It’s the damn season! Holidays may come once a year, but Taylor SwiftThe Christmas catalog of is the gift that keeps on giving, throughout the year.
The Grammy winner released her Christmas album, Taylor Swift’s Holiday Collection (originally titled Taylor Swift: Sounds of the Season), in 2007. She released two original festive tracks on the record – “Christmas When You Were Mine” and “Christmas Must Be Something More” – in addition to country covers of several holiday classics, including “White Christmas” and ” Baby Santa.”
While the Holiday Collection is Swift’s only Christmas song album, the singer-songwriter has an innate love for the holiday season as he grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania. (In addition to his track “Christmas Tree Farm” about that childhood experience, the “Maroon” artist has also sprinkled holiday cheer throughout various songs over the years.)
“I actually grew up on a Christmas tree farm,” Swift wrote via Twitter in December 2019, when the title was released. “In a gingerbread house, in the heart of the delicious chewing gum forest. Where, curiously, this song is their national anthem.
Five years earlier, the interpreter of “Cardigan” had taken Squire on a visit to his hometown – and his childhood farm.
“It was such a weird place to grow up,” she told the magazine in 2014. “But it cemented in me this unnatural level of excitement about fall and then the holiday season. My friends are so sick of me talking about the coming autumn. They say, ‘What are you, an elf?’ »
Since then, Swift has released a number of songs that mention Christmas. The most direct is her Reputation track “New Year’s Day”, which details a New Year’s Eve party and clings to a loved one afterwards.
“There’s glitter on the floor after the party / Girls wear their shoes down the hall,” she sings on the pre-chorus. “Candle wax and Polaroids on the floor, You and me from the day before.”
The chorus follows: “But don’t read the last page / But I stay when you’re lost and I’m scared and you turn away / I want your midnights / But I’ll clean the bottles with you On the day of the Year.”
On the 2020s Still, Swift sings about love for his hometown when he comes home for the holidays in “‘Tis the Damn Season.” Another fan-favorite track with a Christmas mention is 2014’s “Begin Again,” the final track on Red. “But you start talking / About the movies your family watches / Every Christmas / And I wanna talk about it,” artist “Tim McGraw” sings on deck.
Keep scrolling for all the holiday mentions in Swift’s long discography: