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.
ivy
Taylor Swift Lyrics
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I'd meet you where the spirit meets the bones
In a faith forgotten land
In from the snow
Your touch brought forth an incandescent glow
Tarnished but so grand
And the old widow goes to the stone every day
Grieving for the living
Oh, goddamn
My pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand
Taking mine, but it's been promised to another
Oh, I can't
Stop you putting roots in my dreamland
My house of stone, your ivy grows
And now I'm covered in you
I wish to know
The fatal flaw that makes you long to be
Magnificently cursed
He's in the room
Your opal eyes are all I wish to see
He wants what's only yours
Oh, goddamn
My pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand
Taking mine, but it's been promised to another
Oh, I can't
Stop you putting roots in my dreamland
My house of stone, your ivy grows
And now I'm covered
Clover blooms in the fields
Spring breaks loose, the time is near
What would he do if he found us out?
Crescent moon, coast is clear
Spring breaks loose, but so does fear
He's gonna burn this house to the ground
How's one to know?
I'd live and die for moments that we stole
On begged and borrowed time
So tell me to run
Or dare to sit and watch what we'll become
And drink my husband's wine
Oh, goddamn
My pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand
Taking mine, but it's been promised to another
Oh, I can't
Stop you putting roots in my dreamland
My house of stone, your ivy grows
And now I'm covered in you
And I'm covered in you
So yeah, it's a fire
It's a goddamn blaze in the dark
And you started it
You started it
So yeah, it's a war
It's the goddamn fight of my life
And you started it
You started it
Oh, I can't
Stop you putting roots in my dreamland
My house of stone, your ivy grows
And now I'm covered
In you
In you, you
Now I'm covered in you
In you
The opening lines of the song 'Ivy' by Taylor Swift highlights her confusion on how she was supposed to know that she would eventually meet the person she addresses in the song. It seems like an unexpected encounter. The second line, "I'd meet you where the spirit meets the bones," is a little more cryptic, possibly alluding to a place where there is an intimate connection between someone's soul and body. She reveals a deep relationship with the person and the feelings running through her mind. She compares this spiritual connection to a "faith-forgotten land," a place somewhere that is no longer known or visited as it has been out of sight for too long.
The second verse is all about Swift's confusion regarding the intensity of her feeling for the person. Her "fatal flaw" reference could be that she is so in love with the person in question that she is prepared to go through intense 'curses' to be with them. She gets paranoid about anyone who might interfere in their relationship, with the line "He wants what's only yours." The end of the second verse shows that the person she loves might not be hers, but married to someone else.
Line by Line Meaning
How's one to know?
Uncertainty in a relationship.
I'd meet you where the spirit meets the bones
Willingness to go beyond physical boundaries for love.
In a faith forgotten land
A place where love is harder to come by.
In from the snow
Finding refuge in someone's love.
Your touch brought forth an incandescent glow
Feeling an intense spark of passion.
Tarnished but so grand
Despite struggles in the relationship, it's still worth holding onto.
And the old widow goes to the stone every day
Comparing a widow's devotion to the singer's lack of devotion.
But I don't, I just sit here and wait
Highlighting that the artist is not actively seeking love, but rather waiting for it to come to her.
Grieving for the living
Feeling emotional pain for not being able to experience love like others.
My pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand
Feeling hurt by the person's actions, yet still drawn to them.
Taking mine, but it's been promised to another
Feeling guilty for wanting someone who is unavailable.
Stop you putting roots in my dreamland
Trying to resist being consumed by the relationship.
My house of stone, your ivy grows
Comparing the relationship to ivy growing on a house, symbolizing how the person is slowly taking over the singer's life.
And now I'm covered in you
Feeling consumed by the relationship.
I wish to know
Desire to understand the person's motivations.
The fatal flaw that makes you long to be
Trying to understand why the person is drawn to a doomed relationship.
Magnificently cursed
Feeling that the relationship is both beautiful and doomed.
He's in the room
Feeling guilty for wanting someone else while in a relationship.
Your opal eyes are all I wish to see
Feeling drawn to the person's eyes.
He wants what's only yours
Feeling guilty for being wanted by someone else while in a relationship.
Clover blooms in the fields
Signifying the newness of the relationship.
Spring breaks loose, the time is near
Feeling the rush of emotions and new possibilities in the relationship.
What would he do if he found us out?
Feeling guilty for being in a relationship with someone else.
Crescent moon, coast is clear
Feeling that the situation is still safe for the time being.
Spring breaks loose, but so does fear
Ambivalent feelings about the future of the relationship.
He's gonna burn this house to the ground
Feeling that the relationship will eventually end badly.
I'd live and die for moments that we stole
Highlighting the excitement of being in a forbidden relationship.
On begged and borrowed time
Acknowledging that the relationship is temporary and borrowed.
So tell me to run
Asking for someone to tell the artist to leave the relationship.
Or dare to sit and watch what we'll become
Deciding whether to stay in the relationship and see where it leads.
And drink my husband's wine
Feeling guilty for wanting to be with someone else while married.
So yeah, it's a fire
Acknowledging the intensity and passion in the relationship.
It's a goddamn blaze in the dark
Emphasizing the extreme nature of the relationship.
And you started it
Feeling drawn to the person who initiated the relationship.
It's the goddamn fight of my life
Feeling that the relationship is a battle.
Now I'm covered in you
Feeling consumed and overwhelmed by the relationship.
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Aaron Brooking Dessner, Jack Michael Antonoff, Taylor A. Swift
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@medhakriti1
In these 10 months:
She released Lover Paris concert videos inn Disney plus.
She released folklore.
Having cardigan and exile as a top in billboard charts.
Released lake pond studio sessions on Disney plus.
4 Nominations (in major categories) for Grammy's.
Released Evermore.
She holds absolute and immense capacity, power and patience. ❤️
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@shriyanshipal4450
Taylor : *Releases Folklore*
Me : *blinks*
Taylor : *Releases Evermore*
@angelinebena9675
I certainly feel this
@MusicKat217
HONESTLY THO DJSJSJSJSJ
@ritaja.01
LITERALLY BECAUSE I HAVEN'T EVEN RECOVERED FROM FOLKLORE
@shriyanshipal4450
@@ritaja.01 no one has
@leenaali1400
under-rated comment xd
@anonymousmortal810
Other songwriter: i cheated
Taylor Swift: my pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand, taking mine but it’s been promised to another
@19ayittahj76
WHEN I TELL YOU I CACKLED
@surysama
One of my most favourite lyrics of hers....
@funnyusername7097
Can someone please explain it please? Like I get the overall message but can someone please go in deeper