Tiering Taylor Swift: The ‘Reputation’ Update
Your New Official Tiering of Every Taylor Swift Song
Heralded by some of the most disappointing music the Queen, the Goddess, my Inspiration has ever released, the new album is finally here. How does it stack up?
Read the previous tiering here. Yes, there have been some recalculations.
TIER I: MY ONE AND ONLY, MY LIFELINE
Whatever her reputation, Taylor’s legacy will forever and always be a rare gift for the perfect song.
Our Song, Fifteen, Love Story, You Belong with Me, Forever and Always, Dear John, Mean, Enchanted, All Too Well, We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, Blank Space, All You Had to Do Was Stay, Getaway Car, Dress
TIER II: ALL AT ONCE THIS IS ENOUGH
Taylor’s second-best is still pretty much everyone else’s unreachable.
Teardrops on My Guitar, I’m Only Me When I’m with You, Invisible, Hey Stephen, Breathe, Back to December, Last Kiss, If This Was a Movie, State of Grace, Red, Treacherous, I Almost Do, Begin Again, The Moment I Knew, Out of the Woods, I Wish You Would, I Know Places, This Love, Wonderland, King of My Heart, New Year’s Day
TIER III: [TRIPLET FEEL] LET *THE* GAMES BEGIN
Fun as hell.
Picture to Burn, Should’ve Said No, I Heart Question Mark, The Way I Loved You, The Other Side of the Door, Mine, Speak Now, Eyes Open, Twenty-Two, Girl at Home, Shake It Off, How You Get the Girl, …Ready for It?, Gorgeous, This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
TIER IV: HONESTLY, BABY, WHO’S COUNTING?
There is just so much good stuff in the Swift oeuvre.
Cold as You, Today Was a Fairytale, Fearless, White Horse, Come In with the Rain, Sparks Fly, The Story of Us, Innocent, Ours, Safe and Sound, Ronan, I Knew You Were Trouble, Holy Ground, Starlight, Style, Wildest Dreams, Clean, New Romantics, Delicate, So It Goes…, Dancing with Our Hands Tied, Call It What You Want
TIER V: DON’T REGRET IT ONE BIT
Never stop being a cheeseball, Taylor.
Tim McGraw, The Best Day, Change, Jump Then Fall, Christmas Must Be Something More, Better Than Revenge, Haunted, Long Live, The Lucky One, Sweeter Than Fiction, I Did Something Bad
TIER VI: IF IT DOESN’T YOU AIN’T DOIN’ IT RIGHT
Hey, not every track can be a banger.
Mary’s Song (Oh My My My), Never Grow Up, A Perfectly Good Heart, Crazier, Come Back… Be Here, Stay Stay Stay, You Are in Love, Don’t Blame Me
TIER VII: THIS AIN’T FOR THE BEST
I am a massive T.S. fan, and I have a hard time remembering distinguishing features of these.
A Place in This World, The Outside, Tied Together with a Smile, Stay Beautiful, Beautiful Eyes, Tell Me Why, You’re Not Sorry, Untouchable, Christmases When You Were Mine, The Last Time, Everything Has Changed
TIER VIII: IT’S EASIER TO IGNORE IT, BELIEVE ME
The songs here may be actively bad.
Superstar, Superman, Sad Beautiful Tragic, Bad Blood, End Game
TIER IX: LOOK WHERE YOU MADE ME TIER THIS
This was once the tier reserved only for “Welcome to New York.”
Welcome to New York, Look What You Made Me Do
Puzzlements? Quibbles? Nuclear takes? Fight me in the comments.
