Zohran Mamdani Is A Swiftie. Shares His Top 12 Taylor Swift Songs

[Meredith Grey 3,219]

This list is way too random to not be real lmao

[Ladle Ghoulash 51,595]

Pandering, but ultimately relatively inconsequential

[Main Pop Girl 18]

Associating with Taylor Swift is probably the biggest miss he's had as mayor (complimentary)

[gumzy3000 7,877]

Aw this makes me like him more and I’m glad to see some older songs in his list.

2007-2020 Taylor was peak. Everything after wasn’t as good. 

[AVeryGagaHolyDick 31,689]

What did y’all expect?  I saw someone comment they hoped he would cancel the wedding 

[bpmMonkey 7,662]

5 hours ago, RAMROD said:

 

Zohran Mamdani is the mayor of the largest city in the United States, he has shaken the Democratic Party establishment, and he has become the face of a national progressive movement.

In private, he is also a Swiftie — or he was, for at least a year.

Like so many other millennials, Mayor Mamdani, 34, went through a Taylor Swift phase. In 2021, a dozen of the singer-songwriter’s tunes were in his playlist of “Top 100” songs.

The mayor’s office revealed his little-known fandom and his playlist to The New York Times after I inquired about his mention of one of her songs at a news conference last month, when he told reporters he would not be attending Ms. Swift’s wedding celebration on Friday at Madison Square Garden.

“I wish them a lovely wedding,” he said at the conference, referring to Ms. Swift and her fiancé Travis Kelce. “I’ll listen to ‘Only the Young’ at home on my own.”

Of course, Ms. Swift’s catalog is broad, and it seems, can resonate with everyone.

“Only the Young” caught Mr. Mamdani’s attention in 2020 during the pandemic as he ran for office for the first time for a state assembly seat in Queens. The next year, he met his wife, the artist Rama Duwaji, on the dating app Hinge.

That year, Mr. Mamdani found himself listening to 11 other songs regularly, according to the mayor’s office.

 

Here’s the rest of his playlist:

“Love Story,” her classic hit about a modern Romeo and Juliet (with a happier ending)

“my tears ricochet,” a haunting song about lost love that includes the lyrics “I swear I loved you ‘til my dying day.”

“I Forgot That You Existed,” a fun pop track about moving on from a feud with an enemy

“Dress,” one of her more lustful songs that describes “pining and desperately waiting”

“Cruel Summer,” a chart-topper basking in the highs and lows of summer love

“Delicate,” a vulnerable song that asks “is it cool that I said all that?”

“I Know Places,” a flirtatious song about love in the shadows

“I Don’t Wanna Live Forever,” a song with the musician Zayn about how love can make you feel crazy

“I Think He Knows,” a catchy tune about a suitor with what she calls a “boyish look”

“London Boy,” a song about falling in love with a British man who shows her the sights

“august,” a song yearning for a lover who she says was “never mine”

 

The spectacle surrounding Ms. Swift’s wedding has revealed that New York’s political scene is full of fans of her music.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/nyregion/mamdani-taylor-swift-songs.html

 

 

 

Decent picks. I miss the times when she had talent 🥲

[SleepingSun 1,274]

Sigh... Another disappointment! Let's cancel Mamdani 

[bxr 2,050]

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2 hours ago, bpmMonkey said:

Decent picks. I miss the times when she had talent 🥲

I hate that I actually liked Reputation because I can't even listen to it anymore. I wish she had stuck to that sound. 

[sarahb 17,176]

Oh no he doesn't pass the purity test. End him! 

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8 hours ago, River said:

She's shutting down the whole damned city, but instead of helping your citizens, you put on a favorite Taylor Swift songs because it's so relatable and funny 

Read the room sis

 

Staten Island is pretty much business as usual the forgotten borough.  

 

It was cool when he met Wu Tang

 

 

[Stylor 121]

He’s such a fraud lol

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9 hours ago, River said:

She's shutting down the whole damned city, but instead of helping your citizens, you put on a favorite Taylor Swift songs because it's so relatable and funny 

Read the room sis

 

what happened to enjoying the FUN? 

[River 126,963]

2 minutes ago, nkta said:

what happened to enjoying the FUN? 

What fun? it's a wedding.. 

[Emvee 8,800]

Yes because this one wedding totally invalidates everything he has done for NYC in his short time as mayor   People really do grasp at straws