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Country Music's Biggest Swifties Share Their Favorite Taylor Swift Song

"She fueled my passion to pick up a guitar..."

2023 is the year of Taylor Swift. A record-breaking tour, a massively successful concert film of said tour, two smash hit Taylor's Version re-releases (each including a whole new treasure trove of From the Vault tracks to fall in love with), a headline-making romance...perhaps no celebrity was more prevalent in culture this year than the pop icon. Even Time Magazine agrees.

But while we're always enamored by Taylor Swift the celebrity, 2023 further proved that it's Taylor Swift the artist -- and more specifically, the songwriter -- that continuously brings us together. Anyone who attended a screening of "Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour," in which Swifties traded friendship bracelets, dressed up in their best bejeweled 'fits, sang (or screamed) out the lyrics of "All to Well (10 Minute Version)" and danced in the theater aisles to "Cruel Summer," can attest to the power of Swift. It's no coincidence that three of the most anticipated and successful films at the box office this year were the Eras Tour film, "Barbie" and "Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé." Never underestimate the power and joys of girlhood, vulnerability and crying in a movie theater next to your bestie.

For fans of Swift, it all comes back to the lyrics. Yes, we will memorize the lyrics to a 10-minute song and stand at attention when it's played. Yes, in times of strife and uncertainty we'll turn to the book of Evermore and Folklore for guidance. And yes, we'll continue to "make the friendship bracelets [and] take the moment and taste it" just as our wise queen advised.

In celebration of Swift's 34th birthday, we asked some of country music's most fervent Swifties to share their favorite songs and lyrics by the music icon. Long live!

 

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