By the Year
Genre-Expanding Songs
Collaborations and Features
Miscellaneous/ Business/Tours
Song Title Anagrams
100

This was the year Lover came out.

What is 2019?

100

This lead single and smash hit off of 1989 features a playful, spoken-word bridge.

What is "Shake it Off"?

100

Taylor teamed up with Zayn on this hit song from the "Fifty Shades Darker" soundtrack.

What is "I Don't Wanna Live Forever"?

100

Taylor has recently had a public battle with her former label Big Machine Records over this, the same reason she left them after Reputation.

Ownership of her master recordings (specifically Scooter Braun's new ownership of her masters).

100

Amen

What is Mean?

200

This is the year in which Taylor was born.

What is 1989?

200

In a June 2012 journal entry, Taylor wrote about this song she was working on with Max Martin and Shellback: "It's almost dubstep."

What is "I Knew You Were Trouble"?

200

This male singer-songwriter is the only person to get a feature credit on two (very different) songs on Taylor Swift studio albums.

Who is Ed Sheeran?

200

Taylor Swift has released one live album, which was recorded while touring in support of this studio album.

What is Speak Now?

200

Soy Revolt

What is Love Story?

300

This was the release year of Taylor's debut country album.

What is 2006?

300

This, the second pre-released song of Reputation, begins with 4 measures of thick distorted synth quarter notes before Taylor clears her throat to begin singing.

What is "...Ready for It?"

300

Taylor was featured on the 2009 song "Half of My Heart" by this artist. They'd later go on to write songs about one another after a brief romantic involvement.

Who is John Mayer?

300

Taylor Swift wrote under the pseudonym "Nils Sjoberg" on the song "This Is What You Came For", which became a pop hit for these two artists.

Who are Calvin Harris and Rihanna?

300

Sour Nog

What is "Our Song"?

400

This was the year that Kanye West took the mic from Taylor at the VMA's.

What is 2009?

400

Speak Now was an album that saw Taylor expand her genre horizons multiple times. 

This song, featuring pop-punk-style power chords and cutting lead electric parts, sounds like a response song to Paramore's "Misery Business":

"There is nothing I do" this.

What is "Better Than Revenge"?

400

Taylor featured on this 2013 hit country song alongside Tim McGraw and Keith Urban.

Taylor sings the lyric: "I can't live without you, I can't live without you, baby."

What is "Highway Don't Care"?

400

Taylor took this band as the opening act for all US dates of the Speak Now tour.

Who is Needtobreathe?

400

Mom, You Took Dad a Wheel

What is Look What You Made Me Do?

500

This was the year the "Taylor Swift Holiday Collection" EP was released.

What is 2008?

500

Featuring big orchestral string riffs with heavy drums and guitars in a minor key, this Evanescence-style song from Speak Now: "Can't breathe whenever you're gone; can't turn back, now I'm" this.

What is Haunted.

500

Taylor was a featured artist on the song "Two is Better Than One" by this pop-rock band.

The song peaked at #18 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2009.

Who are Boys Like Girls?

500

Taylor has recorded songs on 1989, Reputation, and Lover with this producer, who was also a member of the band "fun." (like Some Nights, We Are Young... that "fun.")

Who is Jack Antonoff?

500

Aged Men

What is End Game?

M
e
n
u