Call it emoji sight-reading. The chains sketch tiny scenes: "thumbs-down + blood" — a bad break that leaves a stain; "cheers + weary sigh" — drunk smiles over breaking hearts; "endless + snowflake" — winter that never learns when to quit.
Your job is compression—scene to short phrase, phrase to the one choice that actually lives there. Three decoys hover with matching coats to test your nerve. Read once (out loud helps), track palette and motion, then lock the gut answer before spreadsheets arrive.
We scramble eras deliberately so cottage hush can bump city glare with zero warning. Keep the scroll moving, keep shoulders loose, and let your ear file shelves faster than your eyes.
[A] The Archer | Bow-and-arrow spells the job title. A track-5 confessional on Lover that floats over synth heartbeats while she inventories her soft spots and calls a brief truce with the mirror.
2/23
2. Can you guess the song?
[D] Bad Blood | Thumbs-down plus blood is the phrase. The remix with Kendrick Lamar went No.1, and the action-ensemble video basically speed-ran a whole summer of pop-culture cameos.
3/23
3. Can you guess the song?
[B] Champagne Problems | Flutes + frown = fizz meets feelings. evermore turns a failed proposal into campus-steps storytelling, complete with a bridge that drops like a ring clattering on tile.
4/23
4. Can you guess the song?
[D] Dancing With Our Hands Tied | Dancer, hands, knot. reputation tucks a dance-floor banger inside a claustrophobic love story; the acoustic tour version stripped it to a heartbeat and a confession.
5/23
5. Can you guess the song?
[C] Electric Touch | Lightning plus almost-touching fingers. A Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) vault collab with Fall Out Boy that leans pop-punk and saves its spark for the jump-rope chorus.
6/23
6. Can you guess the song?
[A] Forever Winter | Infinity and a snowflake telegraph the title. A Red (TV) vault elegy that keeps checking on a friend; warm brass fogs the mix like breath on cold glass.
7/23
7. Can you guess the song?
[B] Guilty as Sin? | Flushed face plus the wordplay sells “guilty.” A TTPD cut that ends its title with a question mark, because yes, temptation loves loopholes and pop punctuation.
8/23
8. Can you guess the song?
[A] Haunted | Ghost plus panic. Speak Now dials in cinematic strings and relentless drums, turning a breakup into a Gothic chase through echo chambers and closing doors.
9/23
9. Can you guess the song?
[D] I Can Do It With a Broken Heart | Eyes + can + check + cracked heart. A TTPD highlight about performing through fallout; sprint-tempo verses mimic show-must-go-on adrenaline.
10/23
10. Can you guess the song?
[C] King of My Heart | Crown plus heart. reputation drops the drums out, then slams them back in like the exact second crush turns to certainty.
11/23
11. Can you guess the song?
[B] Love Story | Heart and book cues the title. Fearless flipped Shakespeare into a stadium proposal and added a key-change that still detonates confetti cannons on cue.
12/23
12. Can you guess the song?
[A] Mirrorball | One emoji, one metaphor. folklore’s softest spotlight reflects every room back prettier; live, she turns it into a breath-held hush between 60,000 phones.
13/23
13. Can you guess the song?
[D] No Body No Crime | Crossed-out person + squad car = suburban noir. evermore teams with HAIM and serves lemon-slice justice with a harmonica wink.
14/23
14. Can you guess the song?
[C] Our Song | Hourglass hint, then music. Written for a ninth-grade talent show and later sent to radio, it’s pure front-porch swagger with fiddle punctuation marks.
15/23
15. Can you guess the song?
[B] Paper Rings | Notebook plus rings signals vows on a budget. Lover’s pogo-tempo made DIY weddings feel deluxe; Pinterest did the rest.
16/23
16. Can you guess the song?
[A] Question | A lone question mark says exactly that. A pop-era interrogation hook; you can practically hear the courtroom gavel in the snare.
17/23
17. Can you guess the song?
[D] Run | Runner equals the verb. A soft-focus duet from the Red (TV) sessions where two old friends trade harmonies like passing notes in the wings.
18/23
18. Can you guess the song?
[B] Seven | Just the number. folklore rewinds to childhood promises under Pennsylvania trees and sings them like secrets you only tell in summertime.
19/23
19. Can you guess the song?
[C] Tied Together With a Smile | Knot + people + grin. A debut-era note to a friend about hidden hurt; the melody stays small so the care feels big.
20/23
20. Can you guess the song?
[D] US | Flag points at the two-letter word. On your sheet it’s styled in caps, a neat double read: the country and the pronoun.
21/23
21. Can you guess the song?
[B] Vigilante Shit | The censored wink belongs here. Midnights paints justice in matte black, all receipts and winged liner.
22/23
22. Can you guess the song?
[A] Welcome to New York | Smiley + “to” + skyline. 1989 opens with taxi-light optimism and a thesis statement for her full pop pivot.
23/23
23. Can you guess the song?
[C] You’re Not Sorry | Point-you, no, sad. Fearless bends the piano into a lie-detector; the re-record deepened the low end and the sting.