You don’t have to torment yourself. You may effortlessly travel across Taylor Swift’s numerous eras, leading up to the release of her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department.
The singer is taking the globe by storm with her record-breaking, career-spanning world tour, unexpected album releases everywhere she goes, and her romance with a Super Bowl scorer. It’s time for you to go on your own Easter egg hunt now that you’ve met her at midnight, returned to the vault, and ventured out into the world.
Here on Netflix, you can find a ton of the pop sensation’s most important performances and songs, along with a few exclusives for the Swift fans among us. Additionally, keep in mind that everything Swift-related has changed since then before you declare, “I think I’ve seen this movie before.” So take a seat up front on the couch and go through the list below to relive these significant occasions in her career. Fortunately for you, there is very little possibility that you will have to wait in a never-ending line for tickets.
Miss Americana
Swift, a well-known private but highly visible person, shocked followers who had grown accustomed to the idea that she would never reveal the details of her ascent to fame. However, she succeeds in doing so in the highly regarded film Miss Americana, directed by Emmy Award winner Lana Wilson and chronicling a significant time in the singer’s life. The scathing documentary reveals previously undiscovered aspects of Swift and depicts her rising to prominence as she discusses politics, the demands of celebrity, and the psychological costs of being one of the most well-known and closely watched women in the world.
Where the Crawdads Sing
Swift was so inspired by author Delia Owens’ bestselling novel Where the Crawdads Sing that she took it upon herself to write a song for the 2022 feature film adaptation. According to producer Reese Witherspoon, the collaboration was entirely Swift’s idea, as the singer contacted her after the song was already finished. While making her surprise album Folklore, Swift said that she wanted to “create something haunting and ethereal to match this mesmerizing story.” And that she did with the Aaron Dessner-produced “Carolina,” which concludes the film and stretches over the ending credits.
Cats
Digital fur technology—three words that forever altered the direction of film. Indeed, during the 2019 film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s popular stage musical, Swift, who is known for loving cats, adopted one herself. This led to a famous string of tweets from Seth Rogen. Under the direction of Tom Hooper, the man behind Les Misérables, Cats boasts an all-star cast that includes Judi Dench, James Corden, Ian McKellen, Idris Elba, Rebel Wilson, Jason Derulo, and Jennifer Hudson. In the third act of the movie, “Macavity,” Swift plays Bombalurina, a seductive, naughty, and maybe British feline who brings the house down. Swift has since said she “had a really great time working on that weird-ass movie.”
Someone Great
Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s 2019 rom-com doesn’t have any Swift needle drops on its soundtrack, but the film has a major connection to the singer — and vice versa. The film was inspired by Swift’s song “Clean,” a track off her 1989 albumthat Robinson described as being “about rebirth after love lost.” Then, in 2019, Swift released her seventh album, Lover, and revealed that the song “Death by a Thousand Cuts” was inspired by… Someone Great. If that’s not cosmic enough for you, Swift performed the track at one of her Los Angeles stops on The Eras Tour while Robinson was in the audience to see it. Talk about a song-film-song story coming full circle!
The Hunger Games
Swift has her pen, and Jennifer Lawrence’s character Katniss Everdeen has her bow and arrow. The singer used hers in The Hunger Games with the same deft accuracy as the main character in the dystopian young adult movie series, which was based on the enormously successful book trilogy by author Suzanne Collins. Swift contributed two songs to the movie’s smash hit soundtrack: “Safe & Sound,” which features The Civil Wars and plays over the closing credits, and the power ballad “Eyes Open,” which both touched on Katniss’s broken psyche. Swift stated back in 2012, “‘Safe & Sound’ symbolizes the empathy and compassion Katniss feels for Rue, Peeta, and Prim in different parts of the book.” “Eyes Open” portrays Katniss’s connection with the Capitol more so.
Bridgerton
The Shondaland–produced smash-hit series brought Regency-era romances and and lavish ballroom scenes to life with a soundtrack filled with instrumental covers of modern songs. Since there are few songwriters of our time more qualified than Swift when it comes to love stories, it’s only natural that a rain-soaked sex scene between the Duke of Hastings (Regé-Jean Page) and Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor) and their subsequent honeymoon montage (in Season 1, Episode 6) is set to the sounds of Swift’s power ballad “Wildest Dreams.”