Why Is Track 5 on Every Taylor Swift Album So Important? Song Meanings Revealed!
justjared.comSwifties already know: when it comes to a Taylor Swift album, watch out for Track 5. If you’re familiar with Taylor‘s work, you might notice that on every Taylor Swift album, track five has a very specific meaning.
It’s usually a particularly personal song, with some sort of vulnerable revelation involving Taylor‘s past, reflecting either a relationship or a particular emotion.
Fans began to notice the trend by 2012′s Red, with “All Too Well” taking the fifth track slot. “I didn’t realize I was doing this, but as I was making albums, I guess I was just kind of putting a very vulnerable, personal, honest, emotional song as track five.
So because you noticed this, I kind of started to put the songs that were really honest, emotional, vulnerable, and personal as track five,” she would later explain during an Instagram Live.
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