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INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE: Falling in Love with Word
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he Associated Press named her Entertainer o the “I didn’t want to just be another girl singer,” aylo Year in 2009. According to Billboard , her sophosaid. “I wanted there to be something that set me more album Fearless was the best selling album apart. And I knew that had to be my writing.” Son that same year. And she’s the top-selling digital artist writing is the strength o both o her albums, as w in music history, with tons o awards and No. 1 songs as her special edition LPs. Chapter wo: Introduc under her belt. Oh, and she’s 20 years old. aylor Swit and Chapter hree: Fearless is Fabulo Who is this music superstar? None other than take you into t he heart and soul o aylor’s music country singer turned pop music princess, singerher lyrics. Every aylor Swit song has a backstor songwriter aylor Swit. and ever y story is included in these chapters. Crea aylor has deinitely earned the title o songwriter. writing techniques, like similes and metaphors, ar Ater all, aylor has written or co-written every song uncovered, as well as moti s, rhyme schemes, and on both her sel-titled and Fearless albums. Songallusions. writing is what sets her apart rom other musicians aylor loves to write her own songs, but she als o any age. She’s the ultimate multitasker; she sings, loves to share the songwriting process. She’s writt plays guitar and piano, and writes songs. Fans young with some talented songwriters, like Liz Rose, Joh and old cherish her thought-provoking lyrics about Rich and Colbie Caillat. Chapter Four: aylor Puts th relationships, break ups, irst dates, and the power o “” in eamwork tells you more about these collabor change. and uncovers how aylor has used teamwork to enha In the irst book o this series, aylor Swit: Love her career. Story , ans learned aylor’s lie story—rom her O course, aylor doesn’t limit hersel to songYou're Reading a Preview childhood to her “swit” rise to ame, rom boywriting; she also writes extensively on her MySpa riends to best riends. aylor Swit: Secrets o a Song- blog, journals, and even witter. aylor is so ond Unlock full access with a free trial. writer takes o where that irst book let o. It’s an o stationery and letter writing, she partnered wit exploration o aylor’s songwriting genius, rom an a major greeting card company to produce her ow WithoFree Trial analysis o her lyrics to an introduction to herDownload songline cards. Chapter Five: Beyond Lyrics: aylor’s writing partners, rom her blogs and journals to a Blogs, Journals and More illustrates how aylor us support system made up o amily and riends. his inormal writing to not only keep in touch with book explores the people, places, things, moments, but also build creative writing partnerships. and events that have catapulted this songwriter to her aylor is very competitive; her dedication and l throne as princess o the music industry. o music have driven But her amily, Sign up to her votesuccess. on this title So, how did aylor get her start in music? What riends, business partners, anduseful ans keep her goin Useful Not pivotal moments o her childhood shaped her into strong. aylor relies on many people to support a the gited singer-songwriter she is today? Music was encourage her, as well as keep her grounded. Cha
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CHAPTER ONE: Falling in Love with Words
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re songwriters born or made? In other words, do you come into the world with a natural talent to pair words with music, or is it a skill you learn only over time? I the songwriter is aylor Swif, then the answer is, a little bit o both. It’s clear aylor has loved words and music rom a very young age, and she began expressing her creativity in writing and music during childhood. But she als o learned many lessons along the way, lessons that both inspired her to succeed and encouraged her to master the craf o songwriting. Tere were movies, songs, tele vision programs, role models, and teachers that helped shape aylor Swif into the music sensation she is today. For all the time spent daydreaming and wishing she’d one day be a star, there were times o sadness, conusion, and rustration. Her story is made up o moments both small and big, both happy and sad, that changed the course o her lie.
aylor’s parents noticed her love o words and mu early on. When she was just three years old, her par ents took her to see Disney’s Te Little Mermaid . “O the way home rom seeing that movie in the theater I was in the car in the back seat singing the words to the songs I’d heard in the movie,” aylor explained t Te New York imes Style Magazine. “And they kind looked at each other and were really conused as to I was remembering the words afer seeing the movi only once.” Looking back on this memory, aylor realized her interest in music was innate, something borne insid her. “I think that was my first real comprehension o act that music was what I remember the most rom movie,” she said. “Not exactly the plotline as much a the music.” Contemporary rock music also played an importa role in shaping aylor’s musical abilities. Although mother wasn’t musically inclined, she was “obsessed Once Upon a Time with De Leppard, and she listened to the band’s mu You're Reading a Preview aylor’s story begins on December 13, 1989, in Wyowhile she was pregnant. aylor grew up listening to missing, Pennsylvania, a small, wealthy suburb o Read- her mom’s music; De Leppard songs, like “Photogra Unlock full access with a free trial. ing. Her parents, Andrea and Scott Swif, named their and “Hysteria” are the melodies o her childhood. daughter aylor because they thought an androgynous aylor probably inherited her musical abilities ro With Free Trial name would prove helpul in the business world.Download “My her maternal grandmother, Marjorie Finlay, who w mom thought it was cool that i you got a business card an international opera singer and recording star in that said ‘aylor,’ you wouldn’t know i it was a guy or a Puerto Rico. While her grandather engineered oil girl,” explained aylor, whose middle name honors her rigs overseas, her grandmother starred in Te Barte aunt, Alison. Bride, Te Barber o Seville, and West Side Story . ay In some ways, aylor’s childhood was like a page out o a ondly recallsSign listening to her sing aro up to vote ongrandmother this title airy tale. She grew up on an 11-acre Christmas tree arm, the house and at church, UsefulSunday useful where aylor every Not where she owned horses and cats. Her ather, a stockbrowatched these perormances rom her church pew. ker with Merrill Lynch, commuted to the city each day or “I think watching her get up in ront o people eve
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about in my bedroom she was up there doing, and s was 14 years old, and I thought there was somethin motivating about that.” Once aylor brought home LeAnn Rimes’ album Blue, which included other hits like “Te Light in Y Eyes” and “Hurt Me,” she was hooked on country mu “I started listening to emale country artists nonstop: ■aylor remembers listening to LeAnn Rimes Faith Hill, Shania wain, the Dixie Chicks. And they as a child, and even attending her concerts. But is me back to Patsy Cline (or whom the song “Blue” w it possible that LeAnn Rimes remembers aylor Swi? Absolutely. originally written) an Loretta Lynn and am “It’s so unny, she used to come to my Wynette,” aylor told concerts when she was really little, and Blender . “I think it wa o course I was very young too,” LeAnn the storytelling that re explained to Dial-Global, according to GAC V . “She would be one o those grabbed me.” aylor also loved to little girls in the ront row who was read. Her avorites as raising her hands and just wanting to a young child were Dr touch me and wanting to sing with me, Seuss and the humoro and it was adorable. So, that’s how I remember her—as this tiny little girl poetry o Shel Silverst You're Reading a Preview She immediately concoming to my shows.” nected with poetry as LeAnn climbed the charts with her Unlock full access with a free trial. art orm. “I noticed ea song “Blue” when she was just 14 years on that poetry was so old and had to grow up in the spotDownload With Free Trial light o being a country music singer. thing that just stuck in head, and I was replay So, what advice would she give aylor those rhymes and try Swi? “Be a kid. Tis whole lie is here Country singer LeAnn Rimes remembers think o my own,” she and it can wait,” she said. “Have un beseeing a young aylor Swi in the ront row Rolling Stone. “In Eng ing a child and then, eventually, when o her concerts. you kind o have a bit o a grasp on it, Sign up to vote onthe thisonly title thing I wante douseful was poetry and all as an adult, then go aer it.” Useful Not other kids were like, ‘Oh, man. We have to write poe Tis isn’t the way aylor has approached her again?’ and I would have a three-page long poem.” career, though. Instead, aylor hit the music
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CHAPTER ONE: Falling in Love wit also perormed in a production o Annie. aylor was first bit by the acting bug in second grade afer appearing in a school play. “I knew I wanted to act and sing when I was in that play,” aylor recalled. “Right afer that, I saw an ad or a children’s theater company, and I auditioned. I got in the company, and in my second play, I got a lead role. I love singing more than acting, but I like to act because I think it helps with stage presence.” In act, aylor had an “amazing stage presence” and “great poise,” according to Sharon P. Luyben, the K-12 Music Department Chair o the Wyomissing Area School District. Sharon was aylor’s music teacher at school and was musical director or Te Sound o Music. “She was very ocused and determined to do what she wanted to do,” Sharon said o the young aylor Swif. “But she was not obnoxiously competitive; not pushy. Just a quiet leader, a pleasant, wonderul person.” Perorming in musicals was great experience or aylor. “Tat was my first taste o perorming in ront o people,” said aylor, who was also member o the school drama club and chorus. But ironically,
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Faith Hill: Faith has “beauty an
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she explained. “Tat’s when I got to sing country music. the thing that drew my attention,” she said. “I starte I got to sing Dixie Chicks songs and Shania wain to realize it when music became all I wanted to thin songs and Faith Hill songs.” about and all I wanted to do was sing.” People began to notice how good aylor was at singaylor was so dedicated to her music, she sold he ing country music, and the more she sang karaoke, the horse. Although aylor enjoyed riding horses, some more she loved it. It became evident to aylor and her thing her mom also did as a child, it was keeping he parents that singing country music was the path she rom what she really loved, which was playing musi should ollow. “My singing sounded a lot more country Tus, aylor, who described hersel as “driven,” sold than Broadway,” she explained. So aylor sang karaoke horse so she could dedicate hersel ull t ime to mus and entered contests everywhere possible, at estivals, It was also around this time that aylor began see airs and parties. music as a possible career and not just a hobby. Rais During the summers, while her amily stayed at their by parents with college diplomas and business degr summer home in Stone Harbor, New Jersey, aylor sang aylor always assumed she’d work in finance, just lik karaoke at Henny’s Restaurant on Tird Avenue. Johnny her parents. When people asked aylor, “What do y Petillo, who began hosting the karaoke nights in 1989, want to be when you grow up,” she used to say “I’m was very impressed when he first heard 10-year-old going to be a stockbroker like my dad.” Even though aylor sing. “I knew right then that nothing was gonna didn’t know what a stockbroker actually did, she wa stop this kid,” Petillo said o aylor, who would wait to be just like her ather. “It wasn’t until a ew years patiently to sing almost any song. “She had that deterlater that I realized maybe it would be possible to h mination. You could see it. You could eel it…She loved a career in the thing that I loved, which was music,” You're Preview to be on the stage. She loved having an audience. And Reading aylorasaid in a CM Insider Interview. she wasn’t one o those spoiled, bratty kids we ofen get So how does a girl earn a career in country music Unlock full access with a free trial. in there or karaoke. She was polite.” Well, or starters, she goes to Nashville. aylor used to beg her parents to take her to Henny’s Download With Free HillTrial and Nashville every night or karaoke. “Tat was one o the first things Faith At age 10, aylor saw a television program about th that tipped my parents off that I was gonna be obnoxious about wanting to [sing],” she noted. lie o Faith Hill that truly impacted her li e. From Back in Pennsylvania, aylor ofen spent hours lookthat program, aylor learned that Faith—the wie ing through the phone book, looking or places to sing. o im McGraw known or hits like “Tis Kiss” and “Breathe”—decided to vote go toon Nashville It wasn’t long beore she discovered a karaoke contest at Sign up to this title to try to mak it big. “Tat’s moment realized that Nashville the Pat Garrett Roadhouse, what aylor described as “a Useful useful the I Not broken-down roadhouse” in Strausstown, Pennsylvania. is where you need to be i you want to sing country Te owner o the roadhouse hosted perormances by tramusic,” aylor told Te New York imes Style Magaz
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Oh Say, Can You See? ■Te national anthem is sung at almost every
sports event, big or small. And according to aylor, it’s the perect song or an aspiring musician to sing. “It’s a great way to get in ront o a large group o people i you didn’t have a record deal,” she noted. Although she enjoyed singing karaoke, aylor began singing Te Star-Spangled Banner as a way to get noticed. “I started singing the national anthem anywhere I possibly could, 76ers games, the US Open, and I would just send my tapes out everywhere,” explained aylor. “I would sing the national anthem at garden club meetings. I didn’t care. I figured out that i you could sing that one song, you could get in ront o 20,000 people without even having a record deal.” aylor’s mom once explained the challenge o singing the national anthem. “Te first note to her is Reading a Preview critical,” Andrea Swi told the Press o Atlantic City You're . “It is one o the hardest songs to perorm. I you start Unlock full access with a free trial. out with too low a note, you can't do the end o the song. I you start out too high, it' s the same thing. Download With Free Trial But aylor always perorms it perectly." In 2008 aylor sang the national anthem or Game 3 o the World Series, which the Philadelphia Phillies ended up winning. At this point in her career, it was an easy song to sing, note-wise. “For me, the national anthem is not as challenging Sign up to vote on this title range-wise, because I’ve been doing it or so long,” Useful Not useful aylor said. “Te challenge or me is the utter silence that comes over 40,000 people in a baseball
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Nashville’s Music Row. Her mom would pull the car up Playing the Twelve-String to a label, and aylor would hop out and run inside to give her pitch: “Hey, I’m 11, and I want a record deal. Once aylor picked up a guitar, there was n Call me.’” her back. Instead o playing the usual six-st aylor admitted she was naïve in thinking she would she chose to play twelve-string guitar, whic land a record deal so quickly and at such a young age. richer sound. She actually chose twelve-stri “I thought that they might be like, ‘Oh, cool, you want a someone told her that her fingers were too record deal? Here you go. Sign right there,’” she remem- it. “Anytime someone tells me that I can’t d bered. “I don’t think I knew what was going to happen. I want to do it more,” aylor explained to For aylor, songwriting naturally ollowe I knew what would happen i I didn’t try, and I knew I would end up staying in the same place and never playing. “As soon as I picked up a guitar an knowing what would have happened i I hadn’t tried.” three chords, I started writing songs,” she aylor is certain that, most o the time, her demo “Songwriting just came as another orm o e tapes went directly into the wastebasket, even i the aylor believed that “practice makes pere receptionist smiled and said, “Oh sure, sweetie. I’ll give played guitar or our hours every day and s this to them.” But overall, everyone was nice to aylor stop until her mom said it was time or dinn and no one ever told her “no.” she played hard enough to make her fingers One strike against aylor was her age. She was young, her mom would have to tape them up. Tis and country music did not have a young demographic. one o the reasons Andrea Swif called her d Everywhere she went, aylor was told that only 35“artistic overachiever.” You're year-old emales listen to country music. aylorReading knew a Preview Playing live music offered aylor a differe that wasn’t a act. I she listened to country music, she singing karaoke, which is sung to prerecor Unlock full access with a free trial. hypothesized, so did other young girls. “So I kept tr yground music. With a guitar, she elt ree t ing because I didn’t believe that there was just one tiny more locations. “Instead o playing at karao Download With Free Trial demographic, that there was this one pinpoint you had things like that where I needed to drag my to hit to be able to apply to country music,” she said. “I machine everywhere, I would go with my g thought that it could be broader than that.” I would plug it in at coffee houses,” explaine Afer spring break, aylor returned to Pennsylvania “And I would bring my little amplifier and p without a record deal. But she went home with a huge Boy Scout meetings. I would plug it in at al lie lesson. She realized Nashville was ull o aspirent places, random Sign uplittle to vote on thisplaces title where you c ing singers and songwriters. “It was really more o me nowhad a portable instrument, Useful useful and I could Not looking around this huge town and this huge place that pany mysel, and I could play anywhere I wa is Nashville and realizing that there were hundreds o While staying at her amily’s summer hom
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Poetry and Song Lyrics: Are they the same thing ■I you’ve ever read the lyrics to a song, chances are
you noticed the words are ormatted the same as a poem. Tat’s because song lyrics are basically poetry set to music. A poem is made up o stanzas, and in song lyrics, these stanzas make up the verses, chorus and bridge o the song. “I’ve always loved the structure o a song: verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, then maybe you repeat the first verse,” explained aylor. “I’ve always operated in those terms and never had to think too much about it, but I’ve always known it was there.” Some o aylor’s songs start out as poems. Other songs begin with just a title. “It will come into my head,
and I’ll work backwards rom that and I’ll get a hook explained aylor. Sometimes, aylor just messes aro with her guitar. “A really cool melody will just kind come at me,” she noted. “And which ever way I eel t it goes, either happy or sad, angry or whatever I eel plays into it. I’ll write around that.” Emotion is at the heart o most poetry, and the sam is true with aylor’s song lyrics. “It all starts with ee something,” she said. “I think in terms o metaphor lot o the time… I’ll be inspired by something and tu it into a picture that I can see in my head, and then I describe that picture.”
or DreamWorks Nashville at the time. Impressed by resented Britney Spears. “She blew me away with he Previewsongwriting and personality,” Dan aylor’s precocious sel-confidence and her demoYou're tapes, Reading talent,acreativity, Scott requested aylor’s ather keep in contact with him o aylor, according to the Press o Atlantic City . Unlock full access with a free trial. about aylor’s progress. Te two men kept in touch in the Working with Dan or several years as her “overal ollowing years as aylor’s music continued to evolve. manager,” aylor was able to take her music rom lo Downloadcoffee With shop Free to Trial aylor’s first songs were very basic. Her first song compact disc and beyond. titled “Lucky You” was made up o only three chords— The Outside because she knew only three chords then. “It’s a G and a D and a C, then back to D,” aylor recalled o her first Writing and singing country music did not help ay song. “Te song was about a girl who didn’t fit in and win the popularity contest at school. In act, it made she didn’t care and she was different than everyone else. an outsider. Unlike country music Sign upNashville, to vote on where this title I think there’s a long chorus o me singing ‘Do do do do the norm, Wyomissing place or a buddin Not auseful Useful was not do do do do do do.’” country music singer to flourish. “I grew up in Pen In act, versions o this song ound their way onto sylvania, and growing up in Pennsylvania and want
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angry and rustrated by school,” she said. “You can choose to let it drag you down, o find ways to rise above it,” she added. “I cam conclusion that even though people hadn’t there or me, music had.” aylor’s negative junior high experiences helped her write her first published song. O night in January 2004, aylor was sitting alo bedroom and wrote a song in 30 minutes. I “Te Outside,” and it was about eeling like school. “I wrote exactly what I was eeling,” o the honest lyrics. Tanks to Dan Dymtrow, “Te Outside” to appear on a 2004 compilation CD put ou belline called Chicks with Attitude, an ongo that helps young emale artists just starting music business. Dan had recommended th Maybelline executives, and they accepted it which served as a ree gif with a Maybellin Because o her guitar playing and country music, her purchase. Te CD corresponded with the C You're Reading a Preview riends started to distance themselves rom her to the Attitude 2004 Concert our, which eatured point that they would leave the caeteria lunch table once and the Cardigans. Unlock full access with a free trial. she took a seat there. It was a difficult time or aylor, and When aylor ound out that her song was b she tried to find ways to fit in. “I tried to be good at so ed on the CD, she was actually eating at aco Download With Free TrialI started screaming,” she recalled o h many things when I was younger,” she told InStyle. Tat ecstatic! included trying to play two sports, soccer and basketball. good news. “Everybody looked at me like I wa She wasn’t good at either o these, although she did play Later that year, aylor was also selected b volleyball. She also tried to fit in physically by straighten- crombie & Fitch as one o 27 “rising stars” ing her naturally curly hair because the girls at school campaign. A black and white photo o aylo made un o it and called it “rizzy.” in hand, only in the August 2 Sign not up to voteappeared on this title Because she didn’t eel like part o a group, aylor Vanity magazine, also inside the Ab Useful useful Fair Notbut spent a lot o time observing people rom aar. Watch& Fitch catalog. ing people inspired many songwriting ideas. “I would Looking back, aylor realized her experie
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Moving to Nashville and being a songwriter or S AV was not an instant recipe or success. aylor st had to work hard and make difficult decisions afer moving to the country music capital. It was a conu time because she didn’t know what the uture held. act, her development deal with RCA Records was g ing nowhere. Tey wanted to keep her in developm even longer, without promise o an eventual record deal. It was then that aylor made a very bold move walked away rom RCA Records. “It’s not a really po lar thing to do in Nashville, to walk away rom a ma record deal,” aylor said o the decision. “But that’s I did, because I wanted to find some place that wou
Despite the pain o being an outcast at school, things were looking up or aylor Swif proessionally. At age 13, thanks to regular trips to Nashville and perormances there, she signed a development contract with RCA Records in September 2003. Although it wasn’t exactly the record deal she’d hoped or, it was a step orward with a major record label. “A development deal is where they’re giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they’ll put an album out,” aylor told Entertainment Weekly . “And they can kind o shelve you, in some circumstances.” When she wasn’t in Nashville, aylor was back home in Wyomissing playing guitar and writing songs. But she always kept the lines o communication open with publishers and labels in the country music capital. She would regularly touch base with these record executives and by being persistent, she landed a dream job by age 14. Sony/AV Music Publishing asked her to come on ■Many ans write to aylor asking or adv board as their youngest songwriter to date. You're Reading aon Preview how to make it in the music industry. T Tis job offer was great, but it had its consequences. raveling to Nashville once every ew months would no are aspiring singers and songwriters who va Unlock full access with a free trial. longer be enough or aylor. She needed to be in Nashher opinion. Below are aylor’s words o ville year round to launch her career in songwriting and dom and tips or launching a successul care Download With Free Trial music. in country country music. But that would mean her entire amily would have to relocate. Would they do it? Absolutely. Remember that nobody makes it the same wa aylor’s parents believed in her abilities and decided to “Tere are hundreds o country artists and I move to Nashville to try and make her dream a reality. can pretty much vouch or the act that nobo Tey moved to Hendersonville in 2004 and Scott Swif ‘makes it’ the same way. It’s always different.” traveled or work between the two states or some time WorkSign yourup way way that I made it w to up. “Te vote on this title to make the transition. According to aylor’s mom, the that I was a songwriter I moved to Nash Useful useful Notfirst. move was not about aylor being amous one day; it and got a publishing deal with Sony, so I was was about living in a place that offered the things aylor a paid songwriter beore I was a singer with a
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like a huge question that I get all the time: ‘ people?’ Yeah, they are people.” Because aylor wrote about the ups and d youth, Scott Borchetta also took a chance on The Bluebird Café She was young, and the country music indu While aylor was writing songs or Sony/AV, she believed that only middle age people listene perormed at various arenas in Nashville. She was even music. It seemed unlikely that aylor’s song eatured in a BMI Songwriter’s Circle showcase, which school crushes were going to appeal to mid took place at the Bitter End nightclub in Greenwich Vil- listeners. Still, aylor stayed true to who sh lage, New York City. never tried to write about things she hadn Another night, she sang at a new artist showcase at enced, like marriage or children. the Bluebird Caé, and it was one o those times when “I’ll be the first to stand up and say ‘Look, she was in the right place at the right time. Out in the never been married or had a kid,” aylor said audience was Scott Borchetta, who remembered aylor was just starting out. “I can’t relate as much t rom her earlier trips to Nashville. By this time, Dream- that are about that, as I can to songs that are works Nashville had gone under, and Scott was launchthat I have gone through. I think that’s why s ing his own music label and looking or new talent. young people listen to pop music—because “I remember sitting there just kind o...just...is this people in pop music sing about younger thin gonna hit me? And it absolutely did,” Scott Borchetta When it came to making it in the music i said, recalling that moment in the Bluebird Caé when aylor had a secret weapon that had nothin You're“And Reading he listened to aylor sing with his eyes closed. so I a Preview talent or demographics. Simply put, she bel went and met with the amily afer that.” sel. “Tere were times when I didn’t know Unlock full access with a free trial. Scott wanted to sign aylor to his label. Afer walking to get a record deal,” she said o the day ing away rom RCA Records, aylor knew she wanted met Scott Borchetta. “But never once did I e Trialjust give this up, this is just not gon a smaller, independent label that could Download give her the With Free I should attention she needed as well as the reedom to write her Fortunately, aylor was also surrounded own songs. But she would be taking a chance on Scott people. “No one ever said to me, ‘Girl, you can Borchetta’s label, one he hadn’t even named yet. “He aylor recalled. “I thank God or that.” Her pa didn’t have a building or it. And he didn’t have a staff believed in her. “My parents were just so pos or it. But he had a dream, and would I go on board?” was able andtitle break through,” s Signto upget to through vote on this aylor recalled to Dateline NBC . “I went with my gut aylor said it was her useful parents who “empo Useful Not instinct which, which just said, ‘Say yes.’” to do what she loved no matter what. Looki Working with Scott Borchetta, who eventually named realizes the important role parents have on
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ven though aylor first worked as a songwriter like reading my diary,” she told Te New York imes or Sony/AV, her songwriting skills were relaStyle Magazine. tively unknown to the outside world until Big Like any teenage girl’s diary, aylor’s debut album Machine Records released her debut album in Octoull o stories about love, something she’s always bee ber 2006. “I sat down with my record label and went ascinated with. “I am a complete hopeless romantic through songs beore we started recording,” aylor said she told CM News. Te songs encompass a wide ra about the process o compiling her first album. “ Tere o topics on love—rom first loves to break ups, rom were about 40 that we wanted to put on the CD. But we unrequited love to relationships that stand the test o had to narrow it down.” time. “Tere is no strategy or rulebook when it com Te result, aylor’s sel-titled album, included 11 to love,” she explained to Flare. “No amount o advi original songs, all written or co-written by aylor. Tis can prepare you or its ups and downs. It’s unpredic act immediately separated the 16-year-old rom other able; that’s why I write about it.” music stars o her day. Tey may have had beautiul eenage girls think about more than just crushes singing voices but most o them did not write t heir boys, though; they’re also concerned with body ima own music or even play an instrument. Her many and the pressures o fitting in, and aylor’s first albu talents also helped aylor make music history. Afer her explores these important issues as well. No matter t sel-titled album earned the No. 1 spot on the Country tune—whether it’s her first single “im McGraw” o Albums chart and climbed to No. 5 on the Billboard 200 her pop crossover hit “eardrops on My Guitar”—e chart, it went platinum, selling one million copies by song on the sel-titled album tells a story, and every June 2008. Tis meant aylor Swif was the first emale story is told with honesty and creativity, which seem You're Preview o this gifed songwriter. solo country artist in history to write or co-write every Reading be theatrademarks song on a platinum album. Unlock full access with a free trial. “Tim McGraw” Going platinum was a huge accomplishment or aylor, but it proved to be just the beginning o her success. When it comes to writing about personal experienc Download With Free aylor’s firstTrial single, “im McGraw” is a perect exam In November 2009, with over our million copies s old, According to Blender magazine, aylor wrote the so aylor’s sel-titled album became the longest-charting album o the decade, a spot previously held by Nickelafer a relationship with a boy named Drew—a hock back, a rock band aylor likes. “Tat’s a crazy statistic,” player who was three years older than aylor—ende aylor noted to MV News. “It means that my first Te two broke up when Drew went off to college, leaving aylor back him. When she album that came out, the sel-titled album, has been on Sign up at to home vote onmissing this title thought back the year sheuseful spent with Drew— the charts longer than I guess any album this century.” Useful about Not Why was her first album so successul? According whether it was taking prom pictures in his backyard to aylor, it’s because o her ans, whom she thanks at her first kiss—one o the things she realized she wo
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In act, aylor’s ather, Scott Swif, suggested she play the song or Big Machine Records president Scott Borchetta, who loved it so much, he immediately proclaimed it would be her first single. “Tat was the moment o ‘Oh my God,’” Scott said o hearing “im McGraw” the first time. “And the grenade dropped in the still pond.” Te song was originally called “When You Tink im McGraw” but over time, the title was shortened to simply “im McGraw.” aylor wrote the original version but tweaked some o the notes and lyrics at the piano with her songwriting partner, Liz Rose. Big Machine Records released “im McGraw” in June 2006, a ew months beore the complete album was released. Te tune peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Country Songs chart and at No. 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It was an immediate hit with country music ans because it specifically mentioned the hunky country superstar im McGraw, best known or the songs “Something Like Tat,” “I Like it, I Love it” and “Live Like You Were Dying,” to name a ew. In creativeYou're writing,Reading this is a Preview called an allusion, a reerence to a person, place, thing Unlock full access with a free trial. or phrase. In the lyrics, aylor alludes to im McGraw, assuming the listener knows who he is and is amiliar aylor and her fiddler, Caitlin Evanson, work wel Download With Free Trial Many o aylor’s songs rely on fiddle to create cou with his music. Tis was an especially smart songwriting decision on aylor’s part because most country music ans already had their own eelings and memoaylor took a big risk by putting im McG ries about im McGraw’s music, and this helped them in her song, though. She had never met him immediately connect with her song. In the lyrics, aylor it was only a matter o time beore im—the also mentions specific details about lie in the country, late ug pitched SignMcGraw, up to votewho on this title or both the N like “Georgia stars,” “Chevy truck,” and “back roads,” Mets the Philadelphia Phillies—heard th Useful and Not useful that help paint a picture o the song’s setting. heard rom people that he and Faith [Hill] lo Even ans o other music genres like pop and rock which was awesome to hear,” aylor said.
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“Picture to Burn,” the second track on her sel-titled theme in her video or the song. Te video album, is all about the negative part. It’s about a “redband and her best riend, Abigail Anderson neck” guy who did a girl wrong. “I didn’t get my perect trash the video boyriend’s place using toile antasy/I realize you love yoursel more than you could love me,” aylor states in the song, which she once again “Teardrops on My Guitar” co-wrote with Liz Rose. While a student at Hendersonville High S Tough she’s never disclosed the name o the boy who lor ell hard or another boy named Drew w inspired the song, she did say this about him: “Te guy ul eyes” and an “amazing smile.” She sat ne I wrote this song about, I didn’t really ever ‘officially’ class and admitted to having a big crush on “I was definitely in the ‘riend zone,’” ay date. We almost dated. It really bothered me that he was so cocky and that is where that song came rom.” while serving as Artist o the Month on the aylor wrote “Picture to Burn” one day afer school, American Country (GAC) blog. “He would something she usually did because her job afer school every day about his girlriend, and how hap was writing songs or Sony/AV in downtown Nashville. were, and how awesome she was and blah, b would just sit there and ake a smile and tel “I ound mysel just sitting there with my guitar going, ‘I hate his stupid truck that he doesn’t let me drive. happy I was or him. I never told him that I He’s such a redneck! Oh my God!’” aylor explained. and it absolutely was killing me. So I wrote “Tat actually became the chorus to the song, so that’s his name in it, and this song is definitely th one o the most honest songs I’ve ever written.” that — never being able to tell them that yo aylor came up with the idea or “eardr Te song lyrics are eisty and aggressive. In “Picture You're to Burn,” aylor threatens to do a ew things inReading revenge, a Preview Guitar” on her way home rom school one d like date the jerky ex-boyriend’s best riends and in one just like ‘Oh my God; I got this idea in m Unlock full access with a free trial. version, even tell her riends he’s gay. With lyrics like remembered thinking. Te song is about a “wasted time” and “planning my revenge,” aylor shows with a boy unaware o her eelings: “Drew l Download With Free a different side. She may be sweet and nice, but i you akeTrial a smile so he won’t see/What I want an cross her, look out. She’ll strike a match and not only need/And everything that we should be.” burn your picture, but your memory. Writing “eardrops on My Guitar” actual aylor’s ans, mostly women, relate to these heartaylor work through her crush on Drew. “I break songs as much as they do her romantic ones. Tey lot o people have been through that, where appreciate aylor’s honesty, that she’s willing to discuss killing you. want able to tell them Sign up You to vote on to thisbetitle the bad times as well as the good. o aylor, it’s imporcan’t,” said. “I to the realization th Useful Not useful she came tant to debunk the myths about love. “We’re raised as his riend, I’ll do anything to make him hap little girls to think that we’re a princess and that Prince what makes him happy isn’t me. Tat was k
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aylor and Liz also used repetition to bring about radio and does well or you and makes you smile,” s meaning. Te line “the only thing that keeps me wishsaid. “So it kind o works out to your advantage no m ing on a wishing star” is unique in that it could have ter what happens.” been written as “wishing on a alling star” or “wishing “A Place in This World” on a shooting star.” Instead, they chose to repeat the word “wishing,” which urther demonstrates the girl’s aylor’s ourth track on her sel-titled album, “A Pla desire, the hope she will someday tell the boy how she in Tis World,” was inspired not by an ex-boyriend eels and that perhaps, he’ll eel the same. or crush, but her own journey to becoming a singer As a musician, aylor made other decisions unresongwriter. “I wrote this song when I was 13 and ha just moved to Nashville,” said aylor o the song. “I lated to the lyrics that helped make “eardrops on My Guitar” a success. Te original version on her sel-titled tough trying to find out how I was going to get whe album sounds much more like country music than pop I wanted to go. I knew where I wanted to be, but I ju because it’s missing a background beat most common didn’t know how to get there.” in pop music. o help the song crossover into the pop In this vein, the song is about a girl trying to figur out who she is and where she wants to go in lie: “I’m genre, aylor said she made a “no-brainer” decision to add that background beat. It was a smart decision alone, on my own and that’s all I know/ I’ll be stron because the new pop version o “eardrops on My I’ll be wrong, oh, but lie goes on/ Oh, I’m just a girl Guitar”peaked at No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and ing to find a place in this world.” later peaked at No. 5 on the Mediabase op 40 and BillLike the song suggests, with lines like, “I don’t know what’s down this road” and “omorrow’s just a mystery board Adult Contemporary chart. Te song was later You're Reading a Preview named “Country Song o the Year” at the BMI Country the uture once seemed unclear to aylor Swif; all she Awards in November 2007. had was a dream. Afer realizing Pennsylvania was n Unlock full access with a free trial. wo years afer the song came out, aylor’s crush the place to launch a country music career, aylor’s am named Drew finally took the hint rom the song “earmoved to be near Nashville, home o the Grand Ole O With Free as Trial drops on My Guitar” and showed up at aylor’s Download house and known the Country Music Capital. Tey reloca unexpectedly. “I was on my way out o the house to to a Nashville suburb o about 40,000 people called He meet Carrie [Underwood] and Kellie [Pickler] or a dersonville, ennessee—once the home o the late Joh hockey game,” aylor said. “He was standing there in Cash and the late Roy Orbison. aylor’s dad commute my driveway. I haven’t talked to this guy in two years. I back and orth between ennessee and Pennsylvania, was like, ‘Um, hi?’” something aylor called an “incredible Sign up to vote on this titlesacrifice.” aylor said it would have been “cool” and “poetic” Success did come immediately Useful not Not usefulto aylor; she had Drew showed up at her house right afer the song to work or it and be very patient. “I had people tell was released. But as time went by, her lie and her eel“Wait. Later. We’ll sign you to a record deal later,” sh
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she reers to in the song with the cliché “we heart on my sleeve.” It’s a common saying p to mean that they are revealing who they opening themselves up to get hurt. Afer wa rom RCA, aylor continued to ollow her p which was writing and perorming her own She continued to do shows at open mic nig was while she was doing what she loved tha changed orever. She met Scott Borchetta, a utive who was starting his own label called Records. aylor signed with Scott, again ma decision with her “gut instinct.” Te rest, as they say, is history. But it’s a h a journey aylor will never orget. Nor will granted her successes. Within the lyrics o “ Tis World” is this secret message: “Found i
it’s something aylor loves to play with. “I love rhymes, and I love poetry, and I can’t get enough o it,” she told InStyle magazine. “I love finding words that rhyme and searching through my mind to find the perect one. It’s so much un!” O course, there are different kinds o rhyme, and aylor seems to try them all. Below are the varying uses o rhyme, and the ways aylor applies them to her lyrics. ��� ����� is the most common rhyme. It is the first rhyming we learn as kids, when we realize “Cold As You” the words “cat” and “hat” and “bat” have the same Like “Picture to Burn,” aylor’s fifh song on ending sound. aylor uses true rhyme in many o titled album “Cold as You” is laced with ang her songs: You're Reading a Preview “Cold As You”: “And now that I’m sitting disappointment. here, “I think the lyrics to this song are some o thinking it through/I’ve never been anywhere Unlock full access with a free trial. we’ve ever written,” said aylor, who co-wro cold as you.” “Tim McGraw”: “He says he’s so in love, he’s with Liz Rose. “It’s about that moment whe Trial ize someone isn’t at all who you thought the finally got it right/ I wonder i he knowsDownload he’s all I With Free that you’ve been trying to make excuses or think about at night.” rue rhyme can occur at places other than at who doesn’t deserve them. And that some p just never going to love you. We were halw the end o a line. Sometimes, it’s un to use true writing this when I started singing And now rhyme within a line, which is called �������� sitting here through, �����, as aylor does in the ollowing examples: Sign up thinking to vote onitthis title I’ve never b The Outside: “I can’t see you, this isn’t the best where as you.” Useful cold Not useful view.” Tough aylor sometime names boys in “A Place in this World”: “I’ll be strong, I’ll be her songs, she did not mention the particula
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trates her emotional pain in response to this behavior popular girl? I was never that girl,” she told Lie Story with lines like “Counting all the scars you made.” Scars “I was always a ew levels below that. While in middl can reer to physical wounds, like a cut, but they can school and junior high, all my riends ditched me and also represent painul memories and eelings. o a sudden, I had no riends, I was really lonely.” Te song’s biggest triumph, however, is the chorus, When aylor uses the word ‘ditch’, she means it. which plays on the word “cold,” a word with several Sometimes, her riends would leave the table in t definitions and uses. A “cold” person is said to be uneteria afer she sat down. Another time, they purpo emotional and perhaps even mean; on the other hand, went shopping at the mall without her. Tey made when it comes to weather, “cold” is the opposite o hot o her curly and sometimes rizzy hair so much so t and brings to mind low temperatures. aylor bridges aylor tried straightening her hair just to fit in. Te these two ideas by saying “I’ve never been anywhere girls at school also disliked her taste in music. Coun cold as you.” It’s a unique line because she’s comparing music was not popular in Pennsylvania. the selfish boy to wintry places she might travel, and it Just as she did in the song “im McGraw,” aylor u can be assumed he’s colder than somewhere known or an allusion in the song “Te Outside” to bring about reezing temperatures, like Alaska. meaning. In the tune, she says “I tried to take the roa Writing heartelt songs about being mistreated by a less traveled by,” which reers to a poem titled “Te R boy shows a very sensitive side o aylor, but it’s a side Not aken” by American poet Robert Frost. Te poe she wants to show to her ans. “I really don’t think there ends with a amous line about two roads: “I took the should be a wall between artists and ans,” she said. less traveled by/And that has made all the difference. “Tat’s why my album is so personal. I think it’s just betusing the words “the road less traveled,” aylor is say You're Reading a Preview ter to be honest with people. Being vulnerable isn’t always she tried to do things differently than most people he a bad thing, especially when it comes to expression.” age. Even in junior high, her riends were getting into Unlock full access with a free trial. drugs and alcohol and partying, while she was singin “The Outside” karaoke and perorming at open mic nights. With Freepart Trial aylor’s song “Te Outside” originally appearedDownload on Te best o the song “Te Outside” is that ma Maybelline’s Chicks with Attitude compilation CD and years afer aylor first wrote the song, she discovere later became the sixth track on her sel-titled album. happy ending. At age 12, instead o eeling bad abou Written when she was just 12 years old, the song dehersel, aylor used her pain to uel her passion in l scribes how aylor elt during middle school and junior songwriting. Music became the outlet or her pain a high. Te lyrics state, “How can I ever tr y to be better/ she ound a best in her aylor wasn’t o Signriend up to vote onguitar. this title Nobody ever lets me in/I can still see you, this ain’t the o the cool kids, and so she Not useful her lie to mu Useful dedicated best view/On the outside looking in.” ultimately becoming a platinum-selling country and “Te Outside” is an accurate title or the song because pop music sensation (who’s pretty cool).
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Rain, Rain, Go Away ■It seems aylor Swi is as-
cinated with the rain. Te rain moti—a recurring or repeating theme or pattern—shows up in many o her songs. In act, the title o one o her songs on her platinum edition Fearless album is “Come in with the Rain.” She even covered Rihanna’s song “Umbrella” on her Live rom Soho album. So why does aylor write about the rain so much? Rain has long been a symbol o sorrow; it makes listeners think o dark, gloomy skies, or, in the worst case, a treacherous storm. It is also used to represent tears. Below are a ew o the rain-or water-themed lines rom aylor’s sel-titled album.
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aylor tackled the issue o eating disorders her song “ied ogether with a Smile,” which appears as the seventh track on her sel-titled album. Te song was inspired by one o riends in high school who was bulimic. Acc ing to aylor, the girl was gorgeous. “All the g want to date her and all the girls want to be h she explained. “She is literally a pageant quee aylor wrote the song right afer she discov her riend had an eating disorder. “Tat is o those moments when your heart kind o stop she said. “How can somebody who seems so strong have such a horrible, horrible weakne Something that is killing her.” Tis beauty pageant winner did not see her as beautiul. Tat’s evident in the first lines o ■Song lyrics can be more descriptive through the the song: “Seems the only one who doesn’t se your beauty/Is the ace in the mirror looking use o similes and metaphors. Te two literary back at you.” It was hard or aylor to believe devices are similar in concept but different in how they are applied. A simile compares two things using girl didn’t think o hersel as beautiul, but sh You're Reading asoon Preview the word “like” or “as.” On the other hand, a metarealized things are not always as they se “Sometimes when you get a little closer to pe phor compares two things without using “like” or Unlock full access with a free trial. who look that perect, you realize that they “as.” A metaphor usually relies on a state-o-being eel perect,” aylor explained to Seventeen verb like “is” or “are.” aylor uses both similes and Trial metaphors to make her song lyrics powerul, Download With Free eel like they’re ugly.” descriptive, and heartelt. Te girl in the song is “tied together with a smile” because although she’s alling apart in Similes she’s smiling on the outside so no one knows pain. aylor illustrates this point with the lin “im McGraw”: “Te moon like a spotlight on the lake.” “You don’t telltoanyone Sign up vote onthat thisyou titlemight not be “ied ogether with a Smile”: “Cause you’re giving golden Useful Not useful one.” it away like it’s extra change.” aylor admitted “ied ogether with a Smil proved a challenge to write. “I wasn’t just tellin “Stay Beautiul”: “Cory’s eyes are like a jungle.”
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or hurting other people. It is all based rom insecurity, thought was cute, and never really talked to and not being okay with yoursel. I think that i people But something about him inspired this son could just be confident about who they are and what ing him.” they stand or, there would be ewer problems in the Tis is one o aylor’s greatest gifs as a so world.” her ability to write about things she only im It’s normal to eel bad about yoursel rom time to doesn’t need to have a relationship with a b time. Even aylor questions her looks. Once, when she song about him. “Afer hearing my songs, a read a comment online about her eyes being small, she ask me, ‘How many boyriends have you HA started to worry that her eyes were too small. Although said. “And I always tell them that more o m aylor boasts a very lean figure, she admits ood is her come rom observation than actual experien weakness. “I don’t diet. I don’t like it. For me, I would aylor said she can look across a crowded eat healthy, but I reuse to use the term ‘diet,’” she said. simply make eye contact with a guy, and it’s “For a while there, I put out a single and I was like, ‘I inspire a song. “It can just be ‘I am having a gotta get in shape man, I’m going on a diet.’ And then sation with a guy, he is flirting with me and I realized that’s ridiculous. I’m happy with how I look girlriend walks up,’” she said. “You can wri and I’m not gonna you know...i I want to eat a cheeseo songs about that. “ burger, it’s going to happen.” “Stay Beautiul” describes a boy named C Although she has a treadmill on her tour bus, she eyes like a jungle—perhaps meaning they a doesn’t overdo it when it comes to working out either. green like the flora and auna o a jungle, or “Te only time I run is when I’m gearing up or a tour, they are wild and exciting. When he smiles You're Reading a Preview and I know I need some serious endurance so I’m Unlock full access with a free trial. not going to be panting onstage,” she said. Download With Free Trial So what happened to aylor’s riend, the one who struggled with bulimia? aylor played the song “ied ogether with a Smile” or her and Sign up to vote on this title it helped. Useful Not useful “Luckily, I talked to her about it, and she got help
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Secret Messages: A Matching Game
■Inspired by the Beatles—who were said to have encoded secret messages on their records that could only b
heard only by playing the songs backward—aylor encoded secret messages in the lyrics printed inside her C jacket. Each song includes random capital letters that when written down in the order they appear spell out unique phrase.Tink you know which secret messages go with which songs? ake this matching quiz. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
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Withname FreeisTrial it’s like the radio, as i he’s whispering songs intoDownload the your Sam, look out. aylor wrote the song girl’s window, songs with words that no one else under“Should’ve Said No” about her ex-boyriend Sam. “H stands. But Cory doesn’t know he’s special to this girl. the guy who made the unortunate error o cheating She wishes that she’ll end up with Cory someday, but i a songwriter,” aylor told Blender . “Big mistake.” that doesn’t happen, she wants him to know he should aylor doesn’t mention Sam’s name in the words o stay as beautiul as he is today. the song, butSign she up spelled hison name out several times to vote this title Tis theme o being secretly in love with someone secret message encoded in the jacket lyrics. NotCD useful Useful occurs in other songs by aylor, like “eardrops on My At one time, aylor dated Sam, but once she oun Guitar.” It’s a eeling aylor is amiliar with rom perout he cheated on her with another girl, she broke it
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being a human being, I’ve realized that beore every big problem you create or yoursel, beore every huge mess you have to clean up, there was a crucial moment where you could’ve just said no,” she said. It’s clear in the song that at one time the relationship was good. It was ull o “songs,” “flowers,” and “smiles.” But all o that changes once the girl in the song learns the truth, that her boyriend cheated on her in what he called “a moment o weakness.” Writing about Sam, also known as “Bad Cheater Guy,” was therapeutic or aylor. It helped her get over her anger and disappointment. “Usually, like afer I write a song about somebody, I kind o get over it,” she said. “I it’s a heartbreak song or something like it, it usually helps me get through it.” In some ways, it was also a orm o revenge.
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“Our Song”
aylor’s first boyriend inspired not one song but tw “Our Song” is also based on aylor’s first relationshi when she was 15. She wrote “Our Song” or the nint “Mary’s Song (Oh My My My)” grade talent show. “When I wrote that song, I was Despite dating a ew losers, aylor has never allen out o dating this guy who was going to be there at the ta love with love. She still believes that true love exists. One show,” aylor told the Reading Eagle. “And we didn’t song that proves this is “Mary’s Song (Oh My My My).” have a song. I thought I’d just sing it in ront o ever “I wrote this song about a couple who lived next door one at the high school. He was my first boyriend, a to us,” aylor said. “Tey’d been married orever, and no one at the school had heard me sing, ever. It help they came over one night or dinner, and were just so me fit in, I guess.” cute. Tey were talking about how they ell in love and Te song came easily and quickly to aylor. “I wro got married, and how they met when they were just in twenty minutes literally; I just got this idea o a s little kids. I thought it was so sweet, because you can go that was sort o like a story but was more conversat to the grocery store and read the tabloids, and see who’s in the verse,” she said during an GAC interview. “An breaking up and cheating on each other or just listen to I just started ad-libbing it, and I had to go back and some o my songs, ha ha. But it was really comorting remember everything I said, and it took li ke our ru to know that all I had to do was go home and look next throughs to write that song.” door to see a perect example o orever.” “Our Song” won over ans because many couples “Mary’s Song” is a tale about two kids who grow up look or a avorite song to call their own. It may be You're a Preview together. Tey play in the backyard, and even beat eachReading song they first heard together while driving in t other up. Teir athers’ joke that they’ll end up alling or the soundtrack o their first dance. Finding a so Unlock full access with a free trial. in love, while the moms roll their eyes. Te song ollows is difficult at times, but it’s a un part o a relationship the two kids through their first kiss and first fight and listeners can identiy with and appreciate. Because o With Freeand Trial an eventual marriage proposal. It’s a story aboveDownload a love un theme strong use o banjo, country music sta that passes the test o time. At the end o the song, ay- tions played it ofen. “Our Song” landed the No. 1 s lor sings: “I’ll be 87; you’ll be 89/I’ll still look at you like on Billboard’s Country Songs chart or six weeks a the stars that shine.” actually made history. aylor was the youngest coun Tis song, though based on a real couple, also illussinger to write and sing a No. 1 song on that chart. trates aylor’s obsession with love. “I’m ascinated by love Te song lyrics aretounique that they rely on Sign up vote onin this title rather than the principle o ‘Oh, does this guy like me?’” metaphors to Usefulabout Not usefulA metaphor is bring meaning. she said. “I love love. I love studying it and watching it.” comparison o two unlike things that does not use aylor shows she’s a hopeless romantic when it comes words “like” or “as.” In the song, aylor wrote, “Ou
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Taylor Swift, Deluxe Edition ■aylor
rereleased her sel-titled album in November 2007 with our bonus tracks—three songs and an important phone call she wanted to share with her ans. rack 12, “I’m Only Me When I’m with You”: Tough she never specified whether this song was about a real or imagined relationsh relationship, ip, the song does explains what aylor wants in a boyriend: someone she can be hersel with. “Te guy I’m looking or is the guy I can be me around, not a version o me I think he’d like,” she told Seventeen Seventeen.. “He’s the guy I’m not wearing different clothes or. I’m not holding back jokes because he might think they’r they’ree stupid. I’m not araid to show emotion because I might scare him. It’s important to not have rules about who the guy is: the rule should be about who you are when you’re with him.” rack 13, “Invisible”: Similar to “eardrops on My Guitar” and “Stay Beautiul” the song
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CHAPTER THREE: Fearless Is Fabulous
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running across the sky and everything’s perect. I think heart broken when we were in ninth grade the perection o love is that it’s not perect.” about that absolutely gets me every time.” aylor illustrates this spontaneity in the lyrics o the High school is ofen the backdrop or expe song “Fearless.” She mentions how the little things catch love, but sometimes first loves are not positiv her attention on the date, like “the way the street looks es. aylor introduces this idea when she sing when it’s just rained.” She gets so excited she wants to first day o high school, when the senior boy dance with the boy “right there in the middle o the young reshman girls with pick-up lines li parking lot.” Whether the boy runs his hand through haven’t seen you around beore.” Many o th his hair or later glances over at her in the passenger seat, on younger girls, and might even lie and say the excitement is almost too much to bear as the night when they don’t mean it. aylor describes leads up to that first kiss. with the line, “When you’re 15 and somebod Te rain moti, which was evident in many songs on they love you, you’re gonna believe them.” aylor’s first album, reappears on the second album, espeIn the song, aylor is quick to point out t cially in “Fearless.” aylor sings, “and I don’t know why but high school relationships do not stand the t with you I’d dance in a storm in my best dress.” A storm Afer you grow up, you realize how unimpo is usually seen as scary, but by pairing it with a dance, she can be. Te lyrics state, “But in your lie you puts a positive spin on a negative word. She likes the boy so much, she’d dance in the middle o a storm wearing her nicest dress. Tat’s an exhilarating eeling. In many ways, “Fearless” shows aylor’s ability to You're Reading always bounce back rom a bad break up. It shows she a Preview still believes in the possibility o love. “No matter how Unlock full access with a free trial. many break-up songs you write, no matter how many times you got hurt, you will always all in love again,” Download With Free■ Trial How long does it take aylor Swi to w aylor said. Well, it depends on where she is when ins “Fifteen” “Sometimes, i I’m around my guitar, I’ll aylor’s most personal song to date, “Fifeen,” is the secast,” she said. Although some songs, like ond track on her Fearless album. It’s about the ups and came to her in twenty minutes, it usually down she and her best riend, Abigail Anderson, went twenty-five to atitle hal hour to pro Sign up to minutes vote on this through their first year in high school. It’s about the rom scratch. “When I get on a roll with s Not useful Useful it’s really hard or me to put it down unfin year o her lie when aylor said she changed the most. “Our lives absolutely changed,” said aylor about the noted.
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greater than/Dating the boy on the ootball team.” Here, aylor is saying that even though she swore she was going to marry the boy someday, she realized there was
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more to lie than being popular with boys. “Fifeen” is one o those songs that appeals to b young and old listeners. Girls near the age o 15 enj because it describes how they currently eel about h school, love, and boys. But older listeners appreciate aylor’s lyrics as well. Tey reminisce about their ow high school days and probably agree that they’ve co a long way since that time. In act, they had “bigger dreams in mind.”
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“Love Story” rately capture the mindset o the American “Love Story,” released in September 2008, was ay teenager. So when Best Buy was looking or first single rom the Fearless album. It was inspired b spokespeople or their @15 program—a way Shakespeare’s play Romeo & Juliet , which aylor rea to connect with youth and value their opinions during her reshman year o high school. She and as consumers—they looked no urther than aylor Swi. Abigail actually watched the 1970s film version o th play in class and reacted strongly to it. “We rememb aylor filmed an online teen service anthinking the guy in the movie was really hot, and so nouncement or the program and, in it, she were mad the whole time. We were like, ‘No one lik talked more about the pressures o high school. that exists; it doesn’t happen,’” aylor said. “I think when you first step into the doors o You're Reading a Preview aylor and Abigail were also upset about the tragi high school, and you walk in, there are seniors ending: Romeo akes his death using a sleeping poti and juniors and sophomores, and then you Unlock full access with a free trial. Juliet kills hersel when she thinks Romeo is dead, a reshmen,” aylor said in the SA. “You think in turn, Romeo kills himsel when he finds Juliet ha you’re all alone. When you’re 15, you think Downloadstabbed With Free Trialaylor alludes to the characters Rom hersel. you’re the only person in the world eeling this and Juliet in the lyrics o her song, but she provides way. You’re not. happy twist on a sad story. “Looking back at being 15, I wouldn’t have “Romeo and Juliet were always my avorite couple changed anything,” she went on. “I I had been because they didn’t care, and they loved each other popular, I would have been perectly content matter what,”Sign explained aylor. “And with staying where I was...It just wasn’t the cool up to vote on this titleit was always m avorite, except or the ending. with ‘Love Story,’ thing to be trying to do anything different, and useful Useful NotSo just took my avorite characters and gave them the I think that caused me to spend a lot o time ing that they deserve.” alone, and spending a lot o time alone gave me
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Juliet , rom the balcony where Juliet stands, to the find out when they hear their name in a son “ball gowns,” to the “garden.” Te lyrics also boast a Te New York imes Style Magazine. “Tere vivid metaphor and allusion all in one. Te line “I was guy who opened a couple o shows or me o a scarlet letter” is a metaphor, in that aylor compares talked to him a couple o times, but he neve hersel to a letter. But ‘scarlet letter’ is also a literary I liked him.” allusion. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Te Scarlet Letter , Tat guy was 24-year-old Stephen Barker the main character, Hester Prynne, must wear the letter country band Love and Tef. aylor actual A on her dress. It is a punishment to show the whole the name o this band in the lyrics o the so town that she is an adulteress because she cheated on the album came out, aylor had to ace this her husband. Hester was made to eel like an outcast. on. She sent him a text message and told hi Although aylor’s Juliet in the song “Love Story” has out that certain track on her CD. “He sent m done nothing wrong, she is “branded” a bad person or long e-mail saying ‘Oh My God,’” aylor re liking Romeo. Tis was a lot o un or aylor, who enjoy Unlike the tragic play, aylor’s version o Romeo & Juliet ace the consequences o naming names. “It ends with a marriage proposal. In this way, aylor believes or me to put something on the album that “Love Story” is an optimistic approach to love. “Say yes, she said. “Something I know I’m going to h and everything will be fine orever, and it will be perect, with when it comes out.” and we’ll have a happy ending,” she said about the song’s What did aylor reveal to Stephen throug message. “You want a guy who doesn’t care what anyone Te lyrics describe the exhilaration o havin thinks, what anyone says. He just says ‘Marry me, Juliet. I “Cause I can’t help it i you look like an ang love you’ and that’s all I need to know.” You're Reading a Preview help it i I wanna kiss you in the rain so/Co According to aylor, songs like “Love Story” balance magic I’ve been eeling since I met you/Can Unlock full access with a free trial. out the other songs on the album that describe t he pesthere’s no one else/ Mmm, I can’t help myse simistic side o relationships. “I think it’s important to In many ways, “Hey Stephen” is a persuas Download keep both sides o that,” she said. “You know, to kindWith o Free In it,Trial aylor gives Stephen all o the reasons be a little skeptical o it, but then i you meet the right consider dating her. She states “o all the gir person, just to believe it will be perect.” rocks at your window/ I’ll be the one waitin “Love Story” also has a happy ending in its success on when it’s cold.” And i this wasn’t reason en the charts. aylor’s first single was soon on the Billboard mentions she’s a songwriter: “All those othe 100 top ten and peaked at No. 1 on the op 40 radio they’re beautiul/ they write a so Sign up to voteBut on would this title chart (Mediabase). It was another first or aylor Swif. Musically, stands out rom Not useful Useful“Hey Stephen” She was the first country artist to land a No. 1 song on songs on the album because o its happy ba the op 40. rhythm. It’s got a beat you can almost clap a
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Like ellow country singer Kellie Pickler, aylor writes songs about the harsh realities o love, exemplified in the tune “White Horse.”
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you don’t realize he’s going to cause you a lo Whether she was begging or a bedtime story or seeTe song “White Horse” is a perect exam ing a Disney film, aylor enjoyed airy tales as a child, difference between reality and airy tales. and she’s still ascinated with them today. And as a the song afer a hurtul experience with a bo sel-proclaimed hopeless romantic, she cherishes all o time when I was hopelessly, helplessly, and the images related to airy tales, like a princess, a white let down by a guy,” she explained to InStyle horse or even a castle. But afer experiencing lie and to the point where I was so hurt and elt so love, she’s come to understand that real relationships do like a damsel in distress, like this girl who t not always end happily ever afer. ound Prince Charming and then ended “I think I’m very ascinated by the differences between ing rain. I just wrote what I elt about that a reality and airy tales. When we’re little, we read these up with the song ‘White Horse.’” books and we see cartoons and the bad guy is always In addition to blending sounds o guitar, wearing black. You always know who he is,” she said. cello, aylor and her co-writer Liz Rose also “But in real lie, the bad guy can be incredibly charming common, vivid airy tale images throughou and have a great smile and perect hair. He says things o the song. One image is o a woman being that make you laugh and he’s sweet and he’s unny, but her eet and being carried up a stairwell. An a white horse, perhaps one ridden by Princ galloping in to save the damsel in distress. T also allude to Hollywood, a reerence to the tal o the world. Te films made there ofen You're story,Reading poem a Preview ■Good writing—whether it’s a short unrealistic version o love and perect endin Te song uses these images to tell a broke or song—is descriptive. And good writers like Unlock full access with a free trial. aylor Swi use very specific details in place o where the girl does not get the guy in the en common words. Tese include naming a spelyrics, the girl calls hersel a “stupid girl” an Download Trial cific color, brand or type. For example, in “im With Free is not the princess, nor is he Prince Charmi McGraw” aylor states it’s not a simply a truck but relationship is doomed: “It’s too late or you white horse to come around.” a “Chevy” truck. Below are a ew ways aylor used vivid description in the songs on Fearless. Coming to this realization—that the per ship you wanted is in act, not perect—is p “Fearless”: Instead o saying the town is “small,” aylor sings ovote this on pain the line, “I was Sign up to thisintitle aylor calls it a “one horse town.” beore went andNot let useful me down.” Trough Useful you “Love Story”: Instead o using the words “summer she admits she’s not only disappointed but s time,” aylor wrote “balcony in summer air.” changed by the experience. She doesn’t see
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ing with Grey’s Anatomy producers Shonda Rimes and who longs to be with a boy she cannot have. He has Betsy Beers. Te medical drama is aylor’s avorite girlriend and does not know how she eels about h show; she catches most episodes on her tour bus, Te girl eatured in “You Belong With Me” is obviou watching them on DVD. in love with her best riend. She knows what makes aylor played “White Horse” or Shonda and Betsy, laugh and seems to be able to cheer him up when he who both loved the song and wanted to play it on an down. She knows “all his avorite songs” and even li episode in September 2008. “You should’ve seen tears tens to his dreams. But she also sees the negative eff streaming down my ace when I got the phone call his current girlriend has on him. His smile “that ca that they were going to use that song,” aylor told Billboard magazine. “I have never been that excited. Tis is my lie’s goal, to have a song on Grey’s Anatomy . My love o Grey’s Anatomy has never wavered. It’s my longest relationship to date.” Because the song aired on Grey’s Anatomy , aylor decided to put “White Horse” light up this whole town” has disappeared because t a Preview on her Fearless album, much to her ans’ delight.You're Reading girlriend has brought him down. In “You Belong With Me,” songwriters aylor Swi Unlock full access with a free trial. “You Belong With Me” and Liz Rose rely on an effective use o punctuatio Inspiration comes easily to aylor. She’s been inspired the question mark. Te lyrics are ull o questions, w Withlike Free Trial by a neighborhood couple, the simple sparkle inDownload a boy’s lines “Why can’t you see?” “Hey, isn’t this easy? eyes or a well-known play with a tragic ending. One “Hey, what you doin’ with a girl like that?” “All this time, she was even inspired through eavesdropping. Te how could you not know?” and “Have you ever thou simple act o listening in on someone else’s conversation just maybe you belong with me?” Tese questions, p led to one o her biggest hits, “You Belong With Me.” ping up at various points o the song, help make “Yo While on her band’s bus one day, aylor overheard Belong WithSign Me”up more conversational to vote on this title in tone. Te one o her band members talking on the phone with his questions, directed at the boy, a message rom th Notare useful Useful girlriend. “Te guy was going ‘Baby, o course I love girl to the boy. Te use o the word ‘Hey,’ a term peo you more than music,” aylor recalled to Sel . “’I’m so use to get someone’s attention, also adds to this con
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Tanks to it’s great background beat and amiliar topic, “You Belong With Me” climbed to No. 1 on the Mediabase op 40 radio chart and Billboard Radio Songs chart. aylor made history once more or being the first country singer to have two No. 1 songs there; “Love Story” was her first. Te crossover hit was nominated or Song o the Year or the 2010 Grammys. Te video or the song—in which aylor played both the nerdy admirer and the popular girlriend—won Best Female Video at the 2009 MV Video Music Awards.
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■Where do aylor’s songs come rom?
does she start the process o writing? O writing a song, just one line comes to a mind, and she builds an entire song aro one meaningul phrase. Here are a ew o she said got her creative juices flowing:
“Breathe”
Sometimes, a relationships ends, and it’s no one’s ault. “Fieen”: “Abigail gave everything she Even i the guy wasn’t a jerk, the break up still hurts. boy who changed his mind” Tat’s what aylor wrote about in “Breathe,” the seventh “Love Story”: “Tis love is difficult but song on the Fearless album. It’s a song she wrote with “You Belong With Me”: “You’re on the pop singer-songwriter Colbie Caillat. with your girlriend she’s upset, going o aylor actually requested the opportunity to work something that you said” with Colbie. She heard Colbie’s albums Coco and “ell Me Why”: “I took a chance, I took Breakthrough and became a big an. “I ell in love with And you might think I’m bulletproo bu You're a Preview the way she makes music,” aylor said o Colbie.Reading “I contacted her management right away, and I asked i I Unlock full access with a free trial. could write with her and sure enough, Colbie had a date or me.” Writing a specific time like 2:00 �� coming up in Nashville where she was gong to be playdetail. It implies late night anxiety; perhap ing a show, and she had the day off.” Download With Free up isTrial even affecting sleep. It’s the late night/ “Breathe” is another song about heartbreak, one so ing when people lay awake at night and pro painul it’s hard to even breathe. “It’s a song about havemotions. ing to say goodbye to somebody, but it never blames “As human beings, what we can’t have is anybody,” said aylor. “Sometimes, that’s the most direplay in our head over and over again beo ficult part, when it’s nobody’s ault.” sleep,” aylor Sign up totold Allure. vote on this title aylor and Colbie illustrated this with the line, “We Useful Not useful “Tell Me Why” know it’s never simple, never easy, never a clean break.” In other words, break ups are hard and complicated. aylor said that songwriting is a orm o the
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More Secret Messages Revealed ■aylor encoded more secret messages in the lyrics o her Fearless album.
I you’ve already decoded these messages, here’s another challenge: decode the secret message hidden within the secret messages. Below, find the random capital letters and write them down in the order they appear to answer the question.
What song by another artist does aylor wish she’d written? “Fearless”: i loved you beore i met you “Fieen”: i cried wHen recording this “Love Story”: sOmeday ill find this “Hey Stephen”: love and Te “White Horse”: all i ever wanted was the truth “You Belong With Me”: love is so bliNd you couldnt see me “Breathe”: im sorry im sorry im sorry You're Reading a Preview “ell Me Why”: guess i was ooled by your smile “You’re Not Sorry”: she can have you Unlock full access with a free trial. “Te Way I Loved You”: we Cant go back “Forever & Always”: i you play Tese games were bOth going to lose “Te Best Day”: god bLess andrea swi Download With Free Trial “Change”: you maDe things change or me
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plained aylor. “I thi getting mad is always your first reaction wh something hurts. And you shouldn’t eel bad about that,” she told Seventeen. “Every per you date is different a makes you eel differently. Sometimes you shake it off and you’r fine—and then with a other person, it can r affect you. It’s the unp dictability o love tha ally scares us, but it’s what draws us into i Like “White Horse, the song “ell Me Wh is ull o negative ima but ultimately ends o a hopeul note. Afer the fighting and bein mistreated, aylor sin “I take a step back, go/I told you I’m not b letproo, now you kno From this line, it’s clea she is ready to move o
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aylor wrote “Forever & Always” about her ex-boyriend Joe Jonas (center), who perorms in the Jonas Brothers, with his siblings, Nick (Le) and Kevin (Right).
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time “it’s the last straw,” a common phrase similar to “the straw that broke the camel’s back.” It’s the point where everything has changed, and you can’t go back to the way it used to be. With the line, “You used to shine so bright, but I watched all o it ade,” it’s clear she realizes this guy was not Prince Charming. aylor also repeats the word ‘no’ several times throughout the song, which shows the relationship is indeed over. aylor. “Te whole time you’re with him, you A song like “You’re Not Sorry” is hard to write and ing about the guy who was complicated and rustrating.” hard to listen to at times because it’s about a breakYou're Reading up, but there’s a need or break up songs, according to a Preview aylor brought the title and the idea or t aylor. “Te hardest thing about heartbreak is eelellow songwriter John Rich, and together th Unlock full access with a free trial. ing like you’re alone, and that the other person doesn’t “Te Way I Loved You.” Te verses o this so really care,” she told Seventeen. “But when you hear a the “perect” guy, a guy who is “sensible,” “in Download With Free Trial and “charming;” a guy who ope “endearing,” song about it, you realize you’re not alone—because the person who wrote it went through the same thing. door and says, “You look beautiul tonight.” Tat’s why songs about heartbreak are so relatable. Tis guy may be nice, but the girl can’t sto When you miss somebody, and you hear a happy song, about a past relationship with a not so perec it just makes you mad.” chorus o the song describes how she misses and fighting and kissing intitle the rain;” she mis Another version o “You’re Not Sorry” exists, and Sign up to vote on this it’s quite different than the version on aylor’s Fearless down comin’ undone.” Te relationship Useful Not useful and album. When aylor appeared as the character “Haley” other guy was exhilarating, ull o ups and on one o her avorite shows CSI , “You’re Not Sorry” and John bring this idea about with the line
“Te hardest thing about hea break is eeling like you’re alo and that the other person doe really care...But when you he song about it, you realize you not alone—because the perso who wrote it went through th same thing.”
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phone—inspired ayl write a last minute so or her orthcoming ■In October 2009, aylor re-released her Fearless album, a platinum edition less album. Just beore boasting six new songs and lots o bonus material. album was set to be fi ished, she squeezed in “I decided to re-release my album Fearless because on one hand, there are tune “Forever & Alwa people who are just discovering my music right now, but then on the other hand, there are people who have had this album or a year now,” aylor It was something she explained in an AOL interview. “So I have this scope o exactly what I think compelled to do. these albums should sound like. And when I write a new song, i I eel like “I’d never had that happen to me beore t it’s more in the category o Fearless rather than my next album, I put it in a way, with that abruptn pile. I wanted to put out these songs—a lot o them I wish I could have put on Fearless—but now I get to kind o re-release it and put these songs on it.” I thought to mysel, ‘T Te Fearless Platinum edition includes these new songs: “Jump then Fall,” needs to be said,’” ay “Untouchable,” “Forever & Always” (piano version), “Come in with the Rain,” explained. “It’s a song about watching some “Superstar,” and “Te Other Side o the Door.” It also includes the music completely ade away videos or her hit tunes “Change” and “Te Best Day” as well as music videos and behind-the-scenes ootage or “Love Story,” “White Horse,” and “You relationship and wond Belong With Me.” ing what you did wro A photo gallery rom her 2009 Fearless tour and the video or “Tug Story”, and wondering why You're Reading a Preview things have changed.” a rap she perormed with -Pain or the CM Awards, rounded out the platinum edition extras. Te lyrics o “Foreve Unlock full access with a free trial. & Always” are aggress “Did I say something w With Free Trialmade you run and hide like a scared In the summer o 2008, it was rumored aylorDownload and too honest/Tat Joe, the middle brother o Disney’s the Jonas Brothers, little boy?” And they retell some o the very details o were an item. aylor appeared in Jonas Brothers: Te 3D aylor and Joe’s break up with mentions o the teleph Concert Experience, a concert film released in February “I stare at the phone/He still hasn’t called.” But once 2009. Te paparazzi spotted the two stars together at again, it’s the use o questions that gets aylor’s messa the 2008 MV VMAs, and later outside a trendy Asian across. With lines outthis o line? Sign like up to“Was voteIon title Did I say som restaurant called ao, located in New York’s Midtown. thing way too is this going?” ay Useful and Not useful honest?” “Where Joe was seen in the ront row o aylor’s concert and illustrates her conusion about the relationship, no vice versa. knowing why it ended or what she did wrong. Te
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aylor’s mother, Andrea Swi, inspired the song “Te Best Day.”
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example o alliteration; the consonant B is repeated with the words “back” and baby.” Afer aylor announced her break up on Te Ellen DeGeneres Show, Joe Jonas responded. It was rumored that he cheated on aylor with 10,000 B.C. actress Camilla Belle. “I never cheated on a girlriend,” Joe Jonas wrote to his ans via the Jonas Brothers’ blog. “It might make someone eel better to assume or imply I have been unaithul, but it is simply not true.” Joe and his brothers, Nick and Kevin, ought back a little in the lyrics o their song “Much Better.” It includes the line “Have a rep or breaking hearts/Now I’m done with superstars/And all the tears on her guitar.” Tis obviously reers to aylor Swif because she is the one who wrote and sang the song “eardrops on My Guitar.”
five and I was remembering this?’ And it years old/It’s getting cold and I’ve got my bi had language like that—that makes me real to that time.” aylor wrote the song alone, without the songwriting partner. Tat’s most likely beca so personal, only aylor could accurately te o her childhood growing up in Wyomissin vania. In “Te Best Day,” she paints a vivid her days as a kid, sprinkling the lyrics with “pumpkin patch,” “tractor rides,” “Snow cesses,” and “pirate ships.” In this way, she d home lie as a land reminiscent o airy tal reers to the act she grew up on a Christma with the line, “I grew up in a pretty house w space to run But not ev rom aylor is happy. Du high, when s You're Reading a Preview elt like an o would ofen Unlock full access with a free trial. and cry to he about the m Download With Free Trial school. Her Despite this, aylor doesn’t regret being honest about always able to make her eel better. “You ho her relationship with Joe or writing a song about him. and grab the keys,” she states in the song. “A “You should never regret honesty,” she told Flare. and drive until we ound a town ar enough “Would I ever take it back? No. Because I’ve always we talk and window shop till I orget all the been honest, I’ve always talked about whom my songs Tese theon song Signlines up too vote thisare titlebased on an ac are about. o change that or the sake o a boy would be ment aylor’s lie,Not when she called severa useful inUseful a shame.” riends and asked them to go to the mall. A girls claimed they were busy, so aylor wen
“She let me run rom my pain or a little bit,” aylor recalled. “And I thought that was the nicest thing that she could have ever done.”
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With such sweet and heartelt lyrics, the song proved to be a unique Christmas present or aylor’s mom. “I actually wrote that song without telling my mom and recorded it without telling my mom. Complete secret session,” explained aylor. “Ten I got the track back and synced up all these home videos o me when I was a little kid and made this video and played it or my mom on Christmas.” Andrea Swif’s reaction to the song and video was emotional. “She had no idea that it was me singing or the first hal o the song,” aylor explained. “And then she just broke down crying when she realized I had done this whole thing to surprise her. It was a really cool moment.”
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one o the most respected labels in Nashville, representing other stars like risha Yearwood and Jack Ingram. Te specific moment o inspiration or the “Change” came to aylor afer she won the Horizon Award—a highly coveted prize—at the 2007 Count Music Awards. “I looked over at Scott Borchetta afer I won, and was crying,” aylor said. “Tat’s when I finished [th song], because I knew I couldn’t finish it until some thing like that happened. It was absolutely the most amazing night o my lie, getting to see the emotion all the people who worked so hard or me. So I wro that song about that.” Within the lyrics o the song “Change” is an inspir tional message or listeners. Te beginning o the so “Change” depicts a sad time when the “final blow hits you,” but One o the most inspirational aylor Swif songs is the chorus later offers hope the situation will change i on last song rom her Fearless album. “Change” is about be- you fight back. aylor calls it a “revolution” when “th lieving in success even when it seems impossible. And walls that they put up to hold us back will all down.” once again, it’s a song with very personal ties to aylor’s With it’s “you can do it” theme, it’s no wonder the You're Reading a Preview lie. song “Change” was part o the official soundtrack o “I wrote this song about being on a small record the 2008 Summer Olympics. aylor’s dad was actua Unlock full access with a free trial. label, being a 16-year-old girl, and having a lot o odds the one to suggest pairing the song with the Olymp stacked up against all o us,” aylor explained to Coungames. NBC played “Change” while showing highli Downloadootage With Free try Aircheck, according to GAC V. “[It was about] romTrial the Olympics. During that time the so having a bunch o big companies on Music Row that was available or download on iunes, with proceed had a lot more room in their buildings and a lot more going to eam USA. employees than our 12. A lot o people, i given those aylor’s lie has certainly changed in the last ew odds, would say that’s not going to work.” years. She went rom unknown songwriter to a cou It’s true aylor was once an unknown star on an music and pop superstar. No what the uture Sign up to vote onmatter this title unknown record label. Although Big Machine Records brings, though, she assured ans she’ll never cha Not useful Useful her president, Scott Borchetta, had decades o experience so much that she loses who she is at heart. in the business, he could not guarantee the success o his “I want my ans to know that I’m the same girl I w
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Limited and Special Edition LPs ■In between the release o her sel-titled album in Oc-
tober 2006 and the release o Fearless in November 2008, aylor released three special-edition albums, containing either new songs or alternate versions o old songs. Tese include: 1. Sounds o the Season: Te aylor Swif Holiday Collection (October 2007) Tis CD included an eclectic mix o six songs: two traditional songs, “Silent Night” and “White Christmas;” two estive and un tunes, “Last Christmas” and “Santa Baby;” and finally, two original songs, “Christmases When You Were Mine,” which she co-wrote with Liz Rose and her producer, Nathan Chapman, and “Christmas Must be Something More,” a tune she wrote and perormed or Christmas services at Bausmen Memorial United Church o Christ in Wyomissing, You're Reading a Preview Pennsylvania. 2. Live rom Soho: aylor Swif (January 2008) For this Unlock full access with a free trial. iunes exclusive album, aylor recorded live versions o eight songs —“Umbrella,” “Our Song,” “eardrops on Download With Free Trial My Guitar,” “Should’ve Said No,” “A Place in this World,” “Mary’s Song (Oh My My My),” “im McGraw,” and “Picture to Burn”—in the Apple Store located in Soho, New York City, a neighborhood known or art galleries and boutique shopping. 3. Beautiul Eyes (July 2008) Tis limited edition LP, Sign up to vote on this title available only at Wal-Mart stores, included two new Useful Not useful songs aylor wrote when she was just 13, “Beautiul Eyes” and “I Heart ?” It also boasted a new version o
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CHAPTER FOUR: Taylor Puts the “T” in Teamwork
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hey say writing is a lonely proession, but songwriting certainly doesn’t have to be. Although aylor has penned countless songs on her own, she’s also enjoyed collaborating with other singers and songwriters. Whether it’s her longtime writing partner, Liz Rose, or a one-time collaborator like Colbie Caillat, aylor has proven that two heads—and sometimes three or our—can be better than one.
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the opposite o aylor Swif’s. “I just kind o ell into Liz said. “I went into it backwards.” While aylor began songwriting as a pre-teen, Liz didn’t get into the business until much later in lie. L got married at age 19 and had her first child by age She had three kids in all and stayed home to raise th while her then husband, Johnny Rose, a music buye and singer-songwriter, worked in the music industry. Te Roses moved to Nashville to be in the mid o country music. Afer she and Johnny divorced, L worked in management or a while, even working o the country music duo Brooks & Dunn. Ten one day she went to a party and met a man named Ken Biddy, currently the president and CEO
O all aylor’s songwriting partners, Liz Rose has cowritten the most songs with aylor. She co-wrote seven o the eleven songs on aylor’s sel-titled album, including the hits “im McGraw,” “eardrops on My Guitar,” and “Picture to Burn.” She also helped aylor write “Fearless,” “You Belong With Me,” “White Horse,” and “ell Me Why” rom her Fearless album. You're Reading a Preview aylor and Liz first started writing songs Unlock full access with a free trial. together when aylor joined the staff o Sony/ Download With Free Trial AV as a songwriter. Te two worked well together. “I love writing with Liz,” aylor said, according to Songwriter Universe. “When we write, I usually come in with a melody and o Copperfield Records. Ken, has a reputation Sign up to vote on who this title some lyric content, and then we’ll work on creating the or helping newUseful songwriters develop usefultheir craf, saw Not rest o the song. She’s a really good song editor.” emergent creativity in Liz Rose. He offered to not o Liz is equally enamored with aylor. “My sessions hire her as a songwriter but also to train her. And so
“She’d write about what happen to her in school that day. She had such a clear vision o what she wa trying to say. And she’d come in with some o the most incredible hooks.” —Liz Rose
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songs, she uses her brain rather than any particular instrument. Liz’s strong suit as a cosongwriter is her ability to serve as a therapist o sorts or artists struggling to find the right words. “I usually just write whatever mood I’m in, or whatever’s going on with whoever I’m in the room with,” she explained. “I pick their brain and make What’s her advice to budding songwriters? them spill their guts! I think you have to have an open truth, write something you know, and write mind. I’m just lucky that, because I’m not an artist and she said. I don’t play, I can kinda go in a room with anybody and Kellie Pickler write. I’m the conduit; I’m there to help artists say what they want to say.” Kellie Pickler ound ame through the televis American Idol . She appeared on Season Five Tis kind o “spill your guts” situation happened You're Reading and worked hard to be one o the top six con when aylor came to a songwriting session upset about a Preview a conusing relationship with a boy. “I was just ranting Tis honor allowed her to be a part o the Unlock full access with a free trial. and raving about how this guy is such a flake and such a our as well as embark on her own country m jerk sometimes, and so cool other times,” aylor said. “I It was on that tour that she recorded her first Download Trial Small own Girl . She soon joined Brad Paisle was like ‘Liz, I don’t know what’s up with this guy.’” With Free & Amplifiers tour, where she met aylor Swif In response, Liz asked aylor important questions about her eelings, and the conversation turned into she opened or aylor’s Fearless tour. Te two song lyrics. Te two ended up writing “ell Me Why” good riends despite their differences. during that session, which appeared as track eight on “People say we’re such opposites, but that makes usup such goodonriends,” her Fearless album. Sign to vote this titleaylor said o incredibly blunt. I love about her.” Liz’s songwriting gifs have not been overlooked by Notthat useful Useful the industry. In 2007, she received the Songwriter o the Kellie said she admires aylor’s work ethi Year award rom SESAC (Te Society o European Stage seen many people work as hard as aylor,” s
“I was just ranting and raving about how this guy is such a fl and such a jerk sometimes, an cool other times,” aylor said. was like ‘Liz, I don’t know wha up with this guy.’”
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physically in the two years since my first album.” Just like Liz Rose listened to aylor’s troubles abou boys, aylor once served as a sounding board or Ke One day, during the Bonfires & Amplifiers our, Kelli ■How do songwriters like aylor Swi make came to aylor’s tour bus angry about an ex-boyrien who had actually gotten another girl pregnant. a sense o all those rambling thoughts, eelings, and immediately thought there were song lyrics hidden ideas? Tey use a set structure to write song lyrics. inside Kellie’s complaints. “Tere’s no better way to Most songs include a chorus, several verses and a over something than to write it all down,” aylor adv bridge. aylor’s crossover hit, “You Belong with Me,” co-written with Liz Rose, boasts good So, the two country starlets sat in aylor’s tour bus bedroom and wrote “Best Days o Your Lie,” which a examples o these elements. peared on Kellie’s sel-titled album. With lines like “A it’s just too bad you’ve already had the best days/the Chorus: Te chorus is the main idea or message o days o your lie,” the song is a “rub it in your ace” ki the song, and it’s repeated many times throughout, as many as our or five times. Te song’s title is o tune about the consequences o mistakes. “It’s abo how, or the rest o his lie, he’s going to regret cheati usually ound within the lyrics o the chorus, oen on her,” aylor explained. Te song charted on both at the end. For example, the chorus o aylor’s Country Albums chart and Billboard Hot 100. Song “You Belong With Me” ends with those very Writing the song was once again good therapy o our words Kellie. “You know what, I didn’t think there was any Reading Preview Verses: Verses support the chorus and oen tellYou're a thing aI could do to really get past that,” she said. “B writing that song gave me complete closure.” story. Tey are detailed, specific and oen set up Unlock full access with a free trial. It was also a meaningul experience or aylor. T a scenario. In the first verse o “You Belong With Me,” aylor describes a boy having an upsetting wrote the song in only thirty minutes. “It was so co Download jumping With Free Trial phone call with his girlriend. Meanwhile, aylor into someone else’s eelings or a minute a writing rom their perspective,” she said. “It was lik is in her bedroom listening to music his girlriend was writing my very first song. Exhilarating.” doesn’t like. Te second verse goes even deeper Unlike aylor, Kellie never revealed the real nam into the story; it tells how aylor and the boy go walking together and sit on a bench. o the ex-boyriend who inspired “Best Days o You Lie.” But sheSign didup give to uture roman to this votewarning on this title Bridge: Tis section is an additional verse that is tic interests. “You have to careul Useful usefulwhen you date beNot songwriter,” she told People magazine. “We always g shorter and different in rhythm and style rom the the last word!” other verses. Most songs have only one bridge. Te
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In a moment o writing therapy, aylor penned “Best Days o Your Lie” with riend and ellow country singer Kellie Pickler. Te song appeared on Kellie’s sel-titled album.
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and talent scout o sorts; he helped boost the country music career o Gretchen Wilson, who was once an unknown bartender. John Rich’s most controversial song thus ar was “Shuttin’ Detroit Down.” In the midst o a national financial crisis, the ederal government bailed out automakers as well as major banks on the verge o bankruptcy. Te CEOs o some o these companies, however, still lived a lie o luxury—flying in private jets, or example—afer the bailout. “Te CEO o Merrill Lynch took some bail-out money and spent a million dollars remodeling his office, and somewhere in the world ound a $38,000 toilet and bought it or his office,” John told Te Boot . “I thought, ‘Is this what this world has ■aylor has also worked with these ta ers/songwriters on both her first and se come to? Tere’s a lack o reality and a lack o respect as well as songs on her limited edition r or American taxpayers.” John became so angry about the issue afer watching the news, he wrote the song “Shuttin’ Detroit Down.” Brett James: Aer leaving med school Like aylor, John processes his emotions through songcame a Grammy-winning country arti songs or Faith Hill, Bon Jovi, and Ken writing. “I figured I had a choice,” he said. “I could sit at In addition to co-writing Carrie Under home and be mad, or I could do what aYou're countryReading song- a Preview writer does—pick up a blank sheet o paper, a pencil sus, ake the Wheel,” he also co-wrote Unlock full access with a free trial. and a guitar and write a song about it.” “A Perectly Good Heart,” which appea aylor divulged it was always one o her objectives special edition o aylor’s sel–titled al Download to write a song with John Rich; she appreciated thatWith he Free Trial Robert Ellis Orrall: Robert is a singerwas outspoken, something they have in common. She also admitted the pairing could backfire. “I had heard who has enjoyed recording both pop/r so many things about him. I just wanted to see what it country music. He co-wrote “A Place was like to get into a room with him because I know World,” “I’m Only Me When I’m with Y “Invisible” withonaylor. His original I’m a very opinionated writer and I knew he was a very Sign up to vote this title been recorded McEntire and C opinionated writer,” she said. “So I knew this was either Useful NotReba useful by going to be the best thing in the world or was just going He’s also a record producer; in act, he to be a complete train wreck.” aylor’s sel-titled album.
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2007, the song appear on their debut sel-tit album. According to Natha Barlowe, Big Machine cords president Scott chetta gave aylor a c o Luna Halo’s album. Later, while perormi on the show Stripped aylor covered the son “Untouchable.” ell in love with the song “Blue” at age six, and John had “She could have cho a similar experience. “Te only thing I ever cared to do any cover in the world, but that’s what she chose,” Na in my lie, rom the time I was 5 or 6 years old, is make Barlowe said. “We lucked out, really. She covered the country music,” John said. “Country music is not a song and it sounded amazing, so rom there, there w hobby to me. It’s my DNA.” so many Youube hits on it and so many people wa Tey also write very personal music, songs about ing it and doing imitations o it, that’s when the labe their own lives. While aylor wrote songs about her best decided that they should put it on the record.” riend Abigail (“Fifeen”) or her mom (“Te Best Day”), aylor, who is used to writing or co-writing her o You're Reading Preview John wrote songs about his ather and grandather. songs,achanged the song to make it her own. Her ve And, there’s one person they share the same opinion sion o “Untouchable” is different than the original; Unlock full access with a free trial. about—Garth Brooks. though the chorus is the same, the verses are differe “He is a living legend,” aylor said o Garth, best “When I first heard it, it caught me off guard becaus With Free Trial known or his song “Friends in Low Places.” “I Download you didn’t even recognize the melody o the verse and so asked me who my hero is, I’d say Garth Brooks.” o the arrangement,” Nathan explained. “But she’s on aylor even met Garth Brooks’ daughters, who came o, i not the biggest artist in the world right now to see her in concert. “It’s just so unbelievable to see when she wants to change a little thing about your s someone like Garth Brooks have kids who like my muI’m fine with it, you know?” sic,” she explained. “I’m like, ‘Are you kidding me? Your Because aylor changed songtitle significantly, she Sign up to votethe on this was given credit or co-writing song. Interestin dad is Garth Brooks!’ It’s the coolest eeling ever.” useful Useful Notthe Nathan Barlowe has never met aylor Swif, althoug John Rich is also smitten with Garth. He wants to write and record an album with the country music his brother, Cary, did talk to her backstage at one o
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when it came on, she looked amazing, and was really beautiul, and I thought she soun it. I was really happy.” Since the aylor Swif collaboration, Cary Barlowe have started to do more songwritin try music. Tey are hoping the aylor Swif helps them succeed. “I think having som aylor do your song, the respect level goes u said. “A lot o people are curious to see i we the magic somehow, and we are, too.”
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In 2007, Colbie Caillat entered the music sc first album CoCo, which debuted at No. 5 o board op 200 Albums chart. Her song “Bu No. 1 on the Billboard Adult op 40 chart a there or 14 weeks. Another song “Realize” top hit. Colbie, who grew up in Caliornia a said her songs are “optimistic” because she ing an easygoing liestyle, listening to Bob You're Reading a Preview Jack Johnson. “I’m happy,” Colbie said. “And expressed in my music.” Unlock full access with a free trial. Colbie quickly caught the attention o not ans but also other artists, especially aylor Download With Free Trial aylor heard CoCo—which she called “this ing album that I’ve allen in love with”—a she wanted to write a song with the album’s songwriter. Afer a phone call to Colbie’s m aylor learned Colbie would soon be in t area Sign and up even day offtitle or a songwritin to had voteaon this Te wrote theNot song “Breathe” or ay Useful useful two less album, and Colbie even sings backup vo release. “I’ve got this awesome tape o us
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Private Sessions video. “I have loved getting to know you and I consider you to be one o my close riends,” aylor said to Colbie. “Writing a song with you that went on my album was one o my avorite experiences with you.” both seem to use songwriting as an outlet or emoti Colbie seems to eel the same way about aylor. “She’s For both artists, songwriting is ofen spontaneous. “ so cute,” Colbie said. “aylor, she is one o my good just let stuff build up inside o me, and I’ll write thr riends. She’s just one o the most talented people in songs in a weekend,” Colbie explained. “It’s like this every way that I have ever met. I am ascinated by her.” release. I don’t pick something to write about. When During the interview, aylor prompted Colbie with playing guitar, a melody comes out and whatever w a fill-in-the-blank sentence. “As you know, I am pretty come out, I go along with that.” ascinated by love,” aylor said. “Finish this sentence: Te two young women also have a story in comm Love is…” both were young when they ell in love with music It didn’t take Colbie long to answer. “Love is someand both started songwriting at an early age. Colbi thing you have to find in yoursel and in every person most relevant childhood moment was at age 11, a Preview around you,” she noted. “And it’s something thatYou're takes Reading she heard “Killing Me Sofly” by Te Fugees eaturi time to get to know with them.” Lauryn Hill. “It made me want to start singing,” Unlock full access with a free trial. It’s no wonder aylor and Colbie are good riends. recalled. “So I sang one o her songs at a talent show Tey both write and perorm songs about love, and sixth grade.” Download With Free Trial And like aylor, Co also enjoys collaborat ing on the songwritin process. She wrote mo o the songs on Coco Jaso Sign up to vote onsinger-songwriter this title Reeves. ■est your aylor IQ with this mini quiz about her songwriting quirks, useful Te songs on Useful Not her second album bloopers, and habits. through, which includ
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Taylor’s Favorite Songs and Songwriters ■aylor is not
just a musician, she’s a true music an. Her musical tastes have changed over the years, though. Her first demo tapes, the ones she gave out on Music Row when she was 11, included the songs “Tere’s Your rouble” by the Dixie Chicks, “Here you Come Again” by Dolly Parton, “Hopelessly Devoted to You” by Olivia Newton John and “One Way icket” by LeAnn Rimes. Over the years, she’s been inspired by meaningul lyrics and other songwriters’ approaches to music. Below are a ew o the songwriters and songs she admires.
Max Martin, “Hot N’ Cold”: “Tat song is just so brilliant melodically,” aylor said o the Katy Perry song. “And Country singer Alan Jackson is one o th You're Reading Max Martin is one o my heroes because he just knows a Preview songwriters aylor most admires how to cra these songs that get stuck in people’s head, Unlock full access with a free trial. every time. He’s brilliant. I think it’s just pure pop goodness. I love that song.”
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Prince, “Nothing Compares to You”: “I eel like there’s a timeless thing that that song has,” aylor said o the song made amous by Sinead O’Connor. “It’s just one o those songs where you know that when it was written, like 5,000 songwriters just put their pen down and went, ‘Alright. I tried’…I think it’s a brilliant song.” Alan Jackson: “You know who he is and you know who he
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aylor Swif is an award-winning songwriter, but she also excels at other orms o writing, like blogs and journals. A lover o words, aylor seems to choose writing as her first venue o expression. Whether she’s posting her thoughts on her MySpace blog, journaling in her diary or simply writing a letter to a riend, words seem to come naturally to aylor and ideas flow rom her mind to the page almost effortlessly.
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‘Hey, I’ll accept everybody.’” Soon aylor had an Internet ollowing—a an bas that grew once she released her first album and even ally began touring. Her MySpace page has not chan much since its beginning. Te bio section—a spot where she tells ans about her toenails being five diff ent colors because she can’t make decisions—is writ inormally. “I wrote a bio, like a regular person bio,” explained aylor. “Not like an artist promotional bio MySpace and that’s how I’ve kept it.” Like her honest song lyrics, aylor’s MySpace page is Her blog posts are equally casual. Just like a “regu very personal. Trough regular posts on her blog, she person,” she writes about the weather, her riends, h shares the details o her ame, amily, and eelings. Te avorite songs, oods she ate, places she went, things site is also a place or ans to listen to her music or she did. For all the posts about everyday details, the watch original videos. It are posts about a more also updates an on her glamorous liestyle, u calendar o events, V award ceremonies, des appearances and concert er dresses, and worldly venues. At the beginning travels. She’s amous, b o 2010, her total number when she writes about You're Reading a Preview o riends on MySpace was meeting another star a almost 1.8 million and event, she transorms Unlock full access with a free trial. her MySpace profile had a gushing an. Once, been viewed almost 110 she met Shania wain Download With Free Trial million times. MySpace, backstage at the Coun a social networking site try Music Association originally launched in Awards, she wrote this 2003, was a pivotal actor her blog: “She walked in aylor’s quick rise to to me and said she wa ame, although she never meet Sign up to vote onto this titleme and tell m intended it to be. aylor was doing a great job. useful Useful Not simply grew up at a time was so beautiul, guys when the social networkreally IS that beautiul
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changed dramatically since 2005, she’s always been open and honest in her posts. From the beginning, she has thanked her ans in almost every entry. “I love you so much,” she wrote in a 2009 post. “Tanks or making all o this a possibility or me.” Humor is another element characterizing aylor’s blog entries. She can be very unny. Once, she wrote, “I’m sitting in the production office o the Brad Paisley tour. Tat’s right, I’m stealing wireless rom Brad Paisley in order to write this.” She ofen goes off tangent. She enjoys “ree writing” and lets hersel go on and on about something that is not necessarily important. It seems she can write about any subject, even the rain. Once, she wrote, “I’m here in Philadelphia, and it’s raining and raining and raining. Oh, and there’s wind, too. So, with all the rain added with the wind, you get sideways rain. And there’s really nothing you can do about staying dry when there’s
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sideways rain. Umbrellas only shield you rom one an so you’ve basically got to give up on your hair. It’s goi to get wet. Same with clothes. With the added bonus puddles, your shoes get totaled as well.” It seems no matter how many awards she’s won or how many No. 1 songs she’s had, aylor still can’t believe her own success. She ofen writes about this belie in her blog. “Part o me can’t ully wrap my around the idea that this sort o thing could happen me,” she wrote in a December 2009 post, afer learn she’d been nominated or eight Grammy Awards. Tanks to MySpace and other online venues, songs can be heard or downloaded digitally. In this way, ay believes the Internet has made music more accessible t more people. “In this day o iPods and digital and Inte and the act people can go get any music they want wit the click o a button, I really think there are less bound ies and the lines are mo blurred between genre she told Te Star . “And You're Reading a Preview I think that’s a beautiu thing.” Unlock full access with a free trial. aylor is also promi nent on another socia Download With Free Trial networking site called ■aylor puts her signature style into every MySpace blog post, whether it’s the Facebook. She had alm way she signs off or the way she shows emotion. Here are a ew key elements her three million riends ans see in almost every blog update: there by the beginning o 2010. Tough she h Current Mood: Tese include inspired, anxious, imaginative, excited, and happy. riends on Faceb Sign up to vote onmore this title Hey: aylor usually starts off her posts with the word “hey” and sometimes, it’s Not than MySpace, the latt useful Useful spelled with two Ys. where she posts perso CAPS: When aylor wants to represent a mood visually, she usually types words blogs. Much o what is
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Tese can be upsetting to aylor, though she tries not to read comments ofen. “I try to put my ocus on the ones who are saying things on MySpace because the MySpace comments are usually really nice,” aylor said. “Tey’re rom people who are just loving and sweet and kind and have wonderul things to say.” In act, MySpace comments have been able to lif aylor’s spirits in the past. “Going on MySpace immediately makes my day better. I may be thinking ‘My hair doesn’t look right,’ ‘I don’t like this outfit,’ or ‘I need to do this or that,’” she told Sel . “But when I log in, they’re like ‘Your music has changed my lie,’ ‘Your music got me through this breakup,’ ‘Your song means so much to me.’ When people are just constantly being loving to you, it’s the nicest thing. It’s just so cool. It’s a constant stream o love.” aylor does avoid reading comments, particularly those listed below articles or mes-
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subjective, which means it’s a personal choice. “Te beautiul thing about music is that everybody has an opinion about it,” she said. “Te thing that makes me value the people that like me are the people that don’t like me, because i everybody liked you, then maybe you wouldn’t value the people that really had your back all the time as much.” o avoid negative comments, aylor said she doesn’t receive Google alerts, e-mail updates about Internet activity related more, they’ll know me more, and that’s bette to her name. “I you read something about yoursel, Her videos are all over the board. In one, sh it makes you wonder what the public perception is o CMA Award nominations in bed. In another, You'reiReading a Preview you,” aylor explained. “It makes you wonder you around a parking lot in a gol cart with her mo look like a different person. And to be constantly quesband members are eatured regularly. In one v Unlock full access with a free trial. tioning yoursel is never good.” bass player, Amos Heller, stole her headband. Instead, aylor ocuses her attention on her ans. o honor ing it,” he said or the camera. Other videos sh With Free Trial them, especially the ans who write loving Download messages to her many people behind the scenes, like sound an on MySpace and elsewhere, aylor actually reads their com- dancers, and parking lot attendants. ments and tries to write back as much as possible. aylor’s video diaries ofen showcase her tr places she’s visited, and the varied experiences The Video Diary on the road. aylor sees these places and expe Video Blogs, what aylor sometimes reers to as “video extension o to thevote college classroom. aylor has Sign up on this title diaries,” are a prominent eature on aylor’s MySpace college but eels though Useful Not usefulshe has. “I’ve a yet, as page. Whether she’s on tour, backstage, or shooting an to college...as ar as being away rom home, ha episode o Crossroads with De Leppard, she’s usually how to survive, having to learn so many differ
“I you read something about yoursel, it makes you wonder what the public perception is o you,” aylor explained. “It makes you wonder i you look like a different person. And to constantly questioning yourse never good.”
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likened her albums to diaries. “aylor Swif was the act, a journal is something she carries around at all diary o my lie rom ages 14 to 16 years old,” she extimes. “My purse weighs, like, 50 pounds because m plained. “And Fearless was the diary o my lie ages 16 diary’s in there and it weighs so much—it’s the thick to 18. And my next album will be a diary rom age 18 to ness o a Bible!” she told Seventeen. “I always have t that point in my lie.” have a diary or a journal with me wherever I go bec However, aylor also keeps a private journal, where I’m constantly writing stuff down, whether it’s what she writes her most personal thoughts, dreams, and de- happened to me that day, or an idea or a song in th sires. It’s a habit she started when she was new to being middle o the night.” a teenager. “I actually started writing in a journal when What does aylor write about in her journal? Prob I was 13,” she explained. “And I have them all in this the same things she puts into her song lyrics or write sae in my house. I have like 25 o them because I would her blog—like her amily, riends, boys, and relations write every single night.” One thing is or sure: aylor fills the pages o her jou aylor enjoys reading these old journals rom time quickly. She wrote about that act in her MySpace blo to time and reminiscing about old times. “It’s crazy to afer receiving a new journal as a gif rom actress Ka go back and read them and think about all these things Walsh. “Kate Walsh sent me a journal, and it was pe I once thought were so out o reach,” said aylor, who timing because I was JUS about to run out o pages ocused many journal entries on her goals. Her “goal my current one,” aylor wrote. “I don’t know how she sheets” rom the age o 14 and 15 included items like knew that. She must have magical powers.” winning a CMA award, having a No. 1 song, or being A good place or aylor to journal is on the road. W on the cover o Seventeen magazine. She’s done all o traveling, she tries to find time to write not only songs You're Reading a Preview these things and more. diary entries. “I do love writing on the road,” she said. aylor continues to journal regularly to this day. In usually write at the concert venue. I’ll find a quiet plac Unlock full access with a free trial.
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some room at the venue, like the locker room.” Journaling is a means o stress relie or aylor. In addition to writing in her journal, she relaxes by lighting candles, listening to music, or painting abstract art.
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I want to sing it with aylor Swif. She woul killer ‘Nicks’ in contrast to my ‘Petty’ o a so O course, aylor read this tweet, and duet was planted. “I reaked out when I hea I’ve been such a big an o John or such a lo aylor told Elle. “I’m really excited about ju that he would even mention me in his wit Te two eventually recorded “Hal o My which pays homage to the unique sound o perormed by Stevie Nicks o Fleetwood Ma Petty. “I this is going to be my love letter to music, who’s going to be the Stevie Nicks in tion?” John Mayer said. “And I thought, ‘T Swif girl is going to be around or a long tim
In 2006, the social networking site witter was launched and quickly took pop culture by storm. witter serves as a quick, easy way to keep up-to-date with your riends and amily, and in aylor’s case, her ans. Status updates are ofen concise and to the point; they can be about important things or just idle babble. Celebrities like Ashton Kutcher and John Mayer use witter regularly, and so does aylor Swif. By the end o January 2010, aylor had 2.5 million ollowers on witter. Unlike MySpace, which aylor said was an accident, witter was a purposeul decision or You're Reading a Preview aylor. “witter has just become big in the last Unlock full access with a free trial. couple o months,” aylor told Whirl magazine in Download With Free Trial 2008. “And, my dad’s a stockbroker, so it’s all about trying to figure out what’s going to be huge tomorrow and getting in ront o it…I always want to be on the cutting edge o Te song a hit. o My Heart,” tu Sign up was to vote on“Hal this title all those platorms.” be the track rom John’s Usefuldownloaded most Not useful Just like aylor writes her own posts on her MySpace song debuted at No. 25 on the Billboard Ho blog, she always writes her own tweets on witter. “I chart and No. 12 on the Digital Songs chart
“My dad’s a stockbroker, so it’s about trying to figure out wha going to be huge tomorrow an getting in ront o it…I always want to be on the cutting edge all those platorms.”
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* “When I drive past herds o deer, I always eel the need to caution them on the dangers o traffic, usually addressing them as ‘Bambi.’” * “Seeing 13’s EVERYWHERE or the past ew days. And 31’s. 31’s. Which is 13 reversed. Which totally sti ll counts.” * “Just ound my old lie-size Brad Paisley cardboard cutout. Or better yet… It ound me.” * “I’m twenty.” * “At the ancy hotel, I may have broken the ancy curtains because I didn didn’t ’t know they have a ancy electric button you push to close them. Hm.” * “Photo shoot all day, ollowed by dinner with Emma Stone. Ten we wandered around a candy store like wide-eyed little kids.” * “About to put on my official CSI cast cast and crew hoodie or the flight. You know... From my old days playing a corpse and fighting crime.”
The Art of Fine Writing With so many people writing e-mails, blogs, and generally communicating via the computer, some people believe the art o fine writing, the days o paper and pens, are a thing o the past. rue, aylor uses MySpace
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and witter witter to communicate, but she loves stationa and she ofen sends hand-written letters to riends. Once, she sent her backup singer, singer, Liz (Elizabeth) H a card with a picture o a sad kitten on the ront. ront. products, like cards and stationary, are something lor said she splurges on. “Tere’s this store called Papyrus, and they have t boxes o beautiul cards and I love them,” she said in a CM Insider Interview. Interview . “And another thing that I’m obsessed with right rig ht now is old-ashioned wax seals. light it and it drips the wax and you have a little stam thing. I love writing cards and letters to people, and have all these different colors o waxes so it goes ently with different colors o the envelopes, and you stamp it, and it’s pretty.” aylor a ylor likes stationary so s o much, especially glitter stationary, she said she’d splurge on writing supplies rather than buy a house in the Bahamas. “I don’t ne a house in the Bahamas right now,” she said. “But I need stationer stationeryy.” Due to aylor’s love o stationary and cards, it’s no wonder aylor partnered with American Greetings. In act, aylor will create and produce her own line greeting cards and stationary, as well as online gree and personalized photo products. Te line will wi ll laun in spring 2010. “We are absolutely thrilled and honored to introd aylor Swif as the newest writer and creative contri tor to the American Greetings amily,” said Zev Wei Chie Executive at American Greetings. “He SignOfficer up to vote on this title abilities as a storyteller Useful and Not useful make her a songwriter natural at writing cards or consumers o all ages. has the unique ability to connect with her ans thro
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A lot has changed since aylor and her guitari Mickelson, rocked the stage at the Academy o Music Awards All-Star Jam in May 2007.
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aylor Swif had the talent, creativity, and selconfidence to make it in the music industry. But she also had a great support system, made up o amily, business partners, riends, and even ans to help her along the way. In addition to being encouraged by the people closest to her, aylor was also inspired by her environment. Te places she spent time—whether it was Pennsylvania, ennessee, or the Jersey Shore—all played a part in her journey to stardom.
it cool—aylor knows she can go to her mom with a problem and get honest advice. “She’s always, alway around,” said aylor. “She’s the person in my lie wh will just literally look me in the eye and say, ‘Look, s out o it.’ And I need that person.” aylor said her mom has never been concerned w how many records she’s sold or how many awards sh has won. In an interview on Loose Women, a British show, aylor even divulged that at award shows, her mom usually says, “Honey, you’re not gonna win th Taylor’s Family one.” In this way, her mom tries to keep aylor grou Te heart o the Swif amily is aylor’s mom, Andrea ed and not let success go to her head. Swif, who has stood behind aylor every step o her aylor respects her mother’s opinion. It’s one o th career. Andrea usually accompanies aylor while she’s reasons aylor does not participate in rebellious beon the road. aylor’s mom is a oundation o support havior, like drinking or smoking. “I can tell my mom or aylor, but she’s also a source o inspiration. everything, and I do,” she said. “Beore I make deci“Beore she had me, she was this really big business sions, I always think, ‘What is my mom going to thi I tell her this? Is my m going to be really ups i she finds out that I You're Reading a Preview this?’ Usually I decide ‘No, I’m not going to Unlock full access with a free trial. through with this.’” Like most parents, Download With Free Trial Andrea Swif is protec tive o her daughter. F instance, she reprima Kanye West backstage the 2009 MV VMAs executive who worked or an ad agency. I really look up afer he interrupted acceptance Sign up aylor’s to vote on this title speech. Wh to that,” said aylor. “I respect that she had a career on Andrea Swif negative comments Useful useful or rumors a reads Not her own and lived alone. She had me when she was 30. aylor online, she’s tempted to write back. “I’m goin She had a complete career o her own and was supportmake a name,” aylor’s mom said one time. “I’m go
“Beore I make decisions, I always think, ‘What is my mom going to think i I tell her this? Is my mom going to be really upset i she finds out that I did this?’”
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aylor called Scott Swif “the proudest dad you could have” because he’s always approaching people to say, “Hi, I’m aylor Swif’s dad.” For this reason, aylor really enjoys showing her dad what she’s been up to lately in the studio. “Playing new songs or my dad will always be one o the most rewarding things I get to do,” she wrote in her blog. ■Considering aylor’s busy schedu aylor’s dad also has a great sense o liestyle, you may wonder who man day-to-day affairs. Does she have a humor. He’s been known to do silly things, like ride a Segway “I don’t really have a manager,” around an arena parking lot vulged. “I have about five or s or shout “Hey! Tat’s aylor I really trust. I think it’s impor Swif!” in public. Once, he there at every single meeting home, it’s not playtime and ollowed aylor around at an award show, picking up and days off. I’m at the m metallic pieces that kept building every single d alling off her bejeweled dress. our next step and orga Each time he ound a new next move. It’s gotten where it’s like, well, do particle, he’d call out, “E-Bay!” You're Reading a Preview as i planning to sell parts o need a manager i it’s al his daughter’s dress on the whole time? … I it ain’t b Unlock full access with a free trial. internet. know?” “He’s a social butterfly and aylor doesn’t need too mu Download With Free Trial staying motivated or keeping ocu loves being on tour,” aylor explained. “He loves it so career. She’s always been able to do much, he thinks it’s absohersel, thanks to her competitive lutely hilarious to mess with has driven me to the place I am rig me and try to embarrass me said o her character trait. “Someti as much as possible.” Signto upbe totoo votemuch. on thisI have title never gotten Despite his silly personality, where I haveNot been so competitive th useful Useful Scott Swif is a wizard at money. As sel-destructive. I think it’s good to a financial advisor or Merrill Lynch, competition in you, but not too much
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awhile.’ It was very impromptu.” In times like this, Au may find it difficult to the brother o a amou music star. Because he probably needs his ow space rom time to tim he even moved into a room on the garage le o the Swif house. Ho ever, he’s very proud o sister. He took many p with a business manager to talk about money. And, tures o aylor on the road; these photos were inclu it seems aylor takes afer her dad with an interest in in the Fearless Platinum Edition album. finance. “Tere’s also something very ascinating to me Austin also shares his dad’s sense o humor and o about the music business and about where the money is makes aylor laugh. Once, he called his phone and really made and the percentages and the point systems this message: “iPhone, I’m sorry I lost you. But i yo and things like that on records,” she said. “It’s something listening to this, please come home. I miss you.” ay I’ve really taken an interest in lately.” thought this was so unny, she even tweeted about i You're Reading a Preview In addition to her mom and dad, aylor is supported Although Austin is not interested in pursuing a by her brother, Austin, who is about two years younger. career in music, he does love music in general and e Unlock full access with a free trial. Like most kids, Austin and aylor had their share o introduced aylor to his “eclectic and cool” tastes. “ arguments as kids. “We used to fight like cats and dogs,” introduced me to Kings o Leon, things I wouldn’t h Download With Free Trial aylor said. “But when I went on the road, I started re ventured into, ” aylor said. ally missing him. I’d come back and he’d be our inches Business Partners taller. So we started hanging out when I came home.” aylor is amazed at how much her younger brother aylor has a supportive amily, as well as a trusted has grown up in recent years. songwriting partner like Liz Rose, but credit or her While aylor lef regular high school to be home success as a singer-songwriter is also Sign up to vote on this titledue to two bu ness partners, Borchetta Nathan Chapma schooled, Austin attended John Paul II High School Useful useful Scott Notand in Hendersonville, where he played lacrosse. He was Scott Borchetta, president o Big Machine Record recently accepted to Notre Dame University afer apply- knew there was something special about aylor Swi
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perspective in songs s ongs about lo crushes, and break ups would attract ans outside o her age group. “She’s “She’s a teen, but the no bubblegum aspect to it,” h said. “Tere’s heartache in he songs and her voice. It eels because the rawest heartbreak probably the first heartbreak.” When aylor signed on as h client, Scott Borchet B orchetta ta offered her something truly special: a active role in the production her music. aylor was involve with every aspect o the album rom writing the songs to cho ing them. “And I’m proud to thanks to Scott Borchetta, eve song on this album are ones I written,” aylor aylor wrote on her about the sel-titled album. “N
■Besides her amily and business partners, aylor relies on good
riends to encourage, inspire, and support her. In addition to her pals and songwriting partners Colbie Caillat and Kellie Pickler, these are aylor’s aylor’s closest girlriends: g irlriends: Abigail Anderson: aylor has been riends with Abigail since they met in English class their reshman year at Hendersonville High Actually ly during School. Te two loved to watch Love watch Love Actual during Christmas oleon DynaDynabreak and talk in silly voices inspired by the film Nap film Napoleon mite.. aylor oen visits Abigail at Kansas University, where Abigail mite is on the swim team. Miley Cyrus: A country singer and star o the Disney show Hannah Montan Mon tana a, Miley is the daughter o country singer Billy Ray Cyrus o “Achy “Achy Breaky Heart” ame. aylor visits Miley whenever she’s she’s in Los Angeles. Te two also perormed together at the 2009 Grammys. “We’ “We’re re riends, so s o anytime I’m perorming with w ith her, my nerves go away,” said aylor. “Cause she’s always trying to make me laugh or is doing something ridiculous. r idiculous.”” Selena Gomez: Selena stars on the Disney show Wizards o Waverly Place.. “We talk all the time, almost everyday,” aylor said o Place Selena. “She’s just such a cool person because she’s so real, and a lot o times people get to a level where they’re amous and people know them, people recognize them, and they become…less real.” Caitlin Evanson: Caitlin is aylor’s aylor’s fiddler player player,, and the two have spent lots o time together in rehearsals and on the road. In act, aylor is good riends with all the members o her band, including Amos Heller, Elizabeth Huett, Mike Meadows, Grant Mickelson, Paul Sidoti, and Al Wilson. aylor posts videos and photos on her blog that eature Caitlin. She tweets about her, too: “In urniturebrowsing conversation, @caitlinbird just said ‘Oh yeah, I saw that
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too many artists get to say that, and I thank God or putting me with people who love what I write and have the courage to allow me to have that much creative reedom.” Even though Scott knew aylor aylor had great potential, he was surprised by her rapid success. “What I didn’t didn’t know was how beautiully this flower would bloom,” he said, according to Country Standard ime. ime. “People don’t just like aylor Swif, they love aylor Swif. I am so happy or her. And, she makes all o this so much un.” In the past, Scott was also concerned about the impact aylor’s rise to ame would have on her. “My ear is that she’ll conquer the world by the time she’s 19,” Scott once said afer the release o Fearless Fearless.. “She’ll get to the mountaintop and say, ‘Tis is it?’ Because she’s just knocking down all o these goals that we didn’t didn’t even have or the first album.… My job at this point is really to protect her and not burn her out.” aylor turned 20 in December 2009, but she hasn’t showed any signs o burning out. In act, with a third album due out in 2010 and more Fearless Fearless our our dates on the calendar, she seems to be on a roll. Another man responsible or aylor’s success as a singer-songwriter is Nathan Chapman, Chapman, who produced many o aylor’s singles, including her first single, “im McGraw.” He also co-produced her first and second albums. aylor and Nathan have a long history together. “I’ve been working with Nathan Chapman, this amazing
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connection was a guiding orce when it cam produce aylor’s sel-titled album. Nathan s rom the other producers aylor had worke got to record with a bunch o really awesom in Nashville,” aylor said. “But none o them the way it did with Nathan...the right chem aylor joined Nathan as producer o her album, which added another dimension to ness relationship. It also merited awards. T Album o the Year at the Country Music As Awards in November 2009. “I elt pretty goo said afer the big win. “It was nice to get an that. Te music business is so hard and s level o success would blow anyone away.” aylor and Nathan were blown away agai they learned aylor was nominated or eigh Awards, including Record o the Year and A the Year, two nominations she shared with N sometimes hard or aylor and Nathan to b success they’ve achieved in such a short am “I was talking myonproducer, Sign up to to vote this title Nathan, toda erything that’s happened this year. We were Useful Not useful talgic and going back to this t his time our year years ago, two years ago,” aylor wrote on h
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Merry Swiftmas ■How ar would a an go to show support or aylor
Swi? One an, singer-songwriter Evan aubeneld, aubeneld, who used to play guitar or Avril Lavigne, wrote an original song inspired by country music’s blondehaired, blue-eyed cutie. His song “Merry Swimas (Even though I celebrate Chanukah)” was an Internet sensation in December 2009. He not only posted the song online, but tweeted it to aylor. In the song, Evan asks Santa or “a blonde who likes to sing.” But not just anyone will do. In act, with a great deal o creative rhyming, Evan snubs a number o other beautiul, amous women in his song, including Megan Fox, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Smart, Penelope Cruz, Lindsay Lohan, Cameron Diaz, Emma Stone, Angelina Jolie, and Britney Spears. Who’s the lady o Evan’s dreams? He gives his specific holiday request in the song’s chorus: “Santa or my gi/Please send me aylor Swi.” Te song boasts some unny lines, like “No one will mess with her when she’s mine/And Kanye will watch his mouth next time,” which reers to the MV Video Music Awards when Kanye West interrupted aylor’s acceptance speech or best emale emale video. Another great line, hinting at a possible marriage between Evan and aylor, is “I know her and I are gonna fit/aylor aubenaubeneld has a ring to it.” O course, aylor responded to Evan’s song through witter. witt er. “Tis makes make s me smile, smile,”” she wrote.
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couple didn’t want a photo. “No, aylor made her signature hand gesture—a we just wanted to tell her some day heart—with the help o a an. that you held her,” they said. aylor’s ans are so important to her, she always finds time to write an autograph, take a photo, or just hold a baby. She understands this is a part o being amous. “It really bothers me when amous people get all mad when people ask or their autograph,” she explained. “Tey are like ‘Oh my God, my privacy has been invaded; everyone wants to talk to me.’ Tis is what I asked or. Tis is what I’ve wanted since I was a little kid. I want to be known or my music.” aylor’s ans find some unique ways to capture aylor’s attention or show their appreciation or her muYou're Reading a Preview sic. One male an gave her a turtle shell with her ace painted on it. FraUnlock full access with a free trial. ternity guys ofen paint her name on their chests; sometimes, a male an Download With Free Trial yells out “Marry me” during a set. Other ans have gotten her name, and even her autograph, tattooed on their bodies. When they meet aylor, many o her ans cry. Tis doesn’t bother aylor. “I get a lot o a good role girls. It’s an hon Sign upmodel to voteor onyoung this title criers, and I love criers because I like emotional people,” takes ans actor in to h Useful Her Not useful seriously. young said aylor. “Some artists are very uncomortable when and non-musical decisions. “Beore I make a people cry, but I happen to think it’s the cutest thing on the stop and think about the 10-year-old girl I sa
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tree arm in this wealthy suburb, aylor had space to Stone Harbor, located along the New Jersey coastli roam and create. Wyomissing boasts all the perks o a o the Atlantic Ocean. aylor spent her summers th small town with just under 12,000 people, but is still since she was two years old. “It was a pretty magic close to larger towns like Reading and Philadelphia. place to grow up,” aylor told Te Philadelphia Inqu Despite social problems with riends at school, aylor about Stone Harbor, where she sang karaoke at ope enjoyed her years in Wyomissing. She spent most o her nights at restaurants and coffee shops. ormative years singing karaoke at contests and estivals. Te resort town served as an inspiration or many Many o her early songs about the pressures o fitting her early songs. One called “Smoky Black Nights” w in, like “Te Outside” were inspired by her experiences about lie on the shore and another song, “Invisible, in Wyomissing. aylor lived in Wyomissing until April based on a boy aylor knew in Stone Harbor. Te su 2004, when she relocated to the Nashville area. mer house was located on the bay, and her days ther While Wyomissing gave aylor security, the Nashville were ull o typical summertime un. Te Swifs rod area offered her opportunity. When she was 14 years old, Jet Skis, explored islands, looked or hermit crabs, an aylor moved to Hendersonville, ennessee, located just walked bareoot. “We used to all gather together on 18 miles rom Nashville. Hendersonville is much bigger dock when the boat parades would go by on July 4 a than Wyomissing, with a population three to our times we’d shoot water balloons at them,” aylor added. larger. Like Wyomissing, it offered aylor a laid back aylor’s other avorite Stone Harbor memories in suburban lie style with a bigger city close by. Its beauticlude the Italian Garden restaurant on 96th Street an ul location on Old Hickory Lake is rivaled only by its Springer’s Hometown Ice Cream, where aylor usu got cookies’n cream or cookie dough ice cream. An close proximity to country music capital. Nashville is You'retoReading a Preview perk o Stone Harbor summers was a bird sanctuary where country music lives and thrives. It’s also home Te Grand Ole Opry, a perormance venue dating back across the street that aylor viewed through binocul Unlock full access with a free trial. to the 1920s with a rich past in showcasing country, She also had her own clubhouse above the garage, p bluegrass, and even gospel artists. Moving to Nashville and decorated in her own style. One summer, she w Download With Free Trial a 250-page novel. In this way, Stone Harbor was a p was the right decision or aylor’s career, since she was where aylor discovered her authentic sel, away r able to work as a songwriter or Sony/AV on Music Row and eventually get discovered by Scott Borchetta at the popularity contest she aced at school in Wyom Te Bluebird Caé. ing. “I was allowed to be kind o weird and quirky One place not ofen mentioned in interviews with imaginative as a kid,” aylor said. “And that was my avorite partSign o living theon Shore.” aylor is Stone Harbor, New Jersey. Beore moving to up toat vote this title Nashville, aylor’s parents owned a summer home in Useful Not useful
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CHAPTER SEVEN: What’s Up, Taylor?
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he year 2009 could not have been better or aylor 13, 2009, aylor turned 20 years old. She could no l Swif; she certainly ended the year with a bang. ger call hersel a teenager. In November 2009, she took home all our o the Country Music Awards she was nominated or, including Happy Birthday, Happy Winter Entertainer o the Year. aylor said winning that coveted So how did aylor celebrate the big 2-0? Like past y award was her best moment o 2009. “Being on stage, she hosted a Christmas–themed birthday party. Sin accepting the CMA Entertainer o the Year award and her birthday alls in the weeks beore the holiday, a getting to call my band up on stage, to have all o us up always turns her birthday into a second Christmas. there, was really a un and special moment or me that I more like an end-o-year Christmas party that happ to be on my birthday,” explained aylor, who prepar won’t orget,” she told People magazine. Less than two weeks later, aylor won big at the butter and gingerbread cookies, topped with cream American Music Awards. One o her five awards was cheese icing or the shindig. or Artist o the Year, which aylor nabbed rom other Instead o going to a ancy restaurant, aylor chos avorites like Michael Jackson, Eminen, Lady Gaga, and to spend her 20th birthday at home, surrounded by amily, riends, band, and tour crew. Because home is Kings o Leon. aylor, who won an AMA in 2008 or Best Female Country Artist, considered the award a such an important aspect o aylor’s lie, it’s no surpr huge honor. “Tey are an-voted and that’s where I base the biggest birthday gif was rom aylor to her orm most o my pride in awards,” aylor said. “Tose are the schools. In honor o her special day, aylor gave $250 ones that I’m most ond o because the ans went online dollars to schools she either attended or with which s and voted.” had a connection. a Preview aylor wrapped up November 2009 by playingYou're two Reading “Something I wanted to do at the end o this ama concerts o her Fearless our in England, the last o her ing year and especially on my birthday was give bac Unlock full access with a free trial. sold-out concerts or the year. A slew o other honors to something I really believe in, which is education, soon ollowed. In December 2009, the Associated Press said aylor. “Te schools that I went to and the ama Downloadpeople With Free named aylor Entertainer o the Year, and Billboard I got Trial to learn rom really turned me into wh named her Artist o the Year. Tat same month, her am, and I wanted to give back.” second album, Fearless, went five times platinum. aylor donated money to these Nashville area schools December 2009 was a month o not only proessional Hendersonville High School, Ellis Middle School, and P celebrations, but personal ones as well. On December John Paul II High School. Te Wyomissing Area Schoo Sign up to vote onDistrict this titlein Pennsylvani also a recipient. Te dis useful Useful Not received $25,000 towar teacher’s salaries, books
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always ull o holiday spirit come December, thanks to aylor’s mom, Andrea, who decorates so much she “makes the house look like ■Although aylor bought a Nashville condo in the all o 2009, she the North Pole,” aylor said. moved into it by the beginning o 2010. Tat’s because she was havin Tere’s no other place it up to be a magical place, almost a airytale world. aylor wants to be come In October 2009, on Te Oprah Winrey Show , aylor said she wante the holidays than home. place to boast an “Old World, eclectic eel.” She also said she was consi bright colors, draping abrics, and “a different knob on every cabinet.” Returning to Henderson ville afer being in Los haps to show she’s still a kid at heart, she said she wanted a tree house i Angeles or three weeks, room, as well as a pond. “It’s going to be my antasy world,” she told aylor enjoyed seeing the “Te pond is a moat around my fireplace and may possibly have Koi fi sights and sounds o the o make her penthouse condo even more magical, aylor planned t ping stones in the pond, which would lead to a spiral staircase. Te sta season as the year 2009 neared its end. “Tere were wind up to a human size birdcage, and inside the birdcage, would be a cars jammed into every or viewing stars on her aux night sky ceiling. last parking spot available,” she said, describing her hometown. “I could Reading up the text, which read “Don’t worry about m see the smoke billowing out o fireplaceYou're chimneys into a Preview cold winter air. It’s the holidays. People are coming dead,” aylor peeked at the clock. “I actually Unlock full access with a free trial. together and going out or dinner and something about rience looking at the clock when it struck m seeing that just stuck with me. I love everything about that was a really un moment or me,” she s Download Trial unconventional New Year’s Eve I’v the most this time o year, but mostly the way that people findWith Free ways to be with the ones they love. And I love sweaters. Like New Year’s Eve, January 2010 was a la Everyone is wearing sweaters right now.” month or aylor. Without concerts or any m But Christmas 2009 was also bittersweet. “My brothappearances, aylor was ree to take walks, er’s leaving or college next year, and I’m moving out in and think. She also participated in two chari She perormed at and supported a ew months,” she told Rolling Stone. “So this was sort Sign up to vote on this title the Hope Now global o a moment in time or me. I was definitely recording to raise usefulunds or the im Usefultelethon Not all o it in my mind, the last Christmas with all o us be- country devastated by an earthquake. She a ing in the same place.” “An Unorgettable Evening” benefiting the
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CHAPTER SEVEN: What’s Up, Taylor? lor’s career thus ar: the 2010 Grammys. At the end o 2009, aylor—nominated or eight Grammy awards— said winning a Grammy would be at the top o her list o things to do in 2010. “Tat would be something I would never orget,” she said. aylor had been nominated or a Grammy in 2008 or Best New Artist, but lost to Amy Winehouse. In 2009, she perormed at the Grammys with Miley Cyrus,
happens in L.A.” aylor arrived at the 2010 Grammys with her mom She wore a midnight blue, sparkly Franco Kauman dress. And it wasn’t long beore aylor showed off the gown on stage. Although she did not win Song or Record o the Year, she won Best Country Album Tis was her first televised award o the night, as sh won Best Female Country Vocal Perormance and B Country Song, bot or “White Horse, off stage in a specia ceremony. Upon claiming h Grammy or Best Country Album, aylor said, “Tis i ■aylor did not get much time to sit around and savor her big win at the 2010 first time walking u Grammys. She soon headed off to Australia to start the second leg o her Fearthose stairs to acce less tour. O course, aylor didn’t mind. Perorming live in concert is something Grammy on nation she loves to do. She has fine memories o her 2009 tour. “I’m gonna think back to television.” She imReadingcrowd a Preview those moments standing on that stage, hearingYou're that incredible noise come mediately thanked her label, Big Mach at me,” aylor said. “Te screaming that happened on that tour rom the crowd Unlock full access with a free trial. was at a volume level I have never experienced beore. Tose are definitely the Records, or allowmoments I’ll remember when I need a pick me up.” ing her to write all Download With FreeinTrial More o those amazing an moments came when aylor perormed Australia her own songs. Te throughout February beore heading to the States in March or shows in 29 cities, moment was unbe able or aylor. “I j rom ampa to Detroit to Washington, D. C., Te second leg o her Fearless our was set to run through June 2010. All o the shows sold out within minutes, somekeep thinking back thing she did not take or granted. to like when you’re “I’ve never expected that kind o success,” she said, according to MV. Sign “I’veup to vote on this2nd titlegrade and you never elt entitled to my show selling out or things like this happening to but Not useful at your talent show Useful me, or the first time an the act that they’ve happened to me has been wonderul.” people joke around
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And now that story continues.” connected love stories, all pertaining to Vale Afer aylor sang a shortened version o “oday was One storyline was about a florist who propo a Fairytale,” she was joined on stage by legendary singer girlriend. Another was about a woman who Stevie Nicks o Fleetwood Mac ame. aylor and Stevie “I hate Valentine’s Day” party. And yet anot sang a duet o “Rhiannon,” a song written by Stevie and dealt with a teen babysitter looking or advic made amous by Fleetwood Mac in the late 1970s. Te love. two ended the perormance with a changed up verIn the movie, aylor played Felicia, an out sion o “You Belong With Me” that had a olky, almost ular prom queen type who is dating the equa Hawaiian sound. Stevie Nicks sang backup and played jock. “I play the kind o girl I didn’t like in tambourine. At the end o the perormance, aylor and aylor said o her character. “She’s orced to Stevie hugged. class and doesn’t want to be there.” In the film Te night ended on a high note or aylor. She won her boyriend, Willy, played by New Moon Album o the Year or Fearless, beating out albums by Lautner, get interviewed or a local L.A. telev Beyonce, Black Eyed Peas, Lady Gaga, and Dave Mattion’s segment on love. “Oh my gosh, I total thews Band. aylor seemed both shocked and humbled Felicia said during the segment, hugging Wi by the coveted award. “I just hope that you know how even wrote his number on my hand.” much this means to me and to Nathan, my producer, Te two proceeded to kiss heavily in ron and to all these musicians you see on this stage, that and the segment is almost sickening to the we get to take this back to Nashville,” said aylor, who “Tere you have it—young love,” he said, “F noted her dad and brother were probably at home promise, ull o hope, ignorant o reality.” You're Reading a Preview “reaking out” in the living room Most o the aylor and aylor scenes took aylor thanked her ather or his support o her musihigh school track/ootball field. aylor wor Unlock full access with a free trial. cal interests. “Tank you or all those times that you said uniorm, red shorts, and a grey -shirt. In o I could do whatever I wanted in lie,” she said. She also the two aylors were surrounded by the hea Download With Free Trial o the school’s marching band. thanked her mother, whom she called her “best riend.” ormation aylor knew even then that winning a Grammy Filming the movie was a blast or aylor. Sh would be an unorgettable moment in her lie. “When started a brie romance with her onscreen boy we’re 80 years old and we’re telling the same stories over aylor Lautner, but she also got along well wit and over again to our grandkids, and they’re so annoyed director. “Garry Marshall was wonderul,” a with us,” she explained “Tis is the story we are going NewSign Yorkup imes StyleonMagazine. to vote this title “And both o to be telling over and over again: in 2010, that we got numbers are 13, so talked about that most Not useful Useful we to win Album o the Year at the Grammys. Tank you, Te number 13 appears in the film; it’s the thank you, thank you.” Willy wrote on Felicia’s hand. aylor conside
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“All o the production guys kept saying, ‘aylor, on your John Mayer.” I’m inspired by people who I eel know mark—no, not you, aylor—no, the other aylor—not actly who they are, and that inspires me to continue that one, the other,’” she explained. “So halway through figure out and inorm who I am as an artist,” she ad the day, I was like, OK look, call him, ‘aylor,’ and call Te songs on the next album will likely reflect her me, ‘Swify.’ Conusion solved.” experiences, and may even represent the changes in In honor o Valentine’s Day, aylor appeared on the lie as she enters her 20s. “Vulnerability and honesty February/March cover o Girl’s Lie wearing a cupidare themes in my music,” she said. “I don’t know wh inspired outfit and heart-shaped locket. Te article vulnerability looks like at 20, but I’m sure I’ll find o eatured her advice or love and how to handle that Tough she may try out new sounds on her third time o year. “I typically don’t ever have a boyriend on album, she never wants to alienate her ans. “I don’t Valentine’s Day. I see it as an opportunity to just hang want to put out an album that was like ‘my personal out with my other single girlriends,” she said. “Being bum’ that, you know, no one can relate to, but I per single is something that I have never looked at as being ally can relate to,” she told GACtv. “Cause I just rea a curse. It’s that time or you to figure out what you like really always want to consider the 14-year-old girl w and how you like to spend time by yoursel.” driving home and just got broken up with at school Te film wasn’t just an acting credit or aylor, but a mu- and she’s like so upset so she needs to put in the CD sical credit, too. Her original song “oday Was a Fairytale” want a song on the album or her. And I want a son appeared on the movie’s soundtrack. In January, beore the the album or this other girl that I met over here. A movie was even released, the song sold more than 325,000 want a song on the album or this guy who told me downloads in its first week. Te tune made music history; lie story. It’s always going to be about the ans, and You're Reading a Preview it was the astest selling download by a emale artist. hope that never changes.” Tere are a handul o aylor Swif songs, some on Unlock full access with a free trial. Album Number Three available on iunes and Youube, that have never Afer alling in love with aylor’s first and second officially been released on any specific album. Tese Download With Free Trial“Permanent Marker,” “Sparks Fly,” albums, as well as her special edition LPs, aylor’s ans include “I’d Lie,” are eagerly awaiting the release o her third album. “Your Anything.” Could these songs appear on Although no specific release date has been mentioned, third album? Unortunately, aylor ans will just hav the album will likely be out by the end o 2010. “I like wait and see. to have two years in between albums,” aylor explained. Tere’s always room or surprises, though. “So i you take Fearless and go orward two years, that’s “I think that it’sup un aylor tol Sign tomaking vote on an thisalbum,” title my ideal place to put out the next record, because I Rolling Stone. thatNot twouseful days beore you’re Useful “Knowing think two years o growth and development and eelscheduled to have the last master in, and everything ings and lie intake, love intake, emotion output, is my finished, and they’re about to go print up the bookl
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stars with the same exact first name star It’s a story people and celebrity magazin talking about. Such was the case with aylor Swi an Lautner, 17, who met and eventually star aer playing onscreen boyriend and gir the film Valentine’s Day . Te two were soon spotted and photog many times by the paparazzi. One time, caught eating rozen yogurt together. mored the two were an item, though nei firmed nor denied the idea. aylor hinte the New Moon hunk during her monolo Saturday Night Live in November 2009. later, when aylor Lautner hosted the sh up a cardboard cut out o Kanye West du You're Reading a Preview monologue. It was a re-imagination o t VMAs. Unlock full access with a free trial. By December 29, aer a three-month the two aylors broke up. According to Download With Freesources, Trial the relationship was not as serio media made it out to be. Te two aylor they would be better off as riends. Some said aylor Lautner liked aylor Swi m liked him; that he oen traveled to see h did not ortitle him. Sign updo to the votesame on this aylor Lautner, where is aylor’ Useful Not useful Post heading? Well, aer the Grammys, phot and Cory Monteith o Glee were posted o
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The Ultimate Taylor Swift Quiz Tink you know everything about aylor Swif? ake this quiz and find out i you’re a FAN, a SUPER FAN, or a card-carrying member o EAM AYLOR.
The Real Taylor Swift Answer the ollowing multiplechoice questions: 1. What is the one beverage aylor always keeps in her rerigerator? A. Grape juice B. Chocolate milk C. Cola D. Orange juice 2. What is the one cosmetic aylor can’t live without? A. Bronzer B. Black eyeliner C. Lip gloss D. Moisturizer 3. What ood did aylor call her “guilty pleasure”? A. Pancakes B. Chocolate chips C. Peanut butter D. Whip cream 4. What did aylor call her “dorky
C. So she can hug two people at once D. So she can touch her toes
B. Andrea Swif C. aylor’s cat D. Caitlin Evanson
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12. Who was the only star to sel more digitally downloaded song than aylor in 2009? A. Michael Jackson B. Janet Jackson C. Beyonce Knowles D. Miley Cyrus
7. Which o the ollowing is NO one o the career fields aylor has considered? A. Forensic Science B. Business C. Advertising D. Cosmetology
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18. What is the first thing aylor needs to do in the morning? A. Drink coffee B. ake a shower C. Yoga D. Put in her contacts 19. aylor’s amily owns two dogs o what breed? A. West Highland erriers B. Doberman Pinschers C. Golden Retrievers D. Black Labs 20. Which o the ollowing boys did aylor NO have a crush on? A. Chace Craword B. Justin imberlake C. aylor Hanson D. Brad Pitt 21. When pranking Keith Urban, which member o Kiss did aylor dress up as? A. Te Demon B. Spaceman C. Starchild D. Catman 22. What is aylor’s signature hand gesture? A. Peace sign
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A. Ketchup B. Mustard C. Mayonnaise D. Chocolate shake 25. What was aylor’s avorite book in grade school? A. Te Adventures o Huckleberry Finn by Mark wain B. o Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee C. Te Diary o Anne Frank D. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
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TAYLOR SWIFT: TIMELINE December 1989: aylor Alison Swif was born December 13 to Scott and Andrea Swif in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. March 1982: aylor’s brother, Austin, is born. January 1996: LeAnn Rimes released her debut album; aylor heard the song “Blue” at age six and ell in love with country music. 1999-2000: In ourth grade, aylor wrote “Monster in My Closet,” a three-page poem that won a national poetry contest. June 2000: At age 10, aylor sang karaoke or the first time at Henny’s Restaurant in Stone Harbor, New Jersey. March 2001: During spring break, aylor popped into record labels on Nashville’s Music Row with the pitch: “Hey, I’m 11 and I want a record deal. Call me.” August 2002: aylor sang the National Anthem at the US Open ennis ournament in New York. Tere, she was discovered by Dan
April 2004: Afer being offered a songwriting job with Sony/AV, aylor moved to Hendersonville, ennessee, to pursue a career in country music in nearby Nashville.
January 2007: George Strait inv aylor to open or his arena tour
August 2004: aylor appeared in Vanity Fair as well as the Abercrombie & Fitch catalog, as part o a “Rising Stars” campaign; aylor’s original song “Te Outside” appeared on the Maybelline Chicks with Attitude compilation CD, which coincided with a summer concert tour eaturing Liz Phair; aylor started her reshman year at Hendersonville High School and met her best riend, Abigail Anderson, in English class.
March 2007: “eardrops on My Guitar” was released.
February 2007: aylor’s tune “O Song” was released as a single.
April 2007: aylor joined Brad Paisley’s Bonfire & Amplifiers as an opening act, along with K Pickler and Jack Ingram; aylor Breakthrough Video o the Year “Our Song” at the Country Mus elevision (CM) Awards.
May 2007: aylor met im McG in person at the Academy o Co try Music (ACM) Awards.
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TAYLOR SWIFT: December 2007: aylor was nominated or Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards
party on Te Ellen DeGeneres Show, aylor talked about her break up with Joe Jonas or the first time.
January 2008: aylor released Live rom Soho: aylor Swif , an iunes exclusive album she recorded at the Apple store in the Soho neighborhood o New York City.
December 2008: Nielsen SoundScan named aylor Swif the bestselling artist o 2008.
March 2008: aylor joined Kenny Chesney’s Keg in the Closet our. April 2008: aylor’s sel-titled album went triple platinum; aylor won Video o the Year and Female Video o the Year at the CM Awards. May 2008: aylor took home the award or op New Female Vocalist at the ACM Awards. July 2008: aylor released Beautiul Eyes, a Wal-Mart exclusive album. September 2008: aylor’s song “White Horse” was eatured on an episode o Grey’s Anatomy ; aylor’s song “Love Story” was released. October 2008: aylor sang the National Anthem or Game Tree o the World Series, which the
January 2009: aylor was the youngest country musical guest to perorm on Saturday Night Live; aylor launched her L.E.I. sundress line at Wal-Mart. February 2009: aylor appeared in Jonas Brothers: Te 3D Concert Ex perience; aylor perormed “Fifeen” with Miley Cyrus at the Grammy Awards; aylor made the cover o Rolling Stone magazine.
November 2009: aylo both host and musical g urday Night Live; aylor major awards, including o the Year at the CMAs five awards at the AMA Artist o the Year; Acco board, aylor’s sel-title named the longest char o the century.
December 2009: aylor years old; Billboard nam Artist o the Year or 20 was certified fives time
January 2010: Nielsen S named aylor the top-s artist in music history, w million digital songs so You're Reading a Preview Billboard named Fearles March 2009: aylor appeared on an selling album o 2009; Unlock full access with a free trial. episode o CSI Las Vegas; she played ticipated in the Hope or global telethon; aylor’s Haley, a rebellious teen whose parDownload With Free Trial day was a Fairytale” ro ents own a motel. entine’s Day soundtrack the astest selling down April 2009: aylor made a cameo perormance o the song “Crazier” by a emale artist. aylo in Hannah Montana: Te Movie; Grammy awards, includ o this the Year aylor launched her 2009 Fearless Sign up to vote on title or Fearless our, with a first concert Evans- Not useful inUseful ville, Indiana; aylor won Album February 2010: aylor o the Year or Fearless at the ACM 2010 Fearless our in A
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