A new study confirms that Taylor Swift’s accent has noticeably shifted over the course of her career, mirroring changes in her music and home base. Researchers analyzed.
A new study confirms that Taylor Swift’s accent has noticeably shifted over the course of her career, mirroring changes in her music and home base. Researchers analyzed more than 100 minutes of Swift’s interviews from three key periods, per Scientific American: her early days near Nashville, in 2008; her pop turn around the time of 2012’s Red; and her time in New York City near when 2019’s Lover was released.
Early on, Swift’s speech carried a Southern accent, with telltale vowel sounds—like a shorter « i » in « ride » (sounding more like « rod ») and an altered « oo » in « two »—that are typical in the region.
