Taylor Swift’s 2025 Grammys Submissions: A Year of Musical Mastery

Taylor Swift’s 2025 Grammys Submissions: A Year of Musical Mastery

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Every time Taylor Swift enters Grammy season, the air feels a little heavier with expectation—and a little lighter with magic. This year, the weight of her presence is undeniable. Her submissions for the 2025 Grammy Awards are not just entries into categories; they’re entries into a conversation about what it means to make music that echoes—through time, through heartbreak, through change.

The centerpiece of her campaign? The Tortured Poets Department—an album that doesn’t beg for accolades, but somehow deserves them all.

The Tortured Poets Department: A Study in Depth and Design

It’s almost ironic how an album so mournful, so internal, finds itself nominated for something as external as Album of the Year. But that’s the paradox of Taylor Swift—she makes the quietest feelings the loudest. This record, submitted for Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album, and Best Engineered Album, isn’t merely a collection of songs. It’s a carefully built cathedral of grief and resilience, where every lyric echoes and every pause means something.

The production—both airy and weighty—carries a certain reverence for silence, for empty space. Its submission for Best Engineered Album speaks to that. The sound doesn’t just fill the room—it lingers in it.

Fortnight: The Collaboration That Stopped Time

“Fortnight” wasn’t just a lead single. It was a collapse of timelines, a blending of myth and memory. Submitted for Song of the Year and Record of the Year, it lives in that rare space where commercial success and emotional gravity meet.

But what makes this submission even more poignant is its recognition as Best Pop Duo/Group Performance—a testament to chemistry, to artistic synergy that doesn’t feel manufactured but fated. And of course, there’s the visual storytelling. The music video, now submitted for Best Music Video, feels like an elegy in motion—cinematic, aching, unforgettable.

I Can Do It With a Broken Heart: Strength in Spectacle

Some songs beg to be screamed in cars; others demand to be whispered to yourself at 2 a.m. This one is both. “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” is Taylor at her most theatrical, most raw. Her submission for Best Pop Solo Performance captures a truth many artists run from: that sometimes, the most dazzling performance is hiding the deepest pain.

There’s a quiet courage in this song—a woman dancing in the dark, laughing through loss, turning heartbreak into glitter and confetti.

Fortnight (Blondish Remix): A Rebirth Through Sound

Then there’s the Fortnight remix—spun into something new by Blondish and submitted for Best Remixed Recording. It doesn’t try to replace the original, just to reimagine it. To take the sadness and stretch it into something almost ethereal. It’s a reminder that grief, too, can be remixed—given new texture, new rhythm, without losing its core.

us.: Harmony in Vulnerability

With us., we see a different kind of duet—one not built on grand gestures, but quiet unity. Submitted for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, this track leans into tenderness, into mutual understanding. There’s something delicate and warm here, as if two voices are leaning on each other rather than competing. It’s collaboration as communion.

The Eras Tour: A Living Archive

And finally, The Eras Tour. Submitted for Best Music Film, it’s more than a concert—it’s a living scrapbook. A sensory journey through not just a career, but a life. Every era stitched together into one long exhale. It’s loud, yes—but also reverent. Intimate. Historic.

What It All Means

This isn’t just a list of Grammy submissions—it’s a map of where Taylor Swift has been and where she dares to go next. These songs, these visuals, this tour—they’re offerings. Proof that even in an industry obsessed with reinvention, authenticity still wins.

Whether or not the Grammys choose to gild her name in gold again, the truth remains: Taylor Swift is making work that resonates beyond trophies. She’s writing the soundtrack to our lives in real time. And maybe that’s the most enduring award of all.