You don’t need me to tell you that Taylor Swift has been one of the most prolific and successful artists of all time.
Her music is legendary for its ability to skip genres, somehow retaining its relevancy across a now decades-long blockbuster career.
Of course, when you publish 18(!) albums, you’re going to cover a lot of material – and it turns out that Taylor Swift has mentioned a few food and drink items across that career.
Let’s dig right in, starting with one that will surprise zero true swifties…
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Album: Red
Song: “All Too Well (10 Minute Version)” (aka, the best version)
Lyric: “Sipping coffee like you were on a late-night show.”
My notes: Coffee gets mentioned in a lot of Taylor Swift songs – usually as a casual breakfast treat (which, you know, it is). It makes appearances in Red, 1989, Speak Now, and even The Tortured Poets Department – where a French Press earns a mention!
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Album: Reputation
Song: “Dress”
Lyric: “I’m spilling wine in the bathtub / you kiss my face and we’re both drunk.”
My notes: Ok, that was one of the deeper cuts. “August slipped away like a bottle of wine” from “August” in Folklore is probably the better-known wine lyric. In “Maroon” Taylor goes so far as to identify a wine as a burgundy – I think we can all agree these are probably mostly red wine songs, yeah?
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Album: Evermore
Song: “Champagne Problems”
Lyric: “Your heat was glass, I dropped it / champagne problems.”
My notes: I mean, it was in the name of the song, so obviously you knew champagne was going to make at least one appearance! Not surprisingly, given how sad a lot of Taylor Swift’s music is, champagne doesn’t pop up often – the only other time (at least that comes to mind for me) is in “Paris” where she says “cheap wine, make believe it’s champagne” – which is a champagne reference, but only just. Taylor Swift’s albums don’t celebrate a whole lot! (At least, not the recent ones.)
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Album: Folklore
Song: “Seven”
Lyric: “Sweet tea in the summer, cross my heart, won’t tell no other.”
My notes: Sweet tea is just about the most southern trope (aside, maybe, from beer and whiskey), but it only makes one appearance in Taylor Swift’s discography – on Folklore, which isn’t exactly a heavily southern-inspired album. (At least compared to her earlier stuff.)
Now, she does mention tea a few other times – “and then it fades into the gray of my day-old tea” pops up in “Gold Rush” on Evermore, and it’s mentioned obliquely in “Anti-Hero” on the Midnights album (“It’s me, hi, I’m the problem, it’s me / at tea time, everybody agrees”). But it’s definitely not the same! And highlights how much she has transcended her original country pop roots.
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Album: The Tortured Poets Department
Song: “The Tortured Poets Department”
Lyric: “You smoked, then ate seven bars of chocolate”
My notes: Chocolate pairs well with coffee, tea, and wine – but only appears one time in all of Taylor Swift’s discography! I don’t really have a whole lot here to say except that, for being such an amazing food, it deserves a few more mentions.
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Album: Evermore
Song: “Coney Island”
Lyric: “Were you standing in the hallway with a big cake, happy birthday”
My notes: We don’t get to know anything about the cake. Which is appropriate, since Taylor’s albums are so generally sad that even a mention of a past celebration feels a little out of place to me.
Personally, I’m rooting for a coconut cake, but that’s just me.
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Album: The Tortured Poets Department
Song: “The Manuscript”
Lyric: “Afterwards she only ate kids’ cereal / And couldn’t sleep unless it was in her mother’s bed.”
My notes: Somehow Taylor Swift managed to make children’s cereal a bummer. Truly, that is impressive. It’s interesting that cereal doesn’t make any other appearances throughout all her albums, even while coffee frequently does. So go the muses, I guess.
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So there you have it – Taylor Swift’s food and drink mentions throughout the years.
Ok, I’ve gotta know – what’s YOUR favorite Taylor Swift food lyric? And did I miss any foods?
Let us know in the comments!
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