Welcome to The Ultimate 1989 TV Lyrics Quiz

Welcome to the 1989 (Taylor’s Version) lyrics quiz: it’s been waiting for you!

I’ve got a Blank Space – well, lots of blank spaces – for you to fill in, as well as multiple-choice questions.

Will you fulfill your Wildest Dreams with a passing score? Will you make it Out of the Woods of this tricky test? There’s only one way to find out.

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1989 (Taylor’s Version) Lyrics Quiz

Some of the questions are easy, some are awfully tricky, and some have more than one right answer, so pay close attention!

At the end of the quiz, you’ll be able to see explanations for both right and wrong answers.

Each time you take the quiz, the questions will be different, so if you don’t pass on the first try, give it another shot!

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1989 (Taylor's Version) Lyrics Quiz

1. Fill in the blank spaces: “He's so ______ and _______ as hell

He's so _____, but he does it so ______”

cool, smooth, bad, well

tall, handsome, bad, well

tall, gorgeous, mad, well

cool, handsome, smooth, well

2. Which song on 1989 TV uses one of Taylor’s common metaphors: her career as her “kingdom”?

New Romantics

Clean

Style

Blank Space

3. Fill in the blank spaces: “Let's fast forward to 300 ________ later”

takeout coffees

Instagram posts

blue-eyed conquests

awkward blind dates

4. Complete the lyric: “Remind her how it used to be, be, yeah, yeah…”

"With pictures in frames of kisses on cheeks, cheeks"

"Tell her how you must have lost your mind, ooh"

"When you left her all alone, and never told her why, why"

"And that's how it works, that's how you get the girl"

5. Complete the lyric: “Skies grew darker…”

"Currents swept you out again"

"And I could go on and on, on and on"

"High tide came and brought you in"

"In silent screams, in wildest dreams"

6. Which songs use the most repetition on 1989 TV?

Clean, You Are in Love, Out of the Woods

All You Had to Do Was Stay, Bad Blood, Out of the Woods

Out of the Woods, Shake it Off, I Wish You Would

Bad Blood, Out of the Woods, Shake it Off

7. How many songs on 1989 TV mention rumors or gossip?

5

6

4

7

8. Complete the lyric: “Everybody here was someone else before…”

"And you can watch who you want"

"Boys and boys and girls and girls"

"Welcome to New York"

“And you can want who you want”

9. Complete the lyric: “When you hold me, it holds me together…”

“And you kiss me in a way that's gonna screw me up forever”

"We were born to be suburban legends"

"You'd be more than a chapter in my old diaries"

"And when you kiss me, it'll haunt me forever"

10. Fill in the blank spaces: “_______, _______, perfect storms

I can make all the ___________”

"Screaming, crying, tables turn"

"Seething, crying, liars burn"

"Seeing, lying, tables turn"

"Screaming, crying, cheaters turn"

11. Which song on 1989 TV mentions the colors red, white, and blue?

Out of the Woods

Is it Over Now?

Now That We Don’t Talk

Slut!

12. Complete the lyric: “Band-Aids don't fix bullet holes / You say sorry just for show…”

"If you live like that, you live with ghosts"

"If you love like that, you live with ghosts"

"If you love like that, blood runs cold"

"You forgive, you forget, but you never let it go"

13. Which songs are a satirical take on Taylor’s reputation as a “man-eater”?

Shake it Off

New Romantics

Bad Blood

Blank Space

14. Which songs on 1989 TV mention sinking ships?

Clean

This Love

Is it Over Now?

I Know Places

15. Which song alludes to the Hollywood Walk of Fame?

Slut!

Bad Blood

New Romantics

I Know Places

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