50 Fun Facts About Taylor Swift Trivia for Kids

Taylor Swift made her name in Nashville, but in which US state was she born?

Pennsylvania. She was born in West Reading, and her parents later sold up and moved the whole family to Tennessee to give her music a chance.

Swift's parents named her after which famous singer-songwriter?

James Taylor. Her mum also liked that 'Taylor' on a business card could be a boy or a girl, hoping it would help her get ahead in business.

The farm where Taylor Swift spent her early childhood grew what?

Christmas trees. She later turned those memories into the song 'Christmas Tree Farm', whose video is stitched together from her family's home movies.

What does Taylor's younger brother, Austin Swift, do for a living?

An actor who manages her film projects: Austin appeared in films such as Live by Night, then moved behind the scenes to handle how her songs are used on screen.

Which number does Taylor Swift call her lucky number?

13. She was born on the 13th, turned 13 on a Friday the 13th, and her first album went gold in 13 weeks.

A computer repairman taught 12-year-old Taylor Swift her first chords on which instrument?

Guitar. As Taylor tells it, Ronnie Cremer had come to fix the family computer; he was also a local musician and went on to give her lessons.

After Nashville record labels turned down 11-year-old Taylor's karaoke demo, what did she decide to do?

Write her own songs. She reasoned that everyone in that town wanted to do what she did, so she had to find a way to be different.

Which hit did Taylor Swift write for her ninth-grade talent show?

'Our Song'. Her classmates took to it so strongly that she put it on her first album, and it went on to top the country chart for six weeks.

Which record label released Taylor's first album in 2006?

Big Machine Records was brand new: its founder, Scott Borchetta, spotted her playing a Nashville showcase and signed her to the label he was just starting up.

Taylor's hit 'Love Story' was inspired by which Shakespeare play?

Romeo and Juliet. Taylor swapped Shakespeare's tragic ending for a happy one: her version of the story ends with Romeo proposing.

Taylor plays both cheerleader and girl next door in which video?

'You Belong with Me'. When the video won an MTV award, Kanye West interrupted her speech, and Beyoncé later invited her back on stage to finish it.

Which album did Taylor Swift write entirely on her own, without a single co-writer?

Speak Now. She wrote every song by herself while on tour, building the album around the things she wished she had said to people at the time.

Taylor's album 1989 is named after what?

The year she was born. She has said the album was inspired by the pop music of the late 1980s, and it marked her full switch from country to pop.

What is the message of 'Shake It Off'?

Not caring what critics say about her. She wrote it after years of scrutiny in the gossip pages, and it launched the first album she made purely as pop.

Which song knocked Taylor Swift's own 'Shake It Off' off number one in the US?

'Blank Space'. It made her the first woman to replace herself at number one, with a song that pokes fun at how the gossip pages portrayed her love life.

Which singer duets with Taylor on her 2019 single 'Me!'?

Brendon Urie, the frontman of Panic! at the Disco. In the video he wins her over by handing her a cat, which Taylor then adopted and named Benjamin Button.

During the 2020 lockdown, where did Taylor record her vocals for the surprise album Folklore?

Her home studio in Los Angeles. She worked remotely with producers Aaron Dessner and Jack Antonoff, who sent her music from their own studios on the other side of the country.

Taylor wrote 'Cardigan' from the point of view of which made-up character?

Betty. Taylor invented a teenage love triangle and told it from all sides: Betty's in 'Cardigan', the other girl's in 'August', and James's apology in the song 'Betty'.

In the music video for 'Willow', what guides Taylor on her journey?

A golden thread. It picks up where the 'Cardigan' video left off and pulls her through one magical scene after another until it leads her to her lover.

Songs from which Taylor Swift album were the first to fill the entire US top 10 at once?

Midnights. Before it came out she revealed the song titles one by one on TikTok, rolling numbered balls out of a lottery cage to pick which to announce.

What inspired Taylor to write 'Anti-Hero'?

Her own insecurities. A song about everything she dislikes in herself, right down to a nightmare about her future family, went on to spend eight weeks at number one in the US.

Which song from Lover became a US number one in 2023, four years late, after going viral on the Eras Tour?

'Cruel Summer'. It was a fan favourite that was never put out as a single in 2019, so when it took off on tour her label finally released it, and it went to the top.

What was the double edition released two hours after The Tortured Poets Department called?

The Anthology added a 15-track second half as a surprise in the middle of the night, and all 31 songs went on to enter the US Hot 100 at the same time.

In which country did Taylor record The Life of a Showgirl with Max Martin and Shellback?

Sweden. She fitted the sessions into breaks in the European leg of the Eras Tour, working with the Swedish duo who had produced 'Shake It Off' a decade earlier.

Taylor's hit 'The Fate of Ophelia' is named after a character in which Shakespeare play?

Hamlet. Shakespeare's Ophelia drowns after losing her mind with grief, but Taylor's song is about being rescued from that fate by someone who loves her.

Which was the first album Taylor Swift re-recorded and released as a 'Taylor's Version'?

Fearless. She remade it so that she would own the recording herself, and it became the first re-recorded album ever to top the US chart.

Taylor re-recorded her albums after which music manager bought her old label?

Scooter Braun. He later sold the recordings of her first six albums to an investment firm, and in 2025 Taylor finally bought the originals back herself.

In which US city did the Eras Tour begin in March 2023?

Glendale, Arizona. The city renamed itself Swift City for the opening weekend, starting a run of host cities paying tribute to her.

The Eras Tour was the first to earn over what?

$1 billion. It ended on roughly double that after 149 shows, and crowds in cities such as Seattle and Edinburgh danced hard enough to register on earthquake sensors.

What did fans make by hand and swap with strangers at Eras Tour shows?

Friendship bracelets. The craze grew out of a single line in her song 'You're on Your Own, Kid', and fans even traded them with Taylor herself.

The Eras Tour concert film was shot at which stadium in the Los Angeles area?

SoFi Stadium. Cameras filmed three of her shows there in August 2023 while Hollywood's actors were on strike, so the shoot needed special permission from their union.

Taylor skipped the Hollywood studios and struck her own deal with which two movie theatre chains for the Eras Tour film?

AMC and Cinemark. Talks with the big studios had fallen through, and when she announced the film herself, several other movies moved their release dates out of its way.

Which cat character did Taylor play in the 2019 movie musical Cats?

Bombalurina. Taylor also wrote a brand-new song for the film, 'Beautiful Ghosts', together with the show's composer, Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Taylor's 2020 documentary about her life and career is called what?

Miss Americana. The title comes from one of her own songs, and the film follows her through the years in which she decided to start using her voice in public.

In 2026 Taylor Swift became the youngest woman ever inducted into which hall of fame?

Songwriters Hall of Fame. She was 36, and the honour fits: from her first record onwards she has written or co-written every song on her own albums.

Which album made Taylor Swift the first woman to win the Album of the Year Grammy three times?

Folklore. An album she made quietly during lockdown and released with almost no warning went on to win the biggest prize in music.

What name do fans give the hidden clues Taylor Swift plants in her videos, outfits and posts?

Easter eggs. Fans decode everything from her outfits and colours to numbers tucked into videos, and other pop stars have since copied the trick for their own releases.

Ahead of release day, Taylor Swift has invited groups of fans into her own homes to do what?

Hear the new album early. She called the parties Secret Sessions, and in the year of the first ones she also sent fans surprise Christmas parcels, delivering some by hand.

Which animated movie did Taylor write and record the song 'I Knew It, I Knew You' for in 2026?

Toy Story 5. Taylor wrote it from the point of view of the cowgirl Jessie after seeing the film early, and it became the first Disney song to enter the US chart at number one.

Taylor married football player Travis Kelce in July 2026 at which famous New York venue?

Madison Square Garden. About 1,000 guests attended, and the actor Adam Sandler led the ceremony.

Which country music legend did Taylor honour in the title of her first single?

Tim McGraw. She came up with the song during a maths class at school, and about a year after it came out she was an opening act on his tour.

Which songwriter wrote songs with teenage Taylor every Tuesday afternoon after school in Nashville?

Liz Rose. The pair wrote many of Taylor's early songs together, and one of them, 'White Horse', won them both a Grammy.

On the Eras Tour, what did Taylor Swift give to one lucky fan during the song '22'?

Her hat. At each show one fan was picked out of the crowd, and near the end of the song she greeted them and placed the hat she was wearing on their head.

Which Taylor Swift album broke Adele's record for biggest US sales week?

The Life of a Showgirl. She revealed it on Travis Kelce's sports podcast, and within five days of release it had passed the weekly record that Adele's 25 had held for almost a decade.

Which album did Taylor Swift release as a surprise 'sister record' to Folklore later the same year?

Evermore. It followed Folklore by less than five months, and where that album was pieced together remotely, she made most of this one in person at Aaron Dessner's Long Pond Studio.

Taylor Swift spent her childhood summers at a family holiday home by the sea in which state?

New Jersey. The family spent summers in the shore town of Stone Harbor, where a young Taylor would turn up to sing at a local coffee shop.

Which family member's singing in church was one of Taylor's earliest memories of music?

Her grandmother, an opera singer. Marjorie Finlay later inspired the song 'Marjorie', and Taylor wove recordings of her soprano voice into the track.

Watching a documentary about which country star made young Taylor decide to move to Nashville?

Faith Hill. The TV special convinced Taylor that Nashville was where country singers got their start, and a few years later she was an opening act on Hill's tour.

In which film did Taylor Swift make her big-screen acting debut?

Valentine's Day. She played a high-school student opposite Taylor Lautner, whom she met on the shoot and briefly dated, and gave her song 'Today Was a Fairytale' to the soundtrack.

How much money did Taylor give to help people after the big floods in Tennessee in 2010?

$500,000. She gave it to flood relief in Nashville, her home since her early teens, and joined other country stars on stage to help raise more.