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.
You Don't Have To Call Me
Taylor Swift Lyrics
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Hoping you would come around
I've been giving out chances every time
And all you do is let me down
And it's taken me this long
Baby, but I've figured you out
And you thinking we'll be fine again
But not this time around
You don't have to call anymore
I won't pick up the phone
This is the last straw
Don't want to hurt anymore
And you can tell me that you're sorry
But I don't believe you, baby
Like I did before
You're not sorry, no, no, no, no
Looking so innocent
I might believe you if I didn't know
Could have loved you all my life
If you hadn't left me waiting in the cold
And you've got your share of secrets
And I'm tired of being last to know
And now you're asking me to listen
'Cause it's worked each time before
But you don't have to call anymore
I won't pick up the phone
This is the last straw
Don't want to hurt anymore
And you can tell me that you're sorry
But I don't believe you, baby
Like I did before You're not sorry, no, no
You're not sorry, no, no
You had me crawling for you, honey
And it never would have gone away, no
You used to shine so bright
But I watched all of it fade
So you don't have to call anymore
I won't pick up the phone
This is the last straw
There's nothing left to beg for
And you can tell me that you're sorry
But I don't believe you, baby
Like I did before
You're not sorry, no, no
You're not sorry, no, no
In this song, Taylor Swift sings about a romantic relationship that has gone sour due to the other person's repeated mistreatment of her. She laments about how she has been giving chances to the other person over and over again, hoping they would change their ways, but all they do is let her down. Taylor then highlights that she has finally figured out the true character of this person and that this time around things won't be okay like before. She calls this situation the last straw and decides that she won't take the other person's calls anymore. Even if they apologize, she won't believe them like she used to before.
Taylor then confronts the other person for taking advantage of her innocence and leaving her waiting in the cold. She reveals that she is exhausted from always being the last one to know their secrets. The other person tries to talk to her to make things right, but Taylor is done with the relationship and is not willing to put herself through hurt anymore. She accuses the other person of making her crawl when things could have been beautiful between them. Taylor remembers a time when the other person shone so bright but now all that has faded away.
Line by Line Meaning
All this time I was wasting
I spent so much time waiting for you to come back.
Hoping you would come around
I had hope that you would change and come back to me.
I've been giving out chances every time
I kept giving you chances to make things right between us.
And all you do is let me down
But you never took advantage of those chances and always disappointed me.
And it's taken me this long
It has taken me a while, but now I understand what you're really like.
Baby, but I've figured you out
I finally understand your true character.
And you thinking we'll be fine again
You seem to believe that we can get back together again.
But not this time around
But I know better than to believe that again.
You don't have to call anymore
I don't want to hear from you anymore.
I won't pick up the phone
I won't answer your calls or messages.
This is the last straw
I'm done with all the hurt you've caused me.
Don't want to hurt anymore
I'm tired of feeling the pain that you keep causing me.
And you can tell me that you're sorry
You can say that you're sorry all you want.
But I don't believe you, baby
But I don't trust your apologies anymore.
Like I did before
I used to believe you, but not anymore.
You're not sorry, no, no, no, no
I don't believe that you feel any remorse for what you've done.
Looking so innocent
You may look innocent, but I know your true colors now.
I might believe you if I didn't know
If I didn't already know what you're like, I might believe your lies.
Could have loved you all my life
I could have loved you forever if you didn't treat me so poorly.
If you hadn't left me waiting in the cold
If you didn't abandon me and leave me feeling alone and helpless.
And you've got your share of secrets
I know that you have secrets that you're not telling me.
And I'm tired of being last to know
I'm tired of always being the last to find out about your secrets and lies.
And now you're asking me to listen
Now you want me to hear you out.
'Cause it's worked each time before
But I know that this is just another one of your manipulations.
You had me crawling for you, honey
You had me begging and pleading for your love and affection.
And it never would have gone away, no
And I would have never stopped loving you if you hadn't hurt me so much.
You used to shine so bright
You used to be someone that I admired and looked up to.
But I watched all of it fade
But now I can see you for who you really are, and I don't like it.
There's nothing left to beg for
There's nothing left in this relationship that I want or need.
Contributed by Lila B. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@checkitout3948
I hope we get the full version of this song and other unreleased tracks when Tay re-records her albums.
@elad_gabay
This is the full song
@onikidman
This was a ringtone she made for people so this is the full song haha
@90s_fatfatgirl73
It’s kind of like You’re not sorry
@unclebustard5328
Always loved this version. Originally an ad for a pepsi commercial. Who else listens to taylors unreleased songs all the time🤫
@christianwithadollarsign
Me!! Sweet Tea & God’s Graces is my favorite
@kylek.1010
Is it nokia?
@unclebustard5328
@@christianwithadollarsign GREAT song!!!❤
@unclebustard5328
@@kylek.1010 actually my bad. I misremembered. It was an ad for pepsi!
@poojajaiswal5194
Taylor Swift deserves ❤❤❤ from every corner of this world