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"The Outside" is a song written and recorded by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift from her debut album, Taylor Swift (2006). Produced by Robert Ellis Orrall and Nathan Chapman, Swift wrote the song when she was 12 years old and reflects on her sad feelings of being excluded in social situations and how her love for country music alientaed from her peers.
Music and lyrics
[edit]Robert Ellis Orrall and Nathan Chapman produced "The Outside". Swift independently wrote the track[1] when she was 12 years old[2] and reflects on her feelings of being excluded in social situations. According to Annie Zaleski's Taylor Swift: The Stories Behind the Songs, the song was inspired by a period in Swift's life when she felt like an outcast at school due to having different priorities and ambitions than her peers. Zaleski attributed a country-rock instrumentation and a bittersweet tone, with a chorus "full of moping-around sentiments".[3] Billboard's Jennifer Keishin Armstrong identified it as pop, aside from when the "steel" guitar is present in the song. She detailed that "The Outside" focuses on one of Swift's "favorite" themes: being an outsider. The song details how Swift felt excluded from her peers. [4]
References
[edit]- ^ Swift, Taylor (2007). Taylor Swift (CD deluxe edition liner notes). Big Machine Records. BMR022702.
- ^ Benitez-Eves, Tina (2024-06-19). "The Story Behind One of the First Songs Taylor Swift Wrote When She Felt Like an "Outcast" at Age 12". American Songwriter. Retrieved 2025-07-07.
- ^ Zaleski 2024, p. 15.
- ^ Armstrong, Jennifer Keishin (2016-10-24). "Taylor Swift's Debut Album Turns 10: A Track-by-Track Retrospective of 'Taylor Swift'". Billboard. Retrieved 2025-07-08.
Sources
[edit]- Zaleski, Annie (2024). "The Debut Era". Taylor Swift: The Stories Behind the Songs. Thunder Bay Press. pp. 6–25. ISBN 978-1-6672-0845-9.