Taylor Swift Reveals Which Songs Helped Her Through Heartbreak

Taylor Swift is the cover star for the latest Elle UK. On top of the stunning photos and interview, Swift wrote a little piece about pop music and songs that have helped her through rough patches in her life specifically heartbreak.

In Swift’s personal essay she writes about how important it is to write personal pop music. Swift name drops many songs in her essay, enough to make a very strange, but emotional playlist.

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“I’m highly biased, but I think that the way music can transport you back to a long forgotten memory is the closest sensation we have to traveling in time,” Swift wrote.

“I love writing songs because I love preserving memories, like putting a picture frame around a feeling you once had,” Swift explained. “I like to use nostalgia as inspiration when I’m writing songs for the same reason I like to take photographs. I like to be able to remember the extremely good and extremely bad times.”

Swift continued, “The fun challenge of writing a pop song is squeezing those evocative details into the catchiest melodic cadence you can possibly think of. I thrive on the challenge of sprinkling personal mementos and shreds of reality into a genre of music that is universally known for being, well, universal.”

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“We actually do NOT want our pop music to be generic,” Swift wrote. “I think a lot of music lovers want some biographical glimpse into the world of our narrator, a hole in the emotional walls people put up around themselves to survive.”

Swift specifically name drops “You Learn” by Alanis Morissette, “Put Your Records On” by Corinne Bailey Rae and “Why” by Annie Lennox for helping her get over ex-boyfriends. She wrote that those songs “have actually healed my heart after a bad breakups or letdowns.”

Take a look at all the songs that important to Swift below.