Taylor Swift wore this outfit during the 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction ceremony, where she inducted Carole King. Swift opened the show with a rendition of King’s hit “Will You Love Me Tomorrow.” “Over the years, I have known some great songwriters and I have also known some great singers and performers,” King said. “It’s rare to see all those talents in one person. Taylor Swift — she is one of the only modern pop artists whose name appears as the sole songwriter in her song credits. Her lyrics resonate across all generations, her songs touch everyone and her impact around the world is extraordinary.”
Opened in 1961 as a folk club, the “Troub” is one of the most enduring nightclubs in the world. It became an integral part of the L.A. scene as host to artists like Joni Mitchell and James Taylor. Taylor Swift is named after James Taylor, one of her parents’ favorite artists, and she has cited Mitchell as an inspiration; Mitchell’s Blue album inspired Swift’s Red album. Mitchell was inducted into the Rock Hall in 1997; Taylor was inducted in 2000.
Taylor Swift cited Madonna as an influence on Swift’s album 1989. Madonna wore this top during performances of “Express Yourself” and “Deeper and Deeper” on her 1993 Girlie Show World Tour. Madonna was inducted into the Rock Hall in 2008.
Haim wore these Louis Vuitton tops on their One More Haim Tour in 2022, most notably at The O2 Arena in London, where the band was joined on stage by Taylor Swift. The sisters are good friends with Swift; the women have collaborated on “no body, no crime” on Swift’s evermore LP and “Gasoline” from Haim’s Women in Music Pt. III LP.
In 2020, Taylor Swift and Paul McCartney interviewed each other for a Rolling Stone Magazine cover story. McCartney’s song “Who Cares” from his Egypt Station LP was inspired by Swift’s relationship with her young fans. John Lennon and McCartney composed some of their most iconic songs on this piano, including “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” “And I Love Her,” and “We Can Work It Out.” Paul McCartney was inducted into the Rock Hall with the Beatles in 1988, and as a solo artist in 1999.
Taylor Swift references Janet Jackson in the lyrics to “Snow on the Beach” on her Midnights LP. A rider is a set of requests or demands that a performer sets as criteria for performance, usually included in a performance contract. This is part of Janet Jackson’s rider stipulating the set-up of her dressing room for the Velvet Rope World Tour. Jackson was was inducted into the Rock Hall in 2019.
Created during the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Taylor Swift described folklore as “a collection of songs and stories that flowed like a stream of consciousness. Picking up a pen was my way of escaping into fantasy, history and memory. I’ve told these stories to the best of my ability with all the love, wonder and whimsy they deserve.” Swift used this piano as a prop in the music videos for “cardigan” and “willow.”
Taylor Swift wore this costume in the music video for “willow,” the first single from her ninth album evermore. The “willow” video continued the storyline from the “cardigan” video.
This face covering was worn by a backup dancer in the music video for “willow” by Taylor Swift. “There was a point that I got to as a writer who only wrote very diaristic songs that I felt it was unsustainable for my future moving forward,” Swift recalled. “It felt like too hot of a microscope … On my bad days I would feel like I was loading a cannon of clickbait when that’s not what I want for my life. [On folklore I was able to] create characters in this mythological American town or wherever I imagine them. …So what I felt after we put out folklore was, like, ‘Oh wow, people are into this too, this thing that feels really good for my life and feels really good for my creativity.” Thus, Swift kept working with her folklore collaborator Aaron Dessner, which resulted in evermore.
Taylor Swift used this throne as a prop in the “Look What You Made Me Do” video; the song was the lead single from her sixth album reputation. The satirical clip referenced – and poked fun at — the media’s scrutiny of Swift’s personal life.
Swift wore this outfit in the music video for “Look What You Made Me Do.” “I think I would have made reputation whether or not I actually put out the album or ever made another album again. That album was a real process of catharsis…because it was creating this strange defense mechanism. And I’d never really done that in that exact way before. The only way I’d done it in the past, was with ‘Blank Space,’ which I wrote specifically about criticisms I had received for supposedly dating too many people in my twenties. I took that template of, ‘OK, this is what you’re all saying about me. Let me just write from this character for a second.’”
