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1989 (Taylor’s Version)

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Lyrical Analysis of 1989 (Taylor’s Version) Songs

  • Welcome to New York
  • Blank Space
  • Style
  • Out of the Woods
  • All You Had to Do Was Stay
  • Shake it Off
  • I Wish You Would
  • Bad Blood
  • Wildest Dreams
  • How You Get the Girl
  • This Love
  • I Know Places
  • Clean
  • Wonderland
  • You Are in Love
  • New Romantics
  • Slut! [From the Vault]
  • Say Don’t Go [From the Vault]
  • Now That We Don’t Talk [From the Vault]
  • Suburban Legends [From the Vault]
  • Is it Over Now? [From the Vault]

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1989 Album & Era Analysis

Original 1989 Prologue vs. 1989 TV Prologue: Full Analysis

1989 Era: Themes & Motifs

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