21 Taylor Swift songs with the same chord progression

[owenmartin]

Not just swift but the entire pop charts are made up of this progression

[Iris-vdtt]

I think this comment section is having a hard time finding out that chord progressions and melodies are 2 different things.

[stevej]

She said that it takes her about 30 minutes to write a song sometimes. I guess it’s easier when you have an established formula. But it obviously works, so why change it?

[Groovinchris]

Fed up with this lack of imagination of this kind of song, because when i hear this, i don't hear a mood but only the progression.

[clairem]

I quite like the moments of connection it creates between many of her songs. And although many of her songs may share some common elements I still find they all have other elements that do make them distinct for me. I enjoy her work.

[danielb]

and she's taking this formula right to the bank

[Yenrei]

The most overused chord progression in western pop

[ЕленаПавлова-хж]

well, you swifties forget that she doesn't write her music by herself every time. she often CO-WRITES with smb. For ex, music for I knew you were trouble, Blank Space, Shake it off, WANEGBT and etc, was composed by Shelback and Martin and Tay wrote only the lyrics. And there are a lot of examples of songs she co-wrote with some people (L. Rose, Antonoff, Dessner, etc)

[nabila]

I hope people watch David's video about this before commenting on this Short.

[MVortex]

"It's been such a looong time, I think I should be goin, time doesn't wait for me, it keeps on roooling" (Boston, Long Time).
"I heard you crying loud, all the way across town, 'Cause you been searching for that someone And it's me out on the prowl.." (Green Day, When I come around, slightly different chord order)

And I can keep going. This is the #1 chord progression used forever.

[TaraTara-ldxb]

Now, I know why Out Of The Woods sounds so familiar. Lol. That's one of my favorite songs by her.

[damefawndenier]

Has anyone thought right ok, I'll write a song using I V vi IV? Or is it more likely that a melody is written which just so happens to match this progression?

[olympian]

when people online talk about popular artists’ music, 75% of the time there’s two groups.

group a worships the artist blindly listens to everything and completely fails to critically analyze their work, whether it’s positive or negative. they don’t know how to think.

group b is is excruciatingly pretentious and thinks that following certain traits of a genre immediately makes the music uncreative. they don’t actually care about critical analysis, they only want to feel intellectually superior… over MUSIC.

when the conversation is about taylor swift, that percentage jumps from 75% to 95%. the internet makes listening to music so boring.

[ochreJ]

tbh i count any combination of those 4 chords as Axis - so by that count shes prob used it even more than 21 times!

[veryamusic]

There's more to a song than a chord progression ⁉️😱😱😱

[calebpagan]

I would like to see more videos like this David.

[MartieFaye]

Taylor has always posited herself as a lyricist first type of songwriter, which explains her big and long lasting draw that has spanned her 16 year long career. Not everyone listens to music just for the experience of music, but for the stories that are told in the lyrics. Yes, her chord progressions are simpler but they’re more of a vessel for her lyrics than anything. And that’s fine, you don’t have to listen to it if it’s clearly not your thing

[ChuliSmart]

She has 207 songs so less than 10% of her songs have this chord progression

[EdgyNumber]

21 out of a couple of hundred BUT, what his her 'go to' chord progression? The one she most commonly uses. Can't just be this one?

[DiamonthdP]

Same chord progressions with the same 2-3 note melodies. She definitely mastered the pop formula.