Taylor also teamed up with Ryan Tedder and Imogen Heap. Solo Written Songs: None. It seems almost silly to even list rep in this piece seeing as none of the songs were written entirely solo.
Only six solo-written songs this decade have been nominated in this category, with Taylor being the only female. Liked this article? Terms and Conditions Privacy Policy Do not sell my personal information. Swift also made a cameo in the film and sang her song "Crazier.
I had went through a really bad breakup a while back, so we wrote the song about the relationship that went sour. Sugarland band member Jennifer Nettles told Billboard in , "[Taylor] reached out. We [have] obviously known each other for many years. When she was first getting started we had just had our first little EP out, called 'Premium Quality Tunes. Swift is also featured on the track and in the song's music video. In July , TMZ reported that Harris and Swift "both knew the song would be a hit, but Taylor wrote it for Calvin and both agreed it was a bad idea to let the world know they collaborated as a couple In , Swift pushed even more genre boundaries and collaborated with rapper B.
He continued, "It wasn't like the label was like, 'We need to get a Taylor Swift feature. According to Billboard , the song helped to boost the band's already-successful summer and to display their "softer side. Some fans might be familiar with Swift's contributions to "The Hunger Games" soundtrack, but if you're not also a fan of the franchise they might have slipped past you. She continued, "We wrote this song and recorded it one day. With "Fifteen," though, Swift shifted the lens to share the narrative with her high-school best friend, Abigail Anderson.
Swift wrote "Fifteen" when she was 18, and spoke directly to her and Anderson's year-old selves in a way that treated them with compassion and empathy sounding a bit like a cheesy yearbook message, but sweet nonetheless because, as she sang, "I didn't know who I was supposed to be at I like to be able to remember the extremely good and extremely bad times. Swift may be best known for writing songs about romantic love, but "Fifteen" argues that she is equally great at penning earnest odes to friendship and self-love.
Of course, Swift can dish out more venomous songs — as she did later on 's "Bad Blood," which was aimed at former foe Katy Perry — but her strength often lies in her most vulnerable and caring work, whether it's reflecting on the past and tying a bow around her memories, or describing the act of falling in love in real time. This is the version of Swift that many in the press have latched onto and spun a negative image out of: the songwriter who "writes songs to get emotional revenge on guys," as she told NME in In what might've been her most forthright song to an ex, "Dear John" has long been suspected to be a song about Swift's ex-boyfriend John Mayer.
Even Mayer himself addressed the song, telling Rolling Stone in that he was "really humiliated" by the track and accused Swift of "cheap songwriting. Whether "Dear John" is about Mayer or not, this seven-minute epic shows off a side of Swift that is just as reflective as a song like "Fifteen.
In "Dear John," Swift accuses an ex who is notably older than her of playing "dark, twisted games. While not a wholly original analogy, Swift does like to frame love as a game, as she has on other songs like "State of Grace" and "Blank Space.
As the subjects of her love songs became tabloid fodder around this time, and the growing interest in her celebrity swelled beyond her singer-songwriter roots, Swift's songwriting moved into more complex territory.
Fame and living in the public eye added a new layer to her songs and, on future albums, would inspire bold shifts in her lyrics to increasingly more mixed reviews. Detailed imagery, something that Swift's best work excels in, was traded in for more simplistic and overt hooks. That's not to say that this was a bad thing because Swift still utilizes both modes of writing — and she proved to be an excellent writer of pop anthems.
Sonically, the track was the biggest departure from her country roots yet. Repetition was key as Swift wove an earworm out of repeat phrases on her verses as well as her choruses. In the end, "I Knew You Were Trouble" may not have painted as precise a picture of those memories that she said she loved to preserve. Instead, Swift and the track achieved an overall feeling and conveyed it with conviction, flair and drama.
With big pop hooks came big emotions, and Swift was serving it all up on a silver platter. Song: "Blank Space" Album: Year: Sincerity and vulnerability anchored some of Swift's best songwriting up until this point, but with that came a level of scrutiny that morphed into public skepticism.
Her unabashed candour was transformed into a meme — just think of how many people made fun of her award show reactions — and her most extreme qualities were stripped and restructured into a character of their own.
This developed into a pretty big part of Swift's more recent output as self-awareness came into play, resulting in fruitful and failed songs alike.
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