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Taylor Swift is not an artist made for sex playlists.
Not everybody needs to be.
Teardrops on My Guitar is your girl.
Feeling a little flirty?
You cant do better than I Think He Knows.
And if youre angry over a breakup, hey listen to Dear John.
Thats not really her bag.
Still, Taylors human.
Although horny may not be her thing, that doesnt mean it cant affect her songwriting in some ways.
Swift is giving full-on lust in this one.
Red Red
Heres one that takes on a different color (heyo) in the wake ofMidnights.
Burning red cannot be construed as a lustless descriptor.
Style 1989
Ooh, baby.
This is really the first song Swift put out that is a full-on turn into sex.
In Style, the icons of attraction change from old Taylors fantastical princes into movie stars with leather.
She sets the stage: Midnight / You come and pick me up, no headlights.
Shes no longer fantasizing about true love; shes fantasizing about short skirts and glamour.
Dress Reputation
This is the big one.
Its about the tension when you cant touch someone yet before exploding into the release of a steamy connection.
Thats still the most sexually explicit Swift lyric weve gotten in her career.
Yet its notable that she uses the same markers of sexuality she established in Style.
On Dress, she introduces another of her favorite sexy symbols: being wine-drunk.
Im spilling wine in the bathtub, you kiss my face and were both drunk.
In fact, Gorgeous, one of her most underratedly risky songs, is entirely driven by lust.
Gorgeous is about cheating on your boyfriend(gasp)because the other guy is too hot not too.
Shes so in lust that she simply must betray her (older) partner.
Still, though, she tempers it with instrumentation its all major chords and littledings.
Her symbols of sexuality are mostly gone, too.
Theres no wine, no red, no Hollywood.
Theres tension in the lyrics, but the melody mostly cuts through that.
Shockingly horny in lyrical content, shockingly unhorny musically.
Cruel Summer Lover
Loveris, in terms of horniness, a post-Dress album.
Swift allows herself to be horny whenever she wants to be its a part of being in love!
The peak horniness, though, is on Cruel Summer.
But the horniest moment is, for once, in her vocal performance.
I imagine him as the grinning-devil emoji, and that means shes done her job.
