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Continuation of 50 Facts you probably didn’t know about Taylor Swift’s Fearless (Taylor's Version) album.
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25. The “mm”s at the beginning of "Breathe" were originally in the middle of the song.
26. Colbie Caillat was originally only going to harmonize with Taylor during the chorus of "Breathe," but Taylor was blown away by Colbie’s vocal abilities that they let her record more in other parts of the song.
27. "I walked into Liz's house, and I said, 'I can't believe what's going on right now, I've gotta tell you about this," Taylor says about the day she and Liz Rose wrote, "Tell Me Why." "I told her all about it.
She goes, 'If you could say everything you were thinking to him right now, what you would start with?" And Taylor said, "I would say to him, "I'm sick and tired of your attitude, I feel like I don't even know you." From there, Liz began writing down everything Taylor said,
and they turned that into the song.
28. Taylor never officially dated the guy who "Tell Me Why" is about
29. "You're Not Sorry," Taylor realizes that her wayward boyfriend is not sincere in his apologies and is a first-class liar.
28. Taylor never officially dated the guy who "Tell Me Why" is about
29. "You're Not Sorry," Taylor realizes that her wayward boyfriend is not sincere in his apologies and is a first-class liar.
30. Taylor called John Rich out of the blue and asked him to work on "The Way I Loved You" with her. She had some of the verses completed already, so they worked on the chorus together. He said the whole process took less
31. Taylor intentionally made the verses of “The Way I Loved You” very robotic. “We wanted to reflect the lyrics of the song in the way the melody [of the chorus] was,” she said.
32. Taylor's producer was on vacation when she wrote "Forever & Always," and she called him and told him, "Oops, I wrote another song! We need to record it!”
33. “Permanent Marker” was going to be on this album, but then a last-minute recording of “Forever & Always” took place and Taylor decided to put that on the addition to the album.
34. "Forever & Always" was a last-minute addition to Fearless, being written shortly before audio mastering was held and CD booklets were printed.
35. Taylor wrote & recorded The "Best Day" while touring with Brad Paisley in the summer of 2007.
36."The Best Day" is the only song on the album to be written in conventional simple verse form.
36."The Best Day" is the only song on the album to be written in conventional simple verse form.
37. Taylor wrote "The Best Day" without telling her mom and recorded it. It was a complete secret session. Until when she got the trackback and synced up all these home videos of her when she was a little kid and made a video and played it for her mom on Christmas
38. Taylor finished writing "Change" the day after the 2007 CMA Awards, where she won the Horizon Award. "I knew I couldn't finish it until something like that happened," she said.
39. The original title of the song Change is "Champions Tonight"
40. "Jump Then Fall," Taylor's fav song on the Platinum Edition, was written about a summer romance Taylor experienced.
40. "Jump Then Fall," Taylor's fav song on the Platinum Edition, was written about a summer romance Taylor experienced.
41. Taylor covered "Untouchable" because Scott Borchetta loves Luna Halo, but she changes the arrangement of the song and changes some of its lines.
42. "Come In with the Rain" was streamed on Taylor’s MySpace long before it was released.
43. The original version of "Superstar" says "I know you were born-in—Arkansas" instead of invisible, everyone knows who you are."
43. The original version of "Superstar" says "I know you were born-in—Arkansas" instead of invisible, everyone knows who you are."
44. "Today Was A Fairytale" was written in the summer of 2008 before filming started for Valentine's Day.
45. Taylor says the idea writing was "Don't You," "seeing someone that you used to have a thing for and seeing them out in public for the first time after you’ve heard that they’ve moved on."
46. The Agency, Taylor's touring band, were involved in the re-creating this album.
47. Taylor became the first country music artist to win an MTV Video Music Award. "You Belong With Me" was named Best Female Video, but during the acceptance speech, Kanye West interrupted her, protesting his support of Beyoncé
48. The album (2008) was #1 on The Billboard 200 for 11 weeks, it was the longest-charting #1 on the country music in HISTORY. It was certified DIAMOND by the Recording Industry Association of America.
49. This album has won every album award in the country genre and was named Album of the Year and Best Country Album, at the GRAMMYS. In 2010, at the age of 20, she was named the youngest artist in the music industry's coveted top prize.
50. On March 18, 2010, this album was named the most awarded country album in History!
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