Kanye West]]. "Innocent" is about him.
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* [[Eating Lunch Alone]]: The little girl in the "Mean" music video is forced to because [[Disproportionate Retribution|she's not wearing the same color dress as everybody else]].
* [[Everything's Better with Sparkles]]: [[Lampshaded]].
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* [[Epic Rocking]]: The live version of "Better Than Revenge" ends with a lengthy instrumental outro that allows guitarist Grant Mickelson to show off his chops. Several other songs include extended musical interludes as well in order to cover Taylor's costume changes.
* [[Eye Take]]: Often when she wins awards. She'll usually have a [[Big "What?"]] and a [[Jaw Drop]] to go with it.
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* [[Grammy Award|Grammy Awards]]: Album of the Year (''Fearless''), Best Country Album (''Fearless''), Best Female Country Vocal Performance ("You Belong With Me"), Best Country Song ("White Horse" and "Mean") and Best Country Solo Performance ("Mean").
* [[Grand Romantic Gesture]]: Taylor confessed her crush on her best friend at her high school talent show through singing "I'd Lie".
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* [[Green Eyes]]: Mentioned in "Sparks Fly".
* [[Growing Up Sucks]]: The basic theme of "Never Grow Up".
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* [[Human Notepad]]: It's getting to the point where you're almost as likely to see her with something or other written on her arm as not. Some random song lyric, her award show thank-yous, something.
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Taylor Swift's first appearance on [[Saturday Night Live]] had her singing a musical monologue where she talked about various things, but then she ends each verse with "But I'm not gonna talk about X in my monologue."
* [[In
* [[I Want You to Meet An Old Friend of Mine]]: The video for "Fifteen" co-stars one Abigail Anderson, Swift's high school friend who is named in the song's lyrics.
* [[The Ingenue]]: She is the epitome of this trope.
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** The "You Belong With Me" video provides the page image.
** In the "The Story of Us" music video, where Taylor's love interest chooses a girl who's much more [[Forceful Kiss|physical]] in her affections than Taylor is, who shows to be more flirty and playful.
* [[Marilyn Maneuver]]: She suffered this during a recent concert when a [https://web.archive.org/web/20111028221836/http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/ourcountry/94419/taylor-swift-suffers-wardrobe-malfunction-on-tour-stop
* [[Masochism Tango]]: Taylor's [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop|favorite kind of love]] in "The Way I Loved You".
* [[Meaningful Echo]]: "Mine" uses this quite effectively. In the story of the song, the [[Broken Bird|young woman]] remembers "how we sat there by the water/you put your arm around me for the first time/ you made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter/ you are the best thing that has ever been mine." At the song's conclusion, the woman fights with her husband, and feeling he is going to abandon her, runs off in despair. But he finds her and repeats the same words {ie the refrain} she has been singing in the whole song back to her with loving reassurance that he will never leave her.
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* [[Odd Friendship]]: Believe it or not, she's good friends with [[Katy Perry]].
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Does she ''look'' like she's 22? For reference's sake, she's 16 [[wikipedia:File:Taylor Swift.png|on her debut album's cover art]] and no older than 20 in the page image.
* [[Oop North]]: Where she's become a fashion icon, competing with [[
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]: In "You Belong With Me".
* [[Overprotective Dad]]:
** "Picture to Burn".
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** "Love Story".
* [[Past in The Rearview Mirror]]: "White Horse".
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* [[Princess Curls]]: "Love Story"
* [[Princess Phase]]: Mentioned in "The Best Day," when describing early memories of her and her mother.
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It's the age of princesses and pirate ships and the seven dwarfs... }}
* [[Product Placement]]: The aforementioned Bob Kingsley edit of "Tim McGraw".
* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: This line from "Long Live":
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Screaming, "This is absurd!"
Cause for a moment a band of thieves in ripped up jeans got to rule the world. }}
* [[Rapunzel Hair]]
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* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]:
** "Dear John" to John Mayer, who apparently took advantage of her and broke her heart. John responded in the press and the song appears to have worked splendidly.
** "Mean" is clearly about calling one particular person out.
** "Better Than Revenge" to Camilla Belle. The song references [[The Jonas Brothers|Joe Jonas']] song "Much Better", which was written about Belle.
** "Forever and Always" is this towards [[Joe Jonas]] about leaving her for Belle; she refers to him as "a scared little boy".
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* [[Statuesque Stunner]]: She's 5'11'' without heels.
* [[Strictly Formula]]: Recurring references include the guy's [[What Beautiful Eyes!|eyes]], rain, and Tuesday night.
* [[Subdued Section]]: "Sparks Fly" and "Back To December".
* [[Take That]]: "Forever and Always" to [[Jonas Brothers|Joe Jonas]]. Also, her [[Saturday Night Live]] "Monologue Song" to him and [[Kanye West]].
* [[Take That, Critics!]]: "Mean" calls out those who criticize her singing ability, a common criticism held against her.
* [[Teen Idol]]: She was sixteen when her first single was released.
* [[Teen Pregnancy]]: According to [[Word of God]], this was averted. Its aversion was [[Lampshaded]]. Quoth her [[
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* [[Thirteen Is Unlucky]]: Inverted. Oh so inverted. Not only is 13 Swift's lucky number, to the point where she will actively seek out any possible instance up to and including ''the expiration date on milk cartons'', she also considers the number 31 an acceptable substitute, because it's "13 backwards."
* [[This Is a Song]]: "Dear John" and "Our Song".
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