140 Fun Facts About Taylor Swift Music

Which production duo co-wrote and produced 'Shake It Off' with Taylor Swift?

Max Martin and Shellback built the melody of 'Shake It Off' with Swift, who wrote the lyrics alone to shrug off her detractors; it led the album she billed as her first official pop record.

Which track opens Taylor Swift's 2020 album 'folklore'?

'the 1' opens the record yet was one of the last two songs written for it; Swift made the album in lockdown and announced it only 16 hours before it came out.

Which of Taylor Swift's re-recorded albums was the first 'Taylor's Version' released, in April 2021?

Fearless (Taylor's Version) arrived on April 9, 2021, the first of the re-recordings she made to regain control of her masters.

In 'All Too Well (10 Minute Version)', what clothing item is left at a sister's house?

Scarf: left behind in the first verse, it returns in the last, where the ex has kept it ever since; the detail drew so many readings that it became a pop-culture talking point of its own.

Who is the featured act on Taylor Swift's 'exile' from 'folklore'?

Bon Iver's Justin Vernon was the voice Swift wanted after drafting the song with herself singing both parts; sent the track, he added lyrics of his own and recorded the other half.

'Anti-Hero' was the lead single from which Taylor Swift album?

Midnights was led by 'Anti-Hero', a song Swift drew from her own insecurities and set to a 1980s-style drum-machine loop; it spent eight weeks at number one in the US.

Which of these songs comes from Taylor Swift's album Red rather than 1989?

'I Knew You Were Trouble' gave Red a dubstep-style drop far from her country sound; its seven weeks atop pop radio pushed Swift to go fully pop on her next album.

What animal is prominently featured in Taylor Swift's 'Blank Space' music video?

Horses carry Swift and her on-screen boyfriend around a Long Island estate before the romance sours; the video sends up her tabloid image and has her take a golf club to his car.

Which of Swift's albums is home to 'You Belong with Me'?

Fearless, her second album, includes 'You Belong with Me', which Swift wrote after overhearing a bandmate on the phone trying to placate his girlfriend.

Taylor Swift wrote 'Love Story' using which Shakespeare play as a reference point?

Swift rewrote Romeo and Juliet's ending so 'Love Story' closes with a proposal instead of a tragedy, the happy ending she felt they deserved.

The song 'Mean,' an anthem against critics, is from which Taylor Swift album?

Speak Now includes 'Mean', her banjo-led reply to detractors; it won two Grammys in 2012, and at the ceremony she changed a line to say she was singing it at the Grammys.

What was the title of Taylor Swift's debut single, released in June 2006?

"Tim McGraw" came out when Swift was 16, and she spent that summer sealing promo copies into envelopes for country radio stations, hoping each one would play it just once.

Which producer recorded Swift's self-titled debut album with her over four months in late 2005?

Nathan Chapman had only made demos in a converted garage and had never produced a released album, so the label was wary; Swift insisted, and he stayed on through her country records.

Which Speak Now song did Swift debut at the 2010 VMAs, a year after Kanye's interruption?

'Innocent' answers the interruption with sympathy rather than anger; Swift sang it at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, a month before the album came out.

Under what pseudonym was Swift credited on Calvin Harris's 'This Is What You Came For'?

Nils Sjöberg kept Swift's name off the Rihanna-sung hit for months; she has said she did not want the song overshadowed by her fame, and recalled Prince hiding his hand in 'Manic Monday'.

Joe Alwyn co-wrote several Folklore and Evermore songs under which pseudonym?

William Bowery borrows the first name of Alwyn's great-grandfather, the composer William Alwyn, and the Bowery district of New York; Swift later confirmed who was behind it.

Which single gave Swift her first UK number one?

"Look What You Made Me Do" spent two weeks on top of the UK chart in 2017; three years earlier "Shake It Off", a US number one, had stalled at number two there.

What chart record did 'All Too Well (Taylor's Version)' set in 2021?

Longest song ever to top the Hot 100: Swift had whittled a far longer draft down to about five minutes for the 2012 album, and the uncut version took a record 'American Pie' had held since 1972.

Whose record of nine Hot 100 top-10 songs did Swift beat by filling all ten?

Drake had put nine songs in the top 10 the year before Swift took all ten; two weeks after her sweep he posted the new chart with her name and number-one song hidden behind emojis.

Which Swift album spent eleven weeks at number one on the Billboard 200?

1989 logged eleven weeks at number one and a full year in the top 10; Swift named it after the year she was born and left country behind for 1980s-style synth-pop.

Which two 1989 singles made Swift the first woman to replace herself atop the Hot 100?

"Shake It Off" and "Blank Space" did it in late 2014, when the second, written to send up Swift's tabloid image as a serial dater, took the top spot from the first.

Alongside Jack Antonoff, which musician produced Taylor Swift's 2020 albums Folklore and Evermore?

Aaron Dessner of the National worked apart from Swift during lockdown: he sent a folder of instrumental sketches, she sent back songs as voice memos, and Folklore took shape through traded files.

Which album, led by 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together', was Swift's first UK number one?

Red topped the UK albums chart in 2012; its lead single began when a studio visitor repeated a rumour that Swift and her ex were reuniting, and her retort became the song.

Swift's duet with Zayn Malik, 'I Don't Wanna Live Forever', was recorded for which film's soundtrack?

Fifty Shades Darker's duet began with a phone call from Zayn inviting Swift onto the song; she recorded her vocals in Brooklyn and he recorded his in Los Angeles, and it reached number two.

Swift's 'Safe & Sound', co-written with the Civil Wars, appeared on the soundtrack of which 2012 film?

The Hunger Games soundtrack carried 'Safe & Sound', written in a two-hour session at producer T Bone Burnett's house after Swift had spent two days reading the novel.

Which song did Swift write and record for the 2022 film Where the Crawdads Sing?

"Carolina" was recorded in a single take using only instruments that existed before 1953, around when the film's story unfolds in the marshes of North Carolina.

Which character did Taylor Swift play in the 2019 film Cats?

Bombalurina, the flirtatious cat who sings 'Macavity', came to Swift without an audition: she had once tested for a part in the same director's Les Misérables and not been cast.

Which MTV Video Music Award did 'The Man' win in 2020?

'The Man', the first music video Swift directed alone, won Best Direction at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards; she also stars in it in prosthetics as the title character.

Which 2010 music video, co-directed with Roman White, was Swift's directorial debut?

"Mine" put Swift behind the camera for the first time, beside Roman White; its heroine, haunted by her parents' fights, marries anyway, and it won Video of the Year at the 2011 CMT Music Awards.

Which 1989 (Taylor's Version) vault track hit number one, giving Swift three chart-toppers from three albums in a year?

"Is It Over Now?" debuted at number one in November 2023 by knocking Swift's own 'Cruel Summer' off the top, the second time she had replaced herself there.

What was the lead single from The Tortured Poets Department?

"Fortnight", a duet with Post Malone, is named for the two weeks its doomed affair lasts; it debuted at number one while the album's songs filled the Hot 100's top 14.

Which Folklore single made Swift the first artist to debut atop the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 in the same week?

"Cardigan" entered at number one the week Folklore topped the albums chart; Swift directed its video under pandemic rules and did her own hair, make-up and styling.

On which podcast did Swift reveal the cover and release date of The Life of a Showgirl in August 2025?

New Heights, hosted by Travis Kelce and his brother Jason, got a showpiece reveal: Swift opened a mint-green briefcase on air and pulled out the record.

Which Life of a Showgirl track debuted at number one on the Hot 100?

'The Fate of Ophelia' borrows the drowned heroine of Hamlet: in the lyrics Swift credits her partner with saving her from the same end; it debuted at number one in October 2025.

Swift's father, who bought a small stake in her first record label, worked in which profession?

Stockbroker: Scott Swift worked for Merrill Lynch and moved to its Nashville office so his daughter could chase a country career, then bought three percent of the new label that signed her.

Swift featured on 'Half of My Heart' by which artist?

John Mayer said in 2009 that he wanted Swift on 'Half of My Heart' because she would make a killer Stevie Nicks to his Tom Petty; she sings on the version on his album Battle Studies.

Which of these instruments has Swift played live in concert?

Ukulele joins guitar, banjo and piano among the instruments Swift plays on stage; on one early tour she strummed it through a mashup with Jason Mraz's 'I'm Yours' and Train's 'Hey, Soul Sister'.

After leaving Big Machine in 2018, Swift's albums were released under which label imprint?

Republic Records, a Universal imprint, released her albums under a deal that let her keep ownership of her new master recordings.

In May 2025, Swift bought back the masters of her first six albums from which company?

Shamrock Holdings, which bought the catalog from Scooter Braun's Ithaca Holdings in 2020, sold Swift the masters of her first six albums in May 2025; she had begun re-recording them after Braun's 2019 purchase.

Which poet who inspired Folklore and Evermore is a distant cousin of Swift?

Emily Dickinson is Swift's sixth cousin, three times removed, Ancestry found in 2024, through a 17th-century settler of Windsor, Connecticut; Swift calls her most old-fashioned lyrics her 'quill pen' songs.

Swift was named after which singer-songwriter?

James Taylor is the namesake; her parents chose a unisex name hoping it would help her succeed in business.

Which singer presented Swift with her record fourth Album of the Year Grammy in 2024?

Celine Dion made a surprise appearance, her first in public for months after illness had kept her off stage, to hand over the award that made Swift the first artist to win it four times.

Which single made Swift the youngest person to write and sing a country number one alone?

'Our Song', which Swift wrote alone for a ninth-grade talent show, topped Hot Country Songs in 2007, making her the youngest person to write and sing a country number one single-handedly.

In 'Fifteen', Swift sings about the freshman-year heartbreak of which real-life best friend?

Abigail Anderson, Swift's real-life best friend, gave her consent before the song went on the album; Swift wrote it outward from a single line about Abigail's heartbreak.

Which original song did Swift co-write and record for the 2019 film Cats?

'Beautiful Ghosts' is the original song Swift co-wrote with Andrew Lloyd Webber for Cats (2019); Francesca Hayward sings it in the film and Swift's version plays over the end credits.

Which single from Swift's 1989 has a music video shot on safari in Africa?

'Wildest Dreams' casts Swift as a 1950s film star on location in Africa who falls for her married co-star; she gave the video's proceeds to the African Parks Foundation of America.

Evermore's 'Marjorie' honors Swift's maternal grandmother, who had what career?

Opera singer: Marjorie Finlay toured with a radio show and later hosted her own television programme, and Swift wove recordings of her soprano voice into the song's backing vocals.

As a child, Swift spent time on a farm in Pennsylvania that grew what?

Christmas trees: the farm gave Swift the title and the memories for her 2019 holiday single 'Christmas Tree Farm', which she wrote on the first of December and released five days later.

Who helped a 12-year-old Swift learn guitar and write an original song?

A computer repairman and local musician, Ronnie Cremer, taught her the chords; Nashville labels had turned down her karaoke demos, and the rejections pushed her to write her own songs.

At 13, Swift was given an artist development deal by which label?

RCA Records gave 13-year-old Swift an artist development deal in 2003; she walked away a year later because the label wanted to keep her in development until she turned 18.

Swift's family relocated to which Tennessee town when she was 14?

Hendersonville became home in 2004 so that Swift could pursue country music in nearby Nashville; she spent two years at its high school before switching to homeschooling.

The friendship bracelets fans trade at Eras Tour shows come from a lyric in which Midnights song?

"You're on Your Own, Kid" urges its listener to make the friendship bracelets and seize the moment; fans took the line literally and swapped beaded bracelets spelling out song titles at the shows.

Which Music Row songwriter wrote with teenage Swift every Tuesday after school?

Liz Rose says the sessions worked because she respected the teenager's vision and refused to force her into a Nashville songwriting mould; together they wrote 'Teardrops on My Guitar' and 'All Too Well'.

What was the title of Swift's Walmart-exclusive 2008 EP?

Beautiful Eyes was a stopgap for fans who kept emailing to ask for new music; Swift sold it through Walmart alone so that nobody would mistake it for her second album.

'Love Story' was the first country song to top which Billboard airplay chart?

'Love Story' was the first country song to top Billboard's Pop Songs (Mainstream Top 40) chart, in 2009; 'You Belong with Me' then became the first country song to top the all-genre Radio Songs chart.

Which single from Swift's second album won Best Country Song at the 2010 Grammys?

'White Horse' nearly missed the album because Swift felt it already had enough sad songs; she changed her mind when Grey's Anatomy, a favourite show of hers, asked to feature it.

Swift's 'Today Was a Fairytale' appeared on the soundtrack of which 2010 romantic comedy?

Valentine's Day also gave Swift a small acting role; she had written 'Today Was a Fairytale' earlier and offered it to the producers, and it became her first number one in Canada.

Who directed Swift's star-studded 'Bad Blood' music video?

Joseph Kahn directed the 2015 'Bad Blood' video, in which Swift's secret agent is betrayed by her partner and trains for revenge beside a cast of famous friends who each chose a character name.

Which animal did Swift adopt as the emblem of her Reputation era after detractors used it against her online?

Snake emojis flooded her social media in 2016, so she took the insult over: computer-generated snakes teased the album, and giant ones loomed over the stage of the stadium tour.

Which singer duets with Swift on Red's 'The Last Time'?

Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol was introduced to Swift by their mutual friend Ed Sheeran; on 'The Last Time' the two sing opposite sides of a failing relationship.

Ed Sheeran co-wrote which Red track with Swift?

"Everything Has Changed" was written by Swift and Ed Sheeran while sitting on a trampoline in her backyard; he sings on it too, and Butch Walker produced.

Which solo Swift song joined her Civil Wars collaboration on the soundtrack of a 2012 film?

"Eyes Open" is a rock ballad Swift wrote alone from the heroine's point of view; she played an acoustic version at a concert in Auckland three days before its release.

'Sweeter than Fiction' was written for the soundtrack of which 2013 biographical film?

One Chance tells how Paul Potts went from a job in a phone shop to stardom as a tenor by winning Britain's Got Talent; the song, written with Jack Antonoff at his apartment, began their long partnership.

Which Swift album includes 'Cruel Summer', a 2019 track that topped the Hot 100 in 2023?

'Cruel Summer', co-written with Jack Antonoff and St. Vincent, appeared on Lover in 2019 and topped the Hot 100 four years later after the Eras Tour revived it.

Swift left Nashville for where in March 2014?

New York City became her home in March 2014; the move, and her choice to stay single there among friends, shaped 1989, the pop album she released that autumn.

Which 1989 track did Swift create with Imogen Heap?

"Clean" closes the standard edition of 1989; Swift arrived with the lyrics and melody, and Imogen Heap completed the track with her own instruments and backing vocals.

Which rapper features on the single remix of 'Bad Blood'?

Kendrick Lamar added new verses after Swift asked him herself; the remix, not the album cut, went to radio as the single and took 'Bad Blood' to number one in the US.

Each CD copy of Swift's 1989 came with a packet of 13 random photos of what kind?

Polaroids were popular in the 1980s, the era whose pop inspired the album; the cover is one too, cropped at the eyes because Swift wanted to keep the record's mood a mystery.

In November 2014, Swift pulled her catalog from which free streaming platform?

Spotify lost her whole catalog in November 2014 because Swift objected to its free, ad-supported tier, which she argued undercut paid streaming; the albums stayed away until June 2017.

Which rapper appears alongside Ed Sheeran on Reputation's 'End Game'?

Future joins Swift and Ed Sheeran on 'End Game'; its video follows her partying with Future in Miami, with Sheeran in Tokyo and with friends in London.

Swift featured on 'Babe' (2018), a single by which country duo?

Sugarland's 'Babe' (2018) features Swift, who wrote it with Pat Monahan of Train during the Red sessions and later released her own version on Red (Taylor's Version).

Which musician features on Lover's 'ME!'?

Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco co-wrote and sings on 'ME!', which began as a slow piano ballad before it turned into a pop song driven by a marching-band drumline.

Which group features on Lover's country ballad 'Soon You'll Get Better'?

Dixie Chicks, since renamed The Chicks, sing and play on 'Soon You'll Get Better', Swift's song about her mother's cancer; she has cited them with Shania Twain and Faith Hill as formative influences.

Folklore's 'The Last Great American Dynasty' tells the story of which socialite?

Rebekah Harkness once owned the Rhode Island mansion Swift bought in 2013; Swift first heard her story from the estate agent who showed her round, and the last chorus turns to Swift herself.

Which sibling band features on evermore's 'no body, no crime'?

Haim, the sisters Este, Danielle and Alana, feature on 'no body, no crime', evermore's murder ballad in which a character named Este vanishes after confronting her cheating husband.

Who is the featured artist on Midnights' 'Snow on the Beach'?

Lana Del Rey features on and co-wrote 'Snow on the Beach'; a 'More Lana Del Rey' version with her vocals brought forward arrived in 2023 after fans complained her part was buried.

A May 2023 remix of 'Karma' featured which rapper?

Ice Spice features on the 'Karma' remix released in May 2023 on Midnights (The Til Dawn Edition); the two performed it together at the Eras Tour's East Rutherford, New Jersey shows.

Actress Zoë Kravitz has a co-writing credit on which Midnights track?

"Lavender Haze", the opening track of Midnights, lists Zoë Kravitz among its writers; Swift picked up the title phrase, used there for being in love, while watching Mad Men.

What was the surprise extended edition of Swift's Midnights, released later the same night, called?

3am Edition added seven songs three hours after the standard album; Swift said they were written on the way to the final 13 and that she loved sharing more of her creative process.

The standard edition of The Tortured Poets Department closes with a track named after which silent-film actress?

'Clara Bow' takes the 1920s 'It girl' as its first example of how each new female star is sold as a replacement for the last; its lyrics move on to Stevie Nicks and then to Swift herself.

Which track opens Swift's 2017 album Reputation?

'...Ready for It?' opens Reputation with heist and ransom imagery for a new romance; Swift premiered it during a college football broadcast, and it became the album's second single.

The double-album issue of The Tortured Poets Department carried what subtitle?

The Anthology arrived as a surprise two hours after the standard album on April 19, 2024, adding 15 songs and turning the release into a 31-track double album.

The Life of a Showgirl was recorded in which country?

Sweden: Swift slipped away to Stockholm between Eras Tour dates on the 2024 European leg, and kept the sessions so quiet that her label did not know the album existed until it was finished.

Which singer guests on the title track of The Life of a Showgirl?

Sabrina Carpenter, who had opened for Swift on the Eras Tour, sings on the title track; Swift wrote part of the lyric with her in mind, and Carpenter said yes at once.

The Eras Tour opened on March 17, 2023, in which city?

Glendale, Arizona, temporarily renamed itself Swift City for the tour's two opening nights; the mayor read out the proclamation at a ceremony a few days before the first show.

Before Time made her its 2023 Person of the Year, Swift shared the 2017 cover as one of which group?

The Silence Breakers were people who spoke up about sexual harassment and assault, Swift among them after her court case that year; in 2023 she became the first Person of the Year chosen from the arts.

The documentary Miss Americana premiered at which 2020 film festival?

Sundance opened its 2020 festival with Miss Americana, Lana Wilson's film that follows Swift as she decides to go public with her political views; Netflix released it eight days later.

Speak Now (Taylor's Version) broke whose record for most number-one albums by a woman?

Barbra Streisand built her eleven chart-toppers over half a century, from People to a 2016 duets album; Swift's twelfth arrived in July 2023, less than fifteen years after her first.

Swift was an opening act on which country star's 2009 world tour?

Keith Urban had Swift as an opening act on his 2009 Escape Together tour; in that same year she stepped up to launch her own first tour as a headliner.

What working title for Speak Now did Scott Borchetta talk Swift out of using?

Swift planned to call her third album Enchanted, after the song, until Scott Borchetta argued the word was too fairy-tale for its more grown-up perspective; she chose Speak Now instead.

Which casual-dining restaurant chain does Taylor Swift name in her country murder ballad 'No Body, No Crime'?

Olive Garden's chief executive, Gene Lee, credited Taylor Swift with creating new buzz for the brand after the song came out. In the story, the narrator avenges a friend who vanished after confronting her cheating husband.

Capital letters in the title of Taylor Swift's 'Thank You Aimee' are widely read as spelling which reality star's name?

Kim Kardashian was the name many outlets saw, since the capitals in the stylised title spell Kim. The lyrics address a bully from the narrator's teenage years, and the two women had fallen out publicly in 2016.

Which pop singer does the title track of Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department say deserves to be more famous?

Charlie Puth gets the shout-out, beside mentions of the poets Dylan Thomas and Patti Smith. The song pokes fun at a romance between two pretentious artists.

Which fellow pop star, once a friend, did the media take to be the target of Taylor Swift's 'Bad Blood'?

Katy Perry had a public fallout with Swift after years of friendship. Swift said only that the song was about a fellow artist who tried to sabotage an arena tour by hiring people out from under her.

The title of Taylor Swift's 'But Daddy I Love Him' is a line spoken by the heroine of which Disney animated film?

The Little Mermaid has Ariel say it when her merman father disapproves of her human love, Prince Eric. Swift's narrator likewise faces down critics of her romance in a religious small town.

Besides its Shakespeare borrowing, Taylor Swift's 'Love Story' references which 19th-century American novel?

The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel of adultery, supplies the image Swift uses for herself. In her song it stands for a forbidden romance instead of a sin.

Taylor Swift's 'Father Figure' borrows the melody of a 1987 hit with the same title by which late British pop star?

George Michael released the original alongside Faith, his debut solo album. Swift's version, an orchestral pop and R&B ballad, interpolates parts of his melody.

Taylor Swift's ballad 'Champagne Problems' is narrated by a troubled woman who turns down what from her partner?

A marriage proposal is what the narrator rejects, because her personal troubles leave her feeling unready. The whole ballad is addressed to the man she said no to.

Taylor Swift's 'How You Get the Girl', a tutorial on winning back an ex, debuted in a cat-filled advert for which drink?

Diet Coke used the song before its release, in an advert where more cats appear each time Swift sips from a can. She called the lyrics a tutorial for a man six months after a breakup.

Which early Taylor Swift hit names Drew, a real classmate she liked while he was interested in another girl?

Teardrops on My Guitar keeps the first name of the classmate who inspired it. Reaching number 13 on the Hot 100, the single became her first crossover from country radio to the pop charts.

Taylor Swift's ballad 'Happiness', sung after a divorce, makes several references to which 1920s American novel?

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel, runs through the song's imagery. A track on Reputation also name-checks Gatsby, for the lavish parties Swift threw each Fourth of July.

Which Romantic poet does Taylor Swift reference in 'The Lakes', a Folklore deluxe track about retreating to Windermere?

William Wordsworth is referenced beside wisteria in a song that pairs a gloomy mood with dreams of escape. Swift wrote it about her own quiet spell in the English Lake District.

Taylor Swift's 'The Last Great American Dynasty' tells the story of her own seaside mansion in which US state?

Rhode Island is where Holiday House stands, in the village of Watch Hill. Its governor once floated a levy on costly second homes that was promptly dubbed the Taylor Swift tax.

Which Daphne du Maurier novel inspired Taylor Swift's 'Tolerate It', sung by a young woman undervalued by an older man?

Rebecca, published in 1938, inspired the song, which Swift said is about ambivalent toleration. Its narrator loves a partner who does not seem to like her.

Which Taylor Swift song links her grandfather's wartime service at Guadalcanal with medics in the COVID-19 pandemic?

Epiphany likens doctors and nurses to soldiers on a beach, setting their distress beside that of her paternal grandfather, Dean. Swift wrote it as a homage to healthcare workers.

Which Taylor Swift charity single was assembled from a grieving parent's blog about a young son lost to cancer?

Ronan credits Maya Thompson, who wrote the blog, as co-writer because Swift built the lyrics from her posts. The boy died of neuroblastoma three days before his fourth birthday.

In Taylor Swift's 'Seven', a child dreams of rescuing a friend from an unhappy home and running away to which country?

India is the faraway escape the seven-year-old imagines. Looking back at 30 on her Pennsylvania childhood, Swift only later grasps what her friend was living through at home.

Taylor Swift's 'Starlight' imagines the 1945 teenage romance of her friend Ethel and which man, later a US senator?

Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel appear as two teenagers sneaking into a yacht club party. Swift had become friends with Ethel and other members of the family in 2012.

Taylor Swift's 'Elizabeth Taylor' mentions which Italian resort town tied to the actress's romance with Richard Burton?

Portofino is one of several nods to the film star's life in the song, and is said to be where Burton proposed. Swift called the actress a quintessential showgirl.

Taylor Swift dedicated her anthem 'Long Live', full of crowns and kings, to which two groups of people?

Her bandmates and fans are the people the song thanks, in imagery of crowns, kings and queens. One critic noted the lyrics are universal enough to work as a graduation song.

Taylor Swift's 'Look What You Made Me Do' interpolates 'I'm Too Sexy', a 1991 hit by which English pop group?

Right Said Fred's three members, the Fairbrass brothers and Rob Manzoli, received songwriting credits on Swift's single as a result.

Taylor Swift's 'Look What You Made Me Do' ended the 16-week Hot 100 reign of which Spanish-language smash?

Despacito, by Luis Fonsi, gave way as Swift's single posted the biggest week of 2017 for sales and plays.

Taylor Swift's 'Look What You Made Me Do' video drew 43.2 million YouTube views in a day, topping whose 36 million?

Psy held the YouTube mark with his 'Gentleman' video. Swift's clip averaged 30,000 views a minute across its first 24 hours.

In Taylor Swift's 'Look What You Made Me Do' video, what single item lies among the diamonds in her bathtub?

A dollar bill sits in the jewels, widely read as a nod to the single dollar a jury awarded Swift when she won a sexual assault trial earlier in 2017.

Dancers in Taylor Swift's 'Look What You Made Me Do' video reveal tops mocking a shirt once worn by which actor ex?

Tom Hiddleston wore an 'I Heart TS' tank top while dating Swift, and the scene mocks the idea that she forced him into it. Eight men unbutton their jackets at her command to show the crop tops.

Which spy drama featured a cover of Taylor Swift's 'Look What You Made Me Do' by Jack Leopards & the Dolphin Club?

Killing Eve ran the cover over the opening credits of a 2020 episode. The episode, 'Beautiful Monster', aired in May, and the recording then went on sale on digital platforms.

Taylor Swift's re-recorded 'Look What You Made Me Do' scored an uprising in the penultimate episode of which Hulu drama?

The Handmaid's Tale used the track under a montage of Handmaids rising up, led by Elisabeth Moss's June Osborne. The re-recording had first surfaced in 2023 as the theme of the series Wilderness.

Taylor Swift said 'Look What You Made Me Do' drew on a vengeful character's kill list from which fantasy TV series?

Game of Thrones shaped several songs on Reputation, and this one borrows Arya Stark's kill list. Swift even split the album into two sides after the series, one of vengeance and one of love.

In Taylor Swift's 'Look What You Made Me Do' video, which trophy does she clutch after crashing her golden car?

A Grammy stays in her hand as paparazzi photograph the crashed gold Bugatti Veyron. The scene is read as mocking the notion that she would wreck friendships for professional gain.

In Taylor Swift's 'Look What You Made Me Do' video, her cat-masked crew robs the vault of what kind of business?

A streaming company is the target, a wink at headlines that called her greedy when she pulled her whole catalogue from streaming services.

Which pop singer, said to have ended things with Taylor Swift in a 25-second phone call, inspired 'Forever & Always'?

Joe Jonas dated Swift from July to October 2008. Looking back in 2019, she called putting him on blast the most rebellious thing she did as a teenager.

Which Taylor Swift ballad, her first sung apology to an ex, did Twilight actor Taylor Lautner say he had inspired?

Back to December broke with her habit of criticising ex-boyfriends. Swift reasoned that if a guy deserves an apology in one of her songs, he should get one.

Which One Direction singer's brief romance with Taylor Swift sparked speculation that they wrote songs about each other?

Harry Styles and Swift were together only briefly, yet the romance drew extensive tabloid coverage and set off years of guessing about both artists' lyrics.

Which Teen Wolf actor plays the older boyfriend opposite Sadie Sink in Taylor Swift's All Too Well: The Short Film?

Dylan O'Brien plays a character known only as Him, in a story of a romance undone partly by an age gap. Swift said he and Sink were the only two people she imagined in the roles.

Which early Taylor Swift single about a cheating boyfriend did she say took only 20 minutes to write?

Should've Said No was a last-minute addition to her debut album, written two days before it was mastered. The title came to her first, and the refrain followed in five minutes.

Which fifth track on The Tortured Poets Department did critics read as alluding to Taylor Swift's split from Joe Alwyn?

So Long, London followed the end of a six-year relationship. Listeners had been waiting for it, because Swift has said the fifth track of each album is its most vulnerable.

Which rock frontman, linked to Taylor Swift in 2023, do critics believe inspired 'The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived'?

Matty Healy fronts the 1975, and his aunt reportedly said he would not be surprised to find himself the subject of the song.

Which early Taylor Swift single mocks an ex-boyfriend's love of pickup trucks and threatens to date all his friends?

Picture to Burn grew out of her frustration with a narcissistic classmate. She picked it as a single because concert crowds screamed along louder than to anything else.

Which Taylor Swift pop-punk song about a romantic rival had a chorus lyric altered for its 2023 re-recording?

Better than Revenge had been criticised as slut-shaming, and her decision to change the line for the new recording met a mixed reaction.

Which notorious duo does Taylor Swift invoke in 'Getaway Car', about fleeing one romance by starting another?

Bonnie and Clyde suit the song's crime-scene imagery, in which the narrator leaves a partner in a hotel room and speeds off with someone else. She knows the second romance is doomed too.

Which Hollywood leading man does Taylor Swift name in 'The Man', her Lover track about sexist double standards?

Leonardo DiCaprio is the comparison she reaches for, and one critic called it the most memorable line of the song. The video nods to his film The Wolf of Wall Street.

Taylor Swift's Lover track 'Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince' uses which setting as a metaphor for US politics?

A high school, with social events that can leave people out, struck Swift as a fitting image for the political landscape. Critics found it far darker than the classrooms of her early hits.

Taylor Swift's 'Soon You'll Get Better' opens in a doctor's office beside which relative, newly diagnosed with cancer?

Her mother is the one she sings to, admiring how she stays positive while Swift herself struggles with denial. The lyrics turn to prayer, then admit doubts about religion.

Which LGBTQ advocacy group reported a wave of $13 donations after Taylor Swift released 'You Need to Calm Down'?

GLAAD saw the gifts arrive in Swift's favourite number after the song punned on its name. The lyric video goes further and spells the word with the group's two As.

Taylor Swift wrote the title track of Lover picturing it played at which kind of celebration in 1970, 1980 or today?

A wedding reception was the setting she had in mind for a timeless love song. Its bridge is modelled on the vows couples write for themselves and plays on the bridal rhyme about something borrowed and something blue.

Which closing track of Taylor Swift's Lover, once meant to be its title song, ends with a spoken epilogue about love?

Daylight lost its place as the album title because Swift felt it was too on-the-nose. In its closing words she says people should be defined by what they love, not by what they hate or fear.

Which 2019 romantic comedy film did Taylor Swift cite as a key inspiration for Lover's 'Death by a Thousand Cuts'?

Someone Great, written and directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, gave Swift a breakup to write about that was not her own. Unlike her earlier autobiographical breakup songs, it drew on friends and fictional characters.

Which English actor's voice, taken from a James Corden talk-show appearance, opens Taylor Swift's 'London Boy'?

Idris Elba is heard in a spoken-word intro lifted from a 2017 visit to The Late Late Show. The song then tours the city's pleasures, from high tea to rugby at the pub.

The title of Lover's 'Cornelia Street' refers to a street where Taylor Swift had once done what?

She rented a townhouse there for only a short time, yet the property has drawn media and real-estate coverage ever since.

Which opening track of Lover did Taylor Swift write to complete the grieving begun on Reputation?

I Forgot That You Existed was picked to open the album as a statement of indifference, the feeling left once the anger has burned out. Swift wrote it with Louis Bell and Frank Dukes.