Ranking Taylor Swifts Album CLOSERS... and offending each other 🤭
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 26 дек 2023
- Join our Patreon for extra videos like the Era's Tour Vlog (Santa Clara N2) 💙 / chatsandreacts it supports our channel and makes all of this possible, thank you so much!!
Find us on socials 🧚
Twitter - / chatsandreacts
TikTok - / chatsandreacts
Instagram - / chatsandreacts
Personal Instagrams -
/ emily_hunt
/ bonnyrebecca
If you would like to send us anything (thank you 😭), here is our address:
PO Box 240
Shop 9b/201 Varsity Parade
Varsity Lakes, QLD 4227
Australia
CONTACT - chatsandreacts@gmail.com
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 🤪
Track 5’s ranking is much needed. But Taylor also has lots of superior track 2’s and I would love a ranking of those!!
REALLY need a track 2 Ranking!!!😍
i just realized track 6 are also fucking superior - you belong with me, no body no crime they bring the energy after sad bops
Or a track _ ranking with every track? 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc.
YES i've always said track 2's>>>> track 5's
Fun fact: Taylor put “Our Song” as the album closer bc of the end of the chorus - “Play it again!” To tell listeners to play the album again ❤😊
DAMN
Such a mastermind since she was a baby
Yeah and same with "begin again" for listeners to begin the album again.
😮🤯
She really is the definition of mastermind
1 year ago I couldn’t name all of Taylor’s albums. Now I’m enthralled listening to a top ten list of songs to close albums.
same!
What? Do you think I'll be watching two strangers discuss about Taylor Swift album closers for an hour? CAUSE I WILL
Strangers? The two besties are your go to about anything Tay. Forget any other channel on youtube with lots of Taylor Swift content, this channel is the ONLY place to be
@@shaunsowter agree, I really like them, it was just a joke. the swiftologist is fun too though.
you simply must rank tracks 2s, i feel like these are some of her most superior songs. maroon? cardigan? champagne problems?? red??? cruel summer??? how does one choose
and track 9!!!
blank space as well 😉
@@somsubhra2612 YES ITS CRAZY!!!
Dear Reader is SO superior and underrated. I’m glad you two are giving it the praise it deserves!
my honor’s thesis: clean is my favorite song that is an album closer but long live is THE closer to end all albums of Taylor Swift and New Years Day was the only way to end an album that everyone perceived to be about revenge but was actually about LOVE and not caring about your reputation because you’ve found someone that STAYS to clean up the bottles of champagne BUT DAYLIGHT perfectly sums up that love as GOLDEN drawing comparison to a love in her past most crushing heartbreak that was BURNING RED BUT EVERMORE is the most beautiful hopeful song that wraps up forgiveness of an entire era of hurt and WHY the fans are the reason Taylor stays and gets through all of the turmoil (most underrated song of all time dare I say). all that to be said, I believe red is Taylor’s strongest concept album even if it is not sonically cohesive, and the PERFECT way to end a heartbreak album is watching love BEGIN AGAIN. genius superior offensive it’s never been done before the same. OK NOW CANT WAIT TO WATCH AND HAVE MY MIND CHANGE BESTIES
EXACTLY BESTIE YOU GET IT !!!!!
This is offesiveeeee
When emily said she thought she would get ripped alive for her number 8 I got so scared she was gonna say long live I woulda been SOOOO mad
Omg that would’ve been messed up
I was like: “No don’t you dare put daylight” I was so scared 😂
Besties, closing this magical year literally ranking the best CLOSERS was just an iconic thing to do. You truly never disappoint 💅🏼
I need to defend 'Mastermind.' I'm not a huge fan of 'Midnights,' but 'Mastermind' convinced me when I consider this album as a breakup album. Since 'Reputation,' Taylor has been like, 'Yes, it's fate. We're meant to be together, like an invisible string.' So, how can you break up with someone who is your soulmate? You can't. She had to conclude that none of it was accidental. Even when it's a love song, I think it's necessary to think that through. Having it as an album closer perfectly showcases what 'Midnights' is about: going through a breakup that hasn't happened yet, but deep down, you know it will.
Waitttttt, youve really FATHOMED something here
Girl, you have no idea how u just fucked me up. Midnights was top 5 for me, but after reading this I sincerely think the whole concept of it is the most superior thing one could ever fathom. Midnights just rose and I love that for me, tnx ❤
I just need these 2 to just make a video here or on Patreon fathoming the time between rep and midnights over songs, Taylor and joes relationship is way too complicated and fascinating for me to understand alone
i'm just fathoming how big of an album closer 'begin again' actually is. it's like the pure definition of "may your heart remain breakable, but never by the same hand twice", it's like she tells us this story about how heartbreakingly cruel it was to love someone and then getting hurt by that same person, only to realize that in the end of the day love will begin again. it's like the end of this very hurtful reflection upon the end of the relationship.
Okay but I cried when she said change was her least favorite song on fearless 😭
IM SOOOO SORRY 😭💕
Like superstar is right there
@Pablorome what superstar is literally my FAVE song on fearless it is literally my ring tone I'm not kidding 😭
@@Pablorome uhm no😭😭
Since when does superstar has this many defenders
I swear, everytime Emily said the fandom was gonna hate her ranking, it ended up being incredibly accurate 😭
Thank you Emily for expressing the passion for Begin Again and the perfection that is Red’s opener and closer so perfectly. I feel so strongly about it as well.
I think New Romantics is the absolutely superior closer, it's just the quintessential 1989 song, its like the entire vibe of 1989 as one song
I CANT WAIT FOR TRACK 5 VIDEO , happy new year to our amazing two favorite swifties of all time ❤❤❤
omg I think Our Song is SUCH a strong closer, summarizes her whole THING (the storytelling songwriting) even to date. And she herself said she wanted to have it last because she sings “play it again” so it encourages a repeat. Conceptually it’s one of her best finale songs - the feelings the song gives is like a precursor to the way Begin Again fits Red’s closing. Ah. I could go on and on (and i will) haha 💞
Also agree, Our Song is one of the best songs ever.
I am so glad you talked about 'the lakes' and 'timeless' at the end there, those are like literally my favorite T.S. songs and I love how PERFECTLY they wrap up their albums! ❤
we will be waiting for the track 5’s ranking! thank you for your videos this year!❤
havent watched the video yet but if CLEAN IS NOT AT #1 for both of you, i’ll be offended!!!!!
EDIT: I AM OFFENDED!
Not when Long Live exists
@@gl-jj3tkand begin again
that's a funny way of spelling Begin Again
@@zagiproductions1630 😭😭😭😭
as long as evermore didn't exist
Begin Again makes me sob as an album closer. Listening to brutal heartbreak she takes us through throughout all of red and then getting to begin again makes me so emotional because she references the relationship and thus so many other red songs in begin again while then also finishing this heartbreak album by moving on in the most sweet way.
My ranking: This was actually so hard, idk how you guys did this
10:Our Song, 9:Change, 8:Hoax, 7:Mastermind 6:Daylight, 5:New Years Day, 4: Long Live, 3: Begin Again, 2:Clean, 1:Evermore
Just want to say that becoming a patron of you guys on Patreon has been one of my biggest delights this year. There is such a great community over there with so much amazing bonus content, all for the price of one Starbucks drink a month. So cool that because of patrons you’ve both been able to have this as your full time job.
For anyone on the fence, it’s totally worth it and such an awesome way to support our besties. Thank you Bonny & Em!
Hiii besties! Happy holidays and a happy new year to both of you. Already know the vibes are going to be immaculate in this video as well!!!! Thank you for a late Christmas present, we've been so well fed this year on this channel. What a year as swifties and a fan of chats and reacts. Thank you so much for bringing so much joy into my days with your videos. I love you both so much. I hope 2024 is even big for you both. ❤
I am so happy that you did this video! I requested album openers, closers and 2nd/3rd closers on patreon about a year ago. I LOVE both but the closers and the 2nd closers (and how they change the end of the story is just absolutely superior!)
Thank you for all of the videos this year! In addition to ranking each track number, I'd also love to see full song rankings for each album
Wait cause with New Years Day being who she actually is compared to Ready For It, it leads perfectly into the emotions of Lover and how vulnerable she really is but also how lighter the album sounds and feels 🤯
my day instantly gets better when these two post!!💖💖💖
I remember my first listen of the entire album Evermore and partway through the final song Evermore I couldn't fathom how such a wonderful song could be stuck at the end of the album. But then when I heard "this pain wouldn't be for evermore" at the end it all made sense and having it as the closer couldn't have been more perfect.
I love these kinds of rankings, because it allows me to make my own list before I watch the video and compare it to yours! Would definitely love to see a Track Five Ranking next! ❤❤❤
New Year’s Day is Bonny’s #1 and Clean is Emily’s #1 I’m so certain and have not started the video yet
yes to Begin Again!!!!! the Red concept and ending it with it is so perfect. Literally the way Emily says "what do you mean ending an album about heartbreak with BEGIN AGAIN" is so me!!!
however long live so low is surprising! but shows how iconic her closers are❤
So shocked Is It Over Now didn’t get a mention, I think it’s an even better closer to 1989 than Clean
The Birthday present I did not know I needed😍😂😍😍☺️
Thank you for an amazing year of covering Taylor Swift related content (and other artists too ofcourse❤❤❤)
Emily your HAIRRRRRRRRR, so offensively superior omggg it just gets better with every video
beginning the video with oceanic feelings convo got me all hyped out!!! I already know I'm in for a treat. What a way to close 2023. Thank you
LOVING THIS SERIES SO MUCHHH I also love seeing you both get so offended by each others choices 😂 love u guys
so well done, so happy i found yall three years ago. its been a great education and oh so fun.
You really made me think a bit more on mastermind and I feel like we might be doing it a disservice when we speak of midnights as (solely) an album about the breakdown of a relationship. Yes, it is just that, but we can't look at a breakdown/breakup without looking at ourselves (I feel like you've had this conversation in another video already). So by looking at it as just that, we forget the other equally important part of it, which is Taylor: what does she want, where did she come from, where is she going. She is turning herself inside out trying to navigate where she's going to go in this crossroad she's at. When she's looking at previous relationships she is indirectly looking at herself, trying to find the answers needed for her. It's actually still about her. And in mastermind she is/might be looking at, first Joe, then the fans, and lastly herself. So maybe she ends by trusting herself, because she's a mastermind.
Not sure this would actually change my placement, because the other endings are just too good, but I feel like I've reached a new level of understanding.
I love how Emily is giving Fearless with her dress, and Bonnie is giving debut with her dress.♡
Every time I hear Evermore I get chills. Every single time. It’s my favorite album closer!!!!
AGHHHHH I’m so glad you guys did this!! ❤ Hopefully you’ll do a track 5 ranking soon!! Have a great new year!! ❤🎉
these ranking videos you do itch a part of my brain and I always finish these videos and feel so satisfied
Just beaming watching this from start to finish. Great video! And the quality is flawless x
what i really like about debut is how it starts with the inspiration - Tim McGraw - other artists, her relationships, nature, her feelings, remembering/memory "when you think Tim Mcgraw i hope you think of me" (one of the main themes taylor writes about - wildest dreams, all too well, the moment i knew, ... ), and it ends with the artpiece - Our Song - the song, the finished product, the composition, the sound, the lyrics "and I wrote down our song" I wrote it, you didn't, im the songwriter.
I think is a really nice message when your aim is to say "hi, im a songwriter releasing music"
Also you have to consider, the song Tim McGraw, is not really about Tim. It's about the SONG that Taylor wrote, TITLED Tim McGraw. And she is telling her ex, one day you are going to turn on your radio, and you are going to hear my hit song, that I wrote, titled Tim McGraw. And that is a good opener for her career, saying, to her exs and others, you all are going to hear MY songs on the radio soon, and you all are going to think of me. And that's exactly what happened. -- And yes I agree with you, Our Song is a good closer. Its showing that, from now on, SHE is writing the songs that will capture her romantic relationships. And that the songs SHE writes, are better than the ones she hears on the radio. And with many hits later, she was was right about that too. Consider that both these songs were written by a unknown 15 year old, that's pretty bold.
27:33 Ahhh my mind is blown, how did I never notice that you see the relationship developing and solidifying as you go thru Rep! I'm a Rep girlie, it was my gateway to becoming a swiftie, how did I not think of this before!? You ladies are SUPERIOR, while watching your chats I'm just constantly fathoming or re-fathoming things, wow. This whole video was super fun and tons of food for thought with your opinions on the album closers! Really had me looking at some songs in a new way.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year too! Im so happy to be on this Taylor journey with you. Like with all the new releases and rerecordings this year, I actually look forward to your reactions. Thank you and see you on your next videos!! 🥳
Omg another idea! I would love for each of you to create your personal ultimate album of tracks selecting only one Track 1, Track 2, Track 3... based on all of taylor's discography if you could only listen to one those tracks for the rest of your life. Like if you could only listen to one Track 1 for the rest of your life, what would your Track 1 be? and so on for the rest of the track numbers....
Timeless being my most played Taylor song this year on Spotify wrapped is warming my soul with this mention ❤
evermore as an album closer is absolutely a perfect song, and somehow it's time to go as a bonus track managed to top perfection. both songs manage to put a nice little end to the folkmore era, and just. they just firmly cement evermore as my favourite ts album, because for me no other song has been able to round off an album as those two. like, clean is firmly on no. 2 for me, but it's time to go is no. 1 and evermore no. 3 because i just Need to include both in my ranking
Yesss, would love a track 5 ranking!
Happy new year :)
I’d definitely love to see a ranking for every single track, I love these type of videos 😭🫶🏽
I think once the re records are finished you should do a video of where you’d slot the vault tracks into the original track listing!!
Happy Holidays Bonny and Emily! Hope you both enjoy Christmas and a Happy New Year. I've enjoy watching your videos this year. The amount of work you put in the content reacting either T.S or any other artist is amazing to see. You both make my day with your new content. Continue the great work you both are doing! I know 2024 will be a bigger year for you Bonny and Emily.
I started watching you guys with your Midnights reactions and I have to say with every release since then, I have anxiously waited for your reactions almost as excited as I was for the actual albums!! I absolutely love what you guys are doing, congrats on all the success!!
Have you thought of recording your video audio to put in podcast form yet?
I love love love this concept for a video. I'm so entertained! Love you two!
that outro of clean vocals gave me goosebumps, i'm literally gonna go listen to the instrumentals of clean (bonny inspired me to check out all the 1989 instrumentals)
I absolutely adore both of you and the videos you put out for us! Every time I see a post from "Chats & Reacts," I always know what I'll be watching that night haha. As always, I thank both of you for taking the time to really dive into Taylor's discography and give these songs the time of day they deserve. Her album closers truly are superior, so without further ado, here's my ranking of the closers also based on how well they close the album / era they represent!:
1. Clean 💙
2. Begin Again ❤
3. Long Live 💜
4. evermore 🧡
5. New Year's Day 🖤
6. Daylight 💖
7. Our Song 💚
8. Mastermind 🌙
9. Change 💛
10. hoax 🤍
Honorable Mentions (from either the vault or a deluxe track):
- Timeless 💜
- Is It Over Now? 💙
- Dear Reader 🌙
I LOVE THESE RANKING VIDS SO MUCH. You two are amazing
My opinion about certain songs is changed every time I'm listening to you guys. You have such interesting insights
I’d love a version of these videos in which you pick the perfect opener and closer for each album and then rearrange the list of those were the actual ones!
my favourite series of videos!!! thank you girlsss❤
Thanks for posting! Always makes my day! Love you guys! ❤
I think Mastermind is about both her career and her relationship, and how she approaches things because of the trauma of feeling like she doesn't belong her whole life. I also think it's a moment of clarity of her own powers of manifestation, it's deeply vulnerable and self reflective, which is an interesting bookend to Lavendar Haze, which to me felt like clinging to something that no longer fit to make her feel whole to the point of avoiding the end of the relationship and wanting to stay in denial in a love bubble. The whole of Midnights is a reflection of why her relationship broke down, her role in it, patterns she repeats, self sabotage, what ifs, etc, Lavender Haze is the denial stage right before you're forced to face yourself, and Mastermind is the recognition that the relationship was magic because she created it and was the spark herself.
I also think about how the person she's speaking to in You're Losing Me is not willing to do the same self reflection, is not in a place of growth or being okay with the discomfort of change or working on the relationship and that's what she's begging of him after the bridge. Both Mastermind and You're Losing Me echo sentiments in Bejeweled and Midnight Rain respectively, too-- which feel like Midnights thesis songs along with Anti Hero and You're on Your Own Kid!
I looove how much Midnights keeps revealing itself...
Em, I am the other person in the world who is SO STOKED FOR DEBUT TV. I am a debut stan through and through ---- those collection of songs are so superior and how dare she write those songs so early in her career....I MEAN .....COLD AS YOU AND MARYS SONG???!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME??????? no one is prepared for cold as you with Tay's updated vocals !!!!!
I’d love to give a shout-out to the queen that is Bye Bye Baby. So much of Fearless is about being in a fantastical, dramatic, whirlwind romance with kissing in rain, fighting, making up, confessions, etc. Bye Bye Baby is the definitive end of the relationship she’s describing and the daydreams she had at the time (“It wasn’t just like the movies”). Bye Bye Baby is like the reality check that wraps up the album perfectly and I love it with my whole heart💛🫶
This is the only type of video that im willing to watch for an hr in youtube!!!! Always looking forward to this kind of album/song/discography/TS shit analysis you do! More power and happy new year you guys 🥂
another honorable mention that also seems like a cop out is all too well 10, the fact that since the og red era we the fandom have begged her for it to be released and then she puts it at the end of the album just feels so right and so satisfying
it's just impossible to rank the album closers omggg so excited to watch you doing that ❤
I have missed this series dearly! Some of the older ones need to be revisited with rerecordings & Midnights
i would love a video of you guys breaking down the album secret messages/liner notes!!
In addition to more wonderful ranking videos like this for all the Tracks 5s and Track 2s, I think it would be so fun for you guys to pick one album at a time (like midnights? or debut?).and then each of you arrange the track list for that specific album into a new track list that you think makes the most sense. Then you should film the video in the same format as this one, where you take turns disclosing what each of you think either ALREADY IS or SHOULD HAVE BEEN the ideal track 1, track 2, track 3 etc. for that specific album's concept. I also think you could potentially include all the vaults and/or bonus tracks for an album with all the regular tracks for that same album into the new tracklist as if all of those tracks were all released as one regular full album (for instance, arranging the entire midnights and midnights 3 am tracks into a 1-20 track list order based on what you think makes the most sense for that album's concept).
I really, really, really would love to see this with Midnights especially knowing what we know now. I also would love to see this with debut considering that was her first album and first experience with selecting the order of tracks for an album. I feel like Lover could also be a great option to do this with (and include All the Girls You Loved Before) :)
I was just thinking I would love if you did these for each of the track numbers!! But yes, track 5 is a priority!
Love ur channel can’t wait for ur next video! Coming back to rewatch this video ❤
would love to see this video for all the track numbers until track fifteen, love you guys!
the beat hour i spend watching 2 amazing people talking about my lovely queen such a good day
i LOVE how you guys are on the same wavelength when it comes to these rankings. SO HILARIOUS.
I love your ranking videos, and so please continue them. You previously mentioned doing a ranking of best produced songs. Would love to see that. You could even do a ranking of top 10 songs about revenge, songs about love, songs about rebirth the reinvention.
Superiorrrr video girlies 💗 TYSM for this!!! I can't begin to rank these but just to add my thoughts on Begin Again because not only is it a hopeful ending to such a heartbreaking album but I think it perfectly encapsulates the type of person Taylor is - specifically someone who can go through heartbreak and still at the end of it come out and say that she's not afraid to fall in love again and that she can see it happening in front of her.
I think it's a beautiful ending to an album like Red, where as a listener you might say to yourself, "How can you ever love someone again? OR trust someone as much as you did this person?" then for her to write a song like Begin Again and put it at the end just perfectly symbolizes the power of behind being vulnerable and living with your heart on your sleeve. It gives the listener hope and to remember that despite heartbreak, you'll find someone who make you fall in love again 💗
Anyway love you girlies!! Bonnie I'm also a Long Live stan and kind of cried at Em's ranking lol
Begin again is one of her best songs both musically and lyrically ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Perfect timing! I love you guys ❤
Emily's hair is giving Monica from friends
yesss!! I loved the album opener vid
Really enjoyed this video
My top 3 closers are Begin Again, Long Live and Clean
The order changes all the time lol
Honorable mention- Is It Over Now hands down
Happy New Year little chickens ❤
In my mind, Our Song has to be the closer of Debut because of the “play it again” refrain! I’m not saying it rivals the top of the list, but as someone who listened to that album on repeat, there was always something so magical with ending there and then skipping back to the first track on my cd player!
Emily! Thank you so much for saying you’re excited for debut tv bc I feel like I’m the only person in this fandom who felt this😭 I desperately need a company lol
There’s dozens of us!
I honestly would also love a ranking just of top ten vault tracks. My sister and I always debate our favorites and I think it would be a really interesting video!
can you please do the impossible for us all and rank track 5’s! It would be so offensive but so intriguing and entertaining. Also for the ranking closers, I would’ve put clean at #1, long live at #2, and evermore at #3. Hope you girls both had an amazing Christmas and I want to thankyou for all the content you gave us this year! 🫶🏻
Just adding on to what was said about Its Time To Go. I love how the album before, folklore, ends with The Lakes which is about running away with someone you love so you can heal and process something you’ve been through. And then in the immediate album after, Evermore, we are still in the forrest, still processing the hurt. But for the final song, Taylor is telling us, it’s time to go. It’s time to leave the forrest. We have processed and cried and done all we needed to do. And while the process of healing will never truly end, it is time for us to go into the next phase of our life. To seek out what life will bring us next. And for Taylor specifically, the next phase of her career.
i love the lakes with all my heart
YALL MENTALLY INJURED ME WITH DAYLIGHT PLACEMENT!!! Love y’all by the way 💕
you putting out a video about closing tracks of albums in the closing video of the year, mastermind!
as a begin again stan I appreciate ur ranking emily! 😭🫶
Love your ranking videos ♥️
This is so cool!! Track 5's next. We are waiting for it with pitchforks. 😐. Love you guys ❤
Cannot wait for track 5s and 2s ranking ❤
You guys perfectly explained my thoughts on dear reader. I have loved that song since the 1st time I heard it and it is so underrated! It’s a lovely way to end midnights and it’s a very beautiful song. It’s my ringtone and I truly am SO happy it’s being appreciated! Also I know you mentioned that it’s called dear reader because it is like her diary, but it is also her calling us her dear readers, like we are near and dear to her heart. Therefore she says don’t listen to me because I’m confused. ❤ also it’s time to go is SUPERIOR
I'd love to see a video where y'all rank the original album covers!
thank you guys for this upload
we love you ❤
Yes I NEED a track 2 ranking! That is going to be soooo hard!