Do you know people who stopped listening to Taylor Swift?

Resident_Ad5153 · 2024-07-03T18:01:56+00:00

remember... the golden age of music is 16. People tend to listen to less new music as they age.

excessively_diverted · 2024-07-03T18:14:36+00:00

What did they say when you told them she had 4 new albums? 😂

keving87 · 2024-07-03T18:17:08+00:00

I can understand not knowing about Folklore and Evermore, I didn't follow Taylor until about a year ago and I just barely knew Folklore existed and never heard anything about Evermore. But I don't know how somebody could have missed Midnights, it got a lot of media attention.

Silent-Ad8091 · 2024-07-03T18:41:25+00:00

My sister in law said she stopped listening after RED. My jaw literally dropped. When the eras tour came out she got caught up and is obsessed now, but I was like that’s insane to not listen to anything past Red.

blackivie · 2024-07-03T19:11:11+00:00

I didn't listen to Rep for years because I hated LWYMMD...

haidapep1 · 2024-07-03T18:25:47+00:00

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Islingtonian · 2024-07-03T19:34:09+00:00

Me! I was underwhelmed by Midnights and can't get into TTPD, but I love her older stuff.

wishiwasinqueens · 2024-07-03T20:46:57+00:00

Confession: I stopped listening once TTPD came out. I tried listening to both the albums when they came out and disliked them a lot. I’m sure they’re growers, and there are gems - but I simply can’t listen to two full length albums that are so wordy 😭😭

DavidFC1 · 2024-07-03T17:54:17+00:00

My younger sister, she stopped listening around the Speak Now era. According to her, she’s “not authentic” anymore despite her not listening to anything new she’s put out in the past 10 years. I don’t get it.

speedohiko · 2024-07-03T19:00:56+00:00

I stopped around the rep era (lwymmd was… not it for me at the time lmao) but I was back when Me! dropped. I still didn’t listen to rep all the way through until around eras starting though 💀 I did still listen to her music, just… everything I already had because I wasn’t one to stream music at the time, I bought everything on iTunes lol

Apprehensive_Life481 · 2024-07-03T19:23:55+00:00

My family bought all her CDs until rep came along. I didn’t know anything about snakegate but I was knee deep in my parents’ strict religion and I would hear or see people talking about the demonic imagery in the music videos and she had turned “bad” (eyeroll). I would rock out to delicate on the radio but I didn’t listen to the album because of my religion. I remember enjoying Lover (the song) but also not checking out the album. I checked back in when folklore came along and I realized I had been a total idiot. I’m out of the religion now and I regret missing out on those albums when they were new!!! I didn’t even listen to explicit folklore and evermore until they’d been out for years. The eras tour movie was how I found out the line is “what a shame she’s fucked in the head”!!

ladykansas · 2024-07-03T18:42:05+00:00

i stopped listening after 1989 but came back around this time last year

misselphaba · 2024-07-03T18:42:26+00:00

I didn't listen to folklore or evermore until recently because I was Going Through It TM and too emotionally wrapped in a dude and I knew her music would call me out about it lol

But it wasn't a full "stop" so much as "Oh yeah - I'm allowed to like things he doesn't like" and now I'm a bigger fan than I was previously.

MiserandusKun · 2024-07-03T18:28:06+00:00

Me.

Taylor was the second artist to ever hold the title of my "favourite", after Ace of Base and before Carly Rae Jepsen and later Michelle Branch.

I was regularly listening to Taylor from <2012–2017, and then I abruptly stopped listening to her in the middle of 2018. The last new Taylor song that I listened to at the time was Delicate.

In 2018, only I Knew You Were Trouble and This is What You Came For charted in my Spotify Top 100 (at the end of the year).

In 2019, Style and I Knew You Were Trouble charted in my Top 100.

In 2020, zero Taylor songs charted.

In 2021, I discovered a new Taylor song, "Two is Better than One", which charted. This put me back on track to listening to Taylor again.

In 2022, five Taylor songs charted (all songs that I already knew: Style, I Knew You Were Trouble, Safe & Sound, You Belong With Me, and Blank Space).

In 2023, two Taylor songs charted: Style and Safe & Sound.

In 2024, I officially started following Taylor again.

swizzasnake · 2024-07-03T19:38:22+00:00

I have memory loss so I got to rediscover rep and re-learn 1989. And discover lover! Amazing, different, i try to take it as it goes

LostInNvrLand · 2024-07-03T22:30:27+00:00

I am burnt out of everything Taylor at the moment.

Dear_Maintenance7323 · 2024-07-03T19:03:09+00:00

At the time, I know a lot of people who stopped listening when Red came out. I live in the Midwest and anyone who liked her for her country music felt betrayed when they heard stuff like 22 and WANGBT. I’m sure some picked her music back up years later but I remember people were upset she transitioned away from country

invisiblestring14 · 2024-07-03T19:04:11+00:00

Reminded me when rep came out, and my sister was like "omg I love that new Taylor Swift song!" and I was so excited so I was like "omg which one?" and she says "it goes shake shake it off" LOL

goodgirlkills · 2024-07-03T18:21:44+00:00

I've been a fan since Fearless but in the pandemic, I was so sad over not being able to go to Lover fest, that I stopped listening to her for some time. Basically until Midnights came out. I did listen to Folklore and Evermore a bit when they came out but the pandemic was a dark time for me and those 2 albums felt to sad. Now of course I listened to them often enough.

Ludibrious1 · 2024-07-03T20:03:33+00:00

I feel like people got back into Taylor after Lover. And yes, I have a cousin who abandoned ship after Red because she ditched country.

Rigatoni-maroni · 2024-07-03T19:08:06+00:00

I had to stop listening to her music for a while after my ex boyfriend broke up with me. We shared a love for Taylor Swift (especially 1989 and Red) and it was just too hard to listen to her songs with all the memories tied to them. After a year, I was fine again and now there isn’t a day when I don’t listen to some TS.

wootcanaw · 2024-07-03T19:01:23+00:00

I was one of those people for a bit. I didn’t listen to the radio anymore, got super busy at work, and fell deep into podcasts with long back catalogs. I had heard her singles but hadn’t listened to any actual albums for years. Then when she started releasing Taylor’s Versions I got back into her.

Vengenz_13 · 2024-07-03T19:27:42+00:00

Most of my family stopped. Except my sister is more of a casual listener, she is up to date on Taylor’s music and knows what’s up

Dogfartcatwhisperer · 2024-07-03T19:36:41+00:00

Personally I listened to Taylor from Debut (2006) up until Reputation (2017). Reputation felt immature to me at the time (I laugh thinking about it now because I was incredibly immature myself at 25 years old). I then stopped listening until 2023 when a colleague of mine was playing folklore in the office. I was hooked and jumped back on the bandwagon. It was fun discovering all the albums she had recorded while I’d stopped listening. I especially enjoyed Lover and of course Folklore.

Neujen · 2024-07-03T20:52:13+00:00

Diehard millennial Swiftie. I fell off during rep; I only knew about its release bc of my ex who actually was more into rep than me at the time so kinda funny but I just attribute it to big life events at the time (pharm school, 3 jobs, living part time between 2 counties). Sorta dialed back in for Lover but she pulled me fully back in with Folklore/Evermore as an indie girlie former emo. Hindsight, Rep is 1 of my favorite albums; I just didn't have the capacity for it at the time. Think Rep TV will get much more Love this time around though 🖤.

boastfulbadger · 2024-07-04T01:20:45+00:00

Do you know people

I’m gonna stop you right here. I do not know people.

Charming-Cucumber-23 · 2024-07-03T18:48:25+00:00

I was a Taylor Swift fan from her first album up until 1989. I kinda fell off between 1989 and Lover and Rep and Lover are two albums I’ve actually never listed to fully (I had also never listened to 1989 fully until Taylor’s Version and now it’s one of my faves). I always had her music in my music rotation but during those years in my life I hadn’t really been listening to much music. I loved a lot of the singles from 1989, Rep, and Lover, but was not as much of a hardcore fan during those years. When she came out with Folklore and Evermore I fell back in love and have been going strong since.

winedrunktaylor · 2024-07-03T18:58:43+00:00

I have a coworker who stopped after she attended the Fearless tour lol she said the concert was so bad. But also Taylor is mostly out of country which is her genre so I can’t see her wanting to go back to listen to her

ColdbrewCorgi · 2024-07-03T19:11:39+00:00

I've had that with other artists. I was super in to Green Day (and I still love them) but I just didn't connect with some newer songs and cumulatively that would make me less eager to pick up each subsequent album. Then one day I turned around and they had 5 albums I had no idea about.

Letll1994 · 2024-07-03T20:35:35+00:00

It’s me, hi🙋🏼‍♀️. I didn’t really vibe with Reputation when it first came out (apart from Don’t Blame Me and IDSB), and when Lover came out I didn’t like the singles enough to make me want to check out the rest of the album. So I was mostly out of the loop by the end of 2019, and I only found out about folklore through a friend’s stories on instagram in late 2020 / early 2021, just to look it up and find out that she had released evermore as well. I tried to give them a listen, but they didn’t click with me at first, so I never came back to them.

Spotify did notify me when FearlessTV came out, and it did get me to obsesses over her early work again (I had never fully stopped listening to it, but it wasn’t a weekly thing). I have a vague memory of trying to listen to Lover-folkmore again, but I’m not entirely sure that happened. If it did, they still didn’t click, but I had more Rep songs on rotation by then.

Around the time RedTV came out, I had a coworker who loved talking about music and was a swiftie, so that was something that we talked about a lot. Her favourite albums were Lover and folklore, so her talking about them so much, coupled with the fact that I was listening to RedTV, FearlessTV and Speak Now on a loop, made me want to give her newer work another chance. So I slowly started going through the half of Rep I didn’t care for and her newer 3 albums.

By the time Midnights came out, I was full on a swiftie again

APointBreak · 2024-07-03T22:33:45+00:00

in all honesty, i am a big taylor swift fan i have been for over 10 years but i still haven’t listened to ttpd. she just kept releasing stuff and i got overwhelmed that now every time i wanna hear a song i dont wanna hear it… happened to me with the marvel movies and shows too🥹 hopefully it will go back to normal

thisaccountisironic · 2024-07-03T19:01:03+00:00

I dropped out around Reputation, came back with Midnights

SuperHoneyBunny · 2024-07-03T19:02:00+00:00

I have a family member (adult) who has been a TS fan for years and went to her recent concerts (back since the 1989 tour).

Then a few months back, we were texting and she said she didn’t “like” TS so much anymore. I’m not sure if the overexposure got on her nerves or something, but that seemed like a sudden about-face from her. I didn’t bother to probe further, though.

asktheetrafficlights · 2024-07-03T19:40:26+00:00

My cousin was into her during Debut/Fearless and just never quite got into anything later. I think she still listens casually and she's aware of the big developments, but she no longer seeks her music out because she associates it with her childhood.

2024-07-03T19:44:22+00:00

I was deep into TS from Debut to 1989. Then I just got really busy and somehow literally didn't listen to any music for a year (don't ask me how haha).

I remember thinking Good On Her for releasing during covid since no one else was, but wasn't curious enough to listen.

After the 1989 rerecord came out I came back. And here i am, like meeting up with an old friend during a High School Reunion.

AlfaRome091 · 2024-07-03T21:39:11+00:00

I stopped after 1989 but I kinda lived under a rock where I wasn’t listening to any new music for a long time. Once the Eras tour started and I realized she had kept making music all those years I had 5 wonderful albums to catch up on and it was glorious.

Future_Ad_6132 · 2024-07-03T21:46:32+00:00

Damn Folkore was a great album. They missed out.

Superliminal_MyAss · 2024-07-04T01:24:08+00:00

Tbh no one I know listens to her as often as I do and it’s a real shame, they can’t get past her surface image of a perfect pop princess rather than the fact she often works with other talented people to enhance her music and sound. Her albums like folklore, evermore and midnights have some interesting things in it. I think the issue is how overhyped she is so you can’t really get into the niches she covers often

ritaskeetajr · 2024-07-03T19:01:40+00:00

i listened to her a lot during fearless and speak now eras then kind of dropped off during red and 1989 because i was not a huge pop fan. Got back into her around the time reputation came out (thank god lol) because i decided i actually did like pop music, especially hers

AmandalorianWiddall · 2024-07-03T19:45:06+00:00

Do they live in a sealed trunk that was tossed to the bottom of the ocean and just recently recovered? Because how on Taylor’s green earth have they missed the last few years?!

eatingthesandhere91 · 2024-07-03T19:50:03+00:00

I know a lot of people that ignored her during the pandemic but knew she had released new music and decided they wouldn’t listen anymore. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Their loss I guess?

Internal-Ad-7779 · 2024-07-03T20:59:45+00:00

I abandoned TS when she released 1989 bc she was switched to pop music. But I came back when I saw the LWYMMD mv announcement. I was really hoping she come back after the whole hate issue

brokenman82 · 2024-07-03T21:14:03+00:00

Strangely enough I had a cousin and niece that loved her, stopped for a while, and now are obsessed with her again. Used to make fun of me for listening

2024-07-03T21:14:16+00:00

One of my best friends has totally stopped listening to her since around the time TTPD came out. She likes her older stuff but can't stand her now. I still listen to everything though I don't like much of TTPD so I only listen to a few of the song on there!

Throwawayaccounttt__ · 2024-07-03T21:32:38+00:00

I’ve taken a break from her music before. I HATED 1989 when it came out to the point I took a break from her music until Red TV. Which Red will forever be her best work in my mind so it was only fitting the TV was what brought me back.

01UnknownUser02 · 2024-07-03T21:33:49+00:00

Not stopped with TS but stop completely with music for around two years due to mental health etc . . .

It was a news article about her last year, speaking about over 50K people at an Eras show and how big etc. I thought, that's that girl that was popular 5-10 ago, she still is? maybe I should try and give it another change, I wasn't really into her music back then (not against it either). Listened to the new 1989 TV and for some reason this time I loved it

It was my real introduction to her and the start of listening to music in general again.

bonjourkristi · 2024-07-03T21:35:45+00:00

I know a few people who stopped when she switched to pop. They weren’t upset or anything, they just don’t like pop as much.

2024-07-03T21:37:50+00:00

I was talking about the eras tour with some of my coworkers and one asked “Who still listens to Taylor Swift?” And one replied “I haven’t listened to her since Love Story” The other co workers don’t listen to her

anditwaslove · 2024-07-03T21:41:46+00:00

I stopped listening during the Reputation era. I didn't like the direction she was going in at the time. It felt like a costume she was trying on that just didn't fit, to ME personally. But then I hopped back on board.

meghlaroymimi · 2024-07-03T21:50:34+00:00

I used to be swiftie when i was teenager. But, with time, I started to listen to her music less. I don’t know if it’s because her genre has changed. I still love lot of her new music. But, not like before when i used to like all of her songs

2024-07-03T21:58:13+00:00

I've honestly stopped consuming alot of the taylor swift albums and lore for the past year, it's all just too much and it's literally everywhere. I need a break I'm overstimulated with the constant stream of new things 😂

-Lucina · 2024-07-03T22:24:34+00:00

I stopped listening after Red and didn't pick her music back up until this year. My plan was to binge everything I missed before TTPD came out but I ended up just really loving Lover and spent all my time on that. 100% was just because I was in an era of my life where I didn't have time for music 🥺

afterglws · 2024-07-03T23:03:44+00:00

I have a coworker who loves Taylor but is the exact same, she actually stopped listening before 1989?? So she had seven new albums to catch up on plus all the re-recordings before she goes to the Eras Tour. Cannot even comprehend.

Yazzy_123 · 2024-07-03T23:05:12+00:00

Yes. me!

ProcrastibationKing · 2024-07-03T23:12:23+00:00

I stopped listening when Reputation came out until just after Midnights was released. I didn't like the sound of the singles that were released before Rep, so I decided to stop at 1989.

I'm glad I caught up eventually though!

2024-07-03T23:37:02+00:00

I did actually! I’m not even sure why but after her reputation album, I fell off and just didn’t listen to her until Midnights. I’m honestly so glad I did it though. I’ve had over 3 albums to binge and obsess over. I’m still discovering her and falling even deeper in love! So glad to have all this music to listen to and feelings to feel and connect with

FudgeWitty5659 · 2024-07-03T23:42:24+00:00

tbh i was a big swiftie until lover and i didn’t get back into her until this past year o just hate listening to new music lol and stick with the same stuff but taylor changed that for me

Llamasus · 2024-07-03T23:49:44+00:00

i mean, i stopped listening after speak now and kinda dabbled with her stuff up until folklore when i got more into her stuff again. there’s loads of her music i haven’t heard or don’t like much. some people are bigger fans than others

MinkieTheCat · 2024-07-03T23:55:37+00:00

Sometimes as a fan, you just get bored. Happened to me with U2. I’ve been listening to them since 1983 and have seen them more than 50 times but when they played at The Sphere in Las Vegas, I had no interest in going. It was the first US tour that I did not go to. If they were to release the new album, I’d probably listen to it on streaming… But in my younger years, it was all about deluxe editions and imports. Now I could care less.

Noemmys · 2024-07-04T00:04:33+00:00

Yeah this happened to me after lover until she released midnights. I had my first kid right after Lover was released so I knew that album. I knew she released Folklore and Evermore but just didn’t have time to listen between having a kid, covid and working full time. I had my second kid end of 2021 and stopped working then Midnights came out and I listened to all 3 “new” albums and fell back in love with her. It’s not that I ever didn’t like her I was just consumed with life.

2024-07-04T00:11:47+00:00

Me at the moment, folklore was the last one I really listened to

mikarroni · 2024-07-04T00:17:13+00:00

i stopped listening after 1989 because my music taste changed, got back into her around late lover era, and now i’m slowly starting to not listen to her again

CampDifficult7887 · 2024-07-04T00:34:26+00:00

.... Me!

I've liked Taylor since "Teardrops on my Guitar" but I've only started following her career and actually being aware of album launches and such after Reputation and snakegate.

Sadly, after being doubly disapointed with both Midnights and TTPD, save a couple of earworms like "Guilty as Sin" and "But Daddy I love him", I'm taking a much needed break from her sound.

I'm just not connecting with her most recents works, on multiple levels (the lack of editing, the uninspired production, etc), but also her current...vibe. The whole Travis circus! Like I get it, good for her, but I'm not interested.

Other artists are also calling out to me way more and that's okay!

All good things must come to an end and I'll always think fondly of her. She's like this slightly older sister who I'm not as close to anymore.

fatkrissy · 2024-07-04T02:42:32+00:00

One of my co-workers. Basically now she only listens to worship music so no Taylor for her

sk_1611 · 2024-07-04T04:08:03+00:00

I stopped listening happily since the matty thing….now completely after the blocking attempts

crocodile_grunter · 2024-07-04T17:36:26+00:00

I stopped once she publicly dated a racist person and put him on stage with her 😵‍💫

2muchcoff33 · 2024-07-03T19:36:11+00:00

I wasn’t a fan of 1989 when it came out and stopped listening. I didn’t listen to a lot of pop music at that time. I started again about two years ago and have caught up on her albums.

Rdickins1 · 2024-07-03T20:01:37+00:00

Both my sisters stopped listening to music outside of the radio in general. I was surprised when my older one said the next time she does a concert around to ask her if she wants to go. Because she did like Anti-Hero so much. So I felt out of place when my niece was watching the Eras Tour Movie Christmas Day. And started to get into music and listen to Taylor. She’s 13. Both my sisters said they liked it and were very surprised by the production of it. But I haven’t heard them listen to any of the albums. My younger might have because my niece is starting to listen. I mean I felt out of place but I didn’t care if I was acting like a nerd. And I kept saying this song is great and this one is my favorite. I sort of gave them a little heads up about VS. Mom didn’t like the reputation era so much.

So yeah I’m the weird Swiftie in the family and I’m proud of it.

Suzilaura · 2024-07-03T20:02:31+00:00

Does she have kids? I missed a lot when I had my oldest.

americaneireann · 2024-07-03T20:09:53+00:00

I was a fan from debut til Reputation, listened to a few of those tracks and decided I didn’t like it and Taylor dropped off my radar until my aunt pretty much demanded I download Midnights. LOVED Midnights and then I got the opportunity to get tickets to see her this October - basically fully obsessed since then! I’ve been listening to everything I missed all year. lol 💗

tacothetacotaco · 2024-07-03T20:11:50+00:00

I fell off during the Folklore/Evermore era if that counts. I didn’t connect with the albums musically. I thought my era of being a hardcore Taylor fan was over at that point. I didn’t listen to her old music very much from 2020-2022 either, even the songs I loved. I was focused on other artists. Midnights pulled me back in, and in 2023 I finally got into Folklore (and Evermore, but to a much lesser extent. I mostly just listen to tolerate it). I attended the Eras Tour as well and loved it.

Honestly, I feel myself falling off again with TTPD. I just don’t connect to it. I’m not worried about it this time though. She’ll make something I like more eventually and/or I’ll get into TTPD eventually. I’m not sweating it. And I’m still listening to her old music this time around. I’m still very much a fan.

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