Speak Now (2010) by Taylor Swift Song Ranking

40% Awesome; 35% Good; 20% OK; Meh; 5% Skip out of 20

8 Awesome

Back to December

Speak Now

Dear John

Mean

The Story of Us

Enchanted

Better than Revenge

Ours

I love bitter Taylor writing “mean” songs! The sassiness in this album is relatable. Sure, there’s still rom-com imagery that I don’t love, but overall this is a major favorite of “mine.”

7 Good

Mine

Sparks Fly

Never Grow Up

Haunted

If This was a Movie

Haunted (acoustic) (orchestral is pretty)

Mine (pop)

4 OK

Last Kiss

Back to December (acoustic)

Long Live

Innocent

Meh

1 Skip

Superman

2023 Edit to Standardize Scoring

Here’s the scoring system again:  Gone are the days when artists can hide meh-bad songs in an album and still sell based on 1-2 singles (thank goodness).  As such, I penalized the less than good songs more than I scored the awesomes high.  Streaming is harsh.  Here’s the scale I used for this entire list:

• Elite 10
• Elite-A cusp 7.5
• awesome 5
• A-Gr cusp 4.5
• Great 4
• Gr-G cusp 3.5
• Good 3
• G-N cusp 1
• Neutral -1
• N-M cusp -2
• Meh -3
• M-S cusp -4.5
• Skip -6

KEY:

Song Title {album abbreviation}- abbreviation of descriptive rank (quantitative translation of word into number) [any side comments]

meh:

Superman- M (-3)

Neutral:

Back to December (acoustic)- N (-1)

Good-Neutral Cusp:

If This was a Movie- G-N (-0.9)

Last Kiss- G-N (0)

Sparks Fly- G-N (0)

Good:

Mine (POP)- G (3)

Innocent- G (3.05)

Never Grow Up- G (3.1)

Great-Good Cusp:

Long Live- Gr-G (3.5)

Haunted (acoustic)- Gr-G (3.6)

Great:

Mine- Gr (4)

Ours- Gr (4)

Awesome-Great Cusp:

Back to December- A-Gr (4.75)

Awesome:

Speak Now- A (5.2)

Elite-Awesome Cusp:

Better Than Revenge- E-A (7.6)

The Story of Us- E-A (7.6)

Enchanted- E-A (7.7)

Dear John- E-A (7.7)

Elite:

Haunted- E (10.2)

Out of League:

Mean- Fave! (100) [for scoring purposes 13/10]

Speak Now Album Ranking per Song Score:

-3 + -1 + -0.9 + 0 + 0 + 3 + 3.05 + 3.1 + 3.5 + 3.6 + 4 + 4 + 4.75 + 5.2 + 7.6(x2) + 7.7(x2) + 10.2 = 70.1

70.1 +14 (Mean artificial score) = 84.1

70.1 score / 20 songs = avg 3.505 (bc Mean distorts it)

84.1 w/mean / 21 songs including mean = 4.005