About

It is difficult to measure and communicate the experience of travel between two places.

Travelling is a composite experience of distance and time. Current measures, however, are abstract and the dynamic relationship between distance and time can be hard to communicate without a relatable standard.

An hour can feel like nothing, or stretch for an eternity; in the same time period you might have travelled from one major European city to another, or have only gone from the city to the fringes of suburbia.

This is an attempt to create a relatable standard gauge of experiential travel in 61 mins and 3 seconds, using Taylor Swift’s “1989” [International, USA and Canada Target Deluxe Edition (bonus tracks), excluding voice memos] as a universal measure.

1989 [International, USA and Canada Target deluxe edition (bonus tracks), excluding voice memos], track listing & times:
1 “Welcome to New York” 3:32
2 “Blank Space” 3:51 – album running time 7 min 23 seconds
3 “Style” 3:5 – album running time 11 mins 14 seconds
4 “Out of the Woods” 3:55 – album running time 15 mins 9 seconds
5 “All You Had to Do Was Stay” 3:13 – album running time 18 mins 22 seconds
6 “Shake It Off” 3:39 – album running time 22 mins 1 second
7 “I Wish You Would” 3:27 – album running time 25 mins 28 seconds
8 “Bad Blood” 3:31 – album running time 28 mins 59 seconds
9 “Wildest Dreams” 3:40 – album running time 32 mins 39 seconds
10 “How You Get the Girl” 4:07 – album running time 36 mins 46 seconds
11 “This Love” 4:10 – album running time 40 mins 56 seconds
12 “I Know Places” 3:15 – album running time 44 mins 11 seconds
13 “Clean” 4:30 – album running time 48 mins 41 seconds
14 “Wonderland” 4:05 – album running time 52 mins 46 seconds
15 “You Are in Love” 4:27 – album running time 57 mins 13 seconds
16 “New Romantics” 3:50 – album running time 61 mins 3 seconds