Lore: Swift wrote "Enchanted" about the night she was introduced to Adam Young, otherwise known as Owl City. "Enchanted" is the ninth track on "Speak Now." The secret message in the album booklet is "Toby," which is likely a reference to the actor who costarred in the "Mine" music video, Toby Hemingway. Monteith, however, said they were only ever friends. The guy in question is rumored to be the late "Glee" actor Cory Monteith, who was spotted out and about with Swift in early 2010. And I was like, 'Yes!' Because that one was sort of half-confession and half-prediction or projection of what I saw." "And the song came out, and that day, I got an e-mail from him. And I hadn't talked to him in a couple months," she continued. "After I wrote the song, things sort of fell apart, as things so often do. "This is a situation where a guy that I just barely knew put his arm around me by the water, and I saw the entire relationship flash before my eyes, almost like a weird science-fiction movie," she told Yahoo! Music, per MTV News. Lore: "Mine" is a largely fictional tale that Swift described as "a confession of some sort." "Mine" was released as a single on August 4, 2010. When she's writing something, she's already producing in her head. "It's amazing to go back to the work tape and listen to it, because you wouldn't believe the nuances that show up in the album version, too. "'You Belong With Me' was written at the very end of the recording sessions for 'Fearless,'" Rose told Rolling Stone. Swift's cowriter Liz Rose said the pair finished the song in "one or two hours." So I came up with the first line, 'You're on the phone with your girlfriend, she's upset, going off about something that you said,' and I ran that into the storyline that I'm in love with him and he should be with me instead of her," she revealed in a since-deleted post on Big Machine's website. Lore: Swift was inspired to write a tale of "girl-next-door-itis" after overhearing a male friend talking to his girlfriend on the phone, "completely on the defensive." "You Belong With Me" was released as a single on April 20, 2009. The former opens with the line, "She said, I was 7 and you were 9 / I looked at you like the stars that shined." The latter tells the story of a childhood friendship - or perhaps a youthful crush, considering the direct reference to hiding in a closet - that Swift still thinks about and cherishes.īoth songs feature illustrations of nature, themes of growing up, and references to father figures. More recently, fans have noticed a connection between "Mary's Song" and "Seven," the seventh track on "Folklore." "But it was really comforting to know that all I had to do was go home and look next door to see a perfect example of forever." I thought it was so sweet because you can go to the grocery store and read the tabloids, and see who's breaking up and cheating on each other, or just listen to some of my songs," she continued. "They were talking about how they fell in love and got married, and how they met when they were just little kids. They'd been married forever and they came over one night for dinner and were just so cute," she wrote on her website, according to fan archives. "I wrote this song about a couple who lived next door to us. Lore: This fan-favorite track on Swift's debut album was apparently inspired by her former neighbors. "Mary's Song (Oh My My My)" is the 10th track on "Taylor Swift."
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