Ranking Taylor Swift's Album Openers
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Hello and welcome to this weird crevasse of the internet where we get really excited about music (particularly Taylor Swift) and break down our favourite albums and songs. Our names are Bonny and Emily, and our aim with these videos is to share our love for music and also share context and understanding around the songs, by highlighting breaking down the lyrics, melodies and production. We are so happy to have created this little community that is just as unhinged as us when it comes to music 🤪
"Mine" is the ONLY opening track that the FIRST thing you hear is her voice... she's speaking now. 💜💜💜
wait i never realized this thank u
THANK YOU 💜
so clever
okay wait- you may have seriously changed my opinion about this song forever omg thank you so much for saying that.
Next, can you rank all track 5’s? That will be challenging!
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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! It will take decades to decide AT LEAST two. 😂
This!!!
Omg such a good idea! We neeeed this
Yasss
I just love that 2 girls are so passionate about the same things I am. I FEEL SO SEENNNN
So truee😭
We got to appreciate Bonny and Emily for their hard-work in making these videos.
and their hard work in having the best outfits ever
and their hard work in having the best outfits ever
Bonnie quoting Welcome to New York like she’s reading ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas is so good
State of Grace will always be one of the best openers ever!!!! ❤️😭🎈
Absolutely! Always been my favourite and most listened on this album. You got good taste! ❤ #swiftiesforever
FOR REAL
welcome to new york will always be the best one
no offense 😂
Taylor did a THING when picking an album opener and closer for Red. Perfection 🤌🏼
Ts version?
Sparks Fly DEFINITELY should have been the album opener, it would have been so iconic
Drop everything now!
I think it might've sounded too much like the opening of Fearless. Mine sets Speak Now apart from the Fearless album.
That song is what started me on the Tay Tay journey !
Couldn’t agree more!
YESSS
“The 1” will always be my favorite opener because of how it made me feel. Folklore seemingly came out of nowhere. I saw the post on social media Swift made about the album. I was so tired from working 3rd shift but listened anyway. The 1 played and I cried. I was living on my own and my 7 year relationship with my wife was ending. It was like Taylor herself was giving me hug and telling me it was okay. One of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard.
Such a beautiful story, have the best day
ugh this gave me chills!!
Lavender Haze is not a favourite for me but I think its perfect as the album opener. The album starts where their relationship is good and then slowly deteriorates during the rest of the songs. It also sets up problems in their relationship. Like that "he doesnt say too much" (youre losing me: say something babe).
Or "you dont really read into my melancholia" (You're losing me: how can you say that you love someone you can't tell is dying). Maybe he should have.
This!!! Lavender haze is one of my favourite songs she has released so might be a bit biased but I think it was such a good opener too. It's the delulu phase during a relationship breakdown. She's clinging onto the love bubble but it's slowly drifting away. Also those parallels you drew between LH and you're losing me just shook me to my core. Then there's obviously 'meet me at midnight' - duh. I would rank it as her best album opener for these reasons.
THIS!! Plus her reiterating that she just wants to stay in the lavender haze - she just wants to stay in love - but things are happening, her feelings are changing, she’s falling out of love, and it’s keeping her up at night. Concept wise it is the perfect opener!
@georgiarw it would have been helpful to read the replies of this comment before I replied 😅 so glad to see you feel the same too though!
Finally someone saying this!
Lavender Haze is very multifaceted song, the song may seem like just a "casual" Taylor's love song, but if we listen carefully, it is the stem to every problem in relationship she would face later (Bejeweled, Midnight Rain, High Infidelity, You're Losing Me)
Words cant describe how genius that song is. Despite the song just tell how Taylor wanting to stay in that lavender haze, there are underlying anxious, hopeless romanticness, self-doubting in it, and that's smart ass metaphor cause "Haze" indeed makes the real situation hazy, all those signals got blurred by the love itself
(I hope you got what I mean)
Can you do a ranking for all her random songs?? Like Renegade/IDWLF/Carolina/The Alcott/Macavity and everything else!!!!!
Yes please!!
Safe and sounddddd
Yes and unreleased music! Let's Go Battle, I'd Lie, etc!!! 🫶
Please please please
State of Grace. No more words. The melody. The feel. The message. Don’t think she will ever top that opener
This video is SOO SUPERIOR! When tour is officially over you guys should do a ranking of every surprise song pairing!!💕 Love you guys so much!!
No, Bonny saying "I don't want to face what is happening in this relationship" about Lavender Haze and it being the album opener/the beginning of the era, and then knowing now that You're Losing Me is the end of the Midnights era.
I AM EXTREMELY FUCKED UP RN. 😭
This was SO fun. Personally I would rank "the 1" as my second favourite album opener for all of the reasons that you both mentioned and because I think that the lines "you know the greatest films of all time were never made" and "the greatest loves of all time are over now" perfectly encapsulates the world of story telling that we are about to enter. We are exploring all of the "what ifs" and comparing what was to what could be throughout the entire album. For example, in songs like "betty" when she writes "if I showed up at your party, would you have me?" Taylor has questions in her own life which she explores in "the 1" and "my tears ricochet" and she is exploring the many paths and possibilities for characters like Inez, Betty, and James throughout the album.
Please do this with track 2’s it’s going to be the must difficult battle ever
If they do I hope they take into consideration how the song works after the intro, some track 2's are great follow ups to what comes before and add to the story by following each other in the tracklist
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In my opinion track 2’s are the new track 5’s… ever since Lover the track 2 is better than the track 5:
Cruel Summer > The Archer
Cardigan > My Tears Ricochet
Champagne Problems = Tolerate It (the only exception)
Maroon > You’re on Your Own Kid
@@98LucasFGit's not about what's best, it's about what's more personal
Any video where State of Grace is thoroughly discussed is a wonderful video to me!! Love you guys!
As a suggestion, a ranking for the best song intros could be cool! Thanks for the video guys ❤️
Yes!
It is. But wouldn’t it be better if ranking the best albums? Or the most listened album of all time? That would be cool, wouldn’t it? 🤣 ❤
mine being so low hurts my soul as a speak now stan and a mine stan. its the perfect album opener for me, the way it introduces speak now's story-telling vibe and gives us the more realistic fairytale vibe with lines like "we got bills to pay we got nothing figured out" and "careless man's careful daughter" that carries throughout the entire album. i respect anyone who says sparks fly would make a good album opener though.
I love State of Grace getting recognition. It's one of my favorites from Red.
Begging you to give us a tour of your vinyl collection!!!!
Yes to this!
I Forgot That You Existed is so underrated!!! I think of it like a prologue - it needed to be said before we got onto the main stories on the album. It's probably in my top 5 openers!
emily’s hair is slaying so hard oh my GODDD !!!
I can never get over all of your outfits!! They are always so cute and I feel like they are almost never the same 🫶
emily's dress with the headband.. LOVEE also i think Ready For It might be my favorite album opener of taylor's 🤪
Listening to you guys discuss your opinions is my favorite thing to do besides listen to taylor herself
I just love the way you guys totally nerd out with so much passion and knowledge and compliment each other’s opinions so well! Yall are just some of my faves for real.
For me, I Forgot That You Existed is like a prologue, rather than the actual opener. It's the pre-opener. It needed to be there in terms of her autobiographical storyline to bridge Rep into Lover, but it feels separate from the overall concept of Lover. In theatre it'd be like the song that plays before the show starts, rather than the opening number.
I think it would be really fun for you two to rearrange the tracklists of different albums!
I can’t wait to see you guys rank Taylor’s closing tracks!! It would be so cool if you did like a double ranking? Like the standard album and then another ranking that includes bonus and vault tracks. Especially because some of those tracks really change the vibe of the album as closers (hoax vs the lakes, mastermind vs dear reader vs you’re losing me)
Would loooove it if you continued this by more track ranking videos, like track 2, 3, 5 , album closers etc.! And track 9 and 10 are usually SO ICONIC, it would be so much fun!
The 1 has to be on top for me. Folklore is top 3 for me not 1 but it’s widely thought to be her best album. The 1 captures all that so perfectly. The new sound, a new songwriting form, and the wistful, reflective mood. The 1 captures not just the feeling of the album but the feeling of the WORLD in lockdown. That’s a truly incredible thing and I’m not sure I’ll ever hear a better album opener in my life
Say it louder for the people in the back. This.☝️This is brilliant.
Love this. I honestly can't get past Midnights opening with "meet me at midnight" and that offensive new sound in Lavender Haze and the closer of "Mastermind" my goooooooodddd it's too much
Truly your videos make me smile! Your enthusiasm and the way you both dissect each song plus find connections between them and between albums …it is just SUPERIOR! Great job always 💜👏🏼
I think Midnights is about the in-between phase of the breakdown of a long term relationship, the back and forth of falling in and out of love. Lavender Haze is about honeymoon beginning love and the idea of a haze signifies a sense of clouded false reality, the reality is that two people actually might not be right for each other. She yeans for the haze of the beginning because it's gone now. I think as a song it reflects both sides of the album in that way.
i always love watching and listening to you guys fathom songs and concepts. i will never look at midnights the same again, and i thank you guys for that every time
Loved the way you did this one with you each ranking it and then comparing!
em's headband is so lovely!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am so loving all the different short hair styling 🫶
i love you guys’ videos😭 they make me smile knowing someone loves taylor swift as much as i do
Can't wait to see your ranking for track 2!!! really love to know how you guys will rank those SUPERIOR songs I mean like cruel summer ,maroon, champagne problem, blank space and cardigan?? I can't handle it
loved seeing your different rankings!! patiently waiting for album closers 😇
Ready for it and State of Grace are my top 2 as well, honourable mention to Lavender Haze because it is a BANGER but also Fearless is a magic of it's own
Always been a state of grace STAN !! Glad to be in similar company with that
Serving looks as always 🫶
I was just listening to the state of grace lol love you both❤❤
1000% agree with the top two!! the little throat clear at the beginning of ready for it automatically makes it the most iconic opener in my opinion 😆
People don’t live Ready for it as much as a song on its own but I’ve been saying for years it’s the perfect album opener.
i was really needed this today, thank you!!! love u guys 🩵
you´re both so passionate about every song of Taylor, you make me want to go and listen to her whole discography now.
IVE BEEN WAITINGGGG FOR THIS VIDEO FOR SO LONG IM SO GLAD YOU GUYS DID IT !! ❤❤
Lovedddd this solo track ranking video stylee - I’d be so intrigued on your takes if you guys ever did a closing track one 💜
I love the ranking videos!!! Track 5 or track 9 rankings would be ICONIQUEEEE
This was soooo much fun!!! I was giggling and gasping right along with you guys! I have the same top two as you both! Simply ICONIC
Love your reactions so much. You're awesome!!! ❤️
Btw, when you were to start the top 4 ranking I was freaking out wondering the order!!! 🤩
I love how you breakdown songs and your best of series. I’d love to see your lists for best album closers, best collaboration songs, best production songs, best harmony songs, best ad lib songs/background vocals. Love your channel and glad I found your channel!!
i love watching old videos after the ts11 announcement it's so crazy how none of us had any idea😭also love your videos and you so deserved those letters from taylor and the vip tent tickets!!💕💕
I read a comment once that suggested that every one of Taylor's albums has one line that acts as a sort of thesis statement about the album as a whole, and that Red's is "Love is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right" (you could even include the two preceding lines). So State of Grace really does set the whole album up perfectly (and Ready For It would be a very close second for me as well)!
oh my god this was really awesome. like this is a ✨️perfect ✨️ video!!! please do this for track 2s, 5s and album closers too eventually 🥺🥺🫶🫶
I loved this! Thank you both so much 🦋
very valid rankings!!! so happy to see welcome to ny getting the love it deserves! also I feel similarly about red, like it's not my top 2 BUT I feel like it's her best album??? probably because it encompasses her so well, because the storytelling of the track order is SO good, idk what it is about it.... also maybe bc I became a swiftie during red tv era, or because atwtmvtvftv is her best song objectively I feel like the same goes for red? I wonder whether people think the same
Loved watching!! Your opinions and breakdowns are 10/10 🙌🏻✨
this is the video I needed to watch while crocheting, thank you 😌
You gals are so fun to watch and I love your enthusiasm and to see the joy Taylor brings you. And you both look amazing! 😸😸😁😁💜💜
This is so fun to think about! I love that you ranked the songs not just based on personal preference, but truly how they perform as the opener. I'm a rep stan, so when I saw the video title my mind immediately put Ready For It on top, but after some critical thinking- 'Welcome To New York' is just sooo hard to beat in terms how much excitement it generates for the rest of the album. It feels so genuinely optimistic and sets such a vivid scene, I literally feel like I'm in the process of moving to NYC to pursue my dreams whenever I listen to it. Also - I completely agree about 'the 1'. I am obsessed with that song and will never forget the feelings I had when I heard it for the first time.. but I was pondering what else might work as folklore opener instead.. would ''this is me trying' be crazy or what? LOL
We need you guys to rank Track 2, Track 3, Track 5, Track 9 and the closing track of each Taylor album too!
I think this has to be my favorite video you guys have ever put out. WE NEEEEEED THE ALBUM CLOSERS VIDEO!
I'm in the middle of watching your Time interview video on Patreon but I'm hitting pause for thissssss 🩵
i would love to see you guys rank the albums or every song on the albums! loved the vid!
so looking forward to hearing your album closings rankings!
I LOVED this video!!! This format was amazing. Also state of grace is ILLENING
Omg I’ve never been this early
Openers! Iconic. Love these ranking vids! ❤❤❤
I personally love state of grace , mine, …ready for it, and fearless.
Absolutely loved this! Will you be doing a video ranking the closing tracks/bookends? :)
Such a great video as usual, girls! It would be awesome to hear you about the Midnights album from this new perspective you were talking about in the video. You are the best :*
these outfits have me so intrigued....very debut vibes!!!
i love the surprising each other idea when it comes to the rankings!!! think that adds an extra element of fun and excitement when you reveal!!! hope you guys do that again :)💋
To me, "Mine" makes sense as an album opener for two reasons:
1- "Mine" is a more mature or grown-up version of the song "Fearless.". Both songs are a daydream about her idea of love. However, "Mine" is the wiser sister in some ways. It is like a bridge between her previous work and Speak Now, so it works as a natural progression or continuation.
2- I always imagined that "Mine" was one of the last songs written for the album. So, With the hindsight from exploring these different relationships and heartbreaks throughout the album, "Mine" is like her final conclusion or realization of what the ideal relationship would look like in her mind.
I used think that Sparks Fly would fit well also as the album opener also, but I came to appreciate the complexity of Mine a little more.
I feel like the 1 is way higher for me not just because i love the song and never wanna skip it, but also because how it ties to cardigan with "choose two girls lose the 1" and i feel like also with most songs on the album. The whole album is about loss and mourning something that you really wish would've worked out: be it her records or relationships. Idk i feel like the 1 could be seen as a reminiscing song that can be an epilogue to exile, august, my tears ricochet. Maybe im just overanalyzing but i just really love it as an opener and sound-setter for folklore.
there are no words to espresso how much I adored your description of state of grace, which has to be my no. 1 no doubt
Your videos are so good, your passion, knowledge and enthusiasm of Taylor’s music is entertaining and a joy to watch🫶
I love this! I am going to ponder my own list of album openers.
It’s so hard to rank these songs solely after their purpose, because some of them are actually some of my favorite Taylor Swift songs of all time (the 1, Mine, Fearless, willow)… but you guys did a great job and I loved hearing your opinions and explanations 🥰
Glad you both had State of Grace high up...That was the song that made me love Taylor....When I first heard it...I played it back to back 10 times...still love it so very much :):)
omg i loved this video!! messaged my bestie straight away during it asking hers haha thanks girls for another video!! loved your patreon one today too! x
This was sm fun to watch! I'd love to hear your opinions on Taylor Swift's album closers, love you's!!
I've always thought about this !!! Ah !! ❤❤❤ It's state of grace for me !
I love hearing this analysis of opening songs like it’s fascinating in the entire concept of the album. Also I used to hate “The 1” as an album opener, but this song more than any other opening song, transports me back to that exact moment during covid. And I love how it just starts with two notes. It feels quiet and just gently breaks through, a bit cautious, and also peaceful. Which is what folklore reminds me of. Almost a haven during a time of such strain
i loooovvvee this!!! please keep on making these kind of videos
The fact that lavender haze is now considered denial is so relevant to this conversation. Mine is my least fave opener too and I feel seen. Ty
So hard to pick, but my top three would be:
1. …Are You Ready For It?
2. State of Grace
3. Fearless
It’s …Ready for it
I saw you all at the Eras Tour in Santa Clara (from up in the stands) and I just want y’all to know how lovely and enjoyable these chats are. Thank you for celebrating Taylor the way she should be celebrated! ❤🎉
I would love a video ranking Taylor’s tours, everything from costume to stage design 😊
Guys you dont even undestand how fucking happy i am when you two upload a video. Like thank youuuu and please dont ever stop this channel cause i literally dont know if i would cope
I think my top 5 are Fearless, Welcome to New York, The 1, Ready For It, and Lavender Haze 💜 Could you both do a track 5 ranking?
Omg you are so analytic! I love it 🫶🏼
Your ranking of the 1 broke my heart a little bit as it’s my absolute fave… but all respect and love and this was SO FUN!!! 🥲🥰👏🏻
I cried like a baby watching this video. i love you two so much 😭 you both deserve this
Love the video very interesting to hear your opinions !❤
I LOVE YOUR VIDEO NOTIFS SO MUCH THIS IS MY FAV CHANNEL RN
Ranking track 2's would be SOOOO difficult!! you guys need to do that
I always wish I was there to debate with you guys when these vids come out ❤❤
Same lol