springsteen s songwriting skills. taylor s one of the greatest songwriters ever to put a pencil to a piece of paper. many nashville artists agree. i go back to the song 15 that she wrote. what a knockdown lyric that is. when you re 15 the first time i heard her sing it, it was a little writer s night in new york city several years ago. she sang that and i went it was vince gill, trisha yearwood, taylor swift and me. she hits 15 and vince is going, wow. trisha is saying, look at the lyric coming out of this girl. john rich co-wrote this song with taylor swift after she called him out of the blue. said, yeah, come on over. she pulls that guitar out and has some words already don. she starts tearing into this song. the way i loved you. i said, damn, that s great.
this had to be because she was being true to herself. she really diversified her sound which was not only a way for her to just expand her songwriting overall, but also a way to gain a new audience. i remember when we broke up the first time in true taylor swift style, the songs were personal and focused on her recent string of rocky romances. red is a breakup album. songs like i knew you were trouble. i knew you were trouble when you walked in we are never, ever getting back together. are quintessential taylor swift songs of her taking the heartbreaks from her relationships and putting a gray hook behind them and turning them into huge pop hits. the album s lead single was an instant success. we are never, ever, ever, ever getting back together becoming swift s first song
who say, how can you leave country behind? can we just get off her back for a minute? she s an artist. she s a songwriter. let her make whatever music she wants to. and john rich says taylor swift is still country at heart. taylor swift can make a pop record all day long, but if you look at the lyrics, that is the way country songwriters write songs. she s a country songwriters. she knows what writing a song is all about. she knows what it means to, you know, not sand off the rough edges but put a magnifying glass on it. with her new single shake it off, shake it off swift told good morning america she has an entirely new message. people will find anything about you and twist it to where it s weird or wrong or annoying or strange or bad. you have to not only live your life in spite of people who don t understand you, you have to have more fun than they do. shake it off, shake it off
she said, you like it? i said, yeah, let s work on the verses. that s the way i loved you the way i loved you is about dating mr. right while loving mr. wrong. taylor said, i brought that idea, that title to john. he was able to relate to it. you know, he s that complicated, frustrating, messy kind of guy in a relationship. yeah. there you go, john. is it true? of course, it s true. yeah. that s the way i loved you that song, along with 15 are on fearless. album. fearless had the second crossover hit which is you belong with me. she became the first country star to ever win a vma. best female video goes to taylor swift. as she was accepting the award, kanye west bum rushed the stage, grabbed the mike away from her.
guitar, and if you listen to that song, it is very characteristic of the way that taylor will write songs. it s about not fitting in at school. of being the outsider. somebody tells now turning hurts into hits would become her trademark. when you re 15 and your first kiss makes your head spin round coming up, taylor s unstoppable quest for fame. the swift family sells the farm. her dad said, well, we re going. i said, oh, yeah, where are you going? he said, nashville. i said, how long are you going for? he said, for the rest of our lives. i said, what?