Taylor Swift just pulled off the most Taylor Swift move ever: announcing her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, at exactly 12:12 a.m. on August 12.

Fresh off a record-breaking Eras Tour, last year’s chart-topping The Tortured Poets Department, and a romance with a Super Bowl champ, Swift isn’t just in her next era — she’s back to commanding the culture.

While you wait for the inevitable wave of cryptic clues and album teases, why not embark on an Easter egg hunt of your own? Many of Swift’s most memorable performances and beloved tracks, as well as a few deep cuts for the die-hard Swifties among us, live right here on Netflix. So grab a front-row seat on the couch and take a look at the list below to relive these major moments across her career. And luckily for you, there’s absolutely zero chance you’ll be stuck waiting in an endless ticket queue.

Ballers

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Name a more unlikely duo, we dare you. Yes, you’re reading that correctly. The HBO sports comedy, which is now streaming on Netflix, features a scene of retired NFL star Spencer Strasmore (Dwayne Johnson) singing along to Swift’s “Shake It Off” on the radio in Season 1, Episode 8. 

Big Mouth

Sure, Swift is best known for love songs and break-up ballads. But her single “Bad Blood” — off her fifth and perhaps most acclaimed studio album, 1989 — touched on something deeper and even more relatable: friendship betrayal. While Swift may have been aiming her lyrical barbs at a certain fellow pop star, anyone’s who lost “mad love” with a former bestie felt seen by the fiery track. That’s what makes it unexpected but ultimately fitting for the final scene of Big Mouth Season 3, which sees Nick and Andrew seemingly ending their friendship for good, as one heads off to camp and the other stays behind at home. Covered by Kina Grannis and Clara C, the acoustic version of “Bad Blood” used here emphasizes the sadness behind the song’s cutting lyrics, making the moment that much more effective and heartbreaking. 

Big Mouth

8 Saisons   16+   2017

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Bridgerton

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The Shondaland-produced smash-hit series brought Regency-era romances and lavish ballroom scenes to life with a soundtrack filled with instrumental covers of modern songs. Since there are few songwriters of our time more qualified than Swift when it comes to love stories, it’s only natural that a rain-soaked sex scene between the Duke of Hastings (Regé-Jean Page) and Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor) and their subsequent honeymoon montage (in Season 1, Episode 6) is set to the sounds of Swift’s power ballad “Wildest Dreams.” Swift’s music is the talk of the ton again in Season 3, when a cover of her and Lana Del Rey’s “Snow on the Beach” appears in Episode 4 of Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) and Colin Bridgerton’s (Luke Newton) story. “Every year is Taylor’s year, as we know, and she’s just bigger than ever,” music supervisor Justin Kamps tells Tudum. “I’m very excited that they gave us permission to use the song because I think it’s a beautiful moment.”

La Chronique des Bridgerton

4 Saisons   16+   2020

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Cats

Three words changed the course of cinema forever: digital fur technology. Yes, noted cat lover Swift became one herself for the 2019 film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit stage musical (which then inspired a memorable series of Seth Rogen posts on social media). Helmed by Les Misérables director Tom Hooper, Cats features an all-star cast, including Jennifer Hudson, James Corden, Ian McKellen, Idris Elba, Rebel Wilson, Jason Derulo, and Judi Dench. Swift — who has since said she “had a really great time working on that weird-ass movie” — stars as Bombalurina, a seductive, mischievous, and possibly British feline armed with catnip, who brings the house down in the film’s third-act number “Macavity.” She also lends her talents to “Beautiful Ghosts,” an original ballad she co-wrote with Lloyd Webber that went on to score Golden Globe and Grammy nominations.

Cats

1h 49m   Tous publics   2019

Remind Me

Grey's Anatomy

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Did you really think we’d leave Swift’s self-proclaimed favorite show off the list? The singer famously named her cat Meredith Grey after the main character of the long-running medical drama. And guess what? The creators sent the love right back by featuring Swift’s song “White Horse” off her second studio album, Fearless, in the two-part Season 5 premiere.

Heartstopper

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Cross your heart won’t tell no other: Has there ever been a sweeter scene than the one between Darcy (Kizzy Edgell) and Tara (Corinna Brown) in the Season 2 finale? After the high school students finally tell each other “I love you,” Swift’s song “Seven” off her 2020 album Folklore plays to mark the major turning point in their relationship. Soon enough, the rest of the Heartstopper gang joins to surround them in love and finish off an epic prom night.

Heartstopper

3 Saisons   10+   2022

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It Ends With Us

“My Tears Ricochet,” off Folklore, appears at a crucial point in the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel It Ends with Us, about a woman (Blake Lively) reckoning with an abusive relationship. The ballad, with its lyrics about hauntings and betrayal, gives the moment even deeper meaning. For Lively, the pairing of her close friend Swift’s work with Hoover’s felt right. “Colleen is able to tell something that’s deeply personal and intimate but is able to resonate with so many people,” the actor told People. “And Taylor, she’s such an incredible writer. She writes from such personal experiences and vulnerability.”

Killing Eve

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Throughout her career, the public has cast Swift as both victim and villain. With her 2017 album Reputation, the singer leaned into the latter, embracing the criticisms leveled against her and letting them fuel the lead single “Look What You Made Me Do.” Naturally, the song lends itself well to the murderous series Killing Eve, particularly when it comes to Villanelle, a sociopathic assassin played by Jodie Comer who’s permanently in her villain era. A moody cover of “Look What You Made Me Do” is featured in a scene with Comer’s character in Season 3, Episode 7 from the previously unheard of musical trio Jack Leopards & The Dolphin Club. Since Swifties love a conspiracy theory, fans almost immediately suspected that the singer herself, along with frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff and brother Austin Swift, was behind the track, especially after Swift said she was “very stoked” about its release. Plus, a pseudonym Swift previously used was credited as a producer on the cover. Suspicious indeed …

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16+   2018

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Miss Americana

As a notoriously private but extremely public figure, Swift surprised fans who had long come to accept that she’d never pull back the curtain on her journey to stardom. But she does just that in Emmy-winning filmmaker Lana Wilson’s critically acclaimed Miss Americana, which chronicles a pivotal period in the singer’s life. Exposing sides of Swift we’d never seen before, the searing documentary shows her stepping into her power as she opens up about her politics, the pressures of fame, and the emotional toll of being one of the most famous and heavily scrutinized women in the world. Coming off the heels of her divisive Reputation era, here Swift dives deep into the process of crafting Lover, her seventh studio album and the first one she owned in its entirety. While her stressors are highly specific to a global pop superstar, it turns out that Swift’s journey throughout her 20s is one many can relate to — besides her very recent discovery of burritos. 

Miss Americana

1h 25m   10+   2020

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The Recruit

Who among us hasn’t been able to get a Swift earworm out of their head? Noah Centineo — or at least his character in the spy thriller — certainly can’t, as the series begins with a one-of-a-kind cover of Swift’s “I Knew You Were Trouble” from her 2012 album Red. During a high-stakes mission, newbie CIA lawyer Owen (Centineo) hums along to the synth-heavy track while on a pee break. The scene reappears in the finale with a sequence essentially bookending the entire series. “It just felt like a really great way to introduce a character, a lead, that was unexpected. You can never go wrong with Taylor Swift,” creator Alexi Hawley told Tudum about the song choice. “What came back to me is that she has to personally approve the syncs for the licensing of her songs, and so the idea that she had to watch a clip of that and say yes to it was very fun to me.”

The Recruit

2 Saisons   16+   2022

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Someone Great

Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s 2019 rom-com doesn’t have any Swift needle drops on its soundtrack, but the film has a major connection to the singer — and vice versa. The film was inspired by Swift’s song “Clean,” a track off her 1989 album that Robinson described as being “about rebirth after love lost.” Then, in 2019, Swift released her seventh album, Lover, and revealed that the song “Death by a Thousand Cuts” was inspired by … Someone Great. If that’s not cosmic enough for you, Swift performed the track at one of her Los Angeles stops on The Eras Tour while Robinson was in the audience to see it. Talk about a song-film-song story coming full circle!

Quelqu'un de bien

1h 32m   13+   2019

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Too Much

“Bigger Than the Whole Sky,” a bonus track off of the 3am Edition of her 2022 tenth studio album Midnights, takes center stage in the emotional season finale of Lena Dunham’s Too Much, underscoring the episode’s most gut-punching moments as Jessica (Megan Stalter) grapples with heartbreak. What makes it even more poignant? Swift, alongside her brother Austin, personally watched the sequence and suggested the track to longtime friend Dunham, completely transforming the scene.

Too Much

10 Épisodes   16+   2025

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You

Turns out Joe Goldberg might be a closet Swiftie. The thriller series has featured two murderously effective needle drops of the singer’s most beloved songs in back-to-back season finales. First, in the final moments of Season 3, Folklore’s “Exile” plays as Joe leaves suburban life behind in a blaze of glory. Season 4, meanwhile, comes to a close as Swift’s “Anti-Hero” sets the stage for the upcoming final season. “I sent a little note saying how much the fans of our show talk about ‘Exile’ and how meaningful that is,” showrunner Sera Gamble told Tudum in 2023. “I acknowledged that [‘Exile’] was a really important addition to the show and that we wanted to pay homage to that [with ‘Anti-Hero’]. And look, we have people in our writers’ room who just show up to work in Taylor Swift T-shirts — true Swifties abound in the You-verse.” 

You

16+   2018

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Additional reporting by Meena Jang.