New Taylor Swift-Inspired Playlists for the New Year! New Year, New Playlists! Last year, I had so much fun curating monthly Swiftie playlists, each designed to capture the season and mood of the moment. If you missed any, don’t worry—you can still check them out here. …
A Tayvis playlist taking you from friendship bracelet beginnings, through “Karma is the guy on the Chiefs”, and to “I’ll be eighty-seven, you’ll be eighty-nine, I’ll still look at you like the stars that shine” 🤩 I shared my first Tayvis Playlist for Super Bowl …
A playlist to hype you up for 2025’s Super Bowl! Whether you’re wearing “Red” or an “eagles t-shirt”, this Super Bowl playlist takes you through all of Taylor’s football game references.
Super Bowl Sunday is almost here! So of course I had to celebrate the occasion with a Super Bowl Playlist. I walk you through all of the fun references, and include playlist links for Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and YouTube below!
Last year was such a fun Super Bowl! After watching Taylor at Travis’ games throughout the season, there was debate on whether she’d make the 13 hour flight from Tokyo to Las Vegas to make the game. She did! And if you thought the 13 hour flight was a fun reference, there were actually a number of 13’s in play – you can check out more Swiftie math here. The Super Bowl game itself was nail-biting and epic, going into overtime with the Chiefs taking the win.
For the occasion, I shared my very first Tayvis Playlist. But this year I thought I’d really hone in on Taylor’s football references and create a playlist celebrating the sport for 2025’s Super Bowl Sunday.
I selected each song on this playlist because of the following lyric references. I thought I’d share them with you too, in case you were curious about how each one relates to the Chiefs and/or the game!
Red – The Chiefs’ colors are red and gold! ❤️💛
Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince –“Waving homecoming queens, marching band playing, I’m lost in the lights…Running through rose thorns, I saw the scoreboard and ran for my life” (ah)”
Fifteen – “Well, in your life you’ll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team.” Taylor found a way to do both 🥹
So High School – “You know how to ball, I know Aristotle”
You Belong With Me – The music video shows Taylor as a clarinetist in the marching band, and her love interest as a star football player!
The Archer – Travis’ signature move is shooting an arrow. Taylor used the move a lot herself during “So High School” on the Eras Tour. (As well as during “The Archer” itself when it was on the setlist!).
Stay Stay Stay – “That’s when you came in wearing a football helmet”
gold rush – “I see me padding ‘cross your wooden floors, with my Eagles t-shirt hanging from the door.” Taylor confirmed this lyric was about the Eagles football team when she performed this as a surprise song for Philly N1. (Disclaimer, this was before she started dating Travis!)
Taylor said: “There was sort of a, I don’t know how large the debate was, the debate about I have a lyric that says, um, ‘my Eagles T-shirt hanging from the door. I saw some people wondering if it was the band the Eagles or the team the Eagles. Guys, like, come on, like, I’m from Philly, of course it’s the team.”
Change – I used this song to create a 2024 Super Bowl edit after the game last year. The lyrics just seemed to fit so perfectly 🥹
Blank Space – “Cause you know I love the players and you love the game” (This is also one of Travis’ favorite songs)
Cornelia Street – “As if the street lights pointed in an arrowhead leading us home.” Arrowhead Stadium is the Chiefs’ stadium! 🏟️
End Game – “I wanna be your endgame, I wanna be your first string, I wanna be your A-Team.”
Long Live – “How the kingdom lights shined just for me and you.” Chiefs Kingdom!
Karma – “Karma is the guy on the CHIEFS”
The Alchemy – “Where’s the trophy, he just comes running over to me,
Touch down
Call the amateurs and
Cut ’em from the team
Ditch the clowns, get the crown
Baby I’m the one to beat
Cause the sign on your heart
Said it’s still reserved for me
Honestly, who are we to fight the alchemy?”
I think of the Super Bowl a bit like Travis’ own Eras Tour. So I used a similar opening and closer for this Super Bowl playlist! “Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince” really sets the stage for a homecoming football game. And then I close the playlist with “Karma” and “The Alchemy” to mirror how Taylor ended her own shows – where “Karma” was the encore and “The Alchemy” was the last music we heard as we all left the stadium.
“The Alchemy” was inspired by last year’s Super Bowl. So I’m hoping it’s not just be a “once every few lifetimes” occurrence, and that tomorrow the Chiefs will have made history by becoming the first team in NFL history to win three Super Bowls in a row!
I hope you enjoyed that walkthrough of this Super Bowl playlist! Whether you’ll be wearing “Red” or an “Eagles t-shirt” (yes, I had to add the “gold rush” lyric as well because before she was a Chiefs supporter, she was an Eagles fan), why not put on this on for your pre-game parties? You can listen on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and YouTube, with clean versions on Spotify and Apple Music.
Enjoy listening, and watching game itself! And let’s go Chiefs!
If you love Swiftie playlists, you might also enjoy my new monthly playlists page for 2025. Or check out my seasonal playlists page. Stay tuned for more themed playlists coming this year, including an updated Tayvis playlist!
Welcome to my Seasonal Swiftie Playlists page, your year-round destination for Taylor Swift-inspired playlists tailored to every season! From the cozy depths of winter to the vibrant blooms of spring, the warmth of summer, and the colors of autumn, I’ve curated each playlist to capture the essence …
12 Taylor Swift-inspired monthly playlists that made up our soundtrack of 2024. Looking for the ultimate Taylor Swift-inspired playlists to relive the magic of 2024? This year, I curated 12 unique monthly playlists tailored to the seasons, moods, and iconic moments we cherish as Swifties. From cozy …
Two Taylor Swift-themed Christmas playlists to play all holiday season.
Looking for the perfect soundtrack to accompany your holiday festivities? I’ve got you covered with two specially curated Christmas playlists perfect for Swifties. I’ll share links below, to listen to them on your favorite streaming platforms!
This playlist features all of Taylor’s official holiday tracks, including her beloved Holiday Collection. It’s the Christmas soundtrack you need for cozy evenings spent by the fire.
You can listen to my playlist of Taylor Swift’s Christmas Songs on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and YouTube. No clean versions needed for this playlist.
Dive into a festive mix of Taylor’s Christmas-inspired songs, including tracks from her studio albums and holiday releases. You can listen to my Swiftie Christmas Playlist on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and YouTube. I also have clean versions up on Spotify and Apple Music.
Easy vegan key lime pies requiring just 9 simple ingredients – perfect for creating ‘The Last Great American Dynasty’ vibes (iykyk) The Last Great American Dynasty I can so clearly remember listening to Folklore for the very first time. Do you remember that surprise drop?! …
Links to every single Taylor Swift playlist I’ve curated and shared on social media – happy listening! I *love* making Taylor Swift-themed playlists – I post at least one every month (often more), curating playlists for every month, season and more. Let me know if …
Links to all 5 of Taylor Swift’s TTPD Playlists – on Spotify, YouTube and Amazon Music – taking listeners through the 5 Stages of Heartbreak
It’s a fortnight before The Tortured Poets Department release on April 19th, and of course Taylor Swift marked the occasion – with TTPD Playlists!
Taylor made these playlists for Apple Music, with special short messages for Apple Music listeners. Here’s how she describes each playlist:
“A list of songs about getting so caught up in the idea of something that you have a hard time seeing the red flags, possibly resulting in moments of denial and maybe a little bit of delusion. Results may vary.” (A Message From Taylor)
“These songs all have one thing in common – I wrote them while feeling anger. Over the years I’ve learned that anger can manifest itself in a lot of different ways. But the healthiest way that it manifests itself in my life is when I can write a song about it, and then often times that helps me get past it.” (A Message From Taylor)
“This playlist takes you through the songs that I’ve written when I was in the bargaining stage. Times when, you know you’re trying to make deals with yourself or someone that you care about. You’re trying to make things better, you’re often times feeling really desperate, because often times we have a sort of gut intuition that tells us things are not gonna go the way that we hope – which makes us more desperate, which makes us bargain more.” (A Message From Taylor)
“We’re going to be exploring the feelings of depression that often lace their way through my songs. In times like these I’ll write a song because I feel lonely or hopeless, and writing a song feels like the only way to process that intensity of an emotion. And while these things are really, really hard to go through, I often feel like when I’m either listening to songs, or writing songs that deal with this intensity of loss and hopelessness, usually that’s in the phase where I’m close to getting past that feeling.” (A Message From Taylor)
“You’ve made it to my “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart: playlist, where we finally find acceptance and can start moving forward from loss or heartbreak. These songs represent making room for more good in your life, making that choice, because a lot of times when we lose things, we gain things too.” (A Message From Taylor)
I mainly use Apple Music myself, so I was excited to be able to access these playlists right away! But as someone who shares Swiftie playlists a lot, I know there’s a huge amount of people who mainly listen to music on Spotify.
I asked in my Instagram stories whether anyone would like me to create these playlists on Spotify, and immediately got a resounding yes! With multiple links, one for each playlist, I thought it would be easiest to send people to a landing page with links to all the playlists.
Update: I’ve now created these TTPD playlists on Spotify, YouTube and Amazon Music! Let me know if you’d like to see any clean versions as well.
And finally, in case you missed it…
Here’s a link to the landing page for all these Apple Music playlists as well.
I hope these help, happy listening!
A red and blue swirled Midnights album smoothie bowl – perfect for celebrating February and Taylor Swift’s Grammy nominations! The Grammy’s and Midnights The Grammy’s are now just a few days away, so you can bet I’ve got Midnights on my mind. Will you be watching? It’s …
It wasn’t this blog, this blog just launched today! But it was a blog and I had high hopes for it. At the time I was embarking on one of the greatest adventures of my life – I had taken my first international flight moving to another country where I would finally get to explore the wider world (and hopefully pick up a British accent) whilst living in London, UK. It was all incredibly exciting and I wanted to document everything – mostly for myself, but also for family and friends back home. I actually just had a cheeky look back at that blog and it was so fun to walk down memory lane, so I suppose it served its purpose a little bit.
As I’m sure you’ve gathered, that blog never really got off the ground. It had a few sputtering starts and restarts. I put up posts every now and then. And (to my credit) I uploaded loads of photos somewhat regularly because I’m a bit of a photographing fiend – have you seen my Instagram stories? However, exciting things just kept happening too fast (don’t you just hate it when that happens?), and a blog became too much for me to keep up with. I wonder if any of you can relate, and have your own lost blogs that live somewhere forgotten on the Internet, or in the files on your laptop?
I’ve thought quite a bit about why this happened, especially as I’ve been working on this new blog – and how long it’s taken to get off the ground. Mainly I think I got swamped with the amount of stuff I felt I had to do – the hundreds, which quickly became thousands of photos to sort through and edit (my photographing strategy has always been to take loads of photos and hope that some turn out halfway decent – usually it works, but it requires so much time to wade through). And then there was all of the writing, proofreading, formatting, and as experiences piled up it began to feel like too much to keep up with.
All of this, combined with my indecision and perfectionism, resulted in a false start. I felt like I couldn’t craft blog posts that I deemed worthy of publishing. I don’t know why I felt so much pressure given that my readers were family and a few close friends who I knew wouldn’t have judged my posts (too harshly at least). But I’ve always felt a strong degree of (self-imposed) pressure to produce things to a certain standard, and in my head I couldn’t meet the bar.
That same perfectionism and pressure has played a big part in keeping me from starting this blog.
You may (or may not) be surprised to hear that I’d been thinking about starting a food blog for over a year now, with the original intention to launch at the beginning of the new year – yes this year, 2018. I know, I know, it’s August…so you can see how that went!
Side note for my Instagram peeps who have followed along with the whole slight saga – thanks for sticking with me! Can you believe it’s finally happening?? I hardly can, it’s really been a long time coming.
I think the main thing was that I had thought the content I was sharing, and even myself as a person, needed to be at a certain point before I could start – that I had to be super healthy and fit, a whiz in the kitchen, and an organised writer who had something polished to share with the world. Over time, as I’ve struggled with balancing studies and life and Instagram, dealt with some health issues, and felt further and further from that ‘ready version’ I thought I needed to be, I kept pushing blogging further and further away. It’s been a slow and gradual process, but I’ve come to realise that I’ll never reach that polished level of expertise I’m aiming for. And now I genuinely think a lot of the value of this community and sharing a blog is to bring you along for the ride and show you the journey along the way.
This blog might (definitely) be messy.
It will likely not be as organised or as professional as I want – especially when I look at how many incredible and beautiful blogs there are out there. I have to face the realities that I am at a different stage in my health journey, my blogging journey (hello beginnings!), and in my life as a full-time doctoral student also trying to live in an expensive city abroad.
But I’ve also recognised that I don’t have to be the end product right now.
And I hope that by bringing you into my life at this moment, as I’m still working on balance and health and life, that you can find some value, inspiration, encouragement or comfort from any of it.
I want to share the process of launching and growing this little corner of the Internet. And I guess this is a space for me to muse about what that process is like. I hope it might be interesting. I hope even more so that it might be helpful. I’m not entirely sure what this series will look like, but at the moment I envision it being a place to share helpful tips and tricks that I learn and implement along my blogging journey.
So, this is the beginning of my blogging journey. Where are you on yours? Have you started a blog? Or ever wanted to? I’d love to hear any stories you might want to share (and how long it took/is taking you to launch yours? =P)