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 eleventh studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department” (2024) which was 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, 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 [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.
Taylor Swift is the Music Industry.
Taylor Swift-I Know Places
Taylor Swift Lyrics
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It's a scene and we're out here in plain sight
I can hear them whisper as we pass by
It's a bad sign, bad sign...
Something happens when everybody finds out
See the vulture circling, dark clouds
Love's a fragile little flame
It could burn out, it could burn out...
And guns
They are the hunters, we are the foxes...
And we run!
Baby, I know places we won't be found
And they'll be chasing their tails trying to track us down
'Cause I know places we can hide
I know places...
Lights flash and we'll run for the fences
Let them say what they want, we won't hear it
Loose lips sink ships all the damn time, not this time...
Just grab my hand and don't ever drop it
My love
They are the hunters, we are the foxes...
And we run!
Baby, I know places we won't be found
And they'll be chasing their tails trying to track us down
'Cause I know places we can hide
I know places...
They are the hunters, we are the foxes
And we run!
Just grab my hand and don't ever drop it
My love...
Baby, I know places we won't be found
And they'll be chasing their tails trying to track us down
'Cause I know places we can hide
I know places...
They take their shots but we're bulletproof
I know places...
And you know for me, it's always you
I know places...
In the dead of night, your eyes so green
I know places...
And I know for you, it's always me
I know places...
In "I Know Places," Taylor Swift paints a picture of a world where love is a dangerous game, where the odds are seemingly stacked against the lovers. The couple in the song knows that they are being hunted by those who disapprove of their love and will stop at nothing to break them apart. The lyrics "They are the hunters, we are the foxes" suggest that they are the ones who are being chased and that their love is being hunted. The chorus of the song offers a glimmer of hope, with Taylor singing that she knows places where they can hide and avoid being found.
The imagery in the song is potent, with Taylor describing the love they share as a fragile flicker of light that could burn out at any moment. However, she also shows a fierce determination to protect their love at all costs. When the hunters are closing in, she and her lover run for the fences, refusing to let their love be broken. The lyrics "Lights flash and we'll run for the fences, let them say what they want, we won't hear it" show that they are determined to be together, no matter what others may say.
The tone of "I Know Places" is one of defiance and resilience. The lovers are aware of their precarious position but refuse to be defeated. Instead, they find strength in their love for each other and are willing to fight for it. The song is a testament to the power of love and the lengths that people will go to protect it.
Line by Line Meaning
You stand with a hand on my waistline
You are touching my waist.
It's a scene and we're out here in plain sight
People can easily see us.
I can hear them whisper as we pass by
People are talking about us.
It's a bad sign, bad sign...
People talking about us is a bad thing.
Something happens when everybody finds out
Something bad happens when many people know about us.
See the vulture circling, dark clouds
There are bad things on the horizon, like a predator circling its prey.
Love's a fragile little flame
Our love is delicate.
It could burn out, it could burn out...
Our love could end.
'Cause they got the cages, they got the boxes
Other people have the power to trap us.
And guns
They also have weapons.
They are the hunters, we are the foxes...
They are pursuing us like hunters chase foxes.
And we run!
We try to escape from them.
Baby, I know places we won't be found
I know secret places where we can hide.
And they'll be chasing their tails trying to track us down
Our pursuers will be confused and frustrated trying to catch us.
'Cause I know places we can hide
Again, I know secret places where we can escape detection.
Lights flash and we'll run for the fences
We must quickly run away when danger looms.
Let them say what they want, we won't hear it
We shouldn't care about what others think or say.
Loose lips sink ships all the damn time, not this time...
Normally, talking too much is dangerous, but we won't give in to that.
Just grab my hand and don't ever drop it
We must stick together and never let go.
My love
I love you.
They take their shots but we're bulletproof
Our love is strong, and we cannot be hurt by their attacks.
In the dead of night, your eyes so green
During dark and scary times, your eyes give me comfort.
And I know for you, it's always me
You love me just as much as I love you.
Contributed by Addison S. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
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@Edwardtheblue2
I-I-I, I, I-I-I, I
I-I-I, I, I-I-I, I
I-I-I, I, I-I-I, I
I, I, (I, I)
You stand with your hand on my waistline
It's a scene, and we're out here in plain sight
I can hear them whisper as we pass by
It's a bad sign, bad sign
Something happens when everybody finds out
See the vultures circling, dark clouds
Love's a fragile little flame, it could burn out
It could burn out
'Cause they got the cages, they got the boxes
And guns
They are the hunters, we are the foxes
And we run
Baby, I know places we won't be found and
They'll be chasing their tails trying to track us down
'Cause I, I know places we can hide
I know places
I know places
Lights flash and we'll run for the fences
Let them say what they want, we won't hear it
Loose lips sink ships all the damn time
Not this time
Just grab my hand and don't ever drop it
My love
They are the hunters, we are the foxes
And we run
Baby, I know places we won't be found and
They'll be chasing their tails trying to track us down
'Cause I, I know places we can hide
I know places
They are the hunters, we are the foxes
And we run
Just grab my hand and don't ever drop it
My love
Baby, I know places we won't be found and
They'll be chasing their tails trying to track us down
'Cause I, I know places we can hide
I know places
they take their shots, but we're bulletproof
I know places
(I) and you know for me, it's always you
I know places
(I) in the dead of night, your eyes so green
I know places
(I) and I know for you, it's always me
I know places
I-I-I, I, I-I-I, I
I-I-I, I, I-I-I, I (I, I, I)
@hademusicc
Like❤️ the Song? Where are you Listening From💖?
👉Checkout the Taylor Swift Best Songs:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNiO1xFmARP-CWzDsSmcyM5Xl4YOzhobG
👉Taylor Swift Folklore Album Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNiO1xFmARP9shgwIc-k9J56yCEuPAcJb
👉Taylor Swift Lover Album Playlist :
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNiO1xFmARP9wl8wOPh3gcsy04vOh3i8b
👉Taylor Swift Red Album Playlist :
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNiO1xFmARP9Us26tRfJJJqjWbrDSVX66
👉Taylor Swift 1989 Album Playlist :
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNiO1xFmARP_bSxt6Wh-0J0aVzfAA5Lf_
@ioandananghel
Btw im a Swiftie so tysm oh yeah im listening to this here in the U.S.A.
@glendee8816
😊
@ariegrande34.35
I really love this song this is my favorite music from album 1989. Thank you for this lyrics😘
@hademusicc
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@mauricioroman5185
I agree❤
@mauricioroman5185
ybwmgirly I totaly agree
@omyimchicchicchannel
Me too😊
@nageensajjad9312
Since 1989 Taylor's Version is coming in 24 days... I hope this masterpiece gets the recognition it DESERVES
@Sophia_M_A
yessssir so true