It kills me how Twitter users think everyone on ATRL is an insider, meanwhile we have at best 2 of them on the forum who are reliable and they rarely get Taylor info ahead of time

12 hours ago, poppurple said:

Getaway Car for rep back in 2017 when it made some cute numbers because it was fan favourite. Exile for folklore. Also Daylight for Lover.

Oh yes for sure! 

10 hours ago, Arrows said:

Exile could've definitely been one of her big classics and most streames songs with some radio attention.

 

Paper Rings could've been a success with a video or even just an Eras Tour performance.

 

The re-recorded Clean also sounds like a hit to me!

Omg how could I forget about Paper Rings  I also think it would've been a smash. 

 

 

 

16 hours ago, Mariano said:

Hey swifties, what is considered Taylor's biggest missed opportunity for a hit/single?

My vote

This has always screamed lead single material to me

2 minutes ago, Holy Ground said:

My vote

This has always screamed lead single material to me

yeah same I mentioned it literally 1-2 days ago in another topic,  Paper Rings, I think he knows and Death by a thousand cuts always sounded like smashes to me. Imagine if they were the 3 singles together with Lover lol. Lover would be bigger than 1989 I fear. 

 

edit: and that's not even counting Cruel Summer lol. 

Edited July 6, 20251 yr by Mariano

THIS IS SO FUNNY LMAOOO
 

 

Nevermind, I just saw you all talking about it the previous page......

August.

1 hour ago, Fresh Out The Slammer said:

August.

Should've been the Folklore lead single   

8 hours ago, Holiest Dreams said:

It kills me how Twitter users think everyone on ATRL is an insider, meanwhile we have at best 2 of them on the forum who are reliable and they rarely get Taylor info ahead of time

Spoiler

Sis what's your thoughts on PERIOD?

 

3 hours ago, Fresh Out The Slammer said:

August.

Is when she's announcing the September relase

 

She really gave us one of her top 5 videos ever and then left the rest of the album to rot... trust she will be dealt with

 

The way the first 3 TTPD tracks all have the most gorgeous outros, a track run most pleasing to me

 

10 minutes ago, Kyle-x said:

She really gave us one of her top 5 videos ever and then left the rest of the album to rot... trust she will be dealt with

I really think it was supposed to be an all-encompassing TTPD video/single, hence the easter eggs and it being used for all the Spotify clips. If TTPD had a real era, the video concept  might've been different 

Just now, Kurt Hummel said:

I really think it was supposed to be an all-encompassing TTPD video/single, hence the easter eggs and it being used for all the Spotify clips. If TTPD had a real era, the video concept  might've been different 

Maybe she tried to do that but my hunger was not satiated, the crowd was chanting MORE! I fear

 

 

16 hours ago, Popboi. said:

Besides what everyone has already mentioned, Sparks Fly would've definitely gone #1 if it had Mine's spot.

I have a pet theory that Taylor sometines thinks Sparks Fly was the lead single for Speak Now... it was the first song on the SN tour, it had a spot on Red tour setlist, it was the song she played after announcing SNTV, etc. 

 

Meanwhile she's fumbled the lyrics to Mine so many times 

8 minutes ago, Peak Now said:

I have a pet theory that Taylor sometines thinks Sparks Fly was the lead single for Speak Now... it was the first song on the SN tour, it had a spot on Red tour setlist, it was the song she played after announcing SNTV, etc. 

 

Meanwhile she's fumbled the lyrics to Mine so many times 

She sees people stanning Miranda Cosgrove's seminal debut album & thinks they're talking about her song 

19 minutes ago, Peak Now said:

I have a pet theory that Taylor sometines thinks Sparks Fly was the lead single for Speak Now... it was the first song on the SN tour, it had a spot on Red tour setlist, it was the song she played after announcing SNTV, etc. 

 

Meanwhile she's fumbled the lyrics to Mine so many times 

Maybe but she totally botched sparks fly tv and nailed mine tv

On 7/5/2025 at 5:45 PM, Mariano said:

Hey swifties, what is considered Taylor's biggest missed opportunity for a hit/single? I guess it was Cruel Summer, but not anymore right? 

Anyway I just wanna post my submission: 

 

 

 

This would've been a huge classic by now if it was a single with a nice MV  

 

definitely exile, followed by snow on the beach, they were both doing so well in europe and had they been announced as singles, other countries would have started to follow

6 hours ago, TayDuaStan said:

Should've been the Folklore lead single   

Should've been the 2nd single yes. Cardigan did her job 

 

Every day closer to the TS12 announcement in August 

 

The single changes I would have made from their most recent albums:

 

Lover
1. Paper Rings (set the tone for the album, moving away from the rep sound and presenting the theme)

The rest remains the same.

 

Folklore
1. Cardigan
2. August (would have been a nice push for the album in August and would have had two hits on the charts simultaneously).

 

Evermore
1. Willow
2. Tis' the Damn Season (same as with August, would have been a good push for the album during the holidays).

 

Midnights
1. Anti-Hero (released during the VMAs).
2. Lavender Haze (released with the album).
3. Karma
4. You're On Your Kid (closes the era and serves as a tribute to the first year of the Eras Tour)

 

TTPD
1. Fresh Out The Slammer (controversial after Joe's breakup, but would have been a good introduction to the topics of the album, leaving a difficult relationship to enter one that would leave her more hurt, premiered at the Grammys)
2. Fortnight (continues the theme of that short-lived relationship she entered, with the album release)
3. Down Bad (closes the arc, because it's already over, a nice black and white video with an abduction theme and premiered at the VMAs)
4. I Can Do It (in December and closes the Eras Tour with the announcement of the documentary closing the tour)

I really long for a Antonoff-less (or at least Antonoff-lite) TS12. I just can't be doing with any more lazy, lethargic synth production. We need real instruments, full bands, catchy earworm ostinatos, riffs, and melodies in the instrumentals as well as the actual vocal. I just would love if she could try to have her instrumentals as timeless and powerful as her storytelling and not have an album where the sound of so many songs just blur and blot into one big, muted, grey, lifeless synth puddle that goes nowhere she hasn't been countless times before. 

We don't talk enough about her. 

 

 

23 minutes ago, Dear Reader said:

We don't talk enough about her. 

 

 

But daddy we love HER 

 

She was really in her storytelling right here, and I love an extended metaphor something fierce

 

The way this event was a watershed moment. Lives were changed. 

Edited July 7, 20251 yr by poppurple