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Taylor Swift is an American singer, born in Pennsylvania in 1989. She signed to RCA records in 2003 and released her self-titled album in 2006. Her hit singles include Teardrops On My Guitar, Our Song, Love Story, We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, You Belong With Me and Shake It Off

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19 Jun, 2006

Tim McGraw

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Swift releases her single, Tim McGraw, from her self titled album, Taylor Swift. Swift tells about what drove her to write the song:

I wrote [the song] in my freshman year of high school. I got the idea in math class. I was just sitting there, and I started humming this melody. I kind of related it to this situation I was in. I was dating a guy who was about to go off to college. I knew we were going to break up. So I started thinking about all the things that I knew would remind him of me. Surprisingly, the first thing that came to mind was that my favorite country artist is Tim McGraw.

 

Taylor Swift - Tim McGraw

9 Sep, 2006

Our Song

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Swift releases her single, Our Song, from her self titled album, Taylor Swift. About what inspired her to write her song:

I wrote this song in my freshman year of high school for my 9th grade talent show. So I was sitting there thinking, ‘I’ve gotta write a song that’s gonna relate to everyone in the talent show, and it’s gotta be upbeat.’ And at that time, I was dating a guy, and we didn’t have a song. So I went ahead and wrote us one, and I played it at the talent show at the end of the year. And months later, people would come up to me and they’re like, ‘I loved that song that you played – ‘Our Song’.’ And then they’d start singing lines of it back to me. And they’d only heard it once, so I thought, ‘There must be something here!’

Taylor Swift - Our Song

11 Sep, 2006

Teardrops on My Guitar

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 Swift releases her single, Teardrops on My Guitar, from her self titled album, Taylor Swift.Swift shares her motivation to write the song:

I used to have a huge crush on this guy, who would sit there every day talking to me about…another girl: how beautiful she was, how nice and smart and perfect she was. And I sat there and listened, never meaning it any of the times I said `Oh, I’m so happy for you.’ I guess this is a good example of how I let my feelings out in songs, and sometimes no other way. And I’ve never been afraid of using names. I love this song because of its honesty and vulnerability. To this day, they are still together and he has no idea about this song.

 

Taylor Swift - Teardrops On My Guitar

24 Oct, 2006

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i345907883_65341_6Swift releases her first studio album self-titled Taylor Swift. The 15 track record features singles Teardrops on My Guitar and Our Song. The album also features collaborations with writer Liz Rose for each of the album’s tracks.

I love writing with Liz. When we write, I usually come in with a melody and some lyric content, and then we’ll work on creating the rest of the song. She’s a really good song editor.

29 Jan, 2008

Picture to Burn

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Swift releases her single, Picture to Burn, from her self titled  album, Taylor Swift. Swift about the song:

I think girls can relate to the song because basically it’s about just being mad. And it’s OK to be mad after a breakup or after something goes wrong with a relationship. It’s just like completely, brutally honest. It’s also kind of funny. It’s got a comedic edge to it.

Taylor Swift - Picture To Burn

11 Nov, 2008

Fearless

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Taylor_Swift_-_FearlessSwift releases her second studio album Fearless. The 13 track album is co-written by Swift and collaborators Liz Rose, Hillar Lindsey, Colbie Caillat and John Rich. Singles Love Story, Fifteen and Fearless are all featured songs on the record.

On this album, I deal with a lot of fairy tale themes. Sometimes they turn out good, sometimes they turn out bad. Love Story was a really happy ending — you put everything you have into love and it works out. Then in the song White Horse, you put everything you have into love and you get your heart broken. It blew my mind that such a personal song was the one people were talking the most about, because I always felt like the more personal my songs were, the more I could just relate to them. But, really, more people have been able to relate to those songs — the ones that I wrote when I was really going through something terrible.

25 Oct, 2010

Speak Now

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Taylor_Swift_-_Speak_Now_coverSwift releases her third studio album Speak Now. The record features 14 tracks including her singles Mine, The Story Of Us and Back To December. Swift wrote the entire album by herself and had producing assistance from Nathan Chapman.

Every single song is like a road map to what that relationship stood for, with little markers that maybe everyone won’t know, but there are things that were little nuances of the relationship, little hints. And every single song is like that.