• each album's best tracks mentioned in parentheses

1. Midnights — Her most cohesive album yet ("Lavender Haze", "Anti-Hero", "You're on Your Own, Kid", "Midnight Rain", "Question...?", "Labyrinth", "The Great War", "High Infidelity", "You're Losing Me")
2. evermore — Sometimes we all want to indulge in and get hurt by our own tragic fantasies. ("gold rush", "'tis the damn season", "tolerate it", "happiness", "cowboy like me", "evermore", "right where you left me")
3. 1989 — Sleek pop melodies and sad stories. Her best vault yet. ("Blank Space", "Style", "Out of the Woods", "I Wish You Would", "Clean", "New Romantics", "Slut!", "Is It Over Now?")
4. THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT — Critics complained that this album needed an editor, but to me that's exactly the point. ("Down Bad", "But Daddy I Love Him", "Fresh Out the Slammer", "loml", "The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived", "The Black Dog", "How Did It End?", "Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus", "Peter")
5. Red — She parties and yearns during the heyday of Tumblr, what a time to be alive. ("State of Grace", "Treacherous", "I Knew You Were Trouble.", "All Too Well", "22", "Holy Ground", "Starlight", "Begin Again", "Forever Winter", "The Very First Night")
6. folklore — Perfect for summertime hallucinations ("cardigan", "mirrorball", "seven", "august", "this is me trying", "betty")
7. Speak Now — Can we please have a solo-written album from Ms. Swift again? ("Sparks Fly", "Back to December", "Dear John", "The Story of Us", "Last Kiss")
8. Lover — Heart-on-her-sleeves, business as usual ("Cruel Summer", "Lover", "I Think He Knows", "False God", "Afterglow")
9. reputation — I kinda want Ms. Swift to put out a full on hip-hop album, featuring 21 Savage or J. Cole ("Delicate", "Getaway Car", "King of My Heart", "New Year's Day")
10. Fearless — Everything comes out teenage petulance ("Love Story", "Hey Stephen", "You Belong with Me")
11. Taylor Swift — Yeehaw ladies ("Tim McGraw", "Our Song")
12. The Life of a Showgirl — The rhymes are lazy, the imagery convoluted, the narrative questionable, and the overall message incomprehensible. Sure, she can still write a catchy melody, but songwriting is not just that (take "The Fate of Ophelia", a brilliant song in structure, but "Pledge allegiance to your hands, your team, your vibes seriously...? And don't get me started on "Cancelled!" or "Eldest Daughter", lord no). This is the first Swift album that got me facepalm so hard, even after I gave it many tries... probably the only Swift album I wouldn't buy on physical. (Ps: the online debates over "Opalite" and "Actually Romantic" are just stupid, but given Swift is a savvy businesswoman who knows how to stay relevant for nearly 20 years now, it might have served its purpose...) ("The Fate of Ophelia", "Ruin the Friendship")

1. "Love Story" — Who doesn't love a tragic tale of star-crossed lovers? But hey, this has a happy ending, and that majestic key change? *chef's kiss*
2. "You Belong with Me" — Teenage petulance, but make it catchy.
3. "Last Kiss" — That exasperated sigh of the bridge and final refrain hits different. I'm not talking about Taylor's Version.
4. "Dear John" — I would like to quote Hermione Lee on this one: "A great writer can be a dangerous creature, however gentle and nice in person."
5. "State of Grace" — We never saw it when love struck us like a lightning, and it's always a gamble to fall in love.
6. "Holy Ground" — We sometimes don't need answers for how things turned out. Time does heal everything, and acceptance of what it was is the sign that you have healed, or at least are healing.
7. "All Too Well" — Do I need to explain this one? Do you remember it all too well? Did the love affair maim you too?
8. "Style" — The best pop song in the history of pop songs. Rekindling with an old flame never sounded more enticing.
9. "Out of the Woods" — An anthem for situationships, iykyk. This song sounds equally majestic on synth beats and piano.
10. "I Wish You Would" — Pining for an ex who you know is no good for you is so real.
11. "Delicate" — As grand a celebrity as Ms. Swift is, she can't help but feel anxious when she likes someone so much that self-sabotage creeps in. Forever relatable!
12. "New Year's Day" — True love, is it? "I'll be there if you're the toast of the town, babe/ Or if you strike out and you're crawlin' home." Fuck it, got me sobbing!
13. "Lover" — Such a talented songwriter, Ms. Swift can turn a fucking cringeworthy word into a heartfelt, timeless love song. Too bad, forever is indeed the sweetest con. Got me sobbing again!
14. "False God" — Long-distance relationships are never easy. Indeed, we all cling onto our false hopes of forever. But hey, isn't it cinematic that such an affair involves some danger?
15. "mirrorball" — An anthem for the people pleasers who give too many fucks about what others think.
16. "betty" — Teenage love is an endless creative source, and the storytelling here is so cinematic!
17. "gold rush" — Have you ever thought to yourself, "Oh my, they are so majestic, I wonder what it feels like to date them!" and then you snap back to reality? Idolatry is never the answer.
18. "cowboy like me" — They say love comes when you least expect it, and here you find yourself getting fucked over by it.
19. "evermore" — Holding onto the past gives you a false sense of peace, but when it becomes your lifeline, you crash and shatter and crumble. Safe yourself y'all, this pain wouldn't be for evermore.
20. "You're on Your Own, Kid" — it is scary to think how we came into this world alone and we will leave this world alone. But along the way, please please please be open to people and experiences that you cherish. Go make the friendship bracelets and live in the moment!
21. "Labyrinth" — Just when you thought the last heartbreak shattered you into pieces and you could never love again, your heart gently reminds you otherwise: that it always has the capacity to love, as long as it feels right. And then, like a fucking chill down your spine, your chemicals send you into an abrupt and violent trance. For once, her music speaks as loudly as her words: "Uh oh... Oh no... Oh... I'm falling in love!"
22. "Question...?" — Have you ever had an ex that you desperately want them to answer: "Why the fuck did you do that?", but then you just can't confront them anymore?
23. "But Daddy I Love Him" — The older you get, the more you realise your excruciating desire to live on your own terms. Fuck societal expectations, fuck others' perceptions, go live the life that you want!
24. "The Black Dog" — Ms. Swift can make a song out of a trivial detail that was a red scarf, so she can definitely make a song out of a random indie song that plays on a jukebox at a London bar. And make it heartbreaking.
25. "How Did It End?" — Sometimes you look back at your love life and you just can't fathom how, despite your softhearted romanticism, love killed you every time it slipped out of your hands. Do you need to know how did it end?

Not sure how much I'll follow through though..

• Midnights →
• Evermore →
• "Gorgeous" →
• "Getaway Car" →
• "But Daddy I Love Him" →
• "Sparks Fly" →
• Fallen Angels →
• Bridge over Troubled Water →
• "What a Girl Wants" →
• Coloring Book →
• "So Long, Marianne" →
• A Brighter Summer Day →
• "Be My Baby" →