Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. Her discography spans… Read Full Bio ↴Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. Her discography spans multiple genres, and her narrative songwriting, which is often inspired by her personal life, has received widespread media coverage and critical praise.

Born in West Reading, Pennsylvania, Swift relocated to Nashville, Tennessee in 2004 to pursue a career in country music. She broke into the country music scene with her eponymous self-titled debut studio album, Taylor Swift in 2006, which included the singles "Teardrops on My Guitar" and "Our Song". Swift also released the holiday album, Sounds of the Season: The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection, later titled as The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection in October 2007.

Swift rose to mainstream prominence with her sophomore studio album, Fearless (2008), a country pop record with crossover appeal. Aided by the top-five singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", Fearless was certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Swift's third studio album, Speak Now (2010), blended country pop with elements of rock and featured the top-ten singles "Mine" and "Back to December".

Drawing inspiration from various pop, rock, and electronic genres, Swift's fourth studio album Red (2012) saw her transcending her country roots. She completely moved to pop with her synth-pop fifth studio album, 1989 (2014), and expanded the electropop sound on her next two studio albums, reputation (2017) and Lover (2019), which respectively embraced urban and retro styles. The four albums spawned a string of international top-five singles, including "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", "I Knew You Were Trouble", "Shake It Off", "Blank Space", "Bad Blood", "Look What You Made Me Do", "ME! (feat. Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco)", "You Need to Calm Down", and "Lover".

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Swift experimented with folk and alternative rock on her eighth and ninth studio albums, folklore and evermore (both 2020), whose lead singles "cardigan" and "willow" topped charts around the world. She also released the critically acclaimed documentaries Miss Americana and Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions that year. Swift's tenth studio album, Midnights (2022), marked her triumphant return to pop after two folk albums. The album set the record for biggest first day and first week ever on Spotify, spawned the hits Anti-Hero and Lavender Haze, and sold over 1.5 million copies in its first week becoming not only the biggest debut of the decade but also Swift's biggest debut ever. She would make history by becoming the first artist to occupy the entire top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 with tracks from Midnights. Following Midnights, Taylor Swift announced her upcoming eleventh studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department” (2024) which is set to be released on April 19, 2024. She announced this record at 66th Annual Grammy Award Show accepting the award for Best Pop Vocal Album for her previous album, Midnights (2022) in honour of receiving her 13th Grammy.

Additionally, Swift began re-recording her back catalog in November 2020 as a result of a publicized dispute with talent manager Scooter Braun and her former label Big Machine, regarding the acquisition of the masters of her back catalog. In April 2021, Swift released a re-recorded issue of her 2008 album Fearless, titled Fearless (Taylor's Version). It debuted at number one in the US. Swift continued releasing re-recorded versions of her back catalog in November, 2021 with the release of Red (Taylor's Version), a 30 track re-issue of her 2012 critical smash. The album debuted at #1 in the US, spawned the #1 hit All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault), and broke the record at the time for biggest first day for a female album on Spotify. Red (Taylor's Version) was a critical and commercial hit, and proved that Swift's ambitious plan to re-record her first 6 albums was well worth it.

Along with the release of Red (Taylor's Version) came All Too Well: The Short Film (2021), Swift's filmmaking debut. The 15 minute romantic drama was based on the lyrical content from Swift's 2012 fan favorite "All Too Well" starring Sadie Sink and Dylan O'Brien. It had a limited theatrical release in major cities, and Swift held special screenings of the film throughout 2022 at various film festivals. In December, 2022 Taylor announced that she would be making her feature directorial debut with Oscar-winning studio Searchlight Pictures.

Following the release of Midnights, Swift would embark on her first tour in five years, The Eras Tour.

Swift has released several songs for film soundtracks. She co-wrote two songs for the Hannah Montana: The Movie soundtrack— "You'll Always Find Your Way Back Home" and "Crazier", and contributed two songs to the Valentine's Day soundtrack, including the single "Today Was a Fairytale", which was her first number one on the Canadian Hot 100, and peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100. She also contributed two original songs to The Hunger Games soundtrack album: "Safe & Sound - from The Hunger Games Soundtrack", co-written and recorded with The Civil Wars and T-Bone Burnett, and "Eyes Open". "Safe & Sound" won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. In 2013, Swift recorded "Sweeter than Fiction", a song she wrote and produced with Jack Antonoff for the One Chance film soundtrack, which received a Best Original Song nomination at the 71st Golden Globe Awards. Swift and English singer Zayn Malik, mononymously known as Zayn, released a single together, "I Don't Wanna Live Forever", for the soundtrack of the film Fifty Shades Darker (2017). She also recorded an original song called "Beautiful Ghosts", which she wrote with Andrew Lloyd Webber for the Cats's soundtrack (2019). In 2020, Swift's documentary Miss Americana featured the song "Only the Young" which was written after the 2018 United States elections. In 2022, she released an original song titled "Carolina" for Where The Crawdads Sing (2022) inspired by the novel written by Delia Owens.

With sales of over 200 million records worldwide, Swift is a best-selling music artist. Her accolades include 14 Grammy Awards, including four Album of the Year wins, which makes
Swift the artist with the most awards for that category in history, two Brit Awards (including a Global Icon award), an Emmy Award, 28 [https://guinnessworldrecords.com/]Guinness World Records, 32 American Music Awards (the most wins by an artist), and 23 Billboard Music Awards (the most wins by a woman). She ranked eighth on Billboard's Greatest of All Time Artists Chart (2019) and was listed on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time (2015). Swift has been included in various power rankings, such as Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world (2010, 2015 and 2019) and Forbes Celebrity 100 (placing first in 2016 and 2019). She was named Woman of the Decade (2010s) by Billboard, Artist of the Decade (2010s) by the American Music Awards, and Person of the Year (2023) by Time Magazine.

Don't Blame Me
Taylor Swift Lyrics

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Don't blame me, love made me crazy
If it doesn't, you ain't doin' it right
Lord, save me, my drug is my baby
I'll be usin' for the rest of my life

I've been breakin' hearts a long time, and
Toyin' with them older guys
Just playthings for me to use

Something happened for the first time, in
The darkest little paradise
Shakin, pacin', I just need you

For you, I would cross the line
I would waste my time
I would lose my mind
They say, "She's gone too far this time"

Don't blame me, love made me crazy
If it doesn't, you ain't doin' it right
Lord, save me, my drug is my baby
I'll be usin' for the rest of my life
Don't blame me, love made me crazy
If it doesn't, you ain't doin' it right
Oh, Lord, save me, my drug is my baby
I'll be usin' for the rest of my life

My name is whatever you decide
And I'm just gonna call you mine
I'm insane, but I'm your baby (your baby)
Echoes (echoes) of your name inside my mind
Halo, hiding my obsession
I once was poison ivy, but now I'm your daisy

And baby, for you, I (I) would (would) fall from grace
Just (just) to (to) touch your face
If (if) you (you) walk away
I'd beg you on my knees to stay

Don't blame me, love made me crazy
If it doesn't, you ain't doin' it right
Lord, save me, my drug is my baby
I'll be usin' for the rest of my life (yeah, ooh)
Don't blame me, love made me crazy
If it doesn't, you ain't doin' it right
Oh, Lord, save me, my drug is my baby
I'll be usin' for the rest of my life

I get so high, oh
Every time you're, every time you're lovin' me
You're lovin' me
Trip of my life, oh
Every time you're, every time you're touchin' me
You're touchin' me

Every time you're, every time you're lovin' me
Oh Lord, save me, my drug is my baby
I'll be usin' for the rest of my life
Usin' for the rest of my life, ohh-oh

Don't blame me, love made me crazy
If it doesn't, you ain't doin' it right (doin' it right, no)
Lord, save me, my drug is my baby
I'll be usin' for the rest of my life (oh)
Don't blame me, love made me crazy (ooh)
If it doesn't, you ain't doin' it right (you ain't doin' it right)
Oh, Lord, save me, my drug is my baby
I'll be usin' for (I'll be usin') the rest of my life (I'll be usin')

I get so high, oh
Every time you're, every time you're lovin' me
You're lovin' me

Oh, Lord, save me, my drug is my baby
I'll be usin' for the rest of my life

Overall Meaning

"Don't Blame Me" by Taylor Swift is a song about the power of love and how it can make someone feel crazy, but they can't help but be addicted to it. The first verse describes how the singer has been toying with other people's hearts for a long time until she meets someone who completely changes her perspective on love in a beautiful way. The chorus then highlights the fact that love can make someone feel insane and that if it doesn't, then they aren't experiencing it in the right way. The singer compares love to a drug that she will be using for the rest of her life.

The second verse explains how the singer is willing to do anything for the person she loves, even if it means risking her own reputation and going against her traditional ideas of right and wrong. She just needs the person she loves and would do anything for them. The bridge delivers a beautiful sentiment of how she has been transformed by the love she has now in her life, with echoes of the person's name inside her mind and how she was once poisonous but has become something beautiful because of the person she is in love with.

Overall, "Don't Blame Me" is a love letter to the power of love and the transformation it can bring to someone's life, even if it seems crazy to those who don't understand it.

Line by Line Meaning

Don't blame me, love made me crazy
I cannot be blamed for my actions, as my love for this person has driven me to act irrationally and impulsively.

If it doesn't, you ain't doin' it right
Love should be intense and passionate, and if it's not, then it's not being done correctly.

Lord, save me, my drug is my baby
My love for this person is like a drug, and I need them in my life in order to survive and be happy.

I'll be usin' for the rest of my life
My love for this person is intense and all-consuming, and I will never be able to stop needing them.

I've been breakin' hearts a long time, and
I have a history of not taking relationships seriously and causing emotional pain to others.

Toyin' with them older guys
I have tended to date older men who are more experienced and worldly, and who I can manipulate for my own purposes.

Just playthings for me to use
I have treated my partners as objects to be used for my own enjoyment, without considering their feelings.

Something happened for the first time, in
I have never felt this level of connection and intensity in a relationship before.

The darkest little paradise
Despite the intensity of my feelings, there is an element of darkness and danger in our relationship, which adds to its allure.

Shakin, pacin', I just need you
I am consumed with longing and desire for this person, to the point where it's affecting me physically as well as mentally.

For you, I would cross the line
I am willing to do anything for this person, even if it means crossing moral or ethical boundaries.

I would waste my time
My love for this person is so overwhelming that I am willing to sacrifice other aspects of my life in order to be with them.

They say, "She's gone too far this time"
Others may view my relationship with this person as unhealthy or extreme, but I am unable to see it that way.

My name is whatever you decide
I am happy to let this person have control over me and my identity, as long as I can be with them.

And I'm just gonna call you mine
I am possessive and jealous of this person, and want to claim them as my own.

I'm insane, but I'm your baby (your baby)
I am aware that my love for this person is irrational and all-consuming, but I am unable to stop myself from feeling this way. I want to be seen as vulnerable and in need of their protection.

Echoes (echoes) of your name inside my mind
I am constantly thinking about and obsessing over this person, to the point where their name echoes in my thoughts.

Halo, hiding my obsession
I am aware that my love for this person is extreme and potentially unhealthy, and I am trying to hide it from others by appearing angelic and innocent.

I once was poison ivy, but now I'm your daisy
I used to be dangerous and destructive, but this person has helped me to become a better version of myself, while also becoming dependent on them.

And baby, for you, I (I) would (would) fall from grace
I am willing to sacrifice my own well-being and reputation for this person, even if it means doing something illegal, immoral or against my values.

Just (just) to (to) touch your face
I am obsessed with this person to the point of needing physical contact with them in order to feel complete.

If (if) you (you) walk away
The thought of losing this person is unbearable to me, and I will do anything to prevent it from happening.

I'd beg you on my knees to stay
I am desperate to keep this person in my life, to the point of begging and pleading for them to stay with me.

I get so high, oh
My feelings for this person are so intense that they make me feel euphoric and elated.

Every time you're, every time you're lovin' me
Physical intimacy with this person is a source of pleasure and happiness for me.

Trip of my life, oh
Being in a relationship with this person feels like the most exciting and thrilling adventure that I have ever been on.

Usin' for the rest of my life, ohh-oh
I will always be dependent on this person, and they will be my primary source of happiness and fulfillment for the rest of my life.

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: Taylor Alison Swift, Martin Max Sandberg, Karl Johan Schuster

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