Taylor Swift Speaks About Her Personal Experience With Heartbreak (and Drops 5 New Playlists!) (2024)

Everyone gather round because Taylor Swift just dropped 5 shiny new Apple Music playlists based on the 5 stages of heartbreak: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance. Which, btw, might remind you of this:

And on top of dropping the playlists, Taylor gave her unfiltered thoughts on each stage of heartbreak.

DENIAL

"This is a list of songs about getting so caught up in the idea of something that you have a hard time seeing the red flags, possibly resulting in moments of denial and maybe a little bit of delusion. Results may vary."

ANGER

"These songs all have one thing in common, I wrote them while feeling anger. Over the years, I've learned that anger can manifest itself in a lot of different ways, but the healthiest way that it manifests itself in my life is when I can write a song about it, and then oftentimes, that helps me get past it.

BARGAINING

"This playlist takes you through the songs that I've written when I was in the bargaining stage, times when you're trying to make deals with yourself or someone that you care about, you're trying to make things better, you're oftentimes feeling really desperate, because oftentimes we have a gut intuition that tells us things are not going to go the way that we hope, which makes us more desperate, which makes us bargain more."

DEPRESSION

"We're going to be exploring the feelings of depression that often lace their way through my songs. In times like these, I'll write a song because I feel lonely or hopeless. And writing a song feels like the only way to process that intensity of an emotion. And while these things are really, really hard to go through, I often feel like when I'm either listening to songs or writing songs that deal with this intensity of loss and hopelessness, usually that's in the phase where I'm close to getting past that feeling."

ACCEPTANCE

"Here we finally find acceptance and can start moving forward from loss or heartbreak. These songs represent making room for more good in your life, making that choice because a lot of time when we lose things, we gain things too."

If you need me, I'll be listening to these on repeat. And while we're here....