My cover of Yena's upbeat and cheerful debut song Smiley.

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SMILEY (Originally by YENA)

Swift wrote “Mean” in response to music critic Bob Lefsetz, who gave her a cruel review after a February 2010 performance with Stevie Nicks. Lefsetz claimed that Swift “can’t sing” and that the performance “shortened her career,” but she ultimately proved him wrong.

Swift released the song as a single in March 2011, and its accompanying music video was directed by Declan Whitebloom, who also directed the music video for “Ours.” The video includes cameos from actress Joey King and singer-songwriter Presley Cash, who both play people experiencing bullying.

The song received positive reviews from outlets like Entertainment Weekly, and won two Grammy awards — Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance.

This is my cover of the song.
 
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Mean (Originally by Taylor Swift)

“Speak Now” transports listeners to Taylor’s daydream where she crashes her ex’s wedding so he won’t be stuck with a girl who doesn’t treat him right. It’s rumored to be inspired by Hayley Williams of Paramore, who had to attend the wedding of ex-boyfriend and ex-bandmate Josh Farro in April 2010.

This is my cover of the song.

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Speak Now (Kevin's Version)

Speak Now (Originally by Taylor Swift)

“Never Grow Up” is track number eight off Taylor Swift’s third album, Speak Now.

She wrote the song when she was in her late teens, but during one of her performances, she dedicated it to the baby of one of her dear friends, model Jamie King, after she made Taylor the godmother.

I wrote it when I was like 18 or 19, but my friend just had a baby and she made me godmother of it and I was holding this little baby the other night, and I was just thinking differently. When you’re holding onto something that’s so innocent and so perfect and has no idea what’s coming for it with the world. The world is going to throw so many things at you as we grow up.

This is my cover of the song.

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Never Grow Up (Originally by Taylor Swift)

Swift wrote “The Story of Us” after an awkward encounter with ex John Mayer at the 2010 CMT Music Awards, where both parties tried to ignore each other’s presence. She told USA Today that she came up with the song concept after returning home from the event, after telling her mom she felt like she was “standing alone in a crowded room” throughout the evening.

Swift released the song as the fourth single from Speak Now in April 2011, and the music video came out the next month. Swift recruited Noble Jones to direct the video, which they filmed in the library at Vanderbilt University.

The hidden message for this song was “CMT Awards” in the album booklet, leading fans to speculate that the subject of this song is ex John Mayer, who attended the 2010 awards show.

This is my cover of the song.

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The Story of Us (Originally by Taylor Swift)

In “Haunted,” Taylor writes about a past relationship in this song which the memory of will not escape her mind. The boy and the relationship will haunt her for the rest of her life.

On the Speak Now World Tour, Taylor revved up the drama for the song by starting it with bells and wearing a dark, ripped-up dress.

This is my cover of the song.

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Haunted (Acoustic Version) (Originally by Taylor Swift)

Enchanted” details Taylor’s infatuation with Owl City’s Adam Young, who Taylor corresponded with via email for quite some time. When she finally met him in New York City, she was “wonderstruck” but worried she would never see him again and worried he was in love with another girl.

The song, lyrically and melodically, exemplifies almost perfectly the “fairytale” theme apparent throughout Swift’s earlier discography of the Speak Now and Fearless albums. From the story-like narration, to the romantic and magical adjectives used, to the absolutely whimsical melody – this song is the fairytale era personified.

Interestingly, this track was originally planned to lend its title to the album, too, until Taylor’s record label CEO Scott Borchetta recommended she title it something more mature.

This is my cover of the song. 

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Enchanted (Originally by Taylor Swift)

Cuz I was in the mood and I love this song so much

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Long Live (Demo)

n “If This Was A Movie,” Taylor daydreams about a lost love coming back to her.

The track is only available on the deluxe edition of Taylor’s 2010 album Speak Now. Lyrically and thematically, it resembles her 2008 song “Breathe.”

The track has received some backlash for supposedly being grammatically incorrect.

It is the only song on the album with a co-writer.

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If This Was A Movie (Originally by Taylor Swift)

“Superman” is a track on the deluxe edition of Taylor Swift’s 2010 album Speak Now. In the song, Taylor describes a boy who left her and hopes he will eventually come back to her when the time is right.

This is my cover of the song.

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Superman (Originally by Taylor Swift)

“Better Than Revenge” is rumored to be about actress Camilla Belle, who infamously stole Joe Jonas' heart while he was dating Taylor.

Further evidence proves that this song is about Camilla Belle, if you take into consideration one of the last lines of the song, where she says the words “much better,” which is also the name of a Jonas Brothers' song.

This is my cover of the song.

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Better Than Revenge (Originally by Taylor Swift)

“Crazier” is a song about being in love with someone who makes your world more beautiful. Taylor wrote and performed the track for the Hannah Montana movie, which starred Miley Cyrus and Lucas Till, who went on to star in Taylor’s “You Belong With Me” video.

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Crazier (Originally by Taylor Swift)

Inspired by and written for the 2022 movie Where the Crawdads Sing, “Carolina” follows the life and adventures of a young girl named Kya as she grows up isolated in the marsh of North Carolina. Swift wrote the haunting song entirely by herself, with frequent collaborator Aaron Dessner on the production side.

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Carolina (From the Motion Picture "Where The Crawdads Sing") (Originally by Taylor Swift)

Sour Grapes (Originally by LESSERAFIM)

“august” is another folklore track produced with Swift’s frequent collaborator and friend Jack Antonoff, who called the song one of his “favorite things [they’ve] done together.”

The song describes an ill-fated summer romance, similarly to Swift’s earlier works like 2006’s “Tim McGraw.” Fans believe it’s the second part of folklore’s “Teenage Love Triangle,” told from the point of view of the girl James cheated on Betty with. The storyline is preceded by “cardigan” and followed by “betty.”

In the folklore album prologue, Swift says the album is inspired by “the sun drenched month of August, sipped away like a bottle of wine.” It’s also worth noting that August is the eighth month of the year, and “august” is the eighth track on folklore—and folklore is Swift’s eighth album that has eight deluxe versions.

This is my cover of the song.

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august (Originally by Taylor Swift)

The closing track on reputation uses a New Year’s party as a metaphor to discuss holding on to people and memories from both good and bad times. Taylor recognizes that when the ‘parties’ in her life are over and the ‘new year’ begins, such memories are all she will have left to hold on to and learn from. She relates a lasting love to someone who shares a midnight kiss with you on New Year’s, but who still stays with you the next morning for the aftermath of the party and begins the new year together with you.

Musically, the song is reminiscent of Taylor’s older tracks, with sparse production and simply guitar and piano as backing. Contrasting many prior songs on the album where Taylor takes shots at various people, she creates a more mature image here–thankful for her past and ready to ‘clean up’ and move on in the future.

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New Year's Day (Originally by Taylor Swift)

Princess Jasmine (Naomi Scott) is placed under arrest by the new sultan of Agrabah, Jafar (Marwan Kenzari). As she’s being led away by the guards, she reflects on a lifetime of having men tell her that her opinion is invalid or never wanted. She determines not to stay silent this time, with her kingdom being taken over by a dictator.

The song was penned for the 2019 live-action adaptation by the Oscar-winning Broadway and film songwriting trio of Alan Menken, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. Menken is best known for writing an extensive catalog of iconic Disney songs, including ”A Whole New World”, “Go The Distance”, and “Part of Your World”; Pasek and Paul have been lauded for their work on The Greatest Showman, La La Land, and Dear Evan Hansen.

Speechless (From Aladdin)

“Naturally” is the sixth track and last single released from Selena Gomez & The Scene’s debut album Kiss & Tell

In an interview with Digital Spy, Selena said that the song was about “two people who have a connection with each other so they don’t really have to force the feelings, they’re just there.”

The song became a hit, peaking at #29 on the Billboard Hot 100, #12 on Billboard’s Mainstream Top 40 chart and topped Billboard’s Hot Dance Music\Club Songs chart & Hot Dance Airplay chart for a week.

It was certified 3x Platinum by the RIAA, with sales of 1,960,000. It was also certified Gold in Canada as well.

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Naturally (Originally by Selena Gomez & The Scene)

“betty” touches on the aftermath of “august,” which describes a summer love that was doomed from the start. Listeners learn that while the summer affair was going on, the speaker, James, was still dating their classmate, Betty.

The song takes a more feminist approach, portraying the narrator as a person named James who can’t own up to their mistakes, all while Betty flourishes on her own and recognizes her worth.

Sonically, the song exudes a strong sense of nostalgia, delivering production and instrumentals reminiscent to Taylor’s earlier projects like Fearless and Speak Now, both of which were records written by Taylor in her similarly naïve adolescence.

“betty” is believed to be the third part of folklore’s “Teenage Love Triangle,” told from the point of view of James. The storyline is preceded by “cardigan” and “august.”

Interestingly, James' gender is never explicitly stated—James and Inez (mentioned in the pre-chorus) are, in fact, the names of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds‘ eldest daughters—leading some to believe that James could be a girl and that the Teenage Love Triangle is, in fact, a sapphic love story.

However, Taylor confirmed James' gender while explaining the song on country radio:

[James] has lost the love of his life basically and doesn’t understand how to get it back…Everybody makes mistakes, everybody really messes up sometimes and this is a song that I wrote from the perspective of a 17-year-old boy. I’ve always loved that in music you can kinda slip into different identities and you can sing from other people’s perspectives. So that’s what I did on this one–and I named all the characters in this story after my friends' kids."

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betty (Originally by Taylor Swift)

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