The 100% Definitive Taylor Swift Tier Ranking

Call me a swiftie the way I’m stanning this white woman!

The only two albums that deserve to be up here are folklore and reputation. reputation came out right when I was maturing in my music taste away from artists like Swift and it almost made me come back. That’s how decent it was. folklore has a similar story, but it’s slightly more impressive because it’s not even close to my preferred genres of music.

Got some bangerz!

Here lies The Tortured Poets Department, Red, and evermore. I may not like these albums, but they have some redeeming songs, and overall the fan base seems pretty set on them being decent. evermore gets bonus points for having the only Swift song that I’ve ever put in a playlist: no body, no crime.

Nostalgia Bait!

This is not to say 1984, Speak Now, and Fearless are bad in any way because they really aren’t. They’re just average. This is a middle of the road category to point out that these three albums live off of the nostalgia that most fans have for them. We grew up when these original releases were popular, so obviously we will associate them more warmly in our minds regardless of how bland, unimaginative, and recycled they are.

You are impressed easily!

Oh The Life of a Showgirl, Midnights, Debut, and Lover, my beloathed. Is it kind of mean to put her debut album where she was not at all prepared to be a singer in the same category as her more recent music? Sure. Do I care? Nope. If your recent music can be considered as poorly structured, repetitive, childish, and frivolous as your debut, then that’s on you, girly-pop. 

The billionaire’s cash grab!

She’s not even hiding it anymore. What do you mean you released Midnights THREE times? What do you mean you released The Life of a Showgirl “track by track” version, whatever the fuck that means, just days after you released an album that even your fans cannot defend? What do you mean you released The Anthology, literally the exact same album as Tortured Poets but with extra songs, just one day after the original album? What do you mean there are 28 variants of The Life of a Showgirl with “exclusive” content in each? Have some fucking shame, Taylor. She really is a shining example of how money cannot buy happiness.