Is Speak Now Taylor's Most Underrated Record? 

I JUST REALIZED THIS IS MY 13TH VIDEO ABOUT HER. LIKE...

Speak Now is what made me a huge Taylor Swift fan. Before 2010, I only knew her for her 2 hit singles (Love Story and You Belong with Me) and that VMA 2009 Kanye thing. 2010, I finally gave Taylor a chance and bought her Speak Now Target album right when it launched. To this day, Speak Now is my all time favorite album from her and my Enchanted is my second favorite Taylor Swift song (All Too Well is still my favorite)

Even tho Speak Now was a major hit.. Its success globally was quite limited(album+singles)... But it set stage for her being recognised as one of finest songwriters of our generation

To me it is without a doubt her best album to date still. It's hard for me to listen to Never Grow Up and Last Kiss without crying.

Speak Now is the album that introduced Taylor to my life! Being born and raised in South Korea, I didn’t speak English at all when I first heard this record. I wanted to understand what she was singing about, and as soon as I understood the lyrics, I sympathized with her songs because I was going through my first love and first kiss at that age (when I was 12). Now I became her dedicated fan who can guess all of her songs with 1 second clip. I also speak English very fluently, had dramatic love affairs, and doesn’t hesitate to speak up when I need to, just like Taylor said to “speak now” in her speak now album prologue 😆

I love the rock pop elements in Speak Now. In all of Taylor's discography, I love the songs that have the same elements.

i need the re-recording to do this era justice… such a good sound with such amazing songwriting but commercially it deserved so much better. hopefully songs like enchanted, dear john, long live, the story of us, haunted, literally everything, can go #1.

I think the re-recording will help a lot of people to realise what an amazing album Speak now is.

I love Speak Now. It’s her best country album and one of her best albums in her entire career. Last Kiss should’ve been a single with a video, it’s such a beautiful song and it’s still one of my faves!

Think Speak Now is my favourite TS albums, up there with Rep and Red! I would love to see Taylor bring back some more organic instrumentals and rock influence in a future album, but as a the much more mature and wise artists that she is now. Her vocals go so well with electric guitars and she always has fun with these songs on stage.

Speak Now got some of her best bridges and her most memorable songs. It's underrated.

also notice how its been 13 yesrs since speak now, and now we are getting speak now tv. taylor has come so far.

There’s not many speak now stans but damn are they passionate about it

Yes, the whole album is gorgeous

Speak now was the era where i officially became a Swiftie and let me tell you: it was a freaking magical time. Becoming a fan at the very end of the Fearless era( where I got to see her live on the last date on the Fearless Tour), I really didn’t know what to expect from her third album but little did I know, Speak Now would be my favorite album and era to date. So many memories of this era for me: getting the flu during release week(I was in 4th grade at the time) and my mom surprising me with the entire album downloaded on my green IPod. Wanting to scream “Mean” at all of my bullies. Seeing her live at Gillette for the second time, where it would also be the infamous rain show( and I regret nothing). Getting the live CD/DVD for Christmas. Watching the “Story of Us” MV have its world premiere on MTV. The Thanksgiving special she did for NBC( that I still watch every thanksgiving). It was just a magical era and I have cried to “Never Grow Up” more in recent years. This album also made me love the color purple. I’m very excited for the Taylor Version of this because she can go back to this era and really go all in with the maturity she gained from both folklore and evermore, and make this album even more personal than it was in 2010, especially when it comes to songs like “Dear John”, “Last Kiss” and “Innocent”.

Long Live is the #1 song that makes me want to see Taylor live. I get goosebumps listening to it and can't imagine how great the feeling of singing it WITH Taylor and thousands of other Swifties would be. Some songs have great lines for a live show, I can't wait to hear how loud "he looks up grinning the like devil" is going to be on Eras. My little Swiftie heart needs to sing "I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you" with Taylor :)

Speak Now is my top 3 hands down. Love the mix on genres, the fact that she wrote this by herself, and like you said it is one of her most personal abums

When Speak Now (Taylor's Version) hits the scene, let's break all the possible records in Spotify & Physical sales. Enchanted, Speak Now, Dear John deserves to be a single and to rank higher in BBH100. I also hope that the Grammys will finally recognize the masterpiece this album had been.

Fearless was my first Taylor Swift album but Speak Now really made me fall in love with her. It is absolutely one of my favorite records, like, in general. The storytelling, the lyricism, it's so personal and so easy to connect with. I think it's interesting you compare SN to Rep, I think they're definitely similar in that they feel so honest and genuine...but I think Rep is a little more personal and SN does a better job in the storytelling department (its titular track, The Story of Us, Enchanted, Mine, Long Live). In that sense I think I see it more as a cousin of folklore/evermore. And I'm so excited for the rerecord, mostly for those vault tracks! I'm with you on Better Than Revenge, too. Does TS construct a messy narrative? Yeah, but that what makes it fun. I love how petty it is, and think it's an absolute banger. Always love your videos!!

My fav songs: 1)Enchanted 2)Back to december 3)Last kiss 4)If this was a movie 5)Innocent 6)Dear john

I became a Taylor swift fan with folklore and evermore being my first albums I've fully listened to the songs of. And then midnights, I've been slowly making time to listen to the rest of her catalogue, and it's been all the more depressing that I listened to the terrible things the media has said about her when I was a young girl myself. I have yet to find a Taylor Swift song that I don't enjoy.

I remember when I first started getting into listening to Taylor Swift I saw Speak Now on her discography and I was so confused because I had never heard the album before but then when I listened to it I immediatly fell in love with the album, i'd have a song as my favorite and then I would find another song and then that became my favorite and so on. Speak Now is definitely an amazing album with diverse and unique tracks and one of the most underrated albums ever for its popularity. Also good video! Ive been watching a couple of these TS videos lately and there really good especially the Reputation video, Reputation is probably my faovrite albums of Taylor Swift rn.

This album - I'm surprised I still remember the lyrics to all the songs. Will forever be my favorite. And it includes LONG LIVE, my all time no. 1 tswift song.

Speak Now is my favorite album from her and her magnum opus IMO. Also I do NOT appreciate this innocent slander 😤

Speak Now is my 2nd favorite album and I am SO glad it is finally going to get it’s time in the sun soon!!

Still to this day, I believe that "Speak Now" is her best album. it's solely written by her doing which allowed her to take control of the narrative and the maturity in the lyrics made it better.

9:08 Omg, I'd never imagined someone will agree on what was I thinking a long time ago that Reputation and Speak Now are both sister albums. 😱 Red and Lover are kinda sister album. 1989 and Midnights are somewhat related because of the success of both albums.

Omg thanks so much for this her albums are the best I’m seeing her live

I absolutely love Speak Now! In high school I had this album and Fearless and listened to them both at least 2-3 times in their entirety every week! Until Midnights it was absolutely my top Taylor Swift album ever but I honestly think Midnights has taken it's spot at the top. I'll always love and cherish this album though, partly because it's so nostalgic but also because it's just a phenomenal album and I still can't get over her writing every song by herself at such a young age!!!

I love taylor swift, I'm a newer fan I wasn't an avid taylor swift listener when speak now came out. But even listening to it years later it's my favorite album by her. Speak now is awesome 💜

Watching this after the speak now re-record announcement Great video! Binge watching rn all ur Taylor vids

I'm so exited for Speak Now TV!!!!

Great episode! 👏👏👏 looking forward to this TV release. Reputation is what put her on my radar.

I only ever listened to a few songs from this album as a kid, but I just listened to the album fully for the first time and it is INCREDIBLE. Definitely one of my top favorite albums from her.

Such a great video, thanks!! Love Speak Now, although for me personally it is overshadowed by the absolute mammoths of Fearless and Red. Can’t wait for the Taylor’s Version to fall in love with it all over again though!

Speak Now is my favorite albm of hers, I don't think it's her best by any means, but it feels the most personal album. It also captures Taylor at a time before she exploded farther into fame. I find that starting around RED her songs became less relatable to the average person (which isnt bad) and more about being Taylor SwiftTM. It just feels like a warm hug of an album and I dont know if she'll ever make another record that sounds anything like it again, especially because she co-writes a lot of her music nowadays.

9:07 Their connection got closer when in the Eras tour the Reputation snake turned white and crawled through which revealed Speak Now omgggg and also how the Speak Now TV cover resembles one of her Reputation era photoshoots

I’ve been waiting for this video , I don’t listen to SN so much I think this is my top 5 favorite album by taylor Swift And I agree with you this album is Underrated 😭😭! Same as the debut album

SPEAK NOW STAN HERE. Thanks for the video!

you changing the thumbnail... tonight was truly a moment. July 7th!!

I love Speak now. Tour for this album is my favourite TS tour. It's just so magical. My favourites are Mine, Dear John, Last kiss, Long live and Sparks fly.

I originally began getting more into taylor after I found rep, but I was trying to find taylor swift rock and the closest I found were haunted, the story of us, better than revenge, in an album I'd never heard of, and now I'm a shameless speak now stan through and through

Speak Now was where I started to really like Taylor Swift and became a closet Swiftie. It had some of my favorite songs with Enchanted, Back To December, Last Kiss. I think it’s a great transition between Fearless and Red with her starting to get more Pop influences. I love that she solo wrote her 3rd album at her age and really shows her amazing writing talent. I’m so happy it’s the next one to get re-recorded and definitely one of her best, it’s not my favorite but like I said there’s a lot of great songs on there

Loved you inputs an just for the record, her debut was in 2006 with the self titled album

the only time I've seen Taylor live was the Speak Now Tour when I was 14 and it was awesome XD it's been a while but I have a soft spot for this record for sure

I got the notification for this video and screamed yes

I'm excited about Taylor's Version Vault tracks for Speak Now. I think it'll be a fun time.

Okay SPEAK NOW is iconic but I still can't fall asleep at night peacefully knowing she might re record Let's Go for the TV. I'm excited to hear the vault tracks

I started liking taylor when she release her Speak Now album I like all song ij the album especially The Story of Us

This has been my favorite Taylor swift album since I was like 10, looking back it’s not surprising I gravitated to the more “edgy” songs like better than revenge and story of us, also on top of the haunted has been my all time favorite ts song sind i heard it 😭 I love the atmosphere with the strings and then the lyrics are so perfect it’s definitely one of her most underrated songs if u ask me

here after the SNTV announcement! im sobbing hard rnnn

My husband started listening to and liking her music around the lover era, then went back to reputation, but he's waiting to get to know the older albums after the rerecordings. I can't wait for him to get to this one, it's probably one of my favorites.

saying you enjoy listening to superman when you go grocery shopping was soo specific yet so on the nail! like that is exactly what that song is

I love the new thumbnail

I discovered and fall in love with Taylor swift song writing because of Speak Now. Mean is definitely my life's soundtrack

Ok I got to be honest, I had kinda always skipped Speak Now but when I finally listened to it OH MY GOODNESS!! My favorite album had been Red and my favorite albums are the first four albums with the country and guitar/fiddle era!! Speak Now is now my favorite album

watching this *exactly* a year after this was uploaded 💜

Speak now has became my personal favorite lately :)

yes.

I love Speak Now Album, almost all of the songs are my favorite

2:00 "middle school, yes i'm old" Me: *watched the 2009 VMAs live in my college dorm, freshman year* "DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY MELBA TOAST?"

OK, so what do we think about Speak Now? Are we excited for the Taylor's Version?

HAVENT WATCHED A MINUTE OF THE VIDEO BUT YES. ALL THE WAY YES.

Speak Now is such a cool album. It's not my favorite but there is so many deep cuts with amazing lyrics

Enchanted is my favorite early Taylor song, kinda wished she'd named the album that.

I used to like Superman, but I was realized that it might be about J*hn M*ay*er. When I was doing the album pamphlet secret messages, Dear John's message was "I LOVED YOU FROM THE VERY FIRST DAY". That is a line from Superman. If you listen back to the song, you can honestly hear how it would be about him.

YESS

Speak now is still her best album up to this date😎💅 (objectively)

short answer: YES

check on me when speak now (Taylor's Version) comes out because I will not be okay.

You can’t forget Folklore and Evermore (especially Evermore) not saying that Speak Now isnt not popular, but this is a video covering it.

CRIMINALLY underrated!

Where did you get the thumbnail photo if she used that pic to announce Speak now TV, where did it come from originally?

Omg u changed the thumbnail

wait, was the video updated, because this video was released 5 months ago, but the thumbnail is the exact photo for Speak Now Taylor's Version!!!!!!!!!!!!! (thirteen exclamation marks just so you know XD)

HOW DID YOU CHANGE THE THUMBNAIL SO FAST

Imo, Evermore is the most underrated.

I don't need to watch the video to answer the title question - yes, it is underrated, but of course I'm going to watch to find out what you think!

Haunted, innocent, enchanted, dear John, better than revenge, last kiss, and the story of us are my favorites on the album, in that order. It’s probably my favorite of her’s.

im not gonna watch your video, it just showed up at my main page. but the answer is YES!

The fact that superman, ours, dear john and would've could've should've are about the same guy really says a lot about john mayer.

Her old label had that faith in her cuz she had a publishing deal when she was 14 tbf. This is why she left the development deal she had before it, because they thought she was too young to sing her own songs. This isn't even mentioning the entirely self-written songs on debut & fearless. They trusted her but she also had to fight for her decisions

Wait why is the thumbnail the new cover for speak now tv which was announced like yesterday

while i don’t know if it’s her best album, it definitely is up there. by far it’s the most unique in her discography. i think my ranking would be something like this 1:folklore 2:fearless 3:reputation 4:evermore 5: speak now 6: 1989 7: red 8: midnights 9: lover 10: debut

“…a few people at my middle school (yes I’m old)” 😭 Not me here watching this having been TWENTY FOUR when Kan*e interrupted Blondie at the VMAs 😳

did you go back and change this thumbnail? lol

her best album

I have a confession...i have more skips in fearless than in speak now.... i understand fearless has legendary songs like love story and ybwm and they're a must for re-recording. Its like, i feel like fearless has 1 or 2 S-tier songs surrounded by a bunch of C-tier songs. Meanwhile Speak now has overall A tier songs with only 1 or 2 C-tier songs... yea idk i def feel like this album should get a taylors version

Speak now is one of the best albums from her discography. My ranking goes:- 1) Folklore. You cannot possibly top this album easily. It's only one of the best albums both lyrically and production wise. 2) Red(Taylor's version). There's a reason that this is her most critically acclaimed album. 1989 is good but songs from Red are her real pop magnum opus. Red TV is so vivid, so wild and yet so vulnerable. The vault tracks DO NOT DISAPPOINT. 3) Speak Now. I don't have to say anything about this. Even as someone who doesn't like country songs, I ATE THIS UP. It contains some of her most vulnerable and best tracks of all time.

Hi, a massive stan of speak now speaking... I just don't understand how this album can be overlooked, how an album that has songs like back to December, the story of us, enchanted, mine, sparks fly, speak now, better than revenge (we can overlook the misogyny of that song, it was a different time in history) can be considered less than one her greatest album.

You are so right about Mean. She honestly writes better LGBT songs when she doesn't have the intention of writing one which is kinda funny. Tolerate It is also one that can be interpreted from an LGBT lens which makes it pretty heartbreaking. Feels like a son trying to reach out to his dad that won't fully accept him.

that is her best album. period.

yes it is. speak now is so good and not talked about as much as her others

Do you edited your thumbnail???

What's your favorite track?! Mine's personally still Enchanted!

I haven't watched the video yet but the answer is yes & it's my personal fav album out of everything she has released 💅💅

The date had me SO confused

Anyone else here after Taylor just announced the re-record of speak now?😅

The timing of the VMA incident is WILD because Kanye did all that just for Beyonce to win Video of the Year, the coveted award of that night where she was up against both male (where Kanye was nominated too) and female artists, that was even more of a success to Beyonce. Like based on pop culture that time, it was pretty obvious that if Beyonce didn't win Best Female Video then that means she pretty much has Video of the Year locked if you compare Single Ladies to the other competition.

What i also love about Speak Now is that it was beginning of her vocal journey. I really love that Taylor wasn't just petty and wrote Mean as response for criticism but she actually took that criticism and improved her vocals. On Speak Now she started attempting more difficult and complex vocals. When you compare her vocals during Speak Now era and especially Speak Now Tour there is a big difference to her performances before this era. Her vocal skills progressed in every era but Speak Now was the beginning of this journey and we should be forever grateful for that.