Taylor Swift has once again spoken about her love for emo music. In a conversation with New York Times, Swift was chosen as one of the “30 Greatest Living American Songwriters” and opened up about how emo music profoundly shaped her lyricism.
“I was the most intensely impacted by emo music,” Swift says. “Dashboard Confessional, Chris Carrabba, Fall Out Boy, Pete Wentz’s lyrics — how they take a common phrase and then they just twist the knife on it… I would be reading the lyrics, and I’d finish reading a line and just go, ‘Oh, my God.’”
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Swift has been vocal about her affinity for emo in the past. A decade ago, she surprised her best friend at her birthday with a performance by Dashboard Confessional, and for the Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) rerecordings, Fall Out Boy and Paramore, who also joined her as support on the Eras tour, collaborated on two songs.
“Since Speak Now was all about my songwriting, I decided to go to the artists who I feel influenced me most powerfully as a lyricist at that time and ask them to sing on the album,” she said in the liner notes for the album.
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taylor mentioned fall out boy in her newest interview for the new york times
"But then lyricism, I was the most intensely impacted by emo music […] Fall Out Boy, Pete Wentz's lyrics – how they take a common phrase and then they just twist the knife on it." pic.twitter.com/k9CHZeikUM— bia (@forstardst) April 28, 2026
