Taylor Swift Albums As EPs

[u/bl00d_staln3d_bl0nd]

I turned all 12 of Taylor Swift’s albums into 6 track EPs. Here’s how they turned out:

Taylor Swift
1:Teardrops On My Guitar
2:Our Song
3:Should’ve Said No
4:Picture to Burn
5:Cold As You
6:Tim McGraw

We open up with unrequited love in Teardrops On My Guitar. In Our Song, we’re in love and we’re happy. In Should’ve Said No, Taylor is cheated on and confronting him. Picture to Burn is her being so over him while Cold As You is our track 5 and Tim McGraw leaves us on a more reflective outro. The pre release would be Our Song

Fearless
1:Fearless
2:You Belong With Me
3:Love Story
4:Mr. Perfectly Fine
5:White Horse
6:Fifteen

The first 3 tracks explore romance and love. Mr. Perfectly Fine is about an ex moving on while Taylor is left miserable, but acknowledges how she’ll be okay someday. White Horse is that day where Taylor is okay and moving on. Fifteen works as a vulnerable yet comforting ballad. The pre release would be Love Story

Speak Now
1:Enchanted
2:Mine
3:Back To December
4:Mean
5:Dear John
6:Long Live

So the first 3 kinda work as a narrative. Enchanted is about meeting someone. A love at first sight thing and wondering if the feelings mutual. Mine works as a song where the feeling was mutual and now they’re together and happy. Back To December works a song where they’ve broken up and Taylor is deep in regret. She wishes she could go back. Mean is Taylor addressing her hate in a playful way while Dear John is her confrontation with John Mayer while Long Live serves us a natural closer. The pre releases would be Mine and Back To December

Red
1:State Of Grace
2:22
3:I Knew You Were Trouble
4:We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
5:All Too Well (10 Minute Version)
6:Red

State Of Grace is a rush of new love. 22 is sadness wrapped in fun, upbeat pop. I Knew You Were Trouble and We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together are about toxic relationships and their endings. All Too Well is a must have for obvious reasons, serving as our track 5 while Red is a reflection of the relationship. The pre release would be We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together

1989
1:Style
2:Blank Space
3:Bad Blood
4:Shake It Off
5:Wildest Dreams
6:New Romantics

1989 marks her complete transition into pop music, so we want bangers after banger. Pop hits non-stop. We open up with Style because it instantly sets the tone, works amazingly as an opener, and that intro. Blank Space has to be track 2, it’s non-negotiable. You could do either Bad Blood —> Shake It Off or the other way around, but I think BB into SIO is just a better choice narratively. Wildest Dreams is really the only song on here that works as a track 5, but either way, it’s still an amazing track 5. New Romantics closes the EP. And I do know that some ppl don’t like Bad Blood, and I was in fact, considering doing Out Of The Woods or Wonderland instead, but Bad Blood made it to 1989’s set on The Eras Tour, so… yeah.. but R.I.P those two, especially Out Of The Woods for me. The pre release would be Shake It Off

reputation
1:…Ready For It?
2:Look What You Made Me Do
3:I Did Something Bad
4:Don’t Blame Me
5:Delicate
6:Getaway Car

…Ready For It? is the only correct opener, I refuse to believe otherwise. I like my track trilogy with the “Look what you made me do; I did something bad. Don’t blame me.” It’s probably stupid, but I like it. Delicate is our perfect track 5 and Getaway Car closes. Pre release would be Look What You Made Me Do

Lover
1:Cruel Summer
2:The Man
3:You Need To Calm Down
4:Lover
5:The Archer
6:Daylight

I honestly just put in the Lover setlist from the Eras Tour + Daylight because I felt that sequence is good, so ye. Pre release would be Lover

folklore
1:the 1
2:betty
3:august
4:illicit affairs
5:my tears ricochet
6:cardigan

the 1 is everybody’s perfect intro, from what I’ve seen; everybody believes it is the best folklore opener. I also have seen a lot of betty hate, but it’s apart of the love triangle and it was on the Eras Tour, so I’m keeping it. august into illicit affairs because yes. my tears ricochet is the track 5 because it is one of the best track 5s. cardigan is a great outro as well

evermore
1:champagne problems
2:gold rush
3:willow
4:marjorie
5:tolerate it
6:evermore (feat. Bon Iver)

I’ve always felt like willow wasn’t the right option to open evermore. Some people have said gold rush should be track 1, and while I think it’d make a better opener than willow, I do think champagne problems sets the tone better. But after that, we do get gold rush which is followed by willow and marjorie. tolerate it as our track 5 and evermore bringing the first song with a feature on it in this alternate Taylor discography

Midnights
1:Lavender Haze
2:Maroon
3:Bejeweled
4:Karma
5:Anti-Hero
6:You’re On Your Own, Kid

Lavender Haze gives us a nice, fun intro while Maroon is more serious. Coming after that, we get the final triumphant moments with Bejeweled and Karma before reality smacks us with Anti-Hero at track 5 and You’re On Your Own, Kid closing us out

THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT
1:My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
2:The Tortured Poets Department
3:Down Bad
4:I Can Do It With a Broken Heart
5:So Long, London
6:loml

Me and plenty of other people agree My Boy… is a great opener, especially with the “Oh, here we go again” lyric. The title track keeps us inside the relationship while Down Bad is the aftermath. She’s been left, but she’s still down bad as the title says. Then we get I Can Do It With a Broken Heart where she’s pushing through it and putting on a show, but it still hurts. She’s starting to move on once we get to So Long, London, and then we close on loml. I think ending on “You’re the loss of my life,” is a great end.

THE ANTHOLOGY
1:The Black Dog
2:Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus
3:So High School
4:I Hate It Here
5:How Did It End?
6:The Manuscript

Idk if it’s cheating to separate these, but idrc coz yeah. The Black Dog is watching an ex move on which I think works great right before Chloe and the Gang. I just knew those 2 had to be early. So High School, I Hate It Here, and How Did It End? is the greatest 3 track run I’ve ever seen. It’s amazing, and I will die on that hill. So High School also works as a mid-EP break before we get into the rest of the EP.

The Life of a Showgirl
1:Elizabeth Taylor
2:The Fate of Ophelia
3:Opalite
4:Father Figure
5:Babylon
6:The Life of a Showgirl (feat. Sabrina Carpenter)

You could do either Elizabeth Taylor into Ophelia or the other way around, but I wanted Elizabeth Taylor into Ophelia. Opalite keeps the romance and energy from Ophelia, pushing it further before we get serious in Father Figure. Babylon is our new track 5 while Showgirl with Sabrina closes out the EP

What are your thoughts on this? What would you change?

[u/Agitated-Cup-7109]

I agree with almost all of your choices but here is what i would change:

I want one of the more alternative sounding songs to be present on speak now because it adds a lot of musical depth to the album. Perhaps add the story of us over mine, since they cover similar ground.

I would cut one of the three pop songs, probably 22, because i think the real record really eased us into pop taylor by adding a bunch of country songs with it. I would do either holy ground or treacherous over 22.

I agree with your instinct to do out of the woods over bad blood. It adds a lot more emotion to the album, because the feeling of anxeity isnt really elsewhere on this ep. Also introducing an antanoff song here is important, and out of the woods is the most popular of them on 1989.

Id replace the 1 with the last great american dynasty. Even Taylor agrees that its a really well written song, as it was one of her picks for the songwriter hall of fame.

I would want right where you left me to be here, but i have no clue what it would replace. Perhaps willow

I think karma is good enough as a more upbeat song, so i would replace bejewled with wouldve couldve should've. Its a song that really screams the sleepness nights theming of the album

Ttpd is the one i disagree with the most personally. I would do: Guilty as sin, So long london, But daddy i love him, loml, whos afraid of little old me, i can do it with a broken heart. This tells the story of the album in 6 songs.

I really like the prophecy in the anthology, it really exemplifies the state of sadness shes in. I would replace how did it end with it, since so long london is already on the base album

Sorry if this is nitpicky i just really like this thought expiriment

[u/bl00d_staln3d_bl0nd → u/Agitated-Cup-7109]

It’s not nitpicky, I love seeing other people’s ideas

[u/novangla]

Losing exile kills me — but I actually think the love triangle is the worst part of folklore :/

That said Babylon as track 5 is gold and should have been the track 5 on the full LP

[u/Sophie1218]

I love this!!

[u/ParticularTie7315]

:: I don’t know how you managed to choose just six from each album, but I. LOVE. IT. It all flows perfectly 🤌🏼

The only thing I would try and fit in would TSMWL.. but it would clearly belong on TTPD and not The Anthology so I wouldn’t be able to pick which song it would replace. The list is perfect so it’s probably that the song just goes so hard it feels like a sin to exclude. BRAVA!!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[u/realtswift]

This is so interesting!

[u/Modesto96]

This EP for Showgirl is 10/10

[u/bl00d_staln3d_bl0nd]

I had like 3 ways of doing this. The one with my top 6, the one that was hits (The one I posted), and the one I thought would work best (unbiased and not strictly hits). Should I have done the third and if so, should I post it next?

[u/Heron01]

I think theyre really great, but in reputation i would still close with new years day because its such a good way to end an album full of turnmoil and loud emotions
People always tend to undermine that song as the close for the album when its actually brilliant

[u/Stalin_Markovnikov]

I have always believed that My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys should have been Track 1, partly on how it is done similarly in Lavender Haze ("Meet Me At Midnight)

They put Fortnight as Track 1 just because it is a launch single.

Honestly the list looks great and probably more cohesive for each era.

[u/One_Attention1043]

For me, I think we can let go of Bad Blood and keep Clean as the closer, NR as the opener.

Call It What You Want as the closer on Rep and let go of IDSB.

Replace both The Man and YNTCD with DBATC and MAATHP or False God.

(Personally I'd let go of the folklore love triangle and put Exile in and Betty out lol)

Cowboy Like Me instead of Gold Rush.

Midnight Rain over Bejeweled. 

My TTPD would be very veryyyy different

1. Guilty As Sin?
2. Fortnight 
3. Fresh Out The Slammer
4. But Daddy I Love Him
5. Who's Afraid Of Little Old Me?
6. loml

The Anthology:

1. How Did It End?
2. Peter
3. Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus
4. The Prophecy
5. So High School 
6. The Bolter