{"id":33133,"date":"2025-02-13T07:06:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T07:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=33133"},"modified":"2025-02-13T07:06:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T07:06:23","slug":"ranking-4-best-taylor-swift-country-music-songs-that-were-still-strumming-along-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=33133","title":{"rendered":"RANKING:\u00a04 Best Taylor Swift Country Music Songs That We&#8217;re Still Strumming Along To"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-230768\">\n<div>\n<p>Taylor Swift is by now the biggest pop star this generation has seen, setting world records with her sold-out concerts and best-selling singles. But before she was the mega-star she is, Swift got her start in country music.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been over a decade since Swift officially made her entrance into the pop world, with &#8220;Shake It Off,&#8221; out in 2014. But although she may have switched genres, she still has plenty of country music classics that are worth keeping on repeat. We picked four of our favorites.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-1-tim-mcgraw\"><span id=\"1_%22Tim_McGraw%22\"><\/span>1. &#8220;Tim McGraw&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;Tim McGraw&#8221; is Swift&#8217;s very first single, giving country music an idea of what she is capable of as a songwriter. The song, which she wrote with Liz Rose, also gave fans an inkling of how personal she would get in her music.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The idea for this song came to me in math class,&#8221; Swift says (via Songfacts). &#8220;I just started singing to myself, &#8216;When you think Tim McGraw.&#8217; The concept for this song hit me, because I was dating a guy who moved away, and it was going to be over for us. So I started thinking of things that I knew would remind him of me. The first thing that came to mind was that my favorite song is by Tim McGraw.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Taylor Swift - Tim McGraw\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GkD20ajVxnY?feature=oembed\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"h-2-you-belong-with-me\"><span id=\"2_%22You_Belong_With_Me%22\"><\/span>2. &#8220;You Belong With Me&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>If &#8220;Tim McGraw&#8221; gave fans an idea of what she was capable of as a songwriter, &#8220;You Belong With Me&#8221; gave fans an idea of how far she would go to tell a story in video. Swift played the awkward teenager who catches the attention of her high school crush, while also playing his beautiful girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This song is basically about wanting someone who is with this girl who doesn&#8217;t appreciate him at all,&#8221; Swift tells MTV. &#8220;Basically like &#8216;girl-next-door-itis.&#8217; You like this guy who you have for your whole life, and you know him better than she does but somehow the popular girl gets the guy every time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VuNIsY6JdUw?feature=oembed\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"h-3-love-story\"><span id=\"3_%22Love_Story\"><\/span>3. &#8220;Love Story<\/h2>\n<p>Swift wrote &#8220;Love Story&#8221; by herself, releasing it as the first single from her sophomore <em>Fearless<\/em> album. Comparing her romance to Romeo and Juliet, Swift once again drew from personal experience in penning the sweet love song.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wrote it about a guy that I was talking to,&#8221; Swift tells The Morning Call. &#8220;He wasn&#8217;t the popular choice, but I believed in it. I thought, &#8216;This love is difficult, but it&#8217;s real.&#8217; And I knew I needed to put that line in somewhere. I think that this song is really more about a love that&#8217;s not convenient and not as comfortable as something else, but it&#8217;s something you have to fight for. I added the ending [a proposal] cause I want that ending. I want someone to say, &#8216;I love you and that&#8217;s all I really know.&#8217; That&#8217;s the girly girl in me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Taylor Swift - Love Story\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8xg3vE8Ie_E?feature=oembed\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"h-4-mean\"><span id=\"4_%22Mean%22\"><\/span>4. &#8220;Mean&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>Swift has enjoyed a lengthy career by her honesty in her songwriting, which came out in &#8220;Mean.&#8221; But this song, from her 2010 <em>Speak Now<\/em>, was a message to people who bullied her online. Singing, &#8220;<em>Someday I&#8217;ll be big enough so you can&#8217;t hit me \/ And all your ever gonna be is mean<\/em>,&#8221; the song was rumored to be inspired after a performance with Stevie Nicks in 2010 was widely criticized.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I get that, no matter what, you&#8217;re going to be criticized for something,&#8221; Swift says. &#8220;But I also get that there are different kinds of ways to criticize someone. There&#8217;s constructive criticism, there&#8217;s professional criticism &#8211; and then there&#8217;s just being mean. And there&#8217;s a line that you cross when you just start to attack everything about a person.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Taylor Swift - Mean\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jYa1eI1hpDE?feature=oembed\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Taylor Swift was a big pop star, she got her start in country music. 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