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.
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, yet ongoing 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—a retrospective tour covering the entirety of her discography. During her ongoing tour, Swift would release her next two re-recorded albums, Speak Now (Taylor's Version) in July and 1989 (Taylor's Version) in October of 2023. The former of which would land Swift as the woman with the most number-one albums (12) in Billboard 200 history, surpassing Barbra Streisand. The latter was her sixth album to sell one million copies in a single week in the US, her largest album sales in a week span. “Is It Over Now? (Taylor's Version)”, the lead single for 1989 (Taylor's Version), would peak at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
At the 66th annual GRAMMY Awards, Taylor Swift surprised viewers by announcing her eleventh studio album, THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT. On April 19, 2024, the album was released globally, breaking records: it became the first ever to amass 1 billion Spotify streams in a week and sold 2.6 million units in its first week in the US. Swift dominated the charts, monopolizing the top 14 spots on the Billboard Hot 100 and securing the top 10 positions on Australia’s ARIA Singles Chart. The lead single, Fortnight, featuring Post Malone, quickly soared to the number-one position on the Hot 100. Additionally, just two hours after the album’s release, Swift surprised fans with a reissue titled THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY, which included 15 extra songs.
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 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.
Picture to Burn
Taylor Swift Lyrics
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I realize you love yourself more than you could ever love me
So go and tell your friends that I'm obsessive and crazy
That's fine, you won't mind if I say
By the way
I hate that stupid old pickup truck you never let me drive
You're a redneck heartbreak who's really bad at lyingSo watch me strike a match on all my wasted time
As far as I'm concerned, you're just another picture to burn
There's no time for tears
I'm just sitting here planning my revenge
There's nothing stopping me
From going out with all of your best friends
And if you come around saying sorry to me
My daddy's gonna show you how sorry you'll be
'Cause I hate that stupid old pickup truck you never let me drive
You're a redneck heartbreak who's really bad at lying
So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time
As far as I'm concerned, you're just another picture to burn
And if you're missing me, you'd better keep it to yourself
'Cause coming back around here would be bad for your health
'Cause I hate that stupid old pickup truck you never let me drive
You're a redneck heartbreak who's really bad at lying
So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time
In case you haven't heard, I really, really hate that
Stupid old pickup truck you never let me drive
You're a redneck heartbreak who's really bad at lying
So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time
As far as I'm concerned, you're just another picture to burn
Burn, burn, burn, baby, burn
Just another picture to burn
Baby, burn
The lyrics of Taylor Swift's song "Picture to Burn" express the feelings of a scorned woman who has been hurt by her ex-lover. She begins by acknowledging that her perfect fantasy of love did not come to fruition, and realizes that her ex-boyfriend loves himself more than he ever loved her. She then proceeds to call him out on his lies and publicly declare her hatred for him, warning him not to come back into her life. In fact, she plans to take revenge by going out with all of his best friends. She even threatens him with violence, with the implication that her father will do the dirty work for her.
The personal, angry nature of the lyrics is emphasized by the catchy melody and driving guitar riffs. The chorus, "I hate that stupid old pickup truck you never let me drive / You're a redneck heartbreak who's really bad at lying / So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time / As far as I'm concerned, you're just another picture to burn," repeats itself several times, making it both easy to remember and to sing along to.
Overall, the song is a testament to the power of anger and the desire for revenge in the face of heartbreak. It speaks to the universal experience of feeling wronged, mistreated, or betrayed by someone we once trusted, and the intense emotions that can arise from those feelings.
Line by Line Meaning
State the obvious, I didn't get my perfect fantasy
I accept that the relationship is over and it didn't live up to my expectations.
I realize you love yourself more than you could ever love me
You're too into yourself to ever care about someone else's feelings, especially mine.
So go and tell your friends that I'm obsessive and crazy
You're trying to make me look like the bad guy to your friends, but I don't care.
That's fine, you won't mind if I say
I have something to say to you and you won't care what it is.
By the way
This is what I have to say to you.
I hate that stupid old pickup truck you never let me drive
I'm angry with you for not letting me drive your truck even though I really wanted to.
You're a redneck heartbreak who's really bad at lying
You're the type of person who breaks hearts and lies about everything but you're not very good at it.
So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time
I'm done wasting my time with you and I'm ready to move on.
As far as I'm concerned, you're just another picture to burn
I'm over you and you're just another person who can be easily forgotten.
There's no time for tears
I'm not going to cry over you anymore.
I'm just sitting here planning my revenge
I'm going to get back at you for hurting me.
There's nothing stopping me
I have the power to do whatever I want now and I'm going to use it.
From going out with all of your best friends
I'm going to date all of your friends just to bother you.
And if you come around saying sorry to me
If you try to apologize to me, don't expect me to forgive and forget.
My daddy's gonna show you how sorry you'll be
My dad is going to make sure you regret ever hurting me.
And if you're missing me, you'd better keep it to yourself
If you're feeling emotional about the breakup, don't bother telling me.
'Cause coming back around here would be bad for your health
If you come back around, you're going to regret it because I'll make sure you do.
In case you haven't heard, I really, really hate that stupid old pickup truck you never let me drive
I'm driving the point home that I'm angry with you for not letting me drive your truck.
Burn, burn, burn, baby, burn
I want you to feel the heat of the fire I'm starting.
Just another picture to burn
You're just another person who can be easily forgotten.
Baby, burn
Bye bye, I'm done with you.
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Anthem Entertainment
Written by: Elisabeth Wagner Rose, Taylor Alison Swift
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@usha22_
Well, every Taylor Swift album has a Savage song.
Taylor Swift : Picture To Burn
Fearless : Forever and Always, Tell Me Why
Speak Now : Better Than Revenge
Red : I Knew You Were Trouble, WANGBT
1989 : Bad Blood
Reputation : This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things ,IDSB
Unreleased: REVENGE
Well, who doesn't love a Savage song. So much fun.
Edit: I know there are more but these are my favorites.
@the.annethology
the fact that a decade and half later, she's still with the same band members is TRULY ICONIC
@riozfastyt139
Wow really? Thats so great!
@Creamcheese92038
says a lot abt her character and personality tbh
@distortion9530
Magazines could write a few articles about that instead of her dating life.
@allaboutmika
@@distortion9530 they wouldnt get the attention they want if they did that
@sakshi8302
yup,It's Red Season.
@jenayatoding
"he let her drive the truck? He never let me drive the truck!"
ICONIC✨
@beckywesinger7488
Hey why does your post show incognito and how-do-you-do that
@youthtalk1096
I’m pretty sure she wasn’t even old enough to drive at the time. That could possibly be why he never let her drive the truck.
@katesmith8897
My ex is dating a new girl who looks like a horse (literally) and drives a pick up truck