She left Swift's band in 2008 to go to law school.Īt the time, Swift was a huge fan of Colbie Calliat and asked her to sing backing vocals on the song. She's never confirmed who it's about, but many fans think it's about Emily Poe, Swift's former fiddle player. While 'Breathe' sounds like a breakup song, Swift has said that it's actually about dealing with the end of a friendship. "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." 'Breathe' featuring Colbie Calliat "She was just yelling at him! I felt so bad for him at that moment," she said. Swift has said she was inspired to write the song after overhearing a male friend of hers arguing with his girlfriend through a phone call. "She wears short skirts, I wear T-shirts" is still one of the most memorable lines Swift has ever sung. Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift on stage as she accepted the award for Best Video for 'You Belong With Me' (Getty) 'You Belong With Me' In the video, her boyfriend is played by Stephen Colletti, of Laguna Beach and One Tree Hill fame, and shows the pop star finding out he's been cheating on her with another girl. "To me, 'White Horse' is about what, in my opinion, is the most heart-breaking part of a break-up - that moment when you realise that all the dreams you had, all those visions you had of being with this person, all that disappears." Swift said that this song is about the immediate heartbreak that comes after a breakup. He sent me back a long e-mail saying, 'Oh, my God!'" 'White Horse' "So I wrote this song called 'Hey Stephen', and when my album came out, I sent him a text message: 'Hey, Track 5'. "There was this guy who opened a couple of shows for me on tour and I talked to him a couple of times, but he never knew that I liked him," she said. In a 2009 interview with the New York Times, Swift said "I don't hesitate" about naming guys in her songs. It's easy to assume this one's about a guy named Stephen. In the music video, her love interest is played by Justin Gaston who briefly dated Miley Cyrus in 2008. He just says, 'Marry me, Juliet, I love you, and that's all I really know.' You want a guy who doesn't care what anyone thinks, what anyone says. "When I wrote the ending to this song, I felt like it was the ending every girl wants to go with her love story," she said. Though the song is based around Romeo and Juliet, Swift once said that it was inspired by a relationship she had that her parents didn't approve of. (YouTube) 'Love Story'Īrguably Swift's most iconic song, 'Love Story' has been a playlist staple since it was released in 2008. Taylor Swift in the 2008 music video for 'Love Story'. She and Abigail are still best friends, in fact, Swift was her bridesmaid when she got married in 2017. She said of writing it: "I just decided I really wanted to tell that story about our first year of high school because I felt in my freshman year, I grew up more than any year in my life so far." 'Fifteen' is about being 15 years old, dealing with boys and school and life in general. This one's straightforward –– it's about her friend Abigail, who she name-checks in the song.
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