Every single Taylor Swift song, ranked from worst to best

Taylor loves herself some good-looking eyes, but we already knew that from her descriptions of Drew, Cory and Tim. It's a nice song, but it's based entirely on her crush's eyes, and it doesn't get much deeper or emotionally complex than that.

Best line: "You're here, Your eyes are looking into mine / So baby, make me fly / My heart has never felt this way before"

A simple song about the destruction of innocence that comes with your first love brutally breaking up with you, along with the utter denial that immediately follows. The much, much younger sister of 'Tell Me Why', this track won't win any lyric-writing prizes, but it's perfectly good.

Best line: "No matter what you say, I still can't believe / That you would walk away / It don't make sense to me"

Sweet, poetic, and focused on that special moment when everything you've desperately wanted is within touching distance, the track provides a solid thematic accompaniment to 'Jump Then Fall'. It's not quite captivating enough, though.

Best line: "In the middle of the night / When I'm in this dream / It's like a million little stars / Spelling out your name"

Surely a reference to Britney's 'Lucky', this song takes us back to Taylor the Storyteller, and is that ever a good look on her. Every line is an insight into the World of Fame, even if none of the revelations are particularly shocking. "...You just feel used / And all the young things line up to take your place" – yeah, heard that before.

But the twist! The twist makes it. Sure, it still comes across as disingenuous because Taylor's basically saying her privilege is really hard for her to deal with, but everybody's got problems.

Best line: "Now it's big black cars, and Riviera views / And your lover in the foyer doesn't even know you"

The upbeat unrequited love child of 'A Place In This World' and 'Teardrops on My Guitar', this song is great to sing along to – partly because it's pretty repetitive.

Best line: "I tried to take the road less traveled by, but nothin' seems to work the first few times / Am I right?"

A fun track with jarringly impressive levels of emotional maturity. Unlike many other songs on her first album, she basically tells this guy that she hopes they end up together, but if not, that's fine, and she wishes him all the best. It's also sure to put a smile on your face, particularly with its opening lines, which contain two adorably ridiculous similes: "Cory's eyes are like a jungle / He smiles; it's like the radio".

Best line: "If what you are is a daydream I'll never get to hold, at least you'll know / You're beautiful"

The instrumental is powerful, as is the last verse and chorus. But it doesn't quite make up for the slow-build of the first two-thirds of the song, which drifts sadly without much of lyrical interest. There are some beautiful harmonies in there, but it's ultimately a relatively forgettable Taylor track.

Fun fact: The phrase "last time" is sung 24 times in this track. Which seems a bit much.

Best line: "You wear your best apology / But I was there to watch you leave"

There's an attractive, guy-next-door best friend. There's Taylor, singing that she could love him better than his current girlfriend. It's 'Teardrops' with Taylor playing both parts in the video, and one of them is unrealistically adorkable – but then! She takes off her glasses! And is attractive! No way! Along with this clear and problematic She's All That-ing, Taylor also indulges in some Cool Girl baloney. "She wears high heels / I wear sneakers," she sings. "She eats salad while I play computer games," she might as well add. But it's sweet, it's a feeling everyone has had at some point, and it's hella uplifting.

Best line: "I remember you drivin' to my house in the middle of the night / I'm the one who makes you laugh / When you know you're about to cry"

Taylor does yearning and sad so well, and 'Superstar' is no different. It sounds a lot like it belongs on her first album, especially when she sings "I'm invisible and everyone knows who you are," recounting songs like 'Invisible' and 'Teardrops' but it's also particularly good to sing along to.

Best line: "Good morning loneliness, comes around when I'm not / Dreaming about you"

Oh hi, country Taylor. We're back to her satisfyingly telling off a guy, though she's maybe a little too proud of her moral stand against cheating, considering that at *two* points she sings that she'd see it as a real option "if I hadn't once been just like her". Still, it's a fun, uplifting track, if a bit lyrically basic for Tay.

Best line: "You're the kind of man who makes me sad / While she waits up / You chase down the newest thing / And take for granted what you have"

Your attention is captured straight away, and remains captive until the end of the song. And the yearning for privacy is relatable, even if the whole hunters/hunted dynamic falls a bit flat. There's a limit to how much sympathy your audience is going to have for a celebrity couple, and it doesn't stretch to seeing them as vulture food.

Fun fact: Tay mentions sinking ships on her second consecutive track, having also name-checked them on 'This Love'. Also, she is apparently now bulletproof, having distinctly not been on 'Tell Me Why'.

Best line: "See the vultures circling dark clouds / Love's a fragile little flame, it could burn out / It could burn out"

Another one from Taylor's gigantic collection of songs about unspoken, unrequited love, this time with the added motif of *his* girlfriend not loving him in the way she would. "All I think about is how to make you think of me, and everything that we could be," Taylor sings, pleadingly and a just a little desperately. But hey, we've all felt that way at some point.

Drinking along? Take a shot as Taylor fails at declaring her feelings.

Best line: "But if you only knew me, we could be a beautiful / Miracle / Unbelievable / Instead of just invisible"

A beautiful song which is thematically reminiscent of 'I Knew You Were Trouble', 'Style' and 'Long Live', and again sees Taylor in red lipstick, this time insisting that that's how she's pictured in her ex's memory. The melody soars, but the lyrics are a bit empty compared to her best work. "Remember me well" basically sums it up.

Best line: "You see me in hindsight / Tangled up with you all night / Burning it down"

Possibly Taylor's most country offering (apart from 'Our Song', of course), this underrated track is a favourite of Swifties who are trying to show off their Taylor knowledge. It's hilariously juvenile (at this point, there were probably many things she did better than revenge), but that's the charm.

Best line: "I had to / Wake up and smell the break-up / Fix my heart, put on my make-up / Another mess I didn't plan"

Another break-up song, this time about a guy who Taylor has finally lost patience with. The lyrics are elevated by the drum beat and occasional electric guitar, and her realisation that he'll just continue let her down is pretty emotive, but as Taylor break-up songs go, it's middling.

Drinking along? Down a shot for "shine".

Best line: "Could've loved you all my life if you hadn't left me waiting in the cold / And you've got your share of secrets / And I'm tired of being last to know"

A very good ode to all those couples separated by distance, but the song only kicks into its highest gear in the final third, when the melody soars and Taylor lets loose.

Best line: "This is falling in love in the cruelest way / This is falling for you when you are worlds away"

One of those Taylor songs whose chorus takes us onto a different plane of existence. The track as a whole emotively sums up what it's like to long for someone to change their mind, a well which Tay often returns to with success – think 'If This Was a Movie', 'The Story of Us' and 'The Other Side of the Door'.

Drinking along? Take a shot for multiple 2am references, another for Taylor not telling someone her feelings – and, if you're feeling generous, a third for the driving reference.

Best line: "You give me everything and nothing / This mad mad love makes you come running / To stand back where you stood"

A killer opening, followed by one helluva beat. As with all the best Tay-Tay songs, the verses are the best part lyrically, even if the emotion behind them is a bit limited here. It's this general lack of depth which makes it fall short of other screw-you songs like 'Better Than Revenge' or 'Mean'.

Best line: "Band-aids don't fix bullet holes / You say sorry just for show / If you live like that, you live with ghosts / If you love like that blood runs cold"