BRUTALLY Ranking Taylor Swift’s Old Music Videos
Evolution of a Snake: The Taylor Swift Fan Podcast
Evolution of a Snake: The Taylor Swift Fan Podcast
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 95 minutes
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In this episode of Evolution of a Snake, we’re brutally ranking Taylor Swift’s old music videos — from Debut all the way through Reputation — and revisiting the fairytales, the cheer captain era, the dramatic eyeliner, the chaotic pop pivot, and everything in between. We’re not just ranking based on nostalgia. We’re talking storytelling, visuals, cultural impact, rewatch value, and whether some of these videos actually aged well… or if they are very much a product of their time. Some of them are undeniable classics. Some of them sparked entire eras. And yes, a few of them might be more controversial than we remembered.
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| 0:28.7 | Adobe.com. Welcome back to Evolution of a Snake. I'm Zach. And I am Madeline. And today we are doing |
| 0:36.1 | something that has put our hand hearts into the sky so far |
| 0:40.0 | that we became an incredible mom from the Incredibles. Our limbs just stretched up and up into the |
| 0:46.3 | galaxy culminating in a hand heart. We are ranking Taylor Swift's music videos from debut to reputation. |
| 0:57.9 | Now the idea was we want to rank our music videos, but there's so many now. |
| 1:01.8 | We need to to pare it down somehow. |
| 1:03.7 | So then we said, well, let's do the old Taylor. |
| 1:06.6 | And we have a little bit of a back and forth about where does the old Taylor end? |
| 1:12.2 | Like, where does it begin and where does it end? |
| 1:13.7 | It begins obviously with debut. |
| 1:15.5 | Some people, I think, would make the argument that it ends with 1989. |
| 1:19.1 | I think it ends with Big Machine. |
| 1:22.4 | That's the flag plant. |
| 1:24.3 | Period. |
| 1:25.1 | For me, I do still think it's 1989. |
| 1:31.4 | But I wanted to rank reputation music videos. |
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