2010 release, the third album from the Country/Pop superstar.
Speak Now is the follow-up to her multi-million-selling 2008
album, Fearless. The 21-year-old singer/songwriter wrote the
entire album on her own and co-produced with longtime
collaborator Nathan Chapman, who worked with her on Fearless and
her 2006 self-titled debut. Features the single 'Mine'.
About the Artist
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Hi, I'm Taylor. I've been alive for 20 years now, and I
finally have my own kitchen. I'm very excited about this, and
generally excited by anything else that falls into the "cute" or
"cozy" categories. I learned to play guitar when I was twelve fro
m this guy named Ronnie who came over to fix my parents'
computer. I like quilts. But that's probably because I'm always
freezing cold. I LOVE Nashville. That's where I live, when I'm
lucky enough to be there. I love the town so much, I sometimes
feel like I should just roll the windows down in my car
(nicknamed the Toyoat. Because it's a Toyota) and scream "I LOVE
THIS TOWN" loudly out the windows. That wouldn't be weird, right?
Every time I try and wink at someone, I mess it up and end up
ing people. My lucky number always has been and always will
be 13. It pops up in front of me in the most obvious and
undeniable ways, but only when something good is about to happen.
I'm a Sagittarius. I think that means I'm always looking for
something new. It also means I have a Christmas-themed birthday
party every year. I love bright colors and things that make
reality seem more whimsical than it is. I have a collection of
ribbons and headbands, and I love them all the same. I over-think
and over-plan and over-organize. I've been like this since I was
a baby, before I was gigantically tall and over-talkative.
These days, I've been trying to classify my thoughts into two
categories: "Things I can change," and "Things I can't." It seems
to help me sort through what to really stress about. But there I
go again, over-planning and over-organizing my over-thinking! I
write songs about my adventures and misadventures, most of which
concern love. Love is a tricky business. But if it wasn't, I
wouldn't be so enthralled with it. Lately I've come to a
wonderful realization that makes me even more fascinated by it: I
have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love. No one does!
There's no pattern to it, except that it happens to all of us, of
course. I can't plan for it. I can't predict how it'll end up.
Because love is unpredictable and it's frustrating and it's
tragic and it's beautiful. And even though there's no way to feel
like I'm an expert at it, it's worth writing songs about -- more
than anything else I've ever experienced in my life.
I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently
happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on
for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that
growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn't mean I
should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things
I used to love. It means I've just added more things to my list.
Like for example, I'm still beyond obsessed with the winter
season and I still start putting up strings of lights in
September. I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really
old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love
writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and
staring at chandeliers. But some new things I've fallen in love
with -- mismatched everything. Mismatched chairs, mismatched
colors, mismatched personalities. I love spraying perfumes I used
to wear when I was in high school. It brings me back to the days
of trying to get a close parking spot at school, trying to get
noticed by soccer players, and trying to figure out how to avoid
doing or saying anything uncool, and wishing every minute of
every day that one day maybe I'd get a chance to win a Grammy. Or
something crazy and out of reach like that. ;) I love old
buildings with the paint chipping off the walls and my dad's
stories about college. I love the freedom of living alone, but I
also love things that make me feel seven again. Back then naivety
was the norm and skepticism was a foreign language, and I just
think every once in a while you need fries and a chocolate
milkshake and your mom. I love picking up a cookbook and closing
my eyes and opening it to a random page, then attempting to make
that recipe. I've loved my fans from the very first day, but
they've said things and done things recently that make me feel
like they're my friends -- more now than ever before. I'll never
go a day without thinking about our memories together.
For the last two years, I've been writing and an album
called Speak Now. I only have the option of writing about things
that happen in my life, so thankfully a LOT has happened in my
life in the last two years. I know I don't always say the right
thing at the right time or speak up when I should, but I write it
all down. I get my guitar and a pen and all of a sudden, I have a
chance to say exactly what I meant to say in real life. Some of
the things I wrote about are things everyone saw me go through.
Some of the things I wrote about are things nobody ever knew
about. I'm beyond excited for you to hear these stories and
confessions.
I think it's important that you know that I will never change.
But I'll never stay the same either. Must be a Sagittarius thing.
I'm pretty stoked that you read this whole thing. I commend you
for that. This was ridiculously long, and you probably have other
stuff you could've done in the last four minutes. So to you, or
anyone else who has spent four minutes on me in some way--
listening to just one song, or watching one of my videos....Thank
you. I love you like I love sparkles and having the last word.
And that's real love.
--Taylor
