Ranking Taylor Swifts Album CLOSERS... and offending each other 🤭 

Track 5’s ranking is much needed. But Taylor also has lots of superior track 2’s and I would love a ranking of those!!

What? Do you think I'll be watching two strangers discuss about Taylor Swift album closers for an hour? CAUSE I WILL

Fun fact: Taylor put “Our Song” as the album closer bc of the end of the chorus - “Play it again!” To tell listeners to play the album again ❤😊

1 year ago I couldn’t name all of Taylor’s albums. Now I’m enthralled listening to a top ten list of songs to close albums.

you simply must rank tracks 2s, i feel like these are some of her most superior songs. maroon? cardigan? champagne problems?? red??? cruel summer??? how does one choose

Dear Reader is SO superior and underrated. I’m glad you two are giving it the praise it deserves!

my honor’s thesis: clean is my favorite song that is an album closer but long live is THE closer to end all albums of Taylor Swift and New Years Day was the only way to end an album that everyone perceived to be about revenge but was actually about LOVE and not caring about your reputation because you’ve found someone that STAYS to clean up the bottles of champagne BUT DAYLIGHT perfectly sums up that love as GOLDEN drawing comparison to a love in her past most crushing heartbreak that was BURNING RED BUT EVERMORE is the most beautiful hopeful song that wraps up forgiveness of an entire era of hurt and WHY the fans are the reason Taylor stays and gets through all of the turmoil (most underrated song of all time dare I say). all that to be said, I believe red is Taylor’s strongest concept album even if it is not sonically cohesive, and the PERFECT way to end a heartbreak album is watching love BEGIN AGAIN. genius superior offensive it’s never been done before the same. OK NOW CANT WAIT TO WATCH AND HAVE MY MIND CHANGE BESTIES

havent watched the video yet but if CLEAN IS NOT AT #1 for both of you, i’ll be offended!!!!! EDIT: I AM OFFENDED!

When emily said she thought she would get ripped alive for her number 8 I got so scared she was gonna say long live I woulda been SOOOO mad

Besties, closing this magical year literally ranking the best CLOSERS was just an iconic thing to do. You truly never disappoint 💅🏼

I need to defend 'Mastermind.' I'm not a huge fan of 'Midnights,' but 'Mastermind' convinced me when I consider this album as a breakup album. Since 'Reputation,' Taylor has been like, 'Yes, it's fate. We're meant to be together, like an invisible string.' So, how can you break up with someone who is your soulmate? You can't. She had to conclude that none of it was accidental. Even when it's a love song, I think it's necessary to think that through. Having it as an album closer perfectly showcases what 'Midnights' is about: going through a breakup that hasn't happened yet, but deep down, you know it will.

Okay but I cried when she said change was her least favorite song on fearless 😭

Thank you Emily for expressing the passion for Begin Again and the perfection that is Red’s opener and closer so perfectly. I feel so strongly about it as well.

I CANT WAIT FOR TRACK 5 VIDEO , happy new year to our amazing two favorite swifties of all time ❤❤❤

I think New Romantics is the absolutely superior closer, it's just the quintessential 1989 song, its like the entire vibe of 1989 as one song

My ranking: This was actually so hard, idk how you guys did this 10:Our Song, 9:Change, 8:Hoax, 7:Mastermind 6:Daylight, 5:New Years Day, 4: Long Live, 3: Begin Again, 2:Clean, 1:Evermore

i'm just fathoming how big of an album closer 'begin again' actually is. it's like the pure definition of "may your heart remain breakable, but never by the same hand twice", it's like she tells us this story about how heartbreakingly cruel it was to love someone and then getting hurt by that same person, only to realize that in the end of the day love will begin again. it's like the end of this very hurtful reflection upon the end of the relationship.

Hiii besties! Happy holidays and a happy new year to both of you. Already know the vibes are going to be immaculate in this video as well!!!! Thank you for a late Christmas present, we've been so well fed this year on this channel. What a year as swifties and a fan of chats and reacts. Thank you so much for bringing so much joy into my days with your videos. I love you both so much. I hope 2024 is even big for you both. ❤

omg I think Our Song is SUCH a strong closer, summarizes her whole THING (the storytelling songwriting) even to date. And she herself said she wanted to have it last because she sings “play it again” so it encourages a repeat. Conceptually it’s one of her best finale songs - the feelings the song gives is like a precursor to the way Begin Again fits Red’s closing. Ah. I could go on and on (and i will) haha 💞

New Year’s Day is Bonny’s #1 and Clean is Emily’s #1 I’m so certain and have not started the video yet

my day instantly gets better when these two post!!💖💖💖

Wait cause with New Years Day being who she actually is compared to Ready For It, it leads perfectly into the emotions of Lover and how vulnerable she really is but also how lighter the album sounds and feels 🤯

I swear, everytime Emily said the fandom was gonna hate her ranking, it ended up being incredibly accurate 😭

evermore as an album closer is absolutely a perfect song, and somehow it's time to go as a bonus track managed to top perfection. both songs manage to put a nice little end to the folkmore era, and just. they just firmly cement evermore as my favourite ts album, because for me no other song has been able to round off an album as those two. like, clean is firmly on no. 2 for me, but it's time to go is no. 1 and evermore no. 3 because i just Need to include both in my ranking

Superior queens ❤❤❤

Emily's hair is giving Monica from friends

Begin Again makes me sob as an album closer. Listening to brutal heartbreak she takes us through throughout all of red and then getting to begin again makes me so emotional because she references the relationship and thus so many other red songs in begin again while then also finishing this heartbreak album by moving on in the most sweet way.

I am so glad you talked about 'the lakes' and 'timeless' at the end there, those are like literally my favorite T.S. songs and I love how PERFECTLY they wrap up their albums! ❤

yes to Begin Again!!!!! the Red concept and ending it with it is so perfect. Literally the way Emily says "what do you mean ending an album about heartbreak with BEGIN AGAIN" is so me!!! however long live so low is surprising! but shows how iconic her closers are❤

Em, I am the other person in the world who is SO STOKED FOR DEBUT TV. I am a debut stan through and through ---- those collection of songs are so superior and how dare she write those songs so early in her career....I MEAN .....COLD AS YOU AND MARYS SONG???!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME??????? no one is prepared for cold as you with Tay's updated vocals !!!!!

I remember my first listen of the entire album Evermore and partway through the final song Evermore I couldn't fathom how such a wonderful song could be stuck at the end of the album. But then when I heard "this pain wouldn't be for evermore" at the end it all made sense and having it as the closer couldn't have been more perfect.

Emily your HAIRRRRRRRRR, so offensively superior omggg it just gets better with every video

In my mind, Our Song has to be the closer of Debut because of the “play it again” refrain! I’m not saying it rivals the top of the list, but as someone who listened to that album on repeat, there was always something so magical with ending there and then skipping back to the first track on my cd player!

My ranking would be 1. Clean 2. hoax 3. evermore 4. Begin Again 5. Daylight 6. Long Live 7. Mastermind 8. New Years Day 9. Change 10. Our Song

So shocked Is It Over Now didn’t get a mention, I think it’s an even better closer to 1989 than Clean

Every time I hear Evermore I get chills. Every single time. It’s my favorite album closer!!!!

Just want to say that becoming a patron of you guys on Patreon has been one of my biggest delights this year. There is such a great community over there with so much amazing bonus content, all for the price of one Starbucks drink a month. So cool that because of patrons you’ve both been able to have this as your full time job. For anyone on the fence, it’s totally worth it and such an awesome way to support our besties. Thank you Bonny & Em!

I think mine is chosen as an album opener because she wrote that whole album all by herself and wanted to make it clear that the album was HERS. So it is like welcome to album that is completely mine. and i know this is not the opener video but i think i just understood and wanted to share

You really made me think a bit more on mastermind and I feel like we might be doing it a disservice when we speak of midnights as (solely) an album about the breakdown of a relationship. Yes, it is just that, but we can't look at a breakdown/breakup without looking at ourselves (I feel like you've had this conversation in another video already). So by looking at it as just that, we forget the other equally important part of it, which is Taylor: what does she want, where did she come from, where is she going. She is turning herself inside out trying to navigate where she's going to go in this crossroad she's at. When she's looking at previous relationships she is indirectly looking at herself, trying to find the answers needed for her. It's actually still about her. And in mastermind she is/might be looking at, first Joe, then the fans, and lastly herself. So maybe she ends by trusting herself, because she's a mastermind. Not sure this would actually change my placement, because the other endings are just too good, but I feel like I've reached a new level of understanding.

Girls we need the reaction of snow angel album by Renee Rapp, like Fr

Omg another idea! I would love for each of you to create your personal ultimate album of tracks selecting only one Track 1, Track 2, Track 3... based on all of taylor's discography if you could only listen to one those tracks for the rest of your life. Like if you could only listen to one Track 1 for the rest of your life, what would your Track 1 be? and so on for the rest of the track numbers....

Top 10 of closing songs for their closing capacity : 10 - Mastermind 9 - Our Song 8 - Hoax 7 - Clean 6 - Daylight 5 - New Year's Day 4 - Evermore 3 - Begin Again 2 - Change 1 - Long Live Top 10 of closing songs for songs themselves : 10 - Mastermind 9 - Hoax 8 - New Year's Day 7 - Clean 6 - Our Song 5 - Daylight 4 - Evermore 3 - Long Live 2 - Change 1 - Begin Again

I love how Emily is giving Fearless with her dress, and Bonnie is giving debut with her dress.♡

I think Mastermind is about both her career and her relationship, and how she approaches things because of the trauma of feeling like she doesn't belong her whole life. I also think it's a moment of clarity of her own powers of manifestation, it's deeply vulnerable and self reflective, which is an interesting bookend to Lavendar Haze, which to me felt like clinging to something that no longer fit to make her feel whole to the point of avoiding the end of the relationship and wanting to stay in denial in a love bubble. The whole of Midnights is a reflection of why her relationship broke down, her role in it, patterns she repeats, self sabotage, what ifs, etc, Lavender Haze is the denial stage right before you're forced to face yourself, and Mastermind is the recognition that the relationship was magic because she created it and was the spark herself. I also think about how the person she's speaking to in You're Losing Me is not willing to do the same self reflection, is not in a place of growth or being okay with the discomfort of change or working on the relationship and that's what she's begging of him after the bridge. Both Mastermind and You're Losing Me echo sentiments in Bejeweled and Midnight Rain respectively, too-- which feel like Midnights thesis songs along with Anti Hero and You're on Your Own Kid! I looove how much Midnights keeps revealing itself...

Emily! Thank you so much for saying you’re excited for debut tv bc I feel like I’m the only person in this fandom who felt this😭 I desperately need a company lol

we will be waiting for the track 5’s ranking! thank you for your videos this year!❤

YALL MENTALLY INJURED ME WITH DAYLIGHT PLACEMENT!!! Love y’all by the way 💕

what i really like about debut is how it starts with the inspiration - Tim McGraw - other artists, her relationships, nature, her feelings, remembering/memory "when you think Tim Mcgraw i hope you think of me" (one of the main themes taylor writes about - wildest dreams, all too well, the moment i knew, ... ), and it ends with the artpiece - Our Song - the song, the finished product, the composition, the sound, the lyrics "and I wrote down our song" I wrote it, you didn't, im the songwriter. I think is a really nice message when your aim is to say "hi, im a songwriter releasing music"

I would love to see "why we love Rep" and "why we love Debut" videos!!! (If you haven't already) Because while debut is probably her weakest concept album, it's still SO GOOD and i think the fandom could really use the hype for debut for those who dont quite Get It* ❤

Dear Reader and Evermore is the best thing she ever did best album closeners for sure.

another honorable mention that also seems like a cop out is all too well 10, the fact that since the og red era we the fandom have begged her for it to be released and then she puts it at the end of the album just feels so right and so satisfying

You guys should react to the good witch deluxe tracks by maisie

Taylor make a bad closer song challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

I would loveee to hear your ranking of Track 3s and Track 5s!!! My list of Taylor’s album closers: 1. Daylight 2. New Years Day 3. Clean 4. Begin Again 5. Our Song 6. Long Live 7. Change 8. Evermore 9. Hoax 10. Mastermind

1- long live 2- daylight 3- evermore 4- begin again 5- mastermind 6- change 7- change 8- new year's day 9- hoax 10- our song Extras: 1- dear reader 2- it's time to go 3- all too well 10

I absolutely adore both of you and the videos you put out for us! Every time I see a post from "Chats & Reacts," I always know what I'll be watching that night haha. As always, I thank both of you for taking the time to really dive into Taylor's discography and give these songs the time of day they deserve. Her album closers truly are superior, so without further ado, here's my ranking of the closers also based on how well they close the album / era they represent!: 1. Clean 💙 2. Begin Again ❤ 3. Long Live 💜 4. evermore 🧡 5. New Year's Day 🖤 6. Daylight 💖 7. Our Song 💚 8. Mastermind 🌙 9. Change 💛 10. hoax 🤍 Honorable Mentions (from either the vault or a deluxe track): - Timeless 💜 - Is It Over Now? 💙 - Dear Reader 🌙

our song is my favorite song from her ever but I would probably rank her low as an album closer. what if I told you evermore was at the bottom of my rankings from her. 🙈 long live is THEE best album closer, no other comments needed.

I love these kinds of rankings, because it allows me to make my own list before I watch the video and compare it to yours! Would definitely love to see a Track Five Ranking next! ❤❤❤

27:33 Ahhh my mind is blown, how did I never notice that you see the relationship developing and solidifying as you go thru Rep! I'm a Rep girlie, it was my gateway to becoming a swiftie, how did I not think of this before!? You ladies are SUPERIOR, while watching your chats I'm just constantly fathoming or re-fathoming things, wow. This whole video was super fun and tons of food for thought with your opinions on the album closers! Really had me looking at some songs in a new way.

YES to track 2s and track 5s, but please for the love of god give us a track 9 ranking!! You know what, please give us a ranking of all of the numbers bahahahha

I’d love to give a shout-out to the queen that is Bye Bye Baby. So much of Fearless is about being in a fantastical, dramatic, whirlwind romance with kissing in rain, fighting, making up, confessions, etc. Bye Bye Baby is the definitive end of the relationship she’s describing and the daydreams she had at the time (“It wasn’t just like the movies”). Bye Bye Baby is like the reality check that wraps up the album perfectly and I love it with my whole heart💛🫶

here's my ranking ... i am offended at how low daylight was for both of you

always thinking about how the evermore bonus tracks are two sides of the same coin. the one person forever stuck where they have been left and the other person doing the leaving. fucked up honestly

Day One of asking, and a bit unrelated to Taylor but I feel like you both would love Holly Macve. She's like an underground version of Taylor and its so good. Her music is a mix of Lana Del Rey and Taylor with a bit of country vibes. So far she has two albums with OFFENSIVE melodies in both (especially her sophomore album) and an EP coming in February!! I think you guys would love her, especially since you love to decipher lyrics. She's very deep and unfortunately underrated. It would be AMAZING if you checked her out!!!

Really enjoyed this video My top 3 closers are Begin Again, Long Live and Clean The order changes all the time lol Honorable mention- Is It Over Now hands down Happy New Year little chickens ❤

Mine :!!! Begin again Long live Hoax New years day Evermore Clean Master mind Daylight Our song Change

Top 3: Long Live Evermore Begin Again Top 3 Deluxe/Vault Dear Reader Is It Over Now? It's Time To Go

my ranking: 10. hoax 9. evermore 8. Mastermind 7. Change 6. Our Song 5. New Year's Day 4. Clean 3. Daylight 2. Long Live 1. Begin Again

I am so concerned and deeply alarmed that despite their superior fathoming about Taylor Swift coded final tracks they didn’t mention Is it Over Now? ((I believe that SwiftySpeak for “I like the song Is It Over Now?”))

I need you guys to react to Chappel Roan yesterday. Shes opening for olivia rodrigo. Love the videos btw🫶🏼

AGHHHHH I’m so glad you guys did this!! ❤ Hopefully you’ll do a track 5 ranking soon!! Have a great new year!! ❤🎉

track 5 ranking will be WAR

My ranking would be: 1. Long Live 2. Clean 3. Daylight 4. Begin Again 5. Evermore 6. New Years Day 7. Mastermind 8. Hoax 9. Our Song 10. Change

Emily, I love you I do but long live being a number 5 is f-ing illegal😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭!!!!!!! I felt every bit of Bonny in that moment🥲🥲🥲🥲

My ranking would be 1. Begin Again 2. New Years Day 3. Evermore 4. Clean 5. Our song 6. Daylight 7. Long live 8. Mastermind 9. Change 10. Hoax

I also just have to say the ending of Timeless is so superior when you consider that she starts the album with "you are the best thing that's ever been mine" and ends it with "you're always gonna be mine, we're gonna be timeless." Absolutely alarming

PLEASE DO TRACK FIVES NEXT

I think once the re records are finished you should do a video of where you’d slot the vault tracks into the original track listing!!

*1989 has the best closers.* 1. Clean would maybe be at #3 for me 2. New Romantics would definitely be in my honourable mentions 3. And so would Is It Over Now! ❤

My ranking is: (please don’t come for me!) 1. Begin Again 2. Clean 3. Evermore 4. Long live 5. Our Song 6. New Year’s Day 7. Hoax 8. Mastermind 9. Daylight 10. Change

I also think Dear Reader as the closer of the 3a.m. tracks has significance because of the time 3 a.m. Like Midnights ends with Mastermind and has that energy that's lighter and confident, but the 3 a.m. tracks always felt like the things she thought about as it got later in the night, things that need to be said or thought about, but it's harder to do. Like the final admission of what's really going on when you tried so hard to spin it another way like she does throughout the first part of Midnights. All of the 3 a.m. tracks felt a little more like that to me, the things that really haunted her and the things you only think about when it feels like you're completely alone, the only one awake, and you can't think about anything else. So, I think that's also a significant thing to mention because Dear Reader closed out those specific tracks as well as the album where she finally just admitted that she knows she sounds all over the place but that's because she is. That's also why I love the 3 a.m. tracks because it goes through so many different emotions and sounds and I think that symbolizes her confusion. Then Dear Reader comes in sounding so cohesive to the main album lyric-wise and sonically to validate that feeling and explain herself. It's just so superior, I completely agree with you guys. Every time I try and think it through I get overwhelmed

I never knew people said cicadas as “sicahdaz” in America we call them “sicAduz”

the fact that she closes the first round of surprise songs with IT’S TIME TO GO is deeply offensive, são paulo really won

But putting a song called Hoax as the closer on folklore is hilarious because really the album wasn't over… we got evermore. There’s a little irony and sarcasm happening there and I love it. Could Hoax have been an Easter egg hahaha. Part of me really thinks she did that on purpose. And then to close it all with Evermore is simply iconic.

THE TRACK 5 RANKING IS A NEED, IT'S A NEE-EE-EE-EE-D

New year’s day is my No.1. I think it is the recollection value and how much that song means to me and also how it overall wraps the album. If someone asks me to name an album closer I’ll say New year’s day without a second thought. It is like a healing song after all her passion and rage and the best Segway to Lover. If I try to rank album closers it should be. 1. NYD 2. Evermore 3. Begin again 4. Long Live 5. Mastermind 6. Clean 7. Our song 8. Daylight 9. Change 10. Hoax

I love your videos they give me so much to look forward too !! i would really love to watch you guys react to an album called Snow Angel by Reneé Rapp

Top tier and absolutely RUDE album recommendation here: 21 century blues by Raye Very different sound than your usual but her writing is some of the best I've ever seen/heard. She actually had to fight for 7 years to get her label to release it and she talks a lot about issues in the industry and heartbreak

Ranking them was soo hard. It speaks volume about how Taylor is indeed a fucking genius. But here it goes… 1. Daylight 2. Begin Again 3. Clean 4. Long Live 5. New Year’s Day 6. Mastermind 7. Evermore 8. Our Song 9. Hoax 10. Change

is it over now snubbed in honorable mentions😫 new romantics too, but i love the new perspective we've gotten from is it over now especially in relation to clean. like she is clean and she's done but there will always be that voice in the back of her head asking that question (...QUESTION?) idk there's just always that person where its never really over so i love is it over now as a possible closer. even though clean is the obvious, better choice (clean is my 2 with begin as my 1) i think they're so interesting and fun as a pair of closers

you guys should rank lead singles!

First Lines in Songs Ranking because they are superior

My ranking 1. Long live 2. New Year’s Day 3. Clean 4. Change 5. Begin again 6. Daylight 7. Mastermind 8. Evermore 9. Hoax 10. Our song

i feel like for the bonus track closers i would have chosen new romantics maybe its just because its my favorite of 1989 and almost all time favorite but i definitely understand clean as wrapping up the relationship but i feel like new romantics is a better representation of the actual era of 1989? taylor often mentioned how 1989 was supposed to be all about friendships and not love but the album was mostly about love and i think its just a good kind of outlook on the fact that, after clean and moving on from the relationship, she now has the time to spend it with her friends and feeling like the „new romantics“ also, the song makes me feel fucking superior so good on her for writing it

I would loveee to hear your ranking of Track 3s and Track 5s!!! My list of Taylor’s album closers: 1. Daylight 2. New Years Day 3. Clean 4. Begin Again 5. Our Song 6. Long Live 7. Change 8. Evermore 9. Hoax 10. Mastermind

Clean always will be my #1. Love u girls 🤍

no one asked but mine is : 1. evermore 2. begin again 3. long live 4. clean/new romantics 5. new year’s day 6. daylight 7. hoax 8. mastermind 9. change 10. our song

idk if anyone here plays videogames but sometimes there’s good endings and bad endings in that media, and i have a feeling mastermind and dear reader are the good and bad endings of midnights respectively

53:38 and then she put her past versions into glass boxes in eras tour…a ture mastermind

Just adding on to what was said about Its Time To Go. I love how the album before, folklore, ends with The Lakes which is about running away with someone you love so you can heal and process something you’ve been through. And then in the immediate album after, Evermore, we are still in the forrest, still processing the hurt. But for the final song, Taylor is telling us, it’s time to go. It’s time to leave the forrest. We have processed and cried and done all we needed to do. And while the process of healing will never truly end, it is time for us to go into the next phase of our life. To seek out what life will bring us next. And for Taylor specifically, the next phase of her career.