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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
=== Discography: ===
* ''[[Self
* ''[[Christmas Songs|Sounds of the Season]]'' (EP) (2007)
* ''Beautiful Eyes'' (EP) (2008)
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* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Seriously, what part of "Taylor Swift" do you not quite get? Even ''she'' doesn't know what's continuing to be so hard about this. See [[Tastes Like Diabetes]] on the YMMV tab.
* [[Be Yourself]]: She's on record as saying, "If you're lucky enough to be different, don't ever change."
* [[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.
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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".
* [[Burn, Baby, Burn]]: Said word-for-word in "Picture to Burn".
* [[Camp Gay]]: One of the characters in the "Mean" music video.
* [[Celeb Crush]]:
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* [[Easter Egg]]: In the liner notes to her albums, the lyrics are all lowercase except for a few seemingly random capital letters. When read top to bottom, the capital letters spell out a message (for instance, "Can't tell me nothin'" is the hidden message in the lyrics to "Tim McGraw").
* [[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]].
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{{quote| "I like glitter and sparkly dresses [[Hypocritical Humor|but I'm not gonna talk about that]] in my monologue!"}}
* [[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.
* [[Fan Service]]: A probably accidental example in the video for "Change" in that we get a nice look down her cleavage at two different points.
* [[Foot Focus]]: Her debut album features a picture of her feet on the disc itself. She sometimes performs on stage barefoot ([http://www.barefootandgrounded.com/2010/09/taylor-swift-performs-barefoot-at-vmas.html Innocent at 2010 VMA's]) and is frequently shown barefoot in promotional photographs, album artwork, commercials, etc. The "Safe and Sound" video has a fair amount of it.
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* [[Gosh Darn It to Heck]]:
** [[Parodied Trope|Parodied]] in the video for [[T-Pain]]'s parody song, "Thug Story", in which she gets bleeped despite not even swearing.
** Subverted in the video for ''The Story of Us". When Taylor ducks behind her book, she can clearly be seen mouthing [[Precision F
* [[Gossipy Hens]]:
** Taylor learns about her boyfriend's infidelity through her best friend in the "White Horse" music video.
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* [[Happy Rain]]: "Fearless" and "The Way I Loved You".
* [[Hidden Depths]]: She's believed to have ghostwritten a British site about streetlights. This ''may'' be an [[Urban Legend]] though.
* [[High School Dance]]: The video for "You Belong With Me" has [[Nerds Are Sexy|nerdy]], [[Tomboy and Girly Girl|sneaker-wearing]] [[Hair of Gold|blonde]] Taylor get an upgrade from [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]] status at the dance when her love interest realises what a [[Jerkass]] the [[Alpha Bitch|cheating]], [[The Cheerleader|cheer captain]] brunette Taylor is. And just in case he had any last minute doubts they're even [[Dress
* [[Hollywood Nerd]]: An [[Egregious]] example of Type 2 with her as the neighbor girl in the video for "You Belong With Me".
* [[Huge Schoolgirl]]: Believe it or not, she's 5'11" without heels. In the "The Story of Us" music video, she actually ''is'' dressed as a school girl.
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* [[The Ingenue]]: She is the epitome of this trope.
* [[Intercourse With You]]: Believe it or not. "Sparks Fly" lives and breathes this trope, what with such lyrics as "You touch me once and it's really something. You find I'm even better than you imagined I would be" and the entirety of the bridge ("I'll run my fingers through your hair and watch the lights go wild. Just keep on keeping your eyes on me, it's just wrong enough to make it feel right and lead me up the staircase. Won't you whisper soft and slow, I'm captivated by you baby like a fireworks show").
* [[Jaw Drop]]: Often when she wins awards. She'll usually have a [[Big "What?"]] and an [[Eye Take]] to go with it.
* [[Jerkass]]: The cheer captain in the video for "You Belong With Me".
* [[Jerk Jock]]: A group of them bully a [[Glee|Kurt Hummel]]-[[Expy|esque]] character in the "Mean" music video.
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** 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 [http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/ourcountry/94419/taylor-swift-suffers-wardrobe-malfunction-on-tour-stop/ wind machine blew her skirt] (the linked article called it a [[Wardrobe Malfunction]], which it clearly isn't).
* [[Masochism Tango]]: Taylor's [[Family
* [[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.
* [[Meganekko]]: Her role as the nerdy neighbor girl in the video for "You Belong With Me." Subverted in the end of the video, though, in that [[The Glasses Come Off|she takes them off]] when she does her [[Cinderella (Literature)|Cinderella]] act and gets the guy.
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* [[Past in The Rearview Mirror]]: "White Horse".
* [[Performance Video]]: "Change", "Fearless", and "Sparks Fly."
* [[Pimped
* [[Piss Take Rap]]: Her and [[T-Pain]]'s parody "Thug Story".
* [[Princess Curls]]: "Love Story"
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** In a variant, she started performing "Sparks Fly" in 2007 and it became a viral hit on [[YouTube]]. She released a re-written version of the song on ''Speak Now'' in 2010 (it was released as a single the next year) with electric guitar as the lead instrument as opposed to banjo, and slightly more [[Intercourse With You|suggestive]] lyrics.
** Also seen on the deluxe version of ''Fearless'', where "Forever And Always" appears both as an up-tempo pop song and as a slowed-down solo piano piece.
* [["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.
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* [[The Rival]]: As of late, the media's been setting her up as one of [[Miley Cyrus (Music)|Miley Cyrus]], which is a bit weird, considering Taylor and Miley are known to be good friends. They've even performed together before. Taylor also got a cameo on [[Hannah Montana]]: [[The Movie]].
* [[Second Person Narration]]: "Fifteen", despite being clearly autobiographical, switches between this and first person.
* [[Self
* [[Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains]]: The "You Belong With Me" video.
* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: Say it with me now: The "You Belong With Me" video.
* [[Shout Out]]: "Tim McGraw" is a shoutout to [[Tim McGraw|that singer]] in general, and specifically to his song "Can't Tell Me Nothin'".
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* [[Tomboyish Ponytail]]: In the "The Story of Us" music video.
* [[Troperiffic]]: "You Belong With Me" and the accompanying video.
* [[Truck
* [[True Companions]]: "Change" and "Long Live" imply this relationship between her and her band, The Agency.
* [[Turn the Other Cheek]]: "Innocent".
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* [[The Vamp]]: Taylor's rival ([[Acting for Two|and Taylor herself]]) in the "You Belong With Me" music video.
* [[What Beautiful Eyes]]: A [[Strictly Formula|recurring theme]].
* [[What Do You Mean
* [[Wide Eyed Idealist]]: Her self-portrayal in "White Horse", all the way to the [[Tear Jerker]] ending.
* [[Woman in White]]: It would be easier to count which music videos ''don't'' have her in a white dress of [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]].
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