9 Best Taylor Swift Songs Ever – You’ll Be Shocked at What Ranks #1

• 2008’s Love Story is a classic Taylor Swift song that should make any top 10 list.
• Few songs capture Swift’s emotional depth than 2015’s Bad Blood.
• Cardigan is one of Taylor Swift’s best songs, but does it rank #1?

Taylor Swift doesn’t know how not to write a hit song. It simply isn’t in her blood. Even when she’s switching gears or changing genres, she’s still churning out melodies that live rent free in our brains forever.

While I could pay homage to an individual track – or all of them – I thought it’d so some good to highlight the best Taylor Swift songs ever.

It’s just one list and it’s inherently subjective, but here are the top Taylor Swift songs of all-time. And if you’re feeling extra saucy, maybe peruse Taylor Swift’s best movies, too.

9. Love Story – 2008

Released in 2008 on Swift’s second studio album (Fearless), Love Story keeps the star singer in her country roots, but infuses upbeat pop and a classic, well, love story.

Swift retells the iconic Romeo + Juliet tale in her own words, and literally admitted that this interpretation was more about what other people had told her love could be.

Despite Swift drawing more on a story that’s popular around the world, rather than her own experiences at the time, she still produced an iconic song that people could relate to.

8. Teardrops on My Guitar – 2006

A throwback to where it all started, this is arguably Swift’s best song from early in her career, and was the most successful hit from her debut studio album (Taylor Swift).

Swift has long since proven her mastery in the art of love stories, but this is where it all began.

It’s also a hit song that still came from her country music era, reminding all fans that she had the ability (and still does, to be frank) to dominate the country scene.

7. Delicate – 2017

Fast forward to 2017, where Swift has evolved considerably as an artist and songwriter. Here she spun a an intricate and deeply personal web with Delicate, which stems from the Reputation album.

Swift has done a masterful job intertwining her own real life relationship experiences with beautify melodies and catchy lyrics, and that’s no different in Delicate.

Seriously, it doesn’t get more vulnerable than this.

While there are certainly more revealing topics and lyrics, few are as catchy and pull you in as effortlessly as Delicate.

It could easily go higher in my Taylor Swift song rankings, but I’m sure you can tell by now cutting this list down is no easy task.

6. Bad Blood – 2015

Two years prior, the gloves came off, with Taylor Swift once again – you guessed it – airing out real life drama in the public eye.

The best revenge is winning with a top hit on the charts and raking in major cash along the way, right? Right.

Swift accomplished everything she set out for in 2015, with Bad Blood being one of the catchiest F-you tracks of all-time. Where does it rank among the top Taylor Swift songs? I have it coming in at #6, but I could inch it higher just because it’s so damn easy to bounce to.

5. Blank Space – 2014

Go back another year, and things got very real again. This time, Swift put up a middle finger to the brazen media, which inappropriately commented on her relationships.

Oh my god, look at that face. You look like my next mistake.

Swift had a pretty firm rebuttal to viral claims that she was a bit too whimsical with her dating life. Of course, who people date – and how many people they date – is their own business.

Precisely Swift’s point. She just clapped back with the force of a thousand winds – and one of the catchiest songs we’ve ever heard.

Maybe the media will stop labeling her as a psycho serial dater girl, huh?

4. Lover – 2019

We’re getting a bit more current here, although it’s difficult to keep up with Swift’s work due to her ramming speed as far as pushing out fresh content.

As it turns out, stripping Swift down to raw emotion is a good thing. A pretty damn good thing, indeed.

3. Shake it Off – 2014

Let’s travel back in time for easily one of Taylor Swift’s best songs, especially if you prioritize catchy lyrics, upbeat melodies, and one hell of a good time.

This raucous good time was made even more enjoyable by a clever music video, but I’m here to tell you that it’s just as infectious live.

Swift once again bleeds her personal life into art, with her piercing and smooth vocals taking us for a (fun) ride.

2. Cardigan – 2020

Ready for all of the feels? Swift proved in 2020 she only gets better with age with Cardigan, which tells another deeply personal tale that hits the heart with a Kill Bill punch.

Didn’t think Swift could move the needle with a slow-paced love ballad that also tickled the brain and made the hips move? Well, you’d be dead wrong.

While you may not have know, Swift sure did. The above line may not be the trademark lyric from this song, but it hit home for me.

Not only is this perhaps one of the best Taylor Swift songs ever made, but it’s also created controversy in regards to who it’s actually about.

I’ll leave the hypotheticals out of this debate. All I know is Cardigan nearly tops my Taylor Swift song rankings.

1. I Knew You Were Trouble – 2012

Okay, here we finally are – the best Taylor Swift song ever. I’ll admit that you could re-order my Taylor Swift song rankings in a number of ways. Some of the best Taylor Swift songs were left out, and you could axe a couple from this list.

It’s all a matter of opinion. It also depends on what moves you the most, and what you enjoy out of music.

Cardigan is extremely close to taking the title of the top Taylor Swift song, but I’ll leave you with I Knew You Were Trouble.

This song admittedly doesn’t grace a lot of Taylor Swift top 10 lists, but it takes the cake for me.

I Knew You Were Trouble takes us back to 2012, as Swift really started rising up the ranks. This song marries two distinctive styles, while allowing Swift to deliver her trademark heart-wrenching style.

If you’re looking for the best Taylor Swift song – or just a track in general that’s going to strike every chord – I suggest startng here.

Hate my Taylor Swift song rankings? Think the order should be shaken up or a track should be subtracted/added? Let me hear it in the comments below, or even offer up your own top Taylor Swift song list!

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