Lover Era
2019-2020
Taylor’s seventh studio album Lover, released in August of 2019, was both a warm break from the darkness of reputation (2017) — which was created during a wave of negative press generated by her public clash with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian — as well as an amalgam of all her stylistic explorations through the years, from dreamy synth-pop to hushed country. “The skies were opening up in my life,” said Taylor of the album, which garnered three Grammy nominations, including “Song Of The Year” for the title track.
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Pop's Finest Songwriter
Lover Fest: Taylor's Own Festival
«This is an unprecedented pandemic that has changed everyone’s plans and no one knows what the touring landscape is going to look like in the near future. I’m so disappointed that I won’t be able to see you in person as soon as I wanted to. I miss you terribly and can’t wait til we can all safely be at shows together again.»


The Equality Act
Masters Dispute
Re-Recording Her First Six Albums
Taylor said that she intended to re-record her first six albums starting in November of 2020, when she was contractually able to in order to regain control of her recordings. Because of that announcement, Borchetta and Braun wanted to block Taylor from performing her past hits at her “Artist of the Decade” ceremony at the American Music Awards in November, 2019. Furthermore, they blocked her from using recordings of her songs in her 2020 Netflix documentary Miss Americana.
The battle over her masters was the latest in a series of moves that had turned Taylor into something of an advocate for artists’ rights — and made her a cause that everyone from Halsey to Elizabeth Warren rallied behind. From 2014 to 2017, Taylor withheld her catalog from Spotify to protest the streaming company’s compensation rates, saying in a 2014 interview, “There should be an inherent value placed on art. I didn’t see that happening, perception-wise, when I put my music on Spotify.” In 2015, ahead of the launch of Apple Music, Taylor wrote an open letter criticizing Apple for its plan to not pay royalties during the three-month free trial it was set to offer listeners; the company announced a new policy within 24 hours. Most recently, when she signed a new global deal with Universal Music Group in 2018, Taylor (who was now on Republic Records) said one of the conditions of her contract was that UMG share proceeds from any sale of its Spotify equity with its roster of artists — and make them nonrecoupable against those artists’ earnings.
Artist of the Decade
Taylor continued to use her platform and her art for good after finding her own voice and not staying silent anymore, as explained in her documentary Miss Americana, detailing her tumultuous life in the past decade and her fight against sexism in the music industry. So at the end of 2019, the American Music Awards rightfully crowned Taylor “Artist of the Decade.” Hated but also very beloved, even long after the 2010s, no one could ever possibly say, “Who’s Taylor Swift anyway?’’
Associated Album | Lover | |||
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Beginning of Era | April 2019 | |||
End of Era | July 2020 | |||
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Aesthetic | Butterflies Rainbows Romance Sunsets Blue Pink Pastel colors | |||
Style | Tie-dye Fringe Pastel-colored menswear Temporary hair dye | |||
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