Taylor Swift

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It’s Nice to Have a Friend” is daydreamy and delicate, with laidback strumming, twinkling trumpet, and high-pitched ooh-oohs illuminating it. She released Fearless (Taylor’s Version) on April 9, 2021 with six brand new tracks, and the inclusion of “Today Was a Fairytale,” which was previously only released on the soundtrack for Valentine’s Day, for which she was a part of the ensemble cast. Elsewhere, “’tis the damn season” is the elegaic home-for-the-holidays ballad this broken year didn’t realize it needed. Taylor Swift was released in a time when female country artists were gaining momentum in popularity.

The album included thoughtful songs about love like “Tim McGraw,”“Mary’s Song,” and the extremely catchy “Our Song,” break up anthems like “Picture to Burn” and “Should’ve Said No,” and the far-beyond-her-years deep “Cold As You,” which was the first of Swift’s legendary “Track 5s.Robert Christgau rated the album a "cut" score ( ), and selected "Tim McGraw" and "Picture to Burn" as highlights. Yet it’s the lyricism that makes ‘Folklore’ such an astonishing album, with Swift writing both from her own point of view, as well as exploring other people’s. The themes of love, loss and heartbreak that resonate in many of her songs make her widely appealing across genres. Spending 157weeks on the Billboard 200 by October 2009, Taylor Swift marked the longest stay on the chart by any album released in the 2000s decade.

Additionally, the refrain—and to a lesser degree, the verses—makes heavy use of syncopation at the sixteenth-note level, which brings about a production reminiscent to non-country genres such as alternative rock and hip hop. The songs " Picture to Burn" and " Should've Said No" depict a vengeful attitude toward those who do not reciprocate the protagonist's feelings; [39] on "Picture to Burn", Swift sings about burning photographic evidence of an ex-boyfriend's existence.

To assist Swift's artistic endeavors, her father transferred his job to Nashville, and her family relocated to Hendersonville, a city close to Nashville, in 2004. After the runaway success of country-pop second record ‘Fearless’, for ‘Speak Now’ elements of pop rock, bluegrass and soft rock were added into the mix. Filled with rootin’ tootin’ tunes like ‘Tim McGraw’, ‘Our Song’ and ‘Teardrops on My Guitar’ (largely considered Swift’s breakout song) that stormed the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, it earned a teenage Taylor support slots on tour with Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts and Faith Hill. In the United States, the new edition contains an enhanced content, featuring the music videos of "Tim McGraw" and "Teardrops on My Guitar".