The talented singer and songwriter has won more AMAs than any other musical artist over the course of the past 10 years and on top of that honor, she also holds the record for the most wins by a female performer in all of AMA history. Swift released her lead single "Tim McGraw" from her debut self-titled album in June of and has been on a fast-track to success ever since. Over the course of her career, she's released seven full-length albums in her discography. With countless award nominations and wins — including multiple armfuls of Grammys — there's no doubt that Swift knows what she's doing.

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Over the past 10 years, Swift has grown up in the public eye all while writing and singing about her most intimate and gutting breakups and massive, fairy-tale wins. Her mind! But even I can admit that the pop star has had a few missteps over the course of her career—usually when she sacrifices her signature authenticity for commercialism. Even the biggest missteps, in short, are worthy contributions. Sorry for the drama. The more secrecy and forbidden the love song on Reputation is the more I love it. If her latest album, Lover , is known for its rainbow-sparkle-sunshine vibe and Reputation is known for moody synths, then Red is known for its evocative lyrics.
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One of them is a massive, multimillion-dollar enterprise filled with violence and betrayal, and the other aired on HBO. For more than a decade , a year-old woman from Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, has found herself at the center of our national conversations about race, gender, celebrity, victimhood, and even the intricacies of recording contract law. And, outside the legions of fans who eat up everything she puts out, no take on her ever stays solid for long. She was a precocious teenager, and the ultimate embodiment of white privilege. Swift — or at least the version of Swift on her albums — has remained largely the same person since her debut: a thin-skinned, bighearted obsessive, with a penchant for huge romantic moments. On her first five albums, her characters never eased into a relationship. This aspect of her songwriting matured somewhat with the coming of the Joe Alwyn era, as the love stories got slightly more quotidian, but even those were filled with secret affairs begun in dark bars — a mite more dramatic than Netflix and chill. Listen to too many and you might ache again at the nagging feeling that those stories of yours have all been a bit uneventful and drab by comparison. What sort of real life can stand up against fantasies like these?
Taylor Swift the celebrity is such a magnet for attention, she can distract from Taylor Swift the artist. These are the songs that sum up her wit, her empathy, her flair for emotional excess, her girls-to-the-front bravado, her urge to ransack every corner of pop history, her determination to turn any chorus into a ridiculous spectacle. Melodically parched, lyrically unfinished, rhythmically clunky — this was a mighty strange pick for a single from an album as loaded as Yes, she made a Christmas album, which is full of contenders for the basement of this list. But an oldie about a gold digger wooing Little Saint Nick was perhaps a dubious pick for a singer still in her teens. Apprentice work from the debut, when she was still learning the ropes as a country songwriter. Yet, the seeds of greatness are already there. Historical significance: This was the song where Tay discovered rain imagery, which in her hands was the equivalent of Sir Isaac Newton inventing calculus.